Great to hear, I’ll become a parent in a few months. It’s good to hear about how you feel since I used to feel pretty negative about having kids before we decided to have them.
The reason why orchids are so special and rare is that they need the mentioned fungus to feed their children plants. In opposition to most other seeds that come with loads of nutrients stored in the first leaves (cotyledons), orchid seeds are microscopic and don’t have any nutrient storage. Only the symbiosis with the fungus makes them able to grow at first.
Search for orchids on iNaturalist.org to see where you can find them near your place.
In general they have three habitats. Wet meadows, dry meadows and woodlands. All these habitats need to be poor in nutrients, so usually they are not close to where industrial agriculture is practised.
They are not that rare once you know how to spot them.
Wow, I thought it was a real one at first. Be sure to report it on iNaturalist.org for most scientific benefit.
Thanks a lot for having taken time to respond so thoroughly. I must say I haven’t thought about things from this angle.
The part about the book and the mediocre comedian definitely rings a bell. Getting stuck in stupid local extrema (like in optimization) more often than necessary is definitely a thing with me.
What of many of the things you’re “supposed to do” are things you don’t actually want to do and therefore you don’t do? What if it’s external circumstances define what’s called a mental disorder?
Would you feel like you have a mental disorder if you lived in some completely different context?
I’m just wondering if we can call things a disorder that might mostly arise because society is built around working better for more neurotypical people (it at all).
Would you call it a disorder being tall if for some reason most people were short and all our infrastrucure were built for short people?
I’m not questioning the difficulties many people have with their lives. I’m wondering what to do about it and where the threshold is.
I often wonder as well. Then I think: is this not just the human condition. In any case I seem to score pretty high on those online questionnaires.
It’s not like there are no storage solutions available. They are not always very efficient, but if you have a surplus, whatever.
Nice work! What does the optics look like? Do you have a picture of the whole thing?
KDE Connect is amazing. Also works without KDE.
Not true about xmpp in general. There are modern clients out there.
What’s your problem with xmpp?
Uhh, thanks a lot for that explanation. I’ll try installing some wiktionaries then.
I don’t get it. Is this for translating words or an encyclopedic dictionary. I need a translating one.
Thanks for the interesting point! I learned something today. I guess it all depends on your use-case, whether flatpaks make sense or not.
A floss project’s success is not necessarily marked by its market share but often by the absolute benefit it gives to its users. A project with one happy user and developer can be a success.
I’m not against probabilistic models and the like. I merely try to capture part of the reason they are not always well received in the floss community.
I use LLMs regularly, and there is nothing rivalling them in many use cases.
I’m interested to hear how it turns out!