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by wffurr 5y ago
I am not sure where the GP gets the "50 harvests" from, but Europe didn't feed 8 billion people for hundreds of years. The Green Revolution aka widespread use of artificial fertilizer didn't start until the 1950s and 60
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by wffurr 5y ago
What's with the editorialized title? The linked Wikipedia article is just titled "Induced Demand". That should be the HN title as well; OP please fix the title to match the linked page. If you want to then post a common wit
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by wffurr 5y ago
That's a really interesting idea, but in practice you might find that the "conservative sunset" ends up being different for every toolkit and developer. Maybe something a bit opinionated, like a React Native-only runtime, cou
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by wffurr 5y ago
So this guy showed up to the taping completely unprepared, having not even read the invitation, and then was mad about it? I would hope they learned from the experience, but sadly I doubt it.
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by wffurr 5y ago
Travel to a sunnier part of the world.
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by wffurr 5y ago
Aha, I think we misunderstood your initial post. You meant "non-English and non-FIGS" languages. Thanks for replying with additional context. I definitely learned a few things. I see what you mean about Flutter having to downloa
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by wffurr 5y ago
Your understanding of Skia may be out of date. See SkParagraph: https://skia.googlesource.com/skia/+/refs/heads/main/modules... And the experimental SkText API: https://skia.googlesource.
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by wffurr 5y ago
Flutter uses Skia for text rendering and layout; the same rendering engine used by Chrome, Android, and others. I'm beyond confident it can handle all of those situations. Flutter demos have a localization dropdown for selecting diffe
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by wffurr 5y ago
A short search revealed that it’s a term of art in localization, referring to French, Italian, German, and Spanish. Typically these are the first targets when localizing an initially-English product. I have no idea what, if anything, Flutt
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by wffurr 5y ago
Like a .jar file?
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by wffurr 5y ago
>> Either way the optimal societal goal is that if the worker works a bit harder they should earn 100% of the profit from the extra work That doesn't seem to have really ever been true for a lot of people. It's very rare fo
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by wffurr 5y ago
I had it largely for Google Play Music now YouTube Music. I canceled it briefly when we switched to Tidal for music, but family members complained about the ads and were still themselves using YouTube Music, so I brought it back. Is it wor
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Moderna announces results for Covid-19 trials in children 6 months to 5 years(investors.modernatx.com)
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by wffurr 5y ago
The good: 100% effective against severe illness. Moderna plans to ask for approval in weeks. The bad: Only 40% effective against symptomatic infection during the Omicron surge. It's not going to do a lot to curb spread through presch
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Moderna to ask FDA to authorize Covid-19 vaccine in children 6 months to 6 years(statnews.com)
1 points by wffurr 5y ago|1 comments
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by wffurr 5y ago
None of which requires unrestricted access for personal cars or motor vehicles.
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by wffurr 5y ago
That's one way to spin choosing not to extend the operating licenses of existing plants operating safely.
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by wffurr 5y ago
Begs the question, why didn't the world wean off oil and supporting then-repressive regimes 50 years ago. I despair for the species sometimes.
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by wffurr 5y ago
Storage, transmission lines, and over provisioning are also alternatives. Still blows my mind that Germany and other countries are closing nuclear facilities though.
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by wffurr 5y ago
Also not OP, but I work on graphics software and we frequently deal with different units and use strict naming systems and occasionally types to differentiate them. Even more fun is that sometimes units alone aren't sufficient. We nee
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by wffurr 5y ago
Yes, but all those Cloud Print enabled printers are still out there hammering the IPs.
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by wffurr 5y ago
>> GTalk was deprecated almost a decade ago. And yet they still run the XMPP servers, though not in a way that's usable as chat. They used the same XMPP servers as GTalk for Cloud Print, for some reason. And now if they turn th
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by wffurr 5y ago
Consumer Reports was quite complimentary of Comma2 in their review of ADAS systems: https://data.consumerreports.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/... ADAS isn't self driving, and as you say it may nev
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by wffurr 5y ago
(2020)
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by wffurr 5y ago
No but with the correct economic incentives I am sure someone will figure it out. After all, Bitcoin incentivized someone to do something with it. If those oil wells are uneconomical to operate in a way that doesn't entail leaking t
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by wffurr 5y ago
The real problem is Texas and the federal government allowing flaring in the first place. With better regulations, many better things could be done with that gas rather than mining Bitcoin.
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by wffurr 5y ago
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by wffurr 5y ago
https://archive.ph/zrtWv
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by wffurr 5y ago
You sure can. In fact, at least for my car (2018 Chevy Bolt), it's possible to find detailed instructions on how to wire up a throttle interceptor and hook it up to a Comma2 unit to add adaptive cruise control when it wasn't even
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by wffurr 5y ago
Doesn't seem like your opinion on sweaters makes for generally applicable advice, given your health condition. Prefacing every bit of advice with, but if you have a serious medical condition then please modify this advice to suit, will

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