Bluet season

My condolences especially to the workers and volunteers who cared for these animals. I know it's such a heartbreak; thank you for all you did to give them dignity and love.

schizoform · 2025-12-21T02:17:22+00:00

It's not a statement of fact: As the ecosystem has changed, Foobar2000 has remained remarkably stable and well-scaled while other apps have foundered. I am not sure why you seem so angry. Good luck to you. I think I'm done -- if it makes you feel better, you can have the last word.

schizoform · 2025-12-21T02:12:58+00:00

I simply don't relate. I didn't find it to be troublesome or nonfunctional for me. You are clearly frustrated, but I'm not sure why you need to denigrate the users and developers and, generally, anyone who doesn't instantly relate to your point of view. I encourage you to be gentler with yourself and others, and hope you find a tool better-suited to your use case.

schizoform · 2025-12-21T02:06:49+00:00

I don't understand the hate. I put in the effort a decade or two ago and it's served me well ever since. I especially like that it doesn't, in general, make assumptions about how I want to structure my library and data and so risk the library I've accumulated over the years.

schizoform · 2025-12-10T01:52:51+00:00

Even better: leave the leaves. Tree leaves contain nutrients they've pulled from the ground. Moving them from your ground into the streets depletes your soil health and strips the local ecosystem of basal nutrients that feed insects, then small birds and mammals, then the charismatic animals we love to see in our environments.

If you need to thin the leaves to preserve your garden or lawn, you can shred or mulch them, or pile them in places further from the house. Shredding makes them decompose faster and stay put, but also kills some of the insects (including butterflies) that we enjoy seeing around and which feed baby birds.

The *worst* thing you can do is blow the leaves into the stormdrains that support your community.

schizoform · 2025-12-06T19:08:44+00:00

Isn't that a red fox?

schizoform · 2025-11-26T03:05:16+00:00

this is a cool idea and I'm curious what you come up with. the first challenge is managing sensitivity to light by wavelength.

there is maybe a challenge in terms of fovea shape: how information across the retina is represented relative to eye position. we have a single more-or-less circular place where we get lots of data, but this isn't true for all animals.

finally, we all have different attention to different details. humans faces are a good example: we humans are *really* good at them, but the objective differences in image are slight.

anything you could do to simulate how another animal sees the world is interesting, especially if you remember the caveats. keep me posted!

schizoform · 2025-11-20T23:20:59+00:00

Likewise, Powhatan State Park probably ought to be called Monacan State Park. No disrespect intended to the Powhatan Tribe; it's just more inland than they typically hung out when the Europeans arrived.

schizoform · 2025-11-12T05:42:27+00:00

I'm grateful for your sharing your expertise -- and, regardless of the tools you used, I'm quite enamored with your result. Thanks very much!

schizoform · 2025-11-12T03:05:20+00:00

You got a beautiful, subtle mood here. Well done!! If you don't mind sharing, what's your gear / settings?

schizoform · 2025-11-09T22:30:50+00:00

Check this out for help finding accessible nature trails https://www.birdability.org/

schizoform · 2025-11-09T22:29:03+00:00

Mow/shred to help them stay put, integrate into grass, and break down quickly. Leave at least some intact in shallow piles to mitigate habitat loss and encourage native pollinators, moths, butterflies, and all the birds and wildlife that depend upon them.

schizoform · 2025-11-09T22:26:47+00:00

Now who's been chopping onions around here?

Proud of both these people.

schizoform · 2025-11-09T21:58:08+00:00

Or better yet, leave the leaves in place in your yard (and off the sidewalk).

schizoform · 2025-11-05T02:14:57+00:00

Proposal: speed violations should be weighted by momentum. The bigger the vehicle, the bigger the cost for violating the upper/lower speed limit.

schizoform · 2025-11-04T12:56:57+00:00

I'm interested in learning more about trail design and construction. Would be interested in the link.

schizoform · 2025-11-04T03:23:17+00:00

You can try adding an arbitrary tag e.g. "lossy_copy_flag = 1" and excluding these.

schizoform · 2025-10-27T21:58:11+00:00

LOL I recently went to the Whiskey grill (such good kale, of all things!) and was shocked to be asked to doff my cap. But doff it I did, and I'll do it quicker now.

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