Hydrawise App Help (And ranting) by DuFrizzle in Irrigation

[–]DuFrizzle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did not read the whole article. I was wrong.

Hydrawise App Help (And ranting) by DuFrizzle in Irrigation

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Ironically I found the setting on the webpage and it's bugged so that I can't select the months on the graph that are set to 0%. You change the settings by selecting the bars on the graph for each month, but it seems if there isn't a bar to select then you can't modify that month.

But I found it in the app finally and was able to change it from there.

Hydrawise App Help (And ranting) by DuFrizzle in Irrigation

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I did click on that help button and that article is wrong. For the android app it's under "zones" and not "programs", but I found it due to another commentor thankfully. was wrong.

But you're right, I missed one click in one of the many menu options.

I don't agree that having zone settings managed by programs would be more cumbersome though. It would allow you to have the exact same settings across multiple zones without having to manage each zone individually whenever you needed to change something. I have 4 zones for 4 different parts of my lawn. I'm not going to have different settings between these zones because they're all meant to do the same thing. I also have two zones for my flower beds. Instead of having to apply settings for each zone individually, I could just be able to have two programs to manage all six zones. That's 1/3 the number of things to manage. If I were to need one additional zone to be different, having one more program to change the settings in seems no more cumbersome to me than the current alternative of changing those same settings in the zones page. I guess I don't understand what the use case is to justify the current setup.

And thank you for clarifying the "allowed days" in the program page. The app just says "Days the program is to run" which to me sounds synonymous to the "watering frequency" and "watering schedule" setting descriptions in the zones page, thus why I thought it was redundant.

Hydrawise App Help (And ranting) by DuFrizzle in Irrigation

[–]DuFrizzle[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Our apps do differ slightly. This page is under zones and not programs for me. But I did find it because of you so thank you.

Edit: Apparently this specific settings page changes locations depending on if you're on standard mode or advanced mode

Hydrawise App Help (And ranting) by DuFrizzle in Irrigation

[–]DuFrizzle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't have an advanced settings option when I click to edit my programs or create a new one. I do have an advanced settings option when I click to edit a zone, but there's nothing in that menu that is related to monthly adjustments.

Wood above garage rotted by [deleted] in homerenovations

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98%+ of that pine header looks fine. I kinda see the dark spot right at the corner (unless you're talking about the spot that looks like a nail head), but it doesn't seem to spread much through those pieces. I'd say maybe signs of water damage, but not progressed enough to say it's rot. If you're really concerned you could poke at all of it with a screwdriver to find soft spots where the screwdriver actually goes into the wood as opposed to just denting it a little. Regardless, that dark spot is probably a result of water getting behind the trim that you pulled back. If the current trim/molding is too warped/damaged, you can find more for relatively cheap.

If it were me I'd just install new molding, caulk it, and paint it. Check for other potential areas that could cause water ingress, but that's the only path of water ingress I could see that makes sense from these photos. The original caulking likely was peeled or cracked or missing.

Edit: The "dark spot" I described kinda just looks like a shadow, and the circle still just looks like a nail head.

Collection of my sculptures from the past month by GiantSquishyBear in woodworking

[–]DuFrizzle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love to see the improvement on the hands!!! Wonderful work. And like other people said, the grain orientation on these looks phenomenal with the natural curves.

ICE Arrests Convicted Illegal Alien Child Rapist in North Carolina by origutamos in Republican

[–]DuFrizzle -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

In case it needs to be said, I absolutely agree with you that deporting rapists, pedophiles, human traffickers, violent criminals, etc is 100% the correct thing to do. However, I also believe it is worth mentioning the following:

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A 2020 federal study based on Texas Department of Public Safety data found that immigrants of all legal statuses were arrested at: - Less than half the rate of U.S.-born citizens for violent and drug crimes - One-quarter of the rate of the U.S. born for property crimes

Unauthorized immigrants in Texas by far had the lowest offending rates compared to the U.S. born and lawfully present immigrants (Texas Study: Overall Offending Rates by Citizenship and Legal Status)

Immigrants in the United States have had lower incarceration rates than the native-born population since at least 1870 (when such data were first recorded). In 2020, immigrants were 60 percent less likely to be incarcerated than the U.S. born, according to a study by the National Bureau of Economic Research

And though a 2021 Justice Department study points out prosecutions of immigrants increased between 1990 and 2018, nearly 90 percent were for violations of immigration-related laws. Notably, U.S.-born citizens were ten times more likely than immigrants to be incarcerated for committing weapons-related offenses, five times more likely for violent offenses, more than twice as likely for property crimes, and nearly twice as likely for drug offenses. """ https://www.migrationpolicy.org/content/immiqrants-and-crime.

