I guess the span deflection/moment/&c calculations don't really change much (i.e. get fancy) on brutalist state buildings. But he did grow up hand-drafting blueprints (I remember the ink/smell from my childhood) and did have a regular 3D/CAD technologist for fancier designs (he despised architects' more-esoteric "Vision").

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Wouldn't much of modern chemistry rapidly be integrating/upgrading within python environments (e.g. AlphaFold) on much-faster equipment? I know a few PhDs that are blown away by recent advances in dissertation-level output from machines — in days vs. entire graduate programs – and even walked the graduation stage with (now-Nobel Laureate) John, an Alphafold co-publisher... obviously his perspective is unique/polar.

They've been simultaneous for decades... and remains a breathtaking detour (if you're out there, schedule night-travel).

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I like the similar project which uses GPS signal offsets, captured on a RaspberryPi, to then broadcast (e.g:) a local-network-timeserver.

I used this to compare hybrid Camry v. RAV4 – both are clustered on the opposite side of the diagram.

Thanks for the neat link! I went from a turbocharged Subaru to a Toyota hybrid... and the performance is similar with 2.25x the mileage (and no premium gas)! It's neat getting 50+ mpg and still being able to accelerate.

His class had a similar $$self$-$published$$ "book" [a packet of stapled 10lb paper] which hadn't been updated since his thesis, some sixty years earlier (literally 80+, now). Required turn-ins carried serialized imprints!

RIP when he died that summer and next year I retook the same class, with much more ease / better instruction.

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Dr. Shithead's wife was actually responsible for my entire scholarship, sweet-as-pie, and we'd often joke about her husband's "reputation" – he's so gentle with me, but I know who he is.

Both are longdead, now – thanks Drs. T-s!

Bezos' admission, recently, that the bottom 50% of current taxpayers ought'a NOT pay any taxes... is just preparing us for the inevitable UBI'd masses.

: own nothing, be happy!

I do just fine without.

But certainly there are additional challenges. In my city, for example, there has been a massive shift towards phone-pay parking... which excludes my paying for it — still waiting for my citation (to challenge in court).

Carrying my pager with me is the only reason people will pretend-believe I'm actually phoneless. Many have never seen beeper technology, its one-way advancedness.

And then that Its newer RAM is even several orders of magnitude faster[-than-new.SSD]

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I now run a fulltime MacPro6,1 – with dozens of gigabytes of RAMdisk – as an integrated swapdisk on my localnetwork.

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I was recently gifted a MacPro6,1 (2013-2016 RIP) [<$], perhaps among Apple's most elegant [computer?] product designs, ever.

It has replaced three other machines, and its "obsolete" 6-core Xeon is more than capable of being a fantastic local fileserver (and upgradable!). It's still able to run a ©20twenty-something operating system (2021? iirc), so even the latest macOS releases can screencast into and fileserve from it. It's native and not cobbled-together mess [0].

[<$] I have no official connection with them, but have been a very happy customer of <http://eshop.macsales.com> (et.al.) for decades – they sell this model for a few hundred dollars, with a short-term warranty (to determine stability) – don't get the D700s, they reputation is flakeyAF – if I hadn't been gifted this phenomenal & "obsolete" machine, I would now purchase one

[0] e.g. native USB3 support (via Thunderbolt2/3 adapter); no OCLP hackintoshing (neat_but_cobbled.gif)

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Of course having spinning HDDs isn't possible inside of this "trashcan" MacPro, but adding an external 4-bay Terramaster (hotswappable) has given me the 24TB fileserver I've always dreamed of... which allowed me to finally retire my MacPro5,1 [•] entirely from the macintosh ecosystem (now a Linux cryptominer/node, only when heating is otherwise on).

[•] The MacPro6,1 with an external hard disk is infinitely more usable than a MacPro5,1 – doesn't require any OCLP and is very very stable/interactive. In my usagecase, I have used four networked spinning platters to replace eight (and removed two other machines entirely from network). This is approximately a 250W continuous load removed from a residential environment, equivalent to your refrigerator running (all the time)

While I'll readily admit to remembering nothing from her class, I took physical chemistry [πchem] from one of the co-inventors [2] of white LEDs. This is where my own limited fleshtelligence began searching for Heisenberg's god...

