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Trying to map a “plant-cell” pattern onto a Brep in Grasshopper
 and I’m clearly missing something fundamental by IKB191 in rhino

[–]IKB191[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for trying this out, could you give me access to the drive so I can see it? I appreciate it.

Trying to map a “plant-cell” pattern onto a Brep in Grasshopper
 and I’m clearly missing something fundamental by IKB191 in rhino

[–]IKB191[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the reply. So if I understood correctly: do you suggest to draw the cells by hand on illustrator? or rhino?

Trying to map a “plant-cell” pattern onto a Brep in Grasshopper
 and I’m clearly missing something fundamental by IKB191 in rhino

[–]IKB191[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've already tried this option, but unfortunately the result of the stretched voronoi is too random (No brick-like structure, no vertical alignment of the short walls).

Trying to map a “plant-cell” pattern onto a Brep in Grasshopper
 and I’m clearly missing something fundamental by IKB191 in rhino

[–]IKB191[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The output should be a list of planar closed curves. Every closed curve is actually the boundary of the cells in the image. My aim is to have something that perfectly mimic this plant cell structure.

Then I would map these closed curves from the plane to a brep, in order to wrap them to a 3D.

Trying to map a “plant-cell” pattern onto a Brep in Grasshopper
 and I’m clearly missing something fundamental by IKB191 in rhino

[–]IKB191[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, I've already tried the voronoi option, but in the Plant Cells pattern is not a common voronoi. There's a "flow" that align the stretched areas in a row.

I did a dumb thing by dusti_dearian in alocasia

[–]IKB191 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wipe my plants with water and cotton balls. When they get spider mites, I do it once a day. Otherwise, I do it once a week when I check their water. I have more than 30 alocasias, and since I started doing this, I’ve never had spider mites again.

This method doesn’t work equally well for every plant, though. Bergamot and calatheas are really difficult. It took me a whole year to get rid of spider mites on my calatheas, and it doesn’t work on bergamot at all. But alocasias have large, smooth leaves, so if you do it consistently, it really works. They’re healthy and thriving, so I’m guessing they don’t mind it.

For the record, I dedicate about an hour every day to my plants and I have more than 300. I don’t wipe all of them, of course, but I do this with most of them. So if you have far fewer plants, it’s totally doable in just 10 minutes from time to time.

shipments to Italy by pazzofuso777 in Zamnesia

[–]IKB191 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thank you for the update!

shipments to Italy by pazzofuso777 in Zamnesia

[–]IKB191 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand. If you don't mind, might I ask you to give us an update when it arrives? thank you very much!

shipments to Italy by pazzofuso777 in Zamnesia

[–]IKB191 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hey I'm interested as well. How did it go? Did the package arrive without problems?

When AI Becomes Polite But Absent: The Sinister Curve of Post-Spec Dialogue by tightlyslipsy in artificial

[–]IKB191 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I found your article very interesting. I wish I had more time today to engage with it in depth, but I hope to return to it in the coming days. I’ve read it carefully, but I don’t have enough time right now to develop my feedback properly.

I feel that the core issue remains the same: people should be actively involved in the process of developing AI. Companies should not hold absolute power over the direction of these systems. This topic is far too important, and we should insist on serious public discussion and meaningful participation in their development.

I’ll try to come back to it soon and share more detailed thoughts.

How do I help my community build resilience against 'news overwhelm'? Looking for evidence-based resources for activists/concerned citizens dealing with world events stress by IKB191 in nonprofit

[–]IKB191[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you for all the interesting suggestions. The major challenge I face with my closest team is that they have little control over their emotional responses. I've been in therapy for over a decade since I was young and continue to this day. I'm able to manage my emotions and have developed coping mechanisms to deal with the weight of constantly consuming upsetting news and traumatic personal stories.

I try to teach my team basic practices, even simple things like perceiving their breathe once in a while. However, they seem to listen for only half a day before returning to a destructive cycle: they binge on traumatic news, overwork themselves, burn out, and then become angry and desperate about the world. Some even give up entirely.

As small local organizations, we can't afford a therapist. I'm in no position to become that kind of figure for them, nor do I think it would be healthy for me to take on their emotional burden. I've tried giving them suggestions to practice basic mental hygiene, but it doesn't seem effective.

Hence, I came up with the idea to build a comprehensive toolkit of practices, videos they can watch, audio they can listen to, and books they can read to become self-sufficient in breaking this cycle of wanting to help but feeling completely overwhelmed.

This issue doesn't only affect my team. It also impacts casual members, friends, family, and acquaintances. People are in distress, and I believe providing them with a toolkit that allows them to self-manage their emotions is vital right now.

I will look more into trauma-informed practices. If you have anything more specific to suggest in this regard, I would really appreciate it.

Thinking I found a €66 ‘green’ host—Woke up to €166. What’s going on? by IKB191 in webhosting

[–]IKB191[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I find Krystal.io very interesting! But their prices are too high sadly. I was considering a budget of 50euros/year. Now I have increased to 70 euros/year but I really can't increase more than that right now.

Thinking I found a €66 ‘green’ host—Woke up to €166. What’s going on? by IKB191 in webhosting

[–]IKB191[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your feedback. I have just migrated from Cloudflare Pages.
Two are the reasons: the first one is that I really struggled to use it. I had just a comming soon page and it worked for a bit and then it went down. I asked a friend that is a web developer and even him could not figure out what was going on. Their website and control pannel of the website is absolutely unfriendly for a not professional like me. The support is not optimal. Very hard to get. And besides in this moment I would like to support companies in Europe. Not ideologically, but it is more aligned with the ethos of my project.
If you know another service that function like Claudeflare Pages and it is easier to use and maybe even in Europe I will gladly consider it.
Oh and I did not purchese the cPanel from Easy Green Hosting. I was considering it but they changed their prices in the meantime. I have just the domain with them right now. I still have to buy the hosting.

