A computerized garden. Input the plant species and it gardens for you. Automatic water, light, heat, fertilizer. Uses lasers to zap pests above ground and uses whatever methods available for below ground pests. Velcro walls to turn it into a greenhouse.
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#12A computerized garden. Input the plant species and it gardens for you. Automatic water, light, heat, fertilizer. Uses lasers to zap pests above ground and uses whatever methods available for below ground pests. Velcro walls to turn it into a greenhouse.
Hej guess what, this already exists, its called nature!
Snarkiness aside, look into permaculture. It’s a way of gardening that takes very little time since it tries to create a garden that’s in balance so that you don’t have to work hard to keep bare patches of ground or fight “pests” for example. I’m actually quite surprised at what my SO did to our own garden using this method, it’s very lush and green with very little work.
No fertilizer, watering or lasers necessary.
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#13A simple content management system that lets me take a photo of an object using my phone, add some quick metadata or category about it, then have it sync to the cloud where I can later add more detail from my laptop. Ideally I'd have fine-grained control of collections and share images between collections. Bonus points if it can use some sort of ML to learn about my objects and make metadata suggestions. Extra bonus points if it's not a subscription based cost.
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#14Github copilot everywhwre. I love the way how it completes the code and even helps write documentation. But I think it could do equally well for say when you're at the bash terminal, or even writing this comment, the app should just get the context and start auto-completing everywhere I can type, intelligently like copilot. That would be amazing!
Thefuck[0] will attempt to correct errors in your console commands (available via brew, apt, pip and others). You can even enable instant mode if you feel particularly frisky.
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#15Discipline to be more focused. Say 'no' more, and leave aside distractions.
A good practice is to start day with quiet, some reading from the book, and meditation.
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#16A computerized garden. Input the plant species and it gardens for you. Automatic water, light, heat, fertilizer. Uses lasers to zap pests above ground and uses whatever methods available for below ground pests. Velcro walls to turn it into a greenhouse.
Hej guess what, this already exists, its called nature! Snarkiness aside, look into permaculture. It’s a way of gardening that takes very little time since it tries to create a garden that’s in balance so that you don’t have to work hard to keep bare patches of ground or fight “pests” for example. I’m actually quite surprised at what my SO did to our own garden using this method, it’s very lush and green with very li…
A common quote in permaculture is "If you have too many snails, you don't have enough ducks"
I like the idea of permaculture. But I don't want to have to figure out how to get my neighborhood association to let me keep ducks, much less feeding them and caring for them just to get rid of snails. I just want a robot to do everything for me.
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#17A computerized garden. Input the plant species and it gardens for you. Automatic water, light, heat, fertilizer. Uses lasers to zap pests above ground and uses whatever methods available for below ground pests. Velcro walls to turn it into a greenhouse.
Google Farmbot :-)
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#18A simple content management system that lets me take a photo of an object using my phone, add some quick metadata or category about it, then have it sync to the cloud where I can later add more detail from my laptop. Ideally I'd have fine-grained control of collections and share images between collections. Bonus points if it can use some sort of ML to learn about my objects and make metadata suggestions. Extra bonus…
So, Google Photos?
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#19Anything that would automatically handle cookie walls, "please subscribe to our newsletter" overlays and automatically playing videos.
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#20Anything that would automatically handle cookie walls, "please subscribe to our newsletter" overlays and automatically playing videos.
It does feel full circle how we used to suffer from pop ups and produced popup blocks; and now we have implemented the ability to do it all via javascript instead with overlays.