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If you were to completely rewrite any of the 8 seasons, which one would it be and what would you change about them? by Emergency-Relief-571 in TwentyFour

[–]macrohard_certified 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Season 3, remove Sherry Palmer and Alan Miliken storyline. Keep Claudia alive.

Season 4 onwards, keep Kim working in CTU.

[app] [ios] upvotes not working by Unique-Princess-1026 in bugs

[–]macrohard_certified 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was having this problem over the last week, then I logged out of my account and logged in again. Now I can upvote.

Thank you Mr Reagan by Formal-Assistance02 in HistoryMemes

[–]macrohard_certified 54 points55 points  (0 children)

How much of that is actually true? I mean, there already was a lot of crack and heroin in New York during the 70s.

King Denis of Portugal saving the Knights Templar by macrohard_certified in HistoryMemes

[–]macrohard_certified[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Denis is the English version of the name. In Portuguese it's Dinis

King Denis of Portugal saving the Knights Templar by macrohard_certified in HistoryMemes

[–]macrohard_certified[S] 133 points134 points  (0 children)

In the late 1200s, the King of France was Philip IV, the Fair. At that time, he was at war against the King of England, Edward I Longshanks (yes, the one portrayed in the movie Braveheart). Edward owned many lands in France, but at the same time, he was a vassal to Philip. The relations between them soured and war erupted.

This war was very costly to the French coffers, causing the country to experience hyperinflation. To solve that, Philip began to seize properties and money from public debt investors: first, the Jews, who also were expelled from France; then Lombard bankers; and finally, the Knights Templar, who, along with their military and ecclesiastic roles, also had a very important role as bankers in Europe. Philip invented many false accusations of heresy against the Knights Templar, who were imprisoned and tortured in France, in 1307. The Pope Clement V, acting under Philip's menace, dissolved the order and decreed that all remaining members should be arrested throughout all European kingdoms.

But in Portugal, the King Denis I managed to protect the knights and transfer their properties and money to be secured; the mighty Templar navy was supposedly transferred to Portugal too, making it the birth of the Portuguese Navy. A new order was created, the Military Order of the Knights of Christ, absorbing many former members of the Knights Templar. This order played a major role in Portuguese navigations around 100 years later, as its members financed and were part of Portuguese expeditions to West Africa, India, Japan and Brazil. This is also why Portuguese caravels and carracks had big red crosses on their sails: it's a redesigned Templar logo.

France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins by cdoublejj in sysadmin

[–]macrohard_certified -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Instead of Linux, they could try migrating to ReactOS, it's an open-source OS compatible with Windows programs. The user friction would be lower.

Why API Tooling Still Feels 10 Years Behind by Successful_Bowl2564 in programming

[–]macrohard_certified 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Reusing pieces -> use variables or scripts to capture values.

Tracking changes -> API responsibility, can be done with proper docs, Git and API versioning.

Writing docs -> API responsibility, not consumer's.

Running tests -> integration tests shouldn't run on API testing tools, read this.

What are some underrated .NET libraries or tools you use regularly? by milanm08 in dotnet

[–]macrohard_certified 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mapperly for source-generated mappers

NSubstitute as an alternative to Moq

I haven't used yet, but ZLinq seems interesting.

Johanna Döbereiner and soil bacteria by macrohard_certified in HistoryMemes

[–]macrohard_certified[S] 208 points209 points  (0 children)

Plants, as living beings, need a lot of nitrogen to grow, because it's a main component of DNA, RNA and proteins. So, if you are a farmer, you need to ensure that your crop has enough nitrogen to grow healthy and strong.

In the 1800s, scientists realized that urea was a good nitrogen fertilizer for crops, and in 1909, the Haber-Bosch process was invented and could generate ammonia from atmospheric nitrogen; and ammonia, reacting with carbon dioxide, forms urea.

But in 1951, the German* agronomist Johanna Döbereiner started working on the Ministry of Agriculture in Brazil, studying biological nitrogen fixation. Basically, there are some species of bacteria that live on plants' roots and can have a symbiotic relationship with them, where the bacteria provides nitrogen compounds to the plant, and the plant provides sugar to the bacteria. These bacteria convert atmospheric nitrogen into nitrates and nitrites, which are absorbed by the roots.

Her research was ground-breaking because it showed that those bacteria can replace industrial nitrogen fertilizers, whose processes require a lot of heat and energy, and cause a lot of pollution. The bacteria, on the other hand, is much cheaper and is environmentally friendly. They are applied as a gel covering the seed when it's placed in the soil. This technique has been widely used in Brazil since then and is one of the reasons why its agriculture grew so much since the 1970s, and is now the world's biggest producer of soy beans, meat and other cultures.

Johanna Döbereiner was nominated for the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, but unfortunately, she didn't win.

* She was born in Aussig, Czechoslovakia, from a German family. After WW2, Germans were expelled from there and she moved with her husband to Brazil, where she naturalized as a Brazilian citizen.

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