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by drone 3y ago
It hasn't "taken us this long to figure out..." the issues around prescribed burning are fairly modern and related to overreacting/incorrectly responding to some major wildfires that killed lots of people in the late 19t
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by drone 3y ago
Yes, this is a very common activity in electronics manufacturing. Big names, amongst many others are White Horse, Smith & Associates, Rand Technologies, etc. Depending on the sensitivity and risk to a particular product, it's not u
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by drone 3y ago
To be clear: herbicides are not essential in every area, but in some areas it is completely cost-ineffective to promote appropriate diversity and wildlife habitat without some use of it. FWIW, in the region I'm currently managing a 100
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by drone 3y ago
Only one of the trees I listed was invasive, the others are opportunistic natives to their regions that will outgrow everything else. The nice "diverse" forest you're thinking of in your mind took a long time to become that w
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by drone 3y ago
Glyphosate is not soil active, so there are no "trees that can grow in glyphosate-doused soil." The primary reason for broad herbicide treatment as part of site prep is to avoid low-value, or ecologically opportunist species that
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by drone 3y ago
No, "quotes" being prices offered to customers. In context, it is correct, they're saying that they're quoting higher prices to prospective customers.
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by drone 4y ago
Even in Houston, which is an exceptionally hot and humid city in the summer, and cold and humid in the winter, outdoor dining is ubiquitous across the city in all seasons. A popular restaurant down the street from me is outdoor-only and st
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Flexport slashes 20% of global workforce over weak 2023 volume forecast(theloadstar.com)
192 points by drone 4y ago|241 comments
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by drone 4y ago
The official terms at play here are "modular" and "mobile" home. These are the terms that define the kind of house you're thinking of. "Mobile" homes are constructed to a separate set of parameters, and
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by drone 4y ago
AFAICT, these range from $84-$170/sq ft for exterior materials only, no labor, no insulation, no foundation. If you're looking to DIY something and want an easy start, these and many other options may be a good choice for you, bu
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by drone 4y ago
You need to work with a builder, since we were working in a somewhat "rural" area, we couldn't work with any of our local builders (in the city where we live), without going way out of budget due to travel expenses, etc. As t
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by drone 4y ago
As someone who recently went through the pre-fab house market for a weekend/cabin build for a property we own, this product suffers from the same problem nearly every other pre-fab "designer" product we saw out there: the cos
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by drone 5y ago
MacroFab | Development, QA, Sales, Engineering, Support, Marketing | Houston, TX + Guadalajara, MX + Remote | https://macrofab.applytojob.com/apply At MacroFab, we're building the world's first distributed manufac
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by drone 5y ago
MacroFab | Frontend, Backend, Product, and more | Full-Time | Remote or Onsite (Houston, TX; Guadalajara, MX) | https://macrofab.com MacroFab is the first digital marketplace for electronics manufacturing. We manufacture electro
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by drone 5y ago
MacroFab | Houston, TX | Onsite or Remote | Multiple Positions MacroFab is the first marketplace for electronics manufacturing. With a self-service digital manufacturing platform, and hundreds of manufacturing lines available, we help organ
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by drone 5y ago
You bring back memories for me - I worked for one of the first rural ISPs in Indiana in '95. Having to debug people's Winsock setups over the phone still makes me shudder a bit. Not to mention the Apple customers, where I didn&#
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by drone 5y ago
They're not. SupplyFrame has traditionally been a software vendor for companies in the electronics manufacturing space. The blogs and Tindie are a very, very small part of their portfolio. For example, there's QuoteFX, DirectSourc
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by drone 5y ago
Yes, they very much do. I'm not entirely sure how to square the GP's comment. Most of the issues as-of-late have been areas that didn't previously flood. The areas which flood change as development increases. Houston also ha
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by drone 6y ago
One might argue that the original sin of RH is marketing to people who don't have a grasp of how these systems work and not being used to having to learn these things when dealing with a consumer product. Some of the barriers to dealin
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by drone 6y ago
Right! They have 11 house-brands at the moment, probably a few more they haven't bothered to update the website with. I don't recall any of it ever looking generic, but then again, it could've have years ago - but my buffers
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by drone 6y ago
Yes, these sorts of things are common in photography workflows. There are color profilers [ex: 0] that update your monitor's profile in real time to maintain a consistent profile given ambient light changes. They're usually used
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by drone 6y ago
I'm not sure of any free speech "purist" that conflates the government with private parties. Regardless of how much "power" or "authority" the private party has. In fact, by every measure I've ever
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Colorado couple's 20-year search for extinct fruit finally pays off(cnn.com)
1 points by drone 6y ago|0 comments
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by drone 6y ago
VCs don't subsidize the transaction cost (unit economics), they subsidize the (customer) acquisition cost. That is to say, they don't want you losing money on the execution of the transaction, but if the sum total of net revenue
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by drone 6y ago
Yes, most of the major oilfield service companies have started layoffs, and they're starting to ramp up. During the last oil downturn, 2015-16, it wasn't just the O&G upstream/downstream companies, it heavily impacted ma
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by drone 6y ago
Likewise, on 3/25 a Dr. in New Orleans [0] also reported they were stopping using it as it wasn't helping and the side-effects were problematic. "Plaquenil which has weak ACE2 blockade doesn't appear to be a savior of an
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by drone 7y ago
You can also access it remotely, too, which is nice. If you don't have a fixed IP/don't want to manage firewall rules, they have a central service that creates the handshake between your remote device and your NVR to facilit
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by drone 7y ago
Agreed, that was a great episode. Here's a direct link for those interested: https://www.themeateater.com/listen/meateater/ep-179-the-wee...
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by drone 7y ago
I know it to be true. Outside of the textual example I posted in my original post, here's a visual example: https://pasteboard.co/IloR6Hv.png The highlighted tracks are private, mud-ridden trails on private property.
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by drone 7y ago
This happens more often than not on my trips through more rural areas (once, it sent me through a muddy corn field to avoid a traffic jam on Christmas night in rural Louisiana -- fortunately I understood what I was getting in to and had a v

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