It compounds though. It is not one account, it is the first account that found the loop. The second one costs nothing to find it now that it exists.
Karl Neuss
@aquariumdad
Freshwater planted tanks since 2011, currently running four. Cycling, algae, water changes, and the unglamorous truth that most fish problems are actually water problems.
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Put the code in the screenshot region too, meaning inside the red box rather than in a footer, because people screenshot the error and not the page. Learned that the hard way.
Weighing the pot is a much better signal than poking the soil, which I could never interpret. Trying that on the two survivors.
Column defaults that read the JWT are one of the few places I will accept magic, because the alternative is trusting 40 call sites to set the tenant column and every one of them is a potential cross-tenant write.
Two years into mine the total ongoing spend is one bag of sphagnum and some springtail food. It really does stop costing money.
I bought bagged premixed substrate for my first build and mixed my own for the next three, and the difference was roughly a third of the cost for a mix I liked better. What I would not cheap out on again is the drainage and the mesh, because redoing the bottom of a planted tank means dismantling everything above it.
The benefit nobody mentions: people who put in a card write better bug reports. They have skin in it, so instead of leaving they email you.
this is why i don't let it write code. i ask it to explain the bug and i type the fix. way faster than reading 340 lines
Shutting the window during the day feels so wrong but the numbers back it up. Two nights in and it is noticeably better.
Had not thought about the pillow. Mine is memory foam and definitely part of the problem now that you mention it.
The naming thing catches everyone. I rehomed a perfectly harmless peace lily and kept an actual lily on the windowsill for a month.
Take a photo of anything she brings up before you clean it. Sounds grim, but colour and content are what the vet asks about first and nobody remembers accurately three hours later.
Honestly you could have just raised it quietly and not sent anything. Most people do not look at a $20/month line on a card statement.
Light is the variable everyone skips. Plant lists are useless without knowing what is over the tank, and one weak LED bar on a 24 inch tall enclosure means the floor gets very little. Match the plants to the bottom third of the tank, not to the top.
Both can be true. Plant the survivors now so the tank has cover for the animal, and fix the swing over the next month.
You're doing the first half and skipping the half that does the work. The technique is a detector, not a generator: writing the explanation is how you find the gaps, and then you go back to the source and mark every place where you built a bridge out of vocabulary instead of understanding. Those bridges are usually easy to spot in your own handwriting - they're the sentences with 'basically', 'due to' and 'somehow' in them. Circle every one, look each up specifically, and rewrite. Without that second pass you've just written a nice essay from your own confusion.
Two boring things that helped me more than anything clever: eating dinner earlier, and cutting alcohol on weeknights. A drink at 9pm reliably woke me around 3, it gets you to sleep fast and then the rebound arrives a few hours later. I did not believe it until I tracked it for a fortnight and the pattern was embarrassing.
On clay, put the entire budget into organic matter and skip the timber. Lay plain cardboard straight over the grass, no gaps, then fifteen centimetres of compost on top, which for three by two metres is a bit under a cubic metre, and plant into that this spring. A bulk bag delivered is dramatically cheaper per litre than bagged compost and will be most of your 150. The grass dies underneath, the worms deal with the clay for you, and you have spent nothing on sides that would only hold the compost you did not buy.
Keep the lamp genuinely dim and do not check the time while you are up. Clock watching was doing more damage to me than the waking itself.
I repotted a shipped plant the day it arrived, into fresh mix, because the nursery soil looked awful. It died in eleven days. The next one I ignored for a month and it is still here three years later.
I signed up for five paid services in one weekend and by month three I was using two of them. About 180 wasted, and worse, I had my mail split across two providers for a while, which caused a genuinely painful mess when I tried to consolidate. Add one thing per month and let each become a habit before the next.
Twenty five good ones outsell fifty inconsistent ones and you carry half the weight. Bring a sign up sheet for the ones you run out of.
Two small vents and two mistings a day does sound ridiculous now that somebody has said it back to me.
Nothing under the hide. So compacted and wet it is, which matches the fact that the substrate feels like a sponge when I press it.
I want to argue the other side properly, because the tyres-over-drivetrain line gets repeated as though drivetrain does nothing. If your specific failure mode is getting stuck on an unplowed hill from a standstill, all wheel drive genuinely solves that and winter tyres only mostly solve it. I have watched a FWD car on excellent winters spin its inside wheel on a rutted incline while an AWD on all seasons walked past it. The correct answer for your situation is probably AWD with winters on it, and if you can only afford one this year, buy the winters. But do not let anyone tell you the drivetrain is irrelevant on a hill you actually have to climb.