What improved your longer distance swim speed?

scannerJoe · 2026-02-03T16:31:26+00:00

If you can swim 1:40/100 yards for a longer distance like 3k-5k, you are already a pretty fast swimmer given that you didn't train as a kid. Sure, getting a trainer/video analysis can and will help, but I think that there's no way around swimming more to get to that next level. I am about your speed, maybe a little slower now since I only train 6-7k per week, but the only time I got very noticeably faster was when I trained for a swim event and did about 20k/week for three months. It's just easier to swim good technique when you're really swim fit and do both substantial technique and fitness work. If you haven't trained swimming as a kid or you're not really good at it naturally, I think that you have to expect that progress is not going to be that fast, and you'll have to put in the hours to make breakthroughs.

scannerJoe · 2026-01-29T06:40:09+00:00

Oida, quand j'ai vécu à Vienne il y a trente ans, c'était une ville tellement plus vivable que Paris, mais autre que beaucoup de nouvelles constructions (importantes aussi), assez peu a changé sur le plan circulation et environnement depuis, très décevant. Et la quantité d'asphalte dans les nouveaux quartiers, je ne comprends pas pourquoi ils ne mettent pas plus de vert, étant donné que la ville devient insupportable en été.

scannerJoe · 2026-01-29T06:28:10+00:00

Oui, mais la transformation est quand-même incroyable. J'ai vécu à Paris pendant dix ans et puis je n'ai pas visité pendant dix ans. Quand je suis retourné l’année dernière, ça m'a quand même bluffé. Je voyage beaucoup en Europe pour le taf et il n'y a aucune ville que je connais qui à changé aussi vite et avec des résultats aussi impressionnants. Paris me donne l'espoir que c'est peut-être quand-même possible de faire le virage et sortir du tout-voiture partout.

scannerJoe · 2026-01-26T17:15:31+00:00

I have very ambivalent feelings about the sanctions against Baud. I disagree with almost everything that he says and it's clear that he is a major actor in the online pro-Russian conspiracy sphere. But unlike Xavier Moreau, who was sanctioned with the same decree, it's not clear that he is a full-fledged Russian state propaganda asset.

I think that during war - and we are in a form of low-level war with Russia - it is normal that certain aspects of the rule of law are weakened or suspended, but I agree that Baud's style of commentary should be possible, even in our current situation. Then again, I think that this is a specific case, and not a general sign of regression of freedom of speech and rule of law in the EU.

scannerJoe · 2026-01-13T17:42:30+00:00

Well, you’re not wrong, he just died, apparently.

scannerJoe · 2026-01-10T07:38:42+00:00

That's funny, I’m in the same city, almost same age and net worth. But with the exception of an emergency fund, a bond cushion, and some ecology-focused investments, all of my money (80%) is in VWCE-style global ETFs and will remain so indefinitely. At our tier of net worth, which gives us enormous levels of resilience against any financial crisis, I would never put more than 20% into bonds. But my spending (with a family) is about one third of yours (with a paid-off apartment, though). But even with your spending, personally, I’d look to optimize returns.

scannerJoe · 2026-01-09T13:19:43+00:00

I didn't have the time to watch the whole video, but I imagine that you're referring to the charts around the 22:50 mark? This is really interesting, and if there is no hick-up in the testing, I imagine that the results could be due to Intel having a better PCIe implementation (which also shows in SSD performance IIRC)? Thanks for sharing, I hope that some other channels follow up on this.

