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Arabica-like flavor in a heat-tolerant wild coffee species

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3 points·by connorproctor·5 năm trước·0 comments

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connorproctor
·4 năm trước·discuss
It can actually be easier to raise children in places with good bike infrastructure, because you don’t have to be their chauffeur. They can bike themselves around.

And for smaller children, in cities like Amsterdam, it’s common to see a mom riding with multiple kids sitting in a cargo bike.
connorproctor
·5 năm trước·discuss
I scan them through a quarter inch or so of wood, so this should be no problem.
connorproctor
·5 năm trước·discuss
Wow I just built something very much like this.

For Album artwork I recommend iTunes Artwork Finder[1], which can pull high res artwork from anything on iTunes. "Under the Pink" is on there.

I looked into using Moo cards as well, but also came to the conclusion that printing 50 at a time was less than ideal. So I ended up matte photo printing the art (normal 4"x6" prints) and sandwiching some 110lb card stock between the prints and cutting with scissors. This actually turned out very well, they have a very nice feel, and has the added bonus of having custom art on both sides.

It's a bit of work for each card though. I wish Moo or someone offered cards with NFC chips built in (they used to).

I also built a NFC reader into my living room side table, which reads the cards and plays the music on my Sonos speakers. Loosely based on these instructions[2]

[1] https://bendodson.com/projects/itunes-artwork-finder/ [2] https://github.com/adonno/tagreader
connorproctor
·5 năm trước·discuss
They don’t have to return the ETH, they agreed to return the ETH. 9 of 13 of the leaders of the (centralized) org have to agree to be able to move funds back to the people, there’s nothing technically forcing them to do so.

Beside maybe a legal obligation that people would have to take them to court over to sort out, no better than a gofundme/kickstarter.
connorproctor
·5 năm trước·discuss
Pieces snap together when moving passed each other, even if they aren't both in front. I just had a lot of fun exploiting this by stacking all the pieces on top of each other and then just "printing" the puzzle by moving the connected pieced past the pile.
connorproctor
·5 năm trước·discuss
QR codes are big ugly squares, so I can understand why some popular apps decide to roll their own.

But it certainly makes them way less convenient and universal. Can’t just open your camera app.

It took me maybe 45 seconds just now to find the scanning feature in Spotify, in a real world situation I probably would have given up and just used search after about 10 seconds.
connorproctor
·5 năm trước·discuss
They mention in the article that normal protocol is to immediately soak the thumb in bleach. Not sure if that’s actually effective though, or just hopeful.
connorproctor
·5 năm trước·discuss
When did you do this comparison? A couple years ago I did a comparison and found Google the best and Amazon to be not very good.

Agree it’s best to skip tesseract unless the free cost is important. We spent a lot of time trying to preprocess and tune tesseract before realizing cloud OCR solutions are much better and fairly cheap.
connorproctor
·5 năm trước·discuss
This doesn’t use electricity at all, the “solar power” is heat from the sun causing the water to evaporate. It’s a still, not a filter. According to the article the salt/brine freely flows back into the body of water.
connorproctor
·5 năm trước·discuss
Rather than texting the consumer a security code and having them enter it in the browser, you could display a security code in the browser and have them text it to your automated system.

But there’s still no way to know if that number later gets released to another person.
connorproctor
·5 năm trước·discuss
How long ago did you try it?

I had a similar experience with Home Assistant a couple years ago, but they’ve made a ton of progress on UX recently. I still wouldn’t recommend for a typical consumer, but should be easy for someone building their own apps.
connorproctor
·5 năm trước·discuss
The article states a huge spike in imports are causing a traffic jam worse than when the port of LA workers went on strike a few years ago. I went searching for the "why" behind imports spiking and came across this:

>U.S. consumers dramatically increase spending on goods as their ability to spend on services was constrained [by COVID] and that their lost income from unemployment would be counterbalanced by stimulus.

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/data-reveals-unprecedented...
connorproctor
·6 năm trước·discuss
The wikipedia article [1] provides the history. It was used for storage by the government and then fell into the hands of Houthi forces before deteriorating.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSO_Safer
connorproctor
·6 năm trước·discuss
I imagine there's some exaggeration here, but someone drove across the US in 25 hours averaging 110 MPH [1]. Given that, 143MPH for 2 hours doesn't seem that crazy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonball_Run_challenge
connorproctor
·6 năm trước·discuss
You're in luck, caffeine pills cost pennies and are readily available at many strengths.
connorproctor
·6 năm trước·discuss
They mention in the article that a live map of the trains themselves is minor and more of an afterthought.

The main purpose is to show live updated route information.
connorproctor
·6 năm trước·discuss
That's an unrealistic scenario since 5% (10% of 50%) of the population doesn't have an otherwise difficult to detect and life threatening condition. And if they did, then there is a serious problem and we would expect the hospitals to be overrun.