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by nsporillo 7y ago
Seems like the laseregg 2+ at best detects PM2.5, but something like the PurpleAir sensor can detect PM1.0 for roughly the same cost. Have you or anyone else used it? I'm interested in purchasing one.
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by nsporillo 7y ago
Interesting that you mention this as this is a topic I learned today in Numerical Linear Algebra: Krylov subspace methods.
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by nsporillo 8y ago
I had to implement the Haversine distance for a data mining home work as well. We were given a list of the worlds capitals and we had to use openstreetmap api to get the latitudes and longitudes. Then we had to implement hierarchical agglom
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by nsporillo 8y ago
The kicker is the robocallers now use phone numbers which match the first six of your own number (area code and first 3 digits). When I was in the process of interviewing with a company and therefore waiting for phone calls, this was incred
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by nsporillo 8y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. I went to a community college for 1 year before transferring to a top regional technical university. The upshot was I obtained a $14k/year scholarship for transfer students just for getting a 3.7 GPA. I would no
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by nsporillo 8y ago
I just setup the Pi Hole yesterday on the raspberry pi I had sitting on my shelf and I must say it is a god send. The bonus is my girlfriend noticed the coloring app on iOS she uses doesn't have banner ads and after she's done wit
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U.S. recession chances edge up, risk Fed delivers fewer hikes(reuters.com)
1 points by nsporillo 8y ago|0 comments
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by nsporillo 8y ago
Wow I havent checked up on Minetest in years! I'll consider making a Minetest version, but I'd have to review their Lua modding api to see if it'd be feasible. Thanks
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by nsporillo 8y ago
That is certainly an option we'd like to support. The temperature thresholds and effects will be configurable, loaded from a file into memory. The sample damages I provided are mostly for illustration so development can have some guida
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by nsporillo 8y ago
Yeah that was hastily put together. I updated the readme with a real table for readability.
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by nsporillo 8y ago
Acid Rain was more of less one of the suggestions I've gotten from players on the server I frequent. You are right though, we should keep things entirely factually accurate. I removed the acid rain section and scratched the plans to im
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by nsporillo 8y ago
Yeah I think sequestering carbon in decoration, blocks, or items is okay. Burning a tree however should incur some penalty, after all - wildfires are a positive feedback loop in reality and it'd be trivial to detect. Might have to devi
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by nsporillo 8y ago
Preventing industrial farm abuse is an outstanding issue. I think penalizing bonemeal usage might work, since keeping track of all planted trees and calculating their footprint is a very expensive task. If players have to sit and let the sa
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by nsporillo 8y ago
I appreciate the ideas, I will definitely look to incorporate them! One of my current challenges is coming up with a balanced model, since I dont have any real server player data to analyze. Of course it will be configurable, but i'd l
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by nsporillo 8y ago
It will be a challenge to efficiently implement all of the in-game mechanics, especially to unloaded chunks. My ideas so far are to apply most of the effects once a chunk is reloaded, but I could also queue some changes to be applied later
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by nsporillo 8y ago
Yeah I think a good way to keep things realistic is for the offsets to be fulfilled by other players. If someone is too busy generating in-game currency, they can just pay newer players or those looking for money to plant lots of trees.
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by nsporillo 8y ago
Unfortunately it does not support Education Edition, but you make a good point in that this could be a great teaching tool. I have a good bit of Climate Change related content that I can try to integrate more into the game play itself. I&#x
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Minecraft Global Warming(github.com)
524 points by nsporillo 8y ago|125 comments
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by nsporillo 8y ago
> and the new Atari CEO (a guy from the tobacco firm Philip Morris -- I forget his name -- who spent the whole meeting chain smoking). Is this the guy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Morgan
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by nsporillo 8y ago
Usually when the speed limit bumps up from 55 to 65, it means the stretch of highway is actually more safe. Whether it is a long straight away with few on/off ramps, or the end of construction - the jump in speed limit usually does cor
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by nsporillo 8y ago
> As an aside, I cannot tell you how angry our direct-to-consumer drug advertisements make me. Especially the ones that are marketed to people with terminal diseases offering them hope (but in the small print offering perhaps 3 months lo
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by nsporillo 8y ago
One guy near the exit did and he got plowed over.
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by nsporillo 8y ago
Aren't the devices connected to some iCloud account or an equivalent software device lock? Unless they gut the existing hard drives, can they really even flip these devices? Find My Mac might foil their plans.
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by nsporillo 8y ago
Thank you for linking these. Extremely compelling articles that everyone ought to read and consider.
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The Software Engineering Job Ladder(blog.usejournal.com)
2 points by nsporillo 8y ago|0 comments
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by nsporillo 8y ago
Yeah that dude who wouldn't move out was from the same town I grew up in and whenever I read the local news lately his story is always top news. As you might expect, a story like that generates a lot of user engagement.. tons of commen
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by nsporillo 8y ago
Best Buy refused to price match Phillips Hue bulbs for me because they were apparently a "prime" only price. Made no sense for me to pay more ($20 across 4 bulbs) to get them that day in person.
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by nsporillo 8y ago
These findings are consistent with another NYT article posted almost a year ago. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/29/climate/south...
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by nsporillo 8y ago
The melting arctic ice sheets cause an influx in cold freshwater in the north atlantic which works to slow the rate of thermohaline circulation, which is responsible for bringing warm sea water (energy) to the poles which accelerates meltin
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by nsporillo 8y ago
Space-based reflectors on the scale of 600,000 square miles could cost about $800B if we could get transport costs down to $50/kg, it'd cost about $400 Trillion at the current cost. http://www.popularmechanics.com/

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