Tweets for the Week of 2021-02-07 to 2021-02-13

Okay I am going to try and do some more utopian reading somehow. This was a like a 20 minute long trailer for Rebec… https://t.co/jGLZWhIH8F 23:17:18, 2021-02-13
Just reminds me of Walter chewing out that kid whose dad is in an iron lung. https://t.co/Oh6VssNfTE 22:39:09, 2021-02-13
@itsgreengreg @duncan__c @Adam_S_James I mean, tons of people use the data for research and privately for commercia… https://t.co/IMol0dxgKU in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:48:10, 2021-02-13
@itsgreengreg @duncan__c @Adam_S_James Maybe? But does the UC Davis legal department want to go through a lawsuit t… https://t.co/WT5FrPd1ed in reply to itsgreengreg 17:47:04, 2021-02-13
In retrospect, it was a pretty weird time to wake up to the world. https://t.co/elE26Fx1Z2 17:20:26, 2021-02-13
@muddletoes @vgr "Puuuuuut your haaaaand in the boooooox." in reply to muddletoes 13:15:15, 2021-02-13
@muddletoes @vgr But it's a magical leaking machine that leaks air without leaking heat and moisture. in reply to muddletoes 12:30:10, 2021-02-13
@Adam_S_James Has anyone done a dissertation on "BitTorrent as a digital research archive repository." in reply to Adam_S_James 11:19:46, 2021-02-13
@Adam_S_James https://t.co/5ol41PfCLU in reply to Adam_S_James 11:14:26, 2021-02-13
@Adam_S_James This is a good look at the same issue in the EU context, from 2018: https://t.co/2BOG8OHLZs in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:12:44, 2021-02-13
@Adam_S_James Whether it's publicly accessible is entirely independent from the licensing constraints. They can do… https://t.co/3DLEeAqS8q in reply to Adam_S_James 11:09:01, 2021-02-13
And more generally, developing (vastly) less consumptive cultural models of prosperity. Or at the very least, some… https://t.co/ItUnByRf2Q in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:06:21, 2021-02-13
Dense, livable, cities filled with super efficient electrified buildings and designed around walking, biking, and t… https://t.co/66bXX61urh in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:03:00, 2021-02-13
@vgr Heat Recovering Ventilation FTW. in reply to vgr 11:00:59, 2021-02-13
Which is why I feel like backing off on the forcings, rather than creating new big opposing forcings is a good idea… https://t.co/kM8RYpj0FV in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:00:15, 2021-02-13
@Adam_S_James But maybe I am a bad data wrangler. in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:58:32, 2021-02-13
@Adam_S_James I suspect that would egregiously violate the ISO/RTO data licensing and get shut down. And it sounds… https://t.co/FUm5VxcrGK in reply to Adam_S_James 10:58:00, 2021-02-13
@Adam_S_James Don't we all wish. in reply to Adam_S_James 10:51:25, 2021-02-13
This is especially true with competing exponential functions. Tiny differences in growth rate result in arbitrarily… https://t.co/2NZmasxBSP in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:48:58, 2021-02-13
Human interventions in Earth's biogeochemical cycles feel similar. We have made and are continuing to make big chan… https://t.co/sVnuTPzKnL in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:47:00, 2021-02-13
Whereas managing small energy flows in a nearly airtight, super-insulated building that has very little actual heat… https://t.co/9asZttEmFE in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:43:23, 2021-02-13
When managing large opposing energy flows, small miscalculations, or environmental changes, or design errors, or be… https://t.co/q76VqYnMAf in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:39:06, 2021-02-13
But these two design frameworks behave *very differently* The "Passive Solar" (mass & glass) model is very site spe… https://t.co/ofAHMbDQQU in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:36:58, 2021-02-13
While Passivhaus obsessively minimizes and micromanages energy flows and the thermal inertia of the whole building… https://t.co/aCcJzpROGS in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:32:44, 2021-02-13
@ElizKolbert Big, appropriately shaded, equator-facing windows + internal thermal mass like Trombe walls or water t… https://t.co/ZcClVGJMLj in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:29:41, 2021-02-13
@ElizKolbert In theory both designs can radically reduce the need for outside energy while maintaining comfortable… https://t.co/LNPp6al3E3 in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:27:07, 2021-02-13
The competing technological forcings of natural systems explored in @ElizKolbert's new book Under a White Sky remin… https://t.co/qJcwbE2Zf9 10:24:58, 2021-02-13
@ericmbudd @BoulderBedrooms git bisect feels like magic sometimes. in reply to ericmbudd 10:02:54, 2021-02-13
@JadeResurrected More fungal fashions https://t.co/39Ww7E46X9 09:37:35, 2021-02-13
"Socialism destroyed Venezuela's oil wealth." Okay, but how is this fundamentally different from say, Norway's Stat… https://t.co/SjVOmhKFs0 09:29:05, 2021-02-13
@joshdr83 Texas is finally a Blue State! in reply to joshdr83 09:25:47, 2021-02-13
I'm so tired. https://t.co/L8E76Qtrsu 09:08:10, 2021-02-13
It's not an accident that they were feminized.
