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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anotha one⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re under arrest for disturbance of law enforcement. Lay flat on the ground and don’t even dare to resist. 🚨

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know Nut November⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Should have made it more challenging

  I wanted to use the heart-shaped walnut picture to cheer him up. Share some love when you nut your bros. <3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know Nut November⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ding ding ding - congratulations, you got it. :) You’re officially the winner #7b!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know Nut November⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  These nuts are indeed not really popular but I found them in a regular supermarket in Germany a couple of years ago. As someone mentioned they’re typically almost impossible to crack, so each nut already had a small canal sawed into the side and the box came with a metal lever that exactly fits into said canal. With that preparation it was quite easy to open them.

  You can also buy them online prepared that way. E.g. here: mypilinut.com/…/noix-de-pili-en-coque-seau-xxl-29… (I don’t know this shop, it was just the first result on Google, so no clue if it’s a fair price).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know Nut November⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There you go - challenge #7b just for you: Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know Nut November⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ding ding ding - we’ve got our winner for today. Thank you very much for participation. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know Nut November⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Know nut November Day #7 - What nut is this?

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Update on my plant. Unfortunately it might be sick, it has been getting worse every since I brought it home⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t see any insects on the leaves or the soil, I’d just give it some time. Water it every 2-4 weeks. If it’s a large pot of soil do it every 4 weeks with ~0,5 liters, in a smaller pot do it more often with a smaller quantity.

  In general, it’s better to water rarely, so the top layer of soil is dry most of the time. That way, you’re making the life harder for small flys to lay eggs and nurish from the roots.

  If it keeps losing leaves, don’t panic. Mine had a severe sunburn once and dropped all the leaves. After some weeks it started to recover and grew new leaves.

  I would say, the worst thing you can do is overwater. Mine is in a pretty huge pot (80 liters) and I give it (round about) 1,7 liters of water every 6 weeks in summer and 2-3 months in winter. That way the plant has to grow deep roots to the very bottom to reach the bottom and the top layers are rather dry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want to take better care of my house plants. I got this plant recently, does anyone have tips?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it got cold on the way home or reacts to the change of light / temperature between the store and your place. I would recommend to not water it too much and don’t use too much fertilizer. I have one that already survives for more than 10 years and it’s still pretty healthy despite that I don’t pamper it at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infinite Suffering⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I go for option 1.

  In all programming languages that I know, integers have a maximum number. E.g., in C that’d be 2,147,483,647. After that, you would run into an overflow, resulting in either…

  • a crash (train stops, no more deaths),
  • death count suddenly turns negative (all people previously killed are suddenly alive again and even new people are generated out of nowhere) - until we reach the next overflow when people disappear and start dying again
  • or - if it’s an unsigned integer - death count resets everytime we reach the maximum limit

  So compared to option 2, we have a chance of stopping the death count. And even if the train keeps running, we have essentially option 2 but the same people only die very rarely. If we assume a cycle of 1 death per second and an integer boundary of 2,147,483,647, that’s just one death every 68 years per person involved. Seems more fair to me compared to 100 people constantly dying over and over again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers achieve first successful communication between dreaming individuals⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe more working hours for office workers. Everyone can do another 8 hours of lucid night shift.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you consider making a sandwich to be "cooking?"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like this definition the best. If someone is doing a making a super complex sandwich with many ingredients and passion, then I’d fine to call that cooking. Same with a cold soup or a fancy appetizer. Many dishes in top notch cuisine are served cold. In molecular kitchen, there’s even stuff below freezing. Still all cooking to me.

  If someone just warms up a can of Ravioli, microwaves a convinience dish, etc. I’d consider that rather food prep. If using the microwave is just one step of multiple in a recipe, than that’s fine again.

  For me cooking requires a minimum level of effort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Water Pressure Big L⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Based on the smell of your breath, it’s both stored in your throat apparantly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you buy 2nd-hand PV panels?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can only speak for Germany but here solar panels have dropped in price dramatically and you sometimes get new 400W panels for 60€…

  mydealz.de/…/trina-vertex-s-solarmodul-doppelglas…

  I wouldn’t want to buy a surprise box for 35€ without warranty and detailed information regarding technical specification and duration of usage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World passes 30% renewables milestone for the first time, decline of fossil inevitable⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re serious, I’d say language is optional in the first step - at least in Germany. If you manage to find a job here, you may get a visum (Aufenthaltstitel) for many years. A colleague of mine (IT) came here from India around 15 years ago and still only has rudimental German skills. If you want to integrate well with locals, it’s helpful of course and you also need a certificate to proof your German for permanent citizenship. But for coming here a job is far more helpful than language skills. And in many bigger or international companies English is the norm anyways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are sh.itjust.works finances doing?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not on your instance and I don’t know the link but I 100% agree to your sentiment. I think if we want Lemmy to grow and instances to flourish, we have to also federate the financial burden of hosting it. The admins already spend a lot of their free time on maintenance and content moderation, so those who can afford it should at least throw in some small donations. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Automation⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  • takes well-informed buying decisions setting a high focus on quality.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Might Have Ordered the Wrong Sandwich⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They just describe all the meat based on the animal’s size in relation to a horse.

  Chicken? < Horse Horse? = Horse Beef? > Horse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube could roll out ads while videos are paused after “strong traction” in experiment⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s exactly what I was thinking as well. If I watch a more complex video about maths, programming, engineering or if a primary source is displayed for a second, then I pause the video to have a detailed look AT THE VIDEO, not to look at ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only in Settings can you find Life's true meaning⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And for the retro fans, there’s not only control center but also control center legacy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How climate change could affect the microbes that ferment grapes and give wine its specific flavors⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess our society will rather build airconditioned green houses for wine than implement meaningful measures to protect the planet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Karrot - Start a group, become a community⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So it’s like an open source version of meet up, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a day⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a washing machine technician but I guess an optical sensor measuring the light permeability of the water (over time) should do the trick. Similar to a smoke detector. But I guess weight is a thing as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a day⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  1. Newer washing machines vary in time depending on how dirty your clothes are. So the same program may take 50 minutes or 90 minutes. This cannot be solved with a regular timer.

  2. If you have a job with varying hours, you might want to start the washing mashine when you’re heading home. Then you’re clothes are ready to be hung as you arrive and they aren’t laying around for hours.

  3. If you own photovoltaic, you might want to time energy intense home appliances such as washing machines, dish washers etc. to a period of overproduction.

  Not saying, these issues are super important but there definitely are use cases for smart devices. However, I’d always recommend using a local / self-hosted rather than a cloud-based solution.