That's the kind of reaction almost every kind of engineer would have. But also, some sympathy for the rocket people that can't afford to make measurements irrelevant.
I mean to be fair, solder, and some heat shrink (and copious amounts of tape) have legitamately extended wires for me haha. I do like the idea of sending greenies off to find the wire glue though ;).
Al Roker was the weatherman in New York City, and three years ago we had a blizzard. We were supposed to have, according to Al, 4 to 12 inches of snow. That's his prediction. We had 36 inches. Giving him the benefit of the doubt, he was two feet off. THAT'S NOT EVEN IN THE BALLPARK! If you were a roofer and you built a roof and it was two feet off, you'd still be in prison.
Iām pretty sure enough of these moments is why we now have absolutely catastrophic weather forecasts every other week but they usually arenāt so bad
Similar to how the US started enforcing fines for late arrivals of airplanes. So the airlines just extended the ādurationā of their flights to include the expected delays and now theyāre ā99.9% on timeā. You can see this in action when the pilot says āwell weāre waiting for something before we leave. Itāll be another 15 minutes but weāll still get you there on time.ā
Climate change has increased the chance for extreme weather and made it harder to predict when it will actually happen. Those moments happened more when the models werenāt taking into account what climate change has done.
Iāve seen the climate shift before my eyes too but I mean the specific storm predictions but not hurricanes tracking which has actually become very accurate
The local storm predictions I will watch update in real time and dramatically reduce all their numbers as it comes in that it wasnāt the worst case scenario
Itāll be āaccurateā when it finally is the worst case scenario so nobody will be underprepared but it annoys me that itās constant specific forecasting doom until it isnāt
Or you learn to smell it and feel it. But it's not good for distant weather and the earlier you feel it the worse it'll be. It's a common skill in places with stupid amounts of weather like the American Midwest.
Note to self: never move to the American Midwest. I get sinus migraines from changes in barometric pressure, and can usually tell when a rainstorm is coming from the sinus pressure.
So I actually do too funnily enough. Comparing it to the pacific northwest, here I get a mild headache when it switches between wet times and dry times, but there I got a decent headache every few weeks in the spring and autumn and the occasional in the summer. I miss tornado season though, sure my head hurt, but the howl of the wind, the wall in the sky that looks like the world will end, then heavy rains that you sit in a garage with the door open smoking pot with your friends and watching. I don't miss much about Ohio, but tornado season was nice.
To be fair, weather predictions have gotten much more accurate in the past 20 years or so (however, whether that stays true now that things like the National Weather Service and NOAA have been defunded remains to be seen).
Thank you! Donāt believe the āhatersā, itās nice to get a positive comment. I was very proud of joke, and was honestly surprised nobody beat me to it first.
Even if you miss, you will land among the stars...
astronaut swearing the whole way there
::: spoiler Source
There is a comic that does this perfectaly, but I can't find it right now. Something something post an incorrect fact to the internet, and other will gladly correct you.
54 Comments
Bazell@lemmy.zip · 129 pts · 181d
Surgeon
omega_x3@lemmy.world · 108 pts · 181d
Electrical engineer: fuck it make the wire thicker I'm not checking voltage drop again.
marcos@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 181d
That's the kind of reaction almost every kind of engineer would have. But also, some sympathy for the rocket people that can't afford to make measurements irrelevant.
applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 181d
I feel seen
ameancow@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 181d
how_we_burned@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 180d
That's what she said
Zoot@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 180d
Nooooo that's why you have the new guys go get the wire stretcher
ameancow@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 180d
Zoot@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 180d
I mean to be fair, solder, and some heat shrink (and copious amounts of tape) have legitamately extended wires for me haha. I do like the idea of sending greenies off to find the wire glue though ;).
ameancow@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 180d
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 180d
Literally!
Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone · 77 pts · 181d
Men trying to find the clitoris: š©
innermeerkat@piefed.social · 36 pts · 181d
Right in the belly button
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 181d
Uhh, that's either a really low belly button or exceptionally high clitoris.
