gmoes

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by gmoes 4y ago
I recall visiting the museum many years ago and seeing a demo where they heated a glass rod and pulled a fiber. This was probably when fiber optics was in its infancy. It was definitely a highlight for a young science nerd. I would love
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by gmoes 6y ago
I wonder if Kodak's Ascorbic Acid-Based XTOL Developer was inspired by this idea.
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by gmoes 8y ago
I’ve made the same basic comment before, but we need to ban the residential use of herbicides and pesticides. I spoke to a beekeeper who had two hives wiped out by Mosquito Squad spraying on an adjacent property. I recently came across a 1
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by gmoes 8y ago
There’s some great comedy by the late Bill Hicks about his drug and alcohol use and that by rock and roll bands like the Rolling Stones and The Beatles and what music would sound like without drugs. Not to disparage the author but I see he
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by gmoes 8y ago
Sorry to hear that. I guess in a sense I am lucky as the ordinances only restrict height not species. I suspected HOA's were worse. I'm with you. Hopefully this madness will end.
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by gmoes 8y ago
> Every bag of the stuff says, "It is a violation of federal law to use this product in a manner inconsistent with its labeling." Sounds like regulation to me. You don't have to ask permission to put it on your lawn, but y
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by gmoes 8y ago
Good point, compared to 40 million for lawns. Maybe proportional to usefulness. ;) And water is a huge issue too. The native plants thrive in wet and dry conditions without attention.
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by gmoes 8y ago
I used aggressive native plants from my area. These included Jerusalem artichokes, Indian Hemp, Joe Pye Weed, etc. in the sunny areas. Virginia knot weed, etc. in the shady areas. They colonized my yard very well and even kept the Englis
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by gmoes 8y ago
I think the American suburban yard may be equally responsible with agriculture for a lot of this in the US. The use of herbicides and pesticides is completely unregulated. Additionally lawns are an unnecessary waste of time for most peopl
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Reimagining the Suburban Yard to Reverse Pollinator and Insect Decline(elegantcoding.com)
2 points by gmoes 8y ago|0 comments
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by gmoes 8y ago
They are if you get them fresh. They are almost like coconut meat.
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by gmoes 8y ago
First off I hate these types of analogies as I feel they cloud the issue. You can really think of this as two different semantic domains: the solution domain and the problem domain. You can break them down as (controllers, errors, storage
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by gmoes 8y ago
I have yet to replace my 19 year old low mileage car. I'd rather have a 1000 spiders and 1000 flower flies and a 1000 bees than another gallon of gasoline. Of course what organisms originally died to create that gallon of gasoline tha
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by gmoes 8y ago
Does the planet really need more gasoline? Maybe it’s time we consider the opportunity to allow people to convert their private property into dense carbon sinks that support plant and terrestrial arthropod diversity. http://www.e
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by gmoes 8y ago
He covered it from Bob Dylan.
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by gmoes 9y ago
So, two points: First of all, clickbaity title as he says it might be "pointless". Secondly he is talking about topology. I find it to be a very hard subject. If you pick up most topology books you will find an area of math that m
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Reimagining the Suburban Yard to Reverse Pollinator and Insect Decline(elegantcoding.com)
1 points by gmoes 9y ago|0 comments
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by gmoes 9y ago
I would agree that there is an artfulness, for lack of a better term, in engineering. However, there is a lot of science and math i.e. structural engineering that underlies building a structure that is safe and won’t fall down. Admittedly
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by gmoes 9y ago
I feel that there is some naiveté in this perspective, although the OP does touch on it somewhat. A novice most likely would write their code in a very monolithic fashion. That same approach fails significantly with larger code bases. As
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by gmoes 9y ago
I have anecdotal experience with this. I used to have dense native plants in my yard. My local municipality made me cut them all down. The mosquitoes, specifically the invasive Aedes species seemed way worse without the lattice of tall na
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by gmoes 9y ago
I know a guy who used to teach Haskell at a university who now runs a development shop at a startup that uses Go. From I recall his main reason for choosing it was to hire cheaper less experienced developers. I remember talking to him abo
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by gmoes 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13907696 Pretty much what I went through, except actually less than ten miles from the Whitehouse.
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My Ant Symbiosis Stories(elegantcoding.com)
1 points by gmoes 9y ago|0 comments
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by gmoes 9y ago
I can attest to lawns being the enemy. For many years I grew a dense native plant yard and literally have tens of thousands of pictures of terrestrial arthropods ok a lot of dupes of individuals but also amazing biodiversity and multispecie
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Photos of Jupiter from NASA Spacecraft, Both Near and Far(nytimes.com)
1 points by gmoes 9y ago|0 comments
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by gmoes 10y ago
If you are interested in this topic I would highly recommend The Ants by E.O. Wilson Bert Holldobler. I was lucky enough to observe ant symbiosis in my yard. Their book helped me understand what I saw. I did a write up of it here: http:&#
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O(log(n))(elegantcoding.com)
5 points by gmoes 10y ago|0 comments
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by gmoes 10y ago
I watched this NASA "tweetup" a few years back. It's a bit long, but has some very interesting discussions about the science and engineering of the project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iWgZ_TmL0M
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by gmoes 11y ago
I did a post a while back on this topic, which might be of interest: http://www.elegantcoding.com/2014/08/a-brief-and-incomplete-...
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What is Software Engineering?(elegantcoding.com)
1 points by gmoes 11y ago|0 comments

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