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by cbfrench 5y ago
Although, being young doesn’t entirely exclude certain forms of dementia (namely, frontotemporal dementia). See, e.g.: https://www.wired.com/story/lee-holloway-devastating-decline... It seems likelier he’s just adopted
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by cbfrench 5y ago
Criminals recover the disks but then are foiled in their dastardly endeavors because they can’t find a disk drive to load the floppies.
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by cbfrench 5y ago
I got a handful. (At least, there are a handful of answers I have >85% confidence of being correct.) For an American, that feels like a not-terrible unseen result.
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by cbfrench 5y ago
Been spending (too much?) money there for years. Wonderful outfit.
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by cbfrench 5y ago
One of the greatest works in the language: https://archive.org/details/englishassheissp00applrich
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by cbfrench 5y ago
Back in my days of teaching literature as a grad student, I pitched a couple of variants of the same class: in one, we would read five (or even fewer) poems of no great length over the course of the entire class. The whole task would just b
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by cbfrench 5y ago
I’d imagine the ham radio version of this would be about trying to track down hordes of unlicensed operators who got a new Baofeng for Christmas and are now plaguing the local repeater?
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by cbfrench 5y ago
This is why I’m a big fan of Fiestaware. It has a sort of fun retro vibe, but it also specifies that it’s “lead free” on it. (At least the stuff I’ve had for the last decade does. But I think it’s been lead free for most, if not all, of its
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by cbfrench 5y ago
It was pointed out to me above that the 2.5 hour figure is spurious. (Cliff Mass apparently didn’t account for the fact that time stamps on tweets display the time of the tweet in the reader’s local time zone, not in the OP’s—or OT’s in thi
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by cbfrench 5y ago
Thank you for that correction. You’re right that Cliff made a time zone error, which consequently undermines at least some of my points. The lead time was still fairly significant (and there were other indications that enhanced monitoring o
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by cbfrench 5y ago
> They happen a few dozen times a year for any given location. Not really, no: https://www.spc.noaa.gov/wcm/2021_torww_to_date.png The map is a little difficult to read, but I don’t believe “any given location” has
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by cbfrench 5y ago
Thank you for this. This was an exceptionally well forecasted system, and it was clear the potential danger was significant. It was one of the few outbreaks I’ve seen that was as clearly advertised beforehand. I’m just a hobbyist weather ne
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by cbfrench 5y ago
Right, which is why KPAH didn’t issue an actual warning until 9:05. Giving people a strongly-worded heads-up a couple of hours in advance via tweet gets the word out to emergency managers and other interested parties who can then disseminat
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by cbfrench 5y ago
It should be obvious that the text from the KPAH tweet at 7:03 is not your run-of-the-mill SVR warning or TOR watch (which aren’t issued by tweet, anyway). It was a very clear alert that a storm that had already produced a visibly-confirmed
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by cbfrench 5y ago
In the case of Mayfield, some of the answers seem to be: 1. Quite extreme. NWS had been highlighting the potential for a significant outbreak of severe weather for at least a day at that point. My local WFO (KIND) referred to the system’s p
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by cbfrench 5y ago
While that can still be true, lead times have gotten much better in general, and Mayfield actually had over 2.5 hours of warning from KPAH[0], which is remarkable. But 45 mins or more seems to be the norm these days, at least in my general
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by cbfrench 5y ago
Now, that’s a reasonable solution. My only concern is that people won’t take “tornado likely” seriously. But I guess, based on OP, people don’t take “tornado warning” seriously, either.
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by cbfrench 5y ago
We agree that the existing watch/warning system as it stands is highly effective. Sure, there are more warnings than there used to be, but that is largely based on the fact that the radar data available to make warning decisions is muc
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by cbfrench 5y ago
Also worth noting that “more frequently” for any given location is likely somewhere on the order of 1-2 warnings per year maximum.
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by cbfrench 5y ago
I mean, frankly, how often are you under a legitimate TOR warning that you’re having to do this? I live in the Midwest—in tornado country, no less—and the number of TOR warnings that disrupt my life in a given year I can count on one hand (
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by cbfrench 5y ago
The general public can’t grasp the distinction between watches and warnings, and your solution is to divide warnings into subcategories?
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by cbfrench 5y ago
In part because the radar tech has advanced so much. Based on reflectivity, velocity, and correlation coefficient alone, they are able to make a pretty sound guess about whether or not a supercell or QLCS is capable of producing a tornado.
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by cbfrench 5y ago
(Omnicron would make a great name for a time-travel company, however.)
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by cbfrench 5y ago
If one’s a dog, I suppose.
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by cbfrench 5y ago
Having grown up in the South, I was raised on Duke’s, and it remains for me the only acceptable mayo. It’s the mayo that can convert mayo-haters to the light (my wife included among this number). I’m glad that they are now distributing it m
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by cbfrench 5y ago
I’m holding out for the patch with liver restore and eyesight enhance.
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by cbfrench 5y ago
> I really do recommend making some effort to really understand what's going on and not just memorizing stuff blindly. I definitely second this. When I was “studying,” I just memorized the answers and got from Tech to Extra. I can a
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by cbfrench 5y ago
I can’t recommend HamStudy[0] more highly for getting licensed. I put the app on my phone last spring and used it to run through questions whenever I had some downtime. I was able to get my tech within a few days, and I used HS to upgrade t
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by cbfrench 5y ago
A marginally related anecdote: I did some graduate work in the English department at the University of Virginia, which holds one of the Dunlap broadside printings of the Declaration of Independence from July 5, 1776. During a seminar on bib
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by cbfrench 5y ago
You was doing PIPI in your pampers when i was beating players much more stronger then you!

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