I’m sure some people don’t like any deportations, but I think the reason the bulk of people are upset with the current administration’s approach is its insane militarization, lack of due process, refusal to identify, apparent targeting of normal hard working people, sending people directly to foreign prisons, and sending people to war torn countries they are not from with minimal notice and no opportunity to contest.
Absolutely agree. I think the tactics and strategy are to blame here but ultimately I don’t think the administration is doing anything illegal. All cases I’ve seen where there was an alleged violation of due process were simply accelerated asylum denials with immediate deportation orders. I’m sure there have been some though, but I know local police, HSI and ERO folks that really don’t want to arrest non-criminal laborers yet are just following orders from the admin. I would be highly suspicious of any conspiracy that federal law enforcement agents are committing illegal arrests.
If it were up to me, I’d be pursuing some type of visa reform for permanent laborers that grants amnesty for those here with American citizen family members (i.e. birthright kids) as of a certain date. I’d make the asylum process occur outside of the country, signing agreements with the originating countries like Guatemala, Honduras to provide housing and food for asylum seekers while they pursue a claim.
Can’t speak for everyone else but I almost exclusively use it for what you mentioned:
> when exploring new solutions and "unknown territory"
If it’s something I have no idea how to do I might describe the problem and just look at the code it spits out; not even copy pasting but just reading for a basic idea.
> how do you compare it with "regular search" via Google/Bing
Much worse if there’s a blog post or example in documentation that’s exactly what I’m looking for, but, if it’s something novel, much better.
An example:
Recently asked how I could convert pressure and temperature data to “skew T” coordinates for a meteorological plot. Not something easy to Google, and the answers the AI gave were slightly wrong, but it gave me a foot in the door.
This is also where I've kind of ended up with it, I've also noticed that when I was at one point using it everyday, I'm opening it less and less, maybe a few times a week and recently cancelled my subscription. It's still pretty useful for exploritory stuff, boilerplate and sometimes it can give you a hint on debugging. Everything else I can write faster and more correctly myself.
It’s not right to use power here and energy should be used instead because that wattage will be lower each previous year, but, even at that peak, it’s not enough (by two orders of magnitude) to account for even just the ocean warming, let alone land or atmospheric heating.
Using total energy consumption (not just electricity) and redoing the calculation using entire incident solar flux, I get that they are within a factor of 4 of each other. I agree that the sun currently dominates and the co2 capture is the dominant mechanism. It's also interesting that our consumption is so close to the same order of magnitude. It suggests that if we were to heavily invest in e.g. nuclear to solve our carbon issue that the heat alone would be on the same scale of excess energy and heating would continue. It also says that for solar to solve the problem we would need to cover something like 5-10% of the land mass in solar cells!
Based on the people I’ve heard make points like this, I don’t think it does convince anyone.
I think this type of argument fills a totally different role:
“I don’t believe or care about climate change and would like to keep my life as is, but this creates cognitive dissonance when someone shows it’s bad. I can use this argument to say your idea is as bad too! Dissonance lessened.”
At least when I’ve heard it it’s that context. The person saying it doesn’t really care if it’s accurate or equivalently bad, just that they have a gotcha to say when presented evidence for wind being good.
Yes, right. It seems like some sort of desperate, last-minute thing to fling in someone's face. "Oh yeah? If you care about nature so much how come you're in favor of these giant things that slaughter birds? I guess we can safely disregard all your arguments."
hodo.graphics is a viewer for meteorological data, designed to be mobile friendly.
I started this project out of a hobbyist interest in meteorology and severe weather. There are many other websites that allow you to view this data (most of it is free from NOAA), but most are a train wreck on a mobile device.
One of the big differences with hodo.graphics vs. a site like weather.cod.edu is non of the graphics are baked in. They are delivered to the client as either a GeoTiff or GeoJSON, allowing the client to define rendering.
This means the data can be recolored, displayed in different ways, zoomed and panned, etc.
Currently hodo.graphics includes outlooks from the Storm Prediction Center, and HRRR and GFS forecast models.
On demand skew t / log p charts and hodographs can be generated at any point, currently just for HRRR but soon for GFS.
Additional models will come if I can get any users :)
Would love feedback and I’m happy to answer any questions.
FYI: no severe weather today so the default SPC view won’t show anything. Open up the HRRR model to see some data.
I would really love to make a ferrofluid visualizer but instead of being part of the signal path, it’s a desk knick-knack with a microphone and wall power… Hmm
Yeah perhaps I’ve been misinformed but this kept saying that countries with more renewables had less efficient grids and electricity costs were higher.
Am I misreading it? I thought the exact opposite was true and nowadays renewables are generally cheaper.
It's such a contradictory article. It's conclusions are divorced from most of its substantive points.
Solar should have lower transmission cost overall because of local solar. I am unsure where "less efficient grids" comes from unless it's because of terawatts in a single giant coal burner or nuke. Non UK economies like mine have no nuclear and do have expensive transmission nets but it's a socialised cost and a net benefit overall.
He somehow elides over a 2 to 3x advantage in one space but worse overall. How worse? Why?
Not that deportations are happening.