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What is the calory output of vertical farming?

The only things I ever see grown in those vertical farms are low calory, short-shelf-life leafy greens, and the occasional bland tomato.

Greens are nice and all, but calories are what keep us alive. Until they can produce calories, I will continue seeing them as a pointless distraction.
The categories of things that I've received counterfeit versions of on Amazon have been truly mind-blowing. It's been replacement HEPA filters, cat toys, even breakfast cereal. It's not just earphones/mics, batteries, usb cables, flash drives, extension cords, and other electronics.

Who counterfeits breakfast cereal??? I've had this issue with both Quaker Oats and Raisin Bran. The scale of fraud is magnificent. And it really gaslights consumers; it took me forever to actually accept that I was eating an off-brand imitation of my favorite cereals.

I do still buy from Amazon. The ease of returns still gives me confidence that I can decide after receiving an item whether the price:quality ratio is worth it.

But not if I absolutely need it to conform to certain standards and I don't have the skills/tools to validate the performance myself (like HEPA filters). Then I tend to buy from somewhere with a more curated supply chain (Home Depot, direct from manufacturers website, etc).
Most western societies have rejected your utilitarian thinking, upholding an individual's choices over any forgone benefit to others. For example, every day people die on organ transplant waiting lists, and every day healthy people die in car accidents, but their organs are discarded because they did not check the "organ donor" box on their driver's license application.
Flunking the Covid Test
I had a dream of a text only "underground" web the other day. Then executed it in a very poor way. If you want to check it https://tilde.pt/~fimdomeio/index2.html

Actually A text only web as a few interesting advantages. Almost instantaneous load even in a poor connection. Very fast development time since you throw away so many things away.
When I edit graphviz, I usually watch my source file(s) with reflex [1] to re-generate the output image, and use an image viewer with auto-reloading support like sxiv [2]. Works really well for me!

1: https://github.com/cespare/reflex

2: https://github.com/muennich/sxiv
We interviewed 30+ different YC founders that had successfully raised Series As about how they did so. We found that fundraising often looks easy from the outside (especially in the press release), but in reality can be quite messy and filled with failure (especially the first time around). We wanted to write this to talk about what founders could do to get the capital they need if things aren't going their way.
Isn't this pretty much what Heroku does? Why would I choose Deta over Heroku?
The article also doesn't mention all the diesel fuel used by tractors and harvesters during cultivation as well as trucks to move the harvested crop to the elevator and then to wherever it needs to go to be consumed.

Then again most of the crops people are talking about doing vertically are things that are planted and harvested mostly by hand, so maybe that's not such an oversight.
Do you have a link to that breakdown? I'd love to dig in further. I suspect that there's a lot of Coins in circulation from Reddit seeding the system. The marginal cost to them is roughly $0. Without being able to confirm if users paid the list price for those awards, I'm not sure we can confidently say Reddit banked ~$36k revenue for that post.

That said, my concern is that it creates an environment for misaligned incentives. If say, hostile foreign governments have their troll farms buying awards to increase visibility of divisive and inflammatory posts in key threads, that furthers their agenda and creates a revenue stream for Reddit that is fueled by creating an environment where that flourishes.

I'm NOT saying Reddit is actively trying to do this as I think they'd be horrified to find this happening, but they have a fine line to walk here from a product and business standpoint.

Re: your other point, I do digital advertising for a living. I can assure you that the vast majority of users on Reddit are not using PiHoles. While many may be using ad blockers, those largely don't work for native ads in the mobile app.
Fraudsters may trick people into sending the wrong URL.

If Whatsapp controls the payment platform, they can prevent a lot of fraud by mining their meta data. For example, if the payment is marked as a gift, but the parties do not have a vibrant conversation, there is likely fraud.
Create Ubuntu Linux on Azure Using Azure Portal – VM in Microsoft Azure Cloud
The 2016 edition covers most of what's in 5.32; if I were to do an update for Perl 5.32, I'd include postfix dereferencing and the built-in function signature mechanisms now that they're very stable and supported.
users won’t get “hacked” using an unencrypted connection on a website that submits nothing. what will they hack?

certbot and lets encrypt are highly connected, and if you can’t find the failures you are willfully blind.

