earthscienceman

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by earthscienceman 4y ago
These projects are so important for being able to run the software we want, on the hardware we want. While other comments have pointed out that cameras are an inflection point for FOSS, I think they've managed to understate it. For all
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
No. It's the answer that fulfills your own confirmation bias. "Obvious" is never a word you should use when you can quantify the truth.
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
Wait. So. I do research in the polar regions and am interested in potential novel power sources for extremely remote environments. Is there any future where this kind of engine could be used for power generation? Say by storage in some capa
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
"outsider art", like a lot of labels for artists (or labels in general?), is pretty fraught with issues. But that doesn't take away from how great a lot of Arthur Russel's music is. "I never get lonesome" is on
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
This is one of the most well laid out, pedagogical, and extremely informative electronics resources I've ever seen. Can they please document all the circuits I need for my work instrumentation next?
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
And very inefficient as a result, funny enough.
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
Does anyone have any resources that explain the historical reason(s) TSMC became what it is? How did the world's most important hardware manufacturer manage to get constructed on a geopolitical pinchpoint?
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
This is funny, because I just wrote a (fish) shell script that does this as well because all of the tex IDEs are so painful. Mostly because the entire efficiency of latex is that you're editing text and can do it in a text editor lik
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
I'm fairly early in my career (read: youngish). And, truthfully, I'm very much having an existential crisis. I often wonder what the worth in studying the climate is. After all, we already have an extremely detailed understanding
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
Of course that's incorrect, and that's not what I'm stating. The comment I replied to implied that we can (and are) doing both simultaneously. I'm trying to show the degree to which that is or is not true. I even said cl
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
You would think that. But I'm one of a few scientists that work on the only fully integrated climate observation station for the Greenland ice sheet. I'm headed to Greenland as I type this. The Greenland ice sheet is the fastest
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
This is so wonderfully awesome, do you have any photos? Preferably of you standing with the computers!?
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
It is the most precise measurement of the energy input required chemically. It says nothing of the efficiency of the process. The energy required to get to 21 bar and 300-500C and maintain it while that energy input is being provided for th
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
Thank you for this very much, I didn't manage to find it. I stand by the fact that an academic press office isn't linking to the original paper is absurd. After a brief skim of the paper... the press release is (as typical) pret
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
Soooo. I suppose this has the potential to be very interesting and at the least is very relevant to my personal research. I'm actually working (with a small team) to develop methanol powered autonomous climate research stations. It wou
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
As somebody who just wasted too much of his life trying to figure out a software issue on another RK3399 powered SBC, let me tell you that software documentation/support is worth so much more than features or power. If the software tha
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
Absolutely. And yet the intellectual/philosophical underpinnings of that marvel are often demeaned, or neglected, even here on HN. The fact that the average person has no awareness that the software powering the vast majority of their
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
Sure. As someone with a PhD and a few masters in STEM fields, the holy grail of "useful" degrees a la HN here, I trust the academic institutions to vet what is a "valuable" PhD topic on a societal level. If you don'
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
An un-broken link to the article on the vandalism of these petroglyphs: https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/petroglyphs-at-lava-b...
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by earthscienceman 4y ago
What? This is revisionist as all get out, and it's not like a founder of reddit should be anecdotally referenced as a source for "reddit was always more popular than digg. they just had toolbar spyware" This comment is laugha
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by earthscienceman 5y ago
I understand why you say this, I upmodded you for the sake of a discussion, and it seems that society is trending towards "interact with people as little as possible". However, it's not like asking someone for something in pu
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by earthscienceman 5y ago
There has to be dozens of us. I also work in the Denver Botanic Gardens, so nice. As an aside, does anyone know what's up with the linguistic difference between Botanic and Botanical -- Gardens --... are both correct? When speaking, al
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by earthscienceman 5y ago
Which city and how do I join something near me? Denver?!
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by earthscienceman 5y ago
There's so much uninformed conversation around, do people in this thread not realize that it Russia nukes any Ukrainian site, the US is obliged to nuke Russia a la Budapest Memorandum ?
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by earthscienceman 5y ago
Native comp doesn't do anything for for startup implicitly, absolutely. There are no startup optimizations or anything like that. However, the speed with which elisp runs on native comp seems to be between 1.5 and 10 times faster. I ru
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by earthscienceman 5y ago
Two things. Emacs as a daemon! And. Emacs 28 native compilation. Absolute game changer for speed in a million ways. Scrolling a 5000 line python source file with all the packages, syntax highlighting, etc etc, is buttery smooth: https:&#x2
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by earthscienceman 5y ago
This makes sense and, although I didn't include it in my comment, the buoyancy was part of my curiosity. While it's clever to take advantage of the buoyancy created by the air cavity, if they're nearly-buoyant that would also
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by earthscienceman 5y ago
There are some great questions in here. But what I'm most curious about is how the keep the individual segments from sinking into the seabed at different rates. I can't imagine that the interfaces would remain water tight if any s
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by earthscienceman 5y ago
If this is as important as it seems, why is it taking so much time from publication for journals like Scientific American to pick up on it? The paper authors, Birnir et al, seem to have done a very good job of summarizing their results in a
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by earthscienceman 5y ago
Woah. What an intersection of cultures... a GQ article, on avalanche rescue, posted on HN. I'm excited to read the conversation. There are many problems/inconsistencies/vagueries in the article that make little sense. It seem

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