"Owners of the devices are also not threatened by them — and thus a… https://t.co/dnlzWkpwkm 22:41:33, 2021-02-12
@spudiscool Somehow he usually manages to make it seem entertaining. in reply to spudiscool 21:36:37, 2021-02-12
@RanjibDey I think the language distribution map is from around 500 years ago. But the migration was some northward… https://t.co/fmoI0hScKB in reply to RanjibDey 20:35:49, 2021-02-12
It gave me a little hope. Like yes, humans *can* adapt and set aside lifestyles and technology that aren't working.… https://t.co/3ToyKR57KA in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:35:43, 2021-02-12
Interestingly, as people migrated north from Mesoamerica through the deserts, it appears they partly adapted by tur… https://t.co/pPBWQitx6O in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:34:05, 2021-02-12
It's like Change Dot Org, except something actually changes. https://t.co/gdLM02nkQm 19:29:42, 2021-02-12
TIL: The Uto-Aztecan family of languages once ranged all the way from Nicaragua to Idaho. From Peter Bellwood's boo… https://t.co/qqHWtP13Q0 19:27:03, 2021-02-12
@drvolts This plus the pandemic has to be getting close to eclipsing even the Civil War. in reply to drvolts 16:43:33, 2021-02-12
@holz_bau Hell it's even Mexico City and Oaxaca's housing crisis. in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:27:15, 2021-02-12
@holz_bau is Austin's housing crisis in reply to holz_bau 15:26:38, 2021-02-12
me: "This is the way."
Also me: "Damnit, why can't I upload this multi-gigabyte Parquet dataset to the JupyterHub… https://t.co/9zpmhxQA93 12:15:54, 2021-02-12
@S_HastingsSimon So bad. Comically bad. in reply to S_HastingsSimon 09:43:34, 2021-02-12
There's just something poetic about adapting archaic words to the problems of This Fascinating Modern Age https://t.co/1Mdn3LRRtr 09:26:14, 2021-02-12
@ericmbudd But at least they aren't connected to Redshift. in reply to ericmbudd 09:22:36, 2021-02-12
@pangeo_data @rabernat Was browsing the online data catalog and got a server error on this page apparently because… https://t.co/yWfQWRg5mI 08:48:13, 2021-02-12
RT @CatalystCoop: A great overview of the benefits and challenges of moving to cloud-native datasets & analysis. Energy data isn't quite th… 08:40:08, 2021-02-12
@JadeResurrected 🤦‍♂️ jfc in reply to JadeResurrected 07:30:45, 2021-02-12
Weird flex, as those new pipelines are probably going to become stranded assets weighing down the industry. Or mayb… https://t.co/ZK2Tx8rKMJ 07:07:39, 2021-02-12
@JadeResurrected Sorry, Star Trek joke. He's the shapeshifting head of security on Deep Space 9. https://t.co/4PSQZ8VBx7 in reply to JadeResurrected 06:49:40, 2021-02-12
@daveregrets It's so valuable! Do it! Getting the distilled nuggets lets folks track public hearings asynchronously… https://t.co/wkW7s5Oao1 in reply to daveregrets 23:09:30, 2021-02-11
@JadeResurrected Wait has Odo been showing up to your table? in reply to JadeResurrected 23:00:07, 2021-02-11
@Olivia_R_Will @jasonhackworth9 I hate how one bad book can totally kill a voracious reading streak. in reply to Olivia_R_Will 21:57:09, 2021-02-11
@CHThiem My god it's an entire *genre* of YouTube channels. https://t.co/RS8UVynrqA in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:25:17, 2021-02-11
@CHThiem Yeah that's what they said in the August 2017 Land Use Review. Maybe @welcomehomebldr remembers more detai… https://t.co/iW6kvzTbbf in reply to CHThiem 20:10:06, 2021-02-11
@mateosfo @tylerhnorris Wouldn't this also make them less cost competitive in an IRP or open solicitation though? I… https://t.co/Hp5G5CxZ3p in reply to mateosfo 19:28:18, 2021-02-11
@BraveBosom A sponsored endorsement from #BigLentil no doubt! @andrew_leach in reply to BraveBosom 19:23:48, 2021-02-11
@CHThiem Are they still planning to do a "Texas Doughnut" building, but with modular parking decks that can be remo… https://t.co/VtD1WyIVuY in reply to CHThiem 19:09:25, 2021-02-11
@darkolina Encontré criollos, ataulfos, y "piñas" en la calle hoy. Pero los criollos todavía son agrios. https://t.co/tszj04HFw9 in reply to darkolina 19:05:14, 2021-02-11
