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by roter 15d ago
We ordered one of the first batch in Canada. $$$. They gave us a Vic20 loaner until it arrived. We didn't time it well but the family had a history of that. In fact, my accountant dad bought a Wang mainframe for a small fortune right b
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by roter 15d ago
> Canadians also don’t seem to understand that this situation is only going to get worse and America can no longer be considered a friend. As a Canadian, I very much understand that this will/can get worse, and not just for the US.
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by roter 20d ago
Most building professionals, urban/city/master planners/engineers are explicitly incorporating resilience into their designs at all levels. This includes both new designs and retrofitting old buildings. Places of emergency co
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by roter 3mo ago
The confirmation email takes a few minutes.
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by roter 4mo ago
I saw a note from an earlier year's discussion saying the css has been changed over the years. Perhaps it was easier then to discern fact or myth, truth or fiction.
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by roter 7mo ago
> ... potential collapse of the Atlantic Gulf Stream, also known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation or AMOC. The Gulf Stream is not also known as the AMOC. The nature of the Gulf Stream (intense surface current flowing
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by roter 8mo ago
Somewhat similar for Canada: https://worktree.ca/taffer/canadian-alternatives
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by roter 9mo ago
Browsing is slow. Can browse folders but can't open individual files. Pink unicorns with fiery manes.
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by roter 1y ago
Hitting the "I'd Buy" button gets me "Your bank account is filing a restraining order". Lovely.
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by roter 1y ago
Isn't the main reason because you're not eating?
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by roter 1y ago
The whispey ones are largely transparent to incoming shortwave radiation but largely opaque to outgoing longwave radiation. You just need to put on your ~10 micron wavelength goggles.
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by roter 1y ago
The pros for heat pumps are numerous. There is the issue of resilience to extreme weather. ASHRAE is funding a project, just getting underway, to create a map, first of the USA but anticipated to be expanded to worldwide, of heat pump resil
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by roter 1y ago
And I went straight to storing large numerical arrays, i.e. replacement for Zarr, NetCDF, HDF, etc
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by roter 1y ago
There is also the theory that the British just had more practice at gunnery and sailhandling while blockading the French/Spanish in the various ports.
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by roter 1y ago
http://archive.today/dalBp
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by roter 1y ago
Clouds have two main impacts: reflect incoming, shortwave radiation back to space and absorb (and re-radiation up and down) outgoing, longwave radiation from the surface. The interplay and relative proportion between these two impacts has l
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by roter 1y ago
Units provided were power not energy. The number provided is just the product of the solar constant and the cross-sectional area of Earth [0], roughly. [0] https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?id=100943
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by roter 1y ago
I always found this 2/3rds statistic hard to believe but it counts all coastlines as a border zone [0]. As a Canadian, I'm more concerned with the vast percentage of us who live within 100 miles of the US border. [0] https:/
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by roter 2y ago
https://archive.is/m3TcW/share
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by roter 2y ago
Very interesting and promising package. I especially like that there is a PyQt interface which might provide an alternative to another great package: pyqtgraph[0]. [0] https://github.com/pyqtgraph/pyqtgraph
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by roter 2y ago
One of his (Sir Terry) sources for inspiration was Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable [0]. Indeed he wrote a foreword for one of them. [0] Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
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by roter 2y ago
How do you stop so you don't go whizzing past Alpha Centauri at near light speed? :)
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by roter 2y ago
When running Orbit on the comments in this page: > The Orbit add-on by Mozilla is a new AI-powered tool that summarizes and answers queries about web content, including articles and videos. It uses a Mistral LLM (Mistral 7B) hosted on Mo
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by roter 2y ago
s/malice/avarice.
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by roter 2y ago
There is support for the OP's statement, in the case of Celsius at least [0], emphasis mine: > Because of this dual usage, one must not rely upon the unit name or its symbol to denote that a quantity is a temperature interval; it mu
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by roter 2y ago
Rankine.
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by roter 2y ago
I remember having more luck at Bakka Books back in the 80s when it was on Queen St. Looks like it still exists in perhaps a reduced form [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakka-Phoenix
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by roter 2y ago
I too need to do percentiles. One option is loop through the grids but bin/histogram it. You'll get a really good 99% from a 1 Kelvin bin width. Also, I've found the diurnal profile from ERA5 analysis can be abysmal in some l
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by roter 2y ago
I too use the ERA5 reanalysis data and I too need quick time series. As the data comes in [lat, lon] grids, stacked by whatever period you've chosen, e.g. [month of hourly data, lat, lon], it becomes a massive matrix transpose problem
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by roter 2y ago
If I read correctly, they are using the ERA5 dataset [0]. It is freely available and can be downloaded through a Python API called cdsapi. [0] https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/reanalysi...

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