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Stinging nettle is known to have been eaten by the celts. It can be boiled or picked, which breaks down the stinging nature of the plant. Also, cook books are a modern invention. Y…

>> Ignoring requires-python upper bounds. When a package says it requires python > Man, it's easy to be fast when you're wrong. But of course it is fast because Rust not because it…

stgit is similar in that it sits with git, but it's not the same workflow. git-spice has branches per feature that base on one-another. It's more git-like than quilt-like. What you…

Have you seen git-spice? It may be up your alley. https://github.com/abhinav/git-spice

As far as I understand it, this is a still debated question. One theory is it's about evaporating water: Plausible photomolecular effect leading to water evaporation exceeding the …

I'm not an expert, but it looks like the predicted wind reversal did occur. In the article there's this figure: https://www.climate.gov/media/16838 The March 13th 10hPa forecast wi…

I believe the author is saying they're willing to relicense the software for commercial integrations.

EIRP is good at reducing uintentional interference. After all, you'd probably wouldn't like me pointing a 20 element yagi antenna through your house, denying your ability to use th…

Morse code is fun! It's not just an emergency mode either. Those mountain climbing SOTA hams love code because CW radios are so simple that they can cram several bands into an abso…

I feel the opposite. Morse code was a major barrier into HF for many different people. Folks who are musically challenged would fail to copy. People with hand disabilities faced ma…

And I learned today that NYC has a 50%-off program for low-income transit users ("Fair Fares"). That makes taking a bus or the subway incredibly cheap.

The last federal gas tax increase was 31 years ago (1993). Most states have similarly stalled gas taxation. Both are also facing the issue of electric cars entirely dodging this ta…

To be fair, I believe the author is addressing a beginner audience for inexpensive displays commonly found today. These modern small displays have about 7 times more pixels than th…

The author holds a Finnish call sign, so it would be more appropriate the Finnish authorities (Traficom). That said, it's still a bad look on Apple's design or production engineeri…

What a fantastic perspective from the former Uber BI team. I was on the Vertica team during this time period and the amount of effort was spent on incentives mind boggling. Million…

To add onto some of the great replies, one aspect of the proposal is much higher power with less harmonic attenuation. 23 db less attenuation with a 20x power increase is going to …

It's not like polyester resists forever either. Many outdoors folk have experienced "wet out." Resistance only goes so far and I'd rather wear wet wool than wet polyester. Syntheti…