We are inheriting about 50-100 bonsai plants from father. All my life I’ve been wondering how he’s been caring for them, but never gave a chance to actually learn from him.
He is not doing well and we don’t know how many years he has left.
That’s why 2026 will be the year of finally learning the craft from him, taking time to acquire his techniques and in general just spend more time with him.
There are one or two nice people from Switzerland (assuming you are there, just guessing from comments) on bonsainut if you are looking for local resources and helpful people. A decent-sized collection like that is a real testament to unbroken continuity (especially during the growing season where you can't skip a day or even a few hours sometimes), other hobbyists can help you fill the gap when situations come up. Stop by the r/bonsai beginners thread any time if you wanna talk trees!
I don't think they "shot the PoW", and I don't even know if they emprisoned them. Feels very weird how the original comment put it (why link the Swiss to the Germans like this?).
But I know that German planes ended up in the Swiss airspace. The Swiss told them to land (like "we will now escort you and you will land on our soil, and if you don't comply we shoot you down"). They refused and got shot down.
But it's very different from shooting a pilot that would be in a state of PoW.
Cassette tapes doubled as music storage and data storage for machines like ZX Spectrum and C64. You could just copy software like you would copy a music cassette. Code via radio would be as easy as playing a song. Another time long gone computer magazines would print code that you could enter yourself! Before that Sussman is reported to meditate on code, and acolytes where supposed to create machines that could run that code.
Pretty much all the early 8-bit computers had cassette storage. On the Apple ][ series, the interface to write to the cassette was identical to the speaker interface so you could load audio into memory from a cassette and play it back (at 1-bit resolution) on the internal speaker of the Apple ][. It sounded like crap (although a lot of cassette decks did too) but seemed like magic.
As my partner is pretty much from that area, I really appreciate this small excursion from the typical topics on HN. Especially the small things, like the foods and the palinka :)
Thanks! Really glad that you read and appreciate my posts, unfortunately I don't have always much time to write but when I can, and I have something to share, I try to write and post useful info.
They wanted to see, if we were selling nest devices. I told them no, but they could find them in this and that shop.
They answered something along the lines: “Don’t worry, we already have enough of them. Our son Tony invented those, and everytime we travel around the world, we would check, if stores would sell them and send him a picture.”
Would you mind me asking how you got off alcohol? How much were you consuming?