https://youtu.be/OAJ5enTb0vo

Nothing official. Mostly speculation, but not illogical idle ones.

But it could also be for legal reasons, like websites where you can post stuff for everybody to see, in case you post something highly illegal and the authorities need to find you. Another example is where a webshop is required to keep a copy of your data for their bookkeeping.

None of these require your account to “exist”. There could simply be an acknowledgement stating those reasons with “after X days the data will be deleted, and xyz will be archived for legal reasons”.

Mostly it’s 30-90 days where they keep your data, just in case somebody else decided to delete your account or you were drunk or something

This is the only valid reason. But even then this could be stated so that the user is fully aware. Then an email one week and another one day before deletion as a reminder, and a final confirmation after the fact. I’ve used services before that do this. It’s done well and appreciated.

This pseudo-deletion shadow account stuff is annoying.

What the user was doing is that they don’t trust that the system truly deleted the account, and they worry it was just deactivated (while claiming it was “deleted”). So they tried to do a password recovery which often reactivates a falsely “deleted” account.

I’ve done this before and had to message the company and have them confirm the account is entirely deleted.

Who uses a tuner these days?

Anyone who uses an antenna. There’s a bunch of decent channels, like the news, you can get with an OTA antenna.

Modern TV signal is just via Ethernet

No. What you just described is “modern cable TV”. OTA channels are digital signals also.

The level of inaccuracy in a regular clock resulting in drift is orders of magnitude greater than any amount of time dilation you would experience.

This is the reason we use extremely high precision clocks (like atomic clocks) and then synchronize everything else with them. Even your phone’s clock would drift noticeably over a period of a few months if it never synced with some network server.

The NTP protocol exists precisely for this. There are entire companies that specialize in providing and maintaining synchronized wall clocks for facilities like hospitals, schools, and other organizations.

That would be just a monitor, wouldn’t it?

No. The distinguishing feature between a monitor and a TV is that a TV has a tuner built into it.

There are other things like the variety of inputs and screen position settings on monitors, but those are mostly minor.

Using Relational DBs where the data model is better suited to other sorts of DBs.

This is true if most or all of your data is such. But when you have only a few bits of data here and there, it’s still better to use the RDB.

For example, in a surveillance system (think Blue Iris, Zone Minder, or Shinobi) you want to use an RDB, but you’re going to have to store JSON data from alerts as well as other objects within the frame when alerts come in. Something like this:

{
  "detection":{
    "object":"person",
    "time":"2024-07-29 11:12:50.123",
    "camera":"LemmyCam",
    "coords": {
    	"x":"23",
    	"y":"100",
    	"w":"50",
    	"h":"75"
    	}
    }
  },
  "other_ojects":{
     <repeat above format multipl times>
  }
}

While it’s possible to store this in a flat format in a table. The question is why would you want to. Postgres’ JSONB datatype will store the data as efficiently as anything else, while also making it queryable. This gives you the advantage of not having to rework the the table structure if you need to expand the type of data points used in the detection software.

It definitely isn’t a solution for most things, but it’s 100% valid to use.

There’s also the consideration that you just want to store JSON data as it’s generated by whatever source without translating it in any way. Just store the actual data in it’s “raw” form. This allows you to do that also.

Edit: just to add to the example JSON, the other advantage is that it allows a variable number of objects within the array without having to accommodate it in the table. I can’t count how many times I’ve seen tables with “extra1, extra2, extra3, extra4, …” because they knew there would be extra data at some point, but no idea what it would be.

JSON data within a database is perfectly fine and has completely justified use cases. JSON is just a way to structure data. If it’s bespoke data or something that doesn’t need to be structured in a table, a JSON string can keep all that organized.

We use it for intake questionnaire data. It’s something that needs to be on file for record purposes, but it doesn’t need to be queried aside from simply being loaded with the rest of the record.

Edit: and just to add, even MS SQL/Azure SQL has the ability to both query and even index within a JSON object. Of course Postgres’ JSONB data type is far better suited for that.

