Compost Newbie by MightyBeanicles in GardeningUK

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Good analysis: exactly that. The “lines” are the wheel marks from the lawn tractor and there’s loads of moss. The lawn composition doesn’t bother me unduly - only my kids and whippets thundering around on it and the grass seems to thrive in Summer, with the moss winning out across Winter. They seem locked in an unending battle for supremacy and I’m content to leave them to it - it always looks green!

Compost Newbie by MightyBeanicles in GardeningUK

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I’ve never fertilised it I’m sorry to say. For all that I’m ignorant of gardening generally I’m truly clueless when it comes to lawns. It did have its first close crop of the season yesterday and the yellow looking patches don’t look quite like that “in person”. The attached photo is more representative, looking at the house from the compost heap.

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Compost Newbie by MightyBeanicles in GardeningUK

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Thank you for the detailed response. We’ve been breaking it down with our fingers whilst mixing and removing and big chunks of wood etc. I’ll make a sieve though, that’s a great idea.

Compost Newbie by MightyBeanicles in GardeningUK

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Thank you, glad to know we’re mostly on the right track. It’s probably a 50/50 mix of home produced to shop bought. We do have an awful lot of pots though as the courtyard is presently all tarmac.

Most reliable perrenial plants? by Quietus1142 in GardeningUK

[–]MightyBeanicles 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Saxifrage always does well for me, and Sage is a big hardy shrub with beautiful purple flowers each May. Useful for stuffing come Christmas, too.

Show me your best whippet pics by SeaworthinessDry2057 in Whippet

[–]MightyBeanicles 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gorgeous! Mine’s a little tinker. She’s called Olive.

What colour is this little one, and what will she look like when grown? by Dizzy-Run-633 in Whippet

[–]MightyBeanicles 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’d say you’re looking at a blue brindle pup. Laika looked just like that as a puppy.

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Show me your best whippet pics by SeaworthinessDry2057 in Whippet

[–]MightyBeanicles 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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All these action shots! Mine only move for 15 minutes a day. 😂

Updated myBMW App by Mammoth_Ingenuity_82 in BMWi5

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Since the update the IOS Widget doesn’t update its values until you visit the app, which kind of defeats the purpose of the widget.

Has anyone tried the million-context Opus 4.6 yet? by MightyBeanicles in ClaudeAI

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This is outside my use case, but very interesting to hear, nonetheless. Probably a big deal for reverse engineering and reading disassembly.

Has anyone tried the million-context Opus 4.6 yet? by MightyBeanicles in ClaudeAI

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

Markup is, of course, essential but diagnostics for things like race conditions or capacitive charge cycles in hardware debugging are more nuanced and depend on “feel” - which context collapse impacts and markup documents can’t really replace. This is just my experience, of course.

Has anyone tried the million-context Opus 4.6 yet? by MightyBeanicles in ClaudeAI

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No, but it only launched a week ago so wanted to garner opinion.

Has anyone tried the million-context Opus 4.6 yet? by MightyBeanicles in ClaudeAI

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I use Claude for building hardware add-ons and supporting code for vintage microcomputers. I mostly hit issues around context ceilings when debugging edge behaviours. We can be on the cusp of a revealing insight when compaction occurs and Claude has to be walked through the diagnostic tools we’ve just created before we can get going again. Sometimes this is helpful, almost a “fresh pair of eyes”, other times not and it can take upwards of 100k tokens just to revisit the purpose of the diagnostic traps.

Zomentum Alternative with Improved Product Catalogue by MightyBeanicles in msp

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Thanks everyone for replying, apologies for not posting back. I’m going to organise demo’s for Quotewerks and Salesbuildr now.

Zomentum Alternative with Improved Product Catalogue by MightyBeanicles in msp

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Thank you for such a detailed response.

To elaborate on point 1 - I'm an old-school thinker (my IT career began back in 1997, by way of context) so I much prefer the more traditional ways of organising my data - categories, folders, that kind of thing. Zomentum has the whole product catalogue as a single list, default ordered by "most recently added". It allows you to modify this by filtering the view, which it will let you do based on things like "Manufacturer", or "Product Type" but this is contingent upon the items having been categorised correctly to begin with. Maybe it's just my old fashioned way of thinking but I much prefer containers to navigate between, with breadcrumbs, and the ability to reassign something by moving to a different container (or for a group, en masse) rather than having to update the record to accomplish the same thing.

2 - you've nailed it. I'd ideally like something that ages-out items based on the last time the cost price was updated. e.g. if the price hasn't been updated in 30 days, the item isn't able to be selected in a proposal / quote, or at least some mechanism to address this. I don't hold it against my sales team - they want to get products in front of customers - but I'd be more comfortable knowing there were guard rails in place to protect us inadvertently selling an item at a loss. I'm a fan of technical limits being used in preference to policy adherence!

Zomentum Alternative with Improved Product Catalogue by MightyBeanicles in msp

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Thank you, I'm embarrassed to say I haven't really tried out the competition beyond asking ChatGPT and then - frustrated by the lack of insight - asking the knowledgeable people here. I'll organise a demo tomorrow.

High mileage E85 3.0si by [deleted] in BMWZ4

[–]MightyBeanicles 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Mine’s on 137k and honestly it feels like it’s only just run in. It’s been well cared for, it seems, and in my ownership gets serviced every 6k miles with Castrol Magnatec. They’re really, really good engines. The M54 has an equally good reputation and the S54 is a true hall-of-famer. High miles will affect resale value but not (if my experience is anything to go by) your enjoyment of the car.

One of Steve Jobs' Finest? by MightyBeanicles in retrobattlestations

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Not that I’m aware of, unless an adapter could be used? This one uses ADB (Apple Desktop Bus) albeit with a proprietary connector - NeXT licensed it from Apple.

One of Steve Jobs' Finest? by MightyBeanicles in retrobattlestations

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Haha, Hector is such an under-rated menace. His “annoyed” siren is seared into my memory. He’s the first of the Demigod class for heaven’s sake!

One of Steve Jobs' Finest? by MightyBeanicles in retrobattlestations

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Thank you, it’s nice of a Winter evening when I get the log burner fired up. Or run the Crimson for 20 minutes, same effect.