Just a quick heads up

[Letalis Sonus]

Now that we actually have a huge collection of weather satellites up in the sky that are largely funded by state agencies providing data free of charge I wouldn't be so sure about that. Creating a good forecast as a commercial weather service is not nearly as costly as it used to be.

 

[matzesu]

Could whe please split the Global Warming Topic on a new thread? My Mod Superpowers are only working on the German Boards, and I am the only one who writes in this Boards..

Or maybe the new newsposts should be posted in the German Boards ^^


Send from something, i guess ^^

 

[pyrat]

As it turns out they are still absolutely incapable of including static local weather influences, which makes me wonder why nobody has trained a machine learning algorithm to take them into account, yet.

ML is not the solution for everything. Sometimes the difficulties are where you wouldn't imagine. For example they may lack enough precise and reliable weather stations on the ground
to record the real weather there and then there's not enough accurate data to feed into any model, ML or otherwise, no matter how many sattelites you throw at it. But most probably is just
too expensive to include the details for small areas, because then your data grows too much and the storage and processing costs grow too much. I don't know.

But I find the free weather forecast for the general public quite good for the next 4 or 5 days. They're most often correct. I don't expect them to be exact 100% of the time.

And I am quite confident the climate change is caused by humans and is preventable. And most of the measures would also reduce pollution. They're estimating 8800000 deaths/year worldwide caused by pollution. That's more than 5 times COVID-19 so far.

 

[carlberry]

That's doubtful. If you die and your body decays then at some point you're not human anymore and thus get removed from the set of all humans. At that point you can also not contribute to the median anymore. Besides that, you'd still need to be median in all other aspects besides just being dead to truly be the median human.

I assume you'd lose your place in the Pyra waiting list at that point?

 

[johnicboom]

I assume you'd lose your place in the Pyra waiting list at that point?

As news zombies, we may be undead, but we still exist. I trust that means our place in the queue is safe.

 

[levi]

What always baffles me is when I visit historical sites in Scandinavia: imagine you stand on some small hillside, and as far as the eye can see there are trees and fields. And then there is this sign explaining that in the Bronce Age this used to be a shore-line, and the climate was like in the mediterranean area!

Are you sure that's all in the same time scale? If you go back far enough continental drift means much of Europe used to be much further south, but as far as I know the bronze age isn't far enough back for that. Denmark is close to the Netherlands though, and human memory can remember them filling in all of the fjords and stuff to extend the shoreline. I'd strongly expect some infill around the Oresund bridge too, maybe it's over that side of things. There could be something like that explaining the moving of the coast, but the mediterranean climate could be a bit longer ago I suspect.

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Could whe please split the Global Warming Topic on a new thread? My Mod Superpowers are only working on the German Boards, and I am the only one who writes in this Boards..

Or maybe the new newsposts should be posted in the German Boards ^^

It's traditional for now for news posted to be offtopic sooner or later, since since this is over a month old I guess that fits. At least this has veered away from personal insults so far.

 

[Letalis Sonus]

ML is not the solution for everything. Sometimes the difficulties are where you wouldn't imagine. For example they may lack enough precise and reliable weather stations on the ground
to record the real weather there and then there's not enough accurate data to feed into any model, ML or otherwise, no matter how many sattelites you throw at it. But most probably is just
too expensive to include the details for small areas, because then your data grows too much and the storage and processing costs grow too much. I don't know.

However, this peculiar case is simply perfect for ML, these kind of local weather influences show a very consistent effect. Just to clarify, I'm only referring to very short term rain forecasts, like just a few hours ahead, which requires much less simulation and analysis than e.g. tomorrow's forecast. The service that I'm using regularly even provides predicted rain radar shots, but they are really awful - which causes the short time rain forecast to fluctuate very often.

 

[λ the β-Redex Reducer]

I assume you'd lose your place in the Pyra waiting list at that point?

That depends on whether you can have possessions without existing and on whether the place in the Pyra pre-order list is considered to be a thing that people can posses or not. Maybe saying that someone owns a place in the queue is just short-hand for saying that ED plans to send someone a Pyra on a certain time relative to when he sends other Pyrii to certain people which may or may not be other people.

It's traditional for now for news posted to be offtopic sooner or later, since since this is over a month old I guess that fits.

It's a fine tradition. Who wants to keep talking about old news? Old news is boring! I want new news!

 

[Null]

At least this has veered away from personal insults so far.

Santa denier.

 

[pyrat]

That depends on whether you can have possessions without existing and on whether the place in the Pyra pre-order list is considered to be a thing that people can posses or not. Maybe saying that someone owns a place in the queue is just short-hand for saying that ED plans to send someone a Pyra on a certain time relative to when he sends other Pyrii to certain people which may or may not be other people.

Good. It might be interesting to know how ED is going to figure out Brexit and shipping, customs VAT and stuff.
But arguing what ED is going to do to fulfill orders for dead or anyhow no longer existent (pre)+orderers is beyond me.

In any case, I'd like to humbly beg for all of you a kind favor. I don't think it's in the forum rules yet but it would help my peace of mind (the peace of the piece of my mind that's left) :

If you ever die or cease existing and thereafter you get a Pyra, can you pretty please don't post any unboxing video to the forums ?
At least can you put it inside an spoiler tag with a big visible warning on what it is ?
Pretty please.
Thank you.

(I don't like zombie movies. I seem to be immunised to zombie or news zombie posts, as long as they're strictly textual, but video would be too obscene)
Unboxing videos by living beings are fine and welcome.
(btw, I don't think I'm racist for saying this or specist, what I am if I discriminate against the dead, "lifeist", "tanatofobic", "existencecentrist" ?)

It's a fine tradition. Who wants to keep talking about old news? Old news is boring! I want new news!

ACK

 

[Null]

(I don't like zombie movies. I seem to be immunised to zombie or news zombie posts, as long as they're strictly textual, but video would be too obscene)

 

[pyrat]

@Null, I won't bite. I could believe you're a zombie but I won't believe you got your Pyra yet. Two Months (TM) is Two Months (TM) even if the first month is this life and the second month is next life.

 

[levi]

I assume it's an old video. It's been a few years since Wii Fit was the big christmas seller, and that was certainly pre-covid.

 

[Null]

but I won't believe you got your Pyra yet.

And after I went to all that effort too.

It's been a few years since Wii Fit was the big christmas seller

 

[λ the β-Redex Reducer]

The Final Smash can also be used with the Pyra thanks to the lanyard hole.

 

[johnicboom]

The Final Smash can also be used with the Pyra thanks to the lanyard hole.

I thought there was no lanyard hole, and that's been my one gripe with the Pyra for like 3 years. Are you telling me I've been wrong this whole time?

 

[matzesu]

At least i will put exactly this lanyard on my Pyra; not from Wii, but from the 3DS Circle Pad Pro..

 

[pyrat]

No! as the picture clearly shows, from the diarrhea dispersion plane, despite the 3D->2D projection, if you remove your shoes your anal cleft may rotate from vertical to horizontal !
How would you move your legs without your vertical cleft ? Keep your shoes on so that you can keep walking instead of having to hop forth with both feet at a time like the lady is about to do!

 

[levi]

@johnicboom Certainly there used to be. I've saved this picure from 2018. The lanyard hole is between the headphone socket and what I suspect is the mini-HDMI port and below them:

 

[PowerGod]

I thought there was no lanyard hole, and that's been my one gripe with the Pyra for like 3 years. Are you telling me I've been wrong this whole time?

Yes