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by beardicus 11y ago
> Does shape matter for yogurt? In this case, yes? Gogurt is full of sugar. Of course the same can be true for yogurt in tubs as well. I feel the straw-manning of Pollan's writing is usually achieved by taking what is meant to be
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by beardicus 11y ago
> You need to lift a 10KG weight about 2 kilometres to get a teaspoon of kerosene's energy, so it's not a great replacement on that front This says nothing of light output. If you want light, and most of kerosene's output
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by beardicus 11y ago
Perhaps that particular machine did (I suspect you're mistaken though), but that is not the norm. Mutilating coins is not illegal in the United States.
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by beardicus 11y ago
Well. The comments here so far are about what one would expect. We're well on our way to making a 2MB+ file of "LOL USE VIM/EMACS" comments. I've been using Atom for a bit now. I like it. I started out with vim but
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by beardicus 11y ago
There are some efforts to breed better hygienic behavior into bees, so they clean out parasitized brood or clean themselves of the mites. There are a few chemical treatments, including formic acid. And there are a few management techniques
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by beardicus 11y ago
Alas, those are Varroa mites. Not helpers, but blood-sucking (or the bee equivalent to blood: hemolymph) aliens that are causing quite a problem for beekeepers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varroa_destructor
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by beardicus 11y ago
If you find this interesting, the story of Luther Burbank would be a good choice too: http://www.amazon.com/Garden-Invention-Burbank-Business-Bree...
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by beardicus 12y ago
Every mention of the policy in this article states that it applies to the hiring process. The fact that eliminating all salary negotiation would be an even bigger headline leads me to assume the reporter didn't just miss this detail.
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by beardicus 12y ago
Well that's an unfortunate title truncation. For those scratching their heads but not reading the article: Pao is eliminating salary negotiations for new hires. No word on negotiation of raises though.
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by beardicus 12y ago
I've been casually looking around for data-only plans with no (or really low, at least) monthly fees and pay-as-you-go per MB data... I'm not coming up with much, but roamline [ https://www.roamline.com/roamline-si
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by beardicus 12y ago
> without actually explaining how it would benefit any users other than him He seems to make it pretty clear: "You give me a place to send them, and when my students join they punch in the required credit card and then they’re done.
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by beardicus 12y ago
From the article: "They were springy, chewy, and resilient. They were ramenized." How do you go from that to assuming they're talking about mushy overcooked instant ramen? Given the authors' previous work on their blog,
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by beardicus 12y ago
Piccolo is a neat little plotter/drawing robot that's open hardware: http://www.piccolo.cc/ Unfortunately it seems nobody offers a full kit, so you'll have to gather materials yourself. It looks like it'
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by beardicus 12y ago
"Offload is a toolkit: a set of APIs and libraries for developers to add multi-screen functionality to their apps. It enables seamless communication between apps running on smartphones, tablets and PCs using wi-fi or bluetooth connecti
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by beardicus 12y ago
Odd headline. It's pretty easy to get 2 axis movement with two motors. The big advantage of this setup is that the motor for one axis doesn't have to go along for the ride, which reduces your moving weight and momentum. There are
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by beardicus 12y ago
Here's a link to a fairly well developed recipe for sassafras-based root beer: http://honest-food.net/2010/07/04/sassafras-and-homemade-roo...
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by beardicus 12y ago
I'm most interested in the JeeNode, which can be found yonder: http://jeelabs.net/projects/hardware/wiki/JeeNode They're basically a stripped down older Arduino (none of the built in USB or other ne
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by beardicus 12y ago
Anecdotally, this is untrue. I've had 800+ with just a credit card and an overdraft line of credit.
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by beardicus 12y ago
404 on the "Read the full documentation" link under "API" on the API page. (Edit: I see you already found the broken link and the file is yonder http://apps.cumulonimbus.ca/PressureNetDataAPI-v2.pdf ) Do
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by beardicus 13y ago
What am I missing here? Aren't all the graphs in that paper just a correlation/causation joke waiting to be made? I could probably fit "number of mobile phones sold" to the same curve and have "proof" that mobi
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by beardicus 13y ago
This looks fairly neat. The "don't pay for a plan" part is a bit odd though... as far as I can tell you're only getting a year of free low-bandwidth data, and after that it'll cost you. I queried the creator on kick
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by beardicus 13y ago
Nothing to do with the feed reader at feedly.com though? Granted all the names are taken everywhere for everything, but this seems confusing.
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by beardicus 13y ago
Where are all the one, two, and three letter words? Does Gibson never use "a", "or", or "and"? More importantly, how is this an effective placeholder for English text without them? This seems all too common in
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by beardicus 13y ago
This happened to me on February 4th of this year. And Etel got to break the bad news to me as well: " Unfortunately it looks like the hypervisor that bean is on has failed. We were working with the datacenter technician and it seems that th
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by beardicus 14y ago
This confused me as well. I had assumed 1 color front and back would be the 1 color column, plus 25 cents for the second location. Your explanation here makes good sense... but maybe it could be clearer on the website.
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by beardicus 14y ago
Arduino's are usually $30, though you can get the clones for $20. The ethernet shield alone is $45. The cheapest Arduino-a-like with built-in ethernet, as far as I've found, is the Nanode v5, at $40 in unassembled kit form. http://wickedde
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by beardicus 15y ago
Glyphosate == Roundup(TM). This is the most used herbicide in the US... certainly not banned. Regardless, I agree with your conclusion.
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by beardicus 16y ago
Hmm. Hackerspaces.org has been running global livestreamed hackathons monthly for over a year now: http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Synchronous_Hackathon Indeed it will be the same weekend as your event... not to discourage you or anything. L