It’s often better not to compost under a new plant because it encourages it not to spread its roots. Instead mulch with it and the rain and worms will bring the nutrients down.
I own an electric car and no home charger. I charge at work, mostly. It works well for me. The solution will involve a range of options for a range of circumstances- what I do wouldn’t work for everyone but that’s ok.
i've driven electric (bmw) since 2014; charging at home at 120v overnight was always adequate if driving less than about 70 miles the following day.
if i had to drive more, an hour on a 240v L2 charger would cover it.
there's a HUGE amount of fear-uncertainty-doubt in the news which looks conspicuously like propaganda, and one can guess where it originates. it sure doesn't originate in those of us nerds who are 10 years into pure electric, and absolutely not for those with 240v at home.
btw in just shy of 80,000 miles, the maintenance costs on the first ev was all of about 200 dollars, and that's a bmw. had to buy tires too, so not counting that, since everyone buys tires.
The question was aimed at a person with no charger at home who relied on a charger at work. I don’t have a home to charge at and don’t want to risk relying on a company
Not quite seaside -> inland, but the area around Ely is still called the Isle of Ely because Ely used to be an island surrounded by marshy fenland, often flooded by the wash from the North Sea. The fens were drained in the 17th century onwards with the help of some Dutch engineering and Ely is now just a hill.
My (UK) house is worth 3x the total rebuild value my mortgage provider wanted me to insure it for. This implies the land it’s built on (and the planning permission to build the house) is worth twice what the structure is worth.
I would be surprised if any aren’t hand coded. You have to be extremely economical with shapes with this technique - generally (unless I’m out of date on css art techniques) you have your original element, a before and an after element, and an arbitrary number of box shadows of those elements which you can use to duplicate them in different colours and positions. So you have to pick 3 basic shapes to draw with. In some of these you can see that limited shape palette at play but some of them hide it very well.
Makes sense, so it's an exercise in efficiency and crafty creative use of shapes and keyframing. I wonder if the ability is within reach of AI to achieve a similar arrangement of CSS. It may be too hard due to the trial and error nature of making these. Prompt: "give me CSS for an animated column of rising smoke, 5 second duration, seamless loop."
The fun part about this "exercise" is that the final graphic is usually created just by iterating and eye balling your mistakes. I remember the most I did back then was to create a Snowman and it took me more than 1 hr.
Me too - no experience of it in NYC but I swear by it in London and it’s also been fantastic in other European cities. Far more reliable and accurate than Google Maps.
> If your app is constrained by CPU or RAM, then the business metrics will reflect that, and then you can turn on collection of those metrics to identify the problem.
…but why incur that round trip on my feedback loop? Having those metrics on doesn’t cost me much.
This feels potentially like the perspective of a large organisation with both mature monitoring systems and quite steady state user base activity (through scale). When I have a customer who had an issue yesterday because they had an unusual workload that won’t be repeated often, I can’t afford not to have had the basic metrics turned on, in case they point us in the right direction.
Exactly. It also makes sure you don’t pattern match the product as “inferior quality”. You assume “average quality”, and in fact (at least in the UK) many Aldi versions of products now have a reputation for being surprisingly high quality - but not all of them, so the segregation here between product lines allows some to get that reputation without being dragged down by the actually average ones.
They help all this by stocking the real branded versions of some products, and the fact their own brand products look roughly equivalent on the next shelf reinforces all of this.
Aldi have successfully manufactured a feeling that when you buy something cheaply it’s a _bargain_, rather than that you have compromised on the product you actually wanted to buy.
They also very hard when legally challenged for trademark disputes on their clone products with similar packaging, it’s certainly an important part of their strategy as far as they’re concerned.
Did it focus on it? Most efficiency measures are cash positive after a few years. My LED bulbs paid for themselves 3 times over at least by now. That’s before you even get to the positive externalities.
