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destitude··on 28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days
I've about given up looking for a remote job even as a software engineer with over 20+ years of experience especially with macOS since I never seem to get a reply or "no longer accepting applicants".
destitude··on 28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days
After I scheduled an appointment which I realized was a "recruiter" the zoom link showed the local time zone for the recruiter was from some West African country. I cancelled the appointment.
destitude··on Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%
Cattail tubers and bark from smallish hardwood trees that they embed underwater for winter food. Hidden affect of that is the cattail is not particularly good habitat or food source for waterfowl so then you have one more item pushing down on waterfowl populations.
destitude··on Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%
You will be amazed at how much local governments don't care about this. They actively try to remove water was fast as possible from an area.
destitude··on Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%
That's a an oversimplification since beavers don't obviously adhere to property boundaries and the areas that are good for beavers are more then likely to have originally been flooded to begin with before the beavers were killed off.
destitude··on Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%
There are many ways to prevent blockage of culverts and even control the water level behind beaver dams it's just that people don't want to bother, are ignorant, or just don't care.
destitude··on Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%
No, the people I know that trap them because someone hired them to remove them just dump them.
destitude··on Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%
There are simple devices that can easily prevent blockage of culverts.
destitude··on Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%
I actively allow beavers to exist. They have two dams on my property.. Previous owners a long time ago actively exterminated them. The county also actively exterminates them instead of simply putting in simple flood/beaver control devices where necessary.
destitude··on Earthquake scientists reveal how overplowing weakens soil at experimental farm
Let alone the wind erosion from having exposed soil over winter.
destitude··on How the Turner twins are mythbusting modern technical apparel
I also and have gone to -46F and for me a thick wool sweater and wool felt coat makes huge difference. I can not even wear my wool sweater until it gets to -20F otherwise I will burn up :)
destitude··on ChatGPT Health
You must not be involved in the medical field to realize how bad it is especially when it come to diagnosis.
destitude··on A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool
Did you read the report? Doesn't sound like it was safe for him.
destitude··on NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission
Now we know why Isaacman was removed from nomination because he wouldn't have put up with this BS.
destitude··on NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission
Considering nobody in the world can compete with SpaceX currently this seems purely political in nature. The EU is struggling to even come up with an answer to reusable rockets. China is the closest and will likely have something equivalent to the Falcon 9 within the next 2 years. But someone in the USA? People are delusional. Sure it is always best to have competitors but how did that work for Boeing/NASA/Starliner? You can't have two players/competitors if there is only one player in the entire world. And the reason why you need reusability is so that it is actually sustainable to use it! Does anyone here thinking this is a good idea have any idea how much it costs to launch SLS just once??
destitude··on NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission
They could have delivered today if they weren't concerned about reusability.
destitude··on NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission
Catching of a booster which everyone else thought was the stupidest craziest thing ever and they did it on first try.
destitude··on How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?
Even on cloudy days you can generate power. Unless it is very thick clouds I generate enough for my base loads even in complete overcast skies because I have an "excess" of PV panels.
destitude··on How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?
In case you didn't realize he is looking to store ALL of the summer generation into a battery and generate zero power in winter.. so rely entirely off of a battery during winter.. which is absolutely no feasible for a normal person and nobody would ever do.
destitude··on How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?
And the price of the egg?
destitude··on How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?
Nobody seems to think twice about storing gasoline, heating oil, diesel, and/or propane around their place.
destitude··on How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?
For some reason in the USA there is only a single state that has approved that (Utah).
destitude··on How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?
You forgot to mention anybody who has a yard that gets full sun can mount panels there as well. As far as fires you can say same thing about all the fires that currently occur because of propane, gas, and heating oil. Those have become some engrained in society for so long that you don't even think of that as a "fire hazard therefore you shouldn't even have it".
destitude··on How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?
I'm fully off grid today with no issues, even had power company remove power poles. I do heat with wood however. AC in the summer is no issue since that is when I get the most sun anyways.
destitude··on Microsoft doubles down on small modular reactors and fusion energy
And yet we still have no place to put that "clean" energy when it is depleted.
destitude··on We're Joining OpenAI
Highly likely the next major Xcode update will break it.
destitude··on Hurricane category 6 could be introduced under new storm severity scale
The title is wrong, this is about using a completely different scale system.
destitude··on Solar-plus-storage technology is improving quickly
> But put them anywhere with snow, rain, fog, or even just grey skies and they struggle heavily I have winter basically 5 months of the year where I am and have no issues being fully off grid with only solar and batteries as energy sources. You do have to compensate for winter by having more panels and more batteries but easily doable.
destitude··on Solar-plus-storage technology is improving quickly
Not sure why you say this. I'm on solar + batteries 24/7 365 days a year. Use no fossil fuels. Even had utility company remove power poles from my place.
destitude··on Solar power has begun to transform the world’s energy system
I'm fully off grid (even had utility power but had them remove it). Cook on electric, have electric water heater, using AC and have enough panels and batteries to not even need a backup generator.
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