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- Comment on College core: you sit in the class for attendance then go home and teach yourself 1 week ago:
I went to a very small public university campus that a few years before was associated with a massive state university. They were still mostly independent but we’re getting all sorts of pressure to conform to the larger universities policies on research etc. At my school the professors all taught and did little to no research.
As part of their ongoing arguments they had all juniors/seniors in both schools take a standardize tests at the end of their core degree courses for a year. My tiny university averaged 90th percentile. The large university averaged 30th percentile. The difference having highly qualified dedicated teachers.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 1 week ago:
Farmers are price-takers not price-makers. The prices they receive are driven by speculation on the commodities markets (even for crops not traded on the market).
Since they can’t control the price they receive for their crop, they are very sensitive to any change in the cost of inputs. Determining how much to spent on inputs is the part of their profitablity they can control. So widespread behavioral change is usually pretty close to immediate.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 1 week ago:
Farmers almost uniformly over-apply N fertilizer. Having it be more expensive and forcing them to look into more efficient ways of applying fertilizer and managing nutrients is not a bad thing.
- Comment on Help! Monstera leaves turn brown 1 week ago:
I have kept a mosteras for many decades. A few basics. The brown spots on the edges are usually too much water (causes N deficiency), salt buildup, or lack of fertilizer.
Watering, the pot should be saturated then allowed to completely dry out. Don’t pay attention to the soil, look at the leaves. When the plant is drought stressed they have a slight dimpled look. The leaves appear duller and not as shiney. Salts- the are very sensitive to water softeners. Do not use water that has been softened.
Fertilizer - they do best with slow release fertilizers. For conventional fertilizer you want polymer coated. For organic you want manures aka something that takes time to break down.
Salt leaching- you need to leach the pots at least every couple of years. The smaller the pot the more often it is needed. Flushing a bunch of water through the soil removes salt buildup.
Pot size- ignore everything anyone says about pot size for monsteras. They always get rootbound in any pot but they don’t care. You can grow giant ones in a 1 gallon pot. A larger pot = less frequent watering and fertilizing. For most of my plants life I kept it in an 2 gallon pot for ease in transport.
Light: monsteras are tree climbers. In low light conditions they grow away from the light looking for a tree trunk (small leaves with long internodes. If you want big beautiful leaves, they need 4-5 hours of direct sunlight. Preferably in the early morning or evening.
- Comment on CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court 2 weeks ago:
Yep as soon as the game is launched, LAYOFFS!!!
Sharing profits with the people who actually did the work is anti-capitalist.
- Comment on Fascism bad. 3 weeks ago:
How can you not mention the awesome studies on bullshit.
jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/…/6565.pdf/
Conservatives fall for bullshit.
- Comment on Forbidden Fruit 4 weeks ago:
Just to preface, I am a plant breeder/geneticist with extensive experience in interspecific crosses in multiple species - all practical. This discussion should definitely be finished over some a few drinks.
- Comment on Forbidden Fruit 4 weeks ago:
Out-breeding depression primarily results in a decrease of fertility and infant mortality. So although it is occasionally observed in surviving offspring, in general it is much lower probability.
Also the neandertal crossing was deleterious it would be much lower percentage in modern humans. It also would not have come from multiple crossing events.
- Comment on Forbidden Fruit 4 weeks ago:
Usually these issues are caused by mitochondrial DNA not nuclear DNA. Mitochondrial DNA is only passed on from the female. So if there is an incompatibility, it’s usually completely lethal to any offspring.
So a HMNF coupling could not have been possible because of the neanderthal’s female mitochondrial DNA.
- Comment on Forbidden Fruit 4 weeks ago:
If I had to guess the successful crosses were potentially much healthier than either parent line. Heterosis (hybrid vigor) would likely be pretty extreme in genetic lines that has been isolated by 300,000+ years of time. Of course the degree of fertility was likely lowered due to genetic distance. Once the initial cross was made however, back-crossing to either species by the hybrid would likely be much easier.
Many of those ancient stories about individuals with super strength and size etc could have likely been based upon these crosses.
The evidence is showing neadertals never truly died out. Their smaller population bred back into the modern humans who came later.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 4 weeks ago:
The OS desktop environment has stagnated over the past 15 years.
Many businesses have transitioned from a 3-4 year rotation on desktops/laptops to every 5-6 years today. Hell my work laptop is 6 years old and I don’t forsee replacing it for another 3-4 years. For work functions there is no significant improvement to upgrading more frequently today.
So if they launched W12 next year, widespread adoption will likely not occur until 2032-2033 or at the Win11 EOL whichever comes first.
