anon2775

That wouldn't scale because of the range and topology of BLE. Solar-powered micropower 900 MHz modules with built-in microcontrollers would be a basis for a viable solution. 900 MHz carries much further for a given power and isn't as susceptible to attenuation due to foilage.

Source: did industrial 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz module testing, once upon a time.

Olive trees are planted decoratively and for crops here, but they're messy trees to have in city neighborhoods.

I'm curious: Are there growing concerns and stress about rain patterns (climate/weather), desertification and irrigation water rights?

Also, Europe is desertifying like crazy due to climate change. Spanish farmers can't get the irrigation water they need, and have to go out of business or move in order to open greehouse farms in other actual desert areas. It's horrible because the planet is becoming so inhospitable that a nearly global desert is what we have to look forward to, if not Venus.

Standing desks should come with anti-fatigue mats like most restaurants have.

Convincing a department to graduate me with an ABET accredited degree without finishing all coursework. It was significantly easier than deriving the time-dependent wave equation for hydrogen, writing a Java-to-MIPS compiler with two implementations, one in C++ and one in Java, and making an UNIX FORTRAN reactor simulator compile on Windows 95 (lol!)... all with crushingly, untreated depression. Also, survived the Loma Prieta earthquake and Paradise Camp Fire... nothing special there though.

My friends: getting an ASW account while being neither rich nor famous; another, coming into possession of a MiG-21. /unhumble-brag

The hell with bioethics hand-wringers... we should be mending and improving people's genes whenever and wherever we can add net good.

If it works but it's not economically-viable: the moral and ethical choice is to open-source it or give it to a non-profit medical foundation. It sucks to have a rare disease because there isn't enough profit to recoup r&d; this is where non-profits, NGOs and GSEs should advance medicine where big pharma trades lives for profits.

At one time in America, keys from one car would unlock, if not start, many thousands of similar cars because of similar or same key bitting. It's interesting that German cars of the same era were harder to break into because of worse economics for lower classes, more car thefts and therefore more secure vehicles... meanwhile American cars weren't really locked that much because post-WW2 boom times were so good, and so, less theft, especially in small towns where everyone knew each other and theft would risk becoming a shunned criminal outlaw.