So I decided to sacrifice one of the gnarlier plants to see what I can find. Here are the images:

https://postimg.cc/gallery/N2XxkkY

The roots did shoot out beyond the bulb, there was a lot of pulling and tearing as I was lifting it out. But I also noticed that some of the stems are woody and brown. My neighbour said that she noticed the “stinging bugs” are exceptionally bad this year.

So I decided to sacrifice one of the gnarlier plants to see what I can find. Here are the images:

https://postimg.cc/gallery/N2XxkkY

The roots did shoot out beyond the bulb, there was a lot of pulling and tearing as I was lifting it out. But I also noticed that some of the stems are woody and brown. My neighbour said that she noticed the “stinging bugs” are exceptionally bad this year.

Ya, you’re right. I guess I should have been clearer with my description. Near the plants the mulch is thinner. At about 6 inches away is when the mulch is thickened.

I was told very explicitly by my wife to make a “depression” around each plant when putting the mulch down. Basically to make the mulch very thin near the plant.

I’ll have to check tomorrow, but I’m thinking I may have put the mulch too close to some of the plants.

But the thing that still confuses me is that the ones we grew from seed are doing fine. It seems to only be the garden centre bought pepper plants that are bad.

Thanks, I might give the Epson salt a try. How close is too close? I have about 2-3 feet between each row.

So you actually answered another question of mine I didn’t ask, which is about the mushrooms. I know they’re good, but I’ve been wondering if there’s any significance with how close they are to the plants, and how crowded they are around it.

So I’ve been looking at as many example photos as I can, and I’m becoming less concerned about herbicide contamination and it’s looking like a mineral/vitamin or some kind of management issue.

Another thing I noticed is that the lowest leaves (the oldest?) are fully formed, and it’s only the newest ones are deformed. Does that track for nutrient issues?

So we have been watering the entire garden at night when we do so. And they are getting most of the sun throughout the day. We have some really tall trees on the east side of the garden that block the sun until about 10am-ish. But the rest of the day is full sun.

did you amend the soil before you planted these?

We tilled before planting anything and then my wife put stuff into the soil as we did the transplant. I don’t know what exactly, but she’s pretty knowledgeable in the mineral/fertilizer side of things.

for the ones that’s are doing well, are they more shaded? In looser soil? Any other obvious differences you can tell?

Nope, they’re even right next to each other. Aside from how they were started (my own seeds vs seedlings from a garden centre) everything about the environment is identical.

Yup, they were fine after being transplanted. It’s just as they started to grow they got more and more gnarly. They also haven’t grown anywhere close to how my peppers did last year. They are exceedingly small especially compared to the few that are doing well (the ones we started from seeds ourselves).

That resource seems to be specific to trees. Just about every other gardening resource (blogs, websites, YouTube videos from respected gardeners) recommend at least a few inches of mulch.

Thanks for the info!

My wife said she put slow release fertilizer in when we transplanted them into the garden. Could that have anything to do with it?

We don’t use any kind of herbicides or pesticides anywhere on our property.

The only thing we added to the garden this year was mulch and the thought occurred to me that something was in it, but every single other plant seems to be fine. The tomatoes were a tad stressed early in the season, but we had 30+ degree Celsius weather incredibly early in the season for almost two weeks that seemed to stress them, but otherwise they’ve grown well since and are producing a ton of tomatoes.

Every other vegetable plant is doing well. Onions, rhubarb, corn, carrots, cucumbers, potatoes, and a couple others I can’t remember. So that makes me think there’s nothing in the mulch itself.

Now my parents got a bunch of their peppers from one of the same places I got a few of my peppers from and they have the same issue. Is it possible the soil the garden centre used when starting the seeds was contaminated?

I didn’t know they existed. I’ll post over there, thanks!

That’s the thing. We’ve been getting way more than seasonal averages for rain, and when there’s more than two days of no rain, we put on the sprinkler for 20-30 min.

We also have about 4-6 inches of mulch on top to get the soil from drying out.

They take getting caught seriously, not the stuff they get caught at.

This is it exactly. They (gov) literally don’t care if anyone gets hurt, they just care what the world’s perception of them is.