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Comment Re:EEE? (Score 3, Interesting) 48

I learned PowerShell about 10 years ago. Almost against my will.

It took me over a year to be able to convert a line from CMD to PowerShell under 10 minutes.
The language is a way to force admin to learn C#.

There are lots of potholes and caveats.
The 5.1 version still returns $true for the following: Test-Path " "

Comment Here's a way better idea: BioChar (Score 1) 83

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Biochar is the lightweight black residue, made of carbon and ashes, remaining after the pyrolysis of biomass, and is a form of charcoal.[1] Biochar is defined by the International Biochar Initiative as "the solid material obtained from the thermochemical conversion of biomass in an oxygen-limited environment".[2] Biochar is a stable solid that is rich in pyrogenic carbon and can endure in soil for thousands of years.[3]

You don't "burn" wood, you burn whatever waste wood like product that would normally be trashed.

Comment Reddit has fundamentally changed (Score 1) 36

Reddit used to have principles that aligned with the open source model. Now they are removing mods that protested their API pricing. They have changed and that is how they are killing the goose that lays golden eggs. Everyone was cheering for them to succeed. Not anymore. The good will people had towards reddit is gone. They killed it.

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