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Re: Open Source Farming Robot

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Post by NilMostChill »

nilsherzig wrote: post #61
NilMostChill wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This page has a section titled "Cups, Not Calories". It hurts my soul that anybody producing a table such as that is using something as vague as a "cup" in their calculations.

I think "cup" is one of these American units, it's about 236ml

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_(unit).

American legal cup ? metric cup ? Canadian cup ? or one of the other ones.

Even if you narrow it to just the roughly the US you still have 4 + metric , so 5 different options.

and that doesn't even account for people just using the cup they have to hand.

It's not a rant at you, it's frustration with non-specific, arbitrary units.

Re: Open Source Farming Robot

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Post by DevOfNull »

__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #23
e1gen-v wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you elaborate? I’m intrigued.

Well, you're hearing it from a guy who has written hardly any Elixir or any other BEAM language. (For a proper intro I recommend this video https://youtu.be/JvBT4XBdoUE ). Less practitioner, more fanboy. So I may not be the best source. But I'll try anyhow. The BEAM is a virtual machine, I guess kinda like the JVM. So just like you can write Java or Kotlin or Clojure or a million other JVM languages, so too can you w…

Different person, but thank you for the writeup! Very interesting. For anyone else reading: Please write more comments like this, they're one of the best parts of HN.

Re: Open Source Farming Robot

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Post by efilife »

jahewson wrote: post #39
SoftTalker wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doesn't rain fall on the leaves as much as the soil?

I think it’s the difference in frequency. There’s likely other factors too, I’d suppose rain purges mold spores from the air for example, as it does with particulate pollution.

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

Re: Open Source Farming Robot

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Post by donw »

nvy wrote: post #25
donw wrote: post #6

For some values of "open source": the datasets used for information about the plants and such are unavailable as of the last time I checked.

You can probably get anything you need from practicalplants

That looks useful, thanks!

Re: Open Source Farming Robot

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Post by brikym »

SoftTalker wrote: post #31
getpost wrote: post #30

It sill looks like the software is written by people who don't know how to care for plants. You don't spray water on leaves as shown in the video; you'll just end up with fungus infestation. You water the soil and nourish the microorganisms that facilitate nutrient absorption in roots. But, I don't see any reason the technology can't be adapted to do the right thing.

Doesn't rain fall on the leaves as much as the soil?

Yes and that's a problem. Many modern plants aren't selected to grow in natural conditions. They're breed for properties like high yields, large fruit and often other characteristics are traded off to achieve that because the farmers can change the environment to deal with those problems with greenhouses, chemicals, fertilizers, irrigation etc.

Re: Open Source Farming Robot

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Post by ac29 »

efilife wrote: post #73
jahewson wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it’s the difference in frequency. There’s likely other factors too, I’d suppose rain purges mold spores from the air for example, as it does with particulate pollution.

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

Re: Open Source Farming Robot

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Post by notatoad »

SoftTalker wrote: post #31
getpost wrote: post #30

It sill looks like the software is written by people who don't know how to care for plants. You don't spray water on leaves as shown in the video; you'll just end up with fungus infestation. You water the soil and nourish the microorganisms that facilitate nutrient absorption in roots. But, I don't see any reason the technology can't be adapted to do the right thing.

Doesn't rain fall on the leaves as much as the soil?

in the wild, plants compete for space and resources and the leaves act as a funnel to direct water (including dew) to the roots that might not otherwise be captured. the leaves can also serve as a shield to prevent the soil around the roots from being eroded by rainfall.

in a garden where plants do not have neighbours competing for space and water isn't scarce, there's no reason to water the leaves when you could just water the roots directly.

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