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by biotinker 8d ago
The GP comment is overstating the genetic differences and pollination difficulties. Most apples are not self-fertile. Pairing pollinators together has more to do with bloom times; some trees bloom earlier/later than others and trees ne
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by biotinker 8d ago
> Outside of Granny Smith apples the ones you eat are mostly the results of mutations in the grown plants that we cut off and graft. Not sure where you're located, but this isn't true in the US. The vast majority of apples avai
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by biotinker 25d ago
Location: Bend, Oregon Remote: yes, or in person here Willing to relocate: No, but open to travel Technologies: Golang, python, perl but it's rusty. Experimenting with large scale AI data extraction pipelines. 5 years experience in rob
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by biotinker 1mo ago
Do you have an idea of the R-value of the insulation you put in? I'm wondering what this will take to heat and cool during the peaks of summer and winter.
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Making My Own Smart Irrigation System from Robot Scrap(biotinker.dev)
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by biotinker 1mo ago
It's possible to get "lost" even with modern GPS. My wife and I went on a backpacking trip in the wilderness some years ago. We decided to take a shortcut, bushwacking down a river drainage (1.5 miles) rather than taking the
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by biotinker 2mo ago
I was laid off in early June (was a staff software eng at Viam writing motion planning software for robots) and have been fiddling with electronics. Most recently I made a portable AQI meter, since the air quality here in Central Oregon can
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by biotinker 2mo ago
> For a lot of fiction books, my rule is to read the first 50 pages. If I'm not engaged, move on. Life is short. Just encountered myself doing this. I was reading John Birmingham's Axis of Time books. The first three sucked m
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by biotinker 3mo ago
It's been that way forever. No apple reproduces true to seed, period. 400 years ago, if you wanted another of your apple tree, you grafted it.
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by biotinker 3mo ago
It wasn't all that long ago that automatic transmissions had significantly worse reliability and fuel efficiency than manual transmissions.
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by biotinker 4mo ago
There are some really nice things that home automation enables that was previously impossible. I live in Bend, Oregon. We have hot summer days, cool nights, and sometimes really bad wildfire smoke. I can save a lot of money on AC if I open
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by biotinker 5mo ago
We don't because those are mainly younger trees in people's yards. Our nonprofit has a fairly extensive list of trees we catalog and maintain on both public and private land. Here's the public trees: https://herita
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by biotinker 5mo ago
There are dozens of us! I run a nonprofit group that maintains a similar but different database, ours focuses on identification of heritage varieties, I.e. apples that existed pre WWII. We're in the PNW so we also have catalogs of wher
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by biotinker 6mo ago
That's definitely a thing you can do! We haven't been doing that for now. The success rate doing so is somewhat less than directly grafting the whole top of the tree onto rootstock, for a few reasons. Since our primary goal is pre
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by biotinker 6mo ago
> I think it’s probably more important to find and cultivate wild apples showing attributes that can keep them hardy in 21st century climate. The neat thing is that these tend to be self-selecting! These older orchards drop a lot of frui
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by biotinker 6mo ago
It isn't, really, at least not by us. Apple trees are pretty easy to propagate if they're alive. Snip off a twig, graft it onto another tree, and away it goes. Some poor-condition trees can certainly present a challenge in terms o
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by biotinker 6mo ago
Oh cool! I've used pomological.art! Great site! I'm in the middle of building out a similar big project that takes a different tack: looking through every period pomological text (e.g. Apple of New York, Fruits and Fruit Trees of
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by biotinker 6mo ago
We work with Dr Cameron Peace's lab at WSU. They send us test tubes, we send the tubes back with leaves in them, they run the DNA tests and compare against an apple ID database they've built. We pay ~$50 per test, which is what mo
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by biotinker 6mo ago
I got myself involved with a nonprofit local group preserving local pioneer era apple trees. They've been DNA testing and cataloging the trees, and had all the info stashed away in google drive and onedrive folders. The founder was loo
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by biotinker 6mo ago
2010 was a couple years after YouTube enabled 1080p uploads. 250MB a month was insanely small in 2010.
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by biotinker 9mo ago
I love that this is something that is feasible for someone to just do right now as a hobbyist or blogger. The prices involved here are very reasonable and well within reach of someone wanting to do some project, though not yet at "sequ
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by biotinker 9mo ago
If you scrobble to a service like last.fm you get something approaching this functionality. This is something built into most of these services.
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by biotinker 9mo ago
No, we wanted full EVs. Mazda doesn't make any, only hybrids. We wound up going with Chevrolet in both instances. The Equinox EV is one of the better EVs to offer AWD out there right now, matching the range of a Model 3 at a decently b
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by biotinker 9mo ago
The Subsonic API is pretty fantastic and the apps that support it are full-featured. The Jellyfin app, while completely capable of streaming music, is far far less feature-ful. Personally I use Gonic rather than Navidrome, because I don&#x2
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by biotinker 9mo ago
In the last three years, there have been two times when we traveled, rented a car, and were given a Volkswagon. Both times, the touchscreen-only controls were such a pain in the butt that we vowed we would never purchase such a car. It was
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by biotinker 1y ago
> Colonial New England barely exists outside of active preservation attempts. As someone who grew up there, this isn't really true. It's more that buildings have been upgraded/replaced over time by choice, resulting in a s
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by biotinker 1y ago
I would suspect that the sort of person (like myself) that would rather run GrapheneOS over LineageOS would rather install themselves than buy preinstalled. Much easier to verify no one slipped you an altered image.
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by biotinker 1y ago
Isn't that what I proposed in my example though? Where a rule is made in advance that if the player abuses their power, they die. due to the canon situation in which that player's character existed? A player that in good faith wan
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by biotinker 1y ago
I of course agree that the player should not be able to overrule the GM. I don't think that was the situation here. If you're playing an off-the-shelf campaign this is problematic. If the GM is creating the game as you go, then a
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by biotinker 1y ago
I actually think that a role playing game is exactly the soft of situation where this is in fact reasonable. There is a lot of mythology about gods walking among men, hiding their true nature, etc. And more recent examples include the TV sh

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