RT @el_nomad_cook: #compaCooperacha es una iniciativa, así como su nombre lo dice, una coperacha entre compas, para apoyar a otrxs compas q… 14:25:10, 2021-02-11
@BiscuitRogers @ericmbudd @BoulderBedrooms I hear the GOP is very concerned about the integrity of elections too. in reply to BiscuitRogers 09:59:57, 2021-02-11
@PESimeon @dheisman @devonzuegel "Maintain the landscaping in your front yard in accordance with my personal tastes… https://t.co/rn1mNKlUxW in reply to ZaneSelvans 07:59:35, 2021-02-11
@PESimeon @dheisman @devonzuegel And *this* is the real reason people like to have these laws on the books — they… https://t.co/DqiHZMGM6t in reply to PESimeon 07:54:52, 2021-02-11
@ericmbudd @BoulderBedrooms I also needed to update my phone number. But the SOS site gives no specific indication… https://t.co/EOjdMfvSAJ in reply to ericmbudd 07:50:44, 2021-02-11
@BoulderBedrooms They aren't allowing the form to be embedded, it seems: https://t.co/AXoKAp9ISW in reply to BoulderBedrooms 07:39:14, 2021-02-11
@ericmbudd @pwang @devonzuegel @Sightline Can I do it remotely? I heard it was hard. in reply to ericmbudd 07:35:54, 2021-02-11
@pwang @devonzuegel @Sightline A similar effort in Boulder, CO has faced vicious NIMBY resistance for years, and is… https://t.co/3fv0jMkT8O in reply to ZaneSelvans 07:30:37, 2021-02-11
@oatesmeal @justinesherry This article about a giant solar project in Australia that will export power via a high v… https://t.co/In92Tk0LN9 in reply to oatesmeal 07:04:07, 2021-02-11
@pwang @devonzuegel @Sightline Many of the advocates in Denver who have been organizing to get the law changed for… https://t.co/lr57ZP7aHA in reply to ZaneSelvans 06:55:42, 2021-02-11
@pwang @devonzuegel @Sightline has a long-running series entitled "Legalizing Inexpensive Housing" that gets into t… https://t.co/kTqWxblxV8 in reply to ZaneSelvans 06:52:56, 2021-02-11
@pwang @devonzuegel It is still a thing in cities all over the US. It's a form of exclusionary zoning often explici… https://t.co/O99HUJ9NU7 in reply to pwang 06:51:46, 2021-02-11
@gschivley @agelston @llisonwndrland I spent whole weeks of my PhD trying to convince ArcGIS that it was not on Earth. in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:32:16, 2021-02-10
@gschivley @agelston @llisonwndrland Okay but what if the transmission lines are on Mars? in reply to gschivley 22:30:40, 2021-02-10
Mexico is doubling down on fossil fuel based electricity, and casting renewable energy developers as foreign interl… https://t.co/Lj3ueAP8c4 21:40:40, 2021-02-10
@oatesmeal Do they carry information or energy? in reply to oatesmeal 21:37:08, 2021-02-10
@brendanpierpont @robbieorvis @benserrurier @lowercarbon Sigh. in reply to brendanpierpont 21:34:04, 2021-02-10
@CHThiem I just discovered a whole YouTube channel just of long, quiet walks through cities of the world… https://t.co/bejn0KNe4W in reply to CHThiem 19:40:17, 2021-02-10
@ericmbudd @humanworkplace @BoulderBedrooms In all its Pythonic glory: https://t.co/NZRhz5aR2B https://t.co/ripCR0SQHu in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:18:50, 2021-02-10
@ericmbudd @humanworkplace @BoulderBedrooms This was a major issue in the co-op ordinance analysis. Like okay great… https://t.co/URyv7Otejv in reply to ericmbudd 15:16:56, 2021-02-10
@humanworkplace @BoulderBedrooms The situation is completely nuts and unjust, but this particular example probably… https://t.co/dqs0Z6MCWi in reply to humanworkplace 15:12:23, 2021-02-10
@ericmbudd Eehhhh, depends. A lot of the Hill closer to Broadway is RMX/RH, not RL. Could go either way. in reply to ericmbudd 15:09:43, 2021-02-10
@interfluidity Indulgences, probably. Paid to Jack. in reply to interfluidity 12:06:59, 2021-02-10
@ericmbudd Take the lane! Permanently! in reply to ericmbudd 10:22:16, 2021-02-10
@ericmbudd It's like some weird kind of conspicuous public consumption. People are demanding a train they *would no… https://t.co/Mxln1GDN1k in reply to ericmbudd 08:13:19, 2021-02-10
