Aromasin

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by Aromasin 7y ago
I've seen other specific types of mites used to control them. 'Phytoseiulus persimilism' is a type of mite used to control 'two-spotted spider mites', which can feast on crops. The question is whether there's a
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by Aromasin 7y ago
I found that as I listened to more and more audio books, I ended up increasing and increasing the speed of playback. 50 or so books in and a 2x speed is quite leisurely listening, which I increase if I find the pace slowing. I don't ag
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by Aromasin 7y ago
I do the same thing. My reasoning is, if you're going to put dozens of hours into a book, or hundreds into a good series, an extra 20 minutes at the end to file away any good memories from that really isn't too much of a time expe
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by Aromasin 7y ago
I imagine the Mona Lisa is fantastic if you get to inspect it in close detail. Trying to poke your head over 100 flustered tourist, through a sea of arms, phones and cameras, is probably not the best way to appreciate it.
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by Aromasin 7y ago
Also anecdata, but we've had some success having replanted the garden with a variety of plants that produce more nectar than those we had previously. Although I don't think a hive has started anywhere, we've had plenty of sol
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by Aromasin 7y ago
Eventually, however if the rate at which the bees die is greater than the rate at which adaptations evolve within the species, they'll go extinct regardless.
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by Aromasin 7y ago
I've been debating this for years. Partly because it sounds like a fun life, partly because the only way I'm getting affordable housing in London is if it's floating in the Thames.
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Agreed. If an author described a character to me as "wargish", I would instantly have an idea in my head of what that person looked like - ugly, brutish, and long-faced like a wolf. It should then I think, by extension, be classed
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by Aromasin 7y ago
I had the inverse issue. I answered yes to too many non-words, despite the fact in hindsight they weren't weren't a word - but I thought they sounded correct enough that they could be used as a word. Went back and also got a hig
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by Aromasin 7y ago
I mean, if a developer made an MMO akin to the old Pokémon Snap game I'd be over the moon.
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I'd say that's down to poor maintenance and management from the complex owners, not a fundamental issue with communal spaces themselves. I've had the same issues you've described with a local park, until the council hire
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by Aromasin 7y ago
To be fair, as much as it doesn't help things, it is entertaining to see what Instagram thinks I like and is a feature I didn't know existed. I recently un-followed everyone besides the people I know IRL (so no more celebs, memes
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by Aromasin 7y ago
I enjoy the authors "question/answer" style of writing. I often find myself asking questions just like this when reading an article, and find that when the author isn't "question focused" they never get answere
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by Aromasin 7y ago
I used to hold this view, until I went and bought myself a dumb device and ended up ditching it a month later. Some apps are just too integral to modern life to lose, and many unavoidable places only function using apps now (my library, par
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by Aromasin 7y ago
Not anything significant to be honest. There are alternative applications and hardware for almost everything nowadays. Convincing people that we need devices all running in the same ecosystem was one of the lasting legacy's of Steve Jo
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by Aromasin 7y ago
> For the most part, I'm now Google free. I don't despise Google as a company but I believe that their core business model is incompatible with privacy. I like that closing line. It's something I can relate with. I appreci
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by Aromasin 7y ago
Exactly this. At worst, you need to at least taper the emotionally charged question with the counter-point; "Would you feel differently if your child was falsely accused of murder because of genetic comtamination?"
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by Aromasin 7y ago
Generally the answer to the 'too many bugs' question is always 'not enough birds'. Industrial farming has destroyed most of their habitation, and bird species are in decline almost everywhere [0]. I recently read that in
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by Aromasin 7y ago
I was incredibly fortunate with the treatment for my injury. I woke up in A&E with the worst hangover of my life, a shattered tibia that was held together with some external rods, and an inexplicable back pain that I mentioned to doctor
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by Aromasin 7y ago
More infuriating, it's often seen as something to be proud about for them. They're compensating for their own inadequacy - they don't understand how something as basic as a smart phone works, so act as if that's a virtue
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by Aromasin 7y ago
Exactly that. I misremembered the Apple 2 incident - but from that point onwards, Jobs vehemently fought any type of expansions or customization on any of his future models.
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by Aromasin 7y ago
I can attest to being a slave to "treatment" for a while. I used to clock into my local physician, who'd have a go at my back with manual therapy (post-op fractured vertebrae, ruptured vertebrae, and massive scar tissue from
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by Aromasin 7y ago
The new trend should be, in my eyes, to make electronic hardware similar to that of a good leather jacket or pair of denim jeans. If it tears, you patch it. If it fades, you dye it. That same mentality of repair used to exist, but as design
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by Aromasin 7y ago
F-ing wonderful. Almost reaffirming the inevitability of it all really. Back to uBlock it is. Thanks for the heads up.
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As an engineer, I'm amazed. As a person who doesn't want the person on the other end of every website I visit to know who exactly I am, I feel violated. At this point though, all I feel I can do as a hapless consumer is to desensi
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by Aromasin 7y ago
Another observation made by a few clinical physiologists I watch was that men are more likely to have a higher propensity for violence, so when they attempt suicide they are more effective at it. A man is more likely to take the more violen
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by Aromasin 7y ago
I don't have time to argue the point much further, but I will pick at semantics because they completely change the tone of the argument when it comes to politics, and is why I replied in the first place. >People do not want freedom
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by Aromasin 7y ago
Your comment made me chuckle. >People want authoritarian governments >we have different points of view or agendas You say people want one thing, while contradicting that statement and saying people have different points of views and a
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by Aromasin 7y ago
I can imagine these being great for non-loading city vehicles. Something like a small hatchback generally only has a weight differential of few passengers, fuel, and some shopping bags. For something larger like a pick-up or 7-seater I&#x27
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by Aromasin 7y ago
I didn't really think about it until now, but a shift key in the middle of the keyboard would be fantastic idea. It doesn't really make sense to have two separate keys when one could fulfil the same purpose. I only hit the space k

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