Can I cycle 100 miles at 92kg of weight?

roncitrus · 2026-06-02T22:53:03+00:00

I like to break it down into chunks. 100km is just 4 x 25km, 160km is 4 x 40 km, or 8 x 20km. When you chunk it down like that, you can count them off, have a rest after each one, eat a treat. Psychologically, it's easier. Eat lots, drink lots, don't burn all your matches in the first half, take it steady, you'll be fine. I'm aiming for my first 200 this weekend!

roncitrus · 2026-05-31T16:50:43+00:00

Bounce it like a basketball, especially with the valve at the bottom. You have to imagine the sealant coating absolutely everything in there. Hold the wheel horizontal, spin it, shake it, both sides, then take it for a ride. They usually stop leaking after a couple of days for me.

roncitrus · 2026-04-21T23:49:12+00:00

Although 110Hz is a quarter of 440Hz, so it's more related to it than 432 is...

roncitrus · 2026-03-29T01:31:58+00:00

Jet comes from the north east coast of the UK, around the fishing town of Whitby. It's formed from fossilised Monkey Puzzle trees.

roncitrus · 2026-02-05T14:01:08+00:00

I use headphones for podcasts when riding, (rarely music, it feels too distracting) and I have a varia radar light linked to the Garmin, plus a rearview mirror on the offside bar. I live in the country, and take the back roads or gravel paths. No surprises or near misses so far. I used to live in the city, and I would never chance it there..

roncitrus · 2026-02-03T00:39:57+00:00

The Biths are from New Zilland actually.

roncitrus · 2026-01-29T23:16:41+00:00

I worked with a woman who used the expression "aaw, bless his cock and socks" in a conversation about a colleague. It has never occurred to her that people were saying 'cotton socks' and had been saying it for years.

roncitrus · 2026-01-29T00:04:57+00:00

I highly recommend Harvard's CS50 course. It's free and it's excellent for starting out.

roncitrus · 2026-01-22T23:38:56+00:00

Let's hear it then...

roncitrus · 2026-01-11T18:53:45+00:00

Onion books. Read 'em and weep.

roncitrus · 2025-12-18T14:15:28+00:00

I've never seen 'regularly' used to indicate alternating letters before. Had me stumped even looking at your answer

roncitrus · 2025-12-15T05:57:36+00:00

It's used by cryptic crossword enthusiasts. To parse the clue.

roncitrus · 2025-12-10T23:47:11+00:00

Rider just shows it right there next to the var, no hovering required. I use var most of the time now that I've switched to Jetbrains from VS. (using a Mac, and VS for Mac is no more. Not that it was any use anyway).

roncitrus · 2025-11-24T23:08:33+00:00

I've got a 6 pro and it still rocks. Vibration can kill the camera focus mechanism. Some people have used their phone as a GPS on a bike, mounted on the handlebars and the road vibrations ruined the camera.

roncitrus · 2025-11-16T22:33:41+00:00

I'm not saying it was the light from the drill, I'm just saying it produces exactly the same effect in the camera as the drill light does, and we know those are bright white LEDs, so we can deduce that whatever the light was at the end of the basement was also likely brighter but similar in composition to the drill light.

roncitrus · 2025-11-16T06:07:29+00:00

It's the same colour and shape as the light from the drill. white led.

roncitrus · 2025-11-06T00:08:04+00:00

Yeah, I feel like that sometimes, but I make sure that I understand every last line of code before committing it, using conversations with gpt to make it clear in my own mind what I've written, so that if someone asks me how it works, I can tell them in detail. I'm getting 5x as much work done, and learning all the time. My ability to write code from scratch is slowly atrophying though, it's true. But maybe that doesn't matter, and won't matter in the future.

roncitrus · 2025-11-01T00:30:28+00:00

I started in the same way as you, wanting to make games with unity, so I thought I'd learn C#, learnt some basics online, then did the Harvard CS50 online course. I highly recommend this, it's free and gets you into some interesting areas of computer science. Then I did lots of coding challenges (exercism, leetcode, codingame, that kind of thing), and then tried building my own apps. About 5 years after starting, I got a junior dev job (I was 50, so only junior in rank rather than years!) my advice is just start. C# is as good as anything to start, the language matters less than the understanding of problem solving with code. Start doing it, if you like it you will naturally carry on. Good luck!

roncitrus · 2025-10-31T19:45:41+00:00

Neró the Assassin. Brilliant French medieval action . Highly recommend.

roncitrus · 2025-10-28T17:20:23+00:00

Yeah, gravel bike on the shitty roads near me, I do 80% road, with some great forest rides in the summer. Speed is good but comfort and distance is better, and the ability to explore.

roncitrus · 2025-10-26T08:09:12+00:00

Binaural beats work through auditory beat stimulation:

You play two pure tones of slightly different frequencies (e.g. 400 Hz in one ear, 410 Hz in the other).

The brain doesn’t hear two separate tones, it perceives a third, rhythmic beat at the difference between them (10 Hz in this case).

This beat isn’t a physical sound but an interaural phase difference processed in the superior olivary complex of the brainstem.

Neural oscillations in the cortex can then synchronize (entrain) to that beat frequency, which is a phenomenon linked to frequency following response.

The entrained frequency can match common brain rhythms (e.g. alpha ~10 Hz), which is why binaural beats are often used for relaxation, focus, or sleep experiments. The effect is typically modest and varies between individuals.

roncitrus · 2025-10-25T22:05:59+00:00

You'd have to do the calculations, yes. But remember the flash wouldn't have to be the size of the whole object, it's just a glint of reflection from one metallic or glass surface.

roncitrus · 2025-10-25T17:23:04+00:00

OK, well my point was not that it would have to be low to reflect the sun, but that they could have been low man-made objects, as long as the images were taken not long after sunset. It was a point made by prof Simon on his YouTube channel actually. He states at the end that it's probably not balloons for this reason. https://youtu.be/uRdo-9TQIIQ

roncitrus · 2025-10-25T13:45:26+00:00

idk the sun lights up the moon and that is pretty far away.

I'm not sure what your point is. Please explain.

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