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Re:I turned an old phone into a NAS on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @10:35PM (#41187586)
I've thought of it like an approximation of where the functional parts of the phone were. Thumb is the transmitter and the pinky is the receiver.
He passed away earlier this year.
I think they taste better than the grocery store varieties but usually it is more difficult growing them, and they have a lower yield than industrial varieties.

There are also general quirks with growing them. Experience lends me to suggest that heirlooms are more immediately sensitive to the environment that convention varieties. Buying from baker creek who are out in the Midwest, Seeds are going to have a different response in the growing in the SE Atlantic region, that response seems more pronounced although I have no idea of how to quantify it.

Ultimately I think it is worth it, it is fun, and it taps into more of the holistic aspects of gardening. For example, learning how to make quesadillas because your heirloom corn gets infected with corn smut, so instead of an infection you have a product.

That kind of frame-shift i think goes into the nostalgia of Doing It How We Used To.

Re:Ask HN: What Is a COO? on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @10:50AM (#33610670)
He became COO.
Re:Apple Q4/2022 on Friday October 28, 2022 @01:02AM (#33367858)
How could i diy good grommets for my house safely?
Re:“Crypto drainer” template facilitates theft on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @06:36PM (#31760305)
>who is going to read a book about 19th century finance

What recommendations do you have?

Re:Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021) on Monday April 11, 2022 @03:02AM (#30985559)
Yes, it is usually the 2nd button from the top. I've usually found it on the right side.
Re:Ask HN: Great tools for solo SaaS founders? on Monday November 22, 2021 @10:19AM (#29307219)
i like the way you think, could i contact you for more elaborated thoughts on marketing?
Re:What elements does a plant need to grow? on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @11:05PM (#29249196)
Sns217. Spider mites like it dry, so mist your plants and it may be a little wise to repot your plants or fertilize with cal/mag
Re:Why is houseplant advice so bad? on Friday October 29, 2021 @06:31PM (#29044264)
Recently visited a local botanical garden and saw their mature Ficus lyrata (Fiddle lead fig) and was astounded to see mine at 6 feet tall was merely a juvenile branch on the entire tree.

The author has also a good point in that maturing plants is a lot of work and as they become more of themselves they become more than, imo, what people would consider aesthetically appropriate.

M.deiciosa is a hot plant right now and maybe in these 5+1 apartments someone will live in one long enough to let it really start branching up and out and taking up a valuable amount of living real estate. It also has these, to my fiancee, 'penile' roots that are to her unsightly.

They make me feel more alive seeing the plant thrive and do its thing.

Re:OnlyFans drops planned porn ban on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @12:48PM (#28303847)
>I think they'll probably try to grab momentum from some of the other more ... conpsiratorial(?) groups that have some popularity currently.

if they do as you say, which i think is quite plausible, it'll be interesting to see how they fit in the more anti-semetic and end-of-days thoughts that are foundational to those groups.

Re:Automated Hydroponic System Build (2020) on Sunday July 11, 2021 @12:58AM (#27798562)
that black fungus, corn smut, is highly appreciated in Latin American communities.

I've been tooling around the idea of making a corn smut farm, because once you get it it 'll stay (in most instances) but that would also make growing corn difficult if I wanted to grow it in the future.