WkndTriathlete

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by WkndTriathlete 5y ago
Leicester City. And they won the EPL trophy straight out of League One the year they were promoted. I would also argue that this would negatively impact small-market teams, which would all but guarantee a much smaller overall total revenue
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by WkndTriathlete 5y ago
Haskell's IO monad says, "Hi! With me you don't need exceptions and you don't need to put an if statement after every function call."
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by WkndTriathlete 5y ago
> It shouldn't take that much energy to stop if you are cycling at a reasonable speed. I'm going to read between the lines here. First, you're correct, it takes next zero energy to stop. Squeeze the brake levers and you&#
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by WkndTriathlete 5y ago
I think I'm in agreement with your analysis. It looks like the L1045 has no car-width shoulder (or much of a shoulder at all) and there are some nice alternate routes that wind through in the same general direction without much disrup
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by WkndTriathlete 5y ago
Terrible analogy. Road cyclist time trial speed tops out around 32-33 mph, and the top cyclists can sustain that for about 30-45 minutes. "Oh no, those racing cyclists got in groups and maxed out their speedometers in the city center
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by WkndTriathlete 5y ago
> The best bike lanes resemble motor traffic lanes: straight and continuous with as few interruptions as possible. This. 100% this. The county highways around where I live have a paved shoulder that is as wide as a full lane of traffic
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by WkndTriathlete 5y ago
Yup. Minnesota's DNR is usually pretty well-informed and pretty proactive. De-icing around the Twin Cities metro has improved significantly over the past 5-10 years. Now if we could just convince the property owners around the lakes
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by WkndTriathlete 5y ago
> At my peak fitness level my BMI was 30. Based on those numbers you were literally built like a NFL linebacker. If you were to swap out your hypertrophy sets for max-strength instead you'd likely be relatively stronger and could p
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by WkndTriathlete 5y ago
> In 1989 my grandparents built a home ... and carefully vapor-sealed the entire house In the upper Midwest there were a number of homes built this way in the 80s/90s. 10-15 years later they all had black mold (nasty health hazard)
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by WkndTriathlete 5y ago
> However, correcting a biased system requires that there is a period with enforced change bias to correct the existing bias. I guess all my calculus and systems theory textbooks were wrong, then. Seriously, though, there are myriad prob
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by WkndTriathlete 5y ago
My guess is that it is because DATEDIFF is hard to write correctly. (In particular, the DATEDIFF function presented in the article, while probably correct in a lot of common cases, is incorrect for certain intervals and resolutions, the ea
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by WkndTriathlete 5y ago
Yeah, but I've heard Fairbanks can get nasty ice fog. Even we don't get that here in Minnesota.
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by WkndTriathlete 5y ago
1) Cars have had baked-on finish for 20+ years and generally don't rust through anymore, even with the ice melt put on roads in Minnesota; 2) Roads in Minnesota are not destroyed by salt + plows. Roads are destroyed by frost heave and
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by WkndTriathlete 5y ago
> Yes, if that's what I want. It's not really my backyard. it's proverbial, but we can't make the mistake of taking it literally. it's someone else's front yard. I have no say in it. A century of established
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by WkndTriathlete 5y ago
> Thankfully the low density also means you can afford to pay your bills doing jobs like that. Financial margins in rural areas have been decreasing over the last 100 years as corporations take over farms and people move to urban areas f
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by WkndTriathlete 5y ago
> The city didn't come to them. They chose to live in close proximity to enjoy it's benefits thinking they could avoid the trade off entirely, forever. In every place except for a handful of cities on the West Coast this is s
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by WkndTriathlete 5y ago
I'll admit that the one that puzzled me was the school district that banned "Catch-22".
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by WkndTriathlete 5y ago
> the reported efficacy would drop by ~30%: instead of 8 confirmed cases in the vax arm vs 162 in the control arm (95.2%), it would become 218 vs. 429 (66.3%). Not a trivial difference. You know the entire study was done over 44,000 peop
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by WkndTriathlete 5y ago
That depends on how much you value your time. I have had Hondas for the past 25 years that have not required major repairs for anything . Worst was having to get the automatic transmission solenoid replaced on a Pilot with 240k+ miles on
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by WkndTriathlete 5y ago
In what way, besides speed? I'm genuinely curious. When I tried it the developer experience was mind-bogglingly terrible - 12GB and upwards of 20 minutes required to build "Hello, World" on an i7.
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by WkndTriathlete 5y ago
That was my guess, too. I would liked to have seen the ROI adjusted for cost-of-living, but I suspect that's a lot of work to get that data and integrate it into the analysis.
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by WkndTriathlete 5y ago
> decades of free flowing money from government backed loans to students This, along with the perception that any college degree is a golden ticket, is the root of the problem. The article mentions that 2/3rds of high-school graduat
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by WkndTriathlete 5y ago
The top 0.1% - 10% already pay the majority of taxes in the US. Beyond 0.1% the tax rate drops off due to loopholes in the tax code. Eliminating all of the loopholes, re-evaluating the marginal tax rates, and taxes on corporate income or a
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by WkndTriathlete 5y ago
I'm pretty sure I want credentialing requirements for anyone running for any public office. I'd settle for automatic exclusion of anyone displaying narcissistic, psychopathic, or sociopathic tendencies and inclusion of rational p
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by WkndTriathlete 5y ago
The article's analysis missed one big thing in the comparison: rent (necessarily) includes a profit margin for the owners. In a mortgage this is the interest payment on the loan, but in a mortgage the owner gradually shifts from lende
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by WkndTriathlete 5y ago
I have found that a 30-minute discussion on a random variety of technical topics (including questions such as those posted above) is sufficient to determine whether someone has required technical expertise. Coding exercises entirely miss th
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by WkndTriathlete 5y ago
You're not missing anything. The author is rediscovering first-class functions, applicatives, functors, and monads the long way around.
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by WkndTriathlete 5y ago
Well energy, #1, and you should actually do the napkin math to figure out that it takes an enormous amount of energy to pump 14.8 maf/year (which is the average annual flow of the Colorado) of water uphill. (Hint: Desalination of wate
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by WkndTriathlete 5y ago
Nitpick: in the wet areas of the country it's not that we want green landscaping, it's that it is almost impossible to not have green landscaping because of how much rain we get. Lay down a layer of rock landscaping over landsca
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by WkndTriathlete 5y ago
Sure, the USPTO might charge $500, but the patent lawyers that will file the application for you will charge $40k - $200k.

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