I usually use the midland style because that's the style I was originally taught by Nigel Adams and because it's a beautiful style, if somewhat wasteful with the binders used on top. It makes for for a very dense and relatively strong hedge.

That being said there's a lot of other styles each with their own histories and use cases.

If you want to learn there's some books on the topic, though not all of them in English. For instance the Dutch stichting heg & landschap has a decent guide and overview of the most common styles and techniques in the Netherlands and Flanders (Heggenvlechten en haagleiden in Nederland en Vlaanderen). A very in depth one is "Europe's field boundaries" by Georg Müller, but I suggest trying to find it in a library as it's very expensive.

In order to actually learn the techniques the best way is to find a teacher or course near you. There's a lot of videos on youtube and pictures in the aforementioned books, but those aren't really a replacement for someone experienced showing you the ropes.

I'm not exactly sure. A chain link fence is a one time expense as opposed to a hedge which is a living, growing thing and so needs continuing upkeep. And yes, it can take a couple of years before the hedge is ready to be laid... There's also the used space to consider, as a hedge is a lot wider than a fence.

I guess it really depends on your specific situation.

It's clearly some sort of combination of words but I can't quite make out what they're attempting to communicate...

Great deep lore of ancient games

I edited my comment with a poor explanation from memory, alongside a great video explaining that I can't watch to double check my comment as I'm at work currently.

Everything from projectiles to monsters pass through walls, can do no damage to one another, and can't interact with stuff like switches. I edited my comment with a poor explanation from memory, alongside a great video explaining that I can't watch to double check my comment as I'm at work currently.

Next mallard I get will be named that. Even if it's a girl. Gotta do it for the meme

I got into chickens when my sister started 4H, and when our chickens died suddenly, my grandma got us 3 ducklings as a gift without consulting anyone. They imprinted on me immediately and I was like, "I guess this is my new obsession because I'm a mother now."

That was 8 years ago. I started off with a Muscovy male, a muscovy female, and a mallard female. We rescued a second Muscovy female a couple years in. I moved to my own place in 2022 and brought the remaining birds with me, which were the Muscovy male and mallard female.

I ordered some more ducklings and rescued a couple birds over the course of 2022 and 2023. Right now I have:

2 female muscovies: Mama Duck and Lady. Mama Duck fights me over eggs, so I have to pull a Skyrim move and put a bucket on her head so I can take her eggs without her attacking me. Lady is very sweet and shows me her eggs and acts all happy when I compliment her best and thank her for the eggs.

A tiny male mallard and his mate who is a female mallard that looks like a male but has laid eggs. Little guy is Sonic (because he runs SO FAST) and his mate is Amy. Amy went through duck menopause about 6 months after I got her, so that's why she looks like a male in terms of feathers. Without her ovaries producing female hormones, her feathers defaulted back to mostly male. She and Sonic were rescued from a local family who couldn't care for them anymore.

A male Pekin that doesn't have male traits but I've seen his dick a few times. His name is Salt. He is a lil chonky.

A male khaki Campbell named Pepper. He was purchased with Salt as a baby. They were on sale for 25% off and were 100000% an impulse buy. They're besties and don't leave each other's sides.

A female khaki Campbell named Capri-Sun who yells a lot

A female Pekin named Judy. She's named after judge Judy because she's always squinting at me in a judgmental way and interrupts me with sassy quacks any time I talk to her. She's done this since she was literally only a day old. She has a distinct quack that has a squeak to it.

A female golden layer named Cayenne who is hella chill.

A female Cayuga named Fashionista who is slowly turning from black to white with each molt of her feathers (that's normal)

Thanks! I will check this one out too

With mushrooms i often rely on other citizen scientists rather than the ID robot. There are some very friendly and active mycologists who can be a big help figuring out an ID or telling you what to photograph next time to get better data

Probably Hillcrest Farm in PEI Canada. Amazing course.

I just think all of the minerals and gems look so cool.

