Nah, they just do not trust me to donate if their material is good, best case scenario. I dont have enough time to read all the good stuff published by people who respect their audience to pay for this… Wait a minute, not even to them but to hardcore unethical publishing house?!

extractive to abundance

buy the book

Probably by rice, or koji. Or yeast!

This is so true! Tried “nice crossplatform WASM” multiple times - every time you need a system call, drawing single pixel, networking, or catching input - you just start debugging JS. If the logic is simple, whole code ends up being JS mess with small inclusions of Rust. Very unpleasant experience, even with all the modern frontend code generator tools.

I ended up deciding that making custom bindings instead (edit: mention uniffi here) and building frontend in native (Qt/Kotlin/Swift) ends up being simpler, more pleasant, and the end result is faster and prettier (and no wasm limitations). The downside is having to actually use XCode if you do want iOS app to work (which is quite simple but unpleasant and requires you to have Apple hardware or suffer a lot), but if not and you don’t care for Apple worshipers - it’s pure win.

Yes and no. There are grades, variations of acidity and oxidative state of medium through the year. It’s heavy. It warps differently from everything else with temperature variation. Most of all, it is expensive.

I was also considering glass or clay overlapping tiles. Would be cool to cast huge ceramic panel, but it will crack, unless soil matrix holds it together. Shingles under sod might get roots growing through.

Another possible approach would be to allow leaks deliberately, then leave porous medium below the locking level with airflow access - so that any leaked water would be carried away with warmer air rising from habitation levels or even rhtough ventilation system or stove exhaust.

So much to study.

Didn’t Finnish IQM do it already?

Or not well-designed. I’m sure someone like Mark Oehler could’ve figured something out. I don’t have much sod here in central Finland, unfortunately, to try something, neither did he I suppose. I still think of how to cover the roof in living grass though, this is perfect roofing material IMHO once we figure out how to fix leakage without resorting to plastic sheets that my grass seems to tear like they are not even there.

Saw word “merino”, came to type “varusteleka”, yet here it is already!

Couldn’t start using Vespucci, unfortunately. Too messy - when you are on the run, best you can do is make notes and record tracks to draw them later (or let others do it). I’m sure it has its uses though.

Trying DigiAgriApp now, with my sensor network and public mapping, this looks like path to some weird solarpunk grassroots future. Starting server from docker is surprisingly messy though, I still fail to patch it through https somehow.

Just keep contributing bit by bit. It’s a shame, I’m a busy CEO living in middle of nowhere with nothing to map, still #2 last week in my country, #12 for all times,seriously, if I had this thing as a student, I’d be doing nothing else, we were photographing cities with my friends back in the days for centralized maps and it’s way more labor. Go install streetcomplete and just have fun, it’s autistic paradize I live in now!

They might have switched to diffractive optics to combine lens and diffuser in one structure. I was anticipating to see it in newer small embedded screens, but haven’t encountered anything like this yet. You might peel some of whatever peels off on the side and see if there is periodic pattern underneath or just more of same.

Awesome! I once (more than 10 years ago, wow) had an idea to attach solar heater to vacuum/gas CVD system to make graphene, but my PI at the time said it’s dumb idea, sure it will work, no novelty there. Now I have no idea why I would want to make graphene, and pass all the free lenses in second hand shops. Now if making the forge is feasible (I had doubts), I’m totally doing it too, in Finland!

I did quit after getting PhD, which simplifies changing citizenships and getting some kind of funding a lot. Now I’m trying to figure out whether PhDs are like knights - would anyone recognize PhDs if I find a committee of 3 to grant them (I already have 2)?

Please do tell us what temperature and substrate you used to make them fruit! Mine just grow mycelium and stop at that.

This is pretty much how I left academia lol, took me 10 years to build a lab and get a tenure (european citizenship, with social benefits and stuff), regret nothing.

Even 2 years ago, yew was way way worse than actually writing js by hand.

No idea what happens in Helsinki. In Kuopio they are in Finnish only and that’s typical, but Helsinki is a unique place.

And remember to check out your local craftspeople who might have no website or any internet presence at all! At least in Finland, in bigger cities there is a yearly knife making class that usually gets filled and ends in exhibition, some alumni end up quite good. And there is usually local smith who knows what they are doing.

Haha, did this months before trump the first, enjoying early start fruits!

Why not Matrix?