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pistachio trees grow on polluted land though, without passing the arsenic to the nuts in lethal amounts. google states they can grow up to 1000mg arsenic/per kg soil. If you were to compost the sargassum, then grow pistachios on it until the arsenic level gets too high to kill the plant, you would at least be a step closer and it would pay for itself via the produce.
israel does desalination on a massive scale.
Re:Making big downloads resumable in Firefox on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @04:38AM (#50068536)
You would think it would be possible to avoid the bugs by breaking a browser up into discrete components, and have it call curl each time. perhaps there is a speed penalty i do not know about.
Re:Making big downloads resumable in Firefox on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @04:31AM (#50068496)
it makes up for the lag in user friendliness. I regularly use the feature that grabs the clipboard. then i can copy 30 file links in two minutes and have it download them all sequentially at a slow speed so as to not clog the server. plus it gets updated fast. i've had a site break compatibility and jd2 fix it in under a week.
Re:Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser on Monday October 12, 2026 @06:57PM (#50064233)
I guess they left it out because there was no way to test it. i guess you would need a closed local area network and a local ai.
in the 1990s i read that ai wouldn't be competitive with biological brains in real time because the neuron density of the latter was so high that heat generated by the silicon would burn itself up. perhaps it is still true as llm are frozen at a fixed time, so it avoids real time.
I am a terrible hobby c programmer that doesn't understand pointers but surely a symmetric approach doesn't have the overhead or the bug. that is to say that if the language was designed to work in single bit pairs of a string character in conjunction of a string length character assuming a fail safe design of one dummy string character then if a bug happens in the code then there's no overflow because the length can never be shorter than the character.
Re:CSSQuake on Saturday June 20, 2026 @10:30AM (#48609491)
have to shoot the elevator buttons in this, in the original you could move into them.
the earth is old though, i'd think that the sun will have expanded and made the planet uninhabitable before all the crust is recycled. i've heard there's only 500million years left, assuming we don't destroy it before then.
southpaws are more common where at least one parent has schizophrenia. i believe it to be caused by an epigenetic change, where damage to the brain in a parent leads to the parent rewiring their brain to use the opposite hemisphere. In short, it's hardly an illness, more of an antibody to one.
James "Whitey" Bulger was given LSD in exchange for a reduced prison sentence after some low level crime. He went on to work as a professional hitman, taking out politicians and trafficking drugs. LSD does work for things such as alcoholism, but MDMA is usually used in treatment programmes as it doesn't have such life changing mental effects.
also, if you are blind from birth or go blind within a year of birth you won't develop schizophrenia. those folk are completely absent in the population.
Re:A simplified model of Fil-C on Saturday April 18, 2026 @04:51AM (#47814323)
could you recompile a c program in fil-c and then decompile it to c and recompile it in c to have the high performance.
Re:Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin on Friday April 17, 2026 @06:35PM (#47811312)
Do you happen to know the reason the term for english is sasanach in irish language. i.e. is there a connection between sasanach and sassanian.
iirc it was bmw who was selling their electric seats as a service. It maybe the only way to avoid this exploitation is a socialist model, nationalize industries and/or pay the workers for their time inside of for their product.

That worked in a case i know of locally, there was a forestry company that had workers speeding for years. So a karen i know got on to a politician and managed to get them to pay by the hour instead of by the load. I still see the trucks on the road, they are much safer now.

or run without an OS like an arcade or console.
Re:Hold on to Your Hardware on Sunday April 05, 2026 @02:37PM (#47652495)
could have been a pressure to decrease wages, decreasing quality in exchange for increased quantity of code.
Re:DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market on Thursday April 02, 2026 @06:49PM (#47621193)
speedrunning super mario world with neural nets is weirdly effective though. i guess you need a genetic algorithm to refine different approaches rather than a neural net.
Re:Reversing memory loss via gut-brain communication on Thursday March 12, 2026 @05:12PM (#47357183)
not the commenter but I bake my own soda bread and found that i was getting heartburn from the salt that was in the recipe. once i eliminated that i could eat as much as i wanted. I also cannot eat salt preserved potato chips on consecutive days.
great comment. actually reminds me of how intel screwed up with developing the first 64 bit processor, then amd came along with theirs and managed to force intel into compatibility. All these big companies think they're too big to fail until they do. at the end of the day the consumers hold the purchasing power. ignore them at your peril.
> An Tróid leis na 'Cráidmí' = The war with the Craidmi

The battle/fight with the Craidmi. troid is singular whereas war is plural.

Re:LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop on Sunday February 15, 2026 @12:41PM (#47025666)
neat. not something i´d hanker for. i saw a 16 core z80 laptop years ago and i often think about it because it can multitask. https://hackaday.com/2019/12/10/laptop-like-its-1979-with-a-...
software is a bad example since all the coding is done in english. the translation tools are inexpensive nowadays. bilingual persons have lower rates of dementia so it's not even sure that standardising on one language would be a net benefit. also it's universally accepted that english is one of the more difficult languages to learn. If there was a revival of the movement for a single language then english wouldn't be picked by non native english speakers.
Re:Richard Feynman Side Hustles on Friday January 30, 2026 @05:31PM (#46830862)
many of the older analog low impedance multimeters drew so much current that they affected the circuits they were trying to test, requiring a high impedance digital multimeter instead. it's a similar problem, and i'm sure the physicist was aware of it, but didn't like to admit it.
could you cut russias undersea cables in a tit for tat?
there are physical laws that cannot be broken, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. therefore attempting to restrain a higher power only ends in self restraint. have you considered that the best approach is to go on strike, depriving the higher power of something of yours, whether that be labour, or progeny.
actually there was a chinese serial killer that used a technique like this. He had a septic tank and threw his victims in along with the dead bodies of his previous victims and would only let them out if they brought more victims from a train station. article is partially paywalled but is the case in question. https://archive.is/QxBDr https://medium.com/crimes-by-mr-o/this-teacher-was-thrown-in...
the school to prison pipeline is talked about a lot.
Re:How modern life makes us sick on Sunday September 21, 2025 @02:04PM (#45325126)
or that the leaders of our society have consistently elected to increase the birthrate in the hope that attrition will prop up the status quo rather than making a social contract with their populace to achieve what they mutually want from life.
Re:Bcachefs Goes to "Externally Maintained" on Thursday September 04, 2025 @11:51AM (#45128643)
If you had requested your code be rolled back to an earlier stable version as an alternative way of fixing the bug rather than merging unstable code you may have come to a compromise.

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