You must work at a big company. I work at one with 4 full time developers, and I don't think any of us could work 5 to 10 hours without the others and the whole company noticing.
What about hating having to understand the complexity of how this post moved away from Google Plus due to various corporate and other forces? Here is the original link pointing to G+: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3055154
Everything has a down side. Exercise is the most helpful thing you can do for your health, but you can break your leg running... or even die of a heart attack while running.
This is a great article to highlight how little most people think about what the "healthy" amount of meditation is and how to know if you're over doing it or are suffering an injury from it.
Can't you just verify this by hitting a timer at the time you are thinking "this is just before the alarm will go off".... then you can verify if this is really just minutes before the alarms was going to go off.
My guess is sometimes it's an hour before the alarm, but it just feels like a minute before, since you actually doze off again...
This won't work! The hardest place to weed is in the grass and around strawberries.... both of these can be just as short as weeds, and from the "how it works" page, it looks like it is using height of plant to determine if it's a weed.
I guess I meant, it "won't work" for me personally... and using height as an indicator of weediness seems risky.... at some point you'll have a tiny new seedling that you want to keep and you'll have to remember to work around your weeder... just doesn't seem as convenient as I would imagine it in my ideal world.
If you only need to remove weeds manually in the first few weeks after seeding instead of all the time, that's a potentially substantial reduction of labor cost.
Same with strawberry picking robots: It's not a dealbreaker if they have only 50% precision. That still means you have halved your labor costs (and time requirements) for the picking step (assuming that the robot picks in the night, then workers pick the remainder during the day).
> at some point you'll have a tiny new seedling that you want to keep and you'll have to remember to work around your weeder.
There's a metal guard you put down around small plants that prevents Tertill from mowing them down. The video does a pretty good job explaining the basic operation.
Instead of weeding your grass, mix it with clover, which fertilizes and helps fill in spots where weeds might otherwise grow. Also, let some "weeds" grow. Monoculture lawns aren't great for nature.
Strawberries would be a worst-case for this design. The plants are low and spreading, and weeds tend to start under them and then pop up through -- so it's the tall plant that's bad and the short one that's not only wanted, but when the fruit are setting, very delicate. Little slanty robot wheels would make jam out of the berries.
Also, typically your rows of strawberries are long and separated by only a few inches, so the stakes, or croquet wickets they are selling wouldn't work. There wouldn't be room between the rows of wickets for the robot to move.
I have a similar problem. I plant a lot of cucumbers and cantaloupe. Any vine-like plant that grows along the ground isn't going to work with this. But, I plant tomatoes and peppers on the other end of the garden, so...
I live in a big city, so I can't experiment - but is it possible to put up some sort of raised horizontal platform for those types of plants? Once it gets big enough, raise it up, put it on the platform, and let it grow horizontally, but off the ground?
Or do cucumbers periodically put down roots like strawberry clutches do?
I use simplenote. It's plain text, syncs, is multi platform, and is free. https://simplenote.com/
I find that images, etc, clutter things, and that for me plain text works the best - my snippets are usually code - and it handles that well. I often use urls to link out.
In terms of remembering things - I find typing it out helps, but writing it with pen and paper helps more... and finally the most help is to review your notes. As long as you review soon after taking them, the format almost doesn't matter.
