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by msisk6 8y ago
https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/
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by msisk6 9y ago
My son and his girlfriend (now wife) worked over-winter in Yellowstone for Xanterra after college and they really enjoyed the experience.
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by msisk6 9y ago
I can vouch for this. About 15 years back I was living in a rural area of New Hampshire and got the "bulls eye" mark on my leg. Never saw the tick in this case but ticks and bites were common around there. I promptly went to the d
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by msisk6 9y ago
An additional complication is that generation and load aren't evenly distributed in a typical energy grid. This can create "traffic jams" that aren't reflected in a typical residential electric bill but something utiliti
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by msisk6 9y ago
Less cool place to work. Very, very noisy. Steps were taken to reduce the noise level but it wasn't enough.
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by msisk6 9y ago
That doesn't really affect energy usage though. The Texas grid is separate due to a combination of just wanting to be independent and geography. Back in the early days of the grid there was little reason to join the growing national gr
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by msisk6 9y ago
Nah, only the city folks. Us country bumpkins have straight 6 diesels.
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by msisk6 9y ago
>..too much of the grid is owned by companies that also > own coal/natural gas, etc. Not everywhere. In Texas companies that do transmission are forbidden to own generation and vice versa. Which causes problems for grid battery
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by msisk6 9y ago
Like it or not, pretty much all enterprises run on Windows software. Not just desktop, either. Active directory and Exchange are pretty much the standard for all enterprises. And non-techies in these places couldn't live without Office
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by msisk6 9y ago
Same here. I actually just did this today doing some work on Linux VMs where it's totally not needed. Old habits die hard.
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by msisk6 9y ago
We're been using this one the past few years: https://www.amazon.com/Automatic-Chicken-Coop-Door-Standard/... It has a solar panel and rechargeable battery and you program in your lat/long and optional + or -
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by msisk6 9y ago
Luckily our dominate rooster is tolerant of people. Roosters that show aggression toward us get culled.
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by msisk6 9y ago
I don't know the exact number; about half of those 100 birds are new this spring and haven't started laying en mass yet. My wife tells me we're currently getting about 3 dozen per day. I sell quite a few at work and my daught
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by msisk6 9y ago
Actually they have it right at the beginning. Hens don't know if an egg is fertilized or not. Most will just lay and leave. Some go broody and will sit on the eggs until they hatch. Some hens will sit on the eggs (and collect any nearb
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by msisk6 9y ago
Yeah, you don't want that. We cull the hens that start to eat eggs.
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by msisk6 9y ago
Position: DevOps - full time, mostly in office, >500 employees in energy sector. [06:00] Wake up when rooster starts crowing. Let dogs out, get wife coffee, shower, dress. [07.00] Out the door, 30-minute 25-mile commute. I live in the co
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by msisk6 10y ago
Ditto this. We run the power grid on RHEL and the latest and greatest features are far down our list of wants. Stability, security, and support; yeah, we'll take those. ;)
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by msisk6 10y ago
Yes. Lots of private individuals as well as fleets will pre-order trucks to get the exact options they want.
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by msisk6 10y ago
There's a big gap in those parts for gasoline, too. Once a few years back I camped out near Fields Station waiting for the store to open 'cause I didn't have enough gas in my Jeep to make it to Burns.
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by msisk6 10y ago
Same here. And you know; 100% of the women engineers I know have similar stories. 100%. That's insane . These stories need to come out so the guilty companies and their toxic environments are exposed for all to see. I'd encourage
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by msisk6 10y ago
We have about 25 chickens right now and we just picked up another 18 chicks today. Our's free range on our land and they're fantastic at keeping bugs down. We've had some problems with snakes, but we're in the country ou
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by msisk6 10y ago
ERCOT in Austin, TX.
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by msisk6 10y ago
If we fail at the grid management level and the entire grid collapses, it's a non-trivial process to get it back up. It can take hours to days to get everything up and running. It's a process called blackstart. In the meantime hos
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by msisk6 10y ago
This is one of the better articles I've read about the grid. I don't work in this region, but I work for another ISO that controls one of the other grids doing a cross between DevOps and SRE on the systems that directly control th
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by msisk6 10y ago
A lot factors into it, but yes -- essentially grids are sort of local. The US has three grids: East, West, and Texas. Folks ask why Texas has its own grid and we generally say "because Texas", but the real reason is just the way t
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Vista Equity Buying Infoblox for $1.6B(fortune.com)
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by msisk6 10y ago
No, this is out in west Texas where wind is plentiful along with cheap land. Nearly all wind and solar farms inject energy into the grid just like any other generator. In an open energy market like ERCOT (where this wind farm is located) th
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by msisk6 10y ago
I work for a grid operator here in the US. There's certainly a lot of FUD in that article, but it gets one thing right: critters in the equipment are a major source of failure. Last year we had a power glitch at our office when a snake
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by msisk6 10y ago
From a grid scale perspective, reliability means it can be scheduled for a certain amount of energy. In some areas solar is very reliable. Gas, coal, and nuke generation goes down for maintenance all the time. But if it can be scheduled so
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by msisk6 10y ago
My dad was targeted in a fake parking lot accident con at the Walmart in Joplin on west 7th. As you say, the crime patterns pretty much match the neighborhoods the stores are in and that ain't in a good one.

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