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by alexfoo 7y ago
Couch to 5k (a.k.a. C25K) is a popular way to build up slowly and steadily. Once you're up to running 5k three times a week (which is roughly where the plan leaves you) you can limit both volume and max distance increases to 10% per we
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by alexfoo 7y ago
Probably yes (I'm guessing as I'm not the OP). There's a level crossing a few miles from me that has automated barriers. The tricky bit is the crossing is right next to a station and there will be various rules in force:- * b
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by alexfoo 7y ago
Found it in 2016 and have done it ever since (and in the early days of December 2016 I went back and did the 2015 puzzles I'd missed). I was one of the 271 people who had all 200 stars (i.e. completed all puzzles) when Eric tweeted out
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by alexfoo 7y ago
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/man-forgets-...
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by alexfoo 7y ago
I'd like something cleverer than that. Act like mosh but use spare time/capacity to send the historical buffer too. That way you get the best of both worlds.
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by alexfoo 7y ago
100 ^ 3 if you read the whole thread (or even just read backwards from the end)
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by alexfoo 7y ago
Also at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50544283
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Uber will not receive new London operating licence – LBC(uk.reuters.com)
3 points by alexfoo 7y ago|1 comments
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by alexfoo 8y ago
Technique buys you so much more speed and/or efficiency in swimming compared to cycling or running. Those that lack good technique will thrash themselves into a tired mess in order to keep up with the others on the swim. Some swim coac
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by alexfoo 8y ago
> So if a policy starts at 00:00:00 and ends at 23:59:59, that's the full day, all the way up to midnight. If you had a policy for the calendar year 2016 would it not have covered 31 December 2016, 23:59:60 then? https://
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by alexfoo 8y ago
I remember seeing the trick on Tomorrow's World (a UK science TV programme) back in the 90s. Can't find a link to the particular episode though.
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by alexfoo 8y ago
The ceiling height is not the same as the floor height of the next storey up.
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by alexfoo 9y ago
I get at least 2 or 3 letters a week for previous residents of my house (and I've owned it for 10 years). Probably 1 or 2 packages a year too. (Yes I follow the recommended process for dealing with it.) UK: https://personal.
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by alexfoo 9y ago
Circle/District to Waterloo & City is the longest walk at Bank. 10 minutes say TFL. http://www.cityam.com/assets/uploads/content/2015/10/bank-56... More long interchanges here: http:/
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by alexfoo 9y ago
KJ responded to one article with summit photos plus other evidence (which he doesn't want published yet). https://iancorless.org/2017/12/10/kilian-jornet-everest-spee... (I didn't downvote you, but
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by alexfoo 9y ago
The one that was linked as 14400 BTC. At $15k/BTC that's $216m.
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by alexfoo 9y ago
I've still got a Quad G5. Annoyed that I never got around to selling it when I stopped using it so much. Guess I should whack it up on eBay.
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by alexfoo 9y ago
Comparing doubles with == ?
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by alexfoo 9y ago
Mancala
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by alexfoo 9y ago
Here's the spec requirements for a taximeter: http://content.tfl.gov.uk/taximeter-specification-1.pdf There's no requirement to log information (let alone store it for future upload), only that the taximeter is au
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by alexfoo 9y ago
If they don't appeal their license expires on 30th September. "The Private Hire Vehicles (London) Act 1998 includes provision to appeal a licensing decision within 21 days of it being communicated to the applicant. Uber London Lim
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by alexfoo 9y ago
Link works fine for me.
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by alexfoo 9y ago
> They have 21 days to appeal and can keep operating until the appeal process itself finishes (Oct 13th then). The 21 days is how long (from now) they have to begin the appeal:- "The Private Hire Vehicles (London) Act 1998 includes
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Yellowstone has a 50sq mile “Zone of Death” where you can get away with murder(vox.com)
4 points by alexfoo 9y ago|1 comments
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by alexfoo 9y ago
The exclusions are only from your own rides. If a friend rides to/from your house then that will appear in the public data. Just remember not to centre the privacy zone on your house, otherwise it may be possible to work out where the
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by alexfoo 9y ago
Ah, good point. From: https://sploitfun.wordpress.com/2015/02/10/understanding-gli... Last 3 bits of this field contains flag information. PREV_INUSE (P) – This bit is set when previous chunk i
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by alexfoo 9y ago
> Now, if the attacker has an off-by-one corruption with a small value (NUL or \x01 - \x07) that hits the lowest significant byte of a length (malloc_chunk->size), the attacker can only use that to cause the length to effectively shri
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by alexfoo 9y ago
Sadly what most of those people don't realise is that the majority of their private healthcare will take place thanks to the NHS. Going private gets you into the nicer wards at many of the same hospitals, to be treated by the same doct
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Uber loses legal test case over language(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by alexfoo 10y ago|0 comments
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by alexfoo 10y ago
In the UK it's "You MUST NOT park on a road at night facing against the direction of the traffic flow unless in a recognised parking space." Source: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/waiti

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