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We need sunlight prescriptions

It's incredible how many hacks there are to make PDFs semi-usable.

"...it is closely followed by wind power—which is really another form of energy from the sun..." By that logic, fossil fuels are also a form of solar power.

People would stop eating

easy hack: maintain a garden in an area with poor soil. between clearing, aerating, digging, mulching and weeding you can get all of your cardio AND some fresh veggies!

Unfortunately it's not all economics. The prison system in the US exerts its power on the population using fear. The goal is to have a certain amount of people in prison, not to sa…

Apple acquired DarkSky and sunsetted their API in the past few years. It always seemed more accurate to me than any other weather service. Sad to see it go.

It really should be a static page.

That's one way to limit bandwidth

I'm left curious as to why our taste receptors are so attuned to sweetness if high sugar foods weren't historically correlated with being high in energy.

At the beginning of the conflict I noticed my feed was fully leaning towards supporting Israel, even if it was only the posts of 3 people. Somehow the 30+ people demanding the stop…

I thought I was buying something more dependable. Now I have to deal with the issues listed and more. 1. Carseat in the back triggers the seat belt unbuckled beeping that never end…

What reason did they have for continuing unprofitable work? I can see waiting out a contract, but after continuously having to offset costs you'd think someone would suggest simply…

The last paragraph firmly places this story in America.

I've heard over and over from managers that scrum is better at anticipating delivery dates. Even when the dates are consistently missed. They'd rather slow teams down with process …

Can confirm as of 2017 most of the software running in production was OpenACS. I try not to think about all the tangled webs inside Oracle PL/SQL procedures. I had hoped the rewrit…

Don't forget Guy Debord who was writing about this in 1967. "The spectacle presents itself as something enormously positive, indisputable and inaccessible. It says nothing more tha…

I've worked for multiple Rails shops with high quality engineers. The trick is to interview them too before accepting any offer. The best teams I've been on have been small. Past a…

A couple generations seems short. This study pointed to 50+ generations for significant behavioral changes in foxes. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-018-0611-6

I love how inquisitive my 7 year old daughter is. She doesn't want or take a simple explanation and I enjoy teaching her about seemingly mundane topics that she makes exciting for …