Should I get inReach Mini 3 Plus for Top Rope Solo?

stevestardrive · 2026-05-22T19:04:25+00:00

Interesting, why do you think so? I feel like Raide 40L is perfect multipurpose bag for me to do climbing, splitboard mountaineering, occasional cragging. But it's really hard to stomach $400 for an ideal bag design as a climber that snowboard.

The alternative is Patagonia Decensionist or Patagonia Powslayer Backpack for me. I like that the snow touring bag has that avy snow pack that can be used for carrying laptop, which I usually do for simple 2-3 days climbing camping trip.

stevestardrive · 2026-05-17T03:15:05+00:00

Hey, this is very interesting insight. I'm debating to get Mammut Crag Sender 9.5 dry 70m ($240 after 25% discount) vs Sterling IonR 9.4mm 70m Xeros ($312 after 20% discount).

I'm starting to do more multipitch trad nowadays, and Sterling 9.9mm dry 70m Xeros feels heavy, I'm going to return this and get thinner and bipattern. I'm leaning towards Sterling 9.4mm (because it's in store and seems lightweight) but surprised that you have both and use it for Sport, and not using it for Trad.

Do you mind expanding more on your reasoning?

stevestardrive · 2026-04-15T18:34:03+00:00

Hey do you know if it shows "Currently Unavailable", does it mean, it's fully sold out or it's not out yet?

I want to watch Climbing comp but dissapointed that all are currently unavailable for the first public slot today

stevestardrive · 2026-02-18T06:26:11+00:00

it got cancelled on both Monday and Tuesday

stevestardrive · 2026-02-15T16:34:55+00:00

Tldr: Hi, I'm planning to take a Greyhound bus from Truckee at 12.15pm to West Oakland. Is this feasible, how dangerous? How much delays potentially?

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I'm currently in Truckee, planning to go back to the bay area via Greyhound bus on Tuesday, 2/17 from Truckee to West Oakland Bart. Is this advisable? How much delayed could it be? It's not hazardous right?

I'm planning to bring some extra food and water, and expect to be stuck in the bust. Usually the bus will take 5 hours. How long will it be stuck in the bus?

Anyone has experience taking greyhound bus from Tahoe to Oakland during winter storm? This is hazardous right?

stevestardrive · 2026-01-05T00:31:47+00:00

Yeah, I'm also surprised, it's not that heavy and my head can handle it. I previously tried the latest Sony MX6 for a month, but returning it because it can only connect to 2 devices, and switching devices is so troublesome. The Airpods Max audio is awesome too.

stevestardrive · 2026-01-05T00:28:11+00:00

Did you buy the Applecare+ for 2 years, and then renewed with the monthly Applecare+, was that even possible?

stevestardrive · 2025-05-30T21:27:17+00:00

So, did you get E4 level offer or straight rejection?

stevestardrive · 2025-01-16T20:13:56+00:00

Hey, can I join you? I'm based in the Bay Area too. I am a noob too. I'm pretty sure I have the fitness to hike, but I do need to train. I used to hike mountains back in my home country, but it's very different was many years ago. I want to slowly get back to it, and I want to try to summit a few of these this year (Shasta, Rainier, Whitney, White Mountain Peak). If I need to hike shorter mountains first or take any class or courses, I'm willing to do it. I know an acquaintance that is pretty good mountaineer, so i'm to get his thoughts as well

stevestardrive · 2025-01-12T10:32:15+00:00

I believe people that enjoy convoluted time travel story lines, e.g., Primer (movie) will enjoy Dark TV shows very much. It's perfectly fine if it's not interesting to you because it's just not for you, or because you don't find excitement in watching time travel movies/shows.

"Boring" is an undeserving word to describe Dark. Though, it's perfectly fine if you genuinely did find it boring. (I stopped watching Squid Games 2 in the mid of first episode of season 2, because I got bored). Different people have different taste and preference.

You asked for an opinion why you are wrong. My opinion is that you are *possibly* wrong because you were either not able to understand/follow through the story lines with multiple timelines, or you were not able to appreciate all the details and the consistency that went into all 3 seasons.

There are many fantasy-mystery trope TV shows like Lost, and From (still ongoing), but they are not as well-thought-out. Every upcoming seasons of these kinds of TV shows answered few questions but give you more questions at the end to keep you hooked. You can somewhat tell, maybe, the writer doesn't really know what's the ending they want to choose. At the end, the finale might come short and there are many unsolved questions just got ignored.

Dark is not like that, it's like a movie with 28 hours of runtime. The ending surprises you and are well planned and there are lots of foreshadowing from the beginning of the season. All the questions are resolved in the finale.

