luddybuddy

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[–] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oops, sorry. This outlet is worker owned so I wouldn’t want to bypass that.

[–] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Here's the full text of the indictment: https://hellgatenyc.com/read-the-eric-adams-indictment-here/

Anybody know what's up with this Turkish connection? My assumption is that it's mob and or nepotism stuff rather than political stuff. I don't think Turkey has any real interest in NYC politics. Is it just that well-connected Turkish people own venues in NYC and they get their political patrons to donate to Adams? Is there something more funny/interesting going on?

[–] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

OT: Slavoj’s shirt is so long he doesn’t need pants. Why he do this??

[–] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

Absolutely. It’s better with WFH as I have started to just browse the polygon mammal site or do laundry when this happens, but I used to really struggle in the office, feeling like I need to look busy.

[–] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 56 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Weirdly I was doing the same to various other texts “stop arming Israel” etc and they didn’t stop until I sent the single word “stop”

[–] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank you all for the sources! I had only seen it from wwiiimpressions.com but a) they’re chuds (predictably) and b) they’re sold out. But I got a great pair of boots from them once upon a time.

[–] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I know some of that exists; it never showed up in my world. We never modeled buildings with enough detail to make it really useful. Occasionally someone would get excited about Tekla and we'd spend some time trying to do shop drawing reviews in 3D and then go back to PDF. What I meant was that it isn't yet a standard thing that is understood by any technician in the industry, it's proprietary software that is subject to change with every release.

[–] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago (7 children)

That's real cute. Some of the WWII denim stuff is really dumb and cute. the navy had a shawl collar denim work jacket! so silly!

[–] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Prints have a design language to them which allows you to express fully constrained geometric designs on a napkin if you need to. Dimensions, radii, diameters, angles, datums, positions, projections, sections, GD&T. None of this is obvious in a 3D model. You don't know what the driving dimensions are, what can be inferred from other dimensions, if it is a coincidence or a requirement that two features line up, etc.

This is so critical. In architecture and structural engineering, you can add to this that you don't actually know a lot of the real dimensions - you're laying out the important ones from the structural grid or from survey points, and whatever is left doesn't matter.

Even markup, at least in a design environment, can be done in 3D (or at least on a computer), but the communication of constraints, that is, what dimensions are important and which are irrelevant or unknowable has not yet been developed in 3D models, and I suspect it will be some time before any useful language for that purpose stabilizes.

 

Why do lantern flies congregate next to modern commercial buildings, specifically those with aluminum storefront system facades and black granite?

I just killed thirty in front of a high rise. The next block, a neoclassical building, had none. Crossed the street to a grocery store on the ground floor of another high rise and killed probably 40 in half the time.

Is it warmer at the base of these buildings? The two modern buildings faced each other so were in very different sun.

 

Hi folks, I stopped posting (not here, I never posted here) back in 2014 or so when my local DOT stopped being responsive to my incessant requests for better bike lanes and kept not posting as I slowly became overwhelmed with the constant stream of opinions from other white dudes clogging up all the tubes, but the fediverse is starting to coax me out of my shell. One of these days I might even manage one of these 'shit-posts' the youths are doing.

I'm an engineer (structural and software), and I live in a city in the US, and I ride bikes, work on my bikes, camp with my bike, and look at my bikes a lot. I'm into urbanism and transportation and other things that go hand in hand with riding a bike in a US city. I also make clothes and do some hand-tool woodworking, am weirdly into swords (it's not a good time to be a leftist sword guy on youtube, I tell you what). I belong to an industrial arts group, so if you're looking for space to make shit and you also happen to live in a city in the US then let me know, we like new people.

Politically, I read the Manifesto in high-school and considered myself a leftist but generally went along with liberal ideology for a long time, thinking markets are cool we just need better regulation, I'm sure we can vote our way out of this, if we all just had (business) unions everything would be fine, etc. Finally climate change, Black liberation movements, and yeah, Ol' Bernard started motivating me to peel back some of the cracking layers of contradiction in my ideology and read (or OK, listen to podcasters read) some theory. I feel better now.

Genderically, I chose comrade/them pronouns as I've long been pretty lukewarm about being a cis man. I felt some dysphoria around high-school and college but then I grew a big ass beard and just decided that my personal definition of masculinity was pattern baldness and a face rug, and I could perform whatever way I wanted and feel secure in myself. I've been shopping around he/they or various forms for a minute and figured the internet, and especially Hexbear, would be a fine place to pin one on for a while.

Sincerely, LuddyBuddy

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