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by harlanlewis 4y ago
Great points (and after checking your user name, I’ve been nodding my head to posts of yours for about a decade now). This is a bot tangential - your reference to stone soup is a wonderful example of the information density possible with na
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See What California’s Record Snowpack Looks Like, Up Close(nytimes.com)
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by harlanlewis 4y ago
According to their linkedin, the author’s job is “Head of Applied AI Research at OpenAI”.
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by harlanlewis 4y ago
There was an article investigating something similar about a month ago - The Economics of Stadium Names: Sell your stock in (most) companies that buy them https://axiomalpha.com/the-economics-of-stadium-names/
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by harlanlewis 4y ago
This is almost perfect, just need a few more special characters. Fortunately, Ešeeva'e Ó Cuinneagáin Sólveig doesn't mind being a _very_ early adopter. Edit: I bet this post looks pretty stupid now after parent edited to include s
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by harlanlewis 4y ago
Current reservoir levels: https://cdec.water.ca.gov/reportapp/javareports?name=rescond... Snowpack is not an irrelevant statistic. Gradual melt from snowpack is what flows into reservoirs. 10% of avg snowpack now means
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by harlanlewis 5y ago
I think you’re referring to his book Working. Tacking on a recommendation for it both for the subject at hand, as well as it just being an engaging look at daily life in the early 70s (which really feels like a different world in so many w
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by harlanlewis 5y ago
I use 1Password on Firefox in iOS without an extension, just use the keyboard suggestion when a password field is focused as in Safari or other apps.
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by harlanlewis 5y ago
More than works fine - I prefer this spot so that I always look in the same place to see what's behind me whether I'm going forward or backward. Taking your eyes far away from any windows to focus on a tiny rearview camera view wh
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by harlanlewis 5y ago
Aside from basic humanitarianism, I'd really like to drop the word "mutations" from the "should my kid see his grandparents" discussion. I only get to do that if we apply public health solutions to public health pro
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by harlanlewis 5y ago
Quick calculations, I’ll leave conclusions to the reader. All numbers from quick googling. The standard guidance is 1 gallon (~4 liters) of water per day, via all sources (includes food). A gallon weighs a little more than 8 pounds, so that
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by harlanlewis 5y ago
I’ve had good luck with https://english.stackexchange.com/ for questions like that, although may need to ask it yourself rather than find it in the archive. No doubt there’s reddit or two that are relevant as well.
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by harlanlewis 5y ago
It definitely depends on the category. I’ve found it most helpful for items that I don’t know much about, the capability and pricing tiers do matter, but it’s not going to be a purchase that needs to be absolutely perfect and I’m unlikely t
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by harlanlewis 5y ago
Wouldn’t a widespread coordinated protest be extremely easy to verify? To the contrary, the southwest pilots union (SWAPA) is explicitly saying these delays are not caused by vaccine protests, despite their continued opposition to the manda
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by harlanlewis 5y ago
I would love to see the gleaming pyramids! But I can’t help but think of Cecilia Giménez’s well-intentioned repair of Ecce Homo (the Jesus fresco). For historical sites with any mystery, even a restoration done with skill and care would cr
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by harlanlewis 5y ago
I'm interested if anyone can compare this to fires in CA / PNW, specifically the claim that forest mismanagement (eg "putting out every fire", logging restrictions allowing fuel buildup, etc) is a primary contributing fa
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by harlanlewis 5y ago
Last year, when SF was posting photos of the orange sky I was driving up I5 in the Willamette Valley at 11am with my brights on because smoke had turned day to night. Last year 4.4 million[1] acres burned in CA (~4% of the state), and 1.2 m
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by harlanlewis 6y ago
> not the standard way web developers build a simple website I would like to see this standard described and what level of agreement you get.
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by harlanlewis 6y ago
In the same vein, I'm a fan of Storybook [1], which uses Jest under the hood [2], paired with Chromatic [3]. Chromatic generates screenshots from component stories for visual change detection with an easy to use and share web UI. It&#x
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by harlanlewis 6y ago
Relevant: https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/o...
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by harlanlewis 7y ago
I had been using CamelCamelCamel for personal use to avoid price gouging, just giving a quick go/no-go to friends and family ordering things we don’t buy enough to have learned what the normal unit costs are. Managed to avoid a handful
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by harlanlewis 7y ago
The wonderfully-titled (and wonderfully written) Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry covered some of the unique and hard to copy advantages specific to the Mongols. As you point out, logistics has as much to do with it as fighting tactics. T
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by harlanlewis 7y ago
Another bit of corroborating evidence for reduced traffic is air quality. The current day over day difference in places like LA (or earlier across China) is dramatic.
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by harlanlewis 7y ago
Only commenting on this because "unknown" feels a bit off, especially in the context of greatest human achievements. Much of the Polynesian Triangle and Indian Ocean trade routes were established hundreds and in some areas thousan
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by harlanlewis 7y ago
I totally agree with you, it's great to have federal funding for public advisories stateside. I also agree that big icefall triggered avalanches like you describe are a different sort than what weekend warriors like me encounter in the
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by harlanlewis 7y ago
Avalanche forecasting and "snow science" is a fairly developed field. I'm only familiar with avalanche advisories in the continental US, but if you explore this map http://www.fsavalanche.org/ (click a grey a
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by harlanlewis 7y ago
Fun segment, although the vehicle is pretty irrelevant. The winch could have pulled a Dodge Neon up just as well.
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by harlanlewis 8y ago
Oh, what a blissful #fakenews-less reality that would be.
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by harlanlewis 8y ago
Embrace, extend, extinguish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
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by harlanlewis 8y ago
Re "100 to 1000 times" - this is at the end of the first paragraph of Wikipedia's Holocene extinction page, with multiple citations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

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