I agree that the proposal is ridiculous and impractical. But the melting has nothing to do with the magma plume, since the melting only started a few years ago, and the magma plume has been sitting there for millions of years.
I want to know if those scientists took the Antarctic magma plume recently discovered to be causing antarctic ice melting into account
Probably not. Why don't you call them up to let them know ? Go ahead and say that you represent the Slashdot community of armchair experts if they give you a bad time.
The intensity of the signals these microwave radiometers measure at different microwave frequencies is directly proportional to the temperature of different, deep layers of the atmosphere.
Yes, I know. The problem is that the IR emissions from all the layers get combined. Pulling them apart requires a lot of modelling. And the lowest layer they tease out of the data is significantly thicker than the customary surface air temperature (1.5 meter above ground). Temperature gradient near the surface is very high, so it makes a huge difference whether you measure at 1.5 meters, or 150 meters.
Companies that don't differentiate based on fitness trackers will have to increase the premiums because of the influx of unhealthier people. This will then also affect all the people who can't wear a fitness tracker for legitimate reasons.
Just stand near a place where they have parallel stairs and escalators, and watch people all crowd in front of the escalators. I have witnessed groups of people walking around the stairs so they can get in line to take the escalator down.
I also don't see how being open and welcoming would prevent feedback being given and code improve before being accepted
What's a nice way to say that the code is a total disaster area and that it has no business being near the kernel ? What if "code improve" means that it needs to rewritten from scratch by someone else who actually understands ? Plenty of people simply have the wrong idea about how to solve a problem. Having those people in the team just slows everything down, and arguing with them, or trying to explain how to improve, can be a waste of time. In order words, you just want to fire them from the project, because they aren't good enough. What's a good inclusive and welcoming way to fire someone ?
What should be used when describing the contributions of a nonbinary contributor?
Their name/alias/e-mail ? Most the documentation should be about the code, not the contributor. Can you point to some docs where gender pronouns are required ?
For example: "fostering an open and welcoming environment", plus all notes relating to that.
It would be better if the environment was not particularly welcoming and friendly to those people who can't produce the highest quality code. If you can't keep up, get out of the way.
I don't see why somebody's gender or sexual preferences even need to come up in the first place on a mailing list discussing technical issues about the code.
That's cute, but copper and gold aren't good enough to make a business case for space travel. We'd need something like a buried alien craft or a monolith to make it worth our effort.
The business case for settlement of the Gobi desert could also turn out to be much larger than originally anticipated, and yet I don't see people getting too excited about that.
We aren't living in ancient times. We know what's out there, and how hard it is to get anything done. We can calculate business cases for space applications without going there first.
We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard
I can name a hundred things that are hard, but that we aren't choosing to do. Stop increasing atmospheric CO2 is a good one. Going to the moon is easy.
I'm very glad that "knowing about neural networks" allows some of you to dismiss the results of senior research scientists who actually did the work. Have some of you actually read the paper ?
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I agree that the proposal is ridiculous and impractical. But the melting has nothing to do with the magma plume, since the melting only started a few years ago, and the magma plume has been sitting there for millions of years.
Here is some math:
https://www.skepticalscience.c...
The amount of surplus energy going into the ice is tiny.
Global warming is a gift given to or by humanity to avert the only actual danger, the return of the next ice age
Like you, I also like to set my house on fire to keep warm in the winter.
Also if round Earth is "settled" then it is not science.
I want to know if those scientists took the Antarctic magma plume recently discovered to be causing antarctic ice melting into account
Probably not. Why don't you call them up to let them know ? Go ahead and say that you represent the Slashdot community of armchair experts if they give you a bad time.
It was designed to do AI.
The intensity of the signals these microwave radiometers measure at different microwave frequencies is directly proportional to the temperature of different, deep layers of the atmosphere.
Yes, I know. The problem is that the IR emissions from all the layers get combined. Pulling them apart requires a lot of modelling. And the lowest layer they tease out of the data is significantly thicker than the customary surface air temperature (1.5 meter above ground). Temperature gradient near the surface is very high, so it makes a huge difference whether you measure at 1.5 meters, or 150 meters.
Satellites don't measure surface air temperature, which is most relevant for us. Here's a better graph: https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gis...
2. Don't buy life insurance from this company.
Companies that don't differentiate based on fitness trackers will have to increase the premiums because of the influx of unhealthier people. This will then also affect all the people who can't wear a fitness tracker for legitimate reasons.
I also like to play my ukulele.
Just stand near a place where they have parallel stairs and escalators, and watch people all crowd in front of the escalators. I have witnessed groups of people walking around the stairs so they can get in line to take the escalator down.
We could kill each other? We've mastered that skill pretty well.
We could, but don't expect it to be pretty.
My grandma had watermelons, earthmelons, firemelons and airmelons. The four elemelons.
I also don't see how being open and welcoming would prevent feedback being given and code improve before being accepted
What's a nice way to say that the code is a total disaster area and that it has no business being near the kernel ? What if "code improve" means that it needs to rewritten from scratch by someone else who actually understands ? Plenty of people simply have the wrong idea about how to solve a problem. Having those people in the team just slows everything down, and arguing with them, or trying to explain how to improve, can be a waste of time. In order words, you just want to fire them from the project, because they aren't good enough. What's a good inclusive and welcoming way to fire someone ?
What should be used when describing the contributions of a nonbinary contributor?
Their name/alias/e-mail ? Most the documentation should be about the code, not the contributor. Can you point to some docs where gender pronouns are required ?
For example: "fostering an open and welcoming environment", plus all notes relating to that.
It would be better if the environment was not particularly welcoming and friendly to those people who can't produce the highest quality code. If you can't keep up, get out of the way.
I don't see why somebody's gender or sexual preferences even need to come up in the first place on a mailing list discussing technical issues about the code.
That's cute, but copper and gold aren't good enough to make a business case for space travel. We'd need something like a buried alien craft or a monolith to make it worth our effort.
We also have barely scratched the surface of the Gobi desert. How come we ain't digging there ?
The business case for settlement of the Gobi desert could also turn out to be much larger than originally anticipated, and yet I don't see people getting too excited about that.
We aren't living in ancient times. We know what's out there, and how hard it is to get anything done. We can calculate business cases for space applications without going there first.
Sorry to bust your bubble, but there is no "agrarian society" on the horizon. There's no business case for it."
Except that there was a business case for it. People who started cultivating their lands were growing food that they could eat or trade.
We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard
I can name a hundred things that are hard, but that we aren't choosing to do. Stop increasing atmospheric CO2 is a good one. Going to the moon is easy.
I'm very glad that "knowing about neural networks" allows some of you to dismiss the results of senior research scientists who actually did the work. Have some of you actually read the paper ?
If you simply ignore the music charts, then there is no problem.