A website that lets you match watches with different straps to get a feel for how it'll look.
Mixing and matching watches with different straps is something that I really enjoy doing. It's not often easy to tell ahead of time whether the combination will work.
Nice, I'm going to look into playwright, looks promising.
I've seen a couple of automated test frameworks. I'm not looking to test thou, I'm looking at way I can quickly automate my daily work. There's a healthy overlap between what test frameworks offer and what I want, so that's probably my best starting point.
I use the IdeaVIM plugin. I do "vib" (visual inside braces) to select everything within the parentheses. Added benefit of it works in lots of other places as well (terminal etc).
Yes, vim does has something similar. One advantage the IDE's implementation has is that the user doesn't have to explicitly specify the constructs --- it doesn't have to be parentheses or a word, but any construct that "wraps around" the cursor; so it's less effort for the mind.
For Jetbrains IDEs, I've installed the IdeaVIM plugin and that's been a huge boost to productivity. I get the best of both worlds, the IDEs amazing tooling but also VIM's navigation which I find very intuitive.
I agree that watering only when the soil is completely dry is best. It's really hard to tell when that is with large plants thou. I have a massive monstera and a mid sized ficus. I can't pick these up to check their weight.
Why are there no smart plant meters? Something I push into the soil and sends me a notification when the soil has completely dried out?
I've used those analog two prong moisture meters, but I'm looking for something that can just sit in the pot permanently..
Moisture meters aside, I use plants as an example of the “expert problem”. Experts give advice that seems helpful, but only if you have intuition already.
“Completely dry” (or “plant is not hefty”) is not helpful to a beginner. There is basically a continuum of dryness, and with large plants, there’s a gradient as well (as you mention).
Paraphrased conversation I have had: “How much should I water this plant?” “Some, but not too much”
Just put a cable hanging from the leaf over a open circuit. when the leaf hangs the cable will descend and the circuit is closed. With a buzzer and a battery is all what you need.
Until you get the intuition of the soil, I would look at the plant itself. A plant drying out or in need of a good watering should show visible signs. I would google "thirsty <species>" to look for images of what a thirsty plant looks like of your species. In Monstera, google says a thirsty plant is one that is droopy and has yellow/"dry" spots on leaves that aren't near the bottom (ie. aren't being discarded as normal growth).
There are, like the Xiaomi Mi Flora sensor (I think) or something like April Brother soil moisture sensor.
I have given up on those though because they're to expensive to put in every pot, and if they're not in every pot then I might as well manually check all the pots.
the two prong ones are resistive, and the exposed metal does indeed corrode quite quickly when in use.
there's also a single-prong capacitive type, only very marginally more expensive, with all metal parts covered in plastic film, which can sit in the soil indefinitely.
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There is a type of flourishing available to a cat that is only rarely available to us. A human is never simply what she is, but is always striving to become something she is, as yet, not. This is the result of a self-image – a conception of herself and what her life should be – which, when unrealised, can occasion frustration and despair.
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This part of the article jumped out at me. I spent about 5 years of my life on a start-up that eventually failed. I now have a pretty comfy tech job, and definitely earn enough money to be comfortable.
But there is always this restlessness that I feel. I learnt a lot of things in my 5 years, and feel I could do a better job if I were to start another company. I almost feel like those 5 years would be wasted if I don't take what I learnt and put it into my next company.
What's good about being special or being in a state of desire? Isn't being "happy" or at least "content" a more logical goal?
Maybe this boils down to the question: Would you willingly enter the matrix, a fabricated world where you can be happy or fight in the real world? I assume you would say "no", while I would say "yes".
What is special is the possibility of growth - what a cat can be is very limited compared to what a human can be.
Your reference to the Matrix is flawed in that you assume the "real" world is somehow not "fabricated", but it actually is via your sense perceptions. ;)
This is a really great question. The West has been working on this particular question for the past 2,500 years. Michael Sugrue's lectures on YouTube do a nice job surveying the development of thought in the West over that period of time.
Oh this is very interesting. I'm going to take some reference from this. We're not trying to do the exact same thing, but there's definitely an overlap.
Mixing and matching watches with different straps is something that I really enjoy doing. It's not often easy to tell ahead of time whether the combination will work.
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