That's where I'm at too. I said mineralogy, but really just because I didn't know a concise way of putting "I just like how minerals look" in terms of an interest. Lol

Definitely agree on the Smithsonian, such a cool section!

I think what defines a special interest over a hobby is that you're good at it.

Been really looking at playing bass again ...

Gawd, bad Keming is the worst!!!

Brick?

Anyway, maybe you have some insight - any idea why so many web designers prefer Light or Hairline now? Or at any rate the thinnest possible fonts? Did someone with credibility announce that thin fonts are actually easier to read, or is it just a style trend?

If you're into Computer Modern, almost all modern tech variants (not Knuths original) are too light in print. If you look at his printed books from back in the day the letters are thicker. It's just a consequence of using one technology instead of the printing tech the font was designed for. Same thing (but more extreme) happened to Centaur btw.
Check out the pictures of CM here: https://www.levien.com/type/cmr/gain.html

I like Noto Sans. But as a Linux user it often irks me too, since every....single...language...is included in most distributions; so half of my time finding a nice font that I just installed consists of scrolling past a bajillion Noto variants.

Are the vertical lines angled? Or is that just an optical illusion?

https://lemmy.world/post/22077495

The light up ones are fucking pricy although I have one that will display images and patterns etc when moving very quick and that adds a further level of what the fuck for observers which I enjoy.

However I learnt with a cheap one made of wood that cost me about £15. I would definitely start out there, it is not the easiest thing to pick up but with persistence the feeling starts to click and it becomes such a satisfying thing to do. They are called flow toys for a reason and when you are in a zone, feeling thst flow, it is amazing.

Criminal law. Now that's boring. It's a wonder so many TV shows are based on criminal law.

(IANAL, not your lawyer, this isn't legal advice. Heh.)

I personally am a huge fan of copyleft licenses. "Copyleft" means that the licence is permissive in that it allows, for instance, redistribution (sharing) and derivative works (remixes, mashups, etc) but only on the condition that if they share the work or any derivative works, they must do so under the same license terms under which they got the work. That ensures that a) no one can (legally) make a derivative work of your work and put it under a more restrictive license and b) if they publish improved derivative works, you can take those improvements and incorporate them into your work (and the derivative work publisher can't object -- or at least doesn't have a case if they do.)

In terms of Creative Commons licenses, "share alike" means "copyleft." (The other popular family of copyleft licenses is the GNU GPL family of licenses, but those are really more designed for software/code than non-code works. Even OpenSCAD models, I tend to release under a Creative Commons license rather than a GPL license. Though for other, non-3D-printing works of source code, I always use the GNU Affero GPL.)

Aside from that, I tend to go as permissive as possible.

So, in concrete terms, for 3D printed models, my go-to license is the latest version of the Creative-Commons-Attribution-Sharealike license. This ensures I get some credit down the line and ensures nobody can make a more legally-restricted derivative of my work. But it also explicitly allows the creation of derivative works and even sale of drivative works under the condition that a) I, the creator, get credit and b) the buyer gets the same rights to the work.

Mostly power tools, but I'm decent with a few hand tools when necessary. Recently I mortised some door hinges with a chisel. But for the vast majority of my projects, renovating our house over 35 years, I wouldn't have had the patience without power tools - I can barely hit a nail with a real hammer anymore lol. What kinds of projects do you do?

I can only show you the two I have left, because I give them away constantly. That's part of the whole "must be recycled" thing... after this comment I'll come back with some pictures just give me a moment...

In 20+ years of stoner engineering, I feel the most important thing is to keep the cloud chamber much, much, much, much smaller than you'd think.

We often see these huge "frat boy bongs" as I call them with huge bases and like 40cm tall throats. That's an absolutely insane amount of wind to have to suck before you can even get the hit. Our lung capacity is limited, even moreso when we abuse them regularly with smoking. A hit from a bong is totally "broken" if the user has to stop, exhale to open lung space and keep going. That's a fail.

