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[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Nono, it's:

"I need to format stings with values from a dictonary. What should I do?"

"Use Django. It has a templating engine."

^This is based on a actual exchange I saw on XDA^

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

https://www.cybertruckownersclub.com/forum/threads/the-new-attack-on-the-cybertruck-derision-closed-due-to-politics.27468

"Unfortunately, the Cybertruck is BEING made political."

"I sleep and drive soundly knowing my Cybertruck existing in the world is itself a giant self driving stainless steel middle finger to all the snowflakes and communists out there."

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

"Super straight" in profile (very unstable).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Who downvoted that?

You have to watch pretty fucked up footage to get this joke. Imo it's a really reasonable question.

[–] [email protected] 100 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

As someone who grows figs in their living room:

Most commercial (and even hobbyist) fig varieties are parthenocarpic, meaning they don't require pollination.

And fig wasps don't look like that. They're tiny little guys that most people would probably mistake for a very small ant.

And even if the fig was pollinated by a wasp, it uses enzymes to break down the insects body, to protect itself from mold and other pathenogens that such may cause.

Basically; fig waps are itsy bitsy wittle wupies, while figs are digesting their dead mothers corpses, because they are metal as fuuuuuck.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Can someone explain to me why Skoda has such a bad reputation? I really noticed this when I had my Skoda Citigo, which is basically the same car as the VW Up! or the Seat Mii.

But somehow people singled out the Skoda as the worst.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

What is the point of paying for the pipe if you don't use everything you can?! There is no reason they shouldn't push it through faster.

This is the reason why I leave the shower running in every hotel I visit. And at the buffet, I tell the waiter to fetch me a trash can so I can actually get rid of the whole thing. If I can, I usually leave both a heater and an air conditioner running in the hallway.

Edit: Wow. I had completely forgotten about this comment. I really didn't think anyone would take it seriously. I work with networks. I know we're not literally going to run out of internet. But everyone treats bandwidth as this freely available resource. Advertisers, consumers, creatives and Jürgen. Fuck you, Jürgen. We both know that downloading 6 fucking MB every time someone wants to queue up the database is fucking insane, as is your reliance on client-side bullshit.

Anyway, whenever a anything loads slowly, think about why. Bandwith is not free. It's a maintained resource.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

For programmers: Air fryers have perfected the race to idle.

For everyone else: Probably, but the insulation may not matter as much. Heating up a traditional oven takes anywhere from 15 to maybe 5 minutes, if you got a really powerful one. During that time heat escapes the device.

Meanwhile air fryers usually heat up in about a minute and get the actual cooking done faster.

So unless you are broiling something for a really long time, air fryers may still come out on top, just because they get done quicker, saving energy in the process.

Oven pizza is a 22 minute job. My air fryer is done after 9.

There's also something about air volume and thermal mass, but you get the point.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I once had to look after a friend's german shepard, and while we were out for a walk, some barking guinea pig suddenly decided to unleash all its fury on my friend's dog; even tried to bite the poor guy.

Luckily, my friend's dog is an absolute sweetheart and just tried to flee, almost knocking me over.

Meanwhile, the owner of that showbox-sized spawn of hell decided it was best practice to go "Nununu, we don't do that, Nununu." in a high-pitched voice, while petting the damn thing.

Sure. That'll teach it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

[…] more than 60 Hz. Most phones on the market don't even support it.

Just checked. Most phones within the 400€ - 800€ price range support more than 60Hz.

Of 591 devices, only 176 feature a 'unknown' or <90Hz refresh rate. 415 support >=90Hz, 382 support >=120Hz and 48 models go to >=144Hz. It has become a fairly common feature.

 

I finally managed to pollinate my cherimoya!

For the uninitiated: Pollinating cherimoyas is a bit tricky, because their flowers only bloom for a single day. During this time, they are initially female and can absorb pollen, but only turn male in the evening to harvest pollen from.

To pollinate them successfully, you have to sacrifice at least one flower, take its pollen and hope that the next flower opens before the pollen is no longer viable.

They also develop large velvety leaves:

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

TLDR: Citrus keeps turning black and oozing resin. But I can't find the problem. I thought it must be root rot, but they look perfectly healthy:

Long version: Because my first and second citrus trees fell victim to root rot, I started using a very airy substrate made of pine bark, perlite and some humus/worm castings in a 5:1:1 ratio for all my plants (figs, pineapple, cherimoya, monstera, etc.) with little adjustment. You may recognize this as 'aroid mix'. But it works surprisingly well in my indoor space with a west-facing window and terracotta planters (and my tendency to overwater).

But I can't wrap my head around citrus.

It always starts with rapid growth, followed by very suddenly dropping and crisping leaves, black stems and finally death.

I thought I must be root rot again, which I need to mind during winter. But today, when I dumped my fifth (!) tree, I found only perfectly healthy roots and nice smelling substrate.

I think it must be a pathogen… but what? I am at a loss. I keep killing my citrus trees and I don't know why. :'(

EDIT: replaced "5:1:1 mix" with "5:1:1 ratio" for clearification.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

One of my smaller monstera pots keeps growing these little mushrooms and I'm wondering what exactly they are.

They come after every watering and dry off pretty quickly in about half a day or so.

EDIT: They are 'fairy inkcaps'. Thanks to [email protected]!

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