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by h0l0cube 3y ago
> Solid state batteries with 10k charge/discharge cycles are never going to happen for the same reasons, which are identical to the same reason incandescent bulbs are purposefully manufactured by every single lightbulb manufacturer
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
I used to play a graphical version of Moria. I've just recently started playing Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup online (there's offline playable builds as well). If you like classical Rogue-likes, you might enjoy it too.
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
> without much of the above Have you even visited Australia, and even slightly outside its cities? And then have you visited New Zealand? To have done so and still believe they are equally fertile would require some incredible cognit
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
> Surely you'd know kangaroos are way more plentiful now that a lot of the forests have been cleared? The forests were cleared before Europeans arrived using bushfires > Aboriginal Australians caused extinctions of quite a few sp
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
I’ll suggest again to read Guns, Gerns, and Steel. An agricultural revolution is predicated on fertile lands, high yield crops, domestication of docile animals (both for consumption and as beasts of burden), etc. then if those environmental
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
For those who don't follow the Fall of Civilizations podcast, this is worth a listen/watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8JVdpWCKeM
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
On one hand I'll refer you to the comment I was replying to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37927320 On the other I'll point you to this common structural building material: https://en.wikipedia.o
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
You need a temperature of about 1000°C to fire bricks, but more is better to get the moisture out. From cursory googling around it seems that a solar kiln wouldn't cut it, unless perhaps a very large solar collector was used... which
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
> Just wasn't their time So just happenstance? > Modern humans spent about 200k years without figuring it out as well Say that were true, your amazement in your OP would be a little strange. > The sex-pregnancy link was figure
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
> see Keen, Walshe and Sutton Have you seen them? I won't pretend to have read Walshe and Sutton, but from my cursory understanding of their criticism it's that Pascoe has conflated all indigenous tribes across the continent (n
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
What is different about Aboriginal Australians (in your mind) that caused you suggest they "never figured how seeds work, or the link between pregnancy and sex"? Do you think it took modern science for humans to make these simple
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
It's amazing how you went from 'there was no agricultural revolution in Australia' to 'Aboriginal Australians never figured how seeds work, or the link between pregnancy and sex'. I've witnessed firsthand from
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
The book has garnered some criticism from experts, which is expected for conjectures where most of the evidence has been destroyed, but I don't believe there's been a complete refutation of his ideas > Pascoe is a conman. As pe
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
It's worth giving Dark Emu a (critical) read. It gathers numerous primary sources from early explorers which describe practices of cooperative harvesting, cultivation, and land management between indigenous tribes in Australia. They
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
> Doesn’t it take like a year to register a trademark? If this is a fresh new startup are these things actually even trademarked? It’s not a registered trademark sign. That’s ®
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
I'd never reflected on the irony of these features being called Universal when they only work on Apple devices, but the 'just works' nature really does feel good. I sometimes need to work on mobile development, so on advice
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
I hadn’t encountered KDE Connect before, I might check that out for MacOS to Android. It looks like they’ve done the best they can on iOS, I’m spite of how locked down it is
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
Wouldn't a non-Apple controlled authentication system suffice? Taking a punt here, but maybe Matrix could work?
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
Universal clipboard is pretty great too. It's another thing I wish was just an open standard that all the things supported, not just the Apple ecosystem.
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
I guess titles for any documentary are going to be at least a bit intriguing, which could be the same as clickbait? But the full YouTube video title does specify it's talking about/to Africa: "i'd rather build my house
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
YouTube has you covered. These are the first links I found about rammed earth construction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjyGOOtOFik How to add a doorway/window... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
> The moral to this story is, use what's local and does the job The content of the video is specifically directed at people of the developing world: > this is the catastrophic reality I say in developing countries we have to go b
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
The video at 6:11 briefly touches on making mortar and stone construction (along with visuals): > binding material or mortar should be of the same constituency as the brick or stone white gypsum and sand mortar go well with sandstone mor
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
In the video they are building the bricks on-site. I've done this before. And also built a kiln on-site with mud bricks (with a small team), though it takes a good design to get it to the high temperature required. Rammed earth is a
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
Very favorably. Think of how big a bag of cement is. Using a timber mold like the one used in the video you can leave 100s (if not 1000s) of bricks to dry in one day. You need some materials like clay soil, straw and sand, some which mig
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
No causal mechanism is provided > The study showed that for a significant proportion of children with autism, the ability to add the glucose molecule to BPA is about 10 percent less than that of control children. For a significant propor
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
> BMW says that the i5 is delivered to customers with a carbon footprint of 17 tons of CO2 equivalent. I’m glad to see this kind of information. But the figure is meaningless without comparison to other ICE and EVs and it’s hard to trust
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
Might be. But instead of another fragmentary standard can't we make the already reasonably supported one look better by default?
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
These mark up languages like PlantUML/Mermaid are diffable, mergeable, and can sit there in the repo right next to the code it's designing for. Many IDEs and cloud repositories support displaying them. Not sure if that's th
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
As per the article, these Nickel Hydrogen batteries are very different to NiMH > Nickel-hydrogen batteries look and work unlike any other battery. They consist of a stack of electrodes inside a pressurized gas tank. The cathode is nickel

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