sunshinesnacks

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by sunshinesnacks 1y ago
I don’t watch my local PBS over antenna much anymore, but it is great, just like you describe. Amazing what you can watch for free OTA, when you think about it.
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by sunshinesnacks 1y ago
This NOAA National Blend of Models (NBM) viewer lets you enable observations and then roll back the forecast initialization date to see forecasts and observations at the same time. It’s experimental, and selecting weather stations is a litt
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by sunshinesnacks 2y ago
I think it’s replacing data assimilation. Ingesting observation data from lots of sources. Not replacing observations themselves.
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by sunshinesnacks 2y ago
The Nature preprint references this zenodo archive with data and code in a big 13GB .tar file: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13158382 I haven’t downloaded it to see what’s in it.
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by sunshinesnacks 2y ago
> The service that many private weather services provide is to aggregate and weigh all of the publicly available datasets Yes, and more people need to understand this. Too many people seem to think that commercial services won’t be impac
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by sunshinesnacks 2y ago
Are you suggesting that NIH isn’t valuable to society? Or that the people fired with no justification deserve it because not enough scientists protested DEI grant requirements? Just because scientists want to be paid doesn’t mean they aren’
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by sunshinesnacks 2y ago
Yeah, you’re right. Something like civil twilight, as you mentioned above, should get it closer to what is being discussed here.
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by sunshinesnacks 2y ago
I think the section “Atmospheric refraction and the solar limb” near the end of the article addresses this.
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by sunshinesnacks 2y ago
Minor correction/note: most modern modules/cells have a temperature coefficient in the range of approx. -0.27 to -0.35%/°C. A little better than -0.45%. See fig 14 in [1] for data through 2021/22, and then the more recen
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by sunshinesnacks 2y ago
In the Pipeline is an “editorially independent blog,” [1] so I’m not sure that it’s fair to criticize Science or Derek Lowe for the “reporting.” I’m a big fan of Derek’s blog. And I think his comments about long COVID at the end of the post
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by sunshinesnacks 2y ago
I guess tractors/combines made a much bigger difference than fertilizer. > The base level of complete chore automation that we've apparently all forgotten about. This is easy to forget. I try to occasionally remind myself that
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by sunshinesnacks 2y ago
My chemical engineer friends like to point out that the Haber-Bosch process has doubled global food production, or something like that. In the same “industrial agriculture” category as tractors and combines.
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by sunshinesnacks 2y ago
That’s handy. Looks like it doesn’t work if “ai” is also in your search, though. E.g., https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+disable+ai+overview+i...
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by sunshinesnacks 2y ago
That doesn’t work for me. The option was already toggled off.
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by sunshinesnacks 2y ago
Same here… > AI Overview > You can't completely disable Google's AI Overviews in your search results, but you can use workarounds to hide them. The workarounds didn’t seem to work for me.
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by sunshinesnacks 2y ago
Agreed. Washing machines have had a huge impact. See [1] for some summary info. Anecdotally, having a dishwasher seems to simply mean that our house can go through 4x more dishes every day than I would expect… [1] https://penntod
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by sunshinesnacks 2y ago
I don't doubt those temperatures at all. But do you know what the relative humidity was? It's the combo that causes problems fast. 100 F and 60% RH is miserable and dangerous, but that's a wet bulb of about 90 F, so there&#x2
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by sunshinesnacks 2y ago
I've spent a little bit of time in those types of spaces. I absolutely believe the temperatures referenced, but approaching 100 F with humidity above 95% is likely deadly in a short amount of time. And to then seemingly make jokes ab
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by sunshinesnacks 2y ago
According to https://www.weather.gov/arx/heat_index , 100 deg F with 95% RH is a heat index of 185 F. The linked paper says "temperature often approached 100 F with relative humidity above 95%," and later refe
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by sunshinesnacks 2y ago
I soldered one of these with my 6 year old: https://thepihut.com/products/3d-xmas-tree-for-raspberry-pi . They seem to be out of stock, but maybe you can find them somewhere else. Fun, quick project. With my kid, I heal
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by sunshinesnacks 2y ago
Statquest is really good. Maybe a little basic if you’ve taken ML courses, though? https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLblh5JKOoLUIE96dI3U7oxHaC...
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by sunshinesnacks 2y ago
I think reducing fossil fuel use is separate from petroleum product use. We can have petroleum products without burning fossil fuels. Costs of petroleum extraction might go up, though, I imagine.
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by sunshinesnacks 2y ago
Ioannidis published a journal article with what many considered an ad hominem attacks against a graduate student. He later withdrew that portion of the paper, (somewhat) in his defense.
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by sunshinesnacks 2y ago
Sorry for the late reply. That all makes sense. And it’s definitely possible that your power company’s rate structure isn’t really optimal for them (or the market, or you). Electricity rates seem to be generally messy and a mix of big compr
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by sunshinesnacks 2y ago
Maybe this is obvious, but make sure to check your rate structure with your energy company. Just because market prices are high later in the day doesn’t mean that’s when your prices are highest.
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by sunshinesnacks 2y ago
Maybe not more efficient , but there’s usually more solar resource in the desert, and the net is usually more electricity produced. See the executive summary linked at the bottom of this page: https://emp.lbl.gov/publicatio
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by sunshinesnacks 2y ago
Several of the largest solar plants in the world are in deserts. Edit: I think that all of the top 5 largest are in deserts. Maybe more.
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by sunshinesnacks 2y ago
Grid following inverters can do something similar, although their response time is usually limited to the grid operator's automatic generation control (AGC) communication cycle, which is typically on the order of 4 to 6 seconds. And th
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by sunshinesnacks 2y ago
There’s a bit of irony in the second reference, as the author ended up with some controversial work related to COVID-19. He co-authored a study that was widely cited to downplay severity of the pandemic, but was also heavily criticized for
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by sunshinesnacks 2y ago
I never wear my rings places where I don’t also bring my fingers, and rings don’t leave oily prints like my fingers do. Sarcasm aside, I’m not sure how this is a security risk.

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