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by pzone 6y ago
The taste should be pretty mild if they're prepared properly. You need to boil repeatedly and keep replacing the water until they stop tasting bitter. Some species of oak are better than others.
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by pzone 6y ago
Tannins are unpleasant in high concentrations and produce sensations ranging from dry mouth to burning to stomachache. Leeching the tannins out is the only way to make acorns palatable. Wheat is easy to prepare by contrast - simply grind it
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by pzone 6y ago
That’s more something bat enthusiasts say to get people to like the critters. In reality insectivorous bats primarily eat larger, easier to catch prey like moths.
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by pzone 6y ago
This is even more pronounced among so-called fragile communities, where 95% of black residents want to retain police presence, and in the Chicago area, 68% want increased police presence. https://news.gallup.com/poll/25
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by pzone 6y ago
The UNESCO "wealth of the 1%" sloganeering is one pet peeve of mine. This is the data where the article derives the claim "the top 3 richest people owning more wealth than the bottom 160 million." The way they get this e
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by pzone 6y ago
The spectral peak is blue-green but the emission is relatively even along the visible light range, so if any color is perceptible it's only a very slight tint. The atmosphere scatters blue light more than other colors so direct sunligh
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by pzone 6y ago
Houdini has also cracked the market open to indie pricing. Autodesk has finally offered $250/year subscriptions for Max and Maya after sustained pressure from SideFX’s offering.
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by pzone 6y ago
This is a "smaller" economy as in "more tight-knit," not as in "smaller GDP."
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by pzone 6y ago
It is briefly mentioned at the end of the article as a way to find common cause with the left on this issue.
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by pzone 6y ago
I enjoyed using Phabricator but the barrier to entry is too high for a community project like KDE which needs every new developer it can get. Just a few small hurdles are enough to put people off.
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by pzone 6y ago
It implements finite element method solver for continuous solids. This is done by filling the object with tetrahedrons and applying deformation constraints. Varying the constraint strength throughout the object lets you adjust the stiffness
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by pzone 6y ago
This notion seems to incorrectly represent what climate science models are and how they are developed. If there were some way to "validate" them that everyone could generally agree upon, it would be possible to move this work to t
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by pzone 6y ago
Big fan of this Houdini artist's procedural helmets and robots https://twitter.com/mglhs_com/status/1081153465328549889
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by pzone 6y ago
Visual for-loops work just fine for iterating over geometry chunks, and can even be parallelized with "compile block begin" nodes in Houdini. High-level iteration is less intuitive, eg. iterating over random seeds for a sim and re
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by pzone 6y ago
This project looks very promising!
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by pzone 6y ago
How is a leading academic of any kind determined? Perhaps surveys among other economists, or peer evaluations? For a more concrete metric, paper citations within the past 10 years?
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by pzone 7y ago
Hangs at "scene loading..." on Firefox
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by pzone 7y ago
It is extremely difficult to create large, colorless, flawless synthetic diamonds. Currently synthetics are primarily used for industrial applications like drill bits.
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by pzone 7y ago
The main downside is that it is buggy. This includes KDE's slow crawl toward Wayland support. I love KDE's features but accept I will be experiencing more resets with Plasma than even buggy Windows Explorer.
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by pzone 7y ago
> Guile runs elisp just fine While this may be the case, my understanding was that once the codebases were combined and guile-emacs builds were brought online, they encountered a severe performance drop from vanilla Emacs due to back-and
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by pzone 7y ago
Big fan of this library. It's much easier than writing these scripts by hand. You can also dump a command line version to use elsewhere with the .compile() function. For those concerned about extensibility, you can always use .global_
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by pzone 7y ago
I don't see what would make such a configuration option particularly difficult. Maybe file a bug report requesting it? The scaling difficulties are fundamentally a problem with XWayland so you're left with two problematic options.
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by pzone 7y ago
Even KDE was only able to gain support for EGLStreams after an NVidia developer Erik Kurzinger contributed the necessary changes to Kwin.
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by pzone 7y ago
Bread isn't particularly sweet compared to other foods. Orange juice has a strange and very strong flavor compared to other juices and has a significant bitter component to its taste due to crushing the peels. Never tried chocolate aft
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by pzone 7y ago
(3) is certainly debatable. If you read the actual contents of the IPCC forecasts it doesn't seem anything close to the end of the world. We're not turning the planet into Venus and we're not going to have to abandon Manhatta
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by pzone 7y ago
Why is every group calling the benefits of climate change legislation into question immediately smeared as "climate change deniers?" It's perfectly valid to look at the science, accept its conclusions, and remain unconvinced
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by pzone 7y ago
That kind of talk always seems downright racist to me.
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by pzone 7y ago
Still can't get a decent burrito in NYC. Source: am a Brooklynite
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by pzone 7y ago
Quick rundown: - Private equity firms invest in businesses that are not publicly traded. For example, they invest in startups that are seeking to grow and eventually IPO. - Investment banks help existing firms undertake financial transactio
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by pzone 7y ago
He's not a serious guy at all, he's a nutjob who likes listening to himself talk.

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