gullywhumper

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by gullywhumper 2mo ago
It seems that so many minor parts of the day don't work as expected and my attention is destroyed by a thousand annoyances. My watch only unlocks my computer 1/3 of the time. My car only recognizes my phone 1/2 of the time. 3
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by gullywhumper 3mo ago
Northwoods Baseball Radio Network is my favorite. It’s a fictional baseball league based primarily in Wisconsin. Games are called by a droning announcer. Even the fake commercials between innings are monotonous. I listen to it during the da
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by gullywhumper 3mo ago
My wife had a grandfather with the first name Bill and middle William. After 12 years together, I'm still not sure if she's just messing with me.
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by gullywhumper 6mo ago
The park across the street from me in Minneapolis has a stick library. It's well-stocked and popular with both dogs and little kids.
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by gullywhumper 7mo ago
2.5 years in of regular PET scans. At this point, I’m almost humored by what gets flagged as suspicious by the radiologist - usually mosquito bites and stomach bugs (kids in daycare means I’m almost always sick). I have a scan Monday and tw
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by gullywhumper 1y ago
Should the government of California lead by example and also limit the maximum level of fines levied by any entity within the state (state, county, city, or other org)? Why is a fine levied by an HOA any different than an org at one of thos
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by gullywhumper 1y ago
I live in a city where people are shot and killed every week (no exaggeration) and car jackings weren't even tracked until the last couple years. The city government can't manage things that are getting people killed or brutally b
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by gullywhumper 1y ago
But why obviously? Is city really the best level? Seems to me much easier for people to move between neighborhoods than between cities. When I was younger, I had no problem with loud neighbors in a louder neighborhood - older now with kids
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by gullywhumper 1y ago
Sure, but which government body - city, county, state, federal? I don’t particularly like my HOA, but I could live elsewhere and at least feel like I have more say in my HOA than any of those other bodies.
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by gullywhumper 1y ago
Visiting my parents this summer with my kids, I was excited to find that the zoo served beer. That definitely wasn't an option for my dad when I was growing up.
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by gullywhumper 1y ago
History major. First job was managing inter-modal shipping in a giant Excel spreadsheet and emailing it to our India office every night. At the time, I thought Excel was so cool because it seemed like I could do anything with it. I didn&#x2
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The AI Scraping Fight That Could Change the Future of the Web(wsj.com)
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by gullywhumper 1y ago
I haven't read this in a while, but remember this Malcom Gladwell article discussing why other ketchups haven't had much success: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/09/06/the-ketchup-co...
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by gullywhumper 2y ago
David Benioff’s (Game of Thrones show runner) City of Thieves is a very entertaining book set during the siege. It was an inspiration for The Last of Us video game (and later HBO series) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by gullywhumper 2y ago
EB Sledge - With the Old Breed is the account of a combat infantryman in WWII in the Pacific. It's about the fear, misery, and despair soldiers faced as they struggled to survive the horrors of war. It was the basis for HBO's The
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by gullywhumper 2y ago
When my first kid was born, I committed this poem and about a dozen more to memory. In the middle of sleepless nights, and zombie stroller walks, they kept me sane because I felt like I could focus on so little outside of work besides the a
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by gullywhumper 2y ago
The museum also includes the battleship USS Alabama, a good collection of aircraft, and then some tanks, artillery, and other equipment. My grandpa took me there every summer as a kid and I could never get enough.
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by gullywhumper 2y ago
I've been seeing more and more places also include the taxes and other fees in the total used to calculate the suggested tip. That seems pretty slimy to me.
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by gullywhumper 2y ago
My mom grew up in what was then mostly farms northwest of Detroit. When Eminem's Eight Mile came out, I immediately connected it with the street we turned off to get to my grandparents' place but never thought it could actually be
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by gullywhumper 2y ago
Wow - thank you!
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by gullywhumper 2y ago
I lived in Dallas for a couple years, and while driving the Hive Five interchange (mentioned in the article) always seemed a little crazy, what really blew my mind was that a specific interchange could warrant its own Wikipedia page. For so
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by gullywhumper 2y ago
The alcohol really surprises me given how meticulous they are about everything else - especially sleep monitoring. After a big win, it's not uncommon for the entire team to have sparkling wine or beer that night. Maybe not a big deal f
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by gullywhumper 2y ago
John Billings Hardtack and Coffee is a detailed account of camp life during the war. Here’s the section discussing rations and (obviously) coffee: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/72532/pg72532-images.ht..
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by gullywhumper 2y ago
The creator of pandas Wes McKinney is on the Posit team and working on this project too. Gives some additional credence to the idea of the convergence of tooling.
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by gullywhumper 2y ago
If this analysis is from 2012, I wonder if the results would look much different using data since then? Would any patterns have changed that much? Other than more birth years in 20--, my initial guess would be no.
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by gullywhumper 3y ago
There's also an all-diabetic pro-cycling team: https://www.teamnovonordisk.com/
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by gullywhumper 3y ago
For R users, the httr2 package (a recent rewrite of httr) has a function that translates the copy as curl command to a request: https://httr2.r-lib.org/reference/curl_translate.html
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by gullywhumper 3y ago
Related - Kaiser Fung has a long-running blog on bad graphs: https://junkcharts.typepad.com/
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by gullywhumper 3y ago
This was posted a couple years ago. Make sure to check out the first pic: https://blog.luap.info/drafts/i-built-a-lay-down-desk.html?h... And discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2
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by gullywhumper 3y ago
For my 30th birthday a group of friends and I walked the perimeter of Manhattan island. Except for a section along the Harlem river, there are paths along the water the entire way so it required almost no navigation. We picked up and droppe

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