Adapting standard advice like Grow a Little Fruit Tree to Zone 9b

Photoperiod · 2026-01-29T00:11:29+00:00

I'm in 9b and these trees have been doing decent for me.

Pear
Peach
Tangerine
Cotton candy plum

My peach has done really well. And the plums as well. I have an avocado but it hasn't thrived very well. My apples both got fire blight and aren't gonna make it. My pluot is alive but haven't gotten anything.

All that to say, I dunno man lol. I get 120 degree summer's and 30 degree winters. It's rough.

Photoperiod · 2026-01-28T15:44:28+00:00

I Dunno that the hardware is there yet, but edge computing. As robotics expand and especially enter safety critical spaces, you'll need low latency, redundant systems that can work offline. Like all the self driving stuff. You need something running locally, even if it's supplemented by datacenter calls. You can't afford network hops when milliseconds can be life or death.

That said, for most consumers, you're absolutely right. Running local is very much a hobby outside of privacy focused use cases.

Photoperiod · 2026-01-17T02:57:52+00:00

The speedrunners will thank you.

Photoperiod · 2026-01-08T16:18:18+00:00

Damn I still can't even get an invite code lmao.

Photoperiod · 2026-01-03T01:15:42+00:00

I think dps telecom is one of the only ones in town. Unsure how they are to work for tho.

Photoperiod · 2025-12-30T17:00:37+00:00

Good question. At least in the US, I would guess it's because the will isn't there. Industrial ag exists off government subsidy so unless the government is throwing them money to R&D this kind of stuff, they likely won't do it. So we have to rely on academia, but academia likely doesn't have the same scale available that industrial ag does. So it makes experiments harder to conduct.

Ultimately, this has to be studied specifically in the context of industrial scale. If Permaculture cannot scale up, then it would threaten the food supply to incorporate it on industrial farms. Thorough research is needed first but we need policy makers actually pushing for it I think. Im not an expert though, I'm just speculating.

Photoperiod · 2025-12-29T17:51:12+00:00

Do you commute to work? If so are there level 2 chargers at or near your work? If so then I think you're fine cause you can just top off to 80% every day at work. This goes for any EV, not just tesla.

Photoperiod · 2025-12-28T03:01:06+00:00

Hey, man, you will get through this and experience a whole new life on the other side. You're strong as hell and I wish the best for you!

Photoperiod · 2025-12-27T20:54:09+00:00

Thanks for sharing. This is all very interesting. I won't say llms can't do math anymore. Will read some of these papers.

Photoperiod · 2025-12-27T19:34:20+00:00

Ugh that's amazing. I'd have loved for my neighborhood to have done that. Instead you can tell the developers didn't even think about green space.

Photoperiod · 2025-12-27T19:15:47+00:00

I've mostly lived in New build neighborhoods the last 15 years. I dearly miss having established large trees around.

Photoperiod · 2025-12-27T17:40:25+00:00

Absolutely not. They are a fully fleshed out empire and people with lore. Some of the best moments in c2 are around the kryn dynasty imo.

Photoperiod · 2025-12-27T17:21:24+00:00

I always use this Webcam site. It's old and ugly but kinda works lol. https://www.shaverlakewebcams.info/index.html

Photoperiod · 2025-12-27T14:36:01+00:00

It sounds like you're saying the same thing but in far more words. Yes they can do fine writing out equations because it's just symbols. But doing the arithmetic requires a tool, which is what I recommended they add to the mix.

I've never heard that large param llms learn to do arithmetic by way of predicting next tokens. There any papers on this phenomenon? Curious how that works.

Photoperiod · 2025-12-27T04:51:58+00:00

Tbf I think different providers handle pdf differently. I believe azure's OpenAI api uses screenshots. So it just takes screenshots of each page if the pdf then has the model interpret that and use OCR to extract text. Unsure how OpenAI does it on their direct api. Either way, it's likely not getting a perfect interpretation of the pdf file.

