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by jeramey 2y ago
Indeed. In the same vein, Jerome K. Jerome's "Three Men in a Boat" has made me laugh out loud more than a century after it was originally written. That said, Shakespeare's humor, as an example, lands more flat with me. E
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by jeramey 2y ago
To be honest, if things have gone this sideways, "ps awwfux" are definitely some sounds that'll be coming out of my mouth, too.
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by jeramey 2y ago
Seaborn isn’t too bad. It’s basically a convenience wrapper over top of matplotlib.
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by jeramey 2y ago
It gets used a fair amount in the weather data space. Forecasting and climate reanalysis grids are typically large (gigabytes) N-dimensional arrays of float32 values and Blosc provides enough tunable knobs that it's fairly easy to find
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by jeramey 2y ago
I am a hobbyist carpenter and woodworker. My current project is probably the last one I will ever do without a table saw with these kinds of safety features. I have already changed over to using other tools like track saws and pull saws as
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by jeramey 2y ago
In all fairness, the person had obviously been awake for over 24 hours and was on their 1,001st cup of coffee. And since earlier in the summer I had crashed the entire ticket scanner network the night before the opening of the weekend festi
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by jeramey 2y ago
Occasionally people don't understand how to plug extension power cables together, either, especially during times of high stress and low sleep. Once upon a time, when I was in IT support, I got a call from someone in a satellite office
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by jeramey 3y ago
Seconded! I recently built a large 50" x 90" work surface in my garage and used MDO sign board (another phenolic resin product, not much more expensive than MDF and available at many construction-oriented lumber yards) for the top
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by jeramey 3y ago
Yes, there is. To negate, just use ! as with many other languages. if ! command …; then do_needed_things fi
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by jeramey 3y ago
The main problem with ERCOT's grid stability isn't that they are using a lot of renewables so much as it is that ERCOT isn't interconnected with other big power systems in Texas's efforts to avoid federal oversight, as t
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by jeramey 3y ago
If you're looking for something turn-keyish, you might be able to get some help with this from one or more of the big players in the renewable energy analysis and forecasting space, including (in no particular order) DNV, Vaisala, Bloo
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by jeramey 3y ago
I'll second that. I work in the renewable energy space where we get all manner of atmospheric and power data in a wide variety of units depending on the data source, so Pint is incredibly useful in normalizing them as well as making it
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by jeramey 4y ago
Oh cool, I hadn't heard of E-skip as a phenomenon before! Thanks for that info, it's really interesting.
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by jeramey 4y ago
VHF (FM radio in the US is in the VHF band) propagation can definitely change at different times of day. One of my favorite activities in the summer is to go get lost in the Cascades, and when the sun goes down, settle in to a hammock with
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by jeramey 4y ago
Persistence and linear regression are very common methods used to extend forecasts out in computationally cheap ways. Most forecast models have really awful validation statistics after about 48-60 hours out—depending on initial conditions,
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by jeramey 4y ago
If you fell down this rabbit hole, beware the High Voltage SID Collection[1], or you might never come up for air! [1] https://www.hvsc.c64.org/
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by jeramey 4y ago
At least until you heard the click of death, that is!
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by jeramey 4y ago
One example that's bitten me is that working with large integers is fraught with peril. If you can't be sure that your integer values can be exactly represented in an IEEE 754 double precision float and you might be exchanging dat
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by jeramey 4y ago
I love the alpine butterfly. It also helps improve the security and strength of a trucker's hitch compared to the usual slipped overhand knot loop which can be handy occasionally with heavy loads!
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by jeramey 4y ago
The closest thing I've found to what you're asking for is "The Complete Book of Knots" by Geoffrey Budworth which is generally organized into sections related to typical activities such as sailing, general outdoors, and
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by jeramey 4y ago
You’d probably need to do this with an AC-DC-AC transformer to also get the circuit converted to the 50hz cycle European power systems use, but it’d just be a waste because of the power losses involved (not to mention the expense of the tra
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by jeramey 4y ago
If you're in the Apple ecosystem, subscribing and unsubscribing to several of these news sources, so long as you read them in Apple's News app, becomes a lot easier, though it can be more expensive than going direct to the publish
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by jeramey 4y ago
I'd be a little worried that I might be tempted to unconsciously order the values in some way which would bias the results. But you could build a box with four separate cells and a clear plexiglass top, shake them all up, and always re
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by jeramey 4y ago
I haven’t seen Rime mentioned yet and you might check that out. It is a little bit of a puzzle game and a little bit of a walking simulator and has a surprisingly heart-wrenching story in the end.
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by jeramey 4y ago
This is very true, and my saucier skills are poor, but once upon a time I swore by thin aluminum or copper cookware for making eggs--especially omelettes. A couple of years ago, we decided to install an induction range in our home and, of c
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by jeramey 4y ago
The US government accepted AT&T’s natural monopoly of telephone communications (this is the Kingsbury Commitment of 1913 mentioned in the link you provide) in exchange for their divestment of their control of other forms of telecommunic
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by jeramey 4y ago
That’s a very interesting example you choose. I wonder if you’d have a choice of mobile phones today had the US government not exercised its anti-monopoly authority with the Kingsbury Commitment and later the break-up of the Bell System. Pr
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by jeramey 4y ago
Americans. The primary social measuring stick used is acquisition of wealth, and they have no real social safety nets to speak of. They have an overriding belief that free markets will ultimately solve any real problems peacefully. Grift is
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by jeramey 4y ago
As my fuzzier-with-every-passing-year memory recalls, there were a wide variety of interpretations of what "GAIM" meant, with "GTK+ AOL Instant Messenger" being the least offensive one. Mark Spencer, the original author,
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by jeramey 5y ago
Hello, fellow Dwarfer!

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