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Gluelam and CLT (cross laminated timber) could be used in so many places.

I live in an area where trees are like weeds, but the logging industry is nearly dead because "we can't cut down the trees!!!".

So, environmentalists, which will it be? Concrete or trees? We have to build with something...

Regulations? Those rules the government makes? I bet they look the other way when they are the ones asking for data.

Keybase is where it is at. Even my parents are on it. Group messages that work and some attempt at security and privacy - all for free-99.

That is pretty close to how I do it and I'm not the only one who thinks I'm good at it. This only works on a stack and team that I'm familiar with. It works with projects that are days, weeks or a year long.

If you can't break it down you don't understand it and if you don't understand it you aren't ready to estimate it.

"...reconstruct generations of your family tree if they can from your chat history."

People might pay good money for that!

They weren't riff-raff, but one of my neighbors who was on a tight budget couldn't afford to shop there because buying in bulk meant laying out a lot of cash at once. They were convinced they wanted to buy bulk staples and save, so the went rice and beans for a month so they could save up for a Costco trip. They claim they save quite a bit buying at Costco, but those bulk prices can indeed be a hurdle.

I'm happy to beg the State to come thin (log) the land next to me. I'd hate to see how overgrown and unhealthy it would be if it were up to the Sierra club and friends.

The government isn't great at managing forests, but if had my way it would already be done.

Another way is to look through binoculars, get them adjusted just right and then measure them. Don't try to measure center to center. Assuming the eye cups are the same measure from one side to the other (left edge of one to left edge of the other).

"Geothermal is expensive because of labor, not necessarily price gouging."

In my experience, this is true. Comparing the electric heat system from one HVAC contractor to the ground source system I went with, there are a few expenses that are unique to ground source that start to add up. (USA - 2016)

$3,000 for the man and machine to dig the trenches and fill them back in.

Unknown - 2 days with a handful of laborers and 2,400 feet of pipe to lay and fuse together.

1/2 day to fill and purge the air from the pipes.

The equipment is more for sure, but I don't know an exact figure, but multiple thousands.

Overall, the 2 bids were about $15,000 different. Tax credits and even a rebate from the utility co-op made it close enough to a wash that I went with ground source and have been very happy.

When people ask about my monthly bill, the next question is "Why doesn't everyone do that?" I think many people don't care enough to deal with the sticker shock of a more expensive system. Another big reason is the amount of land required for horizontal trenching (there are other options, but this is generally the least expensive).

I also agree that if your climate is mild enough to use an air source pump, go for it. They don't quite cut it where I'm at (USA, just shy of Canada).

Sounds like a good idea. Virtual numbers from where?

Yes - this.

I live an hour from Costco and Wal-Mart. I've gotten over the "guilt" of having Jermey, the UPS guy, bring packages to my door. In the weeks where I don't have something delivered he is driving right past my house - and I'm kinda in the middle of nowhere. It isn't uncommon for him to hit at least 2 houses out of the dozen or so that are past me.

If I (and everyone in the area) decided to drive an hour to get to a "real" city with stores, there would be so many more cars on the road. Why not let the big brown truck bring them to our area?

We had no-deploy Friday which made support & product people feel happy and devs dread the pileup on Monday. It has evolved into "don't deploy higher impact things on Friday" and "try not to deploy at all Friday afternoon". That gives us a half day to hear about issues and fix them before the weekend.

Yes, I do this all the time when I'm hiking out backpacking. Without any cell or WiFi nearby I try to save battery by turning them off. When I want to check a location on my map I enable the location long enough to get a GPS fix and turn it off.

Almost more interesting that the article - this is the third time it has been submitted. The first two died at 2 and 1 points, but while I write, the third is at 17 points. I guess the third time is the charm.

What was different with this submission? Time of day? The other stores that were new at the same time?

I would guess most of this crowd could pass the tech test without too much trouble. If anyone has ever wondered if they could, try https://hamstudy.org/tech2018. No relation, just a happy user.

My marriage advice is always this: "Don't listen to any marriage advice except mine". I suppose if I wrote a longer version it would sound like this article.

I wish our laws were in source control, even the bills that don't pass. I'd love to see who added the pork, who watered it down, etc.

With a 2,000 page bill, it would make it easier to keep up with the changes, even if you don't yet know what is in every page at the start.

Math won't change his mind (or other politicians). I think they already know what they can do with a backdoor and why it is bad. I don't think they care.

