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There’s some good answers here, but really, there’s better places in the country to grow food. Places that have more seasonal appropriate times or multiple seasons for crops, places that are closer to large numbers of people, and places that have processing facilities for those foods. The Midwest has always been for bulk commodity crops, it was wheat, rye, and oats before corn and beans took over. It’s not really the case that farmers stopped growing food for people and started growing corn. They really weren’t ever growing food directly for consumer markets.

Finally, even if all of our fresh produce were grown here in the state you might not see any change. 1 acre of tomato plants would feed hundreds of people. A few 40 acre plots would feed the state.

We run a bit larger footprint than that and have had a good time justifying a window for Elasticsearch of around 20-30 days with long term either on cold zero replica for up to 60 days and full term storage on in plaintext files in the disk with xz compression. The plaintext disk is significantly smaller, consuming around the same amount for 1 year of storage as one month for the Elasticsearch. This really keeps costs down without hurting the searchability.

The college square mall in Cedar Falls is having a card show tomorrow — maybe try your luck there!

I’ve been in the area for 15 years and I think Waterloo is coming along nicely. There’s always good restaurants and people at community events. Waterloo is a hub and it’s hard to avoid heading there monthly if not weekly if you live in a 30 mile radius. Their schools provide reliable and accessible education to a very diverse(racially and socioeconomically) group of students. You never hear of them on some list of failing students or corrupt school boards. I come from a smaller and poorer town and I can always tell that there are just so many more opportunities for kids and adults in the area. I would imagine that Waterloo is still on a path of recovery from the issues encountered by the change of economic output in the 80s and 90s, but it’ll take time. And that’s ok!

It’s hard to know what you’re comparing against, since you don’t say where else you’ve been accepted. UNI is big enough to expose you to a variety of people and subjects. It’s small enough to be accessible. In many ways UNI punches above its weight. You won’t be wasting your time or money going there for college. I really recommend state universities for all who feel that higher education is in their future.

I recommend you get in touch with Dr. Connors to ask for a copy of the paper. They’re usually pretty accommodating— it seems weird that it’s behind a login. https://csbs.uni.edu/history/directory/thomas-g-connors

I am playing Geminate right now. They have their moments for sure. I don’t have any companions that can provide elements and I’m not invested in doing it myself, so I just go without. I play hard — planning to exhaust around round 12-15. This works well in FH where you don’t normally have to all survive to the end. I average around 50-70 damage per scenario at level 6. I would say this class isn’t as exciting as others, but I have all of the flexibility I need at my fingertips. I like them.

Your worries are correct. If you are in a position of discretion then you should focus on the skills you have at your disposal. Find an MSP to manage the virtualization. As your team changes or if management wants to reduce spending on the MSP see if you can diversify the talent at your disposal.

You’ll need to set the discovery.type to single-node. See details here: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-discovery-settings.html

We haven’t been able to get Tones reliably for couple years at Fareway. I think something has changed.

Sometimes the inefficiency is the efficient solution. The process to resolve might require time, money, and consolidated authority that is just not available for whatever reasons there are.

Yah it’s half of the cheap places. Love this town 😁

If you’re talking from crime, you’re definitely safe in all of Cedar Falls. Aside from the occasional public disturbances that are expected in the college areas, there’s rarely any crime to speak of. Definitely nothing that hits the evening news. It’s been awhile since I was back there, but Gold Falls was always fine and Lynn was great — no idea if she still runs it.

No, in a background process it doesn’t require any TTY.

We use a cron that calls a script that sleeps for a random amount of time within our reboot window.

I was an avid reader in HS, Dostoevsky, Faulkner and other classics in HS. I got nothing out of Hamlet. Bearly understood it and can’t remember any of the key components besides the highlights you would get from the summary of Wikipedia. I wouldn’t read too much into this. 🤷‍♂️

I went to a local jewelry store and bought a ring within this range a number of years ago. Small diamond and a nice design in band to compensate so it’s not boring. We added nicer studded bands for the marriage. There were cheaper and more expensive rings to choose from. I don’t think that range is especially limiting and you definitely don’t have to do anything special to get jewelry at that rate. Make sure you know her preferences. If there’s expectations from social media or TV you might need to ease into reality — sometimes people just don’t know what most common rings look like.

I’m a sysadmin with a degree in history. I’m not even the only one on my team with a liberal arts degree! Like others have said — do the work. MSP and indie courses are a good start.

I know people who completed the program years ago. I believe their main choice of UNI was driven by convenience, I’m not sure how it stacks up compared to other school. It’s probably at least worth your time to meet with the recruiters or program coordinators. I really liked my undergrad program at UNI!

I am self taught and got into a Masters program after 10 years of experience. Honestly, I think it’s great. I’m learning things I wouldn’t have figured out on my own and from an ethical point of view, I’m not sure I should been allowed to do the IT work I was doing when I was younger with out any specific degree or certification.

My folks have a dairy with a viewing deck. It’s open to the public to just go in, but you can get a guided tour scheduled.

https://jonesfamilydairy.com

I’ve been in big hog buildings — those are different than dairy parlors since they’re kind of storage and there is not much in the way of activity. I’m not sure what you’re looking for to that end.

I used one of the plastic soap travel containers in the dorms for two years. Didn’t even think about it — that’s just how it was. Ensure it snaps shut and just give it a rinse every time to keep the buildup out. No need to let it dry or anything, nothing ever got gross. I used a dop bag and I remember like once it got loose and wiped everything down, but I was careless about it. Eventually I thought to stick a rubber band around it before traveling, but the daily walk to the shower caused no trouble.

This is not normal for Iowa. Expect one or two storms to monitor per month.

There’s others: OpenStack for the really big places, RHEL has a piecemeal offering, and XCP-NG. I don’t think Proxmox will be enterprise ready until we start hearing complaints from small and self-hosters.

We average around 5k, performance is fine.