The more time smoke has to sit around in or pass-through parts of a vessel that are colder than the smoke itself, you're going to get a shitload of condensation. All that resin you see caked allll over your bong is evidence of excess condensation and reveals product being wasted. And that makes the hit wayyyy harsher too.

So the number one thing which runs counter to what people expect, is that "bong power" comes from keeping the vessel small, limiting the filtration, and ensuring the path from the smoke chamber to your lungs is a short as possible. When I say limit the filtration, passing the smoke bubbles through a few inches of water is sufficient, more than that just robs the smoke of its THC and defeats the point.

My homemade ones hit so hard people are blown away. It's kinda crazy when you learn how to make them hit harder... the best one I ever made was made in a 250ml mason jar - it was tiny but hit like a TANK. Plus once you master the art, you discover you now need half the weed... not because it becomes "stronger" but now you find you're smoking it at double the efficiency.

The other thing is NOT to select a vessel that is narrow on the bottom and widens as it gets to the top. There are some "fancy" bottles like from Crown Royal and such that just don't work properly. There is something about fluid dynamics and how turbulence flows at boundaries... I don't fully understand the hows/whys but I know the vessel needs to taper smaller. (The part with the water needs to be the big part of the vessel)

edit: Here are pics of the 2 I've still got. The one in the Crown Royal bottle is neat and it delivers good hits but my neighbor fucked up the bowl (and my cutting bit!) when I was teaching him how to cut glass. Also I'm going to throw this one away (keep the components just chuck the bottle) as it's incorrect shape. I just wanted to play on this one because I found some discarded paint markers. The skull jar was given to me by the same alcoholic neighbor that wrecked the bowl and my cutting bit, and I'm just carving a nice custom tiny glass bowl for it now. The pieces on it were actually repurposed from the Mason Jar one I mentioned earlier.

Pics all out of order because I'm feeling lazy RN

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That's hilarious. So they had to let him chill right?

The Linda McCartney Vegetarian Shredded Hoisin Duck have been my go to for a while as they're in most of the big supermarkets here and I can get them delivered to my house.

I like to defrost them and use them 'raw' (they're already fully cooked) because I find the texture gets weird when they're prepared according to the package instructions.

Any Asian superstore will likely have many varieties of better, and probably cheaper, mock duck though. If I lived near one I would be so fat!

I had a seitan phase a few years back, I got really into finding good spice mixes to include in the dough for maximum 'meatiness'.

I made and tried to like the 'lunch meat' style seitan a few times, but memories of being a kid having to eat actual lunch meat (and how slimy and sometimes gritty from gristle it was) really put me off it.

Texture wise with seitan, I liked gently beating the kneaded dough flat with the end of a rolling pin, and then tightly rolling and coiling it up, wrapping it tightly to steam, and then shredding it and adding bite sized bits to hotpot.

What's your current favourite seitan recipe? What texture do you like your seitan?

Ugh, I know right?! All my spare coin is going towards perfumes!

Yum Pistachio is gorgeous! I love all the dupes of it too, all the Arabic houses are on top form lately.

Your combination of Super Amber and Heavy Cream sounds hella sexy!

Ok, so here's a REALLY strange but beautiful scent combination I've found, let me try and set the scene it makes for you first:

You're in an coastal pine forest during a lightening storm. It's night. You can smell the wet earth underfoot and the forest behind you. Just before the rain starts up again, you're looking out over the sea as it crashes against the cliffside, sea water mists the air and sheets of lightening illuminate the world.

This was from about 5 spritzes of Vanilla Vibes by JHAG (salty non-gourmand vanilla) with a modest spritz of Quorum by Antonio Puig (beast mode aromatic oakmoss) over it. Encre Noir by Lalique could probably be substituted for the Quorum for a similar affect, but you'll need to spray a lot more of it as Quorum is very, very strong.

The way the sea salty solar notes of Vanila Vibes play against the dank mossy woods and grapefruit of Quorum, it's so visual for me. And there's this ozoneic smell they form together that isn't constant but is electric and kinda how I imagine lightening smells.

