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rgzn··on Introducing Kepler.gl, an Open-Source Geospatial Toolbox
any way to add raster data or more conventional basemaps like those from USGS or google, etc?
rgzn··on Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Climbing World Reels
Honnold climbed the boulder problem variation, which is 13a. The Teflon Corner at 12d is slightly easier but less secure, so worse for soloing.
rgzn··on Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Climbing World Reels
Also, there are many climbers more skilled than Honnold at climbing hard routes. Honnold is not even in competition for climbing the hardest grades.

However, there is no one close to him in his confidence and security off-rope on difficult grades.

rgzn··on Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Climbing World Reels
I'm sorry about your friend.

However, your statement about trad climbing is inaccurate. People project hard trad routes all the time, fully expecting to fall.

rgzn··on Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Climbing World Reels
A lot have free climbed it, but it is a major project for most who do. Here is a great account from James Lucas of what it takes for a more normal human (who is still a pro climber) to climb the freerider: http://eveningsends.com/the-day-i-sent-freerider-in-a-day/
rgzn··on Insecam: Large Directory of Unsecure Cameras
Haha, the first thing I found: http://www.insecam.org/en/view/345331/
rgzn··on Ask HN: What is something you do for clients that consistently blows them away?
How did you get into doing scraping contracts? I often write web automation scripts and scrapers for gathering research data, but have never figured out a way to get contact work.
rgzn··on Fewer than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. have manual transmissions
I think anyone who drives off-road in the mountains knows how much better sticks are then automatics. It's extremely frustrating to take automatic trucks on steep off road terrain.