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A wealth of knowledge here, especially helpful for wheelbuilding and checking the compatibility of archaic sizing systems. Lennard Zinn is another great reference in bike maintenan…

Haha, thanks for sharing. Really enjoyed how you captured the essence of Freak on a Leash.

Perhaps https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27950416 ?

For the interested, real-time data from the ongoing aircraft reconnaissance into (now) Hurricane Ida can be seen at https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/recon

Windy doesn’t make forecasts, rather it visualizes output from forecast models.

It's worth mentioning here that heatwaves are the leading cause of weather-related death in the US for the past 30 years. https://www.weather.gov/hazstat I'm not advocating for the…

Don't forget the oud! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsHeDpGcZVM

Give eBird [0] a try, also from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. [0] https://ebird.org/home

Umberto Eco as well, who wrote a book on the topic: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/how-write-thesis

The article rightfully mentions Dickey Kerr as a hero of the series by winning two complete game starts. Curiously, Shoeless Joe Jackson set a World Series hit record that was unbr…

Agreed, this has repeatedly been one of the biggest failings in communicating the reality of anthropogenic climate change. Climate change is not a single event, nor a cluster of ev…

I'm the same way with scp, I never remember the order and then it changes if you're uploading or downloading. Also, an obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1168/

I had a lot of fun with this. I surprised myself by remembering some symbols I haven't used in a while but was stumped on a few I should have known (nth roots). Thankfully typesett…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 seems relevant here.

Who is the author of this blog? My searching hasn't been able to turn up a name.

Rather than try and set up MADIS, look into something like the siphon [0] Python module. MADIS is a bit dated, data dissemination that uses OPeNDAP [1] and ERDDAP [2] is much frien…

For hurricane forecasts issued by the NHC, you can see the official error statistics here [0]. Note that 96 and 120-hour forecasts were so poor prior to year 2003 that they were no…