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by jofer 2y ago
I'm not an astronomer, but I believe the "mottled red" features are distant objects that are redshifted. Note that they're almost all red no matter where you zoom in. That's the evidence that space is expanding in a
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by jofer 3y ago
If that were the case, then the demographics data would not show a major shift. It would just bias of a relatively small group. However, demographic data clearly shows a trend over the past several decades. Look up "Mean Age of New Mo
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by jofer 3y ago
If you like this and ever find yourself in the Madison, Wisconsin area, be sure to drop by the mustard museum in Mt Horeb (or wait, did it move to Middleton?). It's this exactly in physical form + tastings. Honestly really cool, and th
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by jofer 3y ago
The issue is that it's easy to let the oil get to hot while you're chopping an onion. I also do the "prep while cooking" approach if I'm really pressed for time or it's really simple, but it always turns out fa
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An Underground Battery Is Coming to a Tiny Utah Town(nytimes.com)
2 points by jofer 3y ago|1 comments
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by jofer 3y ago
Ships often follow shipping lanes. Many shipping lanes are deliberately rhumb lines rather than great circle paths.
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by jofer 3y ago
This is arguably where mercator shines. Note that the paths are straight lines. Otherwise you'd be scratching your head as to why they're taking long curved routes instead of straight paths. And the distance is going to be disto
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by jofer 3y ago
It's actually not. There's a reason there are a lot of hydrogen storage projects for electricity generation going on.
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by jofer 3y ago
The operators very very very very much require advanced skills. Don't confuse roughneck work with drilling engineers. Drilling engineers also aren't by any means the only advanced skillset required. It requires a large team of h
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by jofer 3y ago
Only for short term storage. Hydrogen is meant for longer term storage where batteries have too high of a losses. E.g. winter vs summer.
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by jofer 3y ago
Hydrogen is even better for longer-term storage (e.g. seasonal). Produce hydrogen via electrolysis from solar in the summer, then power things when it's cloudy + low sun angle in the winter. There are quite a few major hydrogen storage
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by jofer 3y ago
This. I grew up in SW TN close to the MS border. That's as much tornado alley as Kansas over the past couple decades. I've seen two F4's up close and the aftermath of one F5. And a hell of a lot of smaller storms. The issue i
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by jofer 3y ago
Just FYI, "openlayers" is the name of a widely used open source web mapping frontend library. There's a possibility for some confusion there. https://openlayers.org/
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by jofer 3y ago
The crazy thing about this is that the folks calling Kissinger out for war crimes and the folks like you pointing out the good things he enabled both have a valid point. I'm not saying his legacy is positive or negative overall, but fo
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by jofer 3y ago
TX RRC is an elected, political position. Don't confuse who's in that office with anyone actually working in the industry. You might as well say "the TX lt governor" or something similar. It would have the same implicati
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by jofer 3y ago
That's already required, fwiw. Yes even in Texas. It's not the full costs, in practice, and ownership often gets tricky, but there are regulations to the effect. You have to put up a bond to operate oil and gas wells in TX and man
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by jofer 3y ago
Midland is a great example of tons of old and abandoned wells with active production right beside them, fwiw. The same can be said of Bakersfield, CA, though, and a direct comparison of those could be quite interesting.
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by jofer 3y ago
Yeah, I'd agree with that. Ctypes does have advantages for several use cases, and quick iteration is one of those, for sure. It's definitely a good tool to have in your toolbox!
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by jofer 3y ago
Yes, you can, but it is easier in cython, and that is one of the key selling points of cython. Nothing wrong with using ctypes. It's the right solution for some things. However, cython is generally easier with numpy than numpy.ctypesli
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by jofer 3y ago
It also doesn't help you use numpy arrays with C functions, which is one of the big selling points of cython.
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by jofer 3y ago
First off, SO2 breaks down quickly on geologic timescales. The cooling effect is short-lived. CO2 takes longer to move out of the atmosphere. Next, modern day volcanic emissions aren't major players in current climatic changes, but th
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by jofer 3y ago
Also, don't forget that a lot of replication would fundamentally involve going and collecting additional samples / observations / etc in the field area, which is often expensive, time consuming, and logistically difficult. It
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by jofer 3y ago
Alpha and beta printings are more rare and the exact price is hard to get a handle on. But for the most abundant printing, the buy list prices here are reasonably representative (for a one is very good shape - most will sell for less due to
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by jofer 3y ago
It is very fair to point out that synthetic processes often have significant side effects. Biodiesel made from corn is a great example of "right intent, wrong overall effect" (though arguably the goal of biodiesel from corn was a
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by jofer 3y ago
> What you are saying is true if for some reason you want to work with absolute values, but nobody would do that. You measure many data points as your submarine flies over the landscape for a time, and then you match the measured curve w
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by jofer 3y ago
It's somewhat unlikely (but not impossible) that this method is based on navigating by matching patterns of the shape of the geoid (aka variations in g). We need accurate maps of the geoid for a lot of different reasons. (Military as w
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by jofer 3y ago
No. The issue is that you quickly have trillions of rows. You don't need a relational db setup or fancy non-relationary db solutions. Both are well known anti-patterns. One row per sample falls over quickly for regularly sampled data.
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by jofer 3y ago
No. I'm working in very technical domains. Management has zero understanding or background in anything. Engineers have a minimum of a PhD in the field + at least a decade of experience in the field + software engineering experience. We
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by jofer 3y ago
And interestingly, the product managers I've worked with who actually do understand the product and the users have generally either abhorred user stories or treated them as a meaningless checkbox.
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by jofer 3y ago
I have yet to see a single user story that actually gives any correct details of what the user wants or is doing, though. They're invariably written by product managers who have never been in the users shoes and have absolutely zero un

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