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Has there been a rash of failures? Not a meteorologist, but I usually hear that ECMWF & GFS have generally been trading blows, and have different strengths.


there are a few high profile cases where the Euro predicted hurricane paths better then the GFS. Granted these hurricanes are HUGE events and better hurricane forecasts saves lives etc. However these models predict ALL the weather, all the time, not just hurricanes. We use the GFS (in combination with other models as well) to shape our forecasts every day for all kinds of weather and millions across the country rely on these data.

The guy reading you a forecast on news channel ? If they are providing a forecast for greater than 3 days in the future, you bet they are including the GFS info in their predictions!


Has no one yet tried forking AMP and simply removing all the Google? Call it OpAMP. You might not get into the carousel right off the bat, but if you get the ball rolling you'd have actual leverage instead of writing open letters on the internet.


Because it's much less work to just make fast pages using the HTML we already have. The problem is that fast isn't what google wants, they want their special HTML fork called AMP.


Post-AMP, it's easy to see why it never got solved before. Many, many detractors commenting along the lines of:

I was perfectly able to make my personal website fast; there is no problem, no one needs AMP.


I mean the detractors are still right. The sites that AMP is relevant for are mostly static content that can be made blazing fast without AMP.

The kick in the pants was really Google throwing their weight around something which could have been done in a number of different things. Hell Google could have charged to use their CDN in exchange for totally not favorable ranking and an icon and raked in the cash.


That's why it so perfectly illustrates the problem. The detractors are correct, a website can be made fast without AMP. But that isn't the problem AMP solves.

To draw a crude analogy- I don't have a problem with alcohol, I don't drink in excess and that's all there is to it. So clearly, there's no reason for AA or any other detox program to exist.


The problem AMP is trying to solve is very real. The way AMP is trying to solve the problem though, is bullshit. If sites are too large, and load too slow, derank them.

That's a much better method than pushing sites to use a shitty lock-in system.


I don't see it that way. I think AMP was a wake up call to other websites and everyone starting prioritizing speed and responsiveness.

Early 2000s we had crappy Flash Websites that took a minute to load. I refused to build websites with Flash and would only build websites that were HTML and JavaScript (I HATED JS back than (Maybe it was just me)). I stopped getting business because that norm was slow websites that were pretty and had animations.

After Mobile took off in the early 2010's we had faster connections and those Flash sites worked much faster, except for mobile. Now everything is responsive and 2 or 3 seconds feels like a lifetime.

AMP changed the internet in my opinion, and maybe it isn't needed any more.


To me, the fact that 'nothing happened' was a very much the point

Maybe nothing grand, but it's pretty hard to stomach movies that don't go anywhere at all. I come away wondering, what is the point? Why are you telling me this story?

There is no major turnaround and everything is all better moment. You learn to live

That's still 'something happened' and/or 'the movie went somewhere', and is acceptable.


The US is certainly too big for some things. But it's definitely not a good argument when we're talking about urban & suburban street design. How big the US is or isn't, means nothing when we're talking about how best to lay out a 5 mile by 5 mile plot of land for a town.


What's your BMI & BF%? IMO as another skinny person, you should probably clean up your diet and put on some healthy weight (muscle & bone) first.

The discussion about carbs, keto, etc applies to some people, but for the truly skinny, that feeling of weakness is your body slowly starving.


I still haven't really figured out how CR is supposed to be sustainable. I am around BMI of 19, and have been as low as 17 (6'2", 133lb). I become extremely unhealthy when I don't eat enough. As far as I know, I can't eat less and maintain the same weight. CR would, for me, send me to the hospital. Is CR just another name for "lose weight"? Is it working towards a goal rather than a lifelong steady state of living?


Caloric restriction is an experimental tool that utilizes “undernutrition without malnutrition.”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4115619/

A simple interpretation of CR would be: “additional leanness from a normal body weight may add health and life span delaying the process of aging.”

Regarding BMI, rule of thumb is 20-ish.

CR in the NIA study reduces body weight by 25%, so the NIA CR “man equivalent” will have a BMI of 20.8 (in the lower half of the normal weight category)


Ok, so really it's just about targeting a leaner body composition, that makes a lot more sense. Thank you.


I have the same body type. I've read about people doing CR who go from average body type to something like your or my body type (I was once 6' 135lb but I've gotten up to 150lbs lately).

As the OP say, there's very little basis to CR given you're talking mostly animals that are overeating and under exercising by default.

And mice are genetically uniform. CR has been partly tested on monkeys and other animals but it's a lot harder and results less conclusive.


Have you tried dropping the dose and interleaving with acetomenophin? I have been hearing recently that's an increasingly popular strategy, sharing the load between the kidneys and liver.


Because they work in different ways, that's what I'm fond of doing for myself and my children. Start with ibuprofen, then try a table of acetaminophen a couple of hours later.

If it's a really bad headache, start with one of each.


Our pediatrician recommended this when treating a fever. Alternate Tylenol and Motrin, then you can dose every 3 hours instead of every 4.


The TR1 fungus is still lurking, waiting for its victim to return.


the industry has been fully aware of the problems with monoculture for a very long time now, and they don't really have much options to fix it

That's hard to believe. Look at tomatoes. We don't need genetic engineering to fix tomatoes, we need a change in marketing & consumer demand. Tomatoes have been hyper-optimized for a small set of parameters, leading to little variety and bland flavor. Yet, if you look in the right places, you can find perfectly edible reasonably priced alternatives, proving the flavorless beefsteak is not the only marketable tomato.


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