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sunshinesnacks commented on Coffee linked to slower biological ageing among those with severe mental illness kcl.ac.uk/news/coffee-lin... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

twodave · 13 days ago

It’s likely a better roasting process and fresher beans. Large scale coffee roasters produce burnt, more acidic beans with chemicals added during the process.

sunshinesnacks · 12 days ago

Good point. It was all locally roasted beans at that point, so maybe that was what made the difference. Or at least contributed a lot.

sunshinesnacks commented on Coffee linked to slower biological ageing among those with severe mental illness kcl.ac.uk/news/coffee-lin... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

mattgreenrocks · 14 days ago

My stomach hates coffee at the moment :(. Too acidic. Not sure I’m ever going to be able to have it regularly.

sunshinesnacks · 14 days ago

I cut coffee for a year or so 10 years ago due to stomach issues, then slowly added fancy espresso drinks back, figuring that if I was only having coffee once a week, it might as well be fancy. I don’t seem to have stomach issues now with 1-2 lattes/cappuccinos a day.

Maybe it’s unrelated, all in my head, better beans, or the 3-4 oz of whole milk, but maybe give espresso drinks a try if you haven’t?

sunshinesnacks commented on WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model blog.google/technology/go... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

rytill · a month ago

What is the goal of doing that vs using L2 loss?

sunshinesnacks · a month ago

The goal of using CRPS is to produce an ensemble that is a good probabilistic forecast without needing calibration/post processing.

[edit: "without", not "with"]

sunshinesnacks commented on Building the Future with Blockly at the Raspberry Pi Foundation opensource.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/sunshinesnacks

andsoitis · a month ago

do kids truly learn from Blockly? how long before they move on to a real programming language?

sunshinesnacks · a month ago

From the Raspberry Pi blog post on taking over Blockly:

> Platforms like Scratch, MakeCode, and MIT’s App Inventor are all built with Blockly. It’s no exaggeration to say that hundreds of millions of young people have learnt the fundamentals of computer science using software that is built with Blockly.

sunshinesnacks commented on Building the Future with Blockly at the Raspberry Pi Foundation opensource.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/sunshinesnacks

sunshinesnacks · a month ago

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Building the Future with Blockly at the Raspberry Pi Foundation opensource.googleblog.com...

sunshinesnacks commented on Solar panels + cold = A potential problem linspyre.com/ecoholics/te... · Posted by u/behnamoh

uyzstvqs · 3 months ago

VoC is the maximum potential voltage a cell is physically capable of producing. It does not consider real-world conditions. Rather, real-world conditions cause the solar panel's output voltage to be somewhere between 0 and its VoC.

sunshinesnacks · 3 months ago

Voc is just the open circuit voltage measured at the terminals (plugs). “Nameplate” Voc is at standard test conditions (STC) of 1000 W/m^2, 25 deg C cell temperature, and a standard are mass/spectrum. The combo of 1000 W/m^2 and 25 C cell temp is not common in the real world in most climates, but still happens. Even relatively hot climates can have times in winter that exceed nameplate Voc if inverters turn off (making the panels go to open circuit).

sunshinesnacks commented on World Wide Lightning Location Network wwlln.net/... · Posted by u/perihelions

open-meteo · 4 months ago

You rang ;-) I’m in the middle of adding more ECMWF data that will be released as open data starting October 1st. At the moment, only a limited set of lower-resolution (0.25°) ECMWF forecasts can be shared open-data. That’s going to change in a big way, though I can’t share more details just yet.

sunshinesnacks · 4 months ago

Hey! That’s exciting! Open-meteo is great.

sunshinesnacks commented on World Wide Lightning Location Network wwlln.net/... · Posted by u/perihelions

brunohaid · 4 months ago

Thanks a ton! Was afraid that that's the answer - and that there's no reasonably priced aggregator/abstraction layer, eg like https://open-meteo.com for ECMWF.

sunshinesnacks · 4 months ago

Open-meteo does have ECMWF data and forecasts. Free for non-commercial use. I think the person behind open-meteo is on HN.

sunshinesnacks commented on World Wide Lightning Location Network wwlln.net/... · Posted by u/perihelions

Catbert59 · 4 months ago

Raw logs, history access and APIs to weather data are usually $$$.

Like at the ECMWF: you can have a look at all beautiful charts for free. But if you want to have the data behind them they want to see big cash.

sunshinesnacks · 4 months ago

Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but ECMWF provides a lot of data and forecasts for free [1]. And they are increasing the amount of data that is free [2].

[1] https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/datasets/open-data

[2] https://www.ecmwf.int/en/about/media-centre/news/2025/ecmwf-...

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