I will have to see it to believe it. 4GL promised the same thing. I actually look forward to the day happening when I become a farrier in the car age. A lot of people smarter than me will turn from code hopefully to hard science and we can start advancing again.
That's why you have pigs. In the South (USA) pumpkin patches, corn mazes, and apple farms are only profitable with weekend day treks sold to urban/subdivision bound parents looking to get their kids outside. Pumpkins sold in Aldi's cost about $5 and we have paid as much as $60 for a similar pumpkin picked out by one of our kids. It gets us all out of the house and helps local farms.
I have seen Bill Murray wrestle with his brother in a sumo suit at a minor league baseball game in Butte, MT. All that being said, he had an affinity for owning minor league teams and would show up and be himself. Butte, America is a hard town to be loved in and he is/was.
Its easier to let the water out of a tractor tire than to take a 500lb wheel plate off...when changing a tire.
...added weight is for better traction. Almost all 2WD tractors will have their back tires filled with a water/radiator fluid mixture (ice doesn't work well if you want to keep the tire on the rim).
I can honesty LY tell you moving from private industry to state government was the best decision I have made. Definitely move around until you find people and a department that you like.
I will also be interested to see if they pull back cash from the local CLECs partnering with electric companies in Georgia. Georgia, a little over 2 years ago, changed their state regulations to allow rural CLECs to partner with electrical coops (it may have been broader than that) to bring better than 25/3 to their customers. In the counties that concern me, Polk, Haralson, Carroll, and Heard, in west Georgia, a partnership between Carroll EMC and SyncGlobal (small rural CLEC) should bring fiber to every Carroll EMC customer over the next six years (2 phases). Funding for this may or may not have come from these allocations. The whole process is incredibly obscured by government and short staffed implementation providers.
This is unfortunate. The service maps they are using are extremely poor, being charitable. Anecdotally our area is supposed to have 25/3 and I haven't met anyone that has achieved that speed from our DSL provider. Most go with Hughes, etc. Yet our entire service area shows up as 25/3 serviced. On the other side of that there are several areas that are served with cable and a couple with fiber...none of those areas show in the over generalized 25/3 DSL service area.
This feels like part of a larger game. Someone is going after SpaceX, in the government space, is the general feel. First Bezos says that he will discount the moon contract by $2B...and now this. My opinion is that lobbyists are being employed to turn money away from SpaceX and move it back towards more "traditional"/entrenched government contractors across several fronts.
I was hoping this would be the general direction of Windows Phone. I want my big monitors at home and at the office (split time 3/5 and 2/5) and just want to carry my phone...without having to login to Windows 365...or a VM in the cloud...to do small to medium .NET development. Looks like Apple/VSC may get me there quicker.
Anecdotally this is me. I work from home 3 days a week, 2 days in office. Pre-pandemic I ate breakfast, lunch, and sometimes dinner in the road...2.5 hour commute. Food prices have increased 10-40% at each one of those stops. Now I eat one lunch per week out to socialize. The other 5 meals that I used to eat out are groceries I buy at the store and carry in.
I found this working for state government. Trying to put my skills to use helping taxpayers get what they deserve in usable government websites. There is a lot of "feel good" there...feels like it did back in 96-97.
We have started shopping at Walmart again for groceries. I just won't take the time to walk in and fight through the crowds. If I can pick it up heck yes.
:). Yeah there were. "Mac and cheese" is a fillin for ramen, rice, beans, ketchup and tortillas, and whatever leftovers I could scrounge from friends and take home from washing dishes in the cafeteria.
Fishing is highly...and I do mean highly regulated in Montana (spawning grounds).
http://fieldguide.mt.gov/speciesDetail.aspx?elcode=AFCAB0101...
There are wildlife biologists that harvest the eggs and process the meat for you. You must apply for tags and the season can be shutdown if a limit is reached before the end of the season. I fished it once and was glad I didn't catch anything. My heart wasn't in it after I saw the first one caught. They reminded me too much of dolphins and they have to be snagged. They do not take bait so the fish...imo is not brought in as quickly and humanely as I was comfortable with. We hunted and fished because without it quality protein was scarce during my childhood. It was a creature I just chose to appreciate and eat more mac and cheese.
One of the hardest problems, a few years back, to solve was getting data to determine which traffic lane you were in. It was to provide targeted ads on billboards, that through reflection, could show different ads to people in different lanes based on "external" searches such as browsing patterns. To my knowledge the problem was not solvable using wireless telco data.
I second this. The apps that were missing for me are the ones I don't use anyway. I want navigation, a phone, text messaging, and a browser without having to disable preinstalled facebook services and other stuff I have been "gifted" by purchasing.
If you look at old architecture in rural Georgia and Alabama. Houses are on rocks raised above the ground (air circulates underneath), 10 ft ceilings, a huge attic fan to pull cool air in in the evening, tall trees planted next to the house for shade (we have 4 pecan trees), and reflective tin roofs (if still shiny). This helped significantly to cooling in the summer. Winters aren't cold enough to warrant more than a fireplace in the common area. We have an old farm house built in the 1920's...the old original part of the house doesn't get uncomfortable until the temperatures outside get above 100. A newer part of the house with standard 9ft ceilings built in the 70's gets very warm and uncomfortable.
Same here. IPFS seems to have been lumped into the whole "crypto" scene because of filecoin. In my opinion, IPFS is much more interesting and potentially beneficial to individual freedom than crypto. The problem is the only people really talking about it are people focused on crypto, also forcing dapp conversations to focus on quick money vs. long term usability/functionality. I don't hold the money conversations against anyone...just not interested in that side of it. More interested in the preservation of knowledge long term and how/if that gets built. IPFS seems to be an interesting potential step towards those goals.
An arguably "not finished" solution for me has been to ramp up adoption of IPFS and use Brave as a default until other browsers support it. It is speeding up my transition to full fledged adoption.
Most people under 65 in our rural area are dropping ATT u-verse ($200+ per month) and keeping only DSL + Roku + a few select channels because of cost. Cable television is too expensive.
As someone who lives in rural Georgia/almost Alabama...trends I see here are people having "barn houses" built for them or using some of the huge prefab outbuildings from Home Depot/Lowes dropped on a piece of property and starting with that. The "barn houses" I am talking about are current tech barns built with 2x6s and galvilum (galvanized aluminum) for roof and walls. Generally take out a barn/land loan and then have interior slab and subs come in and turn the interior into a home. A home permit would not allow such an inexpensive build and if tax assessors only come around every five years provides a significant savings...generally 10-15k over those first five years.
Lard from pasture raised pork is also higher in omega 3. In the USA we switched to a "meat hog" around the 1920-30s for better industrialization. Just a heads up pasture pigs like Large Black hogs or wild boar do have a different flavor but you can buy the lard alone to cook with.