That’s exactly what he did. New plantings planned soon.

That line sounds a hell of a lot more arbitrary in Fahrenheit – it’s 50C

I’ve personally experienced 122F. 0/10, would not recommend. People are simply not adapted to those temps, and I say this having grown up in Phoenix.

That’s going to spit out a very weird dataset. There may be edge cases where data for the back half of December from 2011 forward would be useful, but I can’t think of one.

This is a Nature.com article, which was originally broken into paragraphs.

I have very little issue meeting and connecting with people in meatspace. The problem becomes that they have so many responsibilities that the ability to meet up regularly is overtaken by said duties.

I’m not going to launch into a full treatise on how I became homeless, but it certainly wasn’t my choices and actions, but rather the economy pushing up prices far beyond my annual raises. But once one is here, we’re all binned together. Keeping to myself in my van is viewed as equivalent to a meth addict running naked down the street.

I took a look at the first link, and I don’t mean to be rude, but what you’re expecting of users is downright hostile. Downloading a game engine and then runtimes to manually compile your game isn’t going to snag a lot of casual interest.

From your description:

You need to compile this project, and to compile this project you first need to have the godot engine with C#/.NET support which the download link is underneath this line, second you put the Bowling Mega Mix folder on your local machine, third you need to open that same folder in the engine, fourth compile the project either using the play button or something else.

To put new files in this repository you need github desktop, Here is a link to ubuntu based linux distro version of github desktop: https://gist.github.com/berkorbay/6feda478a00b0432d13f1fc0a50467f1 and whatever you do, do not use gitkraken as your github desktop replacement or linux version, it does not work.

Before you get the engine or compiling the project, you are going to need the .net sdk and runtimes and you may want to install an older version because sometimes the latest version does not work and here is a link to the directions on how you install it on linux: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux?WT.mc_id=dotnet-35129-website, to install an older version you change the version number to a lower number in the terminal.

To use mods you use the version 2 or later folder, you drag the mod folder in that very same folder and the mod folder must be called Bowling Mega Mix Mod and .tscn file must be called ModBowlingBall.tscn and lua scripts must be called ModBowlingBall.lua and ScoreLayer.lua

You posted as though you’d like feedback from people spending five to 10 minutes with your game, but you’re turning this into the better part of an evening by not having something one and done. That’s not how you draw testers.

It’s cool that you’re being so prolific, but please don’t ask people to install software other than yours for your software to work. If a .NET download link needs to be thrown into the .msi, so be it, but this should not be a multistep process (for *NIX, provide a script).

There’s really no reason not to colocate in arid regions. Ag gets the benefits from the snippet, but an equally important panel placing is waterways. Canals, lakes … reducing evaporation means more water, which less is than required of for ag, meaning more crops for the same amount of water or – as is currently the problem – keeping output steady with less water use.

Short of having to occasionally balance my batteries off mains, living off solar is amazing. I do nothing, pay nothing and just have power. The city-owned utility is addicted to raising rates without improving reliability. Each time a storm rolls through, I pity the fools posting on Reddit about a power outage.

I saw this pop up in the YouTube post-play grid a couple of days ago and didn’t bother clicking, because so often after watching a climate-impact video, it’ll suggest eight-year-old videos in said grid.

After living off of solar for a year and a half, the idea of going back to paying an absurd amount monthly is unpalatable. Even two years ago, when I bought my panels, each 100W panel cost less than the base fees before usage over two months. With 1200W installed, that’s some 20 months to break even, and fees and rates have now gone up five times since I went off grid, meaning I’m in the black by now.

But seriously: Five rate increases in less than two years? This from a city-owned utility that generates and purchases fossil-fuel electricity.

Now, solar alone only does so much if one cares to do anything at night, and 600Ah of LFP cost twice what the panels did, and once I got the rest of the pieces together, I was at about $4,000. But that amount of battery allows me to deal with three days of clouds and rain, and I specced the solar to be able to completely charge my battery in a single sunny day.

I think the main problem is inertia. I was paying usually $60 per month for 20kWh. That’s three fucking dollars per kWh. When people post on r/Austin about electric rate hikes and I point out the usury, I get brigaded by people saying it’s somehow disingenuous to look at the whole bill and instead can only count power and distribution.

Which is fine, but I couldn’t just pay the $15 in usage and keep getting service. So people bend themselves into pretzels to defend absurd pricing structures (there’s of course a fair amount of “stop being poor, and things look reasonable … bootstraps!”)

Of course, going off-grid introduces new concerns. I have to lug my two batteries to a friend’s place twice a year to keep them in balance by individually charging from mains (this is not an issue with a single battery, but 300Ah is about as much as I can lug). It’s a bitch to disconnect them from the full system, and of course there are breakers and switches that need to be thrown such that I don’t return to a charred shell of a van.

But I always chuckle when I see people talking on Reddit about power or internet being out. The tipping point for me to want to get off grid was what we lovingly call 2021’s Snowmaggedon, that time where everyone not on a critical circuit was down for days instead of the advertised “rolling blackouts” – and by days, for some it was nine; I was at the top of the bell curve with six.

And meanwhile, the empty skyscrapers downtown stayed on like a beacon in the night.

Not only is the grid expensive, not only is it polluting … it’s also really fucking expensive for what it is. Oh, and unreliable. Just what I’m looking for when highs don’t break 20F and I’m boiling snow on my gas stove (I taught a neighbour how to light her stove manually; she’d never considered it) just to stay alive by bundling up.

People being unwilling to consider alternatives and look at ROI timelines because “that’s work” just confuses me. I was paying $75 per month just to have access to electric and natural gas, and again, there have been several increases since. Granted, I do use diesel for heat (the heater uses about a cup an hour) as needed, because I’m input bound – 1200W of solar that will never perform to top spec so produces about 6kWh per day doesn’t solve that a space heater will burn through that in four hours.

We don’t expect anyone laying cables for phone service anymore, and I’m of the same mindset for power at this point. Sure, building your own microgrid is a large upfront cost, but a lot of places (at least two years ago) were offering 0% financing for six months to a year, so “upfront” is squishy.

We put up with the state of the power industry and grid because we’ve been conditioned to believe there are no alternatives. And even five years ago, that was true – rolling your own was prohibitively expensive for most. But you don’t buy a house expecting a return in three months, so why does it persist that burning dinosaurs should only be compared on that timeframe?

I’ve noticed that more and more things are breaking on a VPN. That’s my first guess. I’ve allowed all domains through on NoScript, but the dropdowns don’t do anything.

Takeout is offering no options other than CSV.

Reading through the documentation, SponsorBlock being baked in has nearly sold it for me. That said, I’ve been building up my history for years and am never shown anything outside of what I might enjoy watching. Is there a way to import that?

If you think the forks are bad, wait until you see the spoons! (Tip your waitress; try the veal.)

And if some of the forest burns, two birds, one stone.

And with all the microplastics polluting the ocean, that makes them …

plastic sturgeons.

Quite the read. There are lots of unknowns with any technological development throughout history, and as the article points out, we don’t yet even know where we are on the energy demand curve from AI.

Something that confuses me is that geothermal is mentioned only once. These companies have the money to site datacenters near EGS plants or even build their own, grid connection optional, and have upfront capex sted power bills for the life of the center.

This would admittedly require long-term thinking, which shareholders are completely uninterested in when infrastructure investments ding their dividends and buybacks.

Woohoo! Not our problem anymore!

Plastic makes it possible!

(I’m dating myself that I remember those ads.)

Odd … stepcattle doesn’t sound at all like the sort of thing involving jackboots and train cars.