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by sprocket 3y ago
I dairy farmed for 14 years, and my wife and I got out in the winter of 2023. We've seen ever increasing scarcity of water in our region, because the surrounding mountains don't get enough snow pack whose melt feeds the streams t
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by sprocket 3y ago
I used this software when my mom was battling ALS: https://www.optikey.org/ which ran on a < $1k computer At the time, the other options were much more expensive (> $10-15k) which were sadly out of out budget.
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by sprocket 3y ago
I imagine that a lot of the Australian farms are going to be in the outback, where the quality of the land and feed for the cattle is marginal, and you have to farm extensively (ie. range cows on large tracts of land). They are not going t
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Generating Minecraft Skins with Stable Diffusion(github.com)
2 points by sprocket 3y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: A fine-tuned Stable Diffusion model for generating Minecraft skins(github.com)
17 points by sprocket 3y ago|1 comments
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by sprocket 4y ago
It's a very rewarding lifestyle and I have a lot of good memories of it. It's meaningful work and it gave me a good sense of purpose. I'm in my mid-40's now though and my body just doesn't have the ability to reco
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by sprocket 4y ago
The -13C wasn't the straw that broke the camel's back. Sometimes it's not a matter of throwing money at the problem until it goes away. Farming is hard, and dairy farming is even harder. The sheer responsibility of being res
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by sprocket 4y ago
After I've sorted out the what-to-do-next issue, perhaps I'll consider putting it down in my cheese making memoirs. In the interim, here're some gratuitous photos from the farm: https://imgur.com/a/84
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by sprocket 4y ago
I did this myself thirteen years ago - I quit my well paying software job, bought a bunch of goats, and built a cheese business. I'm just now in the process of winding our dairy and cheese business down - it was an amazing period of p
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by sprocket 4y ago
I started a goat dairy about 12 years ago, while software consulting on the side while we built up the farm. We built a cheese processing plant 8 years ago to start adding value to the milk we were producing. Over the years we started pro
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by sprocket 4y ago
I would interpret that remark to mean more than "Yes, I'm the president of the ECB, and my son is free to make his own choices, even if I regard them as stupid ones."
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by sprocket 5y ago
In the grand scale of things, we're pretty small. We milk just under 100 dairy goats, and have about 150 goats total on the farm (the other goats being a couple of breeding bucks, and some kids of various ages that will be milked in f
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by sprocket 5y ago
I usually shear just before lambing, which is right now for us. Whether or not you need to shear will depend on the breed of sheep - some can lose their coats on their own, some will not. For us it's necessary as our sheep get a 2&quo
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by sprocket 5y ago
I worked full time as a software dev from about 1999 until 2010. It was never really all that fulfilling for me, although I was pretty good at what I did. I was laid off in 2010, and spent the rest of the year milking goats and sheep, and
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by sprocket 5y ago
Presumably because many provinces in Canada have logged most of the old growth forests in the last century or so.
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by sprocket 5y ago
My son's daycare closed permanently almost a year ago, and my wife and I had to adjust to have a 3 going on 4 year old at home with us 24/7. While it hasn't been easy, it's been a joy watching him grow over this past ye
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by sprocket 7y ago
Dan Quayle has entered the chat.
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by sprocket 8y ago
That's also my experience with a 2009 MBP. Swapped out the HD for an SSD, maxed the RAM, and put in a new battery, and had an adequate machine for most daily tasks. It showed it's age and lagged a lot with more intensive software
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by sprocket 8y ago
I would agree with this as well. My best crusts rise from 36-48 hours in the fridge, after which they're baked almost immediately at 450-500F for 10-12 minutes.
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by sprocket 8y ago
I arrived at a very similar spot after having spent about 10 years in tech. Many of the jobs I'd found myself in seemed to be comprised of busy work, or work that didn't actually contribute much to society as a whole. It was pre
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by sprocket 8y ago
I believe you can do it off the command line relatively efficiently by piping output straight into gzip. ie) perl -e "print '0' for (1..1000000000)" | gzip > zipbomb.gz This will create a ~ 1MB file that will expand i
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by sprocket 9y ago
I use it to generate and play with interface layouts, then run the .ui file through pyuic5 to convert the interface into Python code. I've got a number of Raspberry Pi touchscreen projects that this has worked well for - I can develop
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by sprocket 9y ago
Ah, yes; it was the manifold that I was looking at and wondering what it was. Thanks for the explanation!
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by sprocket 9y ago
What is the name of the hardware parts that are connected to the relay? I think you've called them "puffers", but searching on that didn't bring up any results. Are you able to provide a link to where I might purchase a
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by sprocket 10y ago
Resources out there are going to be dependent on the scale of goat rearing you plan on doing. What works for 2 goats won't necessarily work for fifty, and what works for fifty goats won't necessarily work for 200. They're al
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by sprocket 10y ago
I still manage to make it away from time to time, but they are a significant ball and chain. We do seasonal production at the moment (though as we grow, we'll move to more of a year round production schedule), so we have about 2 month
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by sprocket 10y ago
I'm in a very similar situation as you are, except instead of starting a vineyard, I started a goat dairy and cheesemaking business. We produce a variety of raw milk goat's cheeses: http://imgur.com/a/KWSy
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by sprocket 10y ago
Cornish Cross in particular are fantastic at converting feed into weight gain. In 10 weeks, you can go from a fluffy little ping pong ball sized chick to an almost 10lb live-weight bird. It's often unwise to raise them past that age,
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by sprocket 10y ago
I pastured Cornish Cross, which is the standard broiler barn chickens. They are genetically predisposed to pack on as much muscle in as short a time span as possible. By the time they're ~ 9 to 10 weeks old, they are waddling giants,
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by sprocket 10y ago
> After all, even pastured chicken tastes wildly better than conventional chicken. As a farmer who used to raise pastured chicken, I was always happy to convert people to what real chicken is supposed to taste like.

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