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by jeromenerf 4y ago
> We killed the microbiology, the research is already done. Keep many kinds of plants in the soil year round, stop adding chems, this increases yield 3x and water retention enough to reduce irrigation demand up to 70%. Permaculture, no-t
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by jeromenerf 4y ago
I find the initiative somehow formidable, commending hope and thus the fear of seeing it fail.
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by jeromenerf 4y ago
People usually eat decommissioned horses, if their papers allowed for it. Most are raised by enthusiasts, for sport. Horses bred and raised for their meat are no longer rare. What used to be endangered races (cobs, cold bloods), can now be
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by jeromenerf 4y ago
Hey, I did that satellite productions a bit less than 20 years ago. The article doesn’t talk about this though. GIS was all the rage, we collected satellite images over Europe, weather and market data and where able to model the date and vo
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by jeromenerf 4y ago
Someone said it corrupts the rich enjoying it and the poor envying it. I guess a little just corrupt a little. I also prefer looking through the lens ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by jeromenerf 4y ago
I cannot say I am surprised by the great quality of the build and the resulting images, it's Leica. They are expensive but they surely deliver. "Not surprised", but still, it's really good. The EVF though was laggy, had
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by jeromenerf 4y ago
As an amateur, I don't care too much, since I only use obsolete stuff. Black & white film are trendy, though expensive and there is not much that can break on my F3 camera. Out of curiosity, I went to the Leica store recently, to
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by jeromenerf 4y ago
"Europe based": yes, we are french. "Currently operating": yes, steadily, for seven years now. "Noteworthy": yes, I really hope we are, at least, we have been quite newsworthy recently "Most companies see
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by jeromenerf 4y ago
Haaa, the sweet comfort of having everything set up and humming. The sweet Debian stable way of nothing ever changing. It may not last forever, as kids, or new jobs or new hobbies come to disrupt the harmony, so enjoy your sweet time.
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by jeromenerf 4y ago
In my case, it’s more like “why woodworkers like software engineering?” Grandfather was a farmer, father a polytechnic teacher, … i have learned to work with wood, metal, cows, roofs, ducks, cars, … and computers. The last one paid more in
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by jeromenerf 4y ago
> which is the fact that horses of the time were smaller Driving a 30kg chariot must have been a frightening fast experience, even on a small pony. The lack of bearing, brakes, suspension, … on wooden wheels.
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by jeromenerf 5y ago
It has not been my experience in 15+ years. It seems it's not prohibited though.
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by jeromenerf 5y ago
> simplistic idea is the real key to misplaced expectations I have spent some time playing with gpt3 and have almost been able to generate the article and the top comments by iterating over “permaculture”, “green revolution”, “vegetarian
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by jeromenerf 5y ago
> It seems like there's now a much wider gap between the smartphone tap-only user and the Vim/Terminal ubergeek with almost nothing in between. Smartphones are truly impressive tech devices. There are people around the globe ru
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by jeromenerf 5y ago
I find searching for a package installed files very useful, as to locate the eventual configuration, templates, assets … dpkg -L packagename | grep doc On Debian for instance. Or even finding out which package installed a specific file wit
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by jeromenerf 5y ago
> There is a balance between … Common mistake. The problem is procrastination and bike shedding, not emacs. It’s because some people love their tools, sometimes more than the craft. It’s the same with cars, photography and woodworking.
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by jeromenerf 5y ago
1. There is no single design for “tiling window manager”. Some uses lists, trees, manual tiling… All can be inadequate. 2. The “tiling” part is no longer the only feature, most have floating modes, automation interfaces, … 3. Bugs happen ev
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by jeromenerf 5y ago
… which might be the least of your concerns under a fascist regime. I mean that it doesn’t take an authoritarian regime change for surveillance capabilities to become scary. It could be your neighbor democracy tapping into your national sys
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by jeromenerf 5y ago
Meat consumption reduction to 2-4 meals a week feels ok. Some cheese and eggs other days. This is totally bearable. What I feel is really detrimental is the fitness culture pushing for no carbs and 2 grams of proteins per kg of body weight.
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by jeromenerf 5y ago
OpenBSD usually doesn’t care about what others think is dead. See https://www.openbsd.org/opencvs/index.html and https://undeadly.org :)
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by jeromenerf 5y ago
> this modern progressive 'everything is political, all the time' mindset Seeing things as not being political is political unfortunately. After a war ends, companies can be judged for collaboration with the enemy. Until then,
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by jeromenerf 5y ago
Dammit, don’t tell everyone, they will notice it.
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by jeromenerf 5y ago
No, no one really cares about homogeneity. Big name apps geared towards music, photo, video, 3D, GIS, IDE … have always looked somehow differently designed and for a good reason when compared to the browser and file manager. There is more v
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by jeromenerf 5y ago
> Which leads me to wonder if its really the genetic choices or is it just something about the farming, nutritional rich soils, or transportation/timing? - the soil plays no great role in taste but is of course the farmer most preci
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by jeromenerf 5y ago
I see no real differences between browsers nowadays feature wise. They are all good enough. However, chrome has better integration with the rest of what google offers. And safari with what apple offers. Synchronization of profiles, open tab
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by jeromenerf 5y ago
Well. Pay and price fixing is an exercice of vision and elegance. Most go at it with brute force and ignorance.
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by jeromenerf 5y ago
Mind the trees too, the stinging ones. Dendrocnide genus.
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by jeromenerf 5y ago
People have difficulties to accept change when innovations go from liberating to considered harmful in a decade. Cars, smartphones … What feels weird is the « reaction »: as environmental concerns progress, cars (and smartphones) are still
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by jeromenerf 5y ago
I believe the limited view and interactivity offered by our small 2D screens at have a profound impact on our industry deliverables. I like a small notebook but I also use a large translucent sheet for plans and sketches or a giant blackboa
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by jeromenerf 5y ago
Capslock as esc/ctrl is great. Or Delete/Cmd. Whatever actually, as long as it’s not capslock.

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