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   by helpfulContrib 3y ago

   I think the reason these precepts are sustained across generations of culture and, indeed, civilization, is because they're based around a fundamental truth - namely, that of survival, and are therefore a 'survival-decision factor
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   by helpfulContrib 3y ago

   I call it "Soviet Yellow" whenever I see it, its a very common colour for buildings in Europe, and it is indeed rage-inducing. I feel that its a frequency of colour which produces a dissonance with ones own internal colour, which
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   by helpfulContrib 3y ago

   I'm Australian, have travelled the world (incidentally since 1988), and have noted across the globe the eucalyptus spread before me .. it has been both a welcome and a tragic sight along the way. Australians generally, these days, know
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   by helpfulContrib 3y ago

   Can this somehow be used to edit a file on a system remotely? Say I have some .wav's on a raspberryPi, can I publish them, edit, send them back to that raspberryPi? Because that seems to me to be a very awesome use-case ..
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   by helpfulContrib 3y ago

   Weather apps are one example that comes to mind .. Perhaps you haven't observed it because, well, it kills the app.
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   by helpfulContrib 3y ago

   Farming is not just a for-profit industry, or at least - not always a mass-scale profit industry. Maintaining ones own - or community - garden is a fantastic way to just improve the quality of your own life, and the life of others around yo
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   by helpfulContrib 3y ago

   Food forests are only bad business because bad business has made it so. Where food forests win, is where people don't want mono-culture food products, and prefer to grow - and eat - locally. Of course, if you've never stepped off
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   by helpfulContrib 3y ago

   Thanks for the AROS tip, that makes a lot of sense, have duly noted it for future reference ..
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   by helpfulContrib 3y ago

   How do you feel about the Amiga 500 as a platform for teaching systems programming? These are a lot more accessible to kids and the like, than the fully loaded A600 that only a few of us have stashed in the attic/atop the retrocollect
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    by helpfulContrib 3y ago

    It takes attention and skill and involvement. And I think the point where more will do it, is at the border and fence-line. Once a neighbor starts growing a food forest, that idea can rapidly spread. It does take years, though...
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    by helpfulContrib 3y ago

    I am one of the early KS backers also, and have had mine since about a year I guess. He has been persistent, that is for sure. And I'm glad to see its shipping. Mine is a curio now, I don't really need it - but its fun to use fo
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    by helpfulContrib 3y ago

    As a very, very early backer, I have one. It is a terribly interesting desktop gadget that I've used for debugging a couple of times. My favourite thing to do is to wrap my code in view with gpio on/off blips, and measure the per
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    by helpfulContrib 3y ago

    This material would be most usefully applied in a hospital environment, where extremophiles are capable of adapting to the hostility they normally encounter, and is rather a leap beyond the existing strategies for containment. I don't