Do you have any unexpectedly beautiful scent combinations? Please share if so!

I'm not so devious, it's mainly just tricks to maximize the amount of points/miles you can get via credit cards and travel, which you can then redeem for travel. Usually in business class!

I know this is random, but today a new community for women's interests was created. I've agreed to share it around so if you're interested, come join us at ![email protected]

I wish! Every now and again I search "polish" and "lacquer" hoping a new community will have been made, but so far no luck, though it's been maybe a month since I checked. I keep trying to talk myself into starting one, but I don't know if I have the patience for modding.

Probably the weirdest kind of lightbulb I've heard of is the electron stimulated luminescence bulb.

They were basically little CRT screens that produced white light instead of a picture. They had about the same efficiency and lifespan as CFL bulbs (which were around at the same time) but better color rendering capability (higher CRI). They also didn't use mercury in their construction.

They never caught on probably because of how bulky they were, with cost probably being a factor as well (though if they were as manufactured at the scales CFLs were the cost may have come down). Today LEDs are better than both of course.

Speaking of cost and LEDs, it's pretty remarkable just how cheap lighting has gotten. Consider this article, where they talk about the cost of producing light with candles vs with incandescent bulbs. But since 2006 we have developed some LED bulbs that approach or exceed 200 lumens per watt. That's a more than 11x improvement over the 17 lumens per watt figure given in that article. That adds another .9 to the percentage cost drop before we even consider the longer lifetime of the LED bulb.

I think I calculated at some point that Philips Ultra Efficient bulbs cost less than $1 per year per bulb to operate if you add the cost of power + the purchase price of the bulb amortized over its lifetime. At this point lighting up a room is almost free.

I have, I like his channel a lot.

It kinda depends on my much IR light your camera lens absorbs.

A certain percentage of the light produced by the lamp (whether it's incandescent or an arc lamp) is infrared light. This is the same as the radiant heat you can feel coming off of a fire, for example.

Whereas with the LED light almost all of the photons it's emitting are going to be in the visible band. High intensity LEDs do produce some amount of waste heat, but this is in the form of heating up the structure they're connected to. So not only do they waste less energy, the energy they do waste isn't shooting out the front in the form of IR.

To be clear, visible light also turns into heat when it's absorbed, but with the LED you'd just be shooting visible light through your lens, whereas with a lamp you'd be shooting the same amount of visible light (same lumen value) plus a bunch of IR. So in the latter case there's a greater total amount of energy flowing through the lens.

All of this is to say that an LED emitter of the same lumen value almost certainly has less of a potential to heat up your camera lens. I guess if IR just passed right through it (and none of it got absorbed in the glass or in the tube of the lens) then it might not be much of a problem, and you'd just be heating up your projection screen slightly more. But I don't know enough about camera lenses to say if that's the case.

Most of these are videogames, but also medieval commoner life, archeology, learning how to read music sheets, Morrowind challenge playthroughs, history and economy of Thailand, programming enterprise grade apps in rust.

Yea OSM being down was where I was going. Shame their ISP was so lax

I watched the video you linked. So it's enhancing existing maps - I was thinking it was building the maps themselves from scratch. A long time ago I worked with a small company that created digital street maps for cities to use for utility work etc.

Is that your own imagery, from drone footage for example, or are you basically copying Google Earth?

Journey to The West was my gateway into Chinese mythology. It has been retold many times in many different ways and languages. It was an introduction to a fascinating world very different than (for me) worn out western tropes.

I’ve never seen Firefly.

The reason I asked is because I don't know what it entails. If it's just installing an app and driving around, there's probably low risk. But if it requires taking pictures of people houses or driving to private properties or parking for more than a few minutes in front of buildings, surely you can see the liability? I'm sorry I had to explain this, honestly. It feels like common sense.

Overblown/unfounded privacy concerns, perhaps?