Is it different from rayon? The article is unclear on how the “extraction” of the fibers is done.

Oh dang, I haven’t heard about Earthships in aaaaages

If there’s no on/off switch, it means it just goes to sleep and never truly turns off. Low power mode is nice for people who forget to turn things off, but it’s still draining the battery to monitor the sensors, so it doesn’t make a lot of sense for something that’s not used frequently.

The calipers remind me of my earbuds, which are always jostling in the case and disconnecting from the charging pins. I can be in the car and my music will suddenly stop playing on the radio because my earbuds came loose, connected, and took bluetooth priority. It’s irritating, and if anybody has a fix, let me know.

Yeah, I don’t understand why people think getting rid of public garbage cans would help at all.

I spent some time homeless, and always thought I was being polite by throwing my stuff away in other people’s garbage instead of losing it, but I guess this author would hate me for it.

I think it’s both. Trump is obviously a useful idiot that’s being played like a fiddle. The people stroking his strings want to have a controlling stake in the economy and he’s dumb enough to believe their claims that this is a good thing.

I know somebody with a full house filter, and it uses UV to reduce bacterial growth.

They’re often called ‘stroads’ or street-roads.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroad

Nah, this person just has their pants on their head. A lot of us learned coding by dissecting existing code, and that’s totally a valid way to learn.

So how is molding an existing app “not how it works” in your world?

That’s not how any of this works. One more reason to shun those who do not care and take the time to understand what programming is all about.

Are you seriously saying that we need to shun people who want to fork a project?

It’s also important to remember that there is no magic bullet. Nothing is a viable strategy on it’s own.

It’s my own personal conspiracy theory that our natural hesitance to throw resources at unknown variables is being amplified by the ruling class and fed back to us in the form of the all-or-nothing perfectionism I’ve seen a lot this past election cycle.

We need to be building with the blocks we have, and Theil et al are using the fear of failure to encourage us to fight each other about whether we should use square blocks or rectangle blocks.

Just like learning how to cook for yourself is a poor solution for people who live in a food desert or don’t have access to a kitchen, sure.

American culture is changing. It used to be that family bonds were the tightest, and we had generational housing, but that started going away during the great depression when a lot of family farms shut down and people lost the house they’d been in for generations. We also don’t like to talk about the amount of generational trauma that came from both the world wars, and that was another nail in the coffin of family life. The most recent blow has been the economy, where both parents need to work and don’t have the time to build the bonds with their children that are needed for a tight-knit family unit.