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jpfdez commented on A glob of 99M-year-old amber trapped a zombie fungus erupting from a fly   cnn.com/2025/06/24/scienc... · Posted by u/jackgavigan
Rendello · 9 months ago
The oddest tree I know of is poplar, which is incredibly common around here and is basically considered junk wood. Turns out, those individual, fast-growing trees are in fact stems of a large underground root system.

One of these trees has 47,000 stems:

> Most agree [...] that Pando encompasses 42.89 hectares (106 acres), weighs an estimated 6,000 metric tons (6,600 short tons) or 13.2 million pounds, and features an estimated 47,000 stems, which die individually and are replaced by genetically identical stems that are sent up from the tree's vast root system, a process known as "suckering". The root system is estimated to be several thousand years old, with habitat modeling suggesting a maximum age of 14,000 years and 16,000 years by the latest (2024) estimate.[

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)

jpfdez · 9 months ago
Poplars have underground roots, but they are not "underground root stems" per se. Their main stem is the trunk we see growing above ground.
jpfdez commented on Arthur C. Clarke predicted a computer-dominated future in the ’70s (2024)   openculture.com/2024/12/a... · Posted by u/ohjeez
dhosek · 9 months ago
There was a point before Google got “smart” searches when it could find stuff like this more easily. I used it to turn up things I’d read thanks to remembering just a line or two from the book.
jpfdez · 9 months ago
Emule.
jpfdez commented on Mario Vargas Llosa has died   nytimes.com/2025/04/13/bo... · Posted by u/funkaster
jpfdez · a year ago
“Four, said the Jaguar”
jpfdez commented on Tell HN: Need help, locked out of Google account with 10 years of personal data    · Posted by u/taosx
jpfdez · a year ago
Have tried recovery dozens of "times through g.co/recover"I don't quite understand your statement. The device can be lost, but you can always make a copy of the SIM cards. You may be referring to the fact that you gave or had your phone number cancelled.
jpfdez commented on Engineering Sleep   minjunes.ai/posts/sleep/i... · Posted by u/amin
FooBarWidget · a year ago
Your /research link doesn't work.

It seems your company produces a deep sleep headband. I'm interested in these sorts of products because I want more deep sleep (for myself, and for family) while lifestyle factors (mostly kids) make that very difficult.

The last product I tried was the Philips deep sleep headband (which, unfortunately, never appeared in Netherlands, I had to import it from the US even though Philips is a Dutch company).

The main problem I had was that the headband is not compatible with ear plugs. Without ear plus, I get woken up very easily, either by outside traffic or by people in the household going to the toilet. The sound insulation in my house is terrible, and it cannot be improved short of tearing down all the walls and rebuilding them. So now I use a pair of really good ear plugs, and I also put a noise cancelling head phone over that to block out extra sounds.

Would it be possible to combine a deep sleep headband with a good ear plug? Or better: would it be possible to combine with that, and also noise cancelling headphones?

jpfdez · a year ago
"So now I use a pair of really good ear plug",What earplugs do you use to sleep? I would like to know them. Thanks.
jpfdez commented on Particle Lenia: Self Organising Particles   twitter.com/zzznah/status... · Posted by u/eyvindn
jpfdez · 3 years ago
If an AI faced someone or something who could disconnect it, we would have a true intelligence, I think that only intelligence of natural origin could reach here.
jpfdez commented on Papyrus by Irene Vallejo review – how books built the world   theguardian.com/books/202... · Posted by u/diodorus
jpfdez · 3 years ago
An enjoyable book and I have enjoyed reading it.
jpfdez commented on Cash must be king, Italy PM Giorgia Meloni tells shoppers   thetimes.co.uk/article/ca... · Posted by u/walterbell
jpfdez · 3 years ago
In Spain, Bizum is used every time, just by knowing the phone number you can make instant transfers.

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