dr_scientist
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
I’m genuinely surprised by the negative reaction to this post, so I’m going to try to explain why I made it.
I’m aware of microclimates, and changes in local temperature, and shade and sun and so on. I took the temperature in the shade just now, away from structures, in the garden, and it was 33°. I should have done that initially, but this was not meant to be about my being crazy. This was meant to be about the future of how we can expect temperatures to be measured and then delivered to the public.
Recently, we have had a heatwave in the EU, the 'heat dome’. You probably heard that before. Once rare, now rather common, it inverts the traditional climate where the coast is temperate and the inland is warmer.
If we are using models that ignore these new conditions, there is a risk of under-reporting actual temperatures and not taking the very serious climate emergency more seriously. The use of AI, and its documented nature of trying to please the user, concerns me in the face of gathering data for any government body trying to accurately document what is happening.
I’m sorry if I seemed crazy. I’m just concerned.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
So measured at a specific location, under very precise conditions, but also time delayed, from a different weather station, averaged over a different period with any number of variations.
This app is very popular with people, it’s where a lot of Apple users get their information. I guess it doesn’t bother you people giving out information that is this wrong.
It bothers me.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
I’m aware the phone does not have a thermometer. It doesn’t seem strange to you that it’s underreporting by that much?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
If that’s true, why is it different across so many platforms? France Météo is 29°, BBC Weather is 30°?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
France Météo is reporting 29°. I guess I should have said that.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
I’m fairly sure they try to model weather as the France Météo service reported 29°, and it changed by 5° as I got closer to the coast.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
The Kestral 2000 measures air temperature. I measured it in both, but took the photo in the sun.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
A Kestral 2000 is a live thermometer. Doesn’t it seem weird that Apple is off by this much.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Yes, but undereporting by 10° is a lot.
- Comment on Someday, someone will invent something that can ‘envelope’ small flat items so they can be shipped more efficiently. Until that day … 5 months ago:
Um, I spelled it that way not to ruin the bit. Definitely not because I had no idea that was the correct spelling. It was to maintain the integrity of the bit!
- Comment on Someday, someone will invent something that can ‘envelope’ small flat items so they can be shipped more efficiently. Until that day … 5 months ago:
Honestly, thanks, I’ll look into that. I think though this is more what’s available on the auto-routes, but I never heard of this one.
- Comment on Someday, someone will invent something that can ‘envelope’ small flat items so they can be shipped more efficiently. Until that day … 5 months ago:
There’s a few companies that have ‘universal’ cards (that work in about half the stations), but they charge around €1 just to plug in, and because I have a PHEV, it pretty much makes it cheaper to use gas. Which I really try to avoid.
- Comment on Someday, someone will invent something that can ‘envelope’ small flat items so they can be shipped more efficiently. Until that day … 5 months ago:
I would love to hear more about this. I’ve tried so many times.
- Someday, someone will invent something that can ‘envelope’ small flat items so they can be shipped more efficiently. Until that day …lemmy.world ↗Submitted 5 months ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 38 comments
- Comment on Just Watched Cloud Atlas (first time) 1 year ago:
I confess, I had no idea what the film was about when I saw it in the theatre, but something about it compelled me to watch it again. And my controversial take is that the film’s story is really quite clear. Even though, again, I no idea what it was about when I first saw it.
It’s about the effects of art. The stories are in no way disconnected, but all connected by a story, a work, a piece of music, etc. And each one carries forward, often in ways the author(s), inpirations, etc. had no way of understanding.
I’m a writer of very little renown, but I use the film to keep going. Because even if you’re not an artist, your life will have an effect in way you can’t know. And I love that idea.
Also, it was a crime that this film did not get any nominations for editing. It is, purely from a technical point of view, a masterclass. The beats of six separate stories cut together according to their lows and highs, and cutting away when you really want to know what’s happening. If you don’t like the film, that’s entirely reasonable. But how it was put together is something to behold.
- Comment on Crooked House pub owner in foul-mouthed angry denial rant over suspected arson attack 2 years ago:
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