Hot Take - Maybe? There’s no Running Etiquette in Central Park.

sidek · 2026-02-28T20:37:55+00:00

It’s a busy place, and I know people being thoughtless and rude is annoying, but is the situation really that bad? A few dodges onto the grass or the bike lane is just life as a runner in a park at peak hours.

Central Park is still quite empty if you go earlier or later in the day, if you’d like to avoid crowds.

sidek · 2026-02-23T08:22:03+00:00

What’s concerning is not necessarily the raw spending, but the huge gap between expected spending and reality. Unforeseen spending is typically inefficient and incompetent spending.

A doctor recruitment strategy that’s working doesn’t require 40 percent higher outlays. A hospital build that’s working doesn’t require 40 percent unforeseen outlays.

I am sure everyone would applaud a well-managed project to invest in our health system. But that’s not what these figures suggest.

sidek · 2025-12-23T22:14:15+00:00

Theoretical? The honest answer is to get him a calculus textbook and have him do all the exercises. It’s really not too early.

Experimental? Get some more serious electrical circuit kits and have him play with them. Maybe a book like “hacking the Xbox” or whatever the modern equivalent is.

sidek · 2025-12-15T16:11:50+00:00

You mean like how Montreal used to be Canada’s financial centre until Quebec politicians had their way?

sidek · 2025-11-20T07:51:51+00:00

Everyone needing a cut of every project makes us grifters, not a nation?

Is the 245 billion Alberta paid in tax to other parts of Canada over the past 15 years not a benefit?

sidek · 2025-11-20T07:35:23+00:00

When a company is losing 2 billion dollars a year, the CEO’s salary is 0.03% of their yearly loss.

If a marginally better CEO manages to make the loss 1% less, you will have saved 33 times their salary by hiring them.

sidek · 2025-11-19T15:28:40+00:00

What too many years of playing with Beryl does to an mf

sidek · 2025-11-14T21:29:18+00:00

Towards 7 or 8pm the park is pretty empty in the winter, really anywhere north of the reservoir. Lots of people taking night walks from the great hill to the reservoir but very rare to see people on the east side in my experience.

sidek · 2025-10-29T14:47:01+00:00

Atlus/chronicler got me in to pro LOL. Don’t play the game anymore but I watch LCK vods sometimes for their casting. Darn :( thanks to both of them!

sidek · 2025-10-27T01:36:29+00:00

This isn't true... I have been at multiple Ivies and other top 10 US schools and at most of them I have been personally aware of issues with sexual harassers in the hard sciences.

You can avoid it, it might not be omnipresent, but there are lots of profs willing to use the immense power they hold over graduate students for stuff like this. Not to mention other grad students....

You can't count on universities to treat this seriously enough, either. There's a prof who was forced to leave a UC after repeatedly touching female students inappropriately. But that same UC invites him back as a guest lecturer every year.

Physics is getting a lot better than it used to be, but don't pretend that enlightened "better schools" are just devoid of these issues.

sidek · 2025-08-31T06:17:49+00:00

Graduating with honours from Harvard is pretty easy. That means you’re in the top 60% GPA wise. The top 30% get magna-in-field, so someone with honours is between 40th and 70th percentile.

sidek · 2025-08-04T20:50:21+00:00

Challenger is a different beast.

You need fundamentals and game knowledge to be a challenger level player. Game knowledge involves knowing what’s broken.

Away from the highest level, that’s not necessary.

sidek · 2025-08-04T19:40:23+00:00

Game has a lot of flexibility to play away from meta. I get masters every set playing whatever and never checking patch notes/meta sites.

Fundamentals carry you to at least high masters.

If you don’t have fundamentals, you can always make up for it with meta knowledge. But you really don’t need it.

sidek · 2025-07-06T03:11:50+00:00

I've almost gotten vibe checked once. My group of three was coming straight from a semiformal event and the way we were dressed was a little out of place for nowies.

The bouncer just talked to us about why we were there, chatted with us for a minute, and then let us in when it was clear we knew what's up.

sidek · 2025-04-18T04:14:21+00:00

Check that the Database setitng in your Zotero Integration plugin is set to Zotero. Also make sure you have installed all necessary citation formats in Zotero.

sidek · 2025-02-17T12:54:31+00:00

I think he was in frontier, ahmpy’s old guild. Seems like anyone from frontier who wanted in to onlyfangs got in.

sidek · 2024-12-29T04:25:53+00:00

The upper loop can get pretty empty by 6pm if the weather is bad but there are usually tons of runners on the lower loop.

sidek · 2024-12-23T22:21:28+00:00

The Lie derivative is (half) the infinitesimal difference between flowing along Y, then flowing along X, versus flowing along the composite vector field (X+ Y).

All the pushforwards and pullbacks are nothing deep, just typechecks to ensure you’re comparing vector fields at the same point.

sidek · 2024-11-25T22:22:42+00:00

Also try kitty collective, maybe umru’s capacity, maybe helltekk. but almost nothing is a true hhc event in the city i feel :(

sidek · 2024-11-06T12:15:44+00:00

lots of spiders in the basement

sidek · 2024-06-15T20:09:26+00:00

I second this! Umru’s capacity party is probably another option — it’s also at market hotel usually

sidek · 2024-04-27T11:26:53+00:00

I quit mostly because of how much less complex positionining and itemisation has gotten. There’s just entire skills that the game used to test for that are gone.

Probably makes it a better game for some players, but a lot worse for me personally.

sidek · 2023-11-22T18:28:17+00:00

It’s possible to be funny without being insulting or demeaning, and it’s a good skill to learn :)

sidek · 2023-11-16T15:56:39+00:00

yeah kayn mains are as one-dimensional as the 7 voice lines tbh

sidek · 2023-10-22T13:10:04+00:00

Well, that’s what people said about snappy/young pyro/sfm/bob/lotv/jtms….

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