There's always the chance that the manufacturers are behind some of these stories -- funding studies to find new markets, astroturfing success stories, etc.

My west-coast employer used to have a few racks of hardware on the east coast. Not a single employee of our company saw the hardware for several years after installation.

The installation itself was handled by the vendor and datacenter. For hard drive failures, our vendor (who provided the warranty) shipped a drive and had a technician drive to the site. We had to 1. tell the datacenter to expect the package and let the tech in, and 2. be online to run the command to blink the lights on the drive that needed replacing and then verify that the drive came online. This 6-company dance (us, vendor, DC, tech, fedex, HDD manufacturer) was more annoying than just terminating an EC2 instance and recreating it (or having EBS handle drive failures behind the scenes) but it wasn't that bad in the grand scheme of things.

You might want to look into colocating that server at a datacenter nearby. You can get a few U of rack space and the risk of power outages, internet outages, or cleaners unplugging the servers should go way down.

At that point it’s not worth it any more and we would just switch to hetzner or something instead.

Do you mean https://huggingface.co/nvidia/nemotron-speech-streaming-en-0... ?

Yes. That is it

Not to be confused with the 1600 meter or "1 mile" race which is commonly run in US track and field events (i.e. 4 times around a 400 meter track). At least that's within 1% of an actual mile.

"pigeon" and "dove" are both words for the same family of birds. The bird most people think of with the word "pigeon" is the rock dove (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_dove) or domesticated / feral variants of it.

Yep, but importantly "pigeon" and "dove" are not exactly interchangeable words, there is just no consensus for which is which.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbidae

Toads and frogs are another pair like this, where there is no clear distinction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog

True. But I did not ask about "pigeon" and "dove." I asked it about "pigeon" and "mourning dove" which are unambiguously different species. Different genuses, even. Zenaida macroura v. Columba livia.

Matrix exists and really isn't too bad to self-host if you just want a small number of people. (If you federate with other servers, then you have more things to worry about -- increased attack surface, more visibility leading to more potential attackers, and the risk of unintentionally storing illegal content (e.g. CSAM) sent by people from other servers.)

The UI of Element (the most popular Matrix client) is more or less in line with any other chat app, but I guess it depends what you mean by "on par to whatsapp". Biggest downside I've found is that you can't search your messages on the mobile clients.

My favorite weather map for SF is PurpleAir: https://map.purpleair.com/environment-estimated-temerature-f...

There are thousands of sensors around the city. You can get a sense of shade-vs-sun temperatures by the spread of numbers you see (on cloudy days, the reported temperatures will be much closer together, while on sunny days, sensors in the sun will report elevated temperatures.)

You do need to make sure to disable indoor sensors, and keep in mind that some sensors are faulty. (I've seen some that have been reporting a constant temperature for years.)

This one is neat, I might actually use it.

I don't understand why it includes indoor sensors at all let alone by default. Why would I want to know the temperature inside some random building?

> I don't understand why it includes indoor sensors at all let alone by default.

Add location_type=0 to only get outdoor sensors

or just click the buttons that accomplish the same thing. The point is someone at PurpleAir is asleep at the wheel if such an obvious default configuration isn't being set. If they can't get such a basic thing right, why do we trust anything else from them? "Anything else" specifically including "running their software on a raspberry pi inside my home network".

Because PurpleAir is not a weather service, they’re a sensor company.

The project is using PurpleAir data.

Footer should say "Data from PurpleAir API" instead of "Data from SF Microclimates API"...

I use that and Mr. Chilly.

Mr. Chilly is one of those niche apps that sparks joy and reminds me of the early app days.

This was directly inspired by Mr Chilly which was designed by my friend Anna Bleker.

It's an excellent iOS app: https://mr-chilly.com/

My goal was to do something similar as a Claude Code skill

I use Mr Chilly to demonstrate to non-SF folks how many microclimates SF (and the Bay Area has).

Only suggestion: separate Inner and Outer Sunset since there can be a massive difference between near Ocean Beach and near Irving/9th Ave in autumn (ie. SF's hottest season).

Edit: nevermind, just saw both inner_sunset and outer_sunset in /neighborhoods. I'd assumed it was merged based on the human readable list on the landing page. Thanks for the fun API!

thanks I will update the homepage to reflect this.

You call it passive aggressive, I call it "acknowledging that you might know something I don't".

I agree, and why I hate that this has become a thing. I encountered the same thing as the GP which is from where my experience comes. I'd ask "Why did you choose X over Y" as I'm genuinely curious to know what tradeoffs were considered that led them to choose X. Perhaps there's something I don't know. But I also see it get used all the time to mean "you should have done Y".

The "we" stuff is similar. There was a movement several years ago to try to remove blame/harshness from the tone of code reviews, and this is what we got out of it.

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