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Have a look at David Kipping's video on Cool Worlds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCKrUZeiTJo . It goes into a bit of detail on compensating for systemic issues in JWST.

Simracing is the only reason my gaming rig runs windows. I never even thought my hardware would work on linux (especially my motion hardware). And stuff like crewchief and race tel…

I used to use terminator for a long time, but i've switched to tilix ( https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/ ) with little pain.

Under $100: A carbon steel wok, along with a Youtube subscription to Chinese Cooking Demystified and to Souped-up Recipes. I always liked cooking, but this has increased my enjoyme…

Static web servers return 404 for resources that don't exist on the file system. For example, https://news.ycombinator.com/s.gif -> 200 But https://news.ycombinator.com/t.gif -> 40…

Yesterday's "off-road" battle on Carwow featured a Jimny and a (petrol) Hummer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srb8LYt82z0 . Spoiler: the Jimny won.

Including the correct capitalization of nouns? Impressive! I did a side-by-side test with a coworker, looking at the results in various European languages. We did get the same answ…

My litmus test for translation services is to see if the ambiguity between "turkey" (the bird) and "Turkey" (the country) manifests itself. Many European languages have two separat…

The three easiest ways: 1. provide ample habitat for predators of said insects 2. grow a surplus so there's enough for you and the bugs 3. use the partly-eaten produce in sauces, j…

Here's how I solved this: I keep a crate in the trunk of my car. After paying my groceries, I put them back in the shopping cart. I drive that to my car, put the groceries in the c…

I don't think current physics works below the Planck length. There aren't all that many infinities in physics in general, and where the do pop up, they're problematic. Whereas in m…

Another excellent example is Mark Shepard on his New Forest Farm. He successfully replicated the oak savannah that covered a lot of the US before the Europeans tore it up, but usin…

The author made a video about it on the Cool Worlds youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA5YuwvJkpQ

Their comment didn't sound anti-science to me at all. They're critical of academia and how that functions. SMBC had a comic on this recently that illustrates the difference, the is…

Unless you're in the tropics, where soil has a hard time hanging on to nutrients, you can probably skip the biochar step. Just bury the wood in hugelkultur.

beanstalkd hits the sweet spot for me.