mintyfresh

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by mintyfresh 10y ago
In the beginning of the video, the narration talks about the spillway plug being a feature designed to erode in a fashion that delayed/slowed the inevitable failure of the entire dam. In this case, the spillway plug helped the dam rele
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by mintyfresh 10y ago
This post [1] from that thread is the simplest presentation of the current and expected scenarios than anything I've seen elsewhere, including the OP. If they are able to run the main spillway at the current rate of 100,000 cfs without
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by mintyfresh 10y ago
In 1986, water flowed over the top of the Auburn Cofferdam and resulted in complete failure of the dam. See this video of that incident [1] for an example of how the overtopping of an earthen dam leads to failure. [1] https://www
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by mintyfresh 10y ago
The capacity of the intact spillway is ~250,000 cfs - the capacity of the Feather River through Oroville and Yuba City below, currently in the lower flood stages with 100,000 cfs outflows from the main spillway, is much lower than that. In
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by mintyfresh 10y ago
I'm having a difficult time imagining a scenario where an energy company in Houston or a tech company in Austin needs to search overseas for candidates with skills who aren't worth multiples of 130K/yr in value.
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by mintyfresh 10y ago
20% growth would mean the wealth in the area would double every 3.46 years. This morning, it was announced that the US GDP grew at an annual rate of 2.9% last quarter, accompanied by the WSJ headline "US Economy Roars Back" [1]. 2
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by mintyfresh 11y ago
"You're good enough, you're smart enough, and doggone it, people like you!"
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by mintyfresh 11y ago
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by mintyfresh 13y ago
Awesome. Thank you for putting this together. It looks like the consensus is the PostgreSQL documentation.
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by mintyfresh 13y ago
In that spirit, what are the best resources for getting started and diving in to working with PostgreSQL?
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by mintyfresh 13y ago
I had the same issue not being able to ssh into the shipped OS. While updating to the latest OS, I ran into similar issues writing the latest version to the eMMC memory and also thought I bricked my board. The external SD port and the eMMC
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by mintyfresh 14y ago
I think this is awesome, and have been using it quite a bit during the past few days. After trying to use it to find a red based color scheme, I found that many of the reds that I wanted to save often fell underneath the scroll bar on the l
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by mintyfresh 14y ago
While I'm of the opinion that tinkering away with a Raspberry Pi is inherently a great thing, developing for a minimalistic piece of nearly open source hardware running an open source OS using software as bloated and proprietary as Visual S