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Roy Spencer is indeed a "climate scientist" and a specialist in creating misleading graphs and statements about that particular set of sattelite data (UAH lower troposhpere temps). He is well known as a religiously motivated climate denier and is quite likely the author of the red-herring you just posted. I have used scare quotes on the phrase "climate scientist" because IMO someone who signs the Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming just doesn't have the skill set that Science requires.
The early ad-free internet is nostalgic fairy tale, I remember pre-93, it was just academics talking to other academics using 9600bps comms and plain text, you also had to be associated with a university or similar institution to get access. You fucked around for an hour getting a connection before you could read a couple of pages of lecture notes. And if the kids or the wife wanted to use the phone at the same time they were SOL. It was such an ugly ball of string and red tape that large bulletin boards were still seen as a serious competitor. I learnt a lot during that time but none of it came via the internet, it came from live people and dead trees.
You didn't have 20 pages of You'll Never Believe What Happened Next! Quality clickbait!
You do realise it's not compulsory to take the bait, right?
The price on the front of the newspaper is cream for the publisher, their bread and butter used to come from classified (and inline) ads. Before the internet if you wanted to buy a car, house, find a job, find a plumber, etc, you either bought a newspaper or cracked open the phone book. Some people still buy newspapers (especially in my age bracket) but they are no longer forced to buy them to find what they need, they buy them out of habit or just for the entertainment value.
As far as I can tell, the only way writers and artists are able to make money from content on the internet is by putting up a kickstarter and basically saying "send me money".
The term "struggling artist" was invented long before the internet. However, Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame) and many, many, other talented artists, photographers, musicians, and writers, make a very respectable living from selling their content in physical form via the net. Giving away digital content and selling high quality physical versions of it go hand in glove for the arts. News is harder to sell, it spreads whether you want it to or not.
I don't think it's anywhere near certain. The melt water is pretty close to pure drinking water, the ocean is salt water. Salt water can be colder than the icebergs floating in it and still remain liquid. However, you may be right, the melt water may indeed be colder than the local part of the ocean it is flowing into but overall the ocean is getting warmer and deeper. The simplest way to observe the height rise is to watch the barnacles over a number of years, they don't give a fuck about politics they just crawl up their rock to match the prevailing tidal zone. The simplest way to observe the temperature rise is to look at coral bleaching or Arctic sea ice cover.
What makes precise sea level rise difficult to predict in practice are "climate feedbacks" - eg: lost ice cover increases the rate of warming because the ice cover reflects much of the sunlight whereas water or rock will absorb most of it as heat. This is why the model in TFA is "partially empirical", we don't know all the feedbacks in detail so we turn to geological proxies to approximate their overall influence.
Finally there is no realistic mathematical model available for modelling the disintegration of a large ice sheet/glacier. Because of this climate models generally assume glaciers and ice sheets melt at the edges in an orderly manner, whereas we know for a fact they can collapse in a catastrophic manner and have done so many times in the distant past.
Many people in poor nations do not have access to banking facilities but they do have a mobile phone. Paying for things via your phone (as opposed to a card) is the normal way of doing business for a large chunk of the world's population.
Feynman said that a good physicist has half a dozen different models for the same phenomena because different models inspire different ideas. To the best of my knowledge there are no atoms inside a black hole. A black hole is just the gravitational field, the atoms themselves have been "spaghettified". Quantum mechanics says a singularity cannot exist due to the uncertainty principle. Feynman also said that nobody really understands this stuff but if you pick the right model for the right situation, the math works and the observations are robust.
I listen to some of the same weirdos as you do, you might like Fay Dowker. A student of Hawking talking about "causal networks", interesting stuff.
Yep the ads on the RHS have gone, I've noticed (over time) that the one or two ads (clearly marked as such) at the top of the list has now grown into a localised map with numbered pins identifying the locations of the businesses in the three or four ads below it. The adverts now take up so much screen estate that only the top two unpaid hits are visible at the bottom of my (large) monitor!
With windows or any other O/S the analyser assumes the code compiles on that O/S, I don't think cross-compiles are supported as a general rule. The only thing the analyser does not have direct access to via the source code are the #defines passed in an the command line. I have no idea why anyone would tie their analyser to visual other than to take advantage of the "app store" infrastructure.