I do actually know how to use the free tools. you need your hand held by a python script that automagically takes care of things for you. it will also eventually deprecate and could have problems running on the platforms or python versions I choose one day. i’ve generated it with openssl. the how to use guides for certbot are almost comical, even their crons are nonsense. i’m not going to trust my setup to their magic scripts that could actually go wrong at any time. the process should be a lot more decoupled than “and now run this python script” and generating with openssl shouldn’t be such a second class citizen, especially for wildcard.
You're still talking about users within tech circles, which I'm not doubting has lost trust in Google. However, my mom or my siblings wouldn't understand what any of those points even mean.
considering they make money either way, i feel like this could be kind of dubious and just lip service. i would have more faith if an uninvolved party was doing the work.
What was this couple writing about Ebay that made the execs so angry that they would risk committing crime? I would imagine a company the size of Ebay has many people writing bad things about it. What was different in this case? I have been searching but cant find anything. I found the news letter was called EcommerceBytes.
Perl was a great fun scripting language back in the day of CGI and "webmaster@".

It died a noble, honorable death. RIP.
FYI - The article specifically mentions FreeWrite in the second to last paragraph.
This is very likely bad news for companies like Jamf.

Apple is likely wanting to bring macOS/iOS management into their own product suite and tightly integrate it in future products, much like what Microsoft did with Terminal Services, which nearly killed Citrix 20 years ago.
Obviously. More to the point, what other incremental costs exist, if any, that would account for a $20 premium in price when cost appears to be going up by $8?
One more: add a proper exception handling setup.
Yes, kind of. We put a lot of emphasis on offering a great developer experience/docs/SDKs (even for new comers and front-end devs), so might abstract some things.

Our upcoming product is a file storage/CDN service that's backed by S3.

The code will look bit like:

from deta import Drive
files = Drive()
files.put("myresume.pdf", "./resume.pdf")

From inside a Micro, this will just work and have the right permissions set.

For enterprise customers, we could offer direct access to AWS resources and Deta could run in their own AWS account.
Most of Japanese input happens in IME software so English support is more or less matters of changing UI string resources and keytop re-labeling
It's a common technique in journalism to describe and attribute someone's recollection of events in a series of narrative paragraphs. It does not imply "we just took his word for it", though it does imply that the reporter finds his account to be credible enough to be given some prominent space.

This arrest happened 6 months ago. Who else besides the suspect and the police do you believe reporters should ask for "basic corroboration" of events that took place inside a police station? Or do you think this story shouldn't be reported on at all until the police agree to give additional info?
To a certain extent I agree. If you were really passionate about something like this you would make it happen regardless of your circumstances. Think about kids who grow up in impoverished island nations who make it to the MLB through sheer perseverance.

The difference is unless you're already wealthy or talented, you _need_ to write effectively to compete in the modern 'white collar' workforce.

Writing something that people want to read is very hard. People don't read for the sake of reading, they read to learn something or feel something. It can take years of consistent practice to evoke anger, sadness, or laughter through writing. Think about how many books, workshops, and college courses there are on writing itself. It is sort of like programming, it is a skill that anyone can learn given enough time and it has very little barrier to entry. This makes it extremely competitive, so a lot of people need to exploit whatever edge they can get.
Valdosta police sued for $700K in excessive force case
That's problematic and not as good as direct bank to bank transfers.
> (I did upgrade to an SSD + 8GB RAM + Nvidia GT 610 but everything else is 2005).

