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There is an ongoing project to stop desertification in the Sahara that seems to be successful. It involves planting vegetation in a specific configuration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Green_Wall_(Africa)
Re:Blog series on creating an OS in Rust on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @02:38PM (#44737956)
I went through it recently and I don't think there was anything in the blog that was out of date. There was mention in the blog of having to do some hacky things because certain features in rust didn't exist yet, but the hacky solutions provided still worked.
Re:In the Beginning, There Was Computation on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @02:04PM (#41437441)
Do you have any references or further readings about finite vs. infinite number of laws? Sounds interesting.