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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I suspect what stops this from being a universal feature of plants is the energy required to fix nitrogen. A plant is better off not trying to do that. Especially since if nitrogen is a limit then other nutrients are probably close behind.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
At first I was for cars with higher MPG. Then I was for more mass transit. Finally I realized it'd be cheaper to move work closer to where we built houses for the peons to live instead of close to where the boss lives. Nothing closer t
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I think that distinction only makes sense when the hardware executes instructions directly. Like a microcode processor or one that uses jungle logic. But when you decompose optimize and cache the instruction steam on the fly, there is littl
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I use synthetic aperture pair programming. I write some code and get it working. Then I get pulled off it for a few months and come back to it. Me + 3 months: da fuk.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Considering the movie industry isn't something like farming them not being able to figure out how to turn a crank and print money shouldn't be the governments problem. Perhaps if they want this than maybe we reduce copyrights to 1
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I actually think with generics without type erasure and duck typing a language doesn't need inheritance. And when applications are built around passing data between services OOP tends to be less useful. (eggs are passed to the frying p
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
California long ago banned 2 cycle golf carts. I used to until recently owned one. If you said they were a 100 times more polluting than a car with a catalytic converter I'd believe it. For a developing country better air quality, less
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
A silver lining of being mentally ill is that you don't suffer from the diseases that normal people do. Doctors know whatever the complaint it's due to the mental illness.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Talking about malloc always reminds me of this paper the discusses delaying popping the stack to return temporary objects. https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/rompf/papers/xhebraj-ecoop22...
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
A problem is there is this idea that societal problems are the schools to fix.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
They built a tunnel to bypass devils slide. Now it's a pedestrian and bicycle path. On the Carquinez Strait there used to be a road that was abandoned due to landslides I think in the early 80's. Now is the George Miller Regional
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
It's more like highway built on fundamentally unstable coastal geology[1] falls into the ocean here and there. [1] California is basically schmutz scraped off a subducting plate over the last 100 million years. Friend worked on a job w
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I think Detroit is heavily focused on a chasing 'whales'. Impulsive people with poor financial instincts that buy trucks and SUV's for social status reasons not because they need wheels to get to work and do shopping. It feel
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Well black people in the US generally are a mix of central African + European + other. So like any group like that can have genetic factors that predispose them to certain diseases. Besides kidney disease problem people have much higher rat
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
The term welfare queen is a term that originally was used by conservatives to oppose federal social programs. The term describes a supposed well off black urban single mother living off benefits. Fact, most recipients of welfare are white r
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
One silver lining about the pandemic is the cat is out of the bag how robust the economy is despite what MBA's, economists, and rentier billionaires would have you think. And political leaders are now well aware of the bill of goods th
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I remember here when the first 737 Max crashed and then after the second, people here were swearing up and down the cause was that the pilots were wogs.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Similar but Beaglebones have flash drive controller which they boot off so they do better at not corrupting themselves on power cycling. I don't know about the BeagleY-AI but the Beaglebone black's power sequencer has won't f
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
One of the things you can do with Lorawan is use multiple gateways. Interferers are always an issue for a bunch of reasons. The worst is when someones on your channel using the same modulation as you are. If he's louder he'll blo
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I think if you go to 500khz you can transmit all you want. It's only 125khz that has that limit.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I'm reminded of the press howling about how President Clinton needed to resign because his legal issues cough blow job cough prevented him devoting full attention to the presidency. Which was amusing since anyone paying attention could
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Not an RF engineer. But I mess with radio's for a living. Most of the time when people try to explain antenna's they start talking resonance. Which really describes a 'good' antenna. What an antenna does is create a alte
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
It's not Germany but I always trot out California's electric supply This is a high quality display of current and past supply. You can see everyday you get a huge slug of energy from solar. You go through history and you can see a
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I agree with this 100 percent
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Bedtime is 7:30 pm Comrade Ekaros.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I've been meaning to compare the energy produced by those dams to a similar area of solar panels. Square miles of reservoir to similar square miles of solar farm. The Three Gorges Dam covers 419 sq miles. Produces 100 X 10^12 watt hour
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
They are removing all the old dams on the Klamath River. Company that ended up owning them considers them a white elephant because the revenue from power isn't enough to pay for needed refurbishment, operating costs, and insurance.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I feels like the tech business is become a lot like a dodgy casino with investors that invest the same way an old lady invests in a slot machine. Oh yes sometimes a machine (company) will pay out 10 to 1. Most of the time it pays out nothi
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Coworker didn't go to the dentist for 30 years. Then needed a bunch of dental work to clear out a chronic infection before he could have surgery to replace a damaged heart valve. I'd heard that infections can spread from gums to y
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I think the hate for goto and the love of recursion have their origins with the ideas of the early 1970's when people like Dijkstra were obsessed with generating formal proofs from code. At the time they knew how to reason about recurs

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