Husband, father, coder, photographer, traveler.
Bike training, week 6. I’m back from traveling and the weather’s been good, so I fit in 6 rides this week for a total of 75.1 miles. This week I thought a big milestone would be passing 200 miles on the new bike, which I did, but now I’m already almost to 250 so I find myself looking ahead to new milestones instead.
I pushed it today, staying in Zone 4 for most of the 50 minute ride. I somehow managed to boost my average speed to 15.1 mph, my fastest average yet.
Bike training, week 5. It was another travel week, but I managed to squeeze in 2 rides for a total of 29.6 miles.
Average speed on the most recent ride was 13.4 mph, with a fun max speed of 34.8 mph.
After getting back from Chicago four days ago, I’m heading out again to the west coast today for a work offsite. Had a 3 hour layover at MSP, so I walked a loop of the airport–about 1.7 miles.
Finally got backups setup on the Mac Studio. Had to expand the Time Machine volume on the TrueNAS server from 4TB drives to some spare 6TB drives I had on a shelf. Gave me just enough extra space to backup another Mac.
Pro tip: Keep your Time Machine backups on separate drives from the rest of your network storage. A handful of Macs backing up every hour really consumes a ton of iops. You don’t want that slowing down the rest of your network storage.
Bike training, week 4: I spent most of this week at Deep Dish Swift, and the weather wasn’t too cooperative otherwise.
I managed to fit in 2 rides though, totaling 35.7 miles. Latest ride average speed was 10.6 mph (took a gravel route). You haven’t lived until you’ve bombed down a gravel road at 25+ mph…so much fun.
Bike training, week 3: I went on 5 rides this week totaling 69.8 miles. Latest ride average speed was 13.2 mph.
I’m starting to add a 20+ mile weekend ride to the mix to help with endurance.
I started training toward a new goal today. For the past couple years, I’ve had in the back of my mind that I’d like to do a century bike ride. The thing is, I’m in nowhere near the shape to ride 100 miles in a day, and my mountain bike isn’t going to cut it either. I did a 50 mile ride with it years ago, but full suspension bikes are just too heavy, and don’t have road gearing or tires.
After a false start last summer, a few weeks ago I decided now was the time to give it a serious shot. I ordered an endurance road bike, which will be ready soon. Today was one of the first days that was warm enough (45°) to go on a ride. Even though I don’t have the new bike yet, I took the mountain bike out. I’m pretty rusty, but it felt great to get out there.
I’m hoping that by posting here (maybe at the end of every week) will keep me motivated, so here goes.
Week 1: 12 miles, average speed 10.1 mph.
April 10th, and we’re still getting snow flurries outside. Can’t wait for it to start warming up tomorrow.
XRG is fun to watch while compiling. So many cores…
Even after being pegged for minutes, the fan speed hasn’t budged from 1000 rpm. It’s quiet in here.
It’s here, and it’s fast. Picked up a Mac Studio 28 core M3 Ultra and it halved my compile times from my previous M1 Max.
I ordered 2TB of internal storage and have an external 8TB Thunderbolt NVMe drive.
Impatiently waiting for a Mac Studio with 28 core M3 Ultra to post an XcodeBenchmark build time. The 32 core M3 Ultra can do it in 71 seconds, and MacBook Pros with 16 core M4 Max chips in 77-78 seconds. Curious where the 28 core model falls.
Really wish the Mac Studio Ultra didn’t jump from 96GB all the way to 256GB. It’s a huge price jump for that capacity change. While 96GB is plenty for now, it feels like it could become tight over the next few years with AI taking off. At the same time, 256GB is way more than I’d need for this iteration.
Would be great to have an option of one of 128/160/192GB along the way, or, you know, slotted and upgradeable memory.
Would love to see a new Mac Studio sooner than expected. However, I really hope the rumors of the CPU choices being either the M4 Max or M3 Ultra are shown to be false.
I would happily spring for an Ultra model, which is really the biggest benefit of buying a Studio over a MacBook Pro with the same Max chip in it. Picking more CPU cores over a newer architecture wouldn’t be an easy choice though, even for something as massively parallel as compiling code.
Great to see the withTaskGroup improvement from fellow Doximity team member Richard (https://github.com/rlziii) make it into this public release.
The news that Apple is going to start manufacturing the S9 SIP in the U.S. is also likely an attempt to dodge the ITC import ban for the O2 monitoring feature.
@zorn@jawns.club I just built a new gaming pc a few weeks ago as well. I ended up with a more mid-range build with a 9600X and 7800 XT in a Lian Li A3 case. Love it so far.
@camdeardorff@frontrange.co Yeah, Peertube is pretty slick. I setup an instance and mirrored my YouTube channel to it so now I don’t have to worry about my online video content disappearing overnight. I post private links to share videos with family too.
Here’s a size comparison of the RF lens vs the EF with adapter. It’s going to take me awhile to get used to the lens being all the way retracted at 24mm and lengthening at 14 and 35mm. Camera balance is worlds better though.
@sommer@macaw.social I always have to force myself to write a paragraph of notes describing what I was doing on the last day before a long weekend. Almost forgot last week and glad I didn’t.
Took advantage of a Black Friday sale and upgraded from the EF 16-35mm f4L to this RF 14-35mm f4L. Really looking forward to not needing an adapter to use an ultrawide again–it totally threw off the balance of the camera while using it on an RF body. Not to mention this’ll be about a half pound lighter when traveling.
Was hoping to get it cheaper with Canon’s usual refurbished sale, but it turned out the sale price on a new lens was only $50 more so I went for that instead.