The very best that can be said about the code snippet is that it is a redundant if statement. The last time someone independently ran a static analyser on something I was working on was the Y2K thing. I sent off one MB of zipped source as requested, a month or so later I got back fifteen MB of zipped reports. It cost the company a small fortune to confirm what we had told them in the first instance - dates were all handled via a handful of functions in a single source file. The entire team of ~50 developers saw the analysis as a complete waste of time and money, the report was longer and more difficult to review than the actual code. The reason it was done is the company executives (and the law) saw it as insurance via due diligence.
Having said that, static analysis can be a very useful tool for improving code quality, if (and only if) you understand the application you are looking at.
Scientists looked at the structure of quartz and determined that pretty much ALL of the Earth's quartz comes from the bodies dead sea sponges. If we can work that out by looking at the structure of quartz, then our ancestors will work this out from the structure.
However you don't need to read the content for the artifact to be informative to an archeologist. Geometric symbols smeared onto cave walls with coloured dirt have lasted at least 40Kyrs. Some of them are up to half a kilometer underground in places that are difficult to reach even with modern equipment. We have no idea what the symbols mean but they tell us a lot about the mental and physical abilities of our ancestors.
The bones and artifacts were turned over to the Indonesian government shortly after they were discovered by some Aussie scientists, since then getting a look at them has been extraordinarily difficult, even for the people who dug them up. Lack of access to the fossils is the reason we have been hearing arguments rather than test results. Perhaps the academic who was jealously guarding the bones has retired?
A long time friend of mine used to work as a garbage collector, we used to go fishing a lot on weekends. He summed up your observations with the words "everything we do more than once becomes an art". We decided that the art of fishing is having a good time regardless of what the fish are doing.
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This is slashdot, it's ok to change your mind based on new evidence
This is slashdot, it's ok to change your mind based on new evidence
Roy Spencer is indeed a "climate scientist" and a specialist in creating misleading graphs and statements about that particular set of sattelite data (UAH lower troposhpere temps). He is well known as a religiously motivated climate denier and is quite likely the author of the red-herring you just posted. I have used scare quotes on the phrase "climate scientist" because IMO someone who signs the Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming just doesn't have the skill set that Science requires.
You didn't have 20 pages of You'll Never Believe What Happened Next! Quality clickbait!
You do realise it's not compulsory to take the bait, right?
The price on the front of the newspaper is cream for the publisher, their bread and butter used to come from classified (and inline) ads. Before the internet if you wanted to buy a car, house, find a job, find a plumber, etc, you either bought a newspaper or cracked open the phone book. Some people still buy newspapers (especially in my age bracket) but they are no longer forced to buy them to find what they need, they buy them out of habit or just for the entertainment value.
As far as I can tell, the only way writers and artists are able to make money from content on the internet is by putting up a kickstarter and basically saying "send me money".
The term "struggling artist" was invented long before the internet. However, Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame) and many, many, other talented artists, photographers, musicians, and writers, make a very respectable living from selling their content in physical form via the net. Giving away digital content and selling high quality physical versions of it go hand in glove for the arts. News is harder to sell, it spreads whether you want it to or not.
Pfft, our hobby farms are bigger than Texas.
That's the beauty of Oz, you can travel thousands of miles to many different lands without leaving the country.
almost certainly colder than the ocean
I don't think it's anywhere near certain. The melt water is pretty close to pure drinking water, the ocean is salt water. Salt water can be colder than the icebergs floating in it and still remain liquid. However, you may be right, the melt water may indeed be colder than the local part of the ocean it is flowing into but overall the ocean is getting warmer and deeper. The simplest way to observe the height rise is to watch the barnacles over a number of years, they don't give a fuck about politics they just crawl up their rock to match the prevailing tidal zone. The simplest way to observe the temperature rise is to look at coral bleaching or Arctic sea ice cover.
What makes precise sea level rise difficult to predict in practice are "climate feedbacks" - eg: lost ice cover increases the rate of warming because the ice cover reflects much of the sunlight whereas water or rock will absorb most of it as heat. This is why the model in TFA is "partially empirical", we don't know all the feedbacks in detail so we turn to geological proxies to approximate their overall influence.
