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by mturmon 4y ago
A lot of climate studies, especially about impacts, have moved to regional scales. The models have improved to where that is possible, and as GP comment illustrates, these specific factors do matter. E.g., is there a problem with drought, o
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Climate depends on a lot more than latitude. Madrid is at about the same latitude as New York. But also, the climate impacts on a given society will depend on its vulnerability and coping capacity in other ways. E.g., prevalence of air cond
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by mturmon 4y ago
Have you seen the Jointmaker from Bridge City? It’s a very high quality sliding table that holds the workpiece, and is moved by hand over a fixed saw blade. It’s used by musical instrument makers and others who do fine work with small parts
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by mturmon 4y ago
Since in many polls, access to abortion is supported by > 50% of Americans, your statement is rather vacuous.
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by mturmon 4y ago
Solar irradiance variations amount to a bit less than 0.1% over the solar cycle. It used to be thought solar-cycle variations (the 11-year period) could be a significant contributor to climate change. This turned out not to be the case...th
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by mturmon 4y ago
As people are pointing out, the rate of orbital decay does matter (even if it's not a "plummet"!) -- because everyone concerned knows that solar activity should be increasing to some extent in 2022 as a new solar cycle take
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FTA, contradicting the headline (emphasis mine): > Despite being described as a “cabal,” the amyloid camp was neither organized nor nefarious . Those who championed the amyloid hypothesis truly believed it, and thought that focusing mon
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by mturmon 4y ago
I have a Mitutoyo vernier 6", an 8", and a cheap digital model. The build quality on the Mitutoyo vernier 6" is so good that I always reach for it first. I also like its analog readout, and no batteries required. The digital
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There’s a python package also, JPLephem — https://pypi.org/project/jplephem/ By default, it does solar system bodies … planets and our moon … but you can direct it to other SPK files (time-based ephemeris summarie
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Really a great app. Fills in where basic Preview annotations leave off, and approaches Photoshop-level capability.
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by mturmon 4y ago
If you just use the system app, Screenshot.app, then all of these shortcuts are first-class menu items within that app. You can configure the mapping of cmd-shift-4 (or whatever it is) to the screenshot function, within System Preferences.
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by mturmon 4y ago
OK, the transcript from Sean's show, from 2 years ago, is here: [ https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2020/05/11/96-l... ] And here's the relevant part. It's fair to say that Necib
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I believe the community consensus (based on surveys) is that there aren't enough microlensing events to explain the amount of dark matter we see, using MACHOs. You can read this even at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by mturmon 4y ago
If on iOS, Apollo ( https://apolloapp.io ) is excellent
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by mturmon 4y ago
The linked blog post is a critique of an obviously poorly-informed article from “bigthink.com” that got a lot of attention on HN recently, much of it sympathetic. Post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31651086
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Bad Arguments Against Future Particle Colliders(profmattstrassler.com)
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by mturmon 4y ago
I invite you to send a proposal to NSF, NASA, NIH, or DARPA with arbitrary text ("No one cares about the text as long as it fits the proper mold") and excellent images. Your proposal will be judged non-compliant and will never eve
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by mturmon 4y ago
This is very concise and well-informed. Here are three things that I really liked: [1] A discussion of risk and mitigations, last paragraph under "Secondary questions". This is an excellent way to squarely confront possible objec
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Absolutely. Case in point, the La Canada (LA area) Educational Foundation -- https://lcfef.org/endowment/our-story/
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by mturmon 4y ago
Actually quite good. I've TA'd this class but it's surprising how many of these little facts can be helpful if you recall them at the right time. I was just reminded of: Var[Y] = E[Var[Y|X]] + Var[E[Y|X]] and it unstuc
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by mturmon 4y ago
Some colleagues have been involved with the NEO detection effort, so I felt called to mention that problem, which does limit the usefulness of these detections, and illustrates one of the system level problems. From the Wired article in t
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Mostly better source article appeared recently in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31616340 NASA has had a dedicated search for many years: https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/ Just detecting these objects in p
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by mturmon 4y ago
The Klein needle nose pliers are another good stocking stuffer. The jaws mate properly, etc. https://www.kleintools.com/catalog/standard-side-cutting-pli...
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Other classic Klein tools that I'm aware of are the 11-in-1 screwdriver [1] and the linesman's pliers [2]. The linesman's have many uses including hammering down nails or staples or bashing through drywall. You'll see th
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by mturmon 4y ago
I really like this as a response to OP. Thanks for taking the time. OP laments that people who are bodily affected by these abortion rules aren't willing to have an abstract debate about the constitutional definition of privacy. Of co
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If you control typography, there’s always the “first column” option, viz., https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Did-Schwarzenegger-drop-...
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by mturmon 4y ago
Old grep is still muscle memory for me, and that’s what I use in scripts. But the newer grep’s are so much faster! I scoffed initially but after a couple of uses I was hooked. I try to install these new tools in my personal ~/bin on sy
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by mturmon 4y ago
If it helps, I think this was closer to the intent: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/put+finger+on
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by mturmon 4y ago
You can extract dimensionless quantities, but depending on the normalization, the peak will land in different "n" values. E.g., normalize by the enclosing cube (sides of length 2R) versus the enclosed cube. So I don't think t
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by mturmon 4y ago
Because the location of the peak falls at a different dimension depending on the underlying units (i.e., the radius), I don’t think the numerical location of the peak is fundamental. So maybe it’s best that you don’t have intuition for it?

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