jsilence

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   by jsilence 8y ago

   Question could be considered flamebait. Ahhh, the good times... editor wars on usenet.
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   by jsilence 8y ago

   Is there something like this for Linux?
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   by jsilence 8y ago

   When are generators going to replace real world architects?
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   by jsilence 8y ago

   > Figure out other energy sources. Nothing else will work. Stop eating beef. that is something you can do today.
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   by jsilence 8y ago

   70% of global farmland is used to produce fodder for beef. A significant share of strong greenhouse gas methane is produced by cattle. You can start today by sacrificing your finger lickin bbq beef eating habit.
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   by jsilence 8y ago

   I had my struggles with written language througout my whole school carreer, (but not dylectic level struggles). Yet I went from engineering into academics with 20 years of software development in between, where I am researching and teachin
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   by jsilence 8y ago

   obligatory: https://xkcd.com/1145/
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   by jsilence 8y ago

   Also emacs calc is a beast!
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   by jsilence 8y ago

   Also pull requests for pork! SCNR.
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    by jsilence 8y ago

    I was thinking the same. On Gomera the "fog forest" is providing a major part of water for the island. Planting trees is probably much cheaper than setting up the nets.
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    by jsilence 8y ago

    Interresting! Does Stencilla offer any kind of author collaboration? Publication are usually not one person efforts and research teams oftentimes are not working in the same location. In my experience the GDocs or Word comments and revise m
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    by jsilence 8y ago

    Heck, even if you'd simply assume that you can take _all_ of the city space and farm on it, it is still just a small fraction of agriculture. Cities are dense. Cities only cover relatively little of the overall available area.
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    by jsilence 8y ago

    No, it is actually not. To elaborate: a) Urban Farming commonly produces leafy greens and water rich produce like tomatoes and cucumbers. This is commonly known as 'horticulture'. The horticulture to 'farmland farming' r
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    by jsilence 8y ago

    Yes, agreed. But also: Frontal heat radiation from HPS is working against condensation on plant tissue, helping to achieve good phytosanitary conditions. Everything has its pros and cons.
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    by jsilence 8y ago

    1. is a common misconception/myth. even if you manage to keep the bugs out, which is really hard and expensive, you still have to deal with fungii. good luck with trying to filter out those. 2. LEDs are not more efficient than double
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    by jsilence 8y ago

    Humans have been farming for thousands of years. A lot of the required thinking has been done and the results are beeing taught by agricultural schools. Sustainable integrated farming is possible today. Our department is in a project resea
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    by jsilence 8y ago

    Totally agreed. And on top of that: ~70% of the farmland is used to produce animal fodder. Beef production is straining our agricultural system. If we ate less beef, we'd be able to farm the rest much more sustainable, even if it would
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    by jsilence 8y ago

    But you are not getting rid of the low plant efficiency. any other losses will simply come on top. nothing beats direct sunlight.
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    by jsilence 8y ago

    in our model calculations the energy costs are in the same ballpark like labour. thus energy costs are the main culprit. transporting "the light" from elsewhere to the crop has a ~90% loss (20% - 25% solar efficiency times transp
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    by jsilence 8y ago

    yield of hydroponic wheat is significantly lower than conventional production in soil. Prof. Bugbee and team worked on this at NASA.
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    by jsilence 8y ago

    the amount of farmland area you could substitute with urban vertical farming is neglible. way below one percent.
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    by jsilence 8y ago

    And this is why we should encourage content creators to cross publish their videos on peertube/steemit etc.
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    by jsilence 8y ago

    Yeah, basically you'll have to make the stork sign the form that makes him accept the international roaming charges when leaving EU territory.
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    by jsilence 8y ago

    they could also use a large dish to funnel it to the mothball drive reactor. the whole thing would be self lubricating.
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    by jsilence 8y ago

    and this is yet another example why we need protocols and not APIs.
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    by jsilence 8y ago

    exactly. switched to a Lenovo Carbon X1 when my 2009 MBP died on me.
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    by jsilence 8y ago

    In some asian countries like myanmar there are very comfy airconditioned night busses. are there similar offerings in the bus system in germany?
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    by jsilence 8y ago

    there are two ROI points, one ecological/energy wise and the other economical. the former has been roundabout 1.5 years of production a decade ago. I assume this has gotten better through more efficient production. the latter depends v
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    by jsilence 8y ago

    A viable workaround is to browse the repo on your local checkout. It is decentralized git after all.
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    by jsilence 8y ago

    You ackknowledge the topic of climate change and yet you fail to make the connection to the much more enrgy efficient transportation system trains are? Are the costs to counter the effects of sea level rise (in Miami) accounted for in car t