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Comment Re:Is this *still* a hoax? (Score 1) 378

No. Yield per acre is up a MASSIVE 20 and 28 percent respectively for corn and wheat over the last two decades.
And rice in Thailand for example is collapsing due to climate change.

Distribution is easier, as the population is more concentrated in urban areas, too. Which also has meanwhile upgraded infrastructure like cooling.

Comment configuring switches, cables, and plugboards (Score 1) 99

Programming used to be a very different experience from the one we know today. In fact, the first programmers didn't write code at all; the six women who worked on the ENIAC, one of the world's first computers, at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946 did it by physically configuring switches, cables, and plugboards.

I am pretty sure there is a vim plugin for that!

Comment Re:What's The Average? (Score 1) 108

You might steal a trailer that is full of nickels. But now you need to somehow get rid of $50K worth of nickels.
There was a case in Germany, when silver prices exploded, and the 5 Mark (at that time a about $1.50 - the Dollar was pretty high, in our times Euro 2,50 - but by inflation perhaps only Euro 1), that count had about 65% silver.
People started to horde the coins to smelt them ... it pretty quickly lead to a replacement of those coins. I mean: a new kind of coin, mostly nickel, was introduced.

Comment Re:Cats .. (Score 1) 26

If you had a 2 or 3 yards wide TV monitor, with 24Hz refresh rate.
Watching tennis would be a pain.

The ball would jump in 5 inch (or more) jumps from left to right, and back.

With 120Hz or more, the ball flies in a curved, but connected, line.

The old mantra: a human eye can not distinguish reality from a 24Hz frame rate, is only true, if nothing particular interesting is happening in the 24Hz frame rate.

In a computer game, you anticipate where to shot at, for example. And that is based on your "perception". If you have a framerate, that deceives your perception, you are never able to aim accurately. Which basically boils down to: your accuracy does not matter. That is pretty odd, or? You aim as accurate as human possible: but the target is not there, because the refresh rate blurred it out of the cross hair.

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