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But the moonshine is fantastic!

I'd say the contrary; repeats don't impact the algorithm negatively, so nothing is done about it.

Fiery urine is normal for folks that eat a lot of spicy foods.

I no longer live in the EU, but one of the habits that I've taken with me is canning. Pickles, tomatoes, green beans, etc. It just requires salt, vinegar, the veggies, and some jar…

Mods... lots of mods...

Agreed. If you give out take-home tests, they shouldn't take longer than an hour. Unless, you pay them for the time. A few companies I applied to 6-7 months ago offered this. Howev…

I'd love to see this for the old Slavic gods (e.g. Perun, Vales, etc).

Probably the last remaining sane ones?

I've been following a number of folks who also moved to Portugal with the intent of buying an old plot of land and refurbishing it into a working farm for themselves [0]. As much a…

Needs more blockchain.

/me starts wearing non-plastic clothing

Compaction doesn't stop the moment we loosen the soil. I'd say that it needs a liberal application of compost after your explosion, to let the critters and fungus penetrate deep.

Due to the pandemic, the amount of gardeners has increased substantially. So, this type of info is making a resurgence on YouTube in the form of instructional videos and elsewhere …

Gardening is my greatest joy, and has been for over a decade.

+1 Sabine Hossenfelder. I find her way of explaining a bit more towards my tastes.

Consider canning and fermenting some of your food. Also, grow things that can last throughout winter, such as potatoes, carrots, beets, etc. They can last in a cool dark place for …

Likewise, looking for C jobs in Waterloo, Canada shunts me over to Austin, TX for some reason.

I was looking for work in November and even thought I have 15 years in software and cybersecurity, I still got ghosted by multiple recruiters. Two of which were at Google, and anot…

Then I can't joke that "it's 5pm somewhere"...

I recently found myself looking for info on gardening potatoes. Each time I used google, I'd get the equivalent of "Top 10 things to plant this spring". It's AI generated drivel, v…

Such as? The burden of proof is on you to corroborate your statements.

I found that it didn't scale as much as Factorio. I'm the type with over 3K hours in the game, who likes to build absurdly massive bases.

Does anyone know which patents? I'm curious since my name is on a number of them.

You're not the only one. Been coding for 15 years in C and I had an easier time getting into Python, Assembly, Java, and Go. There is something about Rust that just seems harder th…

My recommendation: A Brief History of Progress by Ronald Wright. My Wife's recommendation: Your Money or Your Life.