I'm surprised no one has mentioned hydroponics. For $2800 you can build a very nice, large, and mostly automated hydroponics setup. It would have higher yields, no weeding, minimal pests if indoors, better nutrient control, a smaller footprint, more reliability, and less complexity.
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#242nah, part of the fun of gardening is interacting with plants
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#243I'm surprised no one has mentioned hydroponics. For $2800 you can build a very nice, large, and mostly automated hydroponics setup. It would have higher yields, no weeding, minimal pests if indoors, better nutrient control, a smaller footprint, more reliability, and less complexity.
Do you have a good resource for getting a system started? Particularly outdoors / backyard scale?
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#244It's written in Elixir. Maybe it's just a grass-is-greener thing but the more Kubernetes I have to stomach, the more interested I become in BEAM languages like Elixir. Not like they're alternatives exactly, but I get the feeling that the BEAM way is to solve the ops problems in a way resembles how you solved your dev problems. More holistic, less ad hoc.
what is "BEAM"?
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#245Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doesn't rain fall on the leaves as much as the soil?
Here's a wild thing: at many of the high end vineyards they'll do low-level helicopter flights over the vines every time it rains to blow the water off the leaves and fruit specifically to prevent infection and rot.
having worked at a cargo drone company, that is one thing that our platform would have excelled at. although ours had a tendency to simply flatten vegetation when "cornering" at low altitude.
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#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
May I ask why you used there's instead of there are? There is likely sounds wrong and is wrong and I see it very often
That’s a natural way to speak in American English anyway. You wouldn’t say “there is”. But “there’s” is fine.
It's not about the contraction of there is, there are has a completely different meaning
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#247Earlier quoted context omitted.
May I ask why you used there's instead of there are? There is likely sounds wrong and is wrong and I see it very often
"other factors" can be treated as a singular group noun if you want, so I think both are correct. By example: "There are likely to be cows over that hill" - correct, many cows "There is likely to be a herd of cows over that hill" - correct, one herd "There are likely to be other factors" - correct, many factors "There is likely to be a number of other factors" - correct, one collection of many factors "There are like…
I agree with all of your examples. But his sentence misses the crucial to be part to be correct. I'm just wondering whether this is deliberate and just a way of speaking informal english, or just the person doesn't know it's incorrect
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#248Earlier quoted context omitted.
May I ask why you used there's instead of there are? There is likely sounds wrong and is wrong and I see it very often
Its written the way it'd be spoken, which seems fine for informal writing
The point is it shouldn't be spoken like this. It's just wrong. I'm wondering whether the person is unaware or is this some slang I don't know about. I've seen a bunch of people speak like this, I'm trying to understand the reason
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#249It's written in Elixir. Maybe it's just a grass-is-greener thing but the more Kubernetes I have to stomach, the more interested I become in BEAM languages like Elixir. Not like they're alternatives exactly, but I get the feeling that the BEAM way is to solve the ops problems in a way resembles how you solved your dev problems. More holistic, less ad hoc.
what is "BEAM"?
The Erlang VM. (i.e. BEAM is to Erlang what the JVM is to Java)
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#250Earlier quoted context omitted.
Its written the way it'd be spoken, which seems fine for informal writing
Yep. The thoughts are evolving during the speech process. The speaker might start the sentence thinking about one factor, but decides to make it plural after the first words have already started.
I don't think this is the case.
1. If you accidentally say There is and want to use a plural after, (for example, a lot), you can just say a number in between. The sentence stays correct, you just have to say 2 additional words. I personally never had this problem
2. This is internet. You are free to edit your comment and reread it a million times before posting
Hope you understand what I'm trying to say, not being native sometimes restricts my ability to properly articulate semi-complex stuff