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by cr1895 10y ago
Wind-up Bird Chronicle is my favorite of his works that I've read.
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by cr1895 10y ago
I haven't been to Denmark (yet, will be in CPH in Nov!) but I understand ytour cycle infrastructure is comparable to that of the Netherlands. Do you find more people wear helmets there than in NL?
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by cr1895 10y ago
True. Often though these are serious road cyclicsts who do tend to wear helmets, or they're those new fast electric bikes that like to sneak up beside you going really quick.
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by cr1895 10y ago
At least in the context of Amsterdam, it's already a terrible city for driving. The housing market in Amsterdam is (and will continue to get more) ridiculous, but certainly not due to lack of parking or cycling-prioritized city plannin
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by cr1895 10y ago
Lights (rear and front) are compulsory by law in the Netherlands too, though many still do not use them.
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by cr1895 10y ago
Have you been to the Netherlands before and seen how effective and safe the cycling infra is even without people wearing helmets?
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by cr1895 10y ago
Gosh, your username really instills confidence that you'll think about this reasonably. In the 70s the people of Amsterdam decided exactly that: cars were too dangerous and cycling infrastructure should be prioritized. It's worked
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by cr1895 10y ago
Nominally they can't go faster than that. But they do.
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by cr1895 10y ago
The Netherlands is famous for its hills ;)
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by cr1895 10y ago
And coincidentally Hs corresponds well to visually estimated wave height.
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by cr1895 10y ago
To comment on the other measurements (temp, pressure, wind spd/dir): these are different from Hs in that Hs is by definition a statistical parameter; it is 4*stdev of the wave elevations or more practically the mean of the highest thir
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by cr1895 10y ago
I think you're not understanding me, or I'm not understanding you...unless for some specific reason you want to know a wave elevation timeseries (which given the question "how do I describe the current sea conditons" you
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by cr1895 10y ago
I have experience working with directional waverider buoys, and ultimately what is useful to me is a statistical representation of sea conditions for a given period (typically 3 hours). I could obtain the raw timeseries of accelerations fro
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by cr1895 10y ago
At least with regard to significant wave height (rather, describing the sea conditions): It's more useful to describe a "sea state" which is made up of infinitely many frequencies, directions, etc. than to have a timeseries o
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by cr1895 10y ago
It could be a number of things: - the max gust didn't occur at the buoy; - the reported wind speed is a 10-min/1-hr mean or some other variation that wouldn't show the peak gust; I really doubt that it's a limitation of
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by cr1895 10y ago
>She is a registered nurse, so she can easily get a month off at a time Tangential, but...a friend of mine is an RN in an ICU who works nights (how he copes with the long hours is beyond me). He's struggled to get a single week off,
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by cr1895 10y ago
>I take alcohol and caffeine (and sugar!) but consider doing it batshit crazy, as most people do Hang on now...most people find consuming caffeine and alcohol batshit crazy? Do you live in Utah or something?
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by cr1895 10y ago
Purported sleep benefits aside, the reduced eye strain from warmer colors is invaluable to me. Sometimes I'm working on a ship's bridge where it's dark or under low reddish light. Turning on a bright, blue laptop screen is br
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by cr1895 10y ago
Pro audio people probably won't be using a cheap in-line DAC.
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by cr1895 10y ago
Ah...you say it's like thermite...could one of these melt its way completely through the plane fuselage?
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by cr1895 10y ago
No it's probably not anything new but when you muck about with commercial airplanes things get expensive and take a lot of time (regulatory issues). It's one thing to modify something with your car, for example, but when you chang
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by cr1895 10y ago
Presumably the reaction to an in-cabin fire will be quicker than to that of a fire in the hold. Do these batteries provide their own oxidizer somehow (in that would flooding the hold with CO2 or something actually extinguish one on fire)? I
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by cr1895 10y ago
If you think I'm arguing that it made sense to remove the analog output, you're mistaken. It's absurd to me. It's perfectly sensible however to want wireless headphones (or speakers), but Apple hasn't introduced any
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by cr1895 10y ago
They're not really comparable are they? It's not whether the turbines in the dam will continue to generate electricity, but whether or not the dam itself is structurally sound. My limited understanding is that the Mosul dam is not
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by cr1895 10y ago
So D > A > Encr. A > D > A > Ear? In practice that sounds ridiculous.
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by cr1895 10y ago
I mean, I listen from digital output through my 6s probably 90% of the time since the built-in amp doesn't cut it, but I'm also finding this whole thing ridiculous. I'll certainly not be upgrading to a 7.
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by cr1895 10y ago
>As an aside, what a strange creature is man that he wants to replace a device which is analogue by nature - ears not being digital after all - with a digital counterpart which is clearly sub-optimal, overly complex and fraught with pote
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by cr1895 10y ago
>I use a USB cable to the Camera Connector, and then an adapter to Lightning, then into an iPhone. This is also what I always do with my external DAC. I don't see how currently this will be prevented, if that's what you're
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by cr1895 10y ago
>If you do care about quality recording you either tranfer content off the iphone, bypass the phone jack (aka amplifier), or bypass even the DAC (and get a stream directly). There are several products that already do this on the market f
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by cr1895 10y ago
You can also output digital audio to USB through Apple's Camera Connect Kit, which allows you to use an external DAC/amp for whatever headphones you want.

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