Sam Gardner

Any of my mutuals at the NCAR radar technology community workshop this week? Would love to say hi!

Data flow upgrades?! My favorite!

My timeline might soon be just me doing this from now on...

Buying a $3600 monitor “for color accuracy in medical imagery” and then using the jet colormap to view that imagery should be a crime

Yeah, this one is much better. 🤠🤠🤠

Another absolutely bonkers day for the power grid in Texas. I really don’t like ERCOT’s visualization of battery charging as it makes it look like wind power dropped off when the batteries started charging—not so! Maintained ~12GW throughout day. Solar is of course the star of the show here

The NWS Storm Prediction Center's severe weather outlooks will be changing slightly next week.

Meteorologists Evan Bentley and Liz Leitman, our experts at SPC, provide an update about the new conditional intensity outlook.

Incredible. Another one for the "these idiots always take every word literally" files. They think "climate prediction" means "climate change forecasts".

DTMF!

Special sounding launched from College Station, TX at 1730Z February 14th, 2026 valid at 18Z. Skies were a bit overcast with some slight clearing occurring since launch. 21Z balloon is planned.

(for now)

From the updated @houstonchronicle.com interactive map of changes to the FEMA flood maps, it’s not hard to see that we have a big problem here. Flood insurance is a basic requirement for living anywhere in Houston.

www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/202...

I wouldn’t (seg) fault you if no one did, but regrettably: github.com/NCAR/lrose-s...

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

[PERF] Replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T by crabby-rathbun · Pull Request #31132 · matplotlib/matplotlib This PR addresses issue #31130 by replacing specific safe occurrences of np.column_stack with np.vstack().T for better performance. IMPORTANT: This is a more targeted fix than originally proposed. ...

When they said AI was coming for programming jobs, I didn't think they meant creating stupid, conflict-driven drama too: github.com/matplotlib/m...

Seriously, launch all this AI-driven bullshit into the sun. Or give us a way to hold those behind these agents and their generated idiocy accountable.

I guess my only confusion here is why the mpl maintainer wrote a lengthy response explaining to the LLM why its contribution wasn’t accepted.

Like, what’s the point if the LLM reads it and generates a response in agreement with you? Faster and less carbon emissions to just block and move on?

New FEMA draft flood maps show Houston-area flood zones may expand Years in the making, the draft FEMA floodplain maps rely on higher rainfall estimates and more advanced modeling techniques, significantly expanding the current Harris County flood zone boundaries.

Wake up babe. New floodplain maps just dropped.

www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

We asked the Ring CEO pretty directly about this on the show late last year.

www.theverge.com/podcast/8220...

yet another update on this, going to office.com now takes me to an error page, so maybe they've realized no one likes their chatbot when they just want their f'ing emails

I didn’t read this quickly enough and I’m afraid your joke is ambiguous

Why Do Lawyers Want to Abolish ICE? YouTube video by Moon Channel

somewhat related, the situation is legally much more precarious than I realized youtu.be/zkgNnbTrsgw?...

Graduate Students’ NSF Fellowship Applications Are Being “Returned Without Review” - Eos Graduate students applying for NSF funding have had their applications returned without review—even though their proposed research appears to fall squarely within the fields of study outlined in the p...

Students applying for NSF funding are having their applications “returned without review” for being “ineligible,” despite their proposed research falling squarely within the application guidelines. eos.org/research-and...

14-day Power Outage Loop. Still ~20,000 without power from the ice storm in Mississippi!
x.com/PowerOutage_...

Does anyone have todo list app recommendations? Preferably (in order of priority):

- not a subscription
- nested lists
- separate lists
- notifications/reminders
- local or self-hosted

60th parallel, welcome northwest to the territories

Notepad++ updates got hijacked for months and could have spied for China The hack was resolved in a December update.

hackers took over Notepad++ update servers and distributed a malicious update for the app. The update servers were vulnerable for roughly six months 😬 www.theverge.com/tech/872462/...

“ULM mentioned” meme except it’s AMS mentioned

Obligatory “I’m a Houstonian so of course I’m going to play devil’s advocate”: Houston is definitely more lively when it’s above 50F, below that and everyone hides indoors.

Obviously public transport is garbage in Houston, but I found there was plenty of diverse food within ~a mile of GRB.