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Comment · 3 months ago
It is a very sobering read.
Comment · 6 months ago
NZ does well though: fruits, dairy, meat, vegetables and legumes

Says a bit about Nature reviewers if the paper misses out a country that would have impact on the key points in the abstract

Comment · 6 months ago
If you were breast-fed, you drank raw milk as a child. And pasteurization removes/diminishes nutrients in milk. It’s much more nuanced than ‘raw milk is bad’.
Comment · 6 months ago
As someone producing food, it’s pretty much a given that something in nature will seek to consume what you are producing. I was waiting for it, and in this case, wild boar.
Comment · 9 months ago
I love the poem at the end
Comment · 1 year ago
"In current models, the water spray is kept at a precise 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit" - so actually 38 Celsius because that's the temperature scale that Japan (and almost everywhere else) use.
Comment · 1 year ago
The most marked comparison I’ve seen is between the B-25’s in Catch 22 and the aircraft in Masters of the Air. The real B-25s struggle and climb into the air on takeoff and it’s evidently real. Masters of the Air just had shot after shot of aircraft sitting dully in the sky - so eminently artificial.
Comment · 1 year ago
The term ‘climate change’ didn’t exist 45 years ago (except perhaps in a few technical circles). You’re using current knowledge/terminology/perspective to comment on things that were not in the mindset of the general populace or politicians at the time. I know this as I was there.
Comment · 1 year ago
I love it, but surely just a temp gauge for running a hot compost is nice & simple? If mine is over 45C, I'm fairly sure that means the thermophiles are present and doing their thing
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
The all-in-one 3kW inverter/controller that he uses is for 110V AC output (using the 48V battery). In the article he linked to, the system uses an EG4 3000EHV-48 that also outputs 110V AC.

Are there equivalent all-in-ones that would provide 230/240V AC for use in Australia/New Zealand?

Comment · 2 years ago
Interesting - but no audio on a pretty generic version of Ubuntu 23.10

Looks like it needs Jack rather than Pipewire

Comment · 2 years ago
interesting - but no audio on a pretty generic version of Ubuntu 23.10

Looks like it needs Jack rather than Pipewire

Comment · 2 years ago
The component model is a very powerful technique for keeping large amounts of complex code maintainable. I worked in large amounts of tricky jQuery before the component model and I would never wish to go back.

JSX works well for a component approach because you’re expressing the component in a fully functional programming language. Doing a lot of that work tends to make the developer quite capable in Javascript.

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