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I built some Leopold benches a few years ago, great bench and nearly as simple to build as this chair. Maybe simpler as there is no cutouts or narrowing like OP. https://store.exte…

Very cool! I currently use `sad` for this, if you're already an fzf user you should check it out. https://github.com/ms-jpq/sad

I wrote a script to monitor the process monitor God [1]. which I called Margaret [2], playing off the famous Judy Blume book, "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret". [3]. Silly, bu…

As a father of three, all of these things are great. Keeping a change of clothes and a couple diapers in the car is another thing to recommend, you will eventually forget the diape…

The domestic honey bee is honestly doing fine these days, varroa is better understood and controlled (for now) in captive populations.

The argument is that non-native honey bees (if you live in the US) put pressure on the native pollinators competing for the same food sources. It makes sense logically, since comme…

Even among 100% real honey, the ratios of sucrose, glucose and fructose vary wildly. At the extremes tupelo honey is very high fructose, and thus is famous for not crystallizing ea…

Does it if you're not fruiting them though? I make 5lb hardwood sawdust bags with about a quart, quart and a half of water, and that's all that is needed for the mycelium to coloni…

I'd be surprised to find any commercial keepers using polystyrene. Migratory bee keeping is rough on equipment, and at scale I think woodenware still makes the most sense. I'm not …

That sounded dodgy to me but it does look like it's got some legitimacy: https://scientificbeekeeping.com/a-test-of-thermal-treatment... I mostly use oxalic acid, but if heat treat…

Honey bees are the easiest to manage really. Some other bees are raised for pollination, but honey bees have a long history of management and semi-domestication. We already know ho…

I don't have any useful opinion here, but the demo video uses my terminal-parrot[0], so it's clearly a great tool. edit: On closer inspection of the video at 1080p it actually uses…

I ran cornish cross meat birds twice, 20 birds each time, and by butchering at ~8 weeks the roos didn't get around real well anymore, given the weight to leg ratio. Those were past…

edit I missed the "custom" part of your comment. I don't remember that ever being a thing, but I never got particularly detailed with moving the levers around before. It's in a col…

I used mine to build an egg incubator this year, http://www.velvetcache.org/2018/03/04/chicken-cam-incubator-...

While a laudable environmental goal, I just don't see that much industrial farming shut down in just 20 years.

Honestly, I'm not even sure. After watching the nvidia youtube video, I retract the statement. This is pretty amazing.

I'd love to see a source on that one, it's hard to believe otherwise. edit: I reverse image searched one of the faces and found this, https://bgr.com/2018/12/18/nvidia-ai-fake-face…

I tend to capture stuff in Quiver[0] now. It has decent search, shared notebooks, etc. [0] http://happenapps.com/#quiver

Open source Go one called QPID on the Raspberry Pi, https://github.com/bbqgophers/qpid Fairly easy to glue together sensors to roll your own, I made an egg incubator with basically…

Nice! Packr is pretty good too, what I currently use. https://github.com/gobuffalo/packr

Wikipedia says 140k to LEO, 37k to Mars and 7k to Pluto. Still, there's excess capacity there if a roadster is about 3k. Does seem like they sent it as far out as they could with t…

Not a journalism piece, but this is a great map for getting details along the path; http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/TSE_2017...