earthscienceman

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by earthscienceman 3y ago
You know how I know you aren't poor? You think anyone in the bottom quartile will buy a new car. This is hardly a regressive policy. It directly targets the wealthier populations. That said, in the interest of honest debate, it will sh
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by earthscienceman 3y ago
Could NASA not have chosen the acronym for the oldest science funding institution in the US for this?
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by earthscienceman 3y ago
I hate to break it to you (or others on HN) but a lot of Europeans do avoid the entire US these days for exactly this reason.
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by earthscienceman 3y ago
While I do agree with you on the effort assessment, or certainly the "trailblazing" factor... (to me, writing a kernel and operating system that could be used by the entire world before there existed a notion of what that kernel a
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by earthscienceman 3y ago
Absolutely. But also, as a species, we're such a fan of these narratives that lionize people like Steve jobs. A brief article written by a friend about a project from their college years is much more humanizing than anything I've
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by earthscienceman 3y ago
I absolutely love articles like this that humanize the creation of such a megalithic thing. It was just someone who was curious enough to tinker for a while on a project who was hanging out with friends. I love it. I think it would be hard
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
This is a very valid and important point. It also causes knock-on effects that are aggravating factors. The important subtlety in what you are stating is: People don't consider punishment when they're committing crimes but they do
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
Yeah. Makes total sense. That's why the wild west was crime free, because everyone feared the retributive punishments... People don't pull out a knife then think "wait, but I'll be punished" and put the knife away.
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
The entire article has that tone, like many of the VC/FAANG/techie articles about "focusing on the tangible". Every single one reads like someone who re-discovers their own humanity through the privilege of being obscene
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
This is an interesting and open question. But I need you to be slightly more specific. In my research? For my personal life? For the global economy?
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
I am a climate scientist that studies Greenland, can confirm: we're (not-even-inevitably but currently) fucked.
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
Hey @thewopr. I'm actually working on real-time measurement transmission of the climate parameters, though at the other pole in the Arctic. I always imagined people working on such things were here on HN. This article is absolutely a P
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
So here's a fun question: which sizeable solar\storage companies are dark horses for really great investment right now?
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
It's so funny to be watching the recent HN obsession with extreme environments. It seems to be more focused on Antarctica, which is kind of the "charismatic megafauna" of polar research. Having lived in Greenland and on icebr
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
Ok, yeah. I had no clue that was a thing. That will be extremely useful. I'm often running python in a buffer and being able to run commands on output is a dream. Thanks dima55 and thank you emacs.
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
This will be the most hideous comment I've ever made on the internet. I would die for something like this to be an emacs package, to be written in elisp. I do all my development and data processing in emacs on remote clusters and it is
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
Quite the opposite. It's literally the global format that nearly everyone in the world provides data in.
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
Yeah. And the follow up snark comment about it being an American thing. It is literally the file format specified for this type of data, globally. As outlined by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) decades ago. It's widely supp
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
Extremely valid points. Thanks for sharing your perspective, counters. It's much appreciated. One thing I think is fascinating, every time this comes up on a place like HN, is how detached the conversation often is from the meat-and-po
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
Only on HN would the NWS format be described as 'custom'.
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
I disagree that my (extremely broad) diagnosis of the problems with forecasting in America is based on flawed premises. You've provided thorough, correct, and important details here but my comment was aimed at the broader HN audience,
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
It's going to be a tangential comment but I work in science research that's adjacent to weather forecasting and I find the political/technical jockeying that is happening with forecasting to be fascinating. It's a nexus
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
I have posted this here before but I had the opportunity to live on Soviet/Russian icebreakers in the arctic for a period of time. Here's a small snippet of my photos, including of the control panels in the engine room and in the
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
Why did I just get linked to a tweet of a news article? https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/11/30/business/sam-bankman...
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
Another very positive comment here with a few grips. I love the way you used shadowing and color to create a board with a lot of depth. Interacting with the board is very very nice. My only major grip with it is the color scheme. As is ofte
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
I would still love to see te parent question answered.
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
Wait. This comment just blew my mind. Does that imply that you might be able to measure the efficiency of a model by it's compressibility? Note, I'm trying to recognize efficient and accurate are not the same. One could imagine ev
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
What's the community of academics? I haven't joined Twitter specifically because I think it's a horrible medium for communicating science or meeting with academics. Can you point me there?
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
I know this, you know this, and it's abhorrent. I wanted to skip over that detail and point at the more glaring issues with trusting them in general. The real point is that trusting Meta to be a good moderator of your communication and
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
The nuance here lies in what a "message" is. In the contemporary era of smartphones, data transmission, and all the bits-and-bobs in between, a message is much more than just the word contents. The "messages" might be e2

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