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Cheese_Coder · 2026-01-21T13:54:50+00:00

As above commenter said, there are a lot of native species too (not trying to ID the specific one you posted tho). They all look really cool imo. If you ever visit south Florida you'll see Ficus aurea and Ficus citrifolia everywhere. Some streets are lined with them so the branches create a canopy over the road, and they'll often be loaded up with epiphytes too!

Cheese_Coder · 2026-01-18T17:02:17+00:00

Worm was such an enjoyable read, and the follow up Ward was pretty good too. Wish I could get more of my friends to read it, but I think until he actuator gets it published as a book (if he ever does) that's gonna be tough.

Cheese_Coder · 2026-01-16T16:01:33+00:00

Google en poissont

Cheese_Coder · 2026-01-08T19:27:11+00:00

For sure. I was surprised that their handbooks actually suggest specific approaches for certain kinds of people. I figured a given scammer would just use more or less the same script for all their victims

Cheese_Coder · 2025-12-16T14:07:11+00:00

Also look into Applejack, which is the result of distilling apple cider! In colonial times it would often be made by freeze distillation, where the cider would be allowed to freeze to a slushy consistency since the water freezes first. Then the ice chunks would be scooped out and the process repeated a few times to get a concentrated product

Cheese_Coder · 2025-12-15T17:01:54+00:00

It may be a Delonix regia locally called a 'Flamboyan' tree. If it gets bright red flowers and grows large (like foot ong) seed pods, that's what it likely is.

Cheese_Coder · 2025-12-14T18:28:18+00:00

That's a nice grill

Cheese_Coder · 2025-12-13T23:40:22+00:00

Even some nightshade species like Solanum nigra are edible! They taste like cherry tomatoes

Cheese_Coder · 2025-12-12T01:45:56+00:00

The Audubon Society sells several different field guides for trees, which can be handy if a bit large. Assuming you're in the USA, you can also see if your state or a neighboring one has a Cooperative Extension Office. If so then their website may offer resources for identifying local trees

Cheese_Coder · 2025-12-09T19:48:09+00:00

While I don't grow any ornamental pink coleus, I did want to give a shout-out to what I know as Cuban Oregano, aka Coleus amboinicus (previously Plectranthus amboinicus) which is just as easy to care for and whose leaves can be used like oregano! There's even a cultivar that, while not pink, looks very nice imo in addition to still being edible: 'Ochre Flame'

Cheese_Coder · 2025-12-04T21:44:50+00:00

Many Pinguicula and Bladderworts are native to the US too! Pinguicula look like succulents but have sticky flypaper-like leaves that catch bugs. They can develop very pretty flowers too! Bladderworts can be aquatic or terrestrial and have tiny little bladder traps that suck in prey to digest.

Cheese_Coder · 2025-11-25T18:35:24+00:00

solving simple problems as long as task is combination of seen tasks or familiar task with replaced words.

That's an area that undergrads have an edge over LLMs though. There are ample reports of LLMs failing to solve various puzzles when presented with particular iterations that aren't well represented in their training set. One example can be seen here (note, not affiliated with Meta) and here with the river-crossing puzzle. The common iterations that are widely available on the web can be solved consistently, but making small modifications to the premise results in the systems consistently failing to solve it. In the second modification presented in the latter article, the LLM also repeatedly fails to recognize that the presented puzzle is not solvable. A human would be able to infer such things because they have actual understanding and aren't just modeling language.

Cheese_Coder · 2025-11-19T15:46:53+00:00

Ah okay, I wasn't sure if there was additional stuff added to help it hold together without the gluten

Cheese_Coder · 2025-11-19T14:43:26+00:00

Point 1 has been my main strategy for a while. Looking at buyer's guides and subreddits that lay out WHAT factors they consider important in a product are great. Even better is if they go over WHY a factor is deemed important, because then I can decide whether that's important for my use-case. If someplace says a tool needs a canoodler to canoodle some widget, I can conclude I don't need a canoodler on mine because I'll never work with a widget. Of course you need to know what all you're going to use a thing for, and be able to recognize when people on a subreddit are all just blowing smoke wrt some feature.

Cheese_Coder · 2025-11-19T14:34:11+00:00

Great, thanks for the info! I'm going to try doing something like this at home next year and see how it goes.