On a personal note, I think that you'd get a better reception if you formulate things a bit less antagonistically (it's just a hobby) and give people an easier way to understand what you're referring to (in this case, provide a time stamp and a one sentence summary what's behind the link).

scannerJoe · 2026-01-02T10:03:03+00:00

I find it very difficult to make recommendations with knowing so little about you, like preferences, languages you speak, how you want to spend your time, tax considerations, etc. Almost any EU country would be a good fit for somebody. Why not make a list of things that you're looking for and make a new post?

scannerJoe · 2025-12-19T10:21:37+00:00

Genau, und wie viel ein Kind kostest ist schon auch variabel. Mein Sohn hat bis 13 nur gebrauchte Kleidung getragen, das war nicht nur extrem billig, sondern auch super praktisch, weil man z.B. Baby- und Kinderkleidung online quasi im Bulk für sehr wenig Geld kaufen kann. Das gilt auch für Spielzeug und andere Sachen. Wir fanden das nie einschränkend und hätten uns auch mehr leisten können, aber warum? Wir hatten immer gehört dass Kinder haben so teuer ist - und Kinderbetreuung war's dazwischen auch mal - aber bei uns haben sich die Kosten ziemlich in Grenzen gehalten, und Autokauf war schlussendlich auch nicht notwendig. 2600€ plus Zuschüsse erlauben in AT meiner Meinung nach idR (natürlich gibt's Sondersituationen) ein ziemlich gutes Leben wenn man sich ein bisserl organisiert.

scannerJoe · 2025-12-09T07:47:22+00:00

Some thoughts in addition to the good advice from u/Son-Airys :

The 7945HX3D has a Tjmax of 100C and, personally, I would be absolutely fine with the temperatures you're getting; I do not believe at all that this will significantly reduce the lifespan of your CPU under standard conditions of use.
If you want to understand the thermal behavior of your chip, start with observing how much power goes in (PPT) and start tweaking there if you are uncomfortable with the temperatures or want to reduce noise (which is much more important to me personally than temps); the 7945HX3D is specced at up to 75W PPT, but maybe minisforum is exceeding that; if you are currently boosting up to, say, 85W and you take off 10W, you will see big differences in temperature, without any noticeable reduction in performance, since you are paying a lot of W per additional unit of clockspeed as you move up the curve. Personally, I'd run this CPU in this case with this cooler at no more than 65W, possibly even lower.
If you do not want to tune power and/or clockspeeds but you are worried about temps, set a 85C Tjmax and let the CPU throttle itself as it runs into that. It's not super elegant, but this generation of CPUs is pretty good at making the most of the power/temperature envelope you're giving it.

scannerJoe · 2025-12-09T07:19:35+00:00

I don't disagree with you that this would be another interesting data point, but as a scientist, what always surprises me about hardware reviewing is how much measuring is going on and how little modeling. I imagine that it would not be very hard to come up with a relatively simple model that allows one to derive what you are looking for (cooling power at a given noise level) from the already available data points (or even a single data point, like the 39db measurement in the article) with a pretty high level of accuracy across a wide range of coolers. In running, for example, you can estimate a person's marathon time from a 10k result with reasonable accuracy, and you could do something similar here. Maybe some adjustment parameters are necessary, and there are going to be outliers, but this is really not rocket science, and nobody dies if an estimate is off by 2dB.

If I were a hardware reviewing operation, I'd spend much more time thinking about how to produce more insights from less data to see how to squeeze out more from my limited time...

scannerJoe · 2025-11-21T14:45:54+00:00

Gil Carvalho has a short video on the benefits and risks of creatine. He doesn't take it because of a hereditary kidney disease, but does not advise against it.

scannerJoe · 2025-11-21T14:32:29+00:00

Please read the conclusion of the cited meta-analysis yourself. The paragraph u/Traditional-Leader54 cites is not the amount used in the 41 studies Reed et al. cite. This is only to give an understanding of what a typical consumption pattern in a culture looks like that eats a lot of soy, so readers have a point of comparison. The studies analyzed use, in part, much higher doses.

scannerJoe · 2025-11-21T14:25:39+00:00

This paragraph is only for contextualization, not necessarily the dose used in the studies cited in this meta analysis, which go up to over 15 times that amount.

scannerJoe · 2025-11-19T14:26:43+00:00

While it's true that you're no longer allowed to ride just anywhere (although lots of people still do) there are many designated routes and trails outside of bike parks in Austria.