What everything else? You kept the CPU, motherboard, and case? That's not a "typical 2005 PC" anymore.
The difficulty with medicine lies in attempting to control the death count involved in gaining the experience. Some supervision required.
Tesla Quality Falls Short in J.D. Power Car Survey
Perl definitely has a lot of non-patterned arcana. For instance,

$| This variable, if nonzero, will flush the output buffer after every write() or print() function. Normally, it is set to 0.

In other languages, you do something like os.stdout.buffered(true) or sys.stdout = io::buffer(sys.stdout) or something like that where you're combining composable pieces: the standard std variable, a standard way of opening files with or without a buffer, etc. Perl instead has an obscure global variable that you have to look up/memorize, and it doesn't even have a sensible name like $STDOUT_BUFFERING, so readers who come across $| in a file have to look it up/recall from rote memorization, or hope it has a good comment above it.
Negative. The battery on my iPhone 6 was awesome and that phone was slow as molasses. Just switching to a family member's 6S was a dramatic improvement.
I bumped into DSL in ~2006 when I was looking for something that would run on an old Pentium 120 MHz. I even bought the book!
Almost five years ago I got a OnePlus Two when it was released and about the same time my then work gave me a new iPhone 6 (unrequested by me, and when they appeared they told me I had to take it).

I still use that OP2 as my daily driver, now with LineageOS 17.1 (Android 10, the current version) installed on it. It's not blazing fast but the battery is at 80% capacity and it otherwise works well (and has a 3.5mm jack).

This obviously is the enthusiast option, but the first OnePlus had Cyanogenmod as the factory installed OS on there. If their relationship had continued and Cyanogen hadn't imploded it's quite possible that the OP2 would have the latest build on there officially as LineageOS is what Cyanogen became. Unfortunately there are no builds of 17 for the OP1.

That iPhone of the same vintage? I gladly gave it back when it was stuck on the then just-outdated iOS 12 and there wasn't much of an obvious future for it.
> You learn perl, and you've learned nothing but Larry Wall.

Yes, this is why it's nice. You don't have to worship at the foot of an industry which slavishly tries to implement a misunderstanding of a system some dude made up 40 years ago to get around problems in other systems some other dudes made up before that. It's weird on purpose. And it's backwards-compatible-crufty on purpose.

Today I can run Perl code written two decades ago, but with the latest interpreter. I don't think any other interpreted language can do that, can they? (Bourne shell?)
We had these in school when I was young. I loved them. I could carry one around the playground and write a story. When you got back to the classroom, you transferred it to the computer by hooking it up as a keyboard. I’ve been dreaming about getting one for a while. The passive matrix LCD works well in sunlight and the batteries last a long time.
I mean that's fair, but I think in general, the advancements they've made to the A series chips over the years has been them a lot easier to continue to support for longer periods of time.

Hopefully we'll see Mac's with longer lifecycles and macOS support as well. I think the Mac side is a tad short at the moment.
So it's the Osborne effect? Where you stop using Perl 5 because you're waiting for Perl 6 (announced in 2000, released never? As Raku? As a rolling release? The history appears confusing in Wikipedia.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
I really wonder what the long term economic impact of a chronically fatigued population will be. It's clear by now that a) the virus isn't going away, and b) a lot of, if not most, people will get it.

If a substantial portion of the infected also develop a host of long term health issues, what's going to be the economic cost?

We seem to have been focusing on deaths as a key metric which has made a lot of younger people complacent. Apart from anecdotal accounts, I have seen very little reporting on the long term health effects among survivors
AI Bias: Twitter battle with Yann Lecun
Originally this product knwn as StarOffice ws not free. It only became so after Sun aquired it and reeased it as OpenOffice. This was basically a loss-leader not just fr sun but for other companies as well to break Microsoft's capture of the Knowledege Worker productivity which they leveraged into other areas.

So the idea was you were the product, "sold" to the non-MS-Windows/Intel companies in te hopes of you being retained or transferred to a non-MS stack.

LibreOffice is post Oracle's acquisition of Sun, but the idea is still the same.
Dang, they were so close to mentioning all four:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...

