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Pavers for $40-45 - are going to be pretty unattractive grey concrete (well, cement) ones, right? Even Bunnings (albeit marketplace) has 100mm geogrid for $20 / square metre. Most …

I saw some examples of this while travelling in Japan last year, and am keen to replicate. I suspect, like a lot of things, the local product there is superior to what I could find…

I don't use gcc directly - not in a long while - but almost everything I rely on uses it, and it's hugely encouraging to have the stewards of this project contemplate, and then det…

I was sure that pre-2020 - going back 40y or so prior - VLP's were also generally regarded as coming under the umbrella term 'vaccine'.

In what way are they not a vaccine?

Yeah, there's a claim I've seen about 'every third mouthful of food' that humans eat needs honeybees, and that may well be true. I'm in Australia, and we only got Varroa in 2022, a…

Amusingly, propagate has a horticultural, and non-horticultural meaning, and it's not obvious which one you're using there, because the bee's role is long over by the time the seed…

What do you mean 'what about' ? Is your suggestion this case is somehow spurious because there aren't equal cases against everyone else clearly guilty of this manipulation? In any …

100% agree with the sentiment here, but a small nitpick - MS SQL originated as a port of Sybase onto (IIRC) OS/2.

Okay, so not to detract too much from this tiny handful of refurbs - where the assessment, design, build etc were already done, and target state was well understood (it was to get …

Your first link to OPG - suggests, when looking at https://www.opg.com/about-us/ - that they have TWO nuclear power stations in their fold, and it's not clear how many of them were…

When you say 'all' - is that five? Since 1999?

Perhaps relevant. 2005 ish - UK government release energy strategy and declares fission power plant intent. 2010 ish - UK government formally announces Hinkley Point site. It's dec…

Ubuntu offered a slightly prettier installation experience . Sure, no matter which distro you were installing you still had to provide a hostname, a domain name, some IP info (mayb…

Does that '100s of billions' come from a big bucket somewhere called 'spare cash', or does it correlate to a commensurate reduction in the 'around $500 billion in ad revenue' that …

Generally speaking the local crowd is anti-hype, and so it's easy to get the manifestation of that conflated with with what you're describing. (I fit your literal description, but …

Couple of Australians have been doing this since the 90's - I think they coined the term 'pooktre' to describe the form - https://www.pooktre.com/ Searching `Peter Cook Becky North…

> I truly believe I read through TFA and was impressed at the number of citations they offered. I had assumed (but not strongly) that there'd be a correlation, so this was enlighte…

Are you referring to parent's or TFA's 'argument' here?

I had to look up black grass, as we don't have that particular weed in AU. I don't have any answers, of course, but a search on 'permaculture response in europe to black grass' giv…

> But how do you kill the cover crop so you can grow wheat again? How do you kill the weeds? ... The only viable answer today is...Roundup (glyphosate). I don't agree, and I note t…

Gaia theory - James Lovelock. You find it difficult to accept, or is it just your brain that finds it difficult to accept?

1995-ish. Telstra (Australia Telecom). Probably about 50k desktop computers across the organisation. One day a small file turned up in everyone's network home directory called null…

> US is because it's functionally illegal for it to exist. This feels like one of those 'burying the lede' situations. Can you explain what's functionally illegal (and I admit that…