@STCActionFund Lol right. We'll do whatever it takes to make some rich people richer. Even if it means inadvertently housing a few people. in reply to STCActionFund 08:11:22, 2021-02-10
@STCActionFund But we're happy to slip in simple, universal subsidies that aren't subject to any kind of budget lim… https://t.co/KXMFyXiLi0 in reply to ZaneSelvans 08:09:47, 2021-02-10
@STCActionFund More and more I think things like this are hard on purpose. Simple, straightforward policies that he… https://t.co/gdJ4IJss5v in reply to STCActionFund 08:07:43, 2021-02-10
🤦‍♂️ https://t.co/2dGu6VokPs 07:58:29, 2021-02-10
@ericmbudd They should just tie it explicitly to Boulder's population. "You can have your train when there are 500,… https://t.co/k5kUjCJd4A in reply to ericmbudd 07:56:49, 2021-02-10
@ericmbudd "They make a desolation and call it peace." — Tacitus, on early Roman zoning efforts. in reply to ericmbudd 00:50:58, 2021-02-10
@erinoverturf Why does it seem like everything has some crappy backstory like this these days? https://t.co/9rKhH3s6k5 in reply to erinoverturf 22:30:51, 2021-02-09
@spudiscool I tried to read the classic Design Patterns book, but found it way too dense on its own. This series of… https://t.co/wKgRgwlBFV in reply to spudiscool 22:27:57, 2021-02-09
@darkolina @TransferWise @edgarseis Creo que por Transferwise parecería que la transferencia procede de México, per… https://t.co/3yalqjGY90 in reply to darkolina 18:49:50, 2021-02-09
"Recording of this hearing or livestream is prohibited." https://t.co/7HltVL8pp9 18:25:14, 2021-02-09
@darkolina Quiero enviar dinero por @TransferWise pero me pidió la dirección del recipiente. in reply to darkolina 18:09:04, 2021-02-09
@InariPopcorn omg the first one is an adorable little strawberry ❤️! in reply to InariPopcorn 17:52:27, 2021-02-09
@PaulMMCooper https://t.co/0IulmEnG41 16:03:42, 2021-02-09
If a friend confides to you that they're doing sex work, and they don't volunteer their professional persona, don't… https://t.co/jpEYWEsqOF 14:51:05, 2021-02-09
@drvolts The one girl with the mask probably has some guts. in reply to drvolts 12:42:21, 2021-02-09
RT @Sammy_Roth: Is California actually doing the stuff it needs to be doing to achieve 100% clean energy? My latest story explores an under… 10:31:24, 2021-02-09
RT @hausfath: Quite the tour-de-force from @Sammy_Roth on what would actually be needed to get California to 100% clean energy by 2045 and… 10:30:21, 2021-02-09
@thmscwlls There were a couple of other Mexican states that tried to do the same thing at about the same time, but… https://t.co/rxAkNzeZDx in reply to thmscwlls 10:26:30, 2021-02-09
@dhh If it passes, I wonder if Apple will just deactivate the App Store in North Dakota. in reply to dhh 08:16:44, 2021-02-09
@DynamicWebPaige This feels like the beginning of the Turing Police case files. in reply to DynamicWebPaige 03:25:05, 2021-02-09
@abshaww All too familiar. :-/ in reply to abshaww 00:40:19, 2021-02-09
@betatim The SQLite DBs only add up to 1-2GB so this may be what we do. It's just a little opaque if someone wants… https://t.co/UXs6jKg8OG in reply to betatim 00:37:50, 2021-02-09
It turns out a lot of this slowness was actually not related to the bind mount, but rather something else going on… https://t.co/pvsURAeDP1 00:33:36, 2021-02-09
@betatim Thankfully it turns out that the performance hit on the bind mount wasn't *nearly* as bad as we thought in… https://t.co/TvvMjpMZcj in reply to betatim 00:31:22, 2021-02-09
This is great! And I'll believe it when I see the highway budget slashed. https://t.co/T0OkqhALQd 22:17:41, 2021-02-08
@ConorMichael28 The youths! in reply to ConorMichael28 20:56:49, 2021-02-08
@JadeResurrected They are beautiful though. Like the platonic ideal of a mushroom. in reply to ZaneSelvans 20:47:56, 2021-02-08
@JadeResurrected Dunno, I would have to bust out the dichotomous keys. But I'd probably just slowly back away from… https://t.co/T1EvxkLZvq in reply to JadeResurrected 20:46:56, 2021-02-08
@JadeResurrected That one on the bottom left looks like it might be a deathcap! Some kind of pale white amanita anyway. in reply to JadeResurrected 20:43:47, 2021-02-08
