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by wffurr 3y ago
The article was indeed updated since I read it and the parent comment this morning.
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by wffurr 3y ago
Or for multi-month protection, Bt mosquito dunks.
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by wffurr 3y ago
Anything that makes a humid, dark under-layer. In our case, it's the English ivy ground cover. After a few minutes searching, this seems like a good guide: https://www.gardenguides.com/12588077-ivy-and-plants-that-ha..
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by wffurr 3y ago
Put mosquito dunks in it and then don't drink it.
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by wffurr 3y ago
Eliminate standing water. Remove landscaping or vegetation that harbors them. Traps. Repellers (e.g. Thermacell). DEET spray and long clothing. We have an albopictus aka zebra aka Asian tiger mosquito infestation in our Massachusetts ba
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by wffurr 3y ago
Yet another reason to never buy a Tesla. Along with the rest of the awful in-car UX and the at-best mid-pack overhyped ADAS: https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-safety/active-drivi... . Once I get my NACS ada
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by wffurr 3y ago
The gas mopeds (and lawn equipment) can’t get crushed into cubes and replaced with electrics fast enough.
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by wffurr 3y ago
For that world there is also Rhai ( https://github.com/rhaiscript/rhai ), TypeScript, Scheme, etc. Though Moonbit does look nice too.
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by wffurr 3y ago
>> You have no idea what my nutritional needs are You are a human being. We all know what your nutritional needs are. Since you are posting here, we now also know your preferences. But they don’t require spending 1000s of acres of a
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by wffurr 3y ago
I thought the raison d’être for Rust was not having a GC. If this is a garbage collected language, and requires a runtime for such, isn’t this more like Go or any JVM language?
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by wffurr 3y ago
If you call eating less meat and more plants “starving”.
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by wffurr 3y ago
I think their point for syngas (or better yet synthetic liquid fuels) is that solar will be so cheap that the efficiency won't matter.
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by wffurr 3y ago
You would use hydrogen to produce methane to then burn in people's existing as furnaces using the existing natural gas distribution infrastructure. That seems to be Terraform's plan. Still seems better to me to convert as much ho
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by wffurr 3y ago
Ignition! - a history of rocket fuels - from which this quote originates - is freely available online and an excellent read: https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pd...
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by wffurr 3y ago
Thank you.
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by wffurr 3y ago
Leasing a solar system on one’s roof is a thing, either fixed or as a power purchase agreement: https://www.sunrun.com/solar-lease Leasing the roof itself to the solar company less so. Though the difference isn’t clear. In
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by wffurr 3y ago
Prices aren’t that different now. If Uber is cheaper it’s because VC money is paying for your ride. It’s not sustainable.
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by wffurr 3y ago
So a smallish C++ static binary then.
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by wffurr 3y ago
A quick click shows that it’s available on home brew and Mac ports. I like the 2000s website style. It’s functional, simple, and loads very fast.
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by wffurr 3y ago
Mozilla will have to find another revenue source and cut budgets to focus on the browser and maybe not all the other things they are doing.
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by wffurr 3y ago
>> What prevents the existence of such an ecosystem? It's in the OP and in my post: "anticompetitive DRM lock-in". Lack of interoperability.
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by wffurr 3y ago
The problem isn’t running your own infrastructure. It’s the extortionate rent for the big tech infrastructure and the anticompetitive DRM lock in. If there was a competitive ecosystem of client software and hardware and also online stores
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by wffurr 3y ago
Same thing that stops us from building long distance HVDC lines with off the shelf tech: money and time.
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by wffurr 3y ago
Can we enforce it on all OS to allow changing default apps? Thinking of Safari on iOS…
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by wffurr 3y ago
Doesn’t say what it actually does for what kinds of mice, at least from a quick scroll. I have been using BetterTouchTool for years to program the extra buttons on my Logitech mice and add a three finger tip-tap tab switching gesture to the
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by wffurr 3y ago
How do you go fast except by generating power? Force times distance over time, that’s how sailboats move too.
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by wffurr 3y ago
Chromebooks are great too. gLinux laptops are OK I guess? I dunno. Every time I've tried to use Linux as my main interface, it's been crashy and confusing. Maybe it's gotten better since the last time I tried.
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by wffurr 3y ago
If you’d like a few more fold-ins, this has been posted a few times: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23457930 To the OP, well done. Perfectly topical and “executed”.
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by wffurr 3y ago
Mosh and tmux have worked great for me for the last 12 years. Different strokes I guess.
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As if there is any realistic chance of that.

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