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by japhyr 9y ago
As a species, we are the apex predator. As an individual in any particular encounter I may or may not end up being the apex predator. I usually have bear spray with me, but I only have a rifle when I'm hunting. I'm not sure I coul
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I live in southeast Alaska, where bears are still well-established. Bears come into town on a regular basis, and they can be anywhere in the woods. I was high on a steep rocky mountain once, and heard a loud breathing sound in front of me.
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by japhyr 9y ago
I alluded to this in another comment, but I'll be a little more specific. When it's raining hard and I want to assess slide risk for my own sake, I look at several factors: - what's the total rainfall over the last ~6 hours;
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I'm talking about connecting specific factors with specific outcomes. When it's raining hard and I want to assess slide risk for my own sake, I look at a few factors: total rainfall over a short time period; average wind speeds an
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Here in Sitka, land is really expensive because most of the flat and easily buildable land has already been claimed and developed. That's contributing to the seriousness of the landslide threat. There's an interesting project goin
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by japhyr 9y ago
I live in southeast Alaska, and climate change frightens me here as well. Our area, a temperate rainforest with steep mountains rising almost straight up from the ocean, has always experienced landslides. You can see slide scars throughout
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Ask HN: How do you build a site with cleartext passwords these days?
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It's really easy to pick up flies with a hose attachment on a vacuum. Every once in a while we get a number of flies in the house during the summer when the doors and windows are open. They tend to gather in the sides of our windows, l
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I was going to ask if anyone knows whether these storms affect the accuracy of GPS systems. Then I found this: > In calm conditions, single frequency GPS systems can provide position information with an accuracy of a meter or less. Durin
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Silicon Valley Courts Brand-Name Teachers, Raising Ethics Issues(nytimes.com)
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Here's the tool that's used to determine how much pigment to feed farmed salmon: https://www.dsm.com/markets/anh/en_US/products/products-solu...
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Alaska has a lot of steep shorelines. You could have many "waterfront" homes that are in no danger from rising seas.
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That's really helpful, thank you. I have no real understanding of how React works, and your explanation helps me know what to look for.
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I have a question after skimming that tutorial. When I knew there was some content on a web page in the past, and it was being obscured by some css/js code, I would often just view source and search for some of the content I knew was t
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by japhyr 9y ago
I wrote a book about it: https://www.amazon.com/Road-Alaska-Eric-Matthes/dp/154417596... Bicycle travel is great. You go slow enough to see everything and meet people you wouldn't through motorized travel, bu
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by japhyr 9y ago
That is funny. In no particular order, since college I moved to NYC after living all my life in NH. I circled North America on a bicycle, living outside for 13 months at a time. I moved to Alaska and joined a mountain rescue team, and now I
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It was really interesting to see what patterns switching pockets interrupted for me. One was the simple act of reaching for the phone - I had to consciously think about where it is. Then it feels unfamiliar to even start to pull it out of m
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by japhyr 9y ago
I will turn 45 this year. One of my principles for healthy aging is to make sure I'm learning something new and challenging every year or two. I live in a fishing town in southeast Alaska, and I bought my first boat about three years a
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by japhyr 9y ago
I did something interesting this week. I teach high school, and this was our first week back at school. No students yet, just beginning of the year prep work. I was checking my phone every 5-10 minutes half out of restlessness at sitting in
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by japhyr 9y ago
Yes, stay far behind the barely-braking heavy loads and get far in front of the loose unsecured loads. I was driving a highway in Colorado and I saw a flatbed with a bunch of large haybales, cubes of about 6' each. The top one was unse
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by japhyr 9y ago
I agree. I live in a small isolated town, and I thought realtors were artificially increasing the home prices (not values, but prices) in the small pool of housing available here. But their local knowledge was invaluable in both buying and
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by japhyr 9y ago
For Python, I've used the Faker package to generate dummy data. It was quite easy to use, and much better than the homegrown approaches I'd taken in previous projects. http://faker.readthedocs.io/en/master&#x2
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Mapping the Shadows of New York City: Every Building, Every Block(nytimes.com)
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Take a Lap in the World’s Most Dangerous Race(nytimes.com)
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It's worth noting that both Dan Osman and Dean Potter died in part due to park service policies. The park service allows all kinds of activities that cater to motorized tourists, but bans specialized activities like base jumping. Yosem
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It's just awesome to see these notebooks released. I'm not going to play with them, but I love that people are able to. It makes me much more confident in the results that are announced, and I hope this approach to doing science b
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by japhyr 9y ago
If you're being acquired, then somebody wants to see your work live on. But you seem to be a fairly large bus factor. If someone is spending 40mm to acquire you and your team and your product, is it possible that one of the priorities
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Wondering What Happened to Your Class Valedictorian? Not Much, Research Shows(time.com)
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I suggest you walk through a recent clearcut, and a clearcut that's had 5, 10, 15, 20 years to "recover". Yes, some trees and plants can grow back. But the actual forest takes centuries to recover. I live in southeast Alaska,
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All you need to know about prefetching in Django(hackernoon.com)
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