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   by philshem 4y ago

   >> Checkout is unavailable while we observe Shabbat. Please come back when checkout reopens at 9:45 pm ET Sat Jul 23
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   by philshem 4y ago

   This scene lives rent-free in my brain (Kodak pitch, no spoilers): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suRDUFpsHus
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   by philshem 4y ago

   NS2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream_2
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   by philshem 4y ago

   I read this article when it came out and indeed it’s worth reading. I’m glad to see the team’s hard work paying off.
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   Swiss Cat Ladders (2019)(thisiscolossal.com)

   2 points by philshem 4y ago|1 comments
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   by philshem 4y ago

   Also in the press release > McDonald’s restaurants in Ukraine remain closed while the Company continues to pay full salaries for its employees in the country…
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   by philshem 4y ago

   As of Pandas 1.4, you can use the pyarrow engine for reading a csv df = pd.read_csv("large.csv", engine="pyarrow") https://pythonspeed.com/articles/pandas-read-csv-fast/
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   by philshem 4y ago

   KOM = King/Queen of the mountain, the record holder for a Strava segment
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   Ichthyosaur tooth from the Swiss Alps is largest ever discovered(newscientist.com)

   5 points by philshem 4y ago|0 comments
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    by philshem 4y ago

    The photo of the caller was of a big-shot investor. Not the guy’s wife. (Indeed, my wording was unclear)
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    by philshem 4y ago

    I've seen a startup founder leave a meeting to take a call, indicating that it was someone important. His phone was on the table facing up, and we could see the contact photo of the caller - indeed worth taking. A colleague heard him t
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    by philshem 4y ago

    I just found this site, which indexes instances: https://instances.social (but didn't find anything local or interesting...)
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    by philshem 4y ago

    Related New Yorker article from 2021 > How a landscape architect is enlisting nature to defend our coastal cities against climate change—and doing it on the cheap. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08&#x2F
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    by philshem 4y ago

    In the iOS settings under Messages you can choose how long you want to meep your messages and content. https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/auto-delete-old-messages-ip...
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    by philshem 5y ago

    I would like to read about your aunt!
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    by philshem 5y ago

    One could also use sshfs to access a remote SQLite DB file. https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs
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    by philshem 5y ago

    I felt the urge to create these images as one big GIF ~80 MB: https://github.com/philshem/usps-maps-gif/blob/main/usps-map... scripts: https://github.com/philshem/usps-maps-gif/
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    by philshem 5y ago

    Here's a related, recent New Yorker article about the melting permafrost. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/17/the-great-sibe... https://archive.is/ZyhPf > Over thousand
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    by philshem 5y ago

    This showed up in a recent (short) New Yorker article https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/17/dinner-drinks-... > The first course of math, delivered during the first course of dinner (a scatter
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    Simpson’s Paradox(en.wikipedia.org)

    11 points by philshem 5y ago|3 comments
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    by philshem 5y ago

    sshfs? https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs
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    Workarounds people use to overcome technical limitations preventing name changes(twitter.com)

    1 points by philshem 5y ago|0 comments
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    by philshem 5y ago

    100.0% of people consume H2O. There is no control group.
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    by philshem 5y ago

    Another example of using a different metric, from Hans Rosling: >> A decade ago I lectured to the staff of the Ministry of Health in Cuba. After my talk the Minister happily said, this graphs showed that Cuba is the healthiest of the
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    China Brain(nplusonemag.com)

    1 points by philshem 5y ago|0 comments
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    Man Park – SNL [video](youtube.com)

    4 points by philshem 5y ago|0 comments
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    by philshem 5y ago

    I leave it up to the reader to decide.
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    by philshem 5y ago

    After trying to explain baseball to European colleagues on several occasions, I wrote this fun post: https://smalldata.dev/posts/baseball-for-europeans/
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    by philshem 5y ago

    The article/podcast states that this specific record keeping was stopped due to safety.
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    by philshem 5y ago

    Less analysis, but a couple years ago I posted a script to download and then generate mosaics from favicons: https://smalldata.dev/posts/favicon-mosaic/ example image: https://smalldata.dev/images&