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by korethr 6y ago
I will be watering with a hose as well, at first. If I waited until I had a drip-line system in place, I wouldn't have enough warm season left to get very much yield from whatever I managed to get planted. But I absolutely do intend to
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by korethr 6y ago
I'm working on a garden. I moved into a house late last fall, so I actually have some space to do so. This scratches multiple itches for me. Itch the first: I've missed having a vegetable garden since I moved out of my parent&#x27
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by korethr 6y ago
Answering your second question, Silicon wafers are made from from an ingot of monocrystaline silicon[1], as the fault line formed from the boundary between two crystals could interfere with circuit operation. Said ingots are often made with
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by korethr 6y ago
So, how's the tactile feel on this switch?
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by korethr 6y ago
I cringed when it came to describing how he'd try to tell the FBI half truth. Even if they hadn't had enough evidence to get him for his involvement in the Kronos malware, they'd still throw the lying to a Fed charge at him.
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by korethr 6y ago
>and if someone can turn a hotel into apartments successfully, which sounds like a challenge to me It can be done, but I've more often seen apartments built over ground scraped clean than retrofitting an existing building. Honestly,
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by korethr 6y ago
> If the FSF makes a GPLv4, GTK will automatically be available under that license, while Qt will not. If that were the case, then why was GTK not updated to GPL or LGPLv3 when the FSF came up with that group of licenses? When I looked
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by korethr 6y ago
Okay, but even if GTK is a GNU project or a FSF project, why does that mean it qualifies for being part of a future GPLv4 licensed EMACS, and QT does not? Both are available under the LGPL. I wonder if Stallman expects that a GPLv4 would li
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by korethr 6y ago
A shame Stallman put the kibosh on QT quickly. Is he planning on there being a GPLv4? Not in the "leaving that option open for the future" kind of planning, but more, "A need has been identified that can't be met by v3,
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by korethr 6y ago
The alt-text of xkcd 552 comes to mind: "Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'."
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by korethr 6y ago
Interesting. Okay, let's play with this. Let us extrapolate from the strong correlation found by this retrospective review, and postulate that Vitamin D Insufficiency (VDI) is indeed a major contributing factor in either the severity o
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by korethr 6y ago
I argue that falls into my point above. If there is a sentiment that by having a thing now, and by either holding it or selling it later, it will make you money, there will be demand for the thing. Whether being able to sell it later for a
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by korethr 6y ago
To a degree, yes. The stock market reflects investor sentiment about the viability of of the entities traded. If there's a notion that a company will be worth more in the future and will either pay out a nice dividend or can be later s
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by korethr 7y ago
Having been on a jury, I thought requiring a unanimous decision for a conviction was how juries operated in the US in general. I'm surprised to learn that there were states that were an exception. I'm not surprised to learn that s
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by korethr 7y ago
There's a logical jump from the 2nd to 3rd paragraph that bugs me, but upon reflection, I don't know if my objection is valid: > The initial results from the first large-scale study tracking the spread of the coronavirus in the
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by korethr 7y ago
A curious thing I notice in the final plotted graphs. Some of them show a continuous smooth decline, and when the trend dipped below 1, it continued to do so in a smooth fashion. Others, it dipped below 1, then bounced back up again, someti
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by korethr 7y ago
But, with RPKI getting the cert infra in place, would that not then make it relatively easier to take that 2nd step, than when not even RPKI was in place?
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The Camera vs. the Human Eye (2012)(petapixel.com)
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by korethr 7y ago
Damn. I was thinking just a couple days ago that serum therapy might be a potential treatment avenue. For whatever reason, the plot of a Dragonriders of Pern novel came to mind, and I realized the similarity of the situation to the COVID-19
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by korethr 7y ago
I don't see why not it wouldn't work, assuming you got the process right and produced them in a clean enough environment. Yields would probably be lower than that of a professional foundary during the 60s or 70s that was processin
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by korethr 7y ago
This is sadly, not terribly surprising. With most stores not grocery stores closed, people have to turn to online ordering to get what they need/want. And with Amazon having established themselves as the main entity to go to for online
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by korethr 7y ago
Go check out the Coreboot project. They're about as low-level and bare metal as you can get, because Coreboot is not running on the board firmware, it is the board firmware. And as an open source project, they document all the vario
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by korethr 7y ago
A somewhat tangentally tech related question: Since (it seems that) all support is now done out of Indian call centers, how badly is this going to affect the ability to get support when needed? As an example, should I expect support from, s
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by korethr 7y ago
Not surprising, and I'm glad it's being done. I'd be more worried if the headline was something like "Power companies wait too late to sequester plant operation crews, personnel shortages mount as employees catch COVID-1
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by korethr 7y ago
I agree with this. For most of my adult life, I lived paycheck to paycheck. And when I look back on my earlier years, I didn't have to. There were opportunities to start building up a reserve, and I failed to recognize them or take the
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by korethr 7y ago
In that article, he discusses mounting the machine-specific /etc (and the base root fs implied thereby) via NFS. I recall playing with the design for a small group of diskless of linux worstations (which I never actually built, because
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by korethr 7y ago
This has been a frustration of mine, and increasingly frequently. I get wanting to see better, but the problem with a lot of these aftermarket kits is that the really don't improve visibility that much. The problems are twofold: Fist,
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by korethr 7y ago
I seem to recall a post on his blog where he addressed this point. IIRC, his conclusion was that if it had not been him, then then the culture/movement/whatever would have eventually invented someone else like him. That is, someon
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by korethr 7y ago
If current copyright laws and the processes built around enforcing them prevent educating people about those laws and processes, then, IMO, said laws have become overgrown, and need to be cut back.
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by korethr 7y ago
Not only is that a dumb analogy in this context, it's a plain dumb analogy. That's not how an altimeter works. Not only would you need an altimeter, but also fast and accurate GPS positioning, and current topographical maps of you

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