I'm a little concerned about using IEA model analysis to address the question of timing, as these models do try to hit timing but in reality are still very uncertain that any analysis based on the timing is fun to talk about but holds no real value and, from the publications I've read, shouldn't be interpreted as such.

This isn't to discount policies or decisions based on the energy transition scenarios used here, I mean we need more and more effort to curb our GHG emissions, but I would advise against interpreting this dataset in this manner.

Don't sell your potential customers too short. We've outsourced analysis to be done with ERA5 dataset to an external vendor. There are many who know what to do and can do it themselves, but would rather outsource for liability reasons.

Water Resources Engineering PhD (focus on climate change) and now in consulting for F100 companies. I'm probably the type of people you're looking to pay for this.

I love this as a product. I've used similar products/competitors that are much more feature rich and at my consulting firm we have our own group of internal tooling that pretty much does very similar things but we don't have to pay or outsource to another entity.

If I may add a few points of suggestions.

1. I need to understand the level of uncertainty this methodology brings or else it's not really useful for me.

2. The pricing is not competitive. You're asking someone to pay for an analysis that's freely available or with "lower grade of data". Most places want higher number of sites to understand what the level of risk is. It doesn't have to be perfect, it just needs to be "good enough" to make decisions (the pareto front problem). Your product looks cool but isn't answering the "why pay for it when I can get a good enough solution for free" argument. Unless your methodology is really compelling and/or is peer reviewed, it's going to be hard for us to justify paying for this product. If I'm going to pay for a flood analysis, I'm not going to pay for extreme precipitation but I'd rather pay (or do pay) https://fathom.global and Paul Bates' people for their flood data directly.

3. Climate Change is a major factor and it's impacting many larger organization's decision process. The White Paper glosses over climate change as follow guidance from IPCC Atlas. If you can include AR6 projections and show the relative change/difference or something more on top of this then I can see more of a reason to use the product. But if it's just an extreme precipitation analysis with no climate change (or hand-wavy climate change), it's hard for us to justify the charge.

I have a lot more suggestions but these are the top 3 that I can recommend.

I'm interested in hearing how this product continues to mature and grow! This is pretty cool.

Well it's partially the cost/benefit analysis of:

1. How much benefit will we get? 2. Will this benefit be higher than the cost of purchasing this right now? 3. What other alternatives will satisfy our needs?

For most of these solutions, the answers are:

1. A lot. We need computing power to perform these analysis faster and to be competitive. 2. Yes, as continuing to innovate in this space will keep us competitive and give our scientists the resources to remain productive. 3. AWS/GCP/Azure are alternatives sure, but then (the rate at which Meta probably uses these resources) it probably cost them less to build this out than to pay AWS/GCP/Azure for access to these hardware.

You can rent cluster access (to an extent) using Azure Batch.

Granted it's probably not at this scale, but it gives you access to a ton of resources.

You can also rent a cloud TPU-v4 pod (https://cloud.google.com/tpu) which 4096 TPUv-4 chips with fast interconnect, amounting to around 1.1 exaflops of compute. It won't be cheap though (excess of 20M$/year I believe).

I'm still new to Clubhouse as well but my understanding of the ecosystem is that it's a lot more interactive than just a "live podcast" as there's ability for more audience engagement, community interviews, and basically a two-way interaction space where the audience can participate in the "live event". It's basically a discord channel but with more structure on who has the floor and moderation tools.

I think it's definitely an interesting approach to community creation and engaging with your audience. What I'm still trying to learn and understand is where it's going, as I don't think I use it enough yet to fully see the "road to monetization, profitability, and sustainability" of the platform. I kind of wish room discovery was a bit easier beyond the network-based approach that they're using, but I'm just being nitpicky now.

Any pointers to some good overviews on well-run Clubhouse groups and the sort of interaction that happens? Any recorded sessions that might be somehow viewed to see how the interaction happened during that session?

I see your point and that's up to you. But I do think factoring in the end user's experience is important here if you want them to listen to your argument.

You're trying to sell someone that your idea is right, but having the desktop experience be a bit difficult (and putting it on the end user to deal with it) doesn't really help you in communicating your points. It also makes it harder for them to digest your content, therefore people might just skip over it.

But again, it's a personal blog so all these decisions are up to you and your liking!

I appreciate that and tried to compensate for some of the trade-offs with the CSS available at the time. CSS that the browsers seem intent on not supporting and maybe dropping. I do find upsetting that I end up having to apologize a lot for trying to do some things that I thought were fun/unique/unusual/personal touches and the browsers just getting worse about it with passing years rather than better.

It is interesting how many of these comments have fallen into style of substance fallacy over the contents of the arguments themselves, and I am listening to all of this feedback. This current CSS was designed to make 90s kid me happy, primarily on "Edge Classic". It's not aged as well as I would have liked, and I don't know if/when I'll revisit it, but I am listening.

You know what? Keep it. It's weird but I think that makes it cool.