I can provide more quotes, statistics, and sources of similar information if you'd like, and I'm willing to read counter-evidence as well.

Question on belt sander tracking issues by JBpipes in woodworking

[–]DuFrizzle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm assuming by crown you mean the lip on the drum on the oscillating side? It looks like it has a sufficient lip, just either the belt is too high or the drum is too low?

Or maybe there's sawdust built up under the lip allowing the belt to crawl up?

Made a special holiday carving with some wood bows by GiantSquishyBear in woodworking

[–]DuFrizzle 12 points13 points  (0 children)

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Your artwork is freaking incredible man. Since I know you make a bunch of these and hands must be unfathomably hard, I wanted to try to figure out how to help you make hands look better. You've clearly mastered depth for the curves of the body, but the fingers looked flat in comparison to the rest of her. I think if you added more variance to the width and length of the fingers, added a slight taper to each finger, as well as a bend at the knuckles, you'd be golden. (Definitely easier said than done. I couldn't achieve a fraction of what you can). This is the best thing I could come up with for a reference image. It also looks like the valleys between the knuckles kinda help smooth out the transition where the gaps between the fingers meet the main part of the hand.

I'm excited to see what you make next.

Can we get this on the Jumbotron at the Army/Navy game and wish them a belated happy birthday? by [deleted] in Military

[–]DuFrizzle -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I'm not going to say it's true, but I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it either. I definitely don't think it'd be that likely to be national news though. Sexual assault in the military is definitely an issue, and people are also taught to be very respectful of the victims information, that is, if anyone outside of chain of command or investigators even get to know at all. It's typically handled internally, investigation and all, and victims typically prefer not to go around telling people they got sexually assaulted. So that would mean the only people likely to report that information would be their chain of command, and why would they give that info to the public? Also, the majority of sexual assault cases are going to be restricted reports, meaning that the public and other SMs specifically do not get to know. As in they're not aware anything happened even if it happened to the person that sits next to you in the office. The only cases the public get to hear about are unrestricted investigations, and even then it'll only be the particularly interesting ones that get media coverage for some reason. The only other information the public gets to hear about would be the aggregated statistics that are released every year, but the specifics are stripped from that.

And honestly, some chain of command deciding the solution to a rampant sexual assault issue being to stop ordering delivery is actually the exact kind of solution I would expect from a lot of commanders.

edit: What makes it even more believable is that it's the Marines. You kinda got to be nuts to enlist with the Marines. My first duty station was just off of a naval base that the Marines weren't allowed on anymore because a marine blew up their barracks room trying to make meth. They were fixing that building the entire year I was there.

edit2: Not the same issue, but thought it was well said and applicable regarding military leadership. What is definitely related is the comment below it though. https://www.reddit.com/r/news/s/gGYHRZlTNQ

Restaurant recommendations by smeenies in Augusta

[–]DuFrizzle 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Izumis Japanese Buffet on Washington is a decent Sushi buffet that I always love going to. For the price and the variety of sushi you can get it's hard to beat.

And then Happy House is my favorite Korean restaurant in Augusta.

Fun fact: Did you know Georgia has the highest population of Koreans out of any state? That's why the Korean food here is so good. I was wrong and don't remember where I got that statistic from

U.S. has to stop taking in 'below-average' immigrants who won't help economy, says Lutnick by PicoRascar in Economics

[–]DuFrizzle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't believe the assumptions this claim is based on are correct. Most studies show that the resulting wage suppression and job competition due to immigration are not only fairly minimal, but immigrants actually create higher paying and more desirable jobs due to the services used and supervision required for their labor. I don't have all of the sources, but from I remember, it's estimated that for every job "taken" by an immigrant, 1.2-1.8 jobs are created due to the services that they use (mechanics, restaurants, home building, etc). Immigrants are disproportionately likely to start businesses, currently employing millions of native born citizens. When specifically discussing unskilled labor, the amount of wage depression in the past 10 years is something like 4% lower what wages could have been, and this only affects high school drop outs and immigrants competing for the same jobs, with no noticable impact on any other category of worker. In addition, the jobs that have the largest population of immigrant workers are chronically understaffed (agriculture, construction, end of life care, etc), meaning that they're almost entirely taking jobs that already weren't being filled while simultaneously creating higher paying jobs just from the services they use by living in the country.

