One more tool that we could be quickly ramping up deployment of is herds of goats [0].
Much cheaper than people, can clear terrain that's too difficult for people, no smoke or noise of herbicides needed, etc.
Herds can be grown over time too. (Brief googling tells me they reproduce annually, and tend to usually have twins or more, so you could do a quick back of the envelope calculation to project growth.)
Used in conjunction with other methods of clearing biomass, they could help a lot.
I'd like to keep that option open yea, not sure if I want to. I just want to learn it, but I also want to prove to people that I can do it. This is one of the things I'm playing with.
Not why I'm going to study it though, but yea, I might want to switch.
Sure, but it is a configuration format if it is intended to be used in all kind of languages you have to show bow to deal with it in all kind of languages.
Checks that might be trivial in OCaml might be utter footguns in say C.
Don't get me wrong here, I get that this is someones spare time project that they might use for themselves only. I am fine with that. But I am unconvinced if the (I admit: well demonstrated) simplicity of the format translates to simplicity of use in the scope it aimed for (replacement for other wide spread configuration formats).
I don't say it is impossible (or even unlikely) that this is an improvement, I just caution against seeing an elegant minimalist approach and automatically assuming it makes things simpler — remember, computers with their binary file systems already have the most simple format that could exist: zero or one. Yet somehow people shot themselves in the foot parsing those for decades. Much of the complexity of computer systems stems from managing the simplicity of the underlying components (if we ignore the thick layer historically grown cruft).
What would it take to change my mind? Elegant examples how to parse all the examples in that post using major programming languages (C, C++, Javascript, Java, Python, Go, Rust, ...). That is ofc a lot of work, but if the format should be adopted that work would be needed anyways.
Part of the power of the idea is how amenable this is to property-based testing.
And it really only takes one solid implementation that can be wrapped/called from other languages to do well. (Or perhaps one per an ecosystem like JVM, .NET, WASM, anything that can be relatively easily called from C, anywhere Python is used for scripting, etc.)
And because of the formalisms involved, you could have a pretty precise and complete spec defined.
Buttermilk and potatoes can get you close to 100% nutrition.
Plug 4 large potatoes and 6 Cups of whole buttermilk into a site like Cronometer. 2000 Calories and 100+% of everything but Vitamins E and K, which you might get from foraged greens.
The secret has always been frozen chopped spinach. Absurdly cheap, doesn't go bad, blends/melts away into EVERYTHING! (Pasta, soups, beans for tacos, whatever).
I will note, the hard limit is you can't actually use it in a salad... but hey, tradeoffs
Yeah, I don't think you are going to taste much of that in a stew (which is by definition a soggy mush). As noted you don't want to use this for anything fresh where mostly fresh vegetables will be superior.
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