For sure. I see it when I work in my yard late into the summer. As it gets dark I've made sparks with shovels, picks and quite often the teeth on the excavator bucket will scrape a rock and make some pretty good sparks.

My wife's experience was much the same. So much that when I had an emergency appendectomy I answered every question with the goal of being discharged and not spending the night.

I was even more motivated when I overheard a phone call from a patient down the hall. It was so loud that my nurse rolled her eyes and informed me he be awake until 3am. I was sure between him and the nurses there wouldn't be any sleep in that place. I got out about 20 minute before the cutoff time for being stuck in hell.

No, I never made Quake levels. Mine was an SX-20 and it played ok, but building a level complained about a math co-processor. I tried an emulator once, let it build all night and it still wasn't done.

Salvation came through Wal-Mart of all places and I convinced my mom that this $20(or $40, maybe I was paying half?) chip would just drop in that empty socket and double the speed of our computer. 486DX-40, that was nice...

I could create on my 486, but since it didn't have a math co-processor I could only create a Doom level, I couldn't build them. I spent hours blindly building and checking it over and hoping that when I put it on a floppy and took it to my friend's house that all the doors would work, the elevations were correct, etc. Good times.

The nail has been hit on the head. I have more things I'd like to read than I do free time to read them. If I run into a paywall I'll bounce to something else, or go search for the same topic somewhere else.

> The idea is to preserve as many slow growing trees as we can...

We need to manage forests wisely. I'm in the Northern Rockies, so I only know about pines, but preserving as many as we can isn't healthy. When they are packed too tight they aren't healthy. Their growth and structure is weak from competition and they are more susceptible to disease and insects. I've seen whole forests wiped out by bark beetles.

On my own land, we selectively logged, removing some of the larger trees or infested trees, thinning many smaller trees and sometimes just pulling out many saplings. Since then I've noticed the remaining trees putting on more growth and looking healthier overall. What happened to the logs? All the larger ones went to a mill. Someone at a big box improvement store can buy some wood and build shelves. They can sequester some carbon right in their own home.

I see such a negative, almost knee jerk reaction (not you specifically, but in general) to cutting down a tree that I wish people could come live where trees are weeds. I love the forest, I live in it and want it to be healthy, but it takes management and that means some trees need to be put to use doing something besides storing carbon.

Carbon credits or not, increasing the number of acres of healthy forest is always a good thing.

I always swap my own tires in the summer/winter because it takes me less time to do it than to drive to the shop. TPMS, but it can be such a pain.

My previous car, 2010 VW I could switch from summer to winter wheels/tires and drive away. TPMS would figure it out just fine. Now I have a Subaru and am debating buying a $100 tool to reset them. It won't take long to pay for itself, but as it is now, the light is still on.

Worse, my Ram has positional sensors and I haven't seen any "cheap" tools. It happens to be the same set of wheels, but I rotated them and it expects different pressure in the front vs rear. The light is on and it yells at every start because the rear tires are underinflated. How hard can it be for a car to learn which tire is on which corner of the vehicle?

Yeah, it doesn't take me long to decide to Amazon a replacement valve, 2 pipe wrenches, tape and dope for less than half what it costs for a plumber to walk through the door. I haven't used those pipe wrenches since then.

It doesn't have to be complex to be useful. I had a small plumbing project, needed a pex crimper. My local plumbing store will loan it to you for free if you buy the parts there. There is no schedule, no set time to return it. If it is there, you can have it. If not, you can wait, they will call you when it comes in.

One "dangerous" playground. Neptune Park, Saratoga Springs, UT. You have to see a picture of the pyramid.

https://www.google.com/search?q=neptune+park+utah#imagekey=!...

> All of them have been taught what latency is by having satellite internet.

Yes, life is a great teacher.

HughesNet sends me a post card every quarter or so. Sure I live in the middle of nowhere and would seeming be likely to want it. What makes me laugh is even the old people in the area who you'd think wouldn't know how to use a computer will warn friends, neighbors and community not to use them. They may not know the term latency, but they know that the quality of calls are poor and they know uploading videos from their phones takes way too long.

> ...fudge the locations by 50-200m in random directions. You'll still get good local results and won't pin the exact room or house...

You'd have to do something to adjust that for the population density or something like that. Adding 50m of error to my location wont get you off my property. 200m is close, but now you have to decide if it was at my house or my neighbor's house. Yes, I know you just threw out the idea, but it is a fun problem to think about once the location is no longer in a city.