@duncan__c @Jimi_Smash @thebmbennett Here's what it's doing: https://t.co/sa8RWmoljB in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:53:49, 2021-02-08
@duncan__c @Jimi_Smash @thebmbennett Followed! in reply to duncan__c 17:45:20, 2021-02-08
@duncan__c @Jimi_Smash @thebmbennett It's got GHI, DHI, and DNI. Not sure which one you were going for. Did you wan… https://t.co/lgjoOh8WEK in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:42:28, 2021-02-08
@duncan__c @Jimi_Smash @thebmbennett Okay it was more like 50 lines, but I have a function that does this. If you c… https://t.co/hNZrD4PZUS in reply to duncan__c 17:38:47, 2021-02-08
@duncan__c @Jimi_Smash @thebmbennett This should be like 10 lines of Python if NREL has an API for the data, and yo… https://t.co/PcUIteDFT3 in reply to duncan__c 16:17:35, 2021-02-08
@duncan__c @Jimi_Smash @thebmbennett Oh, well if you've got the hourly data, then you could do the annual aggregati… https://t.co/b9rWLujCzB in reply to duncan__c 16:07:47, 2021-02-08
@duncan__c @Jimi_Smash @thebmbennett What are you imagining a dummy method looks like? in reply to duncan__c 16:02:43, 2021-02-08
Same. https://t.co/qG3NZFOiTA 15:25:26, 2021-02-08
The outcome we want is a uniform environment that can be archived for long-term access, used locally regardless of… https://t.co/Ro2aJqcabI in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:51:25, 2021-02-08
If we provide an archive of the data for local use, then it either has to already be inside the container (bloat) o… https://t.co/GjX84ISyIB in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:45:43, 2021-02-08
What if we use Anaconda's Intake library to access a data catalog instead? If it's pulling from a remote catalog an… https://t.co/mtPSmlamEl in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:43:28, 2021-02-08
But a named Docker volume requires starting up another container just to load the data off of disk into the volume.… https://t.co/34hgF4oZ6j in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:41:13, 2021-02-08
@betatim The Docker docs suggest (in more of a web development than reproducible science context) several fixes: us… https://t.co/WlR9g9gd97 in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:39:21, 2021-02-08
@betatim But using Docker Desktop, it seems like there's a big performance hit for doing this. Reading a few hundre… https://t.co/o2dah5webv in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:37:13, 2021-02-08
This paper by @betatim and others suggests the best practice is to keep the data outside of the container, bind mou… https://t.co/JzPZIl6MFQ in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:35:28, 2021-02-08
The idea of using Docker containers to reproduce a computational environment seems great. But I'm struggling with h… https://t.co/2axPPdY4Zy 14:32:50, 2021-02-08
So the fact that 1 in 145 is a lot of excess death for CDMX must mean that it doesn't have a flat distribution of a… https://t.co/IPoFDT2GOt in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:15:04, 2021-02-08
This is a lot of excess death. But it got me thinking about how this relates to demographics. If you had a flat dis… https://t.co/pwrrxinQdW 13:13:15, 2021-02-08
RT @AlejandroC_IQ: ‼️#covid19CdMx
El @GobCDMX acaba de publicar su informe sobre exceso de mortalidad actualizado al 31 de enero.

https:/… 13:08:15, 2021-02-08
@ericmbudd Yeah today it's 17° here. North that is. in reply to ericmbudd 13:02:34, 2021-02-08
RT @artcommerce: @motorresx @gillyarcht Slavery was outlawed in Mexico in 1829. But the Anglophone American settlers in Texas were slave ho… 12:52:53, 2021-02-08
Does anyone have a favorite tutorial / overview of how to organize permissions & access in Google Cloud? I am findi… https://t.co/dGK5GJSURp 07:27:35, 2021-02-08
@ericmbudd Oh man, that's Celsius right? in reply to ericmbudd 21:02:35, 2021-02-07
@thebmbennett My god cooking for one is soul crushing. in reply to thebmbennett 15:45:39, 2021-02-07
This is the correct take. https://t.co/jtA1EJhjRZ 15:38:04, 2021-02-07

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