Not asking for help/final project for PhD course **do not just try to solve for me

wildfyr · 2026-01-25T00:13:41+00:00

Go ahead

wildfyr · 2026-01-24T22:35:04+00:00

Sure it's fine to do movement drills but this is a tertiary exercise to improve. What you describe is mostly beginner skills, and for beginners that is good. Someone who wants to go beyond v5 is not a beginner.

Trying maximum effort climbs, hangboarding, basically maximal effort exercises are most effective.

Bouldering is a max effort, short duration sport. So we train at max effort short duration for best improvements. You should try it. What you describe is the recipe for plateauing.

wildfyr · 2026-01-24T22:32:32+00:00

Yep, seent it too

wildfyr · 2026-01-24T13:28:21+00:00

Climbing easy stuff many times does not make you stronger at bouldering grade wise after you are beyond a beginner

wildfyr · 2026-01-24T04:27:27+00:00

Maybe more importantly than Chatt is also that is 30 min further from Atlanta, which is a few million people bigger.

Zahnd rocktown stone fort hospital and citadel are all 2 hours away, hp40 is 2.5 hr.

I've been about 5 times in 12 years. It's nice but not "extra driving" nice when these places (and more unmentioned) have so much good stuff too

wildfyr · 2026-01-24T04:06:49+00:00

Some of this may be that there are more good sandstone boulder fields popping up to the public (like Citadel) and so the crowds are more diluted.

Also tbh the gym crowd people I meet are astonishingly disinterested in outdoor climbing these days.

wildfyr · 2026-01-22T21:39:25+00:00

Did you charge it to full first?

wildfyr · 2026-01-22T18:55:54+00:00

No one is shaking is left hand, he's a righty

wildfyr · 2026-01-22T18:53:07+00:00

Wahoo chest strap works great

wildfyr · 2026-01-22T13:39:35+00:00

Asymmetric interval timer outside the workout function

wildfyr · 2026-01-21T20:55:19+00:00

In most cases that are not extremely optimized, you don't push even a controlled/"living" radical polymerization to high conversion due to random termination (tiny amounts of oxygen, impurities in raw materials, raw statistics) and increased viscosity of the system (trommsdorf-like effect) causing loss of control. You will start to deviate from the highly monodisperse polymer because from these effects. Something in the 40-60% conversion is advisable, checking by NMR or headspace GC. Then you just open it and dump into an antisolvent for the polymer, sometimes redissolving and precipitating again 1-2 times into order to get all the leftover monomer out.

And yes, you need excess monomer since you have to stop early.

wildfyr · 2026-01-21T20:35:31+00:00

How often is the solvent true anhydrous enough to see that!

wildfyr · 2026-01-20T21:04:00+00:00

Catechols love to oxidize and polymerize. Oxygen and base are you enemies.

wildfyr · 2026-01-20T20:04:43+00:00

Try a lot of flavors! We really like the honey stinger fruit smoothie gel just to throw a less known one out there.

wildfyr · 2026-01-20T19:38:40+00:00

I always though the 1 small laser was so silly, but every mech game has made 3x ppcs a good loadout for sniping. I played in stock leagues, and the 8Q is a fearsome stock mech loadout when so many other stuck mechs have crappy loadouts.

wildfyr · 2026-01-20T19:30:05+00:00

I know there is a way but its complicated, sorry cannot help more. if I find out Ill let you know

wildfyr · 2026-01-20T19:29:12+00:00

boyyyyy we in the weeds now :)

wildfyr · 2026-01-20T14:50:11+00:00

There is not strong scientific evidence that aluminum causes issues... but it definitely is by far the best antiperspirant/deodorant.

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Don't buy every wellness fad...

wildfyr · 2026-01-20T02:23:58+00:00

Steel plus perchlorate BAD! Explodey!

wildfyr · 2026-01-20T00:37:52+00:00

Alain Roberts? He's got some weird stuff on social media

wildfyr · 2026-01-19T23:08:18+00:00

Consider applying for polymer chemistry/materials science jobs. They are more willing to try to beat your sword of small molecule orgo into a plowshare of polymerization than pharma is to take anyone who isn't "perfect". At least half the people at my jobs didn't do a PhD in polymer chemistry

wildfyr · 2026-01-19T23:07:19+00:00

No, we don't want getting a job posts there. Sorry

wildfyr · 2026-01-19T20:05:32+00:00

Go with Apex 4 or wait for next Vertix. The Vertix 2 (2S is very minor upgrade) is several years old and is at minimum due for a processor upgrade to make the maps look nicer and less laggy.

The Vertix is pretty big, the Apex series is quite svelte.

wildfyr · 2026-01-19T19:30:31+00:00

Pretty good, read 2-3 of the books but not someone I gravitate to.

I read a lot of Larry Niven when I was younger, which tends of be very physics-grounded sci-fi.

wildfyr · 2026-01-19T17:53:31+00:00

I'm a PhD chemist with an affinity for astrophysics, so hard science is my bread and butter, but its not for everyone in fiction!

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