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Maximum being 1 or 100?

I believe 100, because lower than 36% humidity is fairly common while lower than 1% is incredibly rare.

The graph and chart indicate it's 0 to 100%, so 0.33 is indeed one third of one percent.

I see there are three separate fires several km apart. How do they start so synchronously?

The conditions that make one fire likely make others likely too...

Extreme dryness, high wind, failing electrical infrastructure, overburdened emergency response.

Also embers can easily be blown miles away to ignite another "new" fire.


Whenever the media announces "extremely high chance of fire" in Australia, there is always at least one fire started. I think maybe we would be better off leaving it off the news.

Some fires are started by glass bottles causing the dry grass underneath to lit up, and then the wind takes care of the rest. But that's really, really rare.

It's most often someone doing something really stupid.

Tell people they can't come out of their house and they go stir crazy to go out... Tell people it's an absolute fire ban and the situation is extremely critical and it only takes 1 nut bag out of the entire population... The odds are high.


They didn't.

Palisades started Tuesday morning in someone's backyard. The Eaton fire started last evening near one of the campgrounds. The Hearst fire started late last night around 10pm (suspected cause was a vehicle fire from an accident that spread to the side of the road).


Following up on this: - No source given for the Lidia fire that started in the Angeles National Forest this afternoon.

- A specific house address was given on-air for the Sunset Fire in the Hollywood Hills that started this evening at around 5:40pm. The ABC7 copter crew had actually spotted the fire within the first minute or two of it forming (while they were trying to get in position to cover the Palisades fire after refueling), and (ABC and NBC) broadcast the first hour of the fire's growth (and provided live updates on new flare-ups). They may well have saved Hollywood from burning down.


Hey there, do you have a source for the backyard? I'm not questioning it. I'd like to know the origin and what actually occurred in that yard to cause it.

One source is the news stations here in LA, eg https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/california-wildfires/pali...

There's always a slight chance of arsonists.

Every few years in Australia we get a story of arsonists setting fires. Sometimes they're firefighters, too.


> There's always a slight chance of arsonists.

Actually, that was my first natural reaction. (Though I do live in the neighborhood of Russia, here probability of foul play is much higher up the list)

> Sometimes they're firefighters, too.

That is messed up.


> That is messed up.

A "visit" or two are often all that is necessary to convince folks to pay protection money to gangs. Protectors always have a perverse incentive to remind people what they need protection from.

One shouldn't rush to accuse though.


From "The Milagro Beanfield War", https://archive.org/details/milagrobeanfield0000nich_o3a0/pa...

> With that, Shorty said, “Say, Ladd, why don’t you have Floyd and Carl here set a forest fire?”

> “Hey, just a minute!” Carl Abeyta stiffened self-righteously and stifled an urge to lunge across the room at Shorty. “What the fuck are you talking about?”

> “Setting a fire,” Shorty said calmly. “Christ, that’s one of the few ways those men down there have earned a living around here. I know of a dozen guys from town, the past twenty years, who've gone up and set the trees on fire. For crissakes, man, it’s—what is the pay now? Two-fifty an hour around the clock? Three dollars? And the Forest Service—God bless Smokey the Bear!—packs in potatoes and all the fresh-killed beef you can eat. You want to get this town’s mind off that beanfield, light the forest and hire all the heavies to put it out. And keep lighting little fires here and there—”


What is burning? Mostly bushes or mostly homes?

Some harrowing before and after photos from a Maxar instrument via LA Times (may be pay walled):

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-08/shocking...

This shows Altadena, just east of JPL, and Malibu (separate fires, of course).


This is a horrific satellite picture of Altadena:

https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/06-closer-s...


The blue and green colour small areas suggest this is a false color image that maps colours to a value and coincidentally looks like a fire.

Presumably it's measuring heat or something vaguely relevant but I don't trust my immediate visceral reaction to it.


wow.


Both unfortunately. Many neighborhoods seem fully engulfed based on the maps: https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents.html#

From the initial National Weather Service alert:

> IMPACTS...If fire ignition occurs, conditions are favorable for very rapid fire spread and extreme fire behavior, including long range spotting, which would threaten life and property. There will be a high risk for widespread downed trees and powerlines, as well as widespread power outages. A Red Flag Warning means that critical fire weather conditions are either occurring now, or will shortly. Use extreme caution with anything that can spark a wildfire.

