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Comment · 2 years ago
You can pyrolize the wood by cooking it in an oxygen-free environment, cooking off almost all of the nitrogen and other nutrients and leaving nearly pure carbon in the form of charcoal.

Off the top of my head, for a given amount of wood biomass, you can get about a 70% ratio of product to fuel if you use a high-efficiency wood fire to cook the wood itself.

Then you can take that carbon, bury it in decommissioned open pit mines, or use it as a soil additive (biochar), where it will sequester the carbon for thousands of years and act as a fertilizer.

You could also pair the biochar with a fast-growing swamp tree (willow?), re-incorporating the char into the areas around the willow plantation to create a sort of artificial peat bog which could also be useful for water storage and filtration.

Comment · 2 years ago
I'm sure a lot of it is already spent in the form of reverse-mortgages on homes.
Comment · 2 years ago
I guess you could look at paper tape as a physical manifestation of redirecting terminal I/O to text files using > and < in the shell.
Comment · 2 years ago
Can you get gloves made from PTFE? I feel those would be the closest you could get to an "everything" glove.
Comment · 2 years ago
Use 99% isopropyl alcohol. Add in a teaspoon of table salt -- it won't dissolve in the alcohol and will act as a mild abrasive to help remove stubborn residue. Rinse thoroughly with water afterwards.

If you're really serious about your cleanliness, a desktop ultrasonic cleaner is also amazing for cleaning bowls and downstems. You can get them for a few dozen dollars from Amazon and the like.

Comment · 3 years ago
For one thing, it could delegate to a local service. Granted, the communication to this service is probably still be over a socket interface, but at least as a purely-local connection you would hopefully have some better worst-case performance characteristics.

This is basically what dnsmasq does when you use it as a local DNS cache.

Comment · 3 years ago
or just, "The Expert Problem"
Comment · 3 years ago
At that point just start using an SQLite database as a data format.
Comment · 5 years ago
I always thought it would be interesting if Spacex developed a "dragon utility module". It would launch in Dragon's trunk and consist of a docking port on one end, an airlock on the other, a miniature manipulator arm and a bunch of cargo mounted around the outside. After separating from the second stage the Dragon would flip around and dock to this module, which would give it all the extra bits needed for a mission like servicing the Hubble.
Comment · 5 years ago
And the form clears every time you go back/forward
Comment · 5 years ago
A heat pump could be used to cool the water to below-ambient and inject that heat directly into the outgoing compressed air. I wonder if a system like that would be more efficient than installing a separate refrigeration-based system downstream?
Comment · 6 years ago
I believe there was a man named Armond Hammer who was the CEO of the company that owns Arm&Hammer (the baking soda company) at one point.
Comment · 6 years ago
No, but you could blackmail a social media manager to further your cause by planting a bug in the office, for example.
Comment · 6 years ago
from the article, apparently Wayland display servers already support multi-touch gestures.
Comment · 6 years ago
Does anyone have a clone of the original repository?

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