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@Turkleton all whites know: it doesn't matter which side of the register the negro is on, you're gonna have a bad time
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@sun SHIT Y'ALL TENNESSEE IS ON FIRE
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@deprecated_ii The computer has taken as much as it has given in commercial construction design. Initially, CAD radically improved design time. By a lot.
However, over time, the new reality set in, becoming the new normal, and it changed the process. In the manual drafting days, changes were expensive. This front-loaded work in the planning stages, requiring architects to communicate with owners prior to any draftsman putting pencil or pen to mylar. By the end of the project, any changes were minor, and there was an implicit agreement that these would be paid for by the owner if he requested the changes.
Specifications were extremely stable, as re-typing a few hundred pages on an IBM Selectric was onerous. The entire process depended on competent contractors and sub-contractors who knew when they needed to read between the lines.
Now, projects are not finished at the deadline. Addendums are numerous as they are nearly cost-free, and the speed at which changes can percolate through the disciplines means the architect and owner leave many details, some major, until extremely late in the project. This introduces many opportunities for mistakes and omissions.
The level of detail that can be communicated means contractors are now expecting that any deviation, no matter how slight, to become an expensive change order. They know that if they leave money on the table at bid they can recoup quite a bit of that by interpreting the drawings and specifications in their favor. The mistakes and omissions leaves this avenue open.
Meanwhile, all the cost savings of CAD or BIM are baked into the price of design. There's no more fat to cut. This pushes against the design. Why do buildings not look like buildings, but instead look like the box a building would come in? Yes, partially because architecture has been degenerate for a long time now, but also because that's cheaper.
Computers gave us efficiency, but nothing is without cost. And it turns out that efficiency costs us beauty and soul.
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@Nudhul @Hoss @vic @AnungIkwe
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@sickburnbro it will show that Amazon is just a big ass drop-shipping company with a side hustle as a Rent-A-Center for computers
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@sickburnbro some schools still did what was sometimes called "leveling" into the 80s, identifying and pushing the smart kids forward, but that's about as late as i can see
it's degenerated into a sort of self-selection into AP classes and the like, but for best effect, this needs to start in like 5th grade
what few "gifted" programs are left have degenerated into nonsense
irritatingly, this has also resulted in a downgrade in the quality of teachers available
if all you're doing is corralling Fledgling Economic Units, shit, might as well phone it in
or better yet find some other work, let the 103 IQs do this scutwork
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@sickburnbro we are reaping now the sowing from tabula rasa thinking of decades ago
>why can't we build a phone in the US
because we told the 6th graders in 1998 that everybody was equal and there are no smart people, everybody is smart
the smart fraction is our greatest renewable resource, and we dumped them down the sewer in the quest to protect feelings
it's the goddamnedest thing i've ever seen
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@TrevorGoodchild @morgthoraktheundead i couldn't read it
the prose is thickly overblown and laced throughout with a web of references to people i've never heard of
this nigga wrote a diary about getting shoved into a locker
i'm like "dude, i don't care, but maybe don't be such a faggot?"
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the worst part of getting old is you can no longer pretend that one day you will go to ninja school and learn how to disappear in a puff of smoke
also, sometimes you fart when you get up from the couch, but the ninja thing really stings
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@p @epsi @bigmattoidchimpin @sysrq @ins0mniak @Stellar @realcaseyrollins @NonPlayableClown @thendrix i considered buying an N-GAGE because it was one of the few phones that would sync contacts with MacOS X at the time
it was between this and another Nokia that had the number pad in a circle like the old rotary phones, which was another sort of madness
a Sophie's choice of terrible design to make my life slightly more convenient
but they came out with a less retarded version of the circle-numpad one and i was saved, thanks Nokia, and also, wtf
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@Hoss nothing says "fight fascism" like a $14 burrito
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@p >"All of the cars are real"
fucking lol
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@p @charlie_root @ThatWouldBeTelling @mangeurdenuage @mischievoustomato not to mention "cloud" absolutely does NOT automatically mean redundancy or high-availability or anything like it
normal people think it does, however, which is why i have to spend the time explaining this
just ask the people that lost their files to one of the several OneDrive fiascos who figured the "cloud" would keep their shit safe
"cloud" is a marketing term, which by default means it doesn't mean anything
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@p yeah, i remember the old diagrams, and depicting the Internet as a cloud doesn't bother me, that's actually kinda accurate
normal people absolutely misunderstand what it means and what it does, and so any technical conversation i have with them is now longer and more difficult
the marketer that came up with it is definitely a genius, but that won't stop me from stripping him of his skin if i ever track him down
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@p @charlie_root @mangeurdenuage @mischievoustomato i want to find whoever first conflated "a bunch of servers" with "the cloud" and see if i can peel them in one long strip
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@sickburnbro @nugger i saw a video of a guy that did this, with the sprocket on the opposite side and connected to the bike's pedal sprocket
a lot of welding was involved
he moseyed along at a modest speed with a lot of noise
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@deprecated_ii @mischievoustomato >"2022 demographics for November’s National Novel Writing Month, as gathered through our annual participant survey:
>67.7% female, 15.7% male, 9.6% nonbinary, 7% self-identify/prefer not to identify"
whew
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@Doll i'm going to get to the bottom of this and convince whichever miscreant what did this shameful thing to take up cocaine like they have self-respect and honor
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i found an empty white monster in my trash can
what is going on at my house, i have completely lost control
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@Terry well, to make an iphone, you have to have gorilla glass, so you have to buy at least a million gorillas
and of course a gorilla masher, or two if you want multi-threading
and there's a chip in there, i've been to the grocery store, Doritos are like $6.99 a bag, but there are a bunch of chips in the bag, so that's a relative bargain
batteries require a lot of rare earth minerals, so you have to dig where the earth is rare, and that means (for the US) in Hawaii, which is expensive because they believe in volcano gods and will kill you
so i think $100K per iphone is probably on the low end tbh
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