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I live in Australia, I would say most people would drink tap water at home. We have a sink top filter that filters water, so we use that. I don’t think drinking tap water in this part of the world is abnormal, on the contrary. Out of curiosity, where are you from?

Can someone comment on the effect of chlorinated town water on gut microbes? Would treated water have an affect as opposed to consuming rain or bore water?

I have asked a similar question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31148924

Basically, I have resorted to a power board that has individual switches for my monitor on my desk. I switch the monitor off at the end of the day and then on again in the morning. a full power cycle seems to be the cheapest way of getting connected each morning.

If I don't my 'Mac Book Pro 16" - M1 Pro' will do very strange things, like a strange mirrored 1024x768 4:3 mirrored mode until I unplug the usb-c to DP cable and cycle the power on the monitor. I have also found I need to leave the monitor off for a good 30 seconds (capacitor discharge?) to get a connection again.

I have also seriously considered tinkering with a HomeKit power switch and some shortcuts automations.

I am a worm farmer and soil amendments manufacturer. One of the most important ingredients that I feed my worms is blue metal and zeolite rock dust. Trace minerals including elements like boron and sulphur are important for cellular growth. The Australian continent where I am has extremely weathered soil, depleted of minerals. I hope to help put minerals and biology back into the soil.

I made a mistake, mine is a 2021 M1 Pro MBP. But waking from sleep does seems to affect my M1 Mac on Monterey, and I am up-to-date with 12.3.1 as well.

I will definitely give it a try.

Yeah, I'm using a USB-C to DisplayPort cable with the Samsung. What I didn't say was that I've disconnected my Dell for now (it was in portrait mode) and I'm just using the Samsun 4K 27" until I can figure out something that works better.

I read somewhere that the only way we lose weight is by exhaling.

"We have successfully partnered with them (police) on cases where information we provided has been used to trace an AirTag back to the perpetrator, who was then apprehended and charged."

Obviously each air tag is associated with an iCloud account, so this could be quite an effective move on Apples part.

I had to do this last year. Three calls to Apple Support... in the end I just wiped the phone and started over. The first time in 10 years. I was burning through my entire quota in 20 days and then racking up $10 per Gb over the quota with Optus. Very frustrating.

Has anyone heard of Kanzi here in Australia?

It's a cross between Braeburn and Gala, same as NZ's Jazz.

It's a bit more expensive than Gala or Pink Lady, but it has a firm crisp texture and maybe a tart skin but with an easier bite than Pink Lady, quite scrumptious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanzi_(apple)

Do you mean an observation schedule?

My wife is an astrophysicist here in Australia and had been looking forward to this launch for over a decade. She plans on using James Webb and gravitational lensing to observe galaxies at extremely high redshifts. Basically one looks behind single or clusters of closer galaxies for very young galaxies in the early stages of forming, not long after the Big Bang. The gravity well of the closer cluster acts as a giant lense, acting as an additional optical element to the telescope propelling us even further into the distant past.

As we watched the launch I asked her what James Web means to astronomy. Her answer? "It will fundamentally change what we know about the universe".

I concur! I have about 3-4 different usb-c to what ever cables and one usb-c to female A port for thumb drives. My thinking has always been that having all usb-c “future-proofs” for future configurations… maybe I will have two HDMI external monitors in the future, rather than display port and DVI? Easy, just get two usb-c to HDMI cables when that scenario arises. With cables it allows for so many different configurations rather than proprietary modular adaptors that any given company might give up on, decide to sunset older versions for new ones with more features. After living what you just described for the last few years I can’t for the life of me fathom how this modular approach will gain mass appeal. USB-C with cables seems far more flexible to me.

I live in Logan, another test area in Australia. The drones are relatively quite. Surprisingly so. Generally can’t hear them inside the house. Sometimes I will notice them when they are a few houses away if I’m outside. I rarely take notice of them now and I don’t find them distracting. They seem to fly quite high too.

I got into this because I can work from home with 3 small children. You can feed worms anything that once alive. You could ask your neighbours to leave a bucket of scraps out the front to pick up on a given day. Tree loppers always have to figure out where to take large amounts of wood chip, ask them to drop it off at yours if you can accommodate it. It's all about context. My context in Brisbane Australia (sub-topics and suburban) will be different to Phoenix or Ontario... all it takes is some phoning around and planning. BTW, carbon sources like wood chip are easier to manage than kitchen scraps. It takes some forethought to manage scraps because it can become smelly, fast. I have been using effective microbes (EM) to pickle scraps in poly barrels for later use with incredible success. I like your 50/50 mix idea, very intriguing. On that, anyone like yourself who has a curious mind, an optimisation mindset and a desire for continuous improvement will love the micro-composting space... so much scope for experimentation!

Fulfilment definitely... hopefully the money will follow. I think it will.

I fell into a massive YouTube recommendation vortex two 1/2 years ago when my barista basically insisted I take all his Cafe's coffee grounds home and compost them. I had no idea how to compost (he was sick of telling customers it was going into landfill. every. single. day). I now have over 20kg's of worms spread over 30+ worm bins and I'm taking organic residue from all over the district and turning it into valuable soil amendments. I never thought 5 years ago I would now be on the cusp of leaving digital marketing and going into manufacturing soil amendments. Profoundly life changing experience.

