I think you might be on to something: I am by no means a weather enthusiast or expert, nor do I live in California: the El Niños building up in 1997 and 2015 had similar seasons, 2023 not, the current fast onset and wave seasons (durable good surfable waves in winter) match especially well with 2015. 2023 was the exception but also slower onset. Also La Niña winters also had good winter conditions, but not as durable. So good surf conditions in NorCal outside of La Niña winters might be a visceral leading indicator for fast onset El Niño.
I stumbled across this too but going back to the picture made the sentence easy to understand. Maybe the sentence would have worked better if it was located before the picture. (The picture shows a ramp going up to the right deep under the ocean surface - the subsurface warm core)
In 2004 we (a small team of mostly very junior devs) were given a quite extensive and really excellent Java course.
Ahead of the course, we prepared by obsessing over our IntelliJ or Eclipse configs and had intense discussions about this.
To our surprise, the teacher urged us to use nothing but the basic JDK tools and Notepad. He wanted us to learn what's going on under the hood and also told us, that the productivity will probably be about the same.
I built a computer around the Z80 from a kit of a TV Series („Klein Microcomputer Sebstgebaut und Programmiert“) when I was 12, with a Märklin trafo as power source and a Telefunken tape recorder as datasette. Typed moon lander into it in Z80 machine code and was so afraid to lose the program that I didn‘t turn it off for 2 weeks.
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