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Readit Newsroter commented on Is GitHub Down? · Posted by u/henriquenunez
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roter commented on An average human breathes out roughly 1kg of carbon dioxide a day twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack... · Posted by u/tosh
A related fun fact is that you generally lose weight by exhaling, generally while you sleep. Sweating, defecating, etc. is all temporary. If you're trying to lose weight, make sure you're sleeping enough!
edit: see my followup comment, didn't mean to mislead here. I'm not a scientist and sleep and food science is both pretty hard to trust.
Isn't the main reason because you're not eating?
This is exactly backwards from what I would think: "Bright ones at low altitudes generally reflect solar energy away, whereas wispier ones up to 20,000 feet tend to trap heat.". I would have guessed high ones reflect it before it gets lower into the atmosphere.
The whispey ones are largely transparent to incoming shortwave radiation but largely opaque to outgoing longwave radiation. You just need to put on your ~10 micron wavelength goggles.
roter commented on What's stopping America from going all-in on heat pumps? climatedrift.substack.com... · Posted by u/skandergarroum
The pros for heat pumps are numerous. There is the issue of resilience to extreme weather. ASHRAE is funding a project, just getting underway, to create a map, first of the USA but anticipated to be expanded to worldwide, of heat pump resilience in the face of an expected change in the frequency of extreme events. Those wanting to learn more:
https://www.ashrae.org/file%20library/technical%20resources/...
roter commented on Gridfinity: The modular, open-source grid storage system gridfinity.xyz/... · Posted by u/nateb2022
When I read "grid storage system" I had something very different in mind. I kept thinking "where are the batteries?"
And I went straight to storing large numerical arrays, i.e. replacement for Zarr, NetCDF, HDF, etc
roter commented on British naval dominance during the age of sail lesswrong.com/posts/YE4Xs... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
There is also the theory that the British just had more practice at gunnery and sailhandling while blockading the French/Spanish in the various ports.
roter commented on U.S. Economy Contracts at 0.3% Rate in First Quarter wsj.com/economy/us-gdp-q1... · Posted by u/bko
roter commented on Earth's clouds are shrinking, boosting global warming science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/Helmut10001
Wait, doesn't that mean less greenhouse effect?
Clouds have two main impacts: reflect incoming, shortwave radiation back to space and absorb (and re-radiation up and down) outgoing, longwave radiation from the surface. The interplay and relative proportion between these two impacts has long been a challenge and depends upon the cloud altitude (low/high), composition (water,ice), and optical depth.
roter commented on Earth's clouds are shrinking, boosting global warming science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/Helmut10001
terawatt is not an energy unit.
Units provided were power not energy. The number provided is just the product of the solar constant and the cross-sectional area of Earth [0], roughly.
[0] https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?id=100943