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New comment by elchief in "Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race"

elchief — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:17:00 +0000

Kipchoge broke 2h a few years ago, but it was on a closed, low altitude track, with a fleet of rotating runners in front of him, providing wind blocking/drafting as well as pacing

Amazing these guys did it in a real race with no one in front of them (at the end at least)

New comment by elchief in "Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race"

elchief — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:12:25 +0000

Not necessarily genetic. They run a lot, at altitude, from childhood

New comment by elchief in "Pole of Inaccessibility"

elchief — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:16:40 +0000

I guess Furiosa is set near Papunya, Northern Territory, Australia then...

(The first chapter of the movie is titled The Pole of Inaccessibility)

New comment by elchief in "Arthur Conan Doyle explored men’s mental health through Sherlock Holmes"

elchief — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 17:12:25 +0000

Didn't Doyle support the White Feather movement, which led to many suicides?

New comment by elchief in "Waiting for SQL:202y: Group by All"

elchief — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 22:13:47 +0000

duckdb has it

https://duckdb.org/docs/stable/sql/query_syntax/groupby

New comment by elchief in "I have a GPS bike computer"

elchief — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 23:21:18 +0000

actually, i think i'll use an old android phone...

New comment by elchief in "I have a GPS bike computer"

elchief — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 20:09:48 +0000

can anyone recommend a cheap but good bike computer with turn-by-turn nav? (for mountain biking)

New comment by elchief in "Inflammation now predicts heart disease more strongly than cholesterol"

elchief — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 04:59:49 +0000

Exercise,sleep,vitamin d, omega 3, curcumin

And avoiding putting stuff in your body that makes your immune system react like air pollution, microplastics, hyper processed foods

New comment by elchief in "Inflammation now predicts heart disease more strongly than cholesterol"

elchief — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 04:57:42 +0000

Exercise raises acute inflammation but lowers chronic inflammation

New comment by elchief in "Inflammation now predicts heart disease more strongly than cholesterol"

elchief — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 04:56:29 +0000

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/inflammation-...

New comment by elchief in "Over 80% of sunscreen performed below their labelled efficacy (2020)"

elchief — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 22:20:05 +0000

I've heard the zinc kind is less likely to leach bad chemicals into your blood stream. is this true?

New comment by elchief in "Yes, the Book of PF, Fourth Edition Is Coming Soon"

elchief — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 20:53:14 +0000

Don't know if it's allowed here, but I'm selling my PC Engines APU2 if anyone is interested :)

It has OpnSense installed, but you can install anything you want

4GB RAM, 16GB ssd, wifi

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/4038077093121720

New comment by elchief in "Deep Research as a Swim Coach"

elchief — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 00:00:13 +0000

didn't know Total Immersion was canonical, but I'm glad someone else thinks so!

New comment by elchief in "Clojuring the web application stack: Meditation One"

elchief — Wed, 21 May 2025 05:49:39 +0000

Metabase is written in clojure, if you want to see the source code of a large web app

https://github.com/metabase/metabase

New comment by elchief in "DuckDB is probably the most important geospatial software of the last decade"

elchief — Sun, 04 May 2025 17:39:16 +0000

I wish to god they would allow 2 connections. One read-only for my BI tool, and one read-write for dbt/sqlmesh

New comment by elchief in "An update on Mozilla's terms of use for Firefox"

elchief — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 05:02:08 +0000

I cant see Mozilla surviving this. This is something monopolies get away with, not also-rans

New comment by elchief in "Alice Hamilton waged a one-woman campaign to get the lead out of everything"

elchief — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 19:26:50 +0000

and yet

One in Four US Households Likely Exceed New Soil Lead Guidance Levels

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GH00...

New comment by elchief in "Understanding the trade-offs of using Tailwind CSS"

elchief — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 05:56:22 +0000

I respect what tailwind has done

But, here's an issue for me: it makes your (cacheable/compressible) CSS smaller and your (uncacheble/uncompressible) HTML larger

Of course, you can cache and compress HTML. Unless you're using TLS, then you should not compress HTML (see BREACH). And unless you have any dynamic data on your page, then you won't be using caching...

And Tailwind makes HTML responses quite a bit larger

New comment by elchief in "Setting up a trusted, self-signed SSL/TLS certificate authority in Linux"

elchief — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 00:02:00 +0000

i use mkcert and /etc/hosts for local dev website building

New comment by elchief in "Moving on from React, a year later"

elchief — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 04:16:19 +0000

Went all in on the BALL stack (bootstrap, alpine.js, laravel livewire) and couldn't be happier