mordechai9000

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by mordechai9000 2y ago
“I had some really good, famous, climbers come in and fail the belay test,” Climbers still complain about the belay test, especially older climbers who cut their teeth outdoors and same late to the gym scene. But most gym accidents involvin
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by mordechai9000 2y ago
Maybe the Rankine temperature could be provided, as well.
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by mordechai9000 2y ago
There is a technique called salabrasion where the upper skin layers are rubbed off with a paste of salt. This doesn't remove the tattoo, but the ink is at least partially drawn up into the resulting scab during the healing process. It&
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by mordechai9000 2y ago
I asked my neighbor (USA) if I could borrow his brad nailer to put up some trim board, and he didn't understand what I wanted to do until I explained it to him and he said "Oh, you mean mop board."
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by mordechai9000 2y ago
Not an implementation, but Bill Gosper's hashlife algorithm blew my mind when I first encountered it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashlife My personal favorite has to be the one I made in x86 assembly ~30 years
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by mordechai9000 2y ago
Bear spray is supposed to attract bears, and the story is they even like the taste - except when it's blasted into their eyes/nose/mouth/lungs. It is a food product. So I would be a little concerned about that.
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by mordechai9000 2y ago
I would probably use this in a text editor if it was available. I don't struggle with group logic, but I often forget which tools use \ to reference capture groups, and which use $. (If it's Microsoft or Microsoft-adjacent, it&#x2
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by mordechai9000 2y ago
Negative reinforcement. There's a strategy for smoking where you put a wad of hair in your cigarettes. I used nicotine patches myself, so I can't speak to the efficacy.
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by mordechai9000 2y ago
This reminds me of a party game I played once called Mafia, which is a bit like Among Us but played verbally. I was a bit drunk, and the designated villain was very socially adroit, which I most certainly am not. The villain easily convince
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by mordechai9000 2y ago
Distributed large model training with web clients?
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by mordechai9000 2y ago
To quote Jim Whitaker, once upon a time a famous climber and founder of a well known mountain guide company, "If you're not afraid of heights, I don't want to be on the mountain with you".
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by mordechai9000 2y ago
I had some of those episodes on VHS, too, recorded at the worst possible quality to fit as much as possible on one cassette. Lost in the mists of time...
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by mordechai9000 2y ago
> Tom Baker all the way… The best, yes but William Hartnell defined the role and came up with the idea of regeneration if I remember correctly. It saddens me so many of those episodes are lost. I watched it on US public TV in the 80s, an
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by mordechai9000 2y ago
Well, I would definitely avoid cow parsnip even though Giant Hogweed is supposed to be much worse. The blisters didn't hurt but they left scars after they healed that took a few years to fade. And I heard about a woman who had to be ev
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by mordechai9000 2y ago
I've been exposed to cow parsnip, and it looked bad - big fluid filled blisters on my legs - but it was painless and mostly just an annoyance. There is an invasive species of the same genus in North America called Giant Hogweed (Heracl
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by mordechai9000 2y ago
I'm scared of heights but I'm attracted to rock climbing, so I climb anyway and just deal with it. Caves also have a certain attraction, but those stories terrify me far more than the prospect of a serious fall. The idea of dying
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by mordechai9000 2y ago
I think writing a toy Forth interpreter is a good way to learn about the language. It's easy and I had a lot of fun with it. But it is so ridiculously easy, at least up to a certain point, some may find it too elementary, or too tempti
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by mordechai9000 2y ago
The first English language film that comes to mind for the Spanish civil war is For Whom the Bell Tolls. It's been a while, but I don't think it has much discourse about the causes or the background for the war - but films often t
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by mordechai9000 2y ago
"My friend Ozy said that Infinite Jest was a really good book for reading in a dysentery ward." I made the mistake of trying to read Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey when I had covid last. I never finished it, and when I try
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by mordechai9000 2y ago
You would probably want a honeypot to lure them in. But I wouldn't expect the output to go through an LLM, although I wouldn't be surprised if I was wrong. This stuff is just low level automated scanning looking for well known, ea
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by mordechai9000 2y ago
Maybe 10 years ago there was a contentious Senate race here in my state. They spent tons of money courting voters, with ads in all kinds of media and a non-stop brigade of earnest young people (volunteers? paid?) going door to door and hara
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by mordechai9000 2y ago
Perhaps, but it is possible to be a merry prankster and not use it as a way to spread hatred.
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by mordechai9000 2y ago
Also, In The Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick. It is a non-fiction account of the wreck of the Essex, a Nantucket whaler, that was inexplicably "stove by a whale", and lost at sea - an un
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by mordechai9000 2y ago
I wonder how long the argon actually lasts in practice. The industry claims 20 years under normal conditions.
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by mordechai9000 2y ago
In that case, IIUC, state is managed on the server, and the client is only responsible for rendering views generated on the backend and returning user input via form or json. This is what htmx was really designed for, anyway.
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by mordechai9000 2y ago
I quit in 2018. While my drinking was not what you would typically think of as problematic, it was definitely in excess of what is considered moderate now. I am glad I quit and I don't miss it. NA beer is pretty good these days, especi
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by mordechai9000 2y ago
Are you wondering if they recorded how they prepared the dead for eating? My guess would be no, they would probably not record that in any detail.
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by mordechai9000 2y ago
Any chance you could share the math behind the pixel snowflakes?
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by mordechai9000 2y ago
"Perhaps I'm being really naive and an exponential wall is about to humble (and embarrass) me." There is something fascinating and awe-inspiring about searching very large, enumerative datasets for useful results. Like wander
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by mordechai9000 2y ago
I wonder, what is a good free CDN service for hobby sites like this? A quick web search shows a lot of them have a free tier. The only one I am familiar with is Cloudflare.

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