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by aix1 5y ago
The truth is that you don't. All that's required for almost any training run is a pair of shoes[*]. Everything else is an extra; it's up to you to decide whether each of those extras is worth carrying. [*] That's true
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by aix1 5y ago
Over the course of ~5 years I went from BMI=32 and completely inactive to BMI=23 (~15% body fat) and ironman/ultramarathon fit. I do realise that the weight loss aspect is not applicable to your case. Still, I hope that some of what I
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by aix1 5y ago
At some point in the mid to late 1980s, there was a craze in Minsk of seemingly everyone home-building ZX Spectrum clones. Probably the Ленинград design, though I'm not entirely sure. As I recall, all the components were off-the-shel
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by aix1 5y ago
Thought I'd also mention "The ZX Spectrum ULA". https://www.amazon.com/ZX-Spectrum-Ula-Microcomputer-Compute...
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Right, and in the UK we call personnel working at passport control immigration officers : https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/job-profiles/immigrat... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_
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by aix1 5y ago
Immigration rather than customs[*], but yeah. [*] Customs deal with the flow of things , whereas immigration services deal with the flow of people .
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by aix1 5y ago
> Where are they supposed to find 40h to work on a side-project even if it is paid? On top of that, taking on paid outside work in the same field could also be contrary to the candidate's contract with their existing employer[*]. [*
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by aix1 5y ago
How would such a "smart monitor" connect to the Internet? Wouldn't that require network hardware not commonly found in monitors as well as some cooperation from the owner (to hook up the monitor to their network, with unclea
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by aix1 5y ago
Could you give some concrete examples of the types of data that an existing smart monitor (not a TV) collects and sells to others? (Ideally also naming the manufacture and the device.)
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> Depends on the shoe. That's definitely true and something to bear in mind. I generally don't wear outdoor shoes (of any kind) in my own or other people's homes, which is where this sort of situation is most likely to ari
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by aix1 5y ago
I don't race and so having optimal power transfer isn't important to me. I do like cleats though, so I ended up standardising on SPD across all my bikes (including road). I have a pair of Vaude Sykkel shoes. They're leather
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by aix1 5y ago
I am not sure I quite follow the thinking. If something has zero intrinsic value, does it matter which units are used to expressed that (so long as the units themselves have some non-zero value)?
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> I have never heard of an employer that makes its employees only take whole weeks rather than a day here or there This could be country-specific, but in investment banking it is common to require employees to periodically take an unin
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by aix1 5y ago
I'm guessing the GP means something like the pictures in https://pressa40.ru/neskolko-millionov-rossiyan-zhdyot-garaz... https://punkt-a.info/news/glavnoe/gorduma-i-garazhi-v-bitve-... (Very
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by aix1 5y ago
I can't say whether it's solely attributable to the use of usability testing, but I have to say that I find UK govt's online services very smooth to interact with. Head & shoulders above the average.
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by aix1 5y ago
I just found this very nice paper about the transit priority system used in Zürich. Thought others might enjoy it too. https://www.andynash.com/nash-publications/Nash2003-ZRH-PTpr...
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by aix1 5y ago
There do exist those rare creatures who manage to get promoted to, and beyond, L6 as ICs. I've been trying figure out how they do it, but can't say I've been making much progress. (I'm Staff myself, but would not have g
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by aix1 5y ago
Thank you for sharing this. I just wanted to add that cycling helps improve fitness, and unfit populations could become fitter if they chose to cycle. This brings about multiple benefits and is not the case with other transport modalitie
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by aix1 5y ago
This sounds awesome, but I'm guessing can only work if there are few buses? (I live in London and can't imaging such an arrangement being even remotely workable around here.)
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Supporting data: p17 of http://content.tfl.gov.uk/segregated-cycling-infrastructure-... Though I can't say I fully follow TfL's maths on this one.
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by aix1 5y ago
> "shark attacks on submarine cables" I thought this was a euphemism for something but, no, an actual thing: https://www.forbes.com/sites/melissacristinamarquez/2020/07/... Who'd have t
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by aix1 5y ago
> Google has/had a policy/culture of largely free information flow inside the company Sadly, this is "had" rather than "has" (it was the latter until a few years ago). As you point out, not least due to lea
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by aix1 5y ago
Thank you for this, the analogy really resonates.
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by aix1 5y ago
This may or may not work for you, but I keep notes in a collection of Google docs. Depending on context, these are either shared with the other person (and usually editable by them) or is accessible only by me.
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by aix1 5y ago
> I almost got murdered terminator style by a Cruise while riding my bicycle around SF... hopefully they figured that out. I had to google "Cruise". To save others a moment or two, Cruise is a self-driving startup unrelated to
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by aix1 5y ago
I think we're talking about different things. I am talking about the groupset (the shifters, brake levers, brake calipers, derailleurs, crankset, bottom bracket, chain and cassette). There are indeed some wear items (chain; cassette,
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by aix1 5y ago
I can't tell whether you're being serious, but sadly there's indeed quite a lot of this us-vs-them and people behaving like arseholes to each other. Not to mention that, in my jurisdiction, if this sort of behaviour led to in
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by aix1 5y ago
Chain is indeed a wear item. It costs tens of dollars to replace. $1000 groupsets simply don't deteriorate in the manner you describe. Source: I rode many thousands of kilometers on my gravel/adventure bike, including a 1000km r
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by aix1 5y ago
I am not sure about the frequency of service, but buses here in London ran at a significantly reduced capacity for a while (IIRC 20 or 30 passengers per double-decker). For social distancing reasons.
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by aix1 5y ago
> I have never even seen a bike shop sell this brand ("ROCKBROS"). RockBros is a Chinese brand. I have a few of their parts and in my experience they're pretty well made.

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