onthecanposting

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by onthecanposting 2y ago
It's common practice here to take demolished concrete from a structure and pavement and use it as structural fill for new development. Sometimes on the same property. Some agencies will not allow contractors to haul it off as it has sa
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by onthecanposting 2y ago
I think abrogating the property rights of every property owner in exchange for some people getting a shortcut is not a very good trade. There are legal routes for public agencies to purchase portions of land to create routes for transportat
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by onthecanposting 2y ago
You are right! CAD users encode a design intent into the software, just like you encode a design intent into an editor. I model a construction outcome with geometry like you might model business rules with functions and objects. Some of the
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by onthecanposting 2y ago
"The biggest reason this hasn't happened so far is the lack of a truly capable parametric kernel" Does parasolid not fit this requirement? The capabilities I've seen in Plasticity are very impressive. Or do you specifica
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by onthecanposting 2y ago
They may just be renderings or heavy edits. I noticed a total lack of parking facilities for almost all buildings pictured. Highways are also pretty small for being next to what should be major traffic generators. There is also an absence o
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by onthecanposting 2y ago
It might not be that bad. Auto workers produce more cars per employee, but some of the really repetitive activities are done by robots now. I think not having to do the same weld 8+hrs a day every day with consumers still getting their car
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by onthecanposting 2y ago
The productive output of many people is also just mediocre. I think of chat AIs as near-zero cost interns or the boss's nephew. Probably doesn't know what it's talking about, but can get a lot done with supervision. I hope t
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by onthecanposting 2y ago
Some people manage projects that aren't software at all. Git has little utility for construction documents, and big construction design projects may involve interdisciplinary teams of dozens of people of widely varying cost and availab
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by onthecanposting 2y ago
Buy a quality printer for their asking price and make your own molds. If it's fairly large, you may want to put the mold in sand for support, or cast in sections. Just remember to leave yourself pick points for lifting, and use dowels
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by onthecanposting 2y ago
The CAPEX seemed a bit glossed over. $50ish billion isn't a small ask. Perhaps I missed a zero somewhere, but 5MAF/yr would require pumping 6,900cfs of water to/from the gulf with 230+ft of head. We're going to need a bi
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by onthecanposting 2y ago
>I can't drink only beer. Can't? Don't sell yourself short.
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by onthecanposting 2y ago
Sharing a wall with a neighbor is something I happily to pay a premium to avoid. Hearing a neighbor beat her son or listening to top volume manufactured R&B beats at 2AM when I needed to be at work at 530AM are not fond memories. It was
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by onthecanposting 2y ago
Sometimes offices are empty because banks that own them dictate the lease rates and building managers can't adjust price to fit the market rate. I sometimes think city councils and codes get too much heat on this issue and the 800lb fi
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by onthecanposting 2y ago
Yes. We don't use metric in the USA and you can't make us :)
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by onthecanposting 2y ago
100m at 1 lane is around 430SY. That's probably 2hrs of milling and an hour of tacking and paving, with maybe another hour or so for incidentals. So you may only get half a workday of production. For time consuming repairs, like full-d
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by onthecanposting 2y ago
Honestly, this sounds like normal life being a junior employee at a big company. An ossified clique of old guard managers pick winners and losers with little regard for merit? Unbelievable bureaucratic overhead? Your boss expects you to fla
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by onthecanposting 2y ago
If that bookkeeping overhead is fed into analysis and process mining to drive improvement, it might be a net gain. More often though, I see yet-another-spreadhseet applied as panacea, then it's forgotten in a few months and the process
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by onthecanposting 2y ago
There is also the effect of decriminalization and depolicing which I did not see well addressed in the article. There are parts of the US where local government has the social leaning or at least their key donors have the social leaning to
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by onthecanposting 2y ago
To your last point, Bentley software is standard for most DOTs for highway design. All their offerings are rife with quality issues to the point that I have never run their software without some spooky behavior requiring a reset or flushing
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by onthecanposting 2y ago
I wish I had listened to this a long time ago. That starting so niche nobody bothers you is a winning strategy would not have occurred to me. Thanks for sharing!
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by onthecanposting 2y ago
I don't think it's logistically or politically possible, but I really wish DWG, DXF and DGN would be replaced by SVG. That 2D drawings for the AEC industry are unusable by the majority of programs is absurd.
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by onthecanposting 2y ago
This is a lot like the Amazon strategy. At one point you probably had a few alternatives in mind for online shopping. Much less so now.
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by onthecanposting 2y ago
Microsoft will dust off it's previous merger plan from the last time this political football was punted and fill superfluousmanagement and "trust and safety" positions with old national security alumni. The surveillance will
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by onthecanposting 2y ago
I've tried to research details about the size of BRI and find specific projects. It's surprisingly opaque if you're used to FHWA's public disclosure of funds and projects. You could trace most hihhway funding in, say Wes
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by onthecanposting 2y ago
Would it be fair to say that civilian aviation is in a doom loop at this point? Margins get tight, quality falls, government increases cost of compliance, margins get tighter, quality falls, government saves the consumer again...?
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by onthecanposting 2y ago
This depends on location. Kids walk and bike where I live, but the streets are narrow and drained by open ditches, so there is more risk than streets with pedestrian access built in. Drivers are usually considerate of this and go slowly, th
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by onthecanposting 2y ago
The short answer is pride and inertia. The immediate cause is lower management can't be assed to learn anything, and nobody makes them. This is in part because at big firms after 5-10 years you can politic or job-hop into management an
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by onthecanposting 2y ago
I wish I had read this a year ago. I kept a mental note of pain points in the workflow, played it cool for four months, researched solutions to the problems, then when I got a shot as a task lead on a fresh project, I jettisoned the rituals
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by onthecanposting 2y ago
Different people have different motive forces in their lives. Some people hate work and would be upset by losing their leisure time. Some people love the glory of challenging or prestigious projects and would welcome that situation. A good
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by onthecanposting 2y ago
You are being helped. Given these requirements, it's pretty likely that your water utility will hike your rates to pay for the required upgrades. I feel badly for the rural utilities. This is likely to push the trend of regionalization

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