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 181d
I snorted out my milk. Fuck both of y'all.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 9 pts · 181d
I thought it was near the right butt cheek
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 181d
It's actually right at the entrance to the butt hole
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 181d
Lewis Black
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 181d
Man I hate how AI and non-serif fonts have ruined my reading of so many things.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 181d
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 181d
Unless it was the prison roof that you built.
gustofwind@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 181d
Iām pretty sure enough of these moments is why we now have absolutely catastrophic weather forecasts every other week but they usually arenāt so bad
village604@adultswim.fan · 19 pts · 181d
No, it's because Trump cut off access to data from weather satellites.
gustofwind@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 181d
Itās been like this for longer than Trump cut off access from one satellite
phdepressed@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 181d
Well we've just generally not been great at funding any science agency for quite a while.
gustofwind@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 181d
The European weather models have also been overstating severe weather
I really just think itās as I said and nobody wants to be caught under predicting weather so they default to the worst values their models predict
blueduck@piefed.social · 2 pts · 181d
Similar to how the US started enforcing fines for late arrivals of airplanes. So the airlines just extended the ādurationā of their flights to include the expected delays and now theyāre ā99.9% on timeā. You can see this in action when the pilot says āwell weāre waiting for something before we leave. Itāll be another 15 minutes but weāll still get you there on time.ā
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 181d
Climate change has increased the chance for extreme weather and made it harder to predict when it will actually happen. Those moments happened more when the models werenāt taking into account what climate change has done.
gustofwind@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 181d
Iāve seen the climate shift before my eyes too but I mean the specific storm predictions but not hurricanes tracking which has actually become very accurate
The local storm predictions I will watch update in real time and dramatically reduce all their numbers as it comes in that it wasnāt the worst case scenario
Itāll be āaccurateā when it finally is the worst case scenario so nobody will be underprepared but it annoys me that itās constant specific forecasting doom until it isnāt
ameancow@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 181d
Tower@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 181d
It's over 80Ā° in Phoenix and parts of SoCal this week, the first week of February. We're absolutely fucking fucked.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 181d
Meanwhile parts of Texas and the East Coast have gotten more snow than they've seen in a decade.
someguy3@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 181d
Bad thing now is that I ignore them.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 181d
Monday: "It will rain on Saturday and Sunday." (Makes no outdoor plans for the weekend)
Wednesday: "It might rain on Saturday, it will rain on Sunday." (Still no outdoor plans)
Friday: "It will rain on Monday and Tuesday." (Too late to make outdoor plans)
Doesn't rain for the entire month.
Whitebrow@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 181d
Gotta rely on old people and their bum knees to predict the weather.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 181d
Or you learn to smell it and feel it. But it's not good for distant weather and the earlier you feel it the worse it'll be. It's a common skill in places with stupid amounts of weather like the American Midwest.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 181d
Note to self: never move to the American Midwest. I get sinus migraines from changes in barometric pressure, and can usually tell when a rainstorm is coming from the sinus pressure.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 181d
So I actually do too funnily enough. Comparing it to the pacific northwest, here I get a mild headache when it switches between wet times and dry times, but there I got a decent headache every few weeks in the spring and autumn and the occasional in the summer. I miss tornado season though, sure my head hurt, but the howl of the wind, the wall in the sky that looks like the world will end, then heavy rains that you sit in a garage with the door open smoking pot with your friends and watching. I don't miss much about Ohio, but tornado season was nice.
andros_rex@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 180d
I broke my foot and didnāt get medical care like 3 years ago, and now it lets me know.
ameancow@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 181d
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 181d
To be fair, weather predictions have gotten much more accurate in the past 20 years or so (however, whether that stays true now that things like the National Weather Service and NOAA have been defunded remains to be seen).
slaacaa@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 181d
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 181d
What a perfect reply.
RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 180d
Just upvote.
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 180d
This one was more. I get it's the hackneyed ass response. But they had to know how good it was.
slaacaa@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 179d
Thank you! Donāt believe the āhatersā, itās nice to get a positive comment. I was very proud of joke, and was honestly surprised nobody beat me to it first.
RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com · -1 pts · 180d
They know how good it was because it has lots of upvotes.
Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 180d
Omg I choked on some toothpaste. Thanks. Have your up vote.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 181d
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org · 22 pts · 180d
It depends on which type of physicist. If they are a particle physicist 3cm is a whole lot
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 180d
As a microbiologist, 3 cm is like the next county over. The particle physicist gets to add a few orders of magnitude to that.
Jolteon@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 181d
Relevant XKCD
L7HM77@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 180d
"A straight line is the edge of a circle with an infinite radius" type energy
Sat@lemmynsfw.com · 19 pts · 181d
Dentist: š¦·ā ļø
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 16 pts · 181d
Astrologer
MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 180d
Even if you miss, you will land among the stars...
astronaut swearing the whole way there
::: spoiler Source
There is a comic that does this perfectaly, but I can't find it right now. Something something post an incorrect fact to the internet, and other will gladly correct you.
:::
CyberneticOwl@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 180d
This one?
RustyShackleford@programming.dev · 1 pts · 180d
9point6@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 181d
WiFi router: š”
REDACTED@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 181d
That's what she said
whatsisface@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 181d