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drone

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About drone

Serial entrepreneur, hacker, maker.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #39279757

    It hasn't "taken us this long to figure out..." the issues around prescribed burning are fairly modern and related to overreacting/incorrectly responding to some major wildfires th…

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    Comment #38571155

    Yes, this is a very common activity in electronics manufacturing. Big names, amongst many others are White Horse, Smith & Associates, Rand Technologies, etc. Depending on the sensi…

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    Comment #37570260

    To be clear: herbicides are not essential in every area, but in some areas it is completely cost-ineffective to promote appropriate diversity and wildlife habitat without some use …

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    Comment #37560629

    Only one of the trees I listed was invasive, the others are opportunistic natives to their regions that will outgrow everything else. The nice "diverse" forest you're thinking of i…

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    Comment #37558609

    Glyphosate is not soil active, so there are no "trees that can grow in glyphosate-doused soil." The primary reason for broad herbicide treatment as part of site prep is to avoid lo…

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    Comment #36496471

    No, "quotes" being prices offered to customers. In context, it is correct, they're saying that they're quoting higher prices to prospective customers.

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    Comment #34615276

    Even in Houston, which is an exceptionally hot and humid city in the summer, and cold and humid in the winter, outdoor dining is ubiquitous across the city in all seasons. A popula…

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    Comment #32916440

    The official terms at play here are "modular" and "mobile" home. These are the terms that define the kind of house you're thinking of. "Mobile" homes are constructed to a separate …

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    Comment #32916237

    AFAICT, these range from $84-$170/sq ft for exterior materials only, no labor, no insulation, no foundation. If you're looking to DIY something and want an easy start, these and ma…

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    Comment #32915777

    You need to work with a builder, since we were working in a somewhat "rural" area, we couldn't work with any of our local builders (in the city where we live), without going way ou…

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    Comment #32915561

    As someone who recently went through the pre-fab house market for a weekend/cabin build for a property we own, this product suffers from the same problem nearly every other pre-fab…

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    Comment #29069002

    MacroFab | Development, QA, Sales, Engineering, Support, Marketing | Houston, TX + Guadalajara, MX + Remote | https://macrofab.applytojob.com/apply At MacroFab, we're building the …

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    Comment #28039437

    MacroFab | Frontend, Backend, Product, and more | Full-Time | Remote or Onsite (Houston, TX; Guadalajara, MX) | https://macrofab.com MacroFab is the first digital marketplace for e…

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    Comment #27357770

    MacroFab | Houston, TX | Onsite or Remote | Multiple Positions MacroFab is the first marketplace for electronics manufacturing. With a self-service digital manufacturing platform, …

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    Comment #27304319

    You bring back memories for me - I worked for one of the first rural ISPs in Indiana in '95. Having to debug people's Winsock setups over the phone still makes me shudder a bit. No…

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    Comment #27281282

    They're not. SupplyFrame has traditionally been a software vendor for companies in the electronics manufacturing space. The blogs and Tindie are a very, very small part of their po…

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    Comment #27031363

    Yes, they very much do. I'm not entirely sure how to square the GP's comment. Most of the issues as-of-late have been areas that didn't previously flood. The areas which flood chan…

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    Comment #26332353

    One might argue that the original sin of RH is marketing to people who don't have a grasp of how these systems work and not being used to having to learn these things when dealing …

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    Comment #26253570

    Right! They have 11 house-brands at the moment, probably a few more they haven't bothered to update the website with. I don't recall any of it ever looking generic, but then again,…

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    Comment #25071546

    Yes, these sorts of things are common in photography workflows. There are color profilers [ex: 0] that update your monitor's profile in real time to maintain a consistent profile g…

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    Comment #25048936

    I'm not sure of any free speech "purist" that conflates the government with private parties. Regardless of how much "power" or "authority" the private party has. In fact, by every …

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    Comment #23212958

    VCs don't subsidize the transaction cost (unit economics), they subsidize the (customer) acquisition cost. That is to say, they don't want you losing money on the execution of the …

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    Comment #22926235

    Yes, most of the major oilfield service companies have started layoffs, and they're starting to ramp up. During the last oil downturn, 2015-16, it wasn't just the O&G upstream/down…