I guess money-launderers are no longer on the target list. Too much of a white-collar crime, these days.
A Look at Winget, Windows Package Manager for Windows 10
I can’t imagine that being true. Gmail had “relevant” ads based off their other ad tech from the get go. That was a point vs other majors having banner ads.
Nice job. Bookmarked.
> You're paying for the computing resources to run LibreOffice; it isn't free.

That's silly. Paid office suites use just as many computing resources, and Google docs use plenty resources through your browser as well.

I think the "if you don't pay for it, you're the product" quote is fine. You just have to exclude free and open source software.
Yeah, I think that if there are strong norms or rules on organization and structure then it can work really well for any size team. But as soon as 1 person or project starts to deviate (no matter how good the intentions) it can quickly drop into a mess like any free for all file share. My team at work technically owns this one file server that is open to most of the company and has been an easy duping ground. Like, project X needs a share, stick it on [Server] vs the effort to set up a new share on an appropriate server (there are many others including department specific).

We have a project slated for late this year or early next to audit the file server and shares then permission to begin migrating shares my team doesn't own to other servers. I'm so ready for that.
Hacking Twitter – Let's follow each other
Hi,
Let's do this simple challenge! Let's post our twitter accounts here and when someone new follows your account, you will follow back?
Let's do it! Here is mine====>https://twitter.com/Nextstevejob
For me, I will follow back immediately you follow me.
Tnx
>Android / Chrome are amazing

Chrome has been deteriorating in performance and power usage - on OSX at least, I recently switched back to Firefox because it was that bad (Safari is a step too far as I want to work on non-Apple platforms). Firefox has slipped from the mainstream and it's very obvious - so many sites I use on a daily basis have almost unusable bugs on FF (I have to hack CSS because token auth popup from my bank is broken, a game related website has half of the scrolling on the page broken, in general so many sites have broken scrolling on FF) - the situation with Chrome seems to be similar to IE.

And the small exposure I had with Android SDK I was shocked at the API design quality, poor documentation. Implementation is ridiculously inconsistent across OS versions and HW vendors - I was trying to create a WiFi management API for some industrial application that would connect to controller specific networks - Android has 2 layers of terrible and depricated API with documentation that was misleading at best, a new API that only worked on 10+ without backcompat, and the actual implementation was inconsistent across four Android devices we tested. We gave up on the project as the Matrix of features missing and hacks needed for every platform we could find was just not practical to maintain.
When Samsung says "that's all folks" the user can install one of the alternative distributions and continue to use the device.

The problem is that a tiny percentage of users actually do that. It leaves the rest vulnerable to any security issues that are found after the last update.
“Premature optimization is the root of all evil”

It should come as no surprise that programmers who spend all day thinking about the theoretical problems they might run into may be bad at understanding current limitations and bottlenecks in the real world. This doesn't just apply to agriculture. Think of how many startups you know aimed at addressing problems that seem imaginary outside of the bay area.

At the same time, I think we underrate the benefit of naive amateurs throwing themselves into industry. If Stripe actually fully understood the amount of work they had to do to get to the other side of a complex, messy, and competitive market, I'm going to guess they never would have done it in the first place.
I think they still write everything in Perl, and they employ Larry Wall (or they did several years ago, last I heard)
most likely all profit for incumbents supported by high barriers of entry for a small market.
> Instagram had no business model when it was acquired.

They would have created one, by doing the obvious thing. Selling ads.

I don't think they would need FB to figure out that they need to do that.
I like this idea. Like having a grub boot option for GhostWriter (https://www.linux.com/news/ghostwriter-linux-distro-writers/) or something similar.
There was a perl 6, but it is no longer perl, though it's still 6.
Not only can you, it is standardly asserted about a variety of obscure, fun languages. Lisp, APL, and J/K spring to mind.
Think about it. The biggest legacy of the hippies is that their critique of food and agriculture evolved into the mainstream's. (Well, that and same process with nuclear engergy.) The problem is it's incoherent mix, then and now. We have jumbled together:

- Nostalgia. First this was yeoman farmer nostalgia. Now there is also pre-agricultural nostalgia. Primitivism is coherent, but only once you embrace what it really entails, which paleo dieting absolutely does not.