[πchem] e.g: how metals behave when struck with electron[-like thing]s)

[2] ONE of two known-methods, then

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But yes, once any process exists, it's usually only a matter of heat management to keep it working full wall-slam-ed-ly [ƒpu]

[ƒpu] which is why to run GPU fanspeeds high enough to keep <65°C – don't care about the noisiness if they'll then last forever; change your car's oil (and keep topped-up)

I don't consider door-knocking rude, but apparently that's not trendy anymore...

I've run several PiHoles for several years, primarily on latest versions (up to v5; current is v6.4.x) – recently updating to v6 has been extremely frustrating [0], e.g: realizing that even when you tell the pi's/en0 ("internet") interface to use a specific DNS server (in GUI/network settings), it still uses the DNS-server recommended by your local DHCP server [1].

[0] I am aware that this is a joint-issue between RaspbianOS and Pi-Hole teams

[1] which requires TWO sudo nmcli which newbs have no business configuring – what happened to -simple- ?

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If you ever want to consider how crazy DNS-capture is getting, realize that Firefox/&c are all dark-patterning the abilities to turn off "secure"-DNS. The latest Raspian/Pi-Hole defaults are terrifying... [2]

[2] another example: why doesn't v6 enable HTTPS localhost web-access, by default (like all previous versions?!)? Do the developers really expect us commoners to know how to generate localhost certificates – this is obviously behavior due to how the pihole useraccount behaves differently then the previously-root-blessed v5-behavior

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Thankfully, I've kept a local copy of my favorite distro of Pihole v5, and it is readily-cloneable.

When I attempted to pass a --version tag during a freshinstall (requesting v5 from remote installer), it went ahead and installed latest v6 (so why even.?!).

This "treatment land" is literally adjacent to a river, which flows into Alabama... and becomes multiple other MSA's drinking supply. This interstate conflict is what first brought PFAs to national attention. Thank god it doesn't flow to my watersource, but that's naïve thinking it doesn't carryover in the winds, waters, fauna.

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>The scale of manufacturing there is wild.

It's primarily due to two things: lack of regulations (see: PFAs), subpar compensation (our "right to work" Southern Pride). There are practically no local IT jobs (handful of poorly-compensated churners), and most of the tech-elite around here work from home (25gbps fiber, asynch, to your door).

Volkswagon has silo'd their third-shift as we brace for the inevitable economy we deserve.

Bank eradication couldn't come soon enough, IMHO.

>>GENESIS>BLOCK>> "Chancellors on the brink of destruction"...

Nope.

>You send a lot of letters I guess?

[checks own profile] mostly, typewritten.

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My stockbroker hates my chosen distance. So does my lawyer. So does most family. For most, letters suffice.

In my neighborhood I am well respected and known. Everybody else can come visit... or else fuck off.

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There should be an email/phone platform where you have to pay to contact — and then the receiver can choose to refund payment, if desired.

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>sounds impossible to give up but it isn't really

I am among the free-est persons I know. Definitely the luckiest. Requires a huge amount of sacrifice and disconnection, but I am rewarded immensely with both.

Then enshittification hit the forever-forking streaming services.

So it's often been back to the high seas, matey... hell, I even buy CDs, now (it's easier for rarer stuff, and then remains forever mine).

I do like how Firefox now has a "prevent future AI integrations" checkbox[0], but I just don't believe it anymore (i.e. that it won't magically `uncheck` itself and then enable features I've not requested/authorized).

Which is why I just used an LLM to help me create a local network admin rule to disable the update engine entirely (this SHOULD. NOT. BE. NECESSARY).

[•] <https://www.perplexity.ai/search/b0d3bf5d-7ac7-4d4c-b6c6-32b...>

[0] with a sick darkpattern (for most users to laregly ignore)

Absolutely. My bank began requiring a text-to-login, so I just stopped logging in. A branch location is walking distance from my house, so I bother them all the time with simple account information requests (and state every time "when can I use a Yubikey instead of phone for login?").

I legitimately have never scanned a QR code, have never Zoomed, don't even own a phone anymore, and stopped using email many years ago.

Really hoping Yubikey becomes widely accepted at US banks/CUs, soon.

The bedsheet protest scene is embarassingly relatable and ... I think my pyloric is aching up again.

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I've only ever started one Pulitzer (non-fiction) that absolutely could not be finished: The Killer Angels (although it was recommended to me by a former soldier who loved it).