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Morning dew is not enough to consider your lawn watered. Typically you want a few inches of saturated soil for watering.

As for why it's not "ideal" to run sprinklers in the middle of the day, the idea is that if you water early in the morning, then all of your sunlight hours beat on watered grass. If you just started watering in the afternoon, your grass has already been in prime morning sunlight without the watered soil to boost growing. It's not necessarily bad, it's just not ideal.


I'm not sure how this helps the issue but here's a great windows clipboard manager.

http://ditto-cp.sourceforge.net/


Well, I found that I would use search/URL fields as a "temporary scratchpad" for passwords, when I had to copy-paste something else, and didn't want to lose the password in my clipboard. The history means I don't have to worry about that anymore.

Thanks for Ditto!


Looks nearly identical to http://planetpayment.com this kind of thing has been around since the 90's.


So have they, they were formerly known as Plimus.


Is it just me or is 5k minified an immense amount of JS for a menu.

Here's a quick POC with most (if not all) of the same functionality. http://jsfiddle.net/vysrtjh6/1/

JS Minifies to 276 bytes.

Am I missing something here?


Definitely not this. HBO has written an app specifically for the Roku. As far as I can tell, Comcast is the only provider who disallows access to the Roku version of the app.

I can use the HBO Android app with Comcast just fine and push to a Chromecast, but not the Roku.

It's a ridiculous situation, Comcast is intentionally blocking Roku while HBO is embracing it.


Ahh, I stand corrected then.


Not much perspective to be had here unless you are assuming a single photon's distance traveled.

The analogy breaks down when you consider thousands or millions/billions of photons traveling simultaneously, then you can measure in miles.

A single photon's travel-distance doesn't mean much in this context.


As far as I know, those 9 centimetres are still the fundamental speed limit for information to travel.


That's really what makes me fear about how far we can push our processors. I don't think Moore's law will hold a lot longer for CPUs, unless we manage to get very good quantum computers very soon.


I think it's a great way to put it in perspective for me at least, light is the fastest thing in the universe it's the ultimate constant for reference. We could measure computation in light-cycles similarly as we do with lightyears for really long distances. I don't get frequencies like I do distances, I think it's because I deal with distances all the time but less so with frequencies.


I've experience the exact same process you do while trying to recall events and event order.

I attributed the difficult to a diagnosis of mild dyslexia and ADHD (if you believe in that sort of thing). Since these diagnoses in my early 20's I've learned these tricks (such as rationalizing event order).

Now, in my early 30's, this has just become habit. I'm still not as good at remembering events as others but with the mental tricks, I'm adequate.


Due to the fact that the site only links to the iTunes App Store, I can't even see what the app does. I have an apple device but I'm at work and don't have iTunes on my work pc.

I'd recommend some sort of description on the site.

Side note, that logo is sick. Good job on that.


Hey Getsaf,

Agreed, we are busy adding the new page about the app now which will also include the email. Just made the site quick but quickly realized we need to tell people what the hell it does! Thanks so much for the like on the logo, took many nights to come up with something we loved.


In short btw, the app puts all the pictures you, you're friends or anyone attending the event into one album. No more asking your friends the next day "hey can you send those pictures from last night" NO MORE!!


I can't help but think that these things cannot be too accurate. Even in the cheese example given in the article, the outer layer of many cheeses are slightly (some more than others) different than the inside of the cheese block. So how accurate could the reader be for giving contents of the entire block given a scan of a small surface area.

This gets even worse when you scan say, the outer shell of a ravioli. The reader would see pasta which is great but how does the reader know whether it's just pasta or pasta stuffed with lard or spinach?

Thoughts?


I'm guessing they are using Visa's lesser known Money Transfer features. This stuff has been around for a little while. The company I work for recently started supporting this for insurance company payouts to customers.

https://usa.visamoneytransfer.com/Visa/Web/Help/FAQ

BTW, you can chargeback stuff on your debit card just like you can with your credit card. Both are save and typically 100% covered by the credit card company that issued the card.

I'm still amazed that people don't understand how disposable credit card numbers are. The worst thing thing you really risk when giving out your credit card is the hassle of changing any auto-payments you had attached to that card in the off-chance that your card is compromised. Debit cards are a little different in that your funds may be held for a couple of weeks under certain circumstances so that could suck but that's not often the case. /rant


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