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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
And oddly, in auctions for farm animals. If you go to buy a bull at an auction mart, you bid guineas, not pounds.
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
These wholesale moves to prescribe new language in the interest of social justice are the reductio ad absurdum result of the whole menagerie of post-modern identity theories and movements, from critical race theory to post colonial theory t
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
They are not really determining the age of the water, but rather how long the water has been isolated from other water, and thus changing entirely as a result of local interactions with the containing substrate, and the entrained microbial
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
They are addressed reasonably well in Lollar's published work on the Kidd Creek water: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01490451.2019.16... ETA: (Unfortunately, it's paywalled at a high p
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
I think that if you read their list of "Flaws of predictive optimization" as a primer for what developers of automated advisory or decision making systems ought to be thinking about, and ultimately be accountable for, then this is
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
Spacing is indeed important, and if you are going to grow walnut on a plantation, you want to manage spacing over the first 20 years of the plantation pretty closely, with very dense competition in the early years to force straight upward g
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
I think it's going to be an interesting fight. By the standards the drug companies want to use, at least 1/3 of the US population might be diagnostically suited for a GIP prescription, which, as current understood, they would ha
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
> Mounjaro is not an obesity drug. It's a type 2 diabetes drug. Do not call it an obesity drug This is an absurd argument. It's a drug. It has specific metabolic affects in humans that are valuable to people's health, a
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
North American Black Walnut, when grown in it's preferred conditions, is anything but scraggly. Getting good, straight timber from it isn't hard, but it does take good soil, rainfall, and time - from nut to harvestable high qual
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
Of course solar power is not limitless. Finite insolation, and finite land mass = finite resource. But, you could generate the entirety of US energy usage from less than 100,000 square miles of solar panels, and quite possibly from less t
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
Brilliant use of tech to reveal things just below our ability to perceive, and raise fascinating questions of history. Lovely article.
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Nature: Could solar panels in space supply Earth with clean energy?(nature.com)
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
Not so. It annoyed me, and I understood it for what it was immediately.
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
Yes, but a bit overblown. They left out the part where the needle was glowing with highly penetrating radiation, 1000 times brighter than the hay, and everything - needle and haystack - was spread out along a known path. It looks like t
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
The official explanation so far is that the capsule was secured in its holding device which in turn was in a box secured on a pallet. The device was shaken apart by road vibration, and likewise one of the four bolts holding the box to the
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
The post's author's having missed that it is a logarithmic scale doesn't say much for his chart reading. The choice of a logarithmic scale by the charts creator doesn't say much for his presentation skills. It's
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
One thing highly appealing about flow batteries at scale is that the significantly simplify recycling of the critical materials. The electrolytes are inherently easily separable from the electrodes, anf retrievable in bulk. And you have
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
Google and most other digital maps are indeed terrible maps. They are fine for a certain kind of navigation task, and great for looking up where the Starbucks nearest your current location is located, but for most other map uses, and certa
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
That's an 11 year old article. Might want to indicate that in the subject/title, as is customary.
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
My first "pocket calculator" was an HP-45. I still have one on my desk, although I rarely use it because I don't want to burn out the LEDs, which do not age well into their 4th and 5th decades. Instead I use an HP-45 simu
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
Depends of course on the use to which I'm putting the apple. If I had to reduce to a single variety in the orchard, I'd probably grow Liberty (not an heirloom, but rather a university-bred disease resistant variety created in th
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
Yes.
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
The Crab Apple you refer to is a species, not a variety. And, to be clear, while there were many, many varieties of apples named and propagated in North America in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, almost all of th
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
That's a fair and good correction. My only point is that they are still extremely vulnerable to extinction, unless there is demand for them in the market.
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
> When you say something needs to be commercially successful to be viable, be careful what you're optimizing for. I'm optimizing for survival. If an apple variety has no market, it won't be eaten or enjoyed (so it become
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
"Bred out" is a bit of a misnomer here. Apples varieties are propagated clonally through grafting. However, each new cloned tree originates from a single twig of a previous tree, and that twig originates from a single cell of
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
Although I appreciate the work folks like Tom Brown do, the notion that he has actually rescued 1000 varieties is a bit of a stretch. An apple variety is only really rescued when it has found a home in commerce and some significant consum
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
It looks about right You can plainly see the 5 yd line markers on House Field (in Austin, TX) on the image. Those lines are at most 15cm wide - enough to seriously desaturate the green in any pixel that contains a line, but nowhere near
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
Yep. And if nuclear advocates had a plausible story about what a path to zero-carbon, nuclear powered grid that produces affordable power, deals with its own waste issue, and doesn't scare the shit out of the population, we should be
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
Exactly. To be useful to fill the dips in renewal production, you have to run your the baseline contribution of nuclear at a low power, so you've got headroom to expand into when needed. That makes nuclear kwh, already inherently e

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