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The fact people care about graphic quality is pretty funny to me. Go play the latest FPS online loot shooter if you want "triple A" graphics.
The game is a masterpiece in it's own right. Its like taking a dark souls game and making it bigger and bigger. Then just when you thought you were nearing the end. Oops sorry you are only 30% done with the game!
I'm at 100 hours on PC , getting close to finishing. Some graphic stutters near release but since then i've had no issues at all. Medium level rig.
"Classical crystals have a very broad field of applications," said physicist Joachim Gräfe of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.
"Now, if crystals can interact not only in space but also in time, we add another dimension of possible applications. The potential for communication, radar or imaging technology is huge."
GFS for example. IT has maybe 200 or so timesteps in each forecast, runs 4x a day. There are a shit load of configs to run for the GFS. And each config + output has maybe 300/400 variables in each file? So you download 200 files, each with 400 images in it, each image is pretty dense. Each file is ~200 megs, X 200 files. You do the math. Get that 4x a day. And that is just one forecast model. We have lots more, and many more that have higher resolution and denser data.
The biggest problem i think is they have a goddamn free-ass oldschool FTP server. They are allowing dimwit grad school scrip kiddies to code up whatever shit they want. Infinite loops to try and download gobs of data you dont understand? sure go ahead.
They dont even know how to trakc users. they want to keep an open server, and use IP Address as unique ID. I suggested to use fucking tokens, or username/pass combo at least haha
Also the problem isnt just weather.gov and weather API. Sites like accuweather are likely grabbing raw files from the FTP servers. Everytime a new forecast comes out (for say the GFS), all these people hit the server at same time to download gobs and gobs of data. Yall would be surprised at how much data in is weather prediction outputs!
will be upper 80s, low 90s. Chance of thunderstorms in afternoon.
Congrats, i have now predicted a typical 4th of July and will be correct more than normal. Damn i should have built a web company and sold my ideas for a bajillion dollars
Overall tho yes. Some large players take the data here , process it, and resell at larger value. Some might call it a value add. Accuweather is shit tho so dont ever go to them for anything
Basically my wife and now child have changed my life , work sucks (just like blink182) said but hey they are payin me big $$$ to chill out. As a father and husband consitent steady income is name of the game. If you are single and want to hustle, sure fuckin job hop all you want bud!!
However it is fair to hate on the founder jeffrey shrekzenburg. I know some folks who work at quibi and say this dude is insufferable. Probably not as insane, but stephen wolfram levels of dooshbaggery. Dictator type who thinks is shit is golden. Turns out he made a 1.5 billion dollar piece of shit and from what i hear, he has finally accepted that maybe he isnt the greatest thing ever.
Also if you like shrek, he made shrek/dreamworks. And short little farquad is basically jaffrey katzenburg from what i've heard