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Re:Two new PebbleOS watches on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @12:28PM (#43401320)
Are there any plans for a circular screen? I would love one of these devices, but the screen feels like it may be bulky on my wrist.
Re:To Save It, Eat It on Friday May 03, 2024 @12:41PM (#40249611)
It was erosion control after some new road work. I sorta suspect they did bring in new dirt for it as well. I do only use it in small amounts. Not really gonna make a difference over time in terms of pollution/heavy metals. But it was still a worthwhile project.
Re:To Save It, Eat It on Thursday May 02, 2024 @04:58PM (#40241303)
Wowa, something I have experience with.

I've harvested 25lbs of wheat berries from a boulevard in my city. I then threshed, winnowed it myself. I still have some of the flour and berries left and use it to make bread.

I did my threshing using a lawn mower on a big tarp. This actually worked fairly well. Were I to do it again I would probably want a more repeatable setup. Ive seen some good strategies on youtube.

The winnowing I did with a leaf blower, and worked pretty well, I think I would use this strategy again, but I suspect if you were going to do it more often it would be very easy to build something that would help mechanically.

I have a friend with a little home flour mill which took a while but was perfect for turning it into flour. If you were to do it fresh when you wanted to make bread these little mills are fantastic.

There's a book I highly recommend reading called Small Scale Grain Raising [1] that has a lot of good tips, and ways to do this kinda stuff.

In this book they recommend using a leaf shredder or wood chipper which would be incredibly effective.

[1] https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/small-scale-grain-raisi...

Re:Drum Juggling on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @10:00PM (#28547051)
That show is on youtube! I found it years ago and put it there to try and help more people find it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwYyrbX9LUY

Re:How and when to acquire SaaS users on Monday November 16, 2020 @01:51PM (#25115456)
Do you have slack/teams integration? The ability to link that in would be sweet.
Re:What is the best dumb TV? on Friday October 02, 2020 @11:47PM (#24669355)
Ok, I'll ask. Which Microwave do you have?
Re:Show HN: Luggage Storage at Convenient Locations on Friday September 11, 2020 @12:30PM (#24444457)
This is really neat! Must be very little overhead for you running the service, and lets business get a bit of extra with some of the space that they have extra in the back.

Edit: How did you start this? And did you notice an inflection point where it started to pick up steam?

What were the most effective ways you found to advertise, to users/businesses.

I have so many questions!!

I have had the the test. It is really not that bad. I thought it would be worse but it was just uncomfortable, nothing more than that.
Re:Japan's Rail Workers Pointing at Things (2017) on Sunday January 20, 2019 @04:25PM (#18955698)
Call backs! A really good practice. As having also worked on a historical ship the bit that always gets me is when working on helm when needing to communicate our heading we say "one five three" rather than "one hundred fifty three" and then that is repeated back.

Makes it much more difficult to make mistakes this way.

Re:Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @09:26AM (#17959505)
Not to mention that 2 day shipping is no longer a guarantee. I have had multiple items that have not shipped on time, or had long delays.
Re:Wanted: ‘Lost Einsteins.’ Please Apply on Thursday August 09, 2018 @01:58PM (#17726674)
They also tend to have one thing in common - a very supportive, stable home environment.

This bit is key, and really tells me that the best way to address issues in science and trying to help students is not to have more programs for students, but to have more programs for helping families.

You really need a holistic approach to this sort of stuff, rather than targeting say funding someone who is good at a specific thing.

There are many more people who can't focus at school and so fail because they don't get enough food, or they don't have the support they needed to succeed.

This is why programs like the food stamps has a high return on investment, because it addresses the actual issue at hand rather than a symptom.

Re:Lasik’s Risks Are Coming into Sharper Focus on Monday June 11, 2018 @11:21PM (#17290479)
I actually like my glasses! I like wearing them, and only rarely do I dislike having them. Maybe it is because my vision is not that bad without them. I can imagine that if it was worse I might hate them more.
I work in support. I love it. I graduated with a CS degree, but personally I get more value in life out of helping people

At my company we really to value our support team and are working to make it possible to promote within the team. Yeah sure we have people go to our doc and QA team and other parts of the company, but having people who are passionate about support is something that is extremely valuable to us and to me.

We try to hire people with the same attitude towards support and it shows. The level of support we provide because everyone really cares is awesome.

Re:Lars Andersen: a new level of archery [video] on Friday January 23, 2015 @03:00PM (#8936909)
With heavy war arrows you can easily shoot through riveted mail and layers of gambeson. In this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ32VnjOQ28) you can see a war arrow going right through rived mail and 8 layers of gambeson.

This Guy is bowyer and historian, and will be presenting research about this very subject at a medieval studies conference this spring.

Re:Google Reader is dead on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @04:56PM (#5980684)
There are a few I have come to like:

These ones are all simple and much like google reader. Digg, BazQux and The Old reader all have pocket and/or similar services integrated and are all nice. I have decided that I will be using BazQux for my reader needs, it is fastest and seems to be nicely designed and is robust. It will also not be going away because it is currently profitable.

The Old Reader http://theoldreader.com/

Digg Reader(yes that digg) https://digg.com/reader

and BazQux reader https://bazqux.com/

Comma feed http://theoldreader.com/

Thanks, I missed that. Case (probably) closed.

Ask HN: Why is there not a better way to search for houses and apts?

Why can't you search for apts and houses they way you want to?For example I might want to know1) which direction the house faces.2) If it's an apt or townhouse, is it a corner unit.3) if it have a dishwasher.4) if it has an open floor plan.5) if it has an attached garage.And of course location.Home searching is something LOTS of people do and right now there seems to be no real good way to do it.

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Re:We used to sleep twice each night on Saturday April 13, 2013 @01:12AM (#5542646)
Interestingly the british english corpus has a fairly even reference to napping. Though there is a slight downward trend to the graph.

I have also included napping and siesta in the plot. These have a fairly constant use.

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=nap%2Cnapping%2...

Re:You're Distracted. This Professor Can Help on Sunday March 24, 2013 @12:29PM (#5432512)
I did. It is a good read.
Yes. See any of the new generation of android phones.
Re:Google Glass: The Opposition Grows on Sunday March 17, 2013 @02:06AM (#5388336)
And then after it is widely used they could discontinue it.