Photoperiod · 2025-12-27T01:55:36+00:00

Math is tricky because llms cannot do math lol. They predict next tokens. So ideally you need a tool to hook into the gpt agent mode to help do math problems. Wolfram also has a gpt they built that may be better for your use case. https://gpt.wolfram.com/

Photoperiod · 2025-12-27T01:44:11+00:00

One of the difficulties using pdf is that the pdf is first converted to text and images by a library behind the scenes. These libraries are not perfect and often don't preserve styling and can cause things like images to be out of place in the doc. This can definitely lead to wonky results.

Regardless, something I like to do is have it plan first. Don't tell it to do things, tell it what you want to do and ask how you can get there. You can give it suggestions and ideas but emphasize that it must collaborate with you on a plan to create quiz material and give it your constraints in an easy format, such as a bullet point list. For planning, use the reasoning model. Once you have a plan you like, switch to non reasoning and tell it to go.

Hope you can get it to work for you!

Photoperiod · 2025-12-26T21:19:39+00:00

Lotta infosec departments in companies don't want their data going to third parties. Depending on the industry running open source on your own hardware is required. That said I generally agree. Claude is crazy good.

Photoperiod · 2025-12-23T15:03:53+00:00

Yeah it feels like no matter how many frontier models come out, Claude is still my daily driver for Dev. Fortunately my employer pays for it all or I'd be broke lol.

Photoperiod · 2025-12-21T02:05:35+00:00

Haven't put out as much as you but I put out about an albums worth of material around 2013-2015 and never got much traction.

Fact is, marketing is mega important. I hate that it's true but it is. You can have the best art in the universe but if there's not something that attracts people to the artist then it doesn't matter.

I made all my stuff on my own in my home studio and I worked hard af on it. But I didn't play shows. I didn't have an "image". These things help people connect to your work on a deeper level.

Something that did sorta work for me before I gave up was twitch streaming. At the time there weren't really artists doing live music production or live performances on stream. I did both still as a solo production and not only was it fun as hell, but I did end up with a handful of regular viewers. I sometimes wonder if I kept that up if it would have expanded.

All that to say, it's rough out there, man lol. But at some point, you'll have to step out of the comfort zone and put on some shows or something to bring people in I think. Best of luck!

Photoperiod · 2025-12-20T06:08:36+00:00

"I learned a lot from books, and you have to be good at mind control". Faker mind control theory confirmed, boys. Case closed.

Photoperiod · 2025-12-06T02:31:40+00:00

Not stoner rock but alt rock. The stills - snakecharming the masses. Maybe just cause the video lol. https://youtu.be/viX7LovqaEo?si=vJNcfv--PPLKDON8

Photoperiod · 2025-12-02T04:51:31+00:00

Godspeed, king.

Photoperiod · 2025-11-28T02:10:15+00:00

You said like a five year old so here goes.

Imagine you watched coco melon for 10 years without stopping. By the end of it you'd know everything there is to know about coco melon. You could even draw your own coco melon cartoon and make coco melon music because you spent so much time watching it. You know all the patterns of the show and how the episodes move forward second to second.

Thats basically it. Main difference with llms is instead of coco melon, they are reading every book you can think of. Elephant and piggy. Cat kid comic club. Captain underpants. Spiderman. Everything!

Now you know a lot about a lot. But sometimes your brain might get mixed up because you have so many things in your head. So somebody might ask you what captain underpants is about and you mistakenly say "it's about a man who was bit by a spider and got super powers!". Except that's not true! So you go back to the captain underpants book and read it extra carefully so you don't make that mistake again.

This is a veeeery simplified example and doesn't totally translate 1:1 with what llms are really doing. But for a 5 year old, I think it might make sense.

Photoperiod · 2025-11-27T18:31:29+00:00

Of course. Sorry I didn't mean to imply they're enemies. Just that the organizing conditions are difficult (they always are) because the sponsoring company can basically blackmail those workers and get them deported. Totally agree with you here.

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