alzymologist
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- Comment on I love mango 4 days ago:
If you have access to ripe and fresh mango, try making mango melomel. Mead at OG 1120 infused with mango, 200g/L at secondary. Stuff was really good with average Houston store-bought mangos, chunks. No problems with sediment this way, it settles down naturally quite well.
- Comment on Great Tits 6 days ago:
…and by “harsh” they mean “typical”
Here, in the North, as snow covers the ground we make sacrificial fat ball offerings to the beast, you know, just in case. Brain is mostly fat tissue.
- Comment on meat honey 1 week ago:
It’s their protein source; honey is pretty much carbs-only, good in winter, when they just keep warm, but raising kids on that is not good. Besides, bees are wasps, and wasps are carnivores, they need protein and mostly eat pollen protein in summer if they can. Honeybees eat flesh too, including cannibalism, just less often than plant material - apparently, with organized labor veganism turned out to be more effective, at least for them. No morals behind it, pure business.
- Comment on meat honey 1 week ago:
What? I literally can see them collecting alder pollen in huge quantities, carrying it on their hind legs like cavalry pants and forming into highly nutritional tubes, it’s possible to trace them from tree to hive - well, it’s not that there is any other pollen source here now anyway. And when I collect honey, quite some amount of this stuff falls down into the tank, not mentioning cross contamination in “pollen is processed at the same facility” honey manufacturing business bees are running. At least that part of the story is certainly true, that gives some basis to disregarding the conclusions of the meta-research you found.
- Comment on meat honey 1 week ago:
Mind you, as far as I understand, bees convert it a bit too, so it might be somewhat slightly less aggressive than just flying particles in the air or sniffing a flower. Kind of “allergic vaccine” if that mechanism works, which, again, I’m not certain about.
- Comment on meat honey 1 week ago:
I guess it’s getting a bit easier by the year; but I mean, until it’s gone completely, I couldn’t really tell. I’m basing my “strategy” on same anecdotic knowledge you mentioned, although I’ve never seen it proven right or wrong in a methodical research; I don’t really care, it’s not that if I know it for certain anything will change, I’ll just keep living here and eat the stuff.
- Comment on meat honey 1 week ago:
It totally is! I’m allergic to several types of pollen, also I live in the middle of the forest and am a beekeeper. My stomach hurts when I eat that stuff. Nothing of this stops me; I also love Spring. I feel quite sick now, too (well, cold weather came back and it’s a bit easier than 2 days ago). Good that I have mild allergy, I’d be dead by now if I had it hard. When birch flowers unusually hard, I sometimes have a symptom that feels like how people describe asthma.
Maybe some day I’ll get desensibilized enough, after eating this stuff regularly. Maybe I’ll die trying.
My neighbor doctor - also a beekeeper - says that many people who perceive honey as slightly spicy actually get allergic reaction from traces of pollen in it. He also thinks my strategy of eating pollen to overcome allergy should eventually work; I think I just like the taste too much to stop.
The trick with pollen I’ve discovered is that as soon as it is extracted from the honeycomb, it starts quickly degrading; whenever it’s sold, it’s bleak tasteless flavorless powder, not even close to explosion of flavor that happens when you chew on a fresh blob right from the honeycomb (usually with the honeycomb, who cares, it’s edible too. Almost everything inside the nest is edible, apart form the frames and other human-made nonsense). Apparently you can get the stuff only from an actual beekeeper (or by raiding wild bees nest probably, I think it’s not a good idea though), and I only figured it out when I started keeping bees!
- Comment on meat honey 1 week ago:
Ok, as I understood it, there is “edible honey” that is really plant-based, and “carrion meat-based protein storage” that kind of works like pollen storage in honeybees nest. TBH, I find pollen more nutritional and tasty than honey. And I know that honey bees are opportunistic carnivores too. These things kind of come together in a story better left untold.
- Comment on Audeze Maxwell, No Volume on One Side 1 week ago:
I think the easiest way would be just to unsolder the wires from the PCB on the first figure. That’s what I’d do first and safest.
- Comment on Audeze Maxwell, No Volume on One Side 1 week ago:
I do not see any breakages, it might be torn right at membrane that is not visible on these pictures. Quite common failure point. Getting there is quite hard, just testing the line for continuity might be simpler and would rule this out or not.
- Comment on Plastic-eating bacteria discovered in the ocean 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, they expire in no time. Had to mess with blockers settings to get to it from original document, but now I have something fun to read over the weekend.
- Comment on Plastic-eating bacteria discovered in the ocean 2 weeks ago:
anyway, how nobody mentioned en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andromeda_Strain yet?
- Comment on Plastic-eating bacteria discovered in the ocean 2 weeks ago:
Anyone has a link (or maybe a pdf?) for the original paper this is based on?
- Comment on Audeze Maxwell, No Volume on One Side 2 weeks ago:
That’s planar mag drive; if the wire is indeed torn, soldering it would not be an easy feat; but chances are, membranes got torn or creased, this particular model has quite crappy material according to a quick search. You might want to unsolder the wires from control circuit and attach some other dynamic to their terminals to check if there is signal; also carefully measure resistance between the same wires (should be like very low) to check this hypothesis.