Finally there is no realistic mathematical model available for modelling the disintegration of a large ice sheet/glacier. Because of this climate models generally assume glaciers and ice sheets melt at the edges in an orderly manner, whereas we know for a fact they can collapse in a catastrophic manner and have done so many times in the distant past.
How has any of that connected to wages?
Many people in poor nations do not have access to banking facilities but they do have a mobile phone. Paying for things via your phone (as opposed to a card) is the normal way of doing business for a large chunk of the world's population.
I will swap to windows 10 when my corporate overlord does, they have 180,000 crash test dummies and do not jump just because MS tells them to.
Astroturf cost about $0,50 per post.
Not just on Earth, NASA shot a spaceship thru a gap in the rings of Saturn using Newtonian mechanics, twice!
Feynman said that a good physicist has half a dozen different models for the same phenomena because different models inspire different ideas. To the best of my knowledge there are no atoms inside a black hole. A black hole is just the gravitational field, the atoms themselves have been "spaghettified". Quantum mechanics says a singularity cannot exist due to the uncertainty principle. Feynman also said that nobody really understands this stuff but if you pick the right model for the right situation, the math works and the observations are robust.
I listen to some of the same weirdos as you do, you might like Fay Dowker. A student of Hawking talking about "causal networks", interesting stuff.
Stephen Fry
Yes, the law and mathematics are both axiomatic systems (if you assume Judges are perfect umpires).
That's was my first thought, it's likely a robot issued the fine, so it's obvious a robot should have the right to dispute it.
Yep the ads on the RHS have gone, I've noticed (over time) that the one or two ads (clearly marked as such) at the top of the list has now grown into a localised map with numbered pins identifying the locations of the businesses in the three or four ads below it. The adverts now take up so much screen estate that only the top two unpaid hits are visible at the bottom of my (large) monitor!
With windows or any other O/S the analyser assumes the code compiles on that O/S, I don't think cross-compiles are supported as a general rule. The only thing the analyser does not have direct access to via the source code are the #defines passed in an the command line. I have no idea why anyone would tie their analyser to visual other than to take advantage of the "app store" infrastructure.
The very best that can be said about the code snippet is that it is a redundant if statement. The last time someone independently ran a static analyser on something I was working on was the Y2K thing. I sent off one MB of zipped source as requested, a month or so later I got back fifteen MB of zipped reports. It cost the company a small fortune to confirm what we had told them in the first instance - dates were all handled via a handful of functions in a single source file. The entire team of ~50 developers saw the analysis as a complete waste of time and money, the report was longer and more difficult to review than the actual code. The reason it was done is the company executives (and the law) saw it as insurance via due diligence.
Having said that, static analysis can be a very useful tool for improving code quality, if (and only if) you understand the application you are looking at.
Also, how about archiving content created by the "plebs"
Store the slashdot archives on it!
Scientists looked at the structure of quartz and determined that pretty much ALL of the Earth's quartz comes from the bodies dead sea sponges. If we can work that out by looking at the structure of quartz, then our ancestors will work this out from the structure.
However you don't need to read the content for the artifact to be informative to an archeologist. Geometric symbols smeared onto cave walls with coloured dirt have lasted at least 40Kyrs. Some of them are up to half a kilometer underground in places that are difficult to reach even with modern equipment. We have no idea what the symbols mean but they tell us a lot about the mental and physical abilities of our ancestors.
The bones and artifacts were turned over to the Indonesian government shortly after they were discovered by some Aussie scientists, since then getting a look at them has been extraordinarily difficult, even for the people who dug them up. Lack of access to the fossils is the reason we have been hearing arguments rather than test results. Perhaps the academic who was jealously guarding the bones has retired?
Picking Sarah Palin would be true to form for Trump. The rest of us would then be forced to fund the NSA to decrypt her decisions.
A long time friend of mine used to work as a garbage collector, we used to go fishing a lot on weekends. He summed up your observations with the words "everything we do more than once becomes an art". We decided that the art of fishing is having a good time regardless of what the fish are doing.