So seems the combination of the wind + fire makes for easy and fast fire propagation. The alert/warning in full is a pretty interesting read: https://alerts-v2.weather.gov/search?id=urn%3Aoid%3A2.49.0.1...


In the Palisades? Nearly everything. Homes, the iconic Pali high school, the shops, the bushes — it's reportedly devastated.

Thus, the advice to not run the red light..

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Re-read the post, there’s more in the path than just your client and server code, and network switches aren’t the problem. The “middle boxes and proxy servers” are legion and you can only mitigate their presence.

You’ve been offered the gift of wisdom. It’d be wise on your part to pay attention, because you clearly aren’t.


Youtuber’s Denys Davydov (ex pilot of same plane), pet theory: bird got into the engine, pilot by mistake shut off wrong engine, due to no engine - hydraulic pump was non-functional, which resulted in landing gear problems. (also something about ground effect)

This wouldn't be the first time a pilot killed the wrong engine:

"TransAsia Pilot Shut Off Wrong Engine Moments Before Crash" (2015)

Taiwan aviation officials on Tuesday released a detailed report of how the pilot mistakenly shut off the plane's only working engine after the other lost power. "Wow, pulled back the wrong side throttle," the captain said shortly before crashing.

<https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonwells/transasia-pi...>

I seem to recall a Mentour Pilot episode (YouTube channel) describing either that or a similar incident.

Point being that when things start going very wrong you've got to actively think to prevent making them worse.


This whole thread is a tire fire poor logic and critical thinking.

That said, I have seen some absolutely horrendous responses to emergencies go from kinda bad to massive destruction of property, so much so that unless one has trained for the specific emergency, the best course of action is to assess way more than you think you need. And we often have more time than we think, and we make the the right decisions, they are the right decisions because they give us more time.


So... the degree of control they have over the plane on landing suggests they have some degree of hydraulic control. It's possible they throttled down the wrong engine, but this is speculation at this time.

Landing gear has a manual gravity release by the first officer that doesn't require the hydraulics. (But does take some time.)

Ground effect was certainly involved (why they glided so far before touching down) but the bigger factor was their high speed, lack of flaps, and lack of gear.


> Landing gear has a manual gravity release by the first officer that doesn't require the hydraulics. (But does take some time.)

You have to reach all the way back to do it, difficult to do with all the other shit going on.


Yes.

> could not calculate an arbitrarily deep zoom that required 10^81 bits of precision. Right?

I’m here to nitpick.

Number of bits is not strictly 1:1 to number of particles. I would propose to use distances between particles to encode information.


... and how would you decode that information? Heisenberg sends his regards.

EDIT: ... and of course the point isn't that it's 1:1 wrt. bits and atoms, but I think the point was that there is obviously some maximum information density -- too much information in "one place" leads to a black hole.


Fun fact: the maximum amount of information you can store in a place is the entropy of a black hole, and it's proportional to the surface area, not the volume.

Yeah, I forgot to mention that in my edit. The area relation throws up so many weird things about what information and space even is, etc.

Let’s just make a list without asterisk.

> DSLs that solve a specific problem with a page or two of documentation overhead are great.

Do you have any example? I’ve heard lots of good things of dsl, but never had the luck to witness it’s full glory.

(except for regex, which I love, but it has more than two pages of docs)


I've coded some myself, and have used some... but it depends on where you draw the line.

I'd consider Python's f-string syntax a DSL of sorts.

YAML might be considered a simple DSL, if you don't consider it a language/format instead. It's a bit more than 2-3 pages, but it's not hundreds of pages. And a simplified version could be constructed with <10 pages.

Similar to YAML, but for Markdown. I'd call that a DSL too, and it's even simpler than YAML.

Then, something more tiered as: CSV, JSON, TOML, INI, AsciiDoc

Once you're in the short form, it's a bit blurry what's a format, what's a DSL, and what is a language.

PS. Sorry for the late answer, I missed the direct question for a bit.


https://senseis.xmp.net/?Ladder

(Kind of like wikipedia for go players)


People like to cheat. See the VW case. Company is big and established and still cheated.

It depends a lot on individuals making up the companies command chain and their values.


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