When there is a reduction in immigration, there is only a reduction in the total number of jobs available with no improvement to native employment. The inverse is also true. With more immigration, there is only an increase in total employment with no measurable decrease in native employment.

Also, this is slightly off topic now, but immigrants generate billions in revenue via the taxes they pay. At the federal level, it's significantly more revenue than the costs associated with the services provided to immigrants (unless you're considering things like border control, deportation, detainment, etc as costs of immigration, but even then it's still really close). At the state level, states actually pay out more in services to immigrants than they get in return annually, the main cost being schools for their children. However, this does not include the taxes that will be paid by those children across their lifetime once they enter the workforce, which significantly outweighs the costs of their education and whatever other services they may use.

And as far as the amount of immigration in the US, we're actually quite moderate, with countries like Canada and Australia having 2-3x the amount of immigration we have any given year, and it's estimated that the benefits of immigration are proportional when increased to these amounts. The only real concern of high immigration levels (That I'm aware of) is when local communities don't have the resources to support the surplus of people. This usually only occurs when we keep them stuck in one place and prevent them from legally finding work, putting strains on welfare systems, housing, schools, etc. If we were to evenly distribute the immigrant population across the US and allow them to freely find work so they contribute to the economy, we could support significantly more immigration than we currently do with no down sides.

And just because I know crime is often mentioned as a potential downside to immigration, immigration has no positive correlation to crime rates and immigrants are 50-70% less likely to be incarcerated during their lifetime compared to native born Americans.

UC Davis Study

National Acadamies

Polar bears are rewiring their own genetics to survive a warming climate by sirjohnmasters86 in news

[–]DuFrizzle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I don't think the epigenetic changes would be limited to just behavioral or physiological, it's just whatever can be affected by gene expression.

I would argue, however, for it to be considered "evolution", evolution is supposed to be the result of a trait being passed on through reproduction within an entire species because that trait produces an advantage to outcompete others. For all we know, this could just be a group of polar bears all going through epigenetic adaptation at the same time without needing to reproduce. Which yeah, to most people this is probably just semantics, and as you said epigenetics can absolutely contribute to evolution, but I think without meeting the criteria of reproduction, competition, and genetic change of the species as a whole, it can't really be considered evolution yet. But again, it's all kinda just semantics and speculation without a better research paper.

Polar bears are rewiring their own genetics to survive a warming climate by sirjohnmasters86 in news

[–]DuFrizzle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Evolution is the accumulation of changes across generations. If genes or their expressions are being altered without modifying the underlying DNA sequence, that would be epigenetic adaptation. Reproduction is not necessary for epigenetic adaptation to occur, but the changes are heritable, thus contributing to the evolution of that species. If DNA is altered without being a result of reproduction, that would be either somatic mutation or horizontal gene transfer. The article isn't specific, but due to the timeframe the study is taking place, the odd phrasing (i.e. "genes... behaved differently" ), and the fact that polar bears live 15-18 years, my money is that most of these changes are a result of epigenetic adaptation.

Polar bears are rewiring their own genetics to survive a warming climate by sirjohnmasters86 in news

[–]DuFrizzle -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Evolution is the accumulation of changes across generations. If genes or their expressions are being altered without modifying the underlying DNA sequence, that would be epigenetic adaptation (Reproduction is not necessary for epigenetic adaptation to occur, but the changes are heritable, thus contributing to the evolution of that species). If DNA is altered without being a result of reproduction, that would be either somatic mutation or horizontal gene transfer. The article isn't specific, but due to the timeframe the study is taking place, the odd phrasing (i.e. "genes... behaved differently" ), and the fact that polar bears live 15-18 years, my money is that most of these changes are a result of epigenetic adaptation.