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yofuckreddit
10d ago
First, Congrats! Hopefully the weirdness is offset by the enjoyment of being seen as important. For what it's worth I'm one of the people that will dig a bit to say "Thank you" when a piece of art or science transcends the mundane. I pretty much never receive a response but I figure people get negative feedback so often on things it's a way to put some positivity out there.
I was unable to meaningfully achieve anything academically. My ascent from a mediocre student to decent mid-level professional guy was a happy surprise. It's still crazy that the company I "co-founded" is still around almost a decade later and making $40m a year from $0.
yofuckreddit
10d ago
I recently completed a gravel cycling race in Hot Springs, NC. For the uninitiated, the appeal of these sorts of programs is that you have an excuse to grace the middle of nowhere with your presence and wallet. Many of the spots where great gravel routes exist are towns you don't even see from the interstate, but are beautiful and remote.
The distance wasn't anything special, but 7,000 vertical feet in a day is.... non-trivial. This was essentially a climbing race. My performance was abysmal. A number of factors contributed to it - work has killed my training regimen and maybe I'm just not as tough as I thought. But I also lost my electrolyte water bottles just before the race, leading to inordinate cramping, and took a wrong turn that cost me critical minutes. The end result was I lost to competitors I really shouldn't have as a mid-30s male.
It does make me consider the role of races in my personal enjoyment of the hobby. I rented a cabin on the river and brought my family, and in an alternate universe I would be waking up in the morning with a coffee, enjoying the beautiful views at the top of each mountain, having actually delicious food/drink packed on the bike (for those evaluating electrolyte drinks, Neversecond was what the organizers provided, and holy fuck it tasted awful), and face no pressure to break any bones on gnarly descents (at least one racer had to be pulled off a mountain via ambulance). Instead I paid $80 for a water bottle and a timer to come in the bottom half of the pack.
I've visited the areas hit by Helene a couple of times at this point. There's been something indefinably different - traumatized - among the locals that I interact with. Of course not everyone loves cyclists, but oftentimes I'm not dressed as one. I think some of that small town charm that people would expect has dissipated and will take more years to return. The physical scars aren't even healed yet, and you can still see 100 year old oaks tossed to the ground like children's toys in many places. I still love being there, and it is funny that the stereotypical Appalachian mountain man still does exist in spades. You can go talk with him right now over a beer.
@FiveHourMarathon Did you ever end up tackling your 100-miler?
yofuckreddit
12d ago
From my perspective, actually, pools are deathtraps for young kids and a maintenance nightmare. I want them less as a father. I had a lot of fun at them as an unattached adult, where I can read, tan, and cool off repeatedly.
You bring up historically dark periods in which humans didn't stop having children. I don't even think you have to travel through time.
Right now in Africa the human condition involves suffering on a scale incomprehensible to the average western mind, where family members of Ebola victims lynch the doctors and aid workers trying to stop outbreaks while war and rape cyclically consume every attempt at building civilization.
This is the one of the few places on the planet where people are having more children.
I've never been convinced of many of my friends' reasoning behind not having kids either. Some are honest about their desire to travel and build pools in their backyard, at least.
yofuckreddit
14d ago
It's the best show ever made IMO, worth going to the end.
Beware that the Blu Ray boxed set is horrible. Impossible to get the disks out. One of the ~20 things I've bought physical media for.
yofuckreddit
16d ago
Graphics haven't gotten any better, IMO, in something like 8 years. I'd love to get VR resolution running smoothly on some hardware but I think the next gen of devs can't build it anyway.
yofuckreddit
16d ago
I loved Edinburgh. My night at The Stand was still to this day the most fun I've had a comedy show, all the food we had was decent, and it was just plain beautiful to walk around unguided. I was extremely happy with how friendly people were, despite the fact that I was there to see Taylor Swift (I'd rather not get into it, thanks).
I did feel like quite the fool though - after waking up earlier than everyone else in the UK, I stumbled upon a completely empty Victoria Street (I had done no research). I thought to myself "Wow, this is such a magical space! I love the colors!"
3 Hours later it was revealed as a crappy tourist trap with queues to get into shops selling chinese harry potter swag. But I eventually dragged our party just a block or two away for coffee, and things were nice again.
I stayed in converted apartments deep in old town. I had eyed them almost 8 years ago, amazed at how cool they were for the price. The TS premium was brutal, but I decided to splurge and am glad I did. They've now been taken over by Marriott and are lifeless shells of what they were.
And perhaps this is why I feel some anxiety about traveling and the opportunity cost of "settling down" for years as I hit prime earning age. Cool places die all the time.
yofuckreddit
18d ago
- 1.5 years before dating, but we were with other people when we met.
- I was instantly entranced, but knew I wanted to marry probably 2 months into dating.
- ^
- Yes. I've had to deal with the consequences of it, but nobody is perfect. I think you should generally really think through what dealing with that "something" is like for the rest of your life.
- There were things I had no way of knowing beforehand (skill at being a mother) that I did not factor into my scoring that I now appreciate.
- I knew enough women as friends and lovers that my gut was pretty well developed, so while I did get lucky I also knew what I had.
yofuckreddit
22d ago
I'll go against the grain and say I like EDH. But you need to find a group of people who have the exact same tolerance for competition AND who play quickly AND who don't meet enough to develop a mini-meta. It's too tough to find that IMO but when it hits it hits.
yofuckreddit
22d ago
At one time I had a decent collection of cards with some bomb rares. The bull of them were stolen actually (?) from my house by who I still don't know. The only remaining binder I had left was tucked under a bathroom sink and I don't think the lone foil Zapdos in there would be graded highly.
Played a ton of MTG for a few years but only got started during innistrad. My collection is probably worth $400 at most front to back at this point. I no longer consider it ethical to pay for the game, it seems a shadow of what it was, though I suspect many probably think the same of my introductory era.
yofuckreddit
28d ago
I will second going for 32gb of RAM. I also do love X1 Carbons, the physical hardware is good, even if Lenovo's software is not.
yofuckreddit
28d ago
Office documents and PDFs, along with even many browser tabs, are definitely a solid set of real-world work computer requirements, but they're also not that demanding.
In the days of XP, or even early on for Windows 10, this was the case.
The latest versions of Office and Windows are brutal performance regressions, with CoPilot and phone-home services making everything slow to a crawl. I say this as a big fan of Microsoft software, which I know is profoundly uncool to be.
Absolutely. I try to think of my children reading it in the future and it cheers me up a bit. But primarily a sense of accomplishment.
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