tux1968

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by tux1968 6y ago
Well it was an honest question, not a suggestion. I suppose there are good reasons for that policy, just seems a shame to lose out on good honest updates because people are afraid to post without anonymity.
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by tux1968 6y ago
Edit: It's a shame you can't find a way to make those edits available to OSM.
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by tux1968 6y ago
I was really only addressing the notion that vertical farming took up more land. If we have as much extra land as you say, the point is irrelevant anyway. But you need to remember that there are real costs to industrial farming on land. T
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by tux1968 6y ago
But you're ignoring the inefficiency of building separate hydroponic operations on individual rooftops and driving around to all of them, etc. Also as SamBam mention above, you don't have to make a simulated sun. Instead it can
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by tux1968 6y ago
Because rooftop hydroponic farms have to be tended to almost daily, or at least for planting/harvesting. Solar panels don't need nearly as much maintenance and allow you to concentrate the actual growing operations for the economi
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by tux1968 6y ago
How exactly do you do that in say the desert? Solar is KISS in many situations.
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by tux1968 6y ago
The other thing to remember is that there is a lot of land that isn't suitable for farming for one reason or another that can be used for solar.
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by tux1968 6y ago
For your #8 a function might be helpful to remove the $[] characters. $ function c;{echo $[$*]} $ c 1234./56 22.035714285714285 $ a=33;c a / 3 11
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Lightweight Is the Right Weight(tinyverse.org)
2 points by tux1968 6y ago|0 comments
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by tux1968 6y ago
But that is true for all computationally irreducible systems, including inanimate objects. But people want to feel like there is something special about them that goes deeper than the current arrangement of their atoms. That there is a re
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by tux1968 6y ago
Science is a process for inspecting and then describing phenomenon. It does not say what is true, it only does its best to accurately and meticulously describe reality. It does not, and can not, know if it has missed something, or if the
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by tux1968 6y ago
Noticed that too. I just signed up and added a few points of interest here in North America. Was surprised that I could create an account and see my updates appear on the realtime map moments later.
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by tux1968 6y ago
So that it works as you expect at the boot loader menu, and in the bios settings ;-)
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by tux1968 6y ago
Yes, you're right. Although there are easy ways to mitigate this if it's actually important. Simply including the branch name in each commit message is simple enough, or disabling fast-forward merges so that each merge has its o
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by tux1968 6y ago
Come on. Having a physical ignition switch that isn't controlled electronically is not a new idea.
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by tux1968 6y ago
Git branches and tags were independent features from the very start. It's true that branches were not stored in a separate directory, but that really wouldn't add much. There were tools to check out a branch into a separate worki
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by tux1968 6y ago
That's much too simplistic. For instance Linus also denounces C++ and programmers don't fall into line behind him on that front. He is influential, but could not have caused the monumental shift in version control without produc
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by tux1968 6y ago
> ...my fellow video game enthusiasts got their panties in a bunch and started a hate machine against her... It's really hard to resist the temptation to fight in the mud isn't it? Flippantly casting aspersions like this one i
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by tux1968 6y ago
Not sure if it really qualifies as a trick, but the game changer for me was <ctrl-o>. Being able to pop into and out of MC from the shell, even while in the middle of typing a command is great. It's easy to ignore if the comman
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by tux1968 6y ago
I never heard him say it was a mistake, I heard him say it was a necessary lie to protect supplies of masks. Do you have a link to where he said it was a mistake? Maybe I just missed it? And a quick google shows this: https://w
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‘Weird new things are happening in software’ says Stanford AI professor Chris Re(zdnet.com)
3 points by tux1968 6y ago|1 comments
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They left Mozilla to make the internet better(protocol.com)
10 points by tux1968 6y ago|0 comments
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by tux1968 6y ago
Sometimes opening your mouth and saying the wrong thing is the quickest way to improve your understanding. Starting with an incorrect premise and then talking/arguing things out until your understanding comes more in line with reality
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by tux1968 6y ago
"According to Hoyle" is an English idiom. It means that all the rules are followed and everything is fair.
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by tux1968 6y ago
If that was the thinking, they would be shutting down the groups that are organized and protesting in the pacific northwest.
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by tux1968 6y ago
That probably makes the statistics even more concerning. It means that 9% of wealth held by those under 40 is in fact even less for the typical person under that age, since it is concentrated in fewer members of the group than it once was.
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by tux1968 6y ago
Yes, but the increased availability of such things around the globe and across social strata is unparalleled.
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Why Create a New Unix Shell?(oilshell.org)
73 points by tux1968 6y ago|62 comments
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by tux1968 6y ago
Why would a site that hopes you'll send them money in exchange for product, refuse your traffic if you have an ad blocker enabled? That just costs them money. Same for government forms, why would they refuse your traffic if you'
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by tux1968 6y ago
I'm attached to this window. This idea from religion has always bothered me. Yes, the cosmos remains intact even as the ego dies. But it seems dismissive to say the ego is less precious and can be calmly dismissed because the eternal

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