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Develop...maybe. CWD can stay dormant in soil for a long time (2+ years). https://dwr.virginia.gov/wildlife/diseases/cwd/what-are-prio...

The phone guy at MT Tech designed his own boards and wrote a switching program from scratch back in the late 90s in Qbasic while I was a student employee in the computer department there. Same guy who maintained the ham inter college backup route to MSU. I can honestly say most of the people back then and there were a lot smarter than me. Joe I hope you are alive and well.

Still bummed about not being able to watch storm chasers on Periscope anymore. It was a great format specifically for that...that and the guy that fed raccoons dog food on his back porch at night. Youtube just isn't quite as easy to find all the storm chaser feeds during a hurricane.

So did Butte and Anaconda, MT.

We have on a limited scale...honestly grass growth has been a problem. With corn...works fine. With bush beans the grass grows too much and we are forced to weedeat/cut etc. since we can't put animals in with it. Squash we got a decent first and second crop but a third (which is pushing it anyway) had issues with a lot of rain and too much grass growth which caused mold. With pumpkins we have had better luck using a tine plow and planting between the grass furrows then moving the pumpkins onto the dirt as they mature. The biggest issue we have had is an over abundance of grass with no till since we don't spray a burn down on any of our cover crops.

Good to see you moved to Georgia. We did about 20 years ago. Biggest difference I have seen lately in the tech scene is there are a lot more jobs outside of Atlanta. The salary/cost of living cannot be beaten (lived in MT, AZ, ID, SD prior to GA).

The farm we purchased 6+ years ago is just starting to see fireflies and bats come back. We look at dusk visible bats to gauge our bug population. We stopped spraying and are allowing fields to go back to a mixture of natives and grasses. Also started mowing strips instead of bush hogging the whole field during the summer to give shelter to animals and insects. The biggest impact we have seen is that we have more of a "bug balance". The first two years we were here the garden plants were destroyed by pests. Now we have about a 20% reduction in garden production. We do not spray or fertilize. We have also discontinued the previous owner's habit of putting chicken litter (from commercial poultry facilities) on our hay and grazing fields. We have not been able to measure that effect yet.

Try to find another job where people work at the same level you do so that you are challenged.

For me it was moving to the rural South and buying a farm. Animals die if I don't feed or water them. It gives me a daily reset. That and I took a job that I feel ethically pushed to do for my 8-5. Just what worked for me. I hope you find your "place".

We need to start investing in alternative energy because coal and oil are a very efficient energy vault. That vault gave us an easy leg up through energy manipulation/controlled release at a scale that is easy for humans to use. Fusion, solar, fission, etc. are all jumpstarted through this stored vault. Without it it is difficult to get materials built to even jumpstart us through the current knowledge base/technology chain. We will have to revisit a lot of technology if we don't use the next 100 years to step to another century or even millennium technology/energy chain.

e.g It is difficult to burn enough trees to extract enough electricity to mine and refine resources needed to build solar panels or even build wire for transport.

I remember we had an "underdesk" VAX running some proprietary software for scanning and cataloging drill samples in a metallurgy office in an open pit mine in Montana back in the 90s. The thing just worked. Power regularly went off due to shovels being moved (power was cut at the substation to move shovels). Ground was constantly shaking due to blasting in the pit. Extremely dusty environment. The only time that I ever had to work on it was when the vendor sent out a new harddrive (detected some anomalies over a dial up connection). Just beautifully functioning hardware and software.

Agreed. Sylacauga, AL has metro fiber/provided by electrical company. The three counties around Carrollton, GA (Haralson, Carroll, and Heard) are getting it from now through the next 6 years from Carroll EMC. Phase 1 has started and is focused on Haralson and Heard counties first. With a few in more rural areas of Carroll. Start here https://carrollemc.com/broadband Carrollton, GA also has UWG...the cheapest "state" school for tuition in Georgia.

Mines I have worked at in the US only provided meals when you were travelling. Although unlimited double brew and a plugin for every truck/car in the parking lot was provided. Can't speak for oil and gas.

Thoughtworks keeps a "technology radar" that I have found very interesting. I won't post the "whys" but it's worth looking for upcoming components and tech that they are seeing used more in consulting. https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techniques

Yeah DingTalk is a weird one. Weird in a good way. It doesn't necessarily fit with western business bureaucracy but I found it giving me ideas for throwing together temporary groups of consultants that function for a 3-9 month period. Will be interested to see what they add for tax reporting functionality here in the west. If they make that as seamless it may be something that I pick up and use. An interesting idea.

This would save a lot of oil.

Fiddler...now owned by Telerik. Creator Erik Lawrence. Wikipedia link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddler_(software)#:~:text=Fid....

Interesting side note. There is a new reactor coming online in the next year or two close to Savannah, GA (Plant Vogtle)...which has resulted in the air quality of Carroll County, GA getting much cleaner. Yates and Wansley have burned through coal stockpiles, one is now moth balled, the other is on nat gas and will be fully decommissioned when Vogtle 3? comes on line. Vogtle 3-4 https://www.georgiapower.com/company/plant-vogtle.html

As I have gotten older I regret the opportunities I didn't take or passed up because I was focused on others. Don't let my regrets be yours.

Please stop using that word. It sucks the life from you because you think it excuses you from self analyzing why you aren't happy where you are. Life is not fair if you are a human, cat, squirrel or mouse. We are born into a specific set of conditions...look around and move but please stop using the word privilege. Everyone and everything is different.

It's the second most populous (~29M) state behind California.

Death is their only challenge.

One culture values a broad band of technical education...one values social education. One advances technically and one wrestles with social issues.

The rural South wants those jobs.

There is also the prepayment of EITC. I know that we have always in the past counted on it reducing our tax bill. Now it's direct deposited each month into our account. We have had to take it out and save it going forward to pay against our future tax bill. It's going to make a lot of people unhappy when they realize in March/April that the money wasn't additional or "new"...it's money you have always subtracted from your tax bill if you had a net liability at the end of the tax year.

Primes? ...sorry not familiar with the lingo.

My wife has taught for 3 years at an online only state charter school (US). The single most difficult issue to solve (waste of time) is integration between foundation school management software such as Infinite Campus (where grades are kept) and third party learning packages (where assignments come from).

Looks like .NET Framework has had it's life extended as well. It is scheduled to be installed on Windows 11 and Server 2022 which gives the 10 year native to OS support. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/migration-...