Don't get demoralized. Everyone is boring today. If this was a business or something I'd say ditch it and make your website have Bootstrap or whatever least common denominator thing. It's not, it's your place to express yourself, so don't let wet blankets ruin your site for you.

Here's two other weird sites just to keep up your morale.

https://slimedaughter.com/

http://art.teleportacia.org/olia.html

Graduate school is tough. Burnout is very possible. People come in thinking that it's basically continuation of undergrad (being asked "are you still in school? How's that going?").

It's a battle of endurance, not wits anymore. Things are hard, shit sucks. Find a support network with other graduate students, find new and creative ways to continue to be engaging (at one point in my PhD I was literally sitting on a camping chair with my laptop in the middle of the woods trying to write my thesis).

I am literally in my last year (hopefully) of my PhD and the final stretch is pretty much that. I was thriving earlier in my degree and right now I just want out. I wouldn't have survived so far if I didn't have my cohort of students and friends to support me (and for lack of a better reason, helping me complain a bit).

Don't work on the project more than you have to. Focus on what's important for your degree, the critical path. People will always want more from you the more you give. Take care of yourself first.

How decent is Brave as a browser? I've been very hesitant on it as a primary browser due to them starting up their own cryptocurrency (BAT), adding automatic affiliate cryptocurrency links in pages, and a history of serving their own ads on top of others.

It's essentially stock Chromium with a bunch of tinfoil on top. This means good Chromium UI things like tab groups, which are a digital form of meth.

They have a built-in adblocker (not an extension, a modification of the browser itself so it doesn't care about Manifest v3. It can also do CNAME uncloaking, which is what makes uBO better on Firefox than Chromium), a lot of anti-tracking features.

Importantly, they maintain their own end to end encrypted sync architecture like Mozilla does.

They have miscellaneous sideshow features like a torrent client and a Tor implementation (but AFAIK recommend the Tor Browser still)

A big thing is that the adblocker is that it's there on mobile. They're also the only mobile Chromium browser that can play YouTube videos in the background as far as I know.

As far as the crypto goes, it's actually a decent system:

Brave sells adspace (which they deliver as new tab backgrounds and toaster popups, entirely separately from websites), gets paid in Money™. They keep a cut, take the rest and buy BAT with it, give it to users. They have a tipping system where users can then tip content creators with the BAT and get creators some compensation for Brave's part in killing tracking ads.

(this can never be a full compensation, since Brave's ads don't track, and should thus be less valuable than evil ads)

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If you want bigtime UI innovation, I'd look elsewhere - Brave's angle is stock Chromium, privacy, and standalone infrastructure to provide independent revenue. The big UI innovators in Chromium land are Microsoft (if you don't care about privacy, Edge is sadly a disaster on that front) and Vivaldi (who are also very no tracky and run their own end to end encrypted sync service. Both have a lot of fantastic UI customization features. Microsoft's more well-designed ones that are both pleb friendly and powerful, Vivaldi's more of the "here's all the toggles" type. To illustrate their type of overkill, they have THREE separate tab group implementations built in. And a mail client, calendar, RSS reader, a barebones notes module - did I mention these guys used to make Opera?

As decent as any Chromium fork with built in ad/tracker blocker can be. The cryptocurrency is opt-in, the only affiliates I know of are in their start page widgets, and their ads don't sit on top of others, they're opt-in notifications.

You can disable the cryptocurrency stuff and if you're worried about ads you could install whatever ad blocker youre currently using. Underneath everything it's just Chromium. I've been using it for a year or so.

We launched tipping with Bitcoin, but had to pivot when network fees and congestion were unbearable (our users would buy $5 at a time, pay nearly as much in fees, and wait for what seemed like an eternity to receive their funds). BAT (ERC-20) offered immediate relief.

Brave has never added affiliate links into pages. Brave has never served its own ads on top of others'.

Here it seems you mean I personally get 30% of gross ad revenue (below you seemed to say I got 30% of all BAT; false also). No, the 30% goes to the company, commissions and costs come out of it, and I get nothing directly tied to it. I get a lower-six-figure salary. Smearing me on false information is a bad look. Doing it again would be lying. Knock it off.

Great, the browser that was supposed to take a stand against Google only managed to cave in to their exact monetization scheme. Somehow I'm not surprised by the fact that you have nothing better to do than respond to Hacker News comments.

No, Brave's opt-in and private/anonymous ad system is not "their exact monetization scheme". Saying it is the same just parades your ignorance or dishonesty. Which is it?

The concept is interesting and creative but I also think it's just repackaging the problem it's trying to address but using a different element as the datum. This adds an additional step where you have to translate N:45 time to local by remembering how the letters are re-arranged for your specific area. Therefore, I don't think this solution really solves the original/intended problem it's trying to address but rather hides it behind the letters.

I'd suggest a good alternative is to just stick with Google Calendar/Microsoft Outlook and/or WorldTimeBuddy.

I agree. It does not look like a simpification of the problem. I have to deal with time zones all the time and WorldTimeBuddy is the best tool I found so far. I wish google calendar has better or at least similar UI to that.

Good feedback, thanks!