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by dendrite9 3y ago
I've been reading Indigenous Continent by Pekka Hämäläinen recently, I picked it up now that it is available as a paperback. The history is fascinating and I highly recommend it with the note that I'm ~1/3 of the way through.
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by dendrite9 3y ago
I wish this comment were not under a flagged comment. This is something worth thinking about.
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by dendrite9 3y ago
Well they left a ladder in the tail of a plane during assembly in the not distant past. It's not like just a couple screws or washers were left behind to rattle around. An ex worked on a QA-type project related to production for them.
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by dendrite9 3y ago
Interesting to see the signs of the old river route in the satellite images. This kind of thing seems like a good idea as a way to add a buffer. It reminds me of this article about people smuggling beavers around Europe to do unsanctioned w
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by dendrite9 3y ago
Prior to 2022 it seemed clear this was coming, fighters in Burma were using small drones against the dictatorship both for spotting and to drop explosives. It seemed like Ukraine was where real resources could be put into action, and things
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by dendrite9 3y ago
But mosquitos pollinate plants so eliminating them would not be a harmless act. They are clearly far more deadly than snakes though. The number of deaths per year they are responsible for always impresses me.
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by dendrite9 3y ago
It says the shown model is just representative. I haven't seen them with strings like at the link but I believe they all use internal strings unless there is some other mechanism for adjusting the height.
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by dendrite9 3y ago
There also are propane burners used to heat the orchards. Some are even dragged through the rows to provide heat. We used to get more citrus that was frost damaged, I can't remember any in the last few years but that may just be luck&#
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by dendrite9 3y ago
The process similarity between the two has always been interesting to me even though there are obvious differences as well. When I read this article the first time a few months ago I thought how interesting it would be to read a similar but
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by dendrite9 3y ago
http://www.fuchsiadunlop.com/books/ She's a British author and cook who has written extensively about Chinese cooking.
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by dendrite9 3y ago
I was taught about isotopes and radiation in elementary school by a mostly retired teacher who was involved in radiation safety during nuclear tests after WWII. It stuck with me, even if I didn't understand everything about the types o
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by dendrite9 3y ago
Do you know of any good resources to see the water levels in such places? I know of some sites for example in California reservoirs, or Snotel and river gauges in the US. But I imagine the information is spread differently in these watershe
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by dendrite9 3y ago
Johnwalkr had some good reasons. The machines are old, with gears and belts to transfer motion not something made with separate motors for each motion. I never saw the specific machine I am mentioning but I wouldn't be surprised if pro
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by dendrite9 3y ago
A friend of mine told me once about working at his family's bowling alley after school one night and suddenly having his shirt ripped off him by one of the setting machines. He said it was sobering and he felt lucky he didn't go w
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by dendrite9 3y ago
There was a similar project with Sandhill cranes in the US, starting in the 90s. It looks like there are questions about making the parenting too easy and not preparing the young for life on their own, so that specific program ended. It see
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by dendrite9 3y ago
The Talmud specifically gave women the right to divorce their husband if they became a dye maker after marriage because of how badly they stank.
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by dendrite9 3y ago
Late at the end of the week is probably the best place to admit I/m worried about my business failing and family health, mostly cancer that didn't respond to a treatment, but there's more. Taking care of aging parents isn&#x2
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by dendrite9 3y ago
Oddly it looks like the Dodge ramcharger is going to be an interesting version of that but the generator is not removable.
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by dendrite9 3y ago
It might be similar to the way there are unclimbed peaks in the Himalaya because the summits are considered holy. For example Kailash is considered holy by several religious groups, and there are pilgrimages to the base of it but there is n
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by dendrite9 3y ago
There's an interesting story about trading Boeing aircraft design knowledge for Soviet titanium design knowledge during the cold war. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/the-titani...
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by dendrite9 3y ago
I have batted around the idea of realistic terrain explorations with a few friends and have a bookmark folder of potentially useful links if we ever decided to actually do something about it. Which is to say, I'm not at all a good reso
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by dendrite9 3y ago
In the US we also have been converting conveniently flat, fertile land near cities into warehouses, light industrial, and parking lots as those are more valuable uses per sq ft. And over time the light industrial doesn't look so good w
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by dendrite9 3y ago
Thanks for that. The discussion feels like a look into another world, which I guess is what history is.
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by dendrite9 3y ago
Would you consider the parts you made foodsafe? Or would you have to use the parts to make a mold, then produce foodsafe parts? The nooks and crannies in 3d printed plastic, plus the less controlled melting/cooling has concerned me for
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by dendrite9 3y ago
Out of curiosity, why did the title here change sometime in the last couple hours? It was something like the "no Bing, No Edge, .." from the current Ars title. Did they change the article title after this was posted here? I know A
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by dendrite9 3y ago
Interesting, I liked the flexibility of his idea to use coolant hoses, or 3d printed parts to make coolant hoses. But It may be that I just want to toss something together real quick instead of asking for a second set of hands or eyes. I wo
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by dendrite9 3y ago
I wonder if there's measurable benefit to reducing shipping weight by roasting closer to the source?
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by dendrite9 3y ago
Because not all forests are the Amazon, what about PJ forests with minimal humidity? Or the scrub oak chaparral of the California foothills? Eucalyptus and sequoia are both fire adapted trees.
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by dendrite9 3y ago
There was an In Our Time about plankton recently, where one of the guests talked about the Continuous Plankton Recorder, a tool using silk to trap plankton for research that was created in the 1920s and has been in continuous use since then
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by dendrite9 3y ago
I assume you already know about Bike Friday, but if not you might enjoy, their folding tandem bike! I have been contemplating an AllPacka, or a minivelo, but cargo bikes have my attention in the other direction. https://bikefrida

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