This is a textbook case of "humble bragging"... and I love it!

I'm a worm farmer and micro-composter that takes cafe waste and turns it into organic fertiliser in the form of vermicompost.

I want to make a distinction between anaerobic processes, aerobic composting and the global respiration and carbon cycle.

Anaerobic environments create methane. Aerobic environments create predominantly CO2. One is more harmful than the other in the atmosphere.

Quality composting creates a lot of CO2, but it's a natural part of the respiration of the planet for bacteria to respire CO2 from oxygen and carbon. This happens everywhere there is organic residue breaking down in the natural environment... think leaf matter falling to the forrest floor.

The difference is that it's a "renewable" process, which is why I don't use peat-moss in my worm trenches.

The thing about methane is that it's very often harvested in landfill and burnt as an energy source. However, this may not always be the case, which is why I encourage cafes to take coffee grounds out of landfill and compost them.

Just doing my bit.

CO2 however is released in the natural carbon cycle (of which composting is a part) into the atmosphere... and according to ANU researchers it's responsible for 10-11 times the annual emissions of fossil fuels.

Composting isn't related to our great dinosaur BBQ we have indulged ourselves in for as long as we have been burning fossil fuels, it's actually simply leveraging natural processes to manufacture soil amendments, which means it's a renewable part of the process for generating calories for human consumption.

Basically Composting isn't part of the surplus of carbon entering the atmosphere from fossilised dinosaur bacteria.

It's just the natural respiration and carbon cycle of the planet.

We have been using aquafaba exclusively due to egg issues for myself and our kids. We have found that mileage varies. Try for organic salt free chickpeas... the taste is not as strong and works amazing for pavlova (Australian desert) and merengue. We have also made chocolate mouse with salt free and I would suggest it’s better than egg based mouse. Salted aquafaba we use in cakes. The most interesting thing about aquafaba is how it responds to heat, we think it’s a lot more forgiving than egg. Both have a protein that responds to friction, but heat works differently so you have to realise that cakes and biscuits have a different texture to “normal”, but we have found over time it’s our new normal and we love it. Lastly, my scientist wife just said that egg has many properties that are useful in cooking and aquafaba is certainly exceptional for a few of them, but not all.

- DaVinci Resolve 17.1 Beta 1 offers universal app support for M1 powered Macs to provide better performance on small laptops. Plus the unified memory architecture on M1 enables DaVinci Resolve 17.1 to leverage the power of CPU and GPU processing more effectively, avoiding the need for PCI Express transfers. Significantly, the combination of M1, Metal processing and DaVinci Resolve 17.1 offers up to 5 times better performance when compared to previous generation computers. DaVinci Resolve 17.1 is also compatible with macOS Big Sur, and is initially only available for Mac. -

Up to 5x more performance compared to previous Intel machines? Wow.

I will definitely to this soon though... but it would be good to do quick Zoom meetings without using OBS.

OBS is the only app I have been able to get working so far.

So far I have tested the following: Skype: "No device found" (laptop closed) Zoom: Only FaceTime HD Camera detected Quicktime: Captures only the Imaging Edge Webcam logo screen OBS: Works great - added a "Sony Camera" perfectly first time

If anyone wants me to try something else, let me know.

I have a Sony ZV-1. It took a bit to get it going but I'm now seeing the crispest image in OBS on a webcam that I have ever personally used. Coupled with the shallow depth of field with the ZV-1's fast(ish) lens it's a huge step up from my 2016 MBP 720p webcam.

Why is jQuery a dependency for an SEO plugin for a static site generator like Hugo?

I have to back you up here, ultimately I just want to get landing pages and websites done, and Wordpress + Divi gives me that... I’m also now using Wordpress as a static site generator with WP2Static plugin and deploying to Netlify, so now I can get 4x100 for LightHouse. I’ve experimented with Hugo, middleman, Eleventy, Gatsby, Gridsome, Nuxt, Sapper and a bunch of others... but I really just want to hammer out high-performance (page speed and SEO) sites quickly and easily. I hate to say this because I love Gatsby to bits, but ultimately the customer pays for sales instruments from me not my CAAS / JAMStack fetish and tinkering with the latest frameworks. Now I need wordpress forms that integrate with Netlify functions and I’m sorted.

I recommend reading “The Wonder Weeks”, a book about different developmental phases infants go through - with some caveats. It has helped us immeasurably to understand what their little minds and bodies are going through as they grow into their next developmental phase. Check it out, it’s worth a read and is based on scientific research, though not without controversy, so take it all with a grain of salt. Personally / anecdotally, we have found fussiness has lined up perfectly with the jumps in our first child, while it’s about two weeks early in our second child.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonder_Weeks

Can I ask the question, is this the “Bozo Effect” or the “bozo explosion” that Steve Jobs talked about? Bozos hire bozos so they then proliferate within an organisation, wreaking havoc?