mattgrice

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by mattgrice 3y ago
you are correct, sir. Sorry to Daniel.
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by mattgrice 3y ago
Maybe in the future don't comment on articles until you have read and understand them. And while your comments on DEC-10 and 6-bit bytes might be interesting, there are very few people still working in CS who have seen a DEC-10 outsid
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by mattgrice 3y ago
I don't believe anyone with a brain ever thought hydrogen was going to be practical for cars. Governments (thankfully not the US much) pushed hydrogen as a stalling tactic knowing it would never be viable or reduce demand for fossil f
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by mattgrice 3y ago
It absolutely is a rule if 2 of most valuable companies on the planet are colluding. (Apple and Google). Most SW devs aren't FAANG or whatever you call it these days, but downward pressure trickles down to everyone.
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by mattgrice 3y ago
"Leading Marines" is one of the best leadership books I've ever read. https://www.marines.mil/Portals/1/Publications/MCWP%206-11%2...
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by mattgrice 3y ago
If your child is interested in engineering, and won't be able to go to a private school, it is best to have Calc I and II done before they go to college. At state schools, Calc is typically a weed-out class with huge lectures and they
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by mattgrice 3y ago
12400F max turbo power is 117 watts.
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by mattgrice 3y ago
It doesn't look like anything to me. (westwood reference, but also it does not look like anything to me)
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by mattgrice 3y ago
PSMS (Puget Sound Mycolological Society) member here... Stamets is widely regarded as a crank and makes a lot of mostly unsubstantiated claims about fungi. He is a fun guy (lol fungi) to talk to but you can't take anything he says too
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by mattgrice 5y ago
Carbon removal is generally regarded as a scam, like 'clean coal,' something to distract people from actual carbon emission reductions. It would be great if it worked, but so far the only thing carbon capture technology has been
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by mattgrice 5y ago
There are some cool, non-invasive thistles but Canada thistle is definitely not one of them.
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by mattgrice 6y ago
Capability doesn't take into account climate or access to water.
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by mattgrice 6y ago
This research was motivated by the runoff effect being especially acute in coho salmon. It probably affects other species, too. Now that we know the chemical responsible it will be easier to test that.
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by mattgrice 6y ago
doesn't esp8266 have wifi built in?
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by mattgrice 6y ago
China dominates most electronic industries, few of which were invented there. Interesting that you say LEDs are a Russo-Japanese invention because all colors of LED were first commercialized in the US. The high-brightness blue LED was di
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by mattgrice 7y ago
For those not familiar with midwestern US agricultural parlance, "tile" refers to underground perforated pipe used to make soggy ground more amenable to farming. In other areas it is called a "french drain." https:&#x2
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by mattgrice 7y ago
Farmers need same-day access to replacement parts, which means a dealer with a full stock of parts within driving range. Belarus/MTZ tractors are low tech designs but have about one dealer in every state.
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by mattgrice 7y ago
Farmers definitely still cultivate their own seed, even in the West, for cereal crops like wheat, oats, rye, and rice where hybrid and GMO variants do not exist or are not competitive. For these crops, it's not a very different skill.
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by mattgrice 7y ago
"work got interrupted by a death in his family?" He was found guilty of 1st degree murder of his wife.
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by mattgrice 9y ago
1981, not 1991
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by mattgrice 10y ago
As another poster has pointed out, there are many, many non-glyphosate herbicides. In the past, Monsanto has required farmers buying Roundup-Ready seeds to sign license agreements stating that only Monsanto glyphosate may be used. https:&#
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by mattgrice 10y ago
Did you drop a zero? On an all-potato diet, assuming intensive cultivation (40,000 lbs/acre yield) you could feed about 20 people on one acre. That's 200m^2 per person. For a varied diet that might contain chicken and eggs, 1000
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by mattgrice 10y ago
The original version of NS for PC (3.1) required 16MB RAM and recommended 24 (32 in 3.2). The software itself cost $800. In 1993-94 there was a massive RAM shortage caused by a factory fire in Taiwan. RAM spiked to over $50/meg. Th
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by mattgrice 10y ago
Electricity already makes up around half or less of the cost of desalination. Even free electricity would at best halve the cost.
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by mattgrice 11y ago
Say you're a support person working at IBM in Dubuque, Iowa, where local and state taxpayers spent $50M to lure IBM in a delusion of becoming a tech hub. [1] You specialize in Lotus Notes support for local businesses like Hormel. Las
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by mattgrice 11y ago
Really, you think that $13 per pill was a worse situation? That there was an epidemic of people out there paying $13 a pill for antiprotozoal medications who don't truly need them?
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by mattgrice 11y ago
No, these are not apodments. Apodments are the minimum legally rentable unit. The shared area in an apodment is the kitchen only. It can only be shared by 7 units. It is not designed as a social space, and not treated as one per your lin
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by mattgrice 11y ago
This seems like a strange observation. Active effort is required to keep up with any compiler framework, except the ones that aren't going anywhere. LLVM and Clang at least attempt to provide fixed interfaces for interfacing. In con
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by mattgrice 11y ago
Seiko Kinetic watches are quartz watches that are powered by movement. That's 30 year old technology.
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by mattgrice 11y ago
Could be... but there are many non-US places to get 90nm chips made. This is 10 year old technology. The only explanation that makes sense to me is that they needed not just a non-US source but a domestic one. I can't think of any

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