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buzzdenver··on One step beyond: the ascent of mountain runner Kílian Jornet
Road and trail running are just different sports and require such a high level of specialization at the very top that crossover is far from trivial. Kilian is still a better road or track runner than 99.999%, but he is very far from being world class in those disciplines. Flat running requires a more refined stride, better foot speed, slightly different muscles compared to going up and down steep trails. Top level track/road runners do not tend to do trail races during their peak years (there is much less money in trail/ultra than track/road), but ones who are just below then do not automatically win trail races.
buzzdenver··on One step beyond: the ascent of mountain runner Kílian Jornet
Humblebrag :) Good job, that means you were way under the cutoff.
buzzdenver··on LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke
This is far from my area of expertise, so let me know if I'm incorrect anywhere. Here is how I imagine thing are:

Currently: application queries clipboard state and gets back some structured data. (quick googling confirmed this).

Proposed: application gets a message when CTRL-V is clicked along with the same data that currently gets returned when clipboard is queried.

buzzdenver··on LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke
Agreed, but that still doesn't mean that and app should ever have the query the contents of the clipboard. The OS could send a message to the app with the contents of the clipboard when the user presses CTRL-V.
buzzdenver··on LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke
Use Command-Shift-V, but I agree that pasting as plain text should be the default.
buzzdenver··on LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke
Why does a website or app even need access to the clipboard? I would maybe naively think that the OS could send the characters on the clipboard as if they were typed quickly, end of story.
buzzdenver··on AWS Snowcone
Can you transfer data out of AWS with Snowcone? I thought it was all transfer in, which is free.
buzzdenver··on Why Zoom Chose Oracle
I would read that blog post in a heartbeat.
buzzdenver··on Iranian teen shocks Magnus Carlsen to win $14k prize
Come on, it's not like Kasparov won all the tournaments. Magnus is far from invincible, but currently he's still dominating.
buzzdenver··on Show HN: A basketball hoop to maximize shots that go in [video]
Next level: a camera and a couple of motors to see the speed/location of the ball and adjust the backboard accordingly.
buzzdenver··on US Hospitals say feds are seizing masks and other coronavirus supplies
The usual reason: there are factors taken into account that the Federal Government would not want you to see. For example whether it is a Rep or Dem state, or if there is a close election coming up for governor or senate.
buzzdenver··on Darling – Run macOS software on Linux
I know it's tangential, but get a TLS cert!
buzzdenver··on Ask HN: Best sleep trackers?
As somebody who usually sleeps well, I'd love to have a dumb app that notes when the last time I put my phone down and the first time I pick it up in the morning. Maybe with an option to tell it how long I think it took to fall asleep. Does something like this exist?
buzzdenver··on Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?
This might be a noob question, but what is the right way to listen to podcasts on Spotify? They recently bought the company that produces half of the podcasts I listen to, Gimlet, so I wanted to see if it was a better experience using them. I devoted 5 minutes to it, but so far I wasn't able to figure out the basics, like subscribing to podcasts and seeing what's in the queue to listen to.
buzzdenver··on How Andre Iguodala handled his rare NBA sabbatical in Silicon Valley
He was interviewed by Gimlet, part of it is being a businessman

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/without-fail/brhvor

buzzdenver··on The ominous opacity of the AWS bill – a cautionary tale
Their billing tools are notoriously poor. Just yesterday they confirmed for me that Cost Explorer only has access to data going back 12 months, so good luck trying to do year over year comparisons.
buzzdenver··on Robinhood Traders Discovered a Glitch That Gave Them ‘Infinite Leverage’
Because you either win huge, say $10M with ~ 50% chance, or go bankrupt, which is a good proposition for people who have very little to lose.
buzzdenver··on My company sold for $100M and I got zilch – how can that be?
Your company should have retained investment bankers. Just like you get a lawyer to represent you in court.
buzzdenver··on DNS 101: An Introduction to Domain Name Servers
Thank you for the reply. Can you explain how "provide" works in your first sentence? How does the .com TLD server know who registered google.com ? Seems like TLD servers still have to know the list of possible registrars where one can register a domain for their TLD.
buzzdenver··on DNS 101: An Introduction to Domain Name Servers
The part I don't fully get is how TLD servers, like .com work. Do they have a list of registrar DNS servers defined, and they ask them if somebody wants to resolve a domain they do not know about?
buzzdenver··on Eliud Kipchoge Breaks Two-Hour Marathon Barrier
That, plus having enough time for a generation of runners to blossom after WW2.
buzzdenver··on Fallout from Blizzard Hong Kong Incident
He's not even pretending to care for the oppressed people in China. They'll get thrown under the bus just like the Kurds are right now with Turkey.
buzzdenver··on Curl Cookbook
Since 7.49.0 -H supports passing in a text file (@filename), so you can cut&paste and edit headers from devtools.
buzzdenver··on Ultra marathon runner earns awards for both first place woman and overall winner
There is no elite field in ultras, only in big road races. Look at the PR-s for the elite guys here: https://www.baa.org/john-hancock-announces-2019-boston-marat... . The slowest one has a 2:13 which is below women's world record and 6 minutes faster than any of the elite women.
buzzdenver··on Ultra marathon runner earns awards for both first place woman and overall winner
You have a much more generous definition of elite. To me elite is somebody who has a chance to win in any race regardless of who else shows up to compete. By that definition Courtney is an elite woman, but I do not believe that she would have a chance to win UTMB overall, or Moab 240 if all the best men showed up.
buzzdenver··on Ultra marathon runner earns awards for both first place woman and overall winner
You're putting words in my mouth. Let's say elite men are top 5 overall at UTMB; that's why I asked you to give me odds for women making it there.

But please prove me wrong by answering my question directly. Which race had an elite field of men that she beat. Not just one runner, because by that definition I have beaten sub 2:05 marathoners who DNF-ed.

buzzdenver··on Ultra marathon runner earns awards for both first place woman and overall winner
You tell me which of those races had an elite men's field and who those men were. Or give me odds that a woman will be top 5 at UTMB.
buzzdenver··on Ultra marathon runner earns awards for both first place woman and overall winner
Is it Moab 240 that you're referring to? Tell me which of the men she beat was elite. Courtney had a great race at Western States last year and dominated the women's field, but she was 12th OA and almost 3 hours slower than the OA winner.
buzzdenver··on Ultra marathon runner earns awards for both first place woman and overall winner
Courtney Dauwalter is my favorite runner, but the races where she dominated men were really not the most competitive ones. The theory I read says that difference between the sexes gets less as the distance increases, but even in the marathon there is over a 10% difference between women's and men's world records. Or take UTMB, the most competitive ultra out there taking about 24 hours to finish. The women's winner was 33rd and 41st overall the last couple of years.
buzzdenver··on Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully produced
Yup, I am trying to email it.
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