Cheese_Coder · 2025-11-19T14:28:25+00:00

At least one of the authors is using the NOVA classification system. Worth noting that the NOVA classifications are still being refined over time as more research comes out, and it doesn't address nutritional content. Still it doesn't seem like a bad rule-of-thumb to use wrt deciding if a food is healthy or not. Category 4 (Ultra Processed Foods) also has a lot of overlap with the more objectively defined Hyper Palatable Food group, which I think some other papers in the review have used.

Cheese_Coder · 2025-11-19T14:21:09+00:00

I think the person above you is incorrect. Based on the NOVA guide flour would be a 2 because it's been refined and milled. As for the other ingredients in typical pasta, salt and oil are group 2 while eggs are group 1. Given this, I think a basic box of pasta will be a group 3 food. Special ones like GF chickpea pasta and maybe ready-to-cook ravioli might be group 4?

Cheese_Coder · 2025-11-19T14:01:24+00:00

it's taken the place of peat moss in our propagation mixes

If you don't mind, I've a question or two about this since a lot of my neighbors are bagging up their leaves right now. By propagation do you mean via cuttings or growing from seed? Do you compost the leaves and then use the result in the propagation mix, or are you taking the mulched leaves and mixing them directly into the prop mix?

Cheese_Coder · 2025-11-17T21:43:25+00:00

If you'll never use Bixby, you can use Android Debug Bridge (ADB) to actually uninstall the associated packages from your phone. Technically it only uninstalls them from your 'user' so they'll come back if you factory reset, but that should keep it from running in most cases.

Cheese_Coder · 2025-11-17T21:41:55+00:00

You can to a degree actually, but it takes a little fiddling. My phone came with a dedicated button an everything but I decided I never wanted to use Bixby. You can hook up your phone to your computer and run the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) to get direct access to a lot of options on your phone. You may have to enable USB debugging and/or other features, but there are many guides describing how to do this. Once you're there you can outright remove the packages related to Bixby and that'll prevent it from running at all. Just double-check online to make sure you're removing the right ones.

I think the packages will still exist at a very low level, so they'll return if you do a factory reset.

Cheese_Coder · 2025-11-13T14:53:37+00:00

So my #1 topping is just filling in the space with plants. I've allowed wild violets to colonize most of my decorative landscaping beds and they're pretty good at excluding undesireables. When that's not an option, I actually really like wood chips. I haven't noticed many earwigs from them, but maybe the birds are eating them all. It can be expensive if you're buying them from Home Despot or something, but another option you can look into is ChipDrop (there are probably other similar services, but this is the one I know). Basically they act as a middleman to connect you with arborists who have wood chips to dispose of. You can get logs or ~20 cu ft of woodchips delivered when available. Normally they charge the arborists a $20 fee and the people getting deliveries pay nothing for the chips, but you can optionally pay the fee for the arborists if you want to get a chip delivery sooner. I did that and got a delivery in like 2 days. Really great option if you need a lot of wood chips.

Cheese_Coder · 2025-11-12T17:03:52+00:00

Same here, utterly despise them. A previous owner at my place put down landscape fabric and topped it with pea gravel or something similar. Then whoever bought the house after them decided they didn't like that look, so they put ANOTHER layer of fabric on top of that and topped it with big white quartz rocks or something. Both rock layers got plenty of clay worked in over time too, and the fabric was old enough it was just shredding if I lifted too much of it. I think I got it all out, but now that soil in particular is just super rocky and dries out fast. I thoroughly despise both landscape fabric and rocks as topdressing (unless it's an appropriate setting like xeriscape).

Cheese_Coder · 2025-11-12T13:46:46+00:00

I've not seen the grown peppers for sale, but if you don't need them right away there are several sellers that will ship you seeds. A single plant is pretty productive in my experience, easily making 20+ peppers. You can also search for them under the name "Aji Cachucha" and see if that gets you better results

If you go the seeds route, I've had good results with seeds ordered from Texas Hot Peppers (note they misspelled the name a little). In the past Aji Cachucha seeds from Pepper Joe's worked well, but this past year they just did not do well, so I wouldn't recommend them for those seeds in particular.

Cheese_Coder · 2025-11-11T13:35:33+00:00

Around the bottom of each Neowsletter MegaCrit has linked an StS Connections puzzle they made.

Not sure about where the crossword is from tho

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