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plasticchris··on Wildfires are erasing California's climate gains, research shows (2022)
Smoke particles reduce overall solar radiation absorbed by the earth-atmosphere at local and/or regional scales during individual fire events or burning seasons.

Source: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2013.02.020

plasticchris··on Celestial Navigation for Drones
Or in short, the sensors are strapped down to the platform being measured - like your phone’s sensors for example.
plasticchris··on Kalman Filter Tutorial
Only if you can make a linear model of those things…
plasticchris··on Physicists who want to ditch dark energy
Yeah, the best analogy for people that know a little physics is aether - it’s obviously ridiculous now, but there was a time when it filled in some unknowns and people took it seriously. It would be nice if it weren’t presented as fact in tv and planetarium shows, but what can you do?
plasticchris··on Who killed the rave?
A much more plausible take was that the matrix used human brains as coprocessors, credit to (who else?) Neil Gaiman for the idea.
plasticchris··on AMD 'Strix Halo' Ryzen AI Max+ Debuts with RDNA 3.5 Graphics and Zen 5 CPU Cores
Last time I played with it, 70b models are much larger than 24gb without a lot of quantization.
plasticchris··on Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM
The data set seems to be here: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...

Not sure what it implies, but there it is.

plasticchris··on The Recursive Book of Recursion
The point was pedagogical, sometimes the “best” explanation just doesn’t work for a student. Some might get confused about where the state of the caller goes and get hung up.
plasticchris··on The largest hydroelectric dam in the world has been approved
Considering transmission losses it might make more sense to dam many smaller rivers. And the Mississippi is an important freight route, a dam would complicate that.
plasticchris··on The Recursive Book of Recursion
Call stacks help form a mental model for some people. It’s a way to help get an initial grip on the topic, one of many. Teaching usually involves many simplified models which in my experience helps a lot with initial understanding.
plasticchris··on An Unreasonable Amount of Time
I imagine he would say to practice is to realize and to realize is to practice.
plasticchris··on The chocolate of the future will have less cocoa or none at all
Always has been. Middlemen eat most of the margin. A bushel of wheat is cheaper than a fancy loaf of bread.
plasticchris··on The chocolate of the future will have less cocoa or none at all
It was used as a sweetener at one time…
plasticchris··on Zen and the Art of Aibo Engineering
That’s true, but the question (minus the robot bit) is a zen koan.
plasticchris··on Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals
Or they inherited a home and can barely afford insurance, taxes, or upkeep on it. So they could afford to live there but couldn’t afford to buy it.
plasticchris··on Facebook's Little Red Book
People like to look at the start of the sigmoid and extrapolate.
plasticchris··on PR process killing morale and productivity
Yeah, that’s what I meant in the first comment :)
plasticchris··on PR process killing morale and productivity
run it in a hook that runs before the commit is made
plasticchris··on PR process killing morale and productivity
That’s why you hook the linter up so it runs on every commit / push. No need to ask, it always runs. And no need to quibble over style. Don’t like it? Change the linter.
plasticchris··on The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?
I had a similar experience with wild bison - I’ve spent time around domesticated cattle and the wild ones seemed much more intelligent and aware. They would react as soon as you showed your silhouette on the ridge top.
plasticchris··on I'm a developer not a compiler
My favorites were from back when I would get them from product teams that had already had a good crack at them, with fixes like painting the device black, learning a new algorithm, modifying the os core, and so on. Didn’t always succeed but it was great fun. I once found a bug in golang, memorable but less fun as it got fixed right away after I reported it.
plasticchris··on The 'Return to Office' Lies
50k extra per year, to get it you need to spend only 100k-200k… per year…

It sometimes makes sense, when you are junior, need to form a network, and have low expenses. One can look at it as an investment. But not for the average engineer over the long term. It just doesn’t pencil out. Especially if you want a family.

plasticchris··on The 'Return to Office' Lies
Sure. But if you didn’t have to pay it (ie living there wasn’t a requirement)?
plasticchris··on The 'Return to Office' Lies
Absolutely this. A down payment in the valley is enough to buy outright in most of the USA.
plasticchris··on The 'Return to Office' Lies
Sf Bay Area can easily exceed 2 hours each way if you aren’t willing to pay insane money on housing. It honestly made me wonder how low income people exist there at all. I did more than 2 hours each way for many years there but only by riding the train with a hot spot.
plasticchris··on Treating bullying as everyone's problem reduces incidence in primary schools
The real problem is that school personnel don’t want to deal with the parents of the actual problem kids, so they get away with it even under zero tolerance.
plasticchris··on M4 Mac mini's efficiency
Be careful to check the support for larger ram on the motherboard as well as cpu - I’ve got an am5 setup with 128gb of ram but the it had to be down locked to even post.
plasticchris··on Who's a Good Boy? A Puppy Linux Mini-Review
I burned several Linux boot cds with some games on them and took over an unused computer lab at the community college for a lan party. It lasted until someone came around asking why these computers were running when their system showed them as off. Fortunately they laughed it off when they realized we were just kids.
plasticchris··on All Work and No Play (2021)
One of the great lessons of game design is that learning is fun.

So games that require thought are more engaging and fun. There is a threshold where it isn’t fun, but that’s different from person to person. Lots of people like the souls games, myself included.

Try asking yourself, what isn’t a grind in my favorite game? Chances are that requires thought.

plasticchris··on FFT-based ocean-wave rendering, implemented in Godot
Because the statement is meant to motivate the reader.
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