The developers today are working on a system that will not become mainstream for 8+ years. They want to launch in the next 2 years knowing it will not be adopted for years.
They ignoring the reality of today’s market and building to meet the latest fads. It’s Windows 8 all over again.
- Comment on Forbidden Fruit 4 weeks ago:
There is a few different potential reasons as well as sexual preference.
Genetic incompatibility - the interspecific cross could only occur one way.
Genetic bottlenecks in the neandertal lineage. A high inbred coefficient could have decreased the neandertal females overall fertility (high deleterious alleles load). This could also cause a rapid reduction in the percentage of neandertal DNA in a mixed population.
Maternal behavior - Neandertals females might not have cared for hybrid offspring appropriately. This could be for anything from milk production requirements to differences in physiological developmental rates.
- Comment on The jokes write themselves... 4 weeks ago:
It’s normal to cite your own work if the new paper is a continuation of that research. A references or three is normal and expected.
When somebody publishes a bullshit paper that is eventually withdrawn, every subsequent paper citing the fraudulent work can also be withdrawn as being unreliable.
A sign it’s all bullshit is when you see the majority of the citations for the paper from the same author. This usually doesn’t pass peer review anymore. In hyperspecialized fields with few researchers, they commonly get a little creative on the introduction section to include other authors.
- Comment on Every so often, it's important for our community to pause, heal, and reflect together on what's truly important and why we're all here. 1 month ago:
Potatos are very destructive to the soil.
They have to be dug up (lots of cultivation). This breaks up the soil structure causing all sorts of issues with porosity, nutrient and organic material loss.
Because of the diseases and pest that attack the growing tubers, growers use fumigants/biofumigants. These are indescriminate killers that wipe out all sorts of insects, fungi, nematodes, and bacteria.
Potatoes leave very little organic residue behind when the tubers are harvested.
Any crop that follows potatoes suffers from a “yield drag” for 2-3 years as the soil recovers.
Out of the all starchy foods we eat, potatoes and sweet potatoes are the worst for the soil.
- Comment on Bingo! 1 month ago:
I find that a string of swear words works wonders for many sites when they want to be all picky. Add in a random symbol/number and presto a “Secure” password.
YouMotherFuckingA$$hole1ShitBag.
- Comment on Save as PDF 1 month ago:
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 1 month ago:
Windows 11 UI is a downgrade from XP.
Windows 11 is also deeply unstable. I haven’t had this many program crashes, errors, and other bullshit since Vista and ME. Windows 10 had it’s annoying quirks but it was at least relatively stable.
I have saved myself the headaches with UI changes since the Win8 clusterfuck when installed a 3rd party taskbar/menu.
- Comment on Shanghai scientists create computer chip in fiber thinner than a human hair, yet can withstand crushing force of 15.6 tons — fiber packs 100,000 transistors per centimeter 1 month ago:
Computerized clothing.
If you don’t pay your subscription your back will display ads. Hell even if you pay your subscription it will just be less ads. The ads of course will be targeted based upon the biometric readings the smart clothing collects.
- Comment on Draw! 1 month ago:
Its a fucking stupid and manipulative question for the employer to ask. No employer should give a fuck if somebody took a couple years to travel, take care of family, or just couldn’t find a job.
What they are really asking "Are any of the time gaps in your job history, a job that you got fired from with cause? "
Instead of being little shits about it just ask the actual question straight out. The shock value of asking a real non-bullshit questions in an interview has paid off many times for me when hiring.
- Comment on Please, my son... He's sick... 2 months ago:
Now is the time to strike while the iron is hot.
Tomorrow,
“Hey boss, after unloading that truck yesterday with the pallet jack, my back is really sore. If it doesn’t ease up I might need to go to the doctor today.”
Next safety meeting/safety suggestion box in a week or two.
“I really think the company should invest in electric pallet jacks. They are not that expensive and will cut down on potential lower back injuries.”
- Comment on Please, my son... He's sick... 2 months ago:
Van driver shows up.
“Hey do you guys have a dock or a ramp?”
The pallet jack is offered as a sacrificial lamb.
The van driver curses and groans and sadly takes the offered pallet jack.
- Comment on Why??? 🍅 2 months ago:
Its only sort-of true.
The tomato imported to Europe was more like the cherry/mini pear tomato and yellow in color. Cultivars like we know today we’re mostly developed in the 18th and 19th centuries in different European regions.
Why do I say it’s mostly true.
Modern breeders have extensively introgressed traits from wild types from Central and South America. Almost all modern cultivars contain DNA from multiple different locations. So it’s not really fair to say it’s all from Europe.
- Comment on Many parents cab probably relate 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 months 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 months 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. 2 months 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 2 months 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.