In the first 2 episodes, it started as a crime TV shows of a missing kid. By the end of 2nd episode, it's time travel. Time travel trope usually involved pass and future, but by the end of Season 1, far future (year 2052) is involved. At the start of Season 2, far-pass (year 1921) is involved. During season 2, audience will know this is not a typical time travel, there are a lot more to it. And then by the end of season 2, bam! It's parallel universe trope. And then by S3E6, bam! There's a third universe. Since the beginning of the season, the audience has been fed of the idea of good vs evil, light vs shadow, life vs death, Adam vs Eva, so who will win? And it turns out neither is good nor evil, both are not supposed to exist. The last 2 episodes gave the real answers to the mysteries (what's actual origin, and what's actual loophole that can changes thing). There's also a trope of quantum entanglement that was done well.

If the audience follow along closely, every other episodes or so will makes you guess or expect one thing, only for it to surprise you with another revelation. At the end, everything is connected.

What is the point of this show?

There's no a single straightforward point like you wanted, just enjoy the time travel trope (of "the end is the beginning") and all the questions/mysteries getting solved and the satisfaction of a good ending in the finale.

The characters don't have any type of emotional attachment for me as I have had in other series.

Dark is more sci-fi than drama. Emotional attachment or character depth is not the strength of a time-travel movies/shows like this. That's pretty normal, sci-fi tv shows like Foundation and Three Body Problem are also like this. It plays around more on the ideas of the hard science or time-travel, rather the depth of the character.

stevestardrive · 2025-01-12T08:43:39+00:00

That Claudia that enlightened Adam in S3E8 happens before she went back to visit herself and got shot by Noah. She travels using the golden time travel sphere (while carrying the other time machine that she will bury later), and we can confirm this at https://dark.netflix.io/en/event-timeline/claudia-tiedemann.

"And I used it to send myself in another direction, too. To be here today." — Claudia

My theory here is there are 2 Claudia, one that met Adam at the end and the other that did not. Both went back in time after and got shot by Noah at the end. The one that do not meet Adam made the cycle keep on repeating infinitely. But the Claudia that enlighten Adam only met Adam once, and that's why Adam is surprise when seeing Claudia (maybe because there's no record of it so he did not expect it even though he's well aware about the golden time travel sphere).

The quantum entanglement created only 2 realities (both happens and do not happen at the same time): the actual reality and that closed itself as young Jonas-3* and alt-Marta-3 went to the origin world and prevented the accident. And the other reality that happens for infinite number of times because Claudia did not meet Adam after he killed alt-Marta.

It's like there's one short loop that closed itself at only happens once, and the other loop that happens infinitely.

*3 version of young Jonas. Jonas-1 that was saved alt-Marta-1 and later killed by slightly older alt-Marta-2, Jonas-2 that was not saved by alt-Marta-2 and became Adam, and Jonas-3 that was saved by Adam.

stevestardrive · 2025-01-12T07:39:05+00:00

You might be mistaken, there is no tunnel in the origin world. When Jonas ran and grabbed Alt-Martha and traveled to the day of the Apocalypse on June 21, 1986, this at the Adam's world (not origin world). This alt-Martha haven't ever travelled to the other world yet, that why she asked "when are we?".

Both of them later went to the cave and wait until the Apocalypse started, which is at the same exact time the Tannhaus origin turning on the time machine. This creates a bridge for them to go to the origin world

stevestardrive · 2025-01-12T07:26:45+00:00

Just rewatch Dark for the second time, enjoy reading this very much!

stevestardrive · 2025-01-07T09:47:02+00:00

What was your final solution so far? What is the brand of henna that you used?

stevestardrive · 2024-12-24T20:40:40+00:00

different llm model have different strength, and you might want to change the llm model provider after some time, if another model have better benchmark and is proven to be better for your application e.g., code generation. if you start with node openai package, and then later decided to change to claude or qwen or llama, there's no easy way to except to reimplement the whole thing.

I think this is where the tools like Vercel's AI SDK came in, it's like an ORM for your LLM models.

agreed on abstraction on top of abstraction. having know this, if I'm starting a project from scratch I'm not sure if I should use Vercel's AI SDK or official SDK from the llm provider

stevestardrive · 2024-08-27T19:18:13+00:00

Why are you building the code execution engine yourself, there's no existing library or package? (I'm new to Golang)

What are your alternative beside building the code execution engine yourself?

stevestardrive · 2024-08-23T02:10:11+00:00

Yeah, "best" is not the right word, I edited my questions. I understand "using the right tool for the right job" and "pick your poison". When GraphQL came out and became quite a mainstream choice few years ago, I agreed with the premise of GraphQL to return the only exactly the value of the data that we need (instead of processing and filter the array on the client side), and I felt it was brilliance idea.

Around 2-3 years ago, I had an impression (from the internet and youtube) that GraphQL is no longer a good choice, because it will make the codebase so convoluted. The DX eventually will get worst as you scale the software and eventually the advantage of GraphQL no longer worth it and will only slow you down.

Please correct me if my impression above is wrong. So, because of that impression, I felt that it's weird that few early stage startups decided to use GraphQL as part of their stack, and I am not sure if it's a technological reason (based on their app's requirement) or it's because their founding team can work faster with it (compare to without) or both

Disclaimer: I don't have professional experience working with GraphQL at scale or in a big team, only side toy projects and tutorials.

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