The_v
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- Comment on Many parents cab probably relate 10 hours ago:
Its a trade show classic. Have a nice looking bowl full of candy to draw people in. More thought needs to be placed into the contents of the candy bowl than the layout of the booth.
What’s in that bowl determines the amount of traffic that stops. Matching the candy to the demographic of the audience is a critical research before the trade show.
- Comment on Stone tablet found with carved symbols that do not match any known language 3 days ago:
My guess - 1800’s origin.
People traveling around selling all sorts of ancient things like papyrus was in fashion and made a ton of money. All sorts of “ancient” things were also manufactured during the time period as well.
- Comment on I'm just here for the memes 1 week ago:
I vote for squash/pumpkins. I have a bunch of those as well as corn.
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 1 week ago:
Honestly most of the issues with OneDrive are from one setting:
Files On-Demand - it’s turned on by default. It uploads all the files in the drive to the cloud and then deletes them from the local computer. Its absolutely, fucking stupid and should be banned.
- Comment on Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them" 2 weeks ago:
AI hardware is a sales pitch without a clear product. Consumers have no clue why they would want to buy something with AI on it.
For most consumers AI is a webpage that kids cheat on homework or adults attempt to cheat at work with. It makes ugly fake pictures with all sorts of weird errors. Its also the annoying as fuck answering services that you have to yell at 4 or 5 times to get to a real person.
Why would an AI PC be desirable?
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 2 weeks ago:
It’s worth $30 more per year. Aka it’s a subscription rate hike.
They hiked up all of the subscriptions. Then made it confusing as fuck to subscribe back to the one that you had.
- Comment on Humans rank between meerkats and beavers in monogamy ‘league table’, but sheep are sluts. 3 weeks ago:
Nope, that’s not what it means at all
Genetically linked behaviors follow distribution curves. There is always variation in every population for any behavior. When a behavior is highly selected for, alternative behaviors become more rare…but they still happen.
A good example of this is homosexuality, evolutionarily speaking this behavior is highly selected against (reduced babies). It still occurs in all sorts of species.
What this means is that around 2/3rds of humans are strictly monogamous. Around 1/3rd of humans are promiscuous or partially promiscuous. These are instinctual behaviors that can be overcome somewhat by cultural norms. On an individual basis, for every 3 people you meet, one instinctually finds sleeping around to be their “normal” behavior.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 3 weeks ago:
It adds flex to the container for variations of atmospheric pressure. It’s what they mean by the fill levels.
Milk containers are filled by weight. The exact volume of the liquid can vary slightly based upon the atmospheric pressure.
If the container has no flex the top will pop off or the sides will crush in with pressure changes say when a truck drives over a mountain pass to deliver the milk.
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 3 weeks ago:
The real solution would be for the EU to mandate an standardized open source connection platform that all car companies are required to support.
I currently use android auto on my truck. I had to make a bunch settings modifications to make it semi-functional. It took me months to figure out how to get it to do what I wanted, when I wanted it
- Comment on Wyoming ranchers want to transition to solar. The state stands in their way. 4 weeks ago:
Supplemental irrigation, even in higher rainfall zones like Bavaria increase row crop yields by up to 30-50%. Everytime you drive past a non-irrigated field, up to 1/2 of the environmental damage is not needed if the countries invested in upgrading the water management system from the iron age.
50% more forests and nature, , 50% less chemicals and fertilizer used, etc… it all starts with water management.
- Comment on Wyoming ranchers want to transition to solar. The state stands in their way. 4 weeks ago:
2.47 acres = 1 hectare if I remember my conversions right. 1 hectare is 0.01 sq km.
3000 acres/2.47= 1215 hectares *.01= 12.15 sq km. You misplaced a decimal.
- Comment on Wyoming ranchers want to transition to solar. The state stands in their way. 4 weeks ago:
Jason boy has been more of parasite.
farm.ewg.org/persondetail.php?custnumber=A1252381…
1.2 million in subsidies since 2009.
