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by japhyr 5y ago
This article looks to be 15+ years old. The cam pictured in Fig. 1 looks look one of the earliest models of SLCDs, from sometime in the 80s when cams were all rigid, if I remember my climbing history correctly. If you follow the link to the
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A Berkeley runner went missing. Detectives say it's an 'unprecedented' mystery(sfchronicle.com)
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This looks great, and clearly addresses a serious need. I'm curious about your plan for scaling. It seems like finding qualified group leaders would be a limiting bottleneck. How will you continue to find and supervise good group leade
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I have dealt with this directly, so I'll share a bit of perspective from experience rather than just saying "deal with it". I was teaching high school math and science in the late 2000s, and I wanted to start teaching some in
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I taught middle and high school math for many years, and I always offered financial-focused projects as an option for students. I also used financial examples on a regular basis, just to keep a healthy, rational conversation about financial
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Drone Video of Iceland Volcano Eruption(youtube.com)
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I did a cross-country ride in the 90s on a mountain bike, and I ended up putting bar ends on my bar ends. I liked the strength of a mountain bike for the occasional gravel road, but I needed to get hunched over for long days with steady hea
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by japhyr 5y ago
I finally got a home espresso machine, after an HN recommendation. We got a Breville Barista Express. We'd been wanting one for years, but everything reliable seemed to be $1k+, and still seemed like more work than I wanted to put into
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I don't want anything to do with flashy RGB keyboards either. I did get one that has a simple white dimmable LED backlight, much like laptops with backlit keyboards. I use it occasionally in the winter time when it's dark and I ju
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I got a board with silent reds (Durgod K320), and they felt really soft after using blue switches for a while before that. So I ordered a Leopold with black switches, figuring I'd enjoy the quieter linear switches but make fewer mistak
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Are you looking for quiet or loud? Wired or wireless? Full-size or compact, ie tenkeyless? And do you want any lights at all?
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For anyone interested in the story of the astronauts who went to the moon, Moondust is a great read. In the early 2000s (if I remember right), the author traveled around the world to visit each of the living men who had set foot on the moon
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by japhyr 6y ago
> It is not the big number—eighty—that shocks me (though I sometimes gulp when I utter it), but, rather, the banal image of an implacable hourglass, most of its sand heaped at the bottom, the last negligible pinch of grains sifting down,
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by japhyr 6y ago
I don't host one, but I listen to a number of podcasts on a regular basis now. I am continually amazed at the commitment of people who put out a new show every week. I know how much work goes into that process - planning, interviewing,
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by japhyr 6y ago
I've been listening to your music all morning as well. Thanks so much for sharing! Can you say a little about your background as a musician?
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Side conversation because I recognize your username. I've been playing wordoid every day since you posted it three weeks ago. You made a comment about having heard that someone scored 3000, and I think that's now in my mind as an
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Can Reading Logs Ruin Reading for Kids?(theatlantic.com)
1 points by japhyr 6y ago|1 comments
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> The fact that schools do not teach makes it crazy too. I'm in the US, and I was a high school math teacher for 20 years. I tried teaching everyone how to do taxes, and people hated it because if you make people do fake taxes it&#x
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by japhyr 6y ago
I've never heard of this. Can anyone who's used it share how it compares to LibreOffice, MS Office, and Google Docs?
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For anyone interested in this issue in the US, there's an excellent new book out called A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door , by Jack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire. It traces the push and pull between the promise of quality education fo
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This is not always the case. There's a growing number of states in the US that allow state education funding to follow a student wherever they go. Wherever these laws arise, profit-based schools appear and attempt to draw in as many st
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by japhyr 6y ago
I volunteer on a mountain rescue team. It's one of the most satisfying things I've ever gotten involved in. That follows from an interest in all kinds of outdoor adventures, and a background in physics. It's a good background
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I was surprised to find out how slow strptime() can be. I was working on a data-focused project that was finally starting to slow down from the growing volume of data. I was looking at river heights over time, and once I hit about 140,000 d
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by japhyr 6y ago
I know this is about pens, but if anyone is looking for a pencil recommendation I have been doing most of my writing lately with a rOtring: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AZWYUA4/ It's nice and hea
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by japhyr 6y ago
And to add to that, there is a clear benefit to being signed in even if you're not commenting. I imagine there are a significant number of people who vote on articles and comments while rarely commenting themselves. Also, the favorites
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I learned this nice syntax from a tweet yesterday: >>> import datetime >>> now = datetime.datetime.now() >>> f"Today is {now:%m/%d/%Y}." 'Today is 01/20/2021.&#
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> These people are idiots. Bringing their cellphones, recording video of themselves committing felonies and then posting them online. I don't think it's as simple as "these people were idiots because they recorded themselv
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Obligatory Year of the Linux Desktop prediction. :)
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I just spent way longer playing this than I meant to. I know it's similar to a lot of other word games, but it's really fun and satisfying, and is meaningfully different than other word games I've played. Good luck with it!
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by japhyr 6y ago
Serious Python is a short, quick overview of some higher-level concepts I wasn't aware of before. I'm working through High Performance Python at the moment, and it's a much more in-depth treatment of similar concepts. https:

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