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by hosh 2y ago
The displacement is only a bad thing if there are no interactions between the native ecology and the new one. If there are interactions, then the ecologies start merging and adapting. The native species can still thrive because there is par
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But, if they develop relationships with other species within that ecology, then those form networks that allows participation in the local ecology. They would no longer be invasive.
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There are probably some kind of microorganism and insects native to the US that would like to eat them.
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by hosh 2y ago
According to this article: > This BBC article from 2010 points out that Japanese knotweed isn't really a problem in its native country - while common, the plant "doesn't rage out of control like it does in the UK, thanks t
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by hosh 2y ago
There are many plants that have survival adaptations like that. The question is: what are the other animals that would normally eat it and keep it in check?
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by hosh 2y ago
I find it interesting that many permaculturists would include "invasive" species in their designs. (What makes something invasive has more to do with few, if any, ecological links to other species within the area). Anything from h
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by hosh 2y ago
Maybe we can find alternatives besides those industries. As far as cleaning up pollutants themselves, there are some amazing work by Dr John Todd for cleaning up pollution. Two examples of his work — a system capable of breaking down DDT wi
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by hosh 2y ago
> No, it's merely incredibly difficult. It's difficult, but I don't think it is _that_ difficult. Ecologies, like any living systems, can self-heal and regenerate. There are practices that allows us to tap into that regene
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We could also learn to live within the means of our ecology.
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There's another gotcha I found out at my workplace -- for Postgres, tables without a primary key has trouble when you want to use logical replication. The times you might want to use logical replication includes using AWS's databa
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by hosh 2y ago
It isn’t quite as developed as the Bessemer process, but they were producing steel with a precursor, using a cold blast: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_technology_of_th...
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by hosh 2y ago
It's kinda nuts how little this is taken seriously on HN. When combined with: - Pressure to make use of office spaces again, away from remote work - The AI bubble - The layoffs that started before section 174 that demonstrated how head
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by hosh 2y ago
And yet, the Song dynasty had a proto-industrial revolution, complete with deep mining for salt and natural gas, water powered forges, blast furnaces for steel, and so forth. This would be between 960 - 1279. China had a labor surplus for m
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by hosh 2y ago
On the other hand, Tolkien spent his time creating realistic languages and lore to go with that, above and beyond many fantasy writers. On the gripping hand, having read through various histories, it's nuts how often historians get thi
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by hosh 2y ago
It is about 20 hours of outside play a week, more or less, from early childhood, through tweens, teens, and into college. When you mean you did, most of your young life, was it about that much? The second thing I would ask is if you have as
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by hosh 2y ago
They were comparing against kids in Australia. I forgot the exact details, but the policy developed was to add additional time during schools, and educating parents. Two hours a day cumulative, five day a week or something along those lines
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by hosh 2y ago
In China and Taiwan, where many kids are pushed to study more, outside play would be a treat. Although I don’t know about video games. In the US, the complicating factor is that parents get in trouble for letting kids play unsupervised outs
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by hosh 2y ago
I am looking at Apache AGE because it is a Postgres extension and it parses openCypher
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by hosh 2y ago
Just asking for clarity, when you used “GQL”, are you referring to GraphQL or are you referring to GQL, the successor to Cypher and openCypher?
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Turns out, myopia isn't hereditary. It has to do with dopamine interactions and the retina receiving outdoor lighting. When there is insufficient outdoor lighting, the retina starts growing in a different shape, leading to myopia. Just
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by hosh 2y ago
Taiwan had something similar, found it it has to do with outdoor lighting (because many kids in both China and Taiwan stay indoors to study), and started a program to let kids play outside. Along with an early childhood intervention, myopia
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by hosh 2y ago
It's the dopamine interaction of the retina receiving outdoor lighting which changes things. I don't think this works on astigmatism though.
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by hosh 2y ago
Hmm. I wonder if there is some kind of query builder that can live server-side. That is, capture the flexibility of a query language when developing, and then consolidating that when going into production. Though I guess you can do that wit
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by hosh 2y ago
Some people want to self-host this technology. AI is very powerful, and not everyone wants that to be controlled by large corporations or institutions.
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by hosh 2y ago
> "You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger." That's exactly the Six Realms conception of hell beings. They are not in Naraka because they had done something bad and being punished for it
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The use of postgresql licensing might mean we can see this available for AWS RDS and other managed PostgreSQL providers.
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The “a” and “b” zones subdivides it. Zone 10 is tropical, and never gets frost. Each “a” and “b” represents a 5 degree range. You can also create microclimates, local areas where the zone effectively shifts up or down about 5 degrees. As an
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Nodejs will also move on if io is blocked. However, since Nodejs queues bits of execution, rather than messages, errors can get lost. So then you have unhandled promise rejections… and then relying on a linter to look for those times you di
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by hosh 2y ago
Let’s say we do that. How many threads can we create? On BEAM, running 10,000 lightweight processes is normal. Phoenix is designed so that every incoming http request is its own lightweight process. How does one manage that number of lightw
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This is in the works right now: https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2023/09/20/strong-arrows-gradua...

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