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by devrandomguy 9y ago
The local Coast Salish natives have been successfully farming oysters and other shellfish in the tidal zone for thousands of years. This actually improves the nearby environment by filtering the water, and sequesters carbon in the CaCO3 sea
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
The farmed salmon require constant medication to combat the parasites that thrive in dense populations of confined salmon. The wild salmon, however, do not benefit from the medication, but do pick up the parasites as they swim past open-net
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
There is a continuous ring of ocean the whole way around Antarctica. That water can build up a lot of momentum as it is pulled around the Earth by tidal forces. At least, that's what the captain told me, I'm sure there are meteoro
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
They want us to commit to a subscription, using a credit card, in US currency. That is significantly different from the newspaper model, because it requires some trust on my part, and it is quite awkward; my CC sits in a firesafe when I am
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Thanks for the correction, I was wondering when I would have to burn a namecoin or something. > IPFS and the Blockchain are a perfect match! You can address large amounts of data with IPFS, and place the immutable, permanent IPFS links i
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
I guess I should have used quotes.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Hopefully, the power grid will also be decentralizing and mostly transitioning to renewables over that same time period.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
You can use it now, as IPNS, for the IPFS network. https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmdPtC3T7Kcu9iJg6hYzLBWR5XCDcYMY7HV685E... There are browser plugins for IPFS, if you don't want to use the ipfs.io gateway. That gateway is
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
What is Brawndo, exactly?
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
I would be most interested in running this on my Linux desktop. I will not allow Alexa or any other closed-source cloud-connected sensors in my home for security reasons.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
The power management app that comes with KDE/Plasma does a pretty good job with my laptop battery, certainly no worse than Windows did. It throttles back the CPU, dims the screen depending partly on user activity, has sensible policies
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Why on Earth would a device require a modem in order to boot? Even if the modem and the CPU are in the same package, the modem ought to have its own power and ground pins. How exactly does airplane mode work, in that type of package?
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Didn't you hear? Medium pays per clap now, so the NYT authors are all jumping ship /s
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Wow, this is awesome for viewing X-Ray or MRI images. It is especially useful for separating the subject from the background stars in astronomy, if you can take two pictures six months apart to get a stereoscopic separation of 2 AU. MRI: h
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
If our local makerspace can score a little funding in there somewhere for a glass workshop, I'm sure we would love to squeeze in a small bio/chem lab to go along with that and the electronics lab. We can make most of our own equip
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Good, that beats the heck out of a Youtube ELI5 or a slideshow of tweet-sized snippets. A 30-second skim suggests that the writing is of high enough quality to warrant a 10 minute read. Since it is all on one page, I can ctrl-S and read it
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
There is one potential negative feedback loop that I am now curious about, since we recently learned that Antarctica is/was highly volcanic. If the continent deforms as the mass of ice melts off of it, causing the volcanoes go off in a
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
New real-estate becomes available in the SF Bay, but only golf courses are approved for construction. Commuters continue to drive all the way around the old shoreline because internal roads are designed in a vascular pattern to thwart Waze
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
The real problem is that there is no way to reliably know just how far your connection goes, without pinging. You might be able to connect to URLs on a university WAN, but not to the rest of the internet, for example. In this situation, as
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
I have all kinds of theories about what actually happened. All I really know for sure, is that a bunch of wild accusations were thrown around at the execs by a small clique of powerful investors, with new accusations being generated as old
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
On a related note, does anyone know how to bury a dead corporate user account? The company that gave it to me doesn't even exist anymore, but Google keeps insisting that "account action is required". The company terminated my
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Presumably, a native Clojure would be able to tap into the C/C++ ecosystem through similar FFI mechanisms. Granted, that code would be no more portable than the intersection of the platforms supported by each library, but that's a
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Clojure's macros can be made hygienic using `gensym`. Is this not enough? Is it desirable to Schemers for it to be impossible to generate user-accessible symbols within a macro? What if symbols in macros were hygienic by default, but w
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Interesting, I'm liking the separation of concerns here. My favorite MLA is riding on the wrong party, but MMP would solve that conundrum nicely.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
I wonder, would it be better to have something like an LLVM frontend for Clojure, rather than another new Scheme? Or, would we still have a long startup time, regardless of the platform? I know Clojure's startup time isn't to be b
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
This sounds a lot like the Single Transferable Vote system that some of us are pushing for in Canada. Same principle, you rank all of the parties that are acceptable to you, and your vote is applied to the first candidate who isn't eli
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
See also, the infamous "collateral damage" video on LiveLeak. I will not link it here, because of how absolutely horrific it is. Do not seek it out if you value your faith in humanity. Having said that, I believe it is representat
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
It's just a result of ruthless optimization. Management is always pushing us devs to optimize the metrics that are easiest to measure, and there are plenty of online tools that will score a site based partly on the file sizes for JS, C
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Ah, so the problem is hot-button topics, not analogies. That is a bit more complex. It is hard to know where to draw the line between the listener being over-sensitive, and the speaker being a sophisticated troll. Dang and I actually butted
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
I disagree, and I'm glad we can do that :) IMO, analogies are fair game, and a useful tool for simplification. They can also work well for highlighting hypocrisy, when a supposedly universal rule is not being applied as widely as we th

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