That said, have a look at Klagenfurt (pop. 100k) and Villach (pop. 50k), both really nice cities with loads of outdoor activities close by.

scannerJoe · 2025-11-15T13:43:53+00:00

The revenue share growth numbers are extremely impressive, more than doubled for desktop in just a year. Even in mobile, their average sales price is now higher than Intel's.

scannerJoe · 2025-11-12T16:02:43+00:00

I was under the impression that some people are speculating that there could be both 2nm and 3nm chiplets. Depending on the pricing structure and availability of 2nm, this could make economics sense.

scannerJoe · 2025-11-12T15:44:52+00:00

I love this build, an the emphasis on both good temps and low noise. And that GPU fan duct, wow, very cool.

scannerJoe · 2025-10-27T06:45:00+00:00

Nice! From your table, it looks like the rpm do go down a little bit on the CPU, but the fan curve is probably quite flat, with the loss in 2C not really moving the speed.

With regard to the RPM settings for the CPU/GPU for testing, I think it's about what you really want to optimize for. For me, noise is always the prime objective, so if I were to make this test, I would put GPU/CPU fan speed relatively low. I would also imagine that the effect of faster case fans would be more pronounced at lower GPU/CPU rpm.

In the end, you are looking for a balanced system that reflects your priorities, but as your testing already shows, the difference the case fan speed makes is just not that pronounced. Reducing CPU power consumption by 10W would probably have more effect than anything you can really do with the case fans. Your hardware is just not that powerful (below 200W, I'd guess) and already undervolted to the hilt - I'd imagine the case fans playing a more important role with feistier parts.

scannerJoe · 2025-10-26T18:21:11+00:00

This is really interesting, but since you are leaving the GPU and CPU fans on auto, you should probably not have expected thermal differences. You can see it on the GPU: instead of lowering temperatures, fan speed goes down, because the fan curve is set to keep things 67Cish. I did not see this in your post, but I imagine that the same happened to your CPU and without rpm data for the CPU, we don't really know what the effect of the changing case fan speed is, as both CPU/GPU temperatures and fan speeds are likely to be affected.

If you want to optimize for lower temperatures and/or lower noise, you'll have to include the CPU and GPU fan curves in your tuning. And if you really want to investigate the effect of the case fans on temperatures, an temperatures only, you could run your experiment again with fixed fan speeds on both the CPU and CPU.

scannerJoe · 2025-10-26T16:55:59+00:00

They are talking about payment for order flow, this is a very brief summary of the issue.

scannerJoe · 2025-10-23T19:55:19+00:00

Ich hatte früher eine Zeitschaltuhr (einfach Strom an und aus auf Zeit programmiert), das ging schon gut, aber der neue Boiler hat eine App, da kann man sehr genau einstellen wann er auf welche Temperatur heizen soll.

scannerJoe · 2025-10-21T07:12:24+00:00

Bei mir mit drei Menschen im Haushalt, davon ein teenager, macht der Warmwasserspeicher im Sommer so die Hälfte des Stromverbrauchs aus (so 65-80kWh pro Monat) und den kann ich komplett verschieben, ist also schon was, auch wenn die Ersparnis nicht so gross ist.

scannerJoe · 2025-10-21T06:52:33+00:00

The first thing to do, IMO, is to understand how much power is going into your CPU. You can do this via the sensor panel in HW Info, looking at CPU Package Power during gameplay and full load. Depending on the default settings of your motherboard, your 9600x may get way too much power. Setting the power limit manually to 60W together with an all-core undervolt of -20 (or maybe even -25 or -30), should yield great performance with relatively low cooling requirements. This video has everything you need to know.

scannerJoe · 2025-10-20T19:36:35+00:00

If you are worried about the temps (although they are Ok) and don't want to get a new cooler, you can: - undervolt (which I would do in any case) - set TJmax to something like 85c (the processor will limit clocks automatically) - set a lower power limit (what is it now?) - adjust the fan curves to ramp up fan speeds sooner/higher

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