- Anti-monpolization. Great idea.

- Corperations-are-bad-so-their-means are bad. Cargill might be bad, but that doesn't mean combine harvesters are.

- Concern about environmental externalities. Good idea.

- Concern about nutritional externalities. Good idea. It's crazy we gave 0 fucks about supply chain risk and other security concerns, but focus on cranking out carbs in a way that only global armageddon justifies.

GMO hysteria among heirloom lovers is a funny small example: please just say biodiversity is good, and tons of GMOs or tons of hierlooms will be good, and purely golden rice or purely sweet delishious apples not so much.

Even "locavorism": Guess what? it takes like <5 days to transport anything within continental US, easy. If your non-California produce sucks, it's not because distance, per-se, it's because warehousing.

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Now, back to the question at hand, I absolutely don't believe your average Ag wantrepreneur is immune to the current in the larger culture. I mean think about it, modern gourmet-mediocre-----fancy food culture is per-dollar, easily the Bay Area's biggest cultural export, ahead of anything SV ever did.

So what might an Ag startup look like instead? Well, conquering externalities

- without changing government policy
- still making a profit
- at a scale to actually matter

is just some liberatarian wet dream so let's not worry too much about that.

I would rather worry about the bullshit job problem. Average person is spending all their time doing useless shit, or not being paid enough doing useful shit. Ag is super efficient putting everything else into stark relief (well, super efficient when they aren't over-leveraged looking like fools and Daddy USDA bails them out). How about we give people lifetime food for a portion of their earnings?! Just like Worry-Free but fiancialized. Could actually work, certainly given today's "10 years no profit is fine" model.
> Essentially, an employee of the facial recognition provider forwarded an "investigative lead" for the match they generated (which does have a score associated with it on the provider's side, but it's not clear if the score is clearly communicated to detectives as well)

This is the lead provided:

https://wfdd-live.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/story-full/s3/imag...

Note that it says in red and bold emphasis:

THIS DOCUMENT IS NOT A POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION. IT IS AN INVESTIGATIVE LEAD ONLY AND IS NOT PROBABLE CAUSE TO ARRREST. FURTHER INVESTIGATION IS NEEDED TO DEVELOP PROBABLE CAUSE TO ARREST.
There are lots of really expensive products that can be cultured indoors, are perfectly legal, and aren't drugs
I haven't touched perl in something like 15 years, but I can attest that Brian's (brian's? :) ) writings are useful.
So... the legislators seem to be targeting "warrant-proof" encryption. Now... correct me if I'm wrong, but law enforcement can use due process to obtain access to a suspect's phone, and that phone will then decrypt the communication for them, right (even if the service provides true end-to-end encryption, which most don't)? So what's the problem?
I had the impression indoor farming is heavily hoping to pivot to marijuana.
When are they going to start suing those who file false claims of counterfeiting?

Google started something similar last year when they sued someone who was abusing YouTube's DMCA system. https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/15/20915688/youtube-copyrig...

But despite widespread abuse of Amazon's IP reporting system, to date Amazon has not sued anyone for that as far as I know.
Whatever platform the company has made some questionable decisions. So has mozilla, but definitely less so.
Perl lost the war because it didn't turn-up for the battle. In the 2000s it went into a kind of COVID19 self-isolation phase. First there was Parrot - a half-assed attempt to create a CLR for dynamic languages. When that failed the MoarVM adventure began. There were about 3 implemetations of Perl6 in development simultaneously (MoarVM, JVM & Rakudo) as Perl5 hemorrhaged mindshare. All-in-all it took 15 years to produce a 1.0 which was so dog-slow for Perl's common use-case it was unusable ... and still is.