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by gullywhumper 3y ago
There's an efficient ratio between the drive and recovery. At 20spm a 1 second drive means 2 seconds on the recovery (so a full stroke is 3 seconds). Try rowing that rating at a ratio closer to 1:1 and you'll really notice the ine
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by gullywhumper 4y ago
While down from its peaks, Duluth is still a very active harbor. [1] There are regular harbor cams and freighter watching videos on Youtube. [2][3] There is an old lake freighter open to tour. [4] There are several good breweries (probably
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by gullywhumper 4y ago
Even in supposedly bike and pedestrian friendly Minneapolis, the drivers are terrifying. The traffic dampening measures the city has put in do very little to slow the aggressive drivers, and there is next to zero law enforcement. Before bec
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Weather Machine(helloweather.com)
3 points by gullywhumper 4y ago|0 comments
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by gullywhumper 4y ago
If you look to the right, just in front of the Eugene (one of the newer Hudson Yards high rise buildings) the top part of the crane is split. There have to be other similar examples throughout the photo.
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by gullywhumper 4y ago
Here it is on Google Street View (in 2016): https://goo.gl/maps/Sc2nxJoyVGDQZmSN8
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Rise of Open-Source Intelligence Tests U.S. Spies(wsj.com)
7 points by gullywhumper 4y ago|1 comments
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by gullywhumper 4y ago
~20 years ago in college one of my best friend's had a 'break stuff' party in the basement of his off-campus house. The party goers took anything they could find around campus - things like discarded printers, etc - and destr
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by gullywhumper 4y ago
See also Jeroen Janssens' Data Science at the Command Line: https://datascienceatthecommandline.com/2e/
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by gullywhumper 4y ago
How can we be sure a President with poor approval ratings won't release a bunch of pizzas right before an election? Politically motivated pizza parties seem like a cynical abuse of power.
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by gullywhumper 4y ago
I remember Marginal Revolution talking about this a while ago (2016): For the moment, Amazon seems to be the most aggressive recruiter of economists. It even has an Amazon Economists website for soliciting résumés. In a video on the s
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by gullywhumper 4y ago
From The Onion: Report: 95% Of Grandfathers Got Job By Walking Right Up And Just Asking https://www.theonion.com/report-95-of-grandfathers-got-job-b...
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by gullywhumper 4y ago
And dang could moderate it!
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by gullywhumper 4y ago
I used to live at 1st and Hennepin overlooking the Hennepin Ave bridge. During the lockdowns there were at least 4 times I remember either lone turkeys or small groups coming over the bridge in the middle of the day. And just yesterday, dri
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by gullywhumper 5y ago
Kenji's channel and writing are great windows into how cooking does not need to follow rigid rules and precise measurements to make great food. He substitutes ingredients and uses what he has on hand all the time. Unless it's some
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by gullywhumper 5y ago
I like pics like the one in Cologne [1] because I try to find them on Google street view. The alignment of the spires in the original makes me think it's either taken from the north or south. - Here's a current view from the north
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by gullywhumper 5y ago
My annoyance is that gen3 audio controls are significantly more difficult to use. With gen2 it was possible to simply tap the side of the airpod to pause, skip, or go back, and the user had the option to set which side controlled that funct
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by gullywhumper 5y ago
The list of acceptable wordle words is available. I'm sure someone else has made the effort to make it a little more accessible. view-source: https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/main.e65ce0a5.js
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by gullywhumper 5y ago
I haven't been yet either, but it's in a neat location at the very least: on W. River Pkwy by the falls, in an old building that was rebuilt. https://goo.gl/maps/id2R9byxQcm57uK7A
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by gullywhumper 5y ago
The name pandas was derived from panel data (data sets with observations over multiple time periods). https://www.dlr.de/sc/Portaldata/15/Resources/dokumente/pyhp...
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by gullywhumper 5y ago
Just focus on demonstrating growth now, profitability will come later.
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by gullywhumper 5y ago
One plus with dplyr is that I can share the code with non-R programmers (and even some non-programmers) and they can follow what is happening pretty easily, while data.table takes some more explanation.
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by gullywhumper 5y ago
BLS has the OEWS (occupational employment and wage statistics) at the national, state, and metropolitan/CBSA levels. https://www.bls.gov/oes/home.htm
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by gullywhumper 5y ago
Agreed - frequently the necessary data is available as nicely formatted json. Sometimes you an also modify the query: rather than something 10 results per request, you can get 100.
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by gullywhumper 5y ago
Below are my two cents as a former high school and collegiate rower, an occasional assistant coach since then, and someone who hopes to continue to erg until they dump my ashes unceremoniously in some river, lake, pond or even bog. Hopefull
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by gullywhumper 5y ago
To make cities more walkable, changing driver behavior needs to be a significant focus. Minneapolis consistently ranks as one of the better cities for pedestrians, but even here the drivers here are really aggressive towards pedestrians to
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by gullywhumper 5y ago
3.2 is not just available for sale, there are still 3.2 bars in Minneapolis as a relic of a law from 1884.[1] 3.2 is the only beer that can be sold in grocery and convenience stores (grocery stores have separate alcohol stores that sell hig
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by gullywhumper 5y ago
City of Thieves by David Benioff (of Game of Thrones fame) is a fictional story of the siege of Leningrad and might also be enjoyable for those interested in Grossman's books. At around 250 pages, it's a very quick read.
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by gullywhumper 5y ago
For those that might not recognize the name, Mikhail Kalashnikov developed the AK-47 - the assault rifle.
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Letter on Prohibiting Minimum Parking Requirements [pdf](parkingreform.org)
1 points by gullywhumper 5y ago|0 comments

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