Dr. Bob @ DrBob @lemmy.ca

Recovering academic now in public safety. You'll find me kibitzing on brain

---

Read more

Posts

2

Comments

564

Joined

2 yr. ago

The black mold people are concerned about in buildings is stachybotrys. They type species is stachybotrys atrum. Totally different mold.

As others have said Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt.

It entered tech lingo way back in the 90s when Microsoft was fighting an early wave of Linux on desktop. They would troll and present themselves as a reliable alternative.

They weren't the first to do it. IBM's unofficial motto in the 70s was "nobody gets fired for going with IBM".

The optimal pacing strategy is even splits. You want to leave everything on the course and finish with nothing in the tank (this is the "drop dead" pacing strategy Daniels wrote about in... "Oxygen Power"?). Negative splits means you went out too slow and positive splits means you went out too fast.

What the article shows is that men have larger positive splits which means they had worse performance against a theoretical optimum (even with that they're still faster). Women were closer to optimal pacing strategy. The article says they don't know if that's physiological or tied to strategy and decision making.

Maybe women are just more realistic about their performance and pace appropriately?

I think there are two sets of claims in the article. The first set - women hunt - is blindingly obvious and it was stupid to ever think anything different. The second set - women are better suited for endurance activities is dubious and weakly argued.

Timothy Noakes is as good a scholar as we have in endurance exercise, and he points out that all of the ultramarathon evidence is a bit dubious because the sport does not attract the best runners. So East African runners dominate the marathon scene (especially the Kalenjins) but are virtually absent from the ultramarathon world. Why? No prize money or sponsorship. So the fact that European ancestry dominates the longer distance is more a function of who's running than it is a difference in physiology.

So looking at the role of estrogen in race times requires some deeper understanding of who's running and what their overall potential is. I'll note that the ultra scene is generally populated by an older crowd who are following the " if I can't go faster I'll go longer" approach. So maybe men maintain competitive marathon times later into life so are slower to join the ultra scene?

Noakes also points out that a smaller body size works for women in several ways - smaller bodies use less energy to move, generate less heat, and shed heat more effectively. So without correcting body size, sex based comparisons are not deeply informative.

Are they talking to Stan Lee?

The BSD license allows incorporation of BSD code in non-free projects. That was both an advantage for capitalists while simultaneously moving hobbyists away from it's development. Kind of an important bit of info.

Whoever colored that map needs a kick in their gonads. WTF do pumpkin, butterscotch, cream, and key lime pies have in common that they are all colored green?

Marcy Wheeler is someone who continues to follow the story. https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/03/28/the-alfa-bank-dark-net-at-noon

Umm...whut? They are ceremonial adult adoptions. Or am I missing something.

Oh Lord I do not want to insert myself in this conversation but... I'm curious about the death stats.

Far and away the most common causes of death are disease based - and most are chronic conditions like heart disease or diabetes. You have to get well down the list before things like suicide appear. But suicide appears as a category, not disaggregated by cause (overdose, asphyxiation etc.). The same is true for homicide etc. To get the numbers you reference you'd have to disaggregate the categorical data and then re-aggregate by method.

Do you know of such a data source?

I bought it from someone of his vintage. So yes.

ElectrohomeElectrolux. Am old. Was used.

Found a picture but mine was bronze. electrolux vintage canister vacuum

The most valuable piece in the book for me was the idea of reflective planning. You don't do it Monday morning when you arrive, try Sunday afternoon with a cup tea and think about the long view. The short-term decisions will force themselves on you so don't waste time planning for them.

I'm curious what the review said? It isn't an easy book and the advice is kind of saccharine in the end, but there isn't anything particularly controversial or offensive in it.

Carrie Bourassa, Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, and Joseph Boyden were also all adopted into indigenous families. In all of those cases the point was made that adoption does not confer indigenous status.

How has no one mentioned The Bridge

This is Peter Mansbridge's daily podcast looking at current events. It puts The National to shame.

Mid-50s chiming in. In grad school I'd have 4-5 pints at the grad pub and then go downtown to go drinking lol. Those days are long gone.

I have a 2 drink limit now and will switch to water or soda. Otherwise I can't function the next day. Hangovers are exponentially worse than they used to be.

That's the Fetterman approach - and good on him. Biden is built different and that's not a bad thing. Let Fetterman attack and the President reconcile.

There's something there/here that I am struggling to describe/understand.

This is a use case for a step flashing or pan. Use sheet metal cut to shape and bent at a right ( or other angle) to give you a nailing surface. You nail it to the roof deck and it stands up.