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by jacobn 4y ago
“C57BL/6 mice were exposed to 835 MHz RF-EMF at a specific absorption rate (SAR) of 4.0 W/kg for 5 hours/day during 12 weeks.” That’s a pretty high exposure?
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by jacobn 5y ago
I'm wondering why tank armor is (appears to be) basically flat, when the AT warheads appear to be based on creating that super-heated jet, optimized for striking a flat surface? Why not stack a few layers of corrugated steel/ceram
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by jacobn 5y ago
They effectively had a long production outage for those models when they upgraded to the most recent version, with the steering yoke. Wait times were on the order of 6-12 months.
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by jacobn 5y ago
They usually save you from that particular pitfall, but not always of course. Static vs dynamic makes for such difference in the detailed workflow, both in terms of changing existing code & in terms of writing new/(more) from scrat
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by jacobn 5y ago
This study and the discussion here reminds me of https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/12/beware-the-man-of-one-... - basically whenever you have a financial or politically motivated topic of study, you'll
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by jacobn 5y ago
Those who work and thereby pay for the UBI may feel that freeriding is actually unjust, and not the hallmark of a glorious new post-scarcity society?
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by jacobn 5y ago
If you were born between 1940-2000 then the parent comment would imply that you have seen a decline during your lifetime?
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by jacobn 5y ago
See "total artificial heart": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_heart Layperson speculation: hard to power 24/7 without an external power source, it must connect seamlessly to the blood stream (ca
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by jacobn 5y ago
The cynics are reading & commenting, the optimists are busy building? ;)
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by jacobn 5y ago
Will the sheep’s wool last 500 years? Or is that mostly the exterior? Power? Plumbing? Bathroom? Should I think of this as a “small house” or “permanent tent”?
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by jacobn 5y ago
How would you avoid those same issues happening yet again to the hoped for shiny new effort?
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by jacobn 5y ago
We embed the assets in page to have the code for each section in one place - there's a lot of little logic & math to figure out the phrases (they're not just formatted numbers), and both the text & the graphs rely on the s
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by jacobn 5y ago
Like a lot of our tools we developed the i18n solution entirely in-house. Yeah, it's a weird decision. Google has indexed >40M pages on the site, so we'd need a little exception on that 20k limit ;)
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by jacobn 5y ago
Ah, we use the first location's view of the world, so [0] does Mar-May, and [1] does Sep-Nov [0]: https://weatherspark.com/compare/s/0/23912~149466/Comparison... [1]: https://weatherspark
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by jacobn 5y ago
Spring in NYC is Mar-May: https://weatherspark.com/s/23912/0/Average-Spring-Weather-in... Spring in Sydney is Sep-Nov: https://weatherspark.com/s/144544/0/Average-Spring-Weather
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by jacobn 5y ago
Typically 80-90% of our traffic is search engine bots crawling the site, which is not very amenable to caching. So even if we cached all user traffic the overall load wouldn't move much. That said, it might make sense to cache to prote
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by jacobn 5y ago
We show temperature fingerprints for all the weather stations in our network, you can find links to the data sources here: https://weatherspark.com/y/147186/Average-Weather-at-John-F....
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by jacobn 5y ago
On each annual report page, at the bottom of the Temperature section, just before the "Compare X to another city" section there's a paragraph that for NYC reads: "Gedzhukh, Russia (5,672 miles away) and Yatsuomachi-higas
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by jacobn 5y ago
Every page & image (they’re all embedded SVGs) is generated from scratch using raw data on every request - with the number of languages and units supported it gets quite unwieldy when pre-generating (we had a mediocre experience w that
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by jacobn 5y ago
The closest thing we have for specific years is this: https://weatherspark.com/h/y/557/2020/Historical-Weather-dur... It’s not available on the world map, but you can drill down to any year in any locati
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by jacobn 5y ago
Hmm... maybe for just the compare pages then? I'll chat with James about it to see what we can do. (I'm one of the site creators)
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by jacobn 5y ago
We've talked about it, but so far no, it messes with the x-axis a little too much (averages, history, compare, everything needs to work & line up across both time & northern/southern hemisphere, and what graph has two x-ax
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by jacobn 5y ago
Yeah, those were good times indeed. I try not to think too much about just how many hours/days/weeks/months I spent writing creatively cached Flash graph drawing to get the silky smooth pan & zoom behavior the dashboard o
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by jacobn 5y ago
Ah, fixed, thanks!
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by jacobn 5y ago
Yeah, the ads are a double-edged sword. We've been running this site for... ten years? And for the longest time it languished with some Google Adsense ads on there, making enough to keep the servers running, but not enough to invest mo
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Show HN: A world map of 24x365 average temperature “fingerprints”(weatherspark.com)
347 points by jacobn 5y ago|80 comments
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by jacobn 5y ago
A plan C still sounds like a good idea.
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by jacobn 5y ago
Is this in active use? The operating notes are significant: > Note: Guetzli uses a large amount of memory. You should provide 300MB of memory per 1MPix of the input image. > Note: Guetzli uses a significant amount of CPU time. You sho
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by jacobn 5y ago
If you want to create a user-friendly experience, how about making it so that I just plug my car in and it charges? No phones, no apps, no access cards. The charger recognizes my car, the car has the billing info, done. Sigh. It was such a
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by jacobn 5y ago
Neat project/product, neat story, neat name (but probably too much of an inside joke? ;)

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