- Comment on Wyoming ranchers want to transition to solar. The state stands in their way. 4 weeks ago:
Here’s the history Timmy boy accepting government handouts.
farm.ewg.org/persondetail.php?custnumber=A1181104…
He’s only at 1.35million since 2002.
- Comment on Wyoming ranchers want to transition to solar. The state stands in their way. 4 weeks ago:
They likely have pivot irrigation systems on quite a few fields plus the pumps. Generally costs around $50-$125/acre per year depending on the cost of electricity and length of irrigation season (Arizona irrigates 12months of the year, some high mountain areas irrigate for 2 months).
$150,000 ÷ $125/acre = 1,200 acres under irrigation. $150,000/$50/acre = 3000 acres under irrigation.
These are not poor little family farmers. These are both millionaires who likely inherited it all from mommy and daddy. They also likely accept all sorts of subsidy checks already from the government every year.
- Comment on earth, fire, water, wind - it's not hard 5 weeks ago:
My wife has a couple graduate degrees on this subject. This is one that I got to be the unwilling editor on her papers for.
Its a lack of understanding how students need to learn the information: memorization by usage versus memorization by rote.
Memorization by rote: This is the old school method of teaching. You memorize random facts figures with no context or usage. Its a bit of standalone information that is often not useful. Memorization by rote leads to kids that can say all of the letters but not recognize the symbols or associated them with sounds and words.
Memorization by usage: This is a much more effective method to teach. Its also much harder. This requires teaching the concepts and systems and linking the information together. You memorize the same information by repeated usage but it’s in context. It takes a ton more skill to teach this way because you have to engage the student through the entire process, repeatedly.
- Comment on Windows 3.1 included a red and yellow 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme so garish it was long assumed to be a joke, so I tracked down Microsoft's original UI designer to get the true story 5 weeks ago:
I used the black and white one in college.
My laptop screen was only black and white.
It also had a clip-on trackball as a mouse.
- Comment on Don't touch my corn asshole..... 5 weeks ago:
He’s also a dust mop for the warehouse.
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- Comment on Fair's fair. 5 weeks ago:
The USDA-NASS is responsible for making an estimate of the number of corn cobs in the U.S. Most other countries have similar organizations.
To do so they send surveys out to ask farmers what they think. The farmers answer completely truthfully because lying would inflate the prices they get on their corn cobs.
- Comment on Makes perfect sense 5 weeks ago:
A form of sexual dimorphism. Honestly compared to real examples like the angler fish it’s not even that weird.
- Comment on It's really ugly but it's a sign of a healthy environment for soil microbes. 1 month ago:
Trichoderma is the genus, there is currently 89 different species classified.
That being said, they did use the species that became a primary pathogen as an antifungal for many years. As soon as the species was identified as a primary pathogen the suppliers changed to another related species. They also claimed to have mislabeled the species on what they sold before (bullshit of course).
- Comment on Alright you fucking degenerates. It's time to get your edumacation on about corn smut. 1 month ago:
Since corn is a critical crop in many regions its one of the most studied species on the planet. Even a post about shitty corn is interesting.
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- Comment on Time to plow 1 month ago:
Nobody spreads corn seed. It needs to be planted at least 1.5" deep.
It needs to be DRILLED in 2-3".
- Comment on Wanna get in shape? Bar bell corn is the answer. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Alright you fucking degenerates. It's time to get your edumacation on about corn smut. 1 month ago:
I would sent you pictures of it but I don’t save smut to my phone.
- Comment on Alright you fucking degenerates. It's time to get your edumacation on about corn smut. 1 month ago:
It doesn’t just grow on the ears either. It often grows on the stalk or tassel.
Wait a bit until that little fella matures and then produces spores. It will be about 4x the size in those pictures. Bumping into them covers you in dark black spores that sticks around on your clothing.
- Comment on It's really ugly but it's a sign of a healthy environment for soil microbes. 1 month ago:
Damnit I forgot to mention that the trichoderma rot causes the kernals to suffer from premature-germination. The stress causes them to pop off too soon.
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