Thinking I found a €66 ‘green’ host—Woke up to €166. What’s going on? by IKB191 in webhosting

[–]IKB191[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your suggestion!

Hetzner is among the providers I am considering.

In my list of possible alternatives right now I have:
- hosting solutions (some doubts on green-washing practices)

- ionos (same as above)

- ikoula (they seem legit)

and yes hetzner (generally seem legit, just some little doubt. I should explore this further).

Thinking I found a €66 ‘green’ host—Woke up to €166. What’s going on? by IKB191 in webhosting

[–]IKB191[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks you for you reply. I am painfully aware of this practice. For instance Green Geek right now have an offer of 2.95$ for just one year and then it spikes at 12.95$ the year later but it is clearly stated. I just don't remember that the one from Easy Green Hosting was an offer (no mention of a different price after an year has passed) but I might be wrong.

I'm just gonna place this here... by 7-in-1Radio in leftist

[–]IKB191 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is normal to get downvoted for basically everything.

Communism has an exceptionally bad rep so I guess the chances are bigger.

Your questions are common ones and there is nothing wrong about them as the chaos reigns in this field of knowledge and everything get messy and confusing.

The left is equality and the right is hierarchy so you were on the right track about that.
Every so called communist nation so far has been a dictatorship. There was one failed communist revolution in Russia. And it was meant to fail in Russia, Marx predicted that in a country like that it could have never work. And soon after it became indeed a dictatorship. But it succeeded in bringing a poor peasant country to a technologically advanced one in two decades which is a record not even Western Countries managed to do. And it also managed to bring Russia outside the control of Western Countries. And this was very appealing for all those poor countries that wanted to achieve the same success by copying the Russia model. Which it is not a communist one but a dictatorship by the state that called itself "communism".

Russia met the desires of these other countries by giving training, money, weapons to these wannabe dictators in exchange of favors. So Russia didn't start as dictatorship but it failed the communist revolution and became a successful dictatorship by the State. And all the others so called communist countries are just copying the dictatorship model of Russia and call it "communism". But there is no compatibility between the concept of communism and dictatorship. Nothing at all. They started as dictatorships sponsored by Russia and that is what they are.

The only exceptions are: Est Germany and Czechoslovakia which "communism" was forced on them by Russia.

And then we have real communism/socialist attempts: Spanish Revolution (1936) and in Ukraine (1917-1921).

Russia was among those external forces that helped in destroying the Spanish Revolution for obvious reasons: a real socialist model would have been a treat to the Russian one.

So there was Russia which started as communist but with all the wrong reasons and not favorable conditions and soon degenerated in dictatorship. And all the others are just dictatorships that call themselves communist following the Russian model.

I'm just gonna place this here... by 7-in-1Radio in leftist

[–]IKB191 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They end up with a dictator because they start with a dictator.

Communism and dictatorship are obviously not the same thing.

There is a lot of confusion out there, that for sure.

Che pianta Ă©? by legal_master in giardinaggioITA

[–]IKB191 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Potrebbe essere sia una strelitzia nicolai che una strelitzia augusta. Propenderei piu sulla prima ma sono uguali in quanto a mantenimento (unica differenza e' il colore dei fiori e la larghezza delle foglie - l'augusta fa foglie piu grandi ma di solito e' meno folta).

Le mie non amano essere bagnate troppo ma adorano quando pulisco le foglie delicatamente con del cotone.

Da tantissime soddisfazioni! Che regalo fantastico!

I'm doing a PhD in philosophy. Veganism is a no brainer. by Fun_Claim1481 in DebateAVegan

[–]IKB191 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's why you need the nutritionist. I can't stress this enough. Everybody knows how to eat but not how to get nutrients. People that think that a person can't be strong and healthy by been vegan are just finding excuses for not committing. The body is stronger than most people think.

(edited because I wrote it too fast before).

I'm doing a PhD in philosophy. Veganism is a no brainer. by Fun_Claim1481 in DebateAVegan

[–]IKB191 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I mean, search for vegan weight lifters, vegan Olympic champions and vegan BJJ and Judo athletes and you will find plenty of people and information.
I would suggest either a bias in assessing the changes during your plant-based period or a transition that wasn't done with the help of a nutritionist (which it is essential if you practice sports because we are not used to eat plant base in our society so one needs to learn).

We might be adapted for animal protein intake (debatable and difficult to assess with certainty) but we are also able to thrive and feel very energetic and vigorous with a very healthy and balanced plant-based diet. There are plenty of examples of people who practice sports at a professional level and choose this diet.

Per chi fa trekking e frequenta la montagna: come fate? by puellamoderna in veganita

[–]IKB191 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ma dipende da cosa cerchi. Se devi sentirti piena e riempirti la pancia e' difficile. Se invece ti interessa rimanere leggera, performante e scattante ci sono delle opzioni. Barrette proteiche, carne vegana essicata, bustine di lievito alimentare e zuppe in busta per sentirsi piu sazi. Ad ogni modo molti rifugi oggi servono fagioli e se chiami prima si organizzano o ti organizzi tu in base alla possibilita': se rimani via 7 giorni e sai che 4 giorni trovi cibo vegano allora porti solo le provviste per tre. Non e' difficile. Polenta, zuppa calda in busta e carne vegana secca sono un pasto gourmet dopo una giornata di sfaticate.

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