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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.

Comment · 2 years ago

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.

Comment · 2 years ago

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...

Comment · 5 years ago

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

Comment · 6 years ago

Do you have slack/teams integration? The ability to link that in would be sweet.

Comment · 6 years ago

Ok, I'll ask. Which Microwave do you have?

Comment · 6 years ago

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!!

Comment · 6 years ago

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.

Comment · 7 years ago

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.

Comment · 8 years ago

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.

Comment · 8 years ago

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.

Comment · 8 years ago

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.

Comment · 10 years ago

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.

Comment · 11 years ago

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.

Comment · 13 years ago

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/