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by dfsegoat 6y ago
> Personally, as the owner of 25-ish acres of wooded land in this area (Marin County), I am not waiting. We are simulating fire by dramatically reducing fuel loads on our lands. As a lifelong sonoma county resident, curious why were yo
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by dfsegoat 6y ago
> The athleticism required is pretty incredible. Decent risk of injury at the high-levels - so you have to be very fit.
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by dfsegoat 6y ago
Rickover was focused on safety, and specifically solutions that could be safely maintained and operated in a steel pipe full of men, 100' beneath the sea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_G._Rickover#Safety_reco
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by dfsegoat 6y ago
> These folks halfway across the world aren't bothering, nor do they actually threaten my freedom in any way shape or form. Rest assured, there are people who wake up every single day plotting how they can kill Americans or Wester
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by dfsegoat 6y ago
I'm wondering how they will replace all the gas/diesel 4WD vehicles used by ranchers and vineyard managers here in Sonoma / Napa CA. The wine / grape industry is $1.5B+ for sonoma county alone - Napa is at least that or
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by dfsegoat 6y ago
OK. I like the increased utilization of simulations idea. Your Option A is basically how it is done already for Public safety power shutoffs: they (PGE) have an extensive forecasting department, and they de-energize certain areas for risk b
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by dfsegoat 6y ago
Here in Sonoma County [Tubbs fire, kincade fire, LNU Lightning fires] PG&E has had 2-3 contracted helicopters out pretty much every day doing line maintenance/checking. I watch flightaware pretty constantly, so it's easy to se
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by dfsegoat 6y ago
While I appreciate the merits of chaos engineering, this comment lacks an understanding of the impact of these incidents, particularly in rural areas with a history of forest mismanagement. People die [like my neighbors here in Sonoma, CA]
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by dfsegoat 6y ago
Sonoma County, CA here. Can confirm it’s not some lost art and controlled burns were common. From the time I was a child to now, controlled burns have basically vanished. It correlated with people moving here. Propublica recently confirmed
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by dfsegoat 6y ago
> “Between 1982 and 1998, California’s agency land managers burned, on average, about 30,000 acres a year. Between 1999 and 2017, that number dropped to an annual 13,000 acres.”
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They Know How to Prevent Megafires. Why Won’t Anybody Listen?(propublica.org)
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US Navy Turns to AI to Save Billions in Fight Against Rust(breakingdefense.com)
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by dfsegoat 6y ago
Ammonium nitrate is incredibly common. It has applications both in agriculture (fertilizer) and commercial blasting ops - so not hard to come by in general. That said, in this case you may be right.
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by dfsegoat 6y ago
In the case of Armstrong Woods historic Redwood grove here in Sonoma County, CA - currently threatended by Walbridge fire [1]: From a fuel standpoint, the entire area around the redwoods used to be managed by logging companies and private i
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by dfsegoat 6y ago
I Love America. I don’t think the problems you describe are unique to the US. > ‘and it doesn’t have a functioning government or healthcare system’ Can you elaborate here? I can have no job or health insurance, and I can obtain treatme
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by dfsegoat 6y ago
I have pondered this exact scenario (server move w/0 downtime) - because of watching that episode - wouldn't have thought about it otherwise. ..It's interesting how pop-culture and your chosen profession intersect, at times.
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by dfsegoat 6y ago
The audiobook has some nice extra commentary as well. That book blew the cover off missions that hadn’t been known to the public at all, so it was a bit controversial at release - the commentary touches on all that. Red November and The
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by dfsegoat 6y ago
It's a valid concern. Even a gun range or concealed carry class won't teach you what you need: Situational awareness, proper draw technique, muzzle discipline, etc. Sheepdog Response - headed up by Tim Kennedy is another good org.
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by dfsegoat 6y ago
I don't really think it is that cut and dry. Case in point, a similar bill (as I understand it) - The EARN IT Act was spearheaded by the same people as this bill, plus Dianne Feinstein (Democraft of CA): "The EARN IT Act was intr
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by dfsegoat 6y ago
> Having worked in the industry I'd believe basically anything anyone told me about the horrors they've seen. Can you (safely) provide any anecdotes? Genuinely curious - not doubting you.
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by dfsegoat 6y ago
AWS is running a nice screen here. I recall reading about Rekognition being documented as having accuracy problems when individuals in question had darker skin [2,3]. >> "The latest cause for concern is a study published this we
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by dfsegoat 6y ago
Re: ditching landing gear, As I understand it, the Gremlins UAV swarm platform uses a ‘live capture’ system from to launch/recover from a C130 - no gear. You basically turn cargo aircraft into aircraft carriers. https://www.
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by dfsegoat 6y ago
> Is this a Conda?/ or can I use my Python environment? Can you elaborate a bit there? I use conda because I like some of their features over standard virtualenv (being able to specify a python version when i create my venv) - but I
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by dfsegoat 6y ago
Devils advocate: mosquitoes and their diseases have been with us since we were rodents. I would express great concern at this idea, but can understand the temptation. Why not just use CRISPR to confer malaria etc. immunity in humans?
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by dfsegoat 6y ago
Re: rss being dead, many US govt sites still have RSS feeds for data updates and even your saved searches: - PubMed - Dailymed - clinicaltrials.gov Slack has a slash command for ‘/feed subscribe https://foo.bar/baz.rss’
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by dfsegoat 6y ago
I don't mean to sound daft, just clarifying my own understanding, but isn't Dropbox eventually consistent (as a system)?
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by dfsegoat 6y ago
> Superior writing skills are one of two things that separate novice developers from experts. This has been an area of concern for me. As I've increased my technical skills, I feel like my writing skills have atrophied, which impa
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by dfsegoat 6y ago
Overgrow.net
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by dfsegoat 6y ago
I genuinely want to understand the point you are presumably making here, but I’m honestly having a tough time with understanding what it is.
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by dfsegoat 6y ago
Do the things you need to do. Don’t let your brain try to trick you out of it.

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