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I'll disagree with you on the small statement. A wise man once told me "you can do little jobs with big machines, but you can't do big jobs with little machines." I've found that holds true pretty well. My neighbor has an 18HP Kubota tractor with a backhoe attachment. I've used it a good bit. The little tractor is pretty limited on what it can do, primarily because of its light weight. I've tried digging stumps with it, mostly unsuccessfully. I'll soon be in the market for a piece of machinery, I'm thinking I'm going to go the tractor with BH attachment route, because I need a tractor anyway. I plan to buy the biggest one I can afford. Probably going to forego a hydrostatic transmission, I'd say that alone would get you a lot more machine for the money.
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As far as using it for a search engine, Google would be like asking a crackhead for directions, while AI would be like asking a friendly police officer. I get the privacy thing, I'm not worried about it in the least for work purposes. My employer encourages us to use it and I'm not doing anything that's sensitive. Basically, developing training programs that every decent size company has or should have, which basically meant that AI produces a program for me based on a bunch of other stuff that's floating around out there and then I tailor it to be specific to our company. As for Excel, I use one worksheet to track progress across the company and have various formulas within that worksheet. At least one of them i would never have been able to write on my own.
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Friday at work I used AI to write a particular training program from me. We aren't to the point that it produces a polished finished product in the format that I need, but it churned out a nice outline that needed minimum polishing and I was able to copy and paste a good deal of the material into PPT. I find this especially useful for double checking that I haven't forgotten tidbits of information that should have been included. This task alone, AI saved me several hours had I just built the same program from scratch on my on. On another project, I had been asked to produce a SOP for a project that I've been working on. I was basically able to copy and paste from an email that had most of the important details of the project with instructions to "write a SOP on this material". Once again, it took me a few minutes to polish it up, but probably saved me a couple of hours had I just generated the document on my own. So AI saved me at least 5-6 hours in one work day. Honestly, I'm pretty overwhelmed by my workload most of the time. I'm not sure how I would keep my head above the water without AI. I use it on more projects than not.
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There are always naysayers, just worth the horseless carriage, telephone, and home computer. I have to ask the reason for those not wanting to use it? Gave you researched it, or do you just not like it because it's new? Personally, I use AI almost daily. I've found it extremely useful for complex excel formulas, one in particular Chat GPT churned out in seconds what would have taken me days to accomplish. I've also used it to write policies. More and more I'm using it as a search engine. I'm my experience Chat GPT has worked much better as a search engine than Google.
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I think I tractor with a backhoe attachment or the way to go. A much cheaper option, that honestly I'm not crazy about at all, are the Harbor Freight tow behind backhoes. I didn't like the thought of having to get off the machine and reposition it with a truck every time it needs to be moved. Plus there is no way that thing has enough ass to dig anything other than soft dirt. All that said there is a Facebook page dedicated to them and they get great reviews by people who actually own them. Another option is a Chinese mini excavator. I know basically nothing about them other than they can be had for about $5k. But I imagine that with most any Chinese clone equipment you are rolling the dice, best case scenario.
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sale-or-trade 4 new Taurus TX22 compact mags-$60
10-Ring replied to Tom B's topic in Gear Classifieds
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I got a ticket from a camera in Oak Ridge 15+ years ago. I was on my way from the electric company to the gas company paying utility bills. I don't guess they thought they weren't getting enough of my money that day already. I do believe that most places that have tried them have gotten away from using them. They just don't seem to be popular with the people. Side note. The one that I got years ago in Oak Ridge, I paid and went along my way, I was indeed speeding. However, the way they had it set up the fine was $50 and if you were assessed with a fine $50 or under the city would not let you appeal the fine. I heard rumors that the city was being sued to change the policy, not sure whatever actually happened.
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Dragontargets.com 4", 6", and 8" AR500 1/2" targets for $29.99. I bought a set of these last week and they arrived quickly and seem to be your run of the mill steel targets. They also have several other good deals right now. Shipping was $15. Can't go wrong if you are in the market for steel targets.
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LOOKING TO GET A SUPPRESSOR, SOME QUESTIONS
10-Ring replied to aknifemaker's topic in Firearms Gear and Accessories
I got mine through Silencer Shop, but you pretty much have to have a local shop to facilitate the purchase. I happened to have a great local shop that works with Silencer Shop and it was relatively hassle free. Palmetto State is now selling suppressors and they advertise that they ship to your door, I'm unsure on how that works legally. I did an individual trust and the ATF typically completes those much more quickly. -
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When I first tried them I promised myself if I felt an urge to drink real beer after drinking NAs I would. I was never tempted.
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I could have written a lot of that myself. Looking at 8 years sober. It's not for everyone, but I really enjoy NA beers. They have come a long way since O'Douls was the standard. Athletic Brewing Co makes several good craft beers and they are available at most grocery stores, never had a bad one from them. I prefer Budweiser Zero as a "yard beer" and they really hit the spot for that hot afternoon beer. I was hesitant when I first tried them that I would slip back to real beer, but I've been drinking them for about 7 years now without issue. Also, I'll have one or maybe 2 NAs in a given evening, and not every evening. As opposed to the 8-30 beers per night I was consuming before I quit. There are NA whiskeys out there. I've tried 2 of them (can't remember the name of either) they were both pretty unenjoyable, one moreso than the other.
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Stones River Hunter Education center questions
10-Ring replied to TN_Raven's topic in Nashville Area's Nashville Chatter
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Stones River Hunter Education center questions
10-Ring replied to TN_Raven's topic in Nashville Area's Nashville Chatter
It's been years since I shot there but used to you had to "qualify" at 100 to shoot on the 200. I can't remember the requirements but it wasn't anything crazy. Basically just a requirement to keep the same people off the 200 yard range that were destroying the roof on the pistol range. Another question on that range, do they still not let anyone use the skeet range? To my knowledge it's never been used, it at least publicly available. I have a group of guys that would wear it out. -
Late to the party. I have the exact setup that the OP asked about. I've carried it a lot in the 7-8 years that I've had it. I bought it because I got a stupid good deal on it. And it just happened to have a CT laser on it. I find it mostly useless. Personally, I fail to hit target most of the time if I'm using the laser. I'll put it this way. If I had to replace the gun, the replacement having the CT laser would have zero bearing on the purchase for me.
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Saturday bump, headed towards Crossville today. Willing to listen to offers.
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Bought this set a while back and decided to go a different direction. I never mounted them and don't know that they have ever been mounted. Fits a 12 ga, and includes stock bolt. No dents, dings, etc. I live in Lebanon and I'm in Franklin often. Also Monday and Tuesday next week I can meet in the vicinity of any of the highlighted roads on the map below.
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I would venture to guess that most of his clients have little concern over what time it is. That said, and I know that there are some good hearted lawyers out there, but the lawyers always get paid, which is part of the reason I have those same trust issues.
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I'll take it, sending PM
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I watch basically zero live TV but stumbled upon his Instagram account a while back, he's something.
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It's been years since I lived in the area but Citico/Tellico is one of my favorite places on Earth. Not sure it checks the box of not remote, but that's one of the things I like about it. If it helps, I'd call it remote, but you can drive right up too the creek in Citico as the road follows the creek. Depending on your exact location alive the creek you are no further than maybe 45 minutes from Madisonville or Tellico Plains. I see you are in Oak Ridge. I used to live there too. Although I prefer Tellico/Citico the Clinch River is nothing to turn your nose up at.
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Thanks for the info, I figured I'd pattern it with lead first to save on the TSS shells. Sounds like I may not need much adjustment.