With broken sound making component, the most sane approach is to buy a new acoustic driver. Rolling out DIY means pretty much designing it (or reverse engineering the old one with unknown materials), matching sound geometry and impedance and all, which is kinda hard, time*money expensive, and fun.
- Comment on Audeze Maxwell, No Volume on One Side 2 weeks ago:
Open it, the really tiny wires leading to speaker often just fall off due to rush factory soldering
- Comment on Mushroom growing scale down minimal volume 2 weeks ago:
I had troubles with logs - I have lots of trees, but apparently most are already badly inoculated. Or I need to choose really really healthy looking ones. Or dry them first maybe.
- Comment on Mushroom growing scale down minimal volume 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’m thinking in direction of edible (for mushroom) containers; maybe some cardboard origami, or simple wood plank box; I’m even thinking to try casting linoleum pots on woven jute. It must be doable, why nobody does that now?
- Comment on Can I assemble a metal building by myself? 2 weeks ago:
This is possible but will take some time and resources for the tooling. Quite a lot of time if you are short on resources.
- Comment on Mushroom growing scale down minimal volume 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, scaling never really changes one parameter (that’s also why I always find it interesting). I’ve obviously never done it in a huge glass jar and I can see many new potential issues in all the comments here. I think I’ve got plenty of ideas here, this is amazing community!
- Comment on Mushroom growing scale down minimal volume 2 weeks ago:
Now that you mention it, I realized I just know the rate of diffusion of gas through plastic is enormous; I’ve done something really wrong trying to grow in vertically aligned jars!
- Comment on Mushroom growing scale down minimal volume 2 weeks ago:
Thanks, I’ll just try that. I know contamination starts only when the mycelium is dying; just being unreasonably careful here (I also do yeast pure cultures, habits interfere somewhat).
- Comment on Mushroom growing scale down minimal volume 2 weeks ago:
Thanks; I’m thinking about overcolonization indeed - Stamets mentions that growing in jars works, but mine here are just too small. Colony was supposed to hit the bottom and feel constrained, not grow up. Another thing is heat balance, which is not so obvious; the best results I’ve got were when I left the house for 2 days in the middle of the winter and temperature dropped by 2C. I mean, I expected small jars to radiate heat better, but then fruiting is surface process, maybe it’s the opposite too.
I’m also trying to come up with something that does not use disposable plastics. I know bags are quite versatile, I just hate them, not so much because of ecological issues, but like I can’t really make them myself, that’s disturbing.
- Comment on Mushroom growing scale down minimal volume 2 weeks ago:
But… but… they are in that humid plastic box! And the whole point of this experiment was to see whether I can run 100g media batches really; I had huge fruitings in these boxes just filled with autoclaved wooden stuff. The needle-like fruits do look like they are starved for oxygen; the horizontal ones started growing that way because they were loosely covered with foil (thus no light but full ventilation) - after I removed it I’ve got normal straight ones, but they still did not develop any gills or anything, just stopped. I suspect it’s something else. Almost like it just ran out of energy too soon, didn’t even have enough to retreat the mycelium - it’s one solid and seemingly inert block now (it’s been like that for some weeks; I have older attempts stuck like that for good, chunks of glistening white mycelium that doesn’t even rot)
- Comment on Mushroom growing scale down minimal volume 2 weeks ago:
These are open jars, these particular ones reside in a plastic box with some water for humidity. I’ve tried different ventilation modes, from just leaving jars open in ambient to capping them with foil, still about same results (except when it dries out it stops growing sooner, of course)
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- Comment on Peer review my foot 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on ancient hyperfixations 4 weeks ago:
It is serious. I have no clear explanation on “why”, it’s just a taboo, kind of good to know in case you happen to come to the reindeer herding area. I’ve learned it from basic reindeer herding dog training program orientation; I don’t have any reindeer, but I do have reindeer herding dogs. They only allow a few breeds there that naturally know the drill and can survive for hours having fun in savage frost.
Reindeers are so small IRL, about human-size, incredibly warm to touch, and they make sounds like pigs. They are also somewhat afraid of humans, unlike regular livestock, they usually run away from you same as from a dog and sometimes counterattack the dogs, which is scary. Herders would be happy to tell you about their life and everything, but just don’t discuss the head count.
- Comment on ancient hyperfixations 5 weeks ago:
Hey just so that you know, it is not polite to discuss reindeer count with outsiders.
But I know people just like that.
- Comment on Is this good 5 weeks ago:
Happened again because in washing you shook thebottle I suppose. It might keep repeating (vodka would make things worse, by making the fluid runnier, it will not stop pressure buildup). Be gentle and let it subside, but it totally can jump again. Worst case - just open it and cover with a tissue against insects. No biological invaders would survive there.
So next time just take larger bottle or consider wide mouth vessel.
- Comment on Is this good 5 weeks ago:
This is totally normal! You just left too little space on top, too vigorous yeast, too high temperature. It raised to the top and subsided later. Wash your lock and move on; if any contamination got in (unprobably), it got eaten brutally by now. And wash the outsides asap, every day would make it nastier.
