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by hosh 3y ago
And there are ways to remediate wastelands! It would take a very long time though if we just "left it alone". I think there's a false dichotomy about what "human intervention" means, because as a civilization, we th
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by hosh 3y ago
Neat! I'll have to revisit it again with an eye towards what you just told me.
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by hosh 3y ago
Probably why the idea of r/GuerrillaGardening is getting popular. Leaving that aside, I was reading about an urban permaculture group's experience with working with the city. In their experience, the city they are working with wan
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by hosh 3y ago
"Invasive" are another idea I think are widely misunderstood by the public. I think it is more about how many ecological relationship something has with other species within the local ecosystem. Something without a lot of interact
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by hosh 3y ago
I haven't travelled to Tuscon yet so I don't know, though I know there are some large preserves outside of Tuscon. I'm not sure what you mean by the waterless Agua Fria plateau. I make a lot trips between Phoenix and northern
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by hosh 3y ago
There is a big difference between human intervention that sets us apart from the ecosystem (in which we act upon the ecosystem) and human intervention where we work as a participant of the ecosystem (in which we participate within the ecosy
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by hosh 3y ago
It can be pretty fast if you work with the natural feedback loops. Permaculture design principles, "use small, slow solutions". This is an accidental grove out along the CAS canal project. The bearm made unintentionally by the can
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by hosh 3y ago
That's what guerrilla gardners do with their seedbombs do as well. (Not necessarily the hydroseeding, but rather, a selection of native species).
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by hosh 3y ago
Swales, basins, and bearms help with water management. I see a lot of that in the greenways in and around Phoenix. Just not at my neighborhood park. There's a botanical garden an hour out of Phoenix metro that showcases edible Sonoran
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by hosh 3y ago
Ah! Great question! Let's talk roots. Trees have different kinds of roots, such as lateral roots and tap roots. What they do depends upon the species, their growth patterns, and how those patterns adapt to their native environment. Man
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by hosh 3y ago
> There really are no trees that are "great" for where you live, because without human intervention like what you described, there really are no trees that sustain themselves in the Lower Sonoran area. It is essentially a deser
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by hosh 3y ago
Have you ever heard of Scientific Forestry? It was something documented in James C Scott's Seeing Like a State . Here's a long-form essay summerizing the ideas in the book: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07&
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by hosh 3y ago
I’m glad planting trees is happening. And yet, I think the execution will not be that great. In my neighborhood park, there were a bunch of new trees planted this year. And yet, it looked like someone just sprinkled trees without a care abo
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by hosh 3y ago
The Thunderbird project is a good example of community-supported software. By that, I mean that the project figured out how to raise funds directly from the community using it. This includes reporting on what they intend to do with the comm
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by hosh 3y ago
Neat! My practices have been a slow, minor realizations of non-duality. You ever read the Neko no Myojutsu, or the Tengu’s Sermon on the Martial Arts? In the meantime, I have been working on archery in the context of internal martial arts (
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by hosh 3y ago
It’s handling all the things that can go wrong when communicating and coordinating across processes, across machines, or troubleshooting bottlenecks on running systems that Elixir (and Erlang) excels.
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by hosh 3y ago
I shoot with the local SCA, but they don't really know much about this. Youtube have several people that goes through the techniques. Justin Ma and his buddies spent time reconstructing the techniques from Gou Ying's late-Ming man
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by hosh 3y ago
I see references to George Vernadsky, but no details on which history contained this information, nor how Vernadsky derived the 166lb figure. I am not even sure if he is measuring pre-17th Century Mongolian bows, since post-17th Century, Mo
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by hosh 3y ago
Hmm. That makes sense. Probably also why the Qing underestimated naval cannons at around the time of the Opium Wars. I was thinking though, about how long the Chinese had gunpowder, and even bombs before the gunpowder formulas proliferated
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by hosh 3y ago
I am not sure where you are getting the 166 lb figure from. It is true that an Asiatic composite bow over a certain draw weight (depending on design) can impart greater energy on the arrow than a self-bow (long bow) of the same draw weight.
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by hosh 3y ago
Wait until you see a Manchu bow in action.
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by hosh 3y ago
I have been practicing traditional Asiatic archery. There is a bunch of stuff in that article that is misleading. First, the composite bow design used by the Mongolians was widely use as far as the region of the Ottoman-Turks … but also the
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by hosh 3y ago
I thought binaries (>= 64 bytes) are one of the exceptions to "share nothing" model? They are still immutable though. Also, ETS, which shares data across processes, and may allow multiple writers. Granted, you have to explicitl
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by hosh 3y ago
Elon Musk founded X.com before it bought one of its competitors and changed its name to PayPal. He bought the domain name back from PayPal in 2017 and had been sitting on it for a while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.
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by hosh 3y ago
Of more interest is how high the daily low. Being in a desert area, there are large temperature swings between the lows and highs. Midnight shouldn't be the low -- that would be about the hours before dawn. Basically, we're lookin
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by hosh 3y ago
Manure produced by pasture-raised livestock is great! When the herd moves across the grasslands, it is similar to how the vast bison herds contribute back to the grasslands. That manure gets trampled back down into the grassland, where it h
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by hosh 3y ago
> So meat and crop production are not a zero sum game and can even be complementary (crop farmers used to always have chickens, etc). 100%. And, based on the design, it can not only be complementary, there can be synesthetic effects that
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by hosh 3y ago
I am in favor of genuine open source rather than source-available. I also see the OctoBase project, which enables local-first, p2p collaboration using CRDTs. What about importing Evernote into AFFINE? Do such tools exist?
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by hosh 3y ago
How does the P2P syncing aspect work with Affine? I didn't see much of anything written about that on the Readme. EDIT: Aha, https://github.com/toeverything/OctoBase
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by hosh 3y ago
What I mean by “local-first” is not the same as “self-host”. Local-first software are architected in a way where the local device is the source of truth. It usually uses CDRTs or something like git to sync with other peers. It is not a clie

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