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nomadluap··on Solving climate change by abusing thermodynamic scaling laws
You can pyrolize the wood by cooking it in an oxygen-free environment, cooking off almost all of the nitrogen and other nutrients and leaving nearly pure carbon in the form of charcoal.

Off the top of my head, for a given amount of wood biomass, you can get about a 70% ratio of product to fuel if you use a high-efficiency wood fire to cook the wood itself.

Then you can take that carbon, bury it in decommissioned open pit mines, or use it as a soil additive (biochar), where it will sequester the carbon for thousands of years and act as a fertilizer.

You could also pair the biochar with a fast-growing swamp tree (willow?), re-incorporating the char into the areas around the willow plantation to create a sort of artificial peat bog which could also be useful for water storage and filtration.

nomadluap··on The fishy death of Red Lobster
I'm sure a lot of it is already spent in the form of reverse-mortgages on homes.
nomadluap··on A History of the TTY
I guess you could look at paper tape as a physical manifestation of redirecting terminal I/O to text files using > and < in the shell.
nomadluap··on How to clean chemistry glassware
Can you get gloves made from PTFE? I feel those would be the closest you could get to an "everything" glove.
nomadluap··on How to clean chemistry glassware
Use 99% isopropyl alcohol. Add in a teaspoon of table salt -- it won't dissolve in the alcohol and will act as a mild abrasive to help remove stubborn residue. Rinse thoroughly with water afterwards.

If you're really serious about your cleanliness, a desktop ultrasonic cleaner is also amazing for cleaning bowls and downstems. You can get them for a few dozen dollars from Amazon and the like.

nomadluap··on Getaddrinfo() on glibc calls getenv(), oh boy
For one thing, it could delegate to a local service. Granted, the communication to this service is probably still be over a socket interface, but at least as a purely-local connection you would hopefully have some better worst-case performance characteristics.

This is basically what dnsmasq does when you use it as a local DNS cache.

nomadluap··on The Plumber Problem
or just, "The Expert Problem"
nomadluap··on Parquet: An efficient, binary file format for table data
At that point just start using an SQLite database as a data format.
nomadluap··on Hubble telescope has new lease on life after computer swap appears to fix glitch
I always thought it would be interesting if Spacex developed a "dragon utility module". It would launch in Dragon's trunk and consist of a docking port on one end, an airlock on the other, a miniature manipulator arm and a bunch of cargo mounted around the outside. After separating from the second stage the Dragon would flip around and dock to this module, which would give it all the extra bits needed for a mission like servicing the Hubble.
nomadluap··on User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
And the form clears every time you go back/forward
nomadluap··on A centrifugal spin on a 500-year-old air compressor design
A heat pump could be used to cool the water to below-ambient and inject that heat directly into the outgoing compressed air. I wonder if a system like that would be more efficient than installing a separate refrigeration-based system downstream?
nomadluap··on Buy on Google is now open and commission-free
I believe there was a man named Armond Hammer who was the CEO of the company that owns Arm&Hammer (the baking soda company) at one point.
nomadluap··on Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack
No, but you could blackmail a social media manager to further your cause by planting a bug in the office, for example.
nomadluap··on Linux Touchpad Like a MacBook update: progress on multitouch
from the article, apparently Wayland display servers already support multi-touch gestures.
nomadluap··on Hacker Mods Old Calculator to Access the Internet, Casio Files DMCA Complaint
Does anyone have a clone of the original repository?
nomadluap··on Anti-Interdiction Update: Six Month Retrospective
Even if the bad actors found the same nail polish to re-apply after tampering, the pattern of glitter flecks would be different. The recipient could compare a high-resolution photo of the nailpolish to a reference image to determine if the screw had been tampered with.
nomadluap··on Our data centers now work harder when the sun shines and wind blows
There are already some solutions around that try to address this on a consumer level. I recently watched a teardown for a piece of test gear that utilizes frequencies injected directly to the mains supply in order to control home hot-water heaters in Australia[0].

That's the great thing about standards -- there are so many to choose from!

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po4b7JhpxKQ

nomadluap··on First Robotics Competition: An International High-School Robotics Competition
I was pleasantly surprised when I started my first R&D job after university. It's just like a FIRST team but everything is bigger including the robots.

I don't think anything else in school has prepared me for the real world more than my FIRST team. If I could tell my younger self one thing, it would be to join the team in my freshman year instead of senior year.

nomadluap··on First Robotics Competition: An International High-School Robotics Competition
Minecraft with the OpenComputers[1] mod might fit your requirements. It adds computers and robots into Minecraft that are programmable with Lua.

[1]: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/opencomputers

nomadluap··on GitHub blocked me and all my libraries
What advantage does fossil have over Git in this case?
nomadluap··on Why have contestants on “The Price is Right” become so much worse at guessing?
For most paywall sites like this, you can also get the full content by being quick on the 'escape' key after reloading. If you can interrupt it after the static article content loads but before most of the javascript loads then the bottom paragraphs won't get chopped off.
nomadluap··on Waymo Via
That would be an interesting metric: normalized accident rates for self-driving cars vs octogenarian-driven cars.
nomadluap··on Ingenious Low-Cost Tilt Detection System (2018)
I bet most porch pirates will have an easier time fencing a tv rather than a desk, and so would be more likely to take a TV box.
nomadluap··on Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, including uBlock Origin
uBlock Origin seems to block all advertising on Youtube for me, including pre-roll and intermission ads in the videos. The only advertising I see on youtube these days is the sponsored sections inserted by the video creators.
nomadluap··on SQLite Is Serverless
SQLite has a page measuring performance of internal blobs vs external files: https://www.sqlite.org/intern-v-extern-blob.html
nomadluap··on A Kaggle Grandmaster cheated in $25k AI contest with hidden code
The problem was that there was a prize at stake, and everyone else was playing by the rules.
nomadluap··on Firefox 72.0
Or even just remember size and position between instances
nomadluap··on Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV
They may have already signed an exclusive streaming contract with another provider.
nomadluap··on Elementary OS 5.1 Hera
Just because it's 'working' doesn't mean it's legitimate.
nomadluap··on Block on GM rice ‘has cost millions of lives and led to child blindness’
This is literally explained by the parent comment.
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