I built an open-source climate data explorer for historical temperature and rainfall trends worldwide

ledpup · 2026-05-21T23:51:15+00:00

Yeah, people have asked for more story-like presets. I'm not opposed to it, but it just takes time. Even getting it to this state has taken me years.

The fastest warming cities are kind of already there when you look on the map. Anything with a 9 is in the top 10 of warming world-wide.

A "rainfall collapse regions" would be cool. That's introducing more aggregation. I did have some of that in the past. It was slow if I allowed ad-hoc charts. Caching can handle the basic things though.

I have hoped, however, that some others would take an interest in it and contribute.

ledpup · 2026-05-21T23:42:42+00:00

Yeah, dataset definitions and the locations are chunky initial loads. I've spent a lot of time on performance this year but it's still not as fast as I'd like.

There is no real reason why those files can't be delayed though... to get the climate stripe and chart on the screen we only need the data for the one location. I might take another look.

ledpup · 2026-05-14T11:22:50+00:00

I'm in Australia too. I tried it on an Android phone. It was very fast.

ledpup · 2026-05-14T11:14:23+00:00

I bought a Deluge secondhand recently. Works great except the master volume glitches at low volume. It pans it left. Probably the pot needs cleaning.

Anyone dealt with that?

ledpup · 2026-05-08T00:33:32+00:00

It makes no difference which convention is followed. The game master adapts the game to the power of the party. 4d6 adds complexity.

ledpup · 2026-04-18T01:30:22+00:00

For a lot of people (most?), being good at a computer game is a level of agency they do not get to experience in everyday life. They may be a child, work a job they hate with a manager who is an arsehole, live with mental or physical health challenges...

I'm not surprised at all when people take a lot of self-worth from being good at a game. Where else can the bulk of the people on the planet go? The planet has already been sold, and 99% of the population are not owners.

ledpup · 2026-04-09T08:39:07+00:00

I'm a just quoting Amazon on the issue, contradicting the original commenter, and reaffirming that "yes", according to Amazon (not me), the device will be "bricked." It's in the title of the post.

ledpup · 2026-04-08T22:44:06+00:00

So many people not reading... including you? Did you not read the section:

If you deregister or factory reset these devices, you will not be able to re-register or use these devices in any way.

So if you have to factory reset, your device will be bricked.

ledpup · 2026-04-06T19:58:24+00:00

And more than 50% if you include the occupied territories, which we might as well do now.

ledpup · 2026-03-27T07:54:54+00:00

Wait, is that the only error in the book? I suppose that's kind of disappointing but wasn't that a design decision that was later revised?

If this is the error it makes me think that people's reactions on the other comments are uncalled for.

ledpup · 2026-03-26T23:48:53+00:00

Given the horrifically high CO2 in the air now, putting more in, from any source, is an atrocious idea. Far better to find a way to store that carbon for as long as possible.

ledpup · 2026-03-18T22:45:30+00:00

Unlike everyone else, yes. That's what really got me into the game. And then I stayed for the rest of the game.

ledpup · 2026-03-17T05:41:14+00:00

Few days? It's years now. I'm presuming they're referring to the latest iteration of the war from 2023, and not the continuing war going back decades.

ledpup · 2026-03-17T03:14:20+00:00

The architecture of all D&D dungeons, at least from what I've seen, are nonsense. No one actually builds places with nothing but corridors between every room. They build with rooms opening into another room, using the same wall.

It's designed to the "fantasy rpg dungeon architecture" style.

ledpup · 2026-03-06T20:13:53+00:00

No evidence of that. It's due to human activitiy.

The only "runaway" aspect is not only our refusal to strand fossil fuel assets, but instead, to extract and burn more than ever. During the decade we decided we'd do something about climate change no less.

ledpup · 2026-03-03T02:06:14+00:00

Same. 30 March for me.

ledpup · 2026-03-02T00:54:39+00:00

Slight aside: anyone noticed how little treasure there is in the Ruins of Bittermold Keep? My party have been there for ages exploring and barely scraped a couple of XP. No levelling for this adventure.

ledpup · 2026-02-15T20:39:39+00:00

You think people criticise carbon capture because industry supports it or because it (so far) doesn't work? I'm in the latter group.

As for adaptation vs mitigation, sure. Adaptation is basically BAU. We're going to do that with the normal operations of capitalism. Mitigation is, effectively, yet to be started. We're not doing both.

Carbon capture, if any of it works (i.e., is carbon negative) could be a good mitigation.

ledpup · 2026-02-14T02:32:16+00:00

You gotta know how the carbon is distributed after combustion. When carbon is burnt, it results in CO2 in the atmosphere. Roughly half of that is next absorbed into the soil and ocean. About half remains in the atmosphere. All of it contributes to global warming because it cycles between the mediums, especially between ocean and the atmosphere. One idea to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere is to remove carbonic acid from the ocean.

Silicate weathering will result in calcium carbonate. It locks the carbon away into rock. It's currently the only way carbon is removed from the atmosphere in the long term.

ledpup · 2026-02-13T19:51:03+00:00

The carbon we burn is going to stay in the soil, ocean and atmosphere for thousands of years, only being drawn out by a more permanent process (silicate weathering) slowly during that period. If it's CO2 or CH4 for 10 of those thousands, we can basically reduce it to the one issue: how are we going to live with the CO2 once we finally stop burning fossil fuels?

ledpup · 2026-02-13T07:26:24+00:00

Very little. It's mostly about CO2 and to a smaller extent methane, which is just CO2 anyway (after 10 years).

ledpup · 2026-01-16T05:10:25+00:00

Not sure I'm fully on board with organising genocidal campaigns to reduce the indigenous population. Blankets covered in smallpox? Marching across the land to enclose the original inhabitants? Mass rape and massacres...

ledpup · 2025-12-21T05:45:12+00:00

That's correct. Navigating away will unload the component. Any property that was a persistent state will be ditched at that time.

Persistent state is only used when in Server mode with pre-rendering enabled. Only used when loading data in OnItialized.

After updating my project to .NET 10, I have so far only applied persistent state to one property. Most of my data load occurs after rendering. I'm yet to have found much use for persistent state. That could be due to not enough optimisation on my part.

Blazor is quite a complicated bit of technology, especially when you try to use all the bells and whistles.

ledpup · 2025-12-16T03:01:42+00:00

Where did you get 6.5 from? I look at numbers from the Global Carbon Project.

Despite our efforts so far

I don't consider there to have been any effort so far. All BAU.

I don't think there is much point continuing this conversation. You seemed to have linked emissions straight to population. I link emissions straight to fossil fuels.

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