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by roter 6y ago
A Cockney Lorem Ipsum generator [0]. [0] https://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/cockney-lorem-ipsum/
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by roter 6y ago
The southern hemisphere has not seen the same amount of polar "amplification" as the northern (b/c more land in the northern hemisphere). But still an active topic of research [0] [0] https://www.climate.gov/n
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by roter 6y ago
> By the way the Antarctic ice sheet is currently at median levels (based on 1981-2010 baseline) Careful: ice sheet != sea ice. The formation of sea ice is strongly dependant upon underlying sea temperature & exposure to daytime su
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by roter 6y ago
Got my mother-in-law a Kobo Forma. Relatively pricey but I was able to walk her through how to check out a book from her local library via Cloud Library & transfer it to her device. Was a life-saver while the physical library was closed
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by roter 6y ago
Perhaps they should focus on October beer [0]: > Ships transported Hodgson's beers to India, among them his October beer, which benefited exceptionally from conditions of the voyage and was apparently highly regarded among its consu
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by roter 6y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. I guess we just need to tune our relaxation factors [0] or, perhaps better, recalibrate our Kalman filters. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Successive_over-relaxation
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by roter 6y ago
If only they had made a TV show about this [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Directive
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by roter 6y ago
On the naming. There is a popular Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) package called OpenFOAM [0]. It was originally called FOAM. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenFOAM
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by roter 6y ago
It is hot & humid but likely not exceeding 35C. There are figures in [0] that show the 99.9% wet bulb typically is in the range 27-29C for the south eastern US. The "hot" spots are in the UAE, Iran, etc. Being close to very ho
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by roter 6y ago
One issue with hobbyist weather stations is that they aren't particularly useful for use for assimilating into numerical weather models. The pressure is useful as it is relatively hard to get that wrong unless mislabelling sea-level pr
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by roter 6y ago
Or even the proportion and impact of ice v. water droplets. The modelling of this in a warming world is making the latest global climate models used in the upcoming IPCC AR6 show a higher equilibrium climate sensitivity than the previous ed
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by roter 6y ago
From [0]: 30 cycles of controlled hyper-ventilation, followed by holding breath with lungs empty as long as possible, then deep breath and hold for 15-20 secs. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Hof#Wim_Hof_Method
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by roter 6y ago
Sort of tangential but interesting article in Economist [0] (based on [1]) that links the increased mortality of 28-year-olds of the Spanish flu with the Russian flu 28 years earlier, i.e. when they were born. [0] https://www.eco
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by roter 6y ago
There is a "Secondary email" option in Firefox Accounts. You can also set a "Recovery Key".
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by roter 6y ago
Confirmed [0]. [0] https://www.ghacks.net/2020/04/08/how-to-restore-the-old-fir...
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by roter 7y ago
They're now asking for new passwords: * minimum of 8 characters * one uppercase and lowercase letter * one number * one special character They should just allow any character instead of requiring characters. At least they allow longer
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by roter 7y ago
There is also an emergency health issue. I had c.difficile and was instructed by the nurse to use a separate bathroom from my spouse to avoid cross-contamination. We only had one bathroom so this meant I had to bleach the toilet whenever I
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by roter 7y ago
Whatever moves the needle. Some are moved by the science, some by the inconvenience, and some by catastrophe. Though, if or when golf starts getting hit by climate change, that will really move the needle.
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by roter 7y ago
Scihub would have been a godsend when I was doing my PhD. I would have to request via inter-library-loan all the low-exposure journal articles for which my library had no subscription. When the paper finally came in, via fax or scan, I may
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by roter 7y ago
The fifth book of Colleen McCullough's "Master of Rome" series covers the battle [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_(McCullough_novel)
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by roter 7y ago
CO2 solubility typically decreases with increasing water temperature [0]. [0] https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/gases-solubility-water-d_...
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by roter 7y ago
netCDF, used for storing e.g. large multidimensional climate datasets, is also "chunked" through its HDF[0] backbone. The hard part for me is the "transpose" or "striding" problem. i.e. when the data is stored
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by roter 7y ago
Here's an article on wind capacity factor across the US region-by-region [0]. The significant conclusion is that winds nationwide are stronger in winter and weaker in summer. California and the Northwest buck this trend with strongest
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by roter 7y ago
The titles indicate the baseline for each graph. e.g. "Global mean temperature difference from 1850-1900" They are plotting the anomalies which tend to be much more useful for climate studies than the absolute values. e.g. [0,1] [
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by roter 7y ago
I too play with a cage in a beer league. I'm used to the more limited visibility. I've seen too many horrors on the ice. The puck has eyes of its own. It still seems to find my unprotected bits.
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by roter 7y ago
If you already have a DigitalOcean droplet up and running and you have ssh access, you can use sshuttle [0]. e.g. run this from the command line: sshuttle -r example.com 0/0 -x example.com --dns [0] https://github.com
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by roter 7y ago
!gm some address to search Google Maps
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by roter 7y ago
Saw this film as a child when it was coupled with the local symphony orchestra. From the opening sequence snowball fight to the final scenes, this was one of the most moving experiences of my life.
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by roter 7y ago
You can download free charts for many of Europe's inland waterways. One great method is to use OpenCPN [0,1] and its "Chart Downloader". [0] https://opencpn.org/ [1] https://opencpn.org/OpenCP
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by roter 7y ago
I would have said the same thing in 2010 when I first started my business and needed file sharing/syncing in a small team. Everything just worked on Linux & Windows. Then they started tweaking everything, adding useless features, a

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