Where is this common practice? I've heard of warehousing bees, but not gassing them to death.
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I'm in the same boat as you... been beekeeping a year and am trying to split my way to 8-ish hives this year and look for an out yard for more next year.
You'll need to be more specific.
> So far I've only seen some hippies take it seriously.
There's a lot of that, sure. But in my experience, out of all the general nonsense going on in the world of organic agriculture, permaculturists were the most likely to avoid anti-scientific horse shit. That is perhaps not saying much, to be honest.
I'm certain there is a lot of complex knowledge locked up in farmers' brains that most folks wouldn't even think of. The same is true for doctors though, and it doesn't seem foolish that folks are creating expert systems to help with complicated diagnostics and such. Surely the wisdom of farmers can be codified and emulated reasonably well by software.
Further, maybe this is only limited to a subset of agriculture. It doesn't need to apply to every crop type to be useful. It's probably dumb to grow 100 acres of wheat this way. Perhaps it's useful for highly-controlled small beds of high-value high-labor-input vegetables or such?
Extend the x and y axis?
> How would this justify its cost?
Presumably by saving costs elsewhere? Labor, chemical inputs. Not saying it's there yet though, but why should it be?
> How does it withstand being outside all year, year round?
A cursory glance at the specs indicates that they've considered waterproofing at least. I imagine "the elements" will prove even more challenging than expected, but it's not like this wasn't considered.
> How does it not just destroy your crops when they grow tall?
The y axis is up pretty tall, and the manipulator is pretty narrow to get down in between plants. Clearly it is not advisable to grow crops that are taller than will fit in the machine.
> How could this possibly improve on current farming methods
Automation? We don't expect Burger King robots to improve on culinary techniques. I feel this is mostly interesting for repeatable research uses, but as basic manual labor savings it's interesting as well.
(I am in no way affiliated with this project... just seems easy to see the potential, and odd to treat a prototype as if it needs to make a business case right out of the gate)
It provides some basic building blocks for interesting computer vision in js.
For every post like this, you get two complaining that HN is a bunch of cheerleaders for XYZ. I don't know if the positive/negative balance is quite right on HN, but I do know that it's not all "haters gonna hate"-worthy. Further, some of the highlighted comments are pretty factual and useful. For instance: Authy is/was a fairly sloppy app, and it managed to lose my data during one of its many upgrades.
Not really under active development, it seems, especially with FirefoxOS going bye bye, but it basically boots you right into the browser, no cruft or chrome, and puts you in "god mode" with access to everything possible through Mozilla's special "web api" stuff. It's pretty neat, and fun, and really got me jazzed about the idea of repurposing $30 phones to do cool stuff. You can't even get a GSM radio for dev boards for $30, much less the screen, battery, charging circuitry, accelerometer, etc.
Does anybody know of a stripped down android install that is similar? Maybe scriptable with javascript or lua, basic browser-based display available?
https://www.truphone.com/us/consumer/sim/
I'd love to hear other people's experiences, but basically: $0 a month per SIM, $0.09 per MB. Since there's no monthly fee, you're supposed to use a certain amount of credit per month or they'll charge you a small fee to keep your number active, but mine has been unused for maybe six months with zero charges still. The SIM costs $30, but half of that is service credit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_breeding
But nobody seems to have an issue with that. No problems for selective breeding with huge mutations from radiation or mutagenic chemicals, but insert some precise, well-studied genes into another organism and people lose their minds.
They didn't, they repurposed the editor developed for Processing ( https://processing.org/ ).
> instead of focusing on a plugin for a better text editor.
Which cross platform editor should they have focused on in 2005?
Note also that honey prices have gone up (almost doubled), as more of those resources are shifted into "growing more bees" to replace heavy losses: http://www.honey.com/honey-industry/honey-industry-statistic...
I have absolutely no need for this computer, but really want one. What would you use it for?
Would it make sense for them to add a gallery of good solutions for each problem, or would they all basically be your second example network (no time to play and see for myself right now)?
Can you recommend any other resources that've helped you along the way?
There's also a disturbing attitude towards (largely male) prison rape. It is completely acceptable to joke about it, even on national late-night television, and the attitude is clearly one of "prisoners are terrible sub-humans and deserve to be raped by their peers". It's really messed up.
As far as the Android app goes, I had no complaints. I didn't notice any significant battery drain issues or anything like that.