Yeah protein can’t be made without fixed nitrogen to work with. It is kind of fascinating that in all likelihood the vast majority of the protein in our bodies was made using natural gas due to Steam Methane Reforming (SMR) being the primary method for making the hydrogen needed for the Haber-Bosch process.

Ammonium nitrate is effectively solidified natural gas which is also neat to think about.

Most modern cereals are bred to respond to nitrogen well for obvious reasons, and they also happen to be fodder for meat and animal products. Flour, rice, meat, eggs .etc. anything that grows in a grain based feedlot or is grain finished.

Rapeseed should go up in price too. Same with soy. Both of these are high protein high oil fodder crops.

Nitrogen fertillizer turns into protein pretty directly. So the higher the protein content of what we’re talking about, the more fertillizer you need to give it the building blocks it needs to make amino acids into proteins.

I bet farmers will rotate into legumes next year to help replenish their soil and to get better yields for animal fodder. Same with beans if you can grow them, although that can need ammonia too even if it’s less than soy or canola.

This time they can’t print oil so that bullshit stops working, which is why this one might do them in.

Japan and China have been selling US treasuries and buying gold or their own treasuries instead… It’s not looking good. You can only print money needlessly when you have the unique privilege to do it as the reserve currency.

It already is too expensive and adding more compute doesn’t make it cheaper lol it just causes a race to the bottom among data center providers and an eventual crash there too.

I’ve literally experienced the “I changed/edited/deleted this comment and now my code works” before and it floored me. I can’t for the life of me remember what happened specifically I just remember being scared. It shouldn’t do that, and since it did something I deeply don’t understand happened behind the scenes.

And if we shared cars instead of owning them it would also save on gas for everyone

And if we paid someone to drive the car around for us it would be swell

Also if we do that we might as well make the car bigger

You know what’s more efficient on gas than rubber on road? Metal. If we made the wheels metal we would have like zero rolling resistance

That tears up roads though so we should probably pave the roads with metal

That’s kind of expensive, so we should only pave metal directly underneath where our metal wheeled car will drive

If we’re going to do all of that it should be bigger. Multiple cars connected together.

Hey we can get rid of gas entirely? We could run this thing using catenary arms and overhead cables. GENIUS!

Yeah and they don’t even fully cover the wire mesh most of the time so it rusts and your entire stucco wall falls off a few years later (out of warranty lol get fucked)

They make them out of literal cardboard now because drywall is too expensive. I wish I was joking. Look up cyfy on YouTube, he’s a home inspector in Arizona and some of the million dollar+ homes he inspects are actual temu quality shitholes from big name builders.

If you get cheap large flash drives the thing that’s wrong with them is QLC memory, and the fact flash memory rots over time.

Bitrot is a thing no matter the medium it’s just what timescale we’re talking about. Blurays are the poor man’s LTO tape backups. M-disks were also good for a long time too. Very stable and high density.

However there is a way to make flash drives work for a backup solution. I would pair drives together in mirrors under ZFS. Maybe 4-6 drives in a pool, with 2-3 mirrors. That way you have error detection (ZFS checksums for every bit of data stored), and error correction (mirrored data across drives, along with the checksum to verify which copy is good).

It also allows you to run “ZFS scrub <pool>” to check everything once a month or so and detect corruption and fix it. ZFS can also identify a drive that’s failing from consistent errors.

Edit: if you don’t run Linux you could manage this using a raspberry pi 3 or 4 as the host. It could be a very low power and cheap NAS.

When you do the math on how much it costs both a private citizen along with the public to enable cars as transportation it’s mind boggling.

The province I live in makes around $90-100B / year in tax revenue, and spends around $4.5-5.5B / year on roads and road maintenance.

There’s also the hidden cost of road work caused by utilities being replaced, struck, or newly installed. We pay thx bill for that through our telecom, power, sewer .etc

Insurance, gas, car payments…

If a road is built to last 10 years then technically on average you’re replacing ⅒ of your roads every year. Utilities are the same and trenching/patching is horrible for roads necessitating rework on them earlier than the life expectancy. A fiber line might have a 40 year life span, but installing it turned a 20 year road into a 10 year replacement.

Cave man mode. Save much token. Very easy. Get straight to point. Missing semicolon line 182.

That’s what I’m getting at but who gets the center square is decided by dice.

Especially because you feel like it’s your fault when it’s really just dumb luck on who wins or loses. It’s like tic tac toe with dice.

Embrace, extend, extinguish. You just described all 3

I’ve noticed a massive overlap between trans and telecom. Even before the internet, telephone phreaks were more often than not trans or trans adjacent, or just straight up eggs before it was cool.

I can’t think of a more natural monopoly than a fucking river.

How do you laissez faire the Thames? Dredge a second polluted scar in the earth right next to it? Why isn’t it already nationalized?

For reference most lithium ion battery packs are rated for around 3000 charge discharge cycles. I’m not sure about bike batteries though, especially with the range issue being a concern for you. That’s the number I see on data sheets for lion packs though.

I worked as a contractor at my last job and they charged $1.25/km, or $1.50 when gas was above $1.50/L.

My current company reimburses me at $0.67/km for my personal vehicle if I drive it for work.

directs you to a 10 year old thread that has nothing to do with your current problem. The moderator will ban you if you point this out.

I guess one benefit is rust development often doesn’t use bleeding edge version for everything, where you pull the entirety of crates.io through your machine when you open your IDE. From what I’ve seen most projects use == versions and lock files.

I don’t know enough about rust though. Could an attacker change historical crate versions to a payload and then cargo pulls them because they changed? Or will cargo only pull an update if you change to a different version on your machine?