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by 205guy 6y ago
More of a truffle?
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by 205guy 6y ago
And when I search for "men without hats" I see men from Men Without Hats with hats. Language is hard.
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When I went to the Maker Faire 5+ years ago, there was one small group of exhibits about making flint tools and other Stone Age implements (fiber cord, then you can make a bow drill and make beads, etc.). They were really trying to revive t
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by 205guy 6y ago
The other thing this article made me think of: the stone tools get stored in a cave and forgotten (the small band of users get wiped out for some other reason), then another band finds the cave (because of a rainstorm) and the tools and the
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by 205guy 6y ago
Yes, when I thought about it, early humans must’ve been using tools for much longer. I think what impressed me here were the details they were able to deduce: storing tools in a common place, how they probably used them, perhaps the pre-his
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by 205guy 6y ago
It seems to go either way, depending on the source, the consideration of “proto-writing,” and interpretation of date ranges: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_first_wri...
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The stone ball tools in question are from the Qesem cave in Israel and dated to 400 to 200 thousand years before present. The 2 million in the headline must refer to other similar tools dated to earlier times but whose use couldn’t be deter
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The Forestiere Underground Gardens in Frenso are over 100 years old. The trees grow in wells connected by shallow tunnels. It does look more like a Tatooine underground house than a garden, but still neat. It's open for tours in normal
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by 205guy 6y ago
The YouTube channel oxtoolco has a video showing lapping of surface plates. Not the same as hand scraping, but the principle of using a reference surface is similar, and the master plate looks like the illustrations in this 100-year old doc
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I'm with you on the size, which is why I still have the SE myself. It also bugs me that no one is showing a comparison of the new SE to the old SE, so here is an old article I found, 2nd photo is the 7 (5.5 in), 6 (4.7 in == new SE), a
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by 205guy 6y ago
Thank you for pointing this out, I had wanted to say the same thing. You can tell the wording is dancing around the fact ("before millions ... motoring"), but to make people think it was only inhabited by animals and leave out the
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The article mentions how the children died of kidney failure. One thing I remember reading was that their bodies had adapted to the lack of salt, so it was the salted food they ate after contact that killed them.
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I think the article mentioned using birch bark containers when their pots wore through. To heat water in them, they probably heated rocks in the fire and dropped them into the bark bowls full of water. I'm not sure how they made fire,
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by 205guy 6y ago
Thanks for playing along, these are some of the same issues I could think of. I'm thinking of still having private property, just one per person/family as a dwelling, instead of allowing property as investment. You can only own yo
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by 205guy 6y ago
Another way to preserve eggs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg I've never had the chance to try them, and they don't look appetizing, but now I'm kinda curious how they taste.
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by 205guy 7y ago
It's clear the GP meant not be landlords instead of offer property for free. Which got me thinking: what would society look like if there were laws that limited people to owning one single dwelling at a time? What edge cases would need
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by 205guy 7y ago
For a while, I wanted to make one of these for day-time use, to measure cloud cover and maybe get daily/weekly averages. Then I realized that solar panels make a great photo-diode for measuring light intensity. You just need a bit of m
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by 205guy 7y ago
The article is comically incomplete: > The complicated part of this arrangement, if you want to have a go at building one yourself, is the enclosure. > Consideration needs to be given to full weatherproofing and heaters need to be fit
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by 205guy 7y ago
This is a neat website Y an antenna engineer with lots cool info, but the big picture is buried. From that page, click on “antenna basics” then scroll all the way to the bottom where you can find “why do antennas radiate?” http:/&#x2
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by 205guy 7y ago
I remember reading about one... Here’s a simple command-line tool: http://ben.com/jpeg/ This one has a UI, but no screenshotS of it (scroll down to jpegcrop), and it also mentions lossless rotation which I haven’t inve
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by 205guy 7y ago
Similarly, jpgs are encoded in blocks, so as long as you cut along block lines, you can crop a jpg without decoding or re-encoding.
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This reminds me of the government run Amma Canteens in parts of India. Interestingly, they are not free but very low cost: 5 rupees or $0.07 for a plate of curry. Apparently this is 20-25% of the cost of equivalent food from a private vendo
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by 205guy 7y ago
I probably am naive, but I like to think it's only in relation to the domain which has been corrupted with fakery. I use the word corrupted to mean that it's so competitive that everyone at the top is bending the rules or misrepre
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by 205guy 7y ago
That the state spends money to help the destitute and that some of those might be not-quite-destitute and therefore by some logic defrauding the state really seems to irk people in ways that always surprise me. As you say, why focus on the
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by 205guy 7y ago
I'm talking about the two images near the beginning of the article with the warm light on monkey subject, not the one with iphone. The quote with those images from the photographer says: "In order to create a series of snow monkey
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by 205guy 7y ago
I think it's fine for adding depth to an already lit subject, but not for creating "golden-hour" light as in the article. I had seen his images before, and thought they were sunrise/sunset photos, so I felt tricked when
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I remember when that happened, pretty shocking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_(airline)#2008_incident_an...
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It's all about the "ends of the earth." There are people who hike all 7 summits (continental high points) and the poles. This adds one more that was previously unachievable, so I'm sure there will be customers. You need
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by 205guy 7y ago
Peanuts was in its prime before my time, but when I read it, it was cute but not funny. To me it seemed like a bunch of kids with adult neuroses, it seemed disconnected. I loved the Far Side when it was at its peak in the late 80's, bu
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by 205guy 7y ago
More relevant from the wikipedia link: "Despite its name, it is often regarded as the world's largest lake, though it contains an oceanic basin (contiguous with the world ocean until 11 million years ago) rather than being entirel

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