There is a dark art to growing in small spaces and it’s super fun! Run 12-12 lighting from seedling and you can get a single mega bud, with proper care. The plants will only develop its main cola, basically. Unfortunately, small grows and screwing with their growth cycle causes stress and too much stress causes herms. Small price to pay, I suppose.

Oh, fuck off.

No, that is not what he said at all.

“real” is subjective.

Remote probes are getting super cheap now, so shop around for those if you can. They are awesome for the days you want to grill a steak traditionally but most of all, it’s awesome for bone-in chicken cuts. (I prefer consistent heat on my chicken the whole time and don’t want to keep jabbing at it. Cooking with ADHD can be pure hell at first and a steady stream of data helps with that.)

Aw shit! Knew I forgot something… Like most of Kenji’s stuff, there is a ton of technique that a simple recipe can’t cover, so here is the video: https://youtu.be/pvZcTPOpQnY

(I used just regular raw Italian Sausage from the grocery store. Nothing fancy. I don’t think he specified what he used, but not sure. I should note this recipe fixes texture issues that can happen with the bread.)

Yep, I prefer a proper foldable probe and it’s extremely versatile around the kitchen.

The “fingers to the ball of your thumb” to check doneness of a steak is bullshit, most of the time. It only really works on steak that has a consistent grain throughout, sometimes. (Just showed this to my daughter on a reverse seared NY Strip that felt completely different across the cut.)

Context: The yellow dot is the tcell and the rest is the cancer cell. I found a video of this image, but cannot verify the exact source so I don’t want to post it. (All the links to this point right back at social media that I could find.)

This is a an article that has a neat gif of the process of how these specialized tcells work: https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2025/04/new-smart-immune-cells-a-breakthrough-for-long-lasting-tumor-destruction/

Mostly by Indian and Vietnamese slave labor: https://www.androidauthority.com/where-are-samsung-phones-made-3251712/

Solar panels are more efficient closer to the equator because of the most direct light from the sun. At higher or lower latitudes, there is more atmosphere for the light to pass through. The actual distance from the sun is basically irrelevant without an atmosphere. There might be a measurable difference based on distance alone but not much.

Efficiency does not generally equate to optimal power generation. There are probably hundreds of other variables that directly translate to maximum power production.

This is my opinion, but yeah. It’ll take some time.

The biggest issue is that money has moved to safer for investments. Those new investments may take time to mature and/or avoid tax penalties.

Another component is that hedge funds are likely the ones taking money out of the market in a huge way right now. Hedge funds normally specialize in short selling and there is no better time to close or massively reduce those short positions. (They have other strategies, but their main function is in their name.) They can’t close their positions rapidly, or it will trigger a faux rebound in stock prices. (Short sales are weird like that. It may be one of the reasons you see short bounces in price as a stock price is cratering.)

Unfortunately, the tarrifs are shifting investment policy against the US now from other countries. This will take years to recover from.

What will really suck is that I have always speculated that these tarrifs are just the worst kind of insider trading strategy you will ever see. If the intent was to temporarily dump stock prices for the benefit of a few, I really don’t think it’s going to work like it did during COVID. COVID didn’t force massive global policy changes against the US the same way. Even if orange man decides to reverse course and lift tarrifs tomorrow, the damage has been done and there is no reason to restore previous investments. The risk is too high.

Just following orders…

Instances don’t have to be federated and instances federate and defederate from each other often enough. The goals of instances may not align, and to keep conflict low(er) it’s better if some instances cut ties.

TBH, this sounds like a technical issue between ml and nl or just a typo in the way you are posting.

While I thought it was basically an on/off switch for defederation, I suppose there could be a way to block updates from instances without fully defederating.

I am not going to get into the drama, but ml is defederated at a little higher frequency, but it’s not as high as some others. It’s because reasons, and is not relevant to this particular thread.

I actually like the audio. (I’ll leverage faux tape recording effects and plate reverb on occasion with music I write.)

And honestly, it was kinda refreshing to watch Charlie Chaplain again.

Sorry, I couldn’t quite get the feeling you described. It’s partially because I have seen that before and partially because it still looks old and the sound quality was reminiscent of a cylinder phonograph.

Good try though. ;)

I have been working through my “must watch” list with my teenage daughter recently. While all the movies are absolutely new to her, that hasn’t stopped the occasional snickering about how “old” some of the stuff is. (And honestly, I can’t disagree. I had a few “ah fuck I’m old” moments rewatching Predator and Blade Runner recently.)

So, in spirit, I 100% agree with you. In reality, nobody can quite escape how old some movies actually feel.

Something about this post title screams dirty poem.

Doesn’t need to be in the same band due to harmonics and power. If you keep splitting the 11m band (CB) into “fractional-frequencies”, you are going to get a cross-over somehow, especially if the fundamental is at super-high power.

Using a piano as an example, if you play a C2 at 62.41Hz it still expresses harmonics at C3 (130.81Hz), G3 (196.22Hz) and C4 (261.63Hz) and at least in theory, to infinity and beyond! Each harmonic away from the fundamental will be expressed in decreasing levels of power. (It’s like 1/3 power per, I think. The proper math is out there though.)

(sorry to add even more; I just made another comment about this and I am familiar with most of these concepts.)

Actually, that would be much easier. TV stations back then mostly received shows via satellite dish. Pointing a low power directional antenna directly at the dish’s LNB would work great. Satellite transmissions weren’t strong and were rarely encrypted back then so that would theoretically be super easy if you knew your RF and deep RF knowledge was much more common place +30 years ago.

I am not sure if they used point-to-point microwave antennas back then for TV, but it would be the same concept. (Microwave antennas are typically the round, cylindrical looking, covered antennas we see all over the place today.)