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by dryst 3y ago
Cool idea, but the amount of knowledge needed to grow crops successfully doesn't really boil down to a 'how to' format. Are you trying to be organic? Did you get a soil test? What sort of pests are there in your area? How man
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by dryst 5y ago
Why would you want to end rickrolling? It's like finding a peppercorn in your food. Sometimes unpleasant, but it's worth the risk.
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by dryst 5y ago
You seriously just going roll right past MANGA like that?
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by dryst 5y ago
Maybe not scalable to industrial processes, but it scales in time. A cutting can easily create a tree of the size that a seedling would take 3-5 years grow.
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by dryst 5y ago
They could even get some wealthy and politically sympathetic billionaires to fund them. I'm betting a Koch-Musk University will have them salivating.
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by dryst 5y ago
Lol @ the Bill Gates to middle aged woman with teardrop tattoo.
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by dryst 5y ago
I would argue that they don't serve National Security, they threaten it. These cloud providers are selling the government on being their secret keepers, which secures them against regulation.
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by dryst 5y ago
This thread has some serious brigading going on. University man doesn't like changing cultural norms, engages in bad faith actions to make those norms look ridiculous. People treat him like a pariah for doing it, and his work satisfact
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by dryst 5y ago
Contracts are written up front for two plus years of work. Waterfall. The DoD and contractors pretend to do agile in the middle by running everything through sprints, even though you can't change the plan. Water-agile-fall
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by dryst 5y ago
Why is genocide in quotes?
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by dryst 6y ago
This is going to end with a full on 'the moon is a harsh mistress' vibe.
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by dryst 6y ago
Why you should give away your work for free... Don't listen. If you make something and want to share it with others, do so. But do it because you want to, not because some blog post guilt trips you into it.
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by dryst 6y ago
Google will lose on purpose. The ruling is more valuable than the money they'll lose to oracle.
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by dryst 6y ago
Also, don't use a GitHub page as a test for a client. Set up a reasonable bootstrap page and suddenly the domain by the same name was bought up.
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by dryst 6y ago
If your product doesn't run connected to the internet, it is difficult to make the case for cloud development. You need developers who understand hardware, and abstraction layer cloud provides is a handicap instead of an enabler.
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by dryst 7y ago
TLDR, birds have nothing to eat, and freeze to death if they stay in cold weather for too long. They are mobile, and move to places where that is not the case.
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by dryst 8y ago
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge... By inspection, no time soon. Though if the trend on that graph changes significantly, consider yourself warned.
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by dryst 8y ago
The answer is, it depends. PCIe is not a streaming interface, so the effective bandwidth depends on transaction type, latency, packet size, address depth, etc. etc. The only certainty is that it will not be anywhere close to 32gbps, that is