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Saw a box turtle in Williamsburg last weekend. Healthy looking guy hanging out in the shade. Seemed like he was having a good time.
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We got 7 inches of snow and they didn't plow the roads until the very end. I tore rear end around the neighborhood in my Subaru for hours. (Its a 2009 2.5i Hatch. When I say tear rear end, I was doing 10) I've had the car for 15 years and when we get the first snow of the season I like to give her the beans to figure out what her mechanical limits are. We've had issues this year. I was shocked how smooth everything was. Even turned traction control off for a bit. It was magical. SquirrelyPSU fucked around with this message at 14:20 on Jan 20, 2025 |
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Shouts out to Reading Terminal Market. Best breakfast sandwich ever? Go Birds.
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Conan and Randall Munroe talking for two hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wRdSl2TkLo
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Icon Of Sin posted:Be kind y’all. One of the baristas at a local coffee shop where I’m a regular, she gave me a note today (her last day) that said: I try to treat a lot of people with this kind of respect and courtesy sort of out of second nature. I don't need affirmation for being that way, but when something like this happens its like getting the warmest hug for no reason. Hyrax Attack! posted:Seattle Mariners finally got a subscription app so can watch games for a reasonable fee. Previously had to subscribe to expensive cable package. I still watch the Sounders, but I was so blase over Pirates management when I was in Seattle that it didn't stick even with Griffey and Ichiro. I've been to a couple of Phillies games in the last couple of years and those were A LOT of fun (one of them was Bryce Harper's return from injury, I was in a suite and he hit a homer and that place exploded) so now I'm this weird amalgamation of Steelers/Sounders/Phillies fandom. I'll probably bandwagon the Knicks if they get good again. I was a big fan of the early 2000s Magic. If they give the Sonics back that's my team. e: Don't get me wrong, PNC Park (Pirates) is a beautiful place as a civil engineer to watch a baseball game and its easy to get in and out of. Their management is just awful. Harrisburg's stadium (AA Washington) is in the middle of the Susquehanna and is also a nice place on the right night. SquirrelyPSU fucked around with this message at 06:30 on Mar 24, 2025 |
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at it, completely unexpected and honestly something I needed. 
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I miss Pike Place so much. Grats.
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bulletsponge13 posted:I got the pre-exposure rabies vaccine. Tom Nook already pivoted to hyper capitalism
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Nuclear Tourist posted:As far as midlife crisis hobbies go I would argue that it's actually pretty affordable! Especially now that 3D printed miniatures is a thing. Speaking of 3D printed things, I went to a training thing for bridge structural things that are prone to problems. Someone at FHWA is VERY good with a 3D printer. I forgot to take pictures but the instructors said they'd hit me up in the next couple of weeks because they've been meaning to do it themselves and forgot. I bought a Weber in 2009 as a present after deployment 1. It has served me well for many years. Family friends live a bit up river from me and I was up there the weekend before last. Big hunter, always smoking or cooking something and the idiot has a rusted out Charbroil. So now my Weber will live its best life (once I get it off my balcony and hopefully before the wasps get to it......again)
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Solitaire6 posted:I also basically, with the help of a friend ofc, massacred a bunch of chatGPT reliant CS and BBA dorks in a cybersecurity debate. So money in the bank and a entry on my CV. While the idea of prolonged exposure to academia causes me nausea, that sounds like a pretty dope turn of events. Sincere congratulations. I walked away from my MS with the coursework done. The government basically paid PSU 30x what a PE prep course would have cost. And then my employer reimbursed me for the prep course anyways. My bud and his wife both have PhD's and both finally got professorships at the same place after a long time of trying. They were at different places for a long time. One of my 2026 trips is going to see them. (break) I'd like to thank all of the developers (and Penn State Health as the root cause) in my 5 mile radius for sprouting up "Luxury Living along the River" apartments in the last 2 years for stabilizing the loving rental market in this area. I got my renewal this afternoon when I got home from work, it is reasonable and I will be having a celebratory drink in your honor. SquirrelyPSU fucked around with this message at 11:44 on May 6, 2025 |
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ASAPI posted:This year, I started a garden. (I suppose this kind of connects with the preparedness thread also.) That's awesome.
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Handsome Ralph posted:Sold my house in DC, we close in two weeks! Eh as far as going from E->W goes, you basically know the market. You'll be fine even if it takes a minute. Congratulations. Just minimize your commute by any means possible. We get gridlock maybe 2 or 3 times a year, in Seattle its multiple times weekly. Someone does 90 on I-5 and crashes into a median barrier, and then everything switches to 405. Volume amplifies everything and then deadlocks. e: Weekend mornings are awesome though. I had no problem making it to Pike Place from Everett in 20 minutes. (Also my butcher of choice was: https://www.google.com/maps/place/B...DUzSAFQAw%3D%3D) SquirrelyPSU fucked around with this message at 02:56 on May 8, 2025 |
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I've been mainlining MATLAB videos all weekend as part of something I need to do for my MS and my overall takeaway is.......My industry (civil engineering) is lazy as poo poo. I generally knew this already but holy poo poo. The positive vibes are "There are a lot of cool things people are doing that are already modularized that you need 20 seconds, a cursory understanding of programming and you all are utilizing exactly none of them"* *Except you Norway, you are cool.
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CrazySalamander posted:Can you give a few examples of the resources available? Are the videos purely Matlab videos or are you talking about videos about integrated pump curve libraries or something? Give me to the morning. I'll debrief. Imagine I went from "I know how to do Macro" to this. e: I have 4 pages of notes to read up on from this loving thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9js5H2XfOE So my MS thesis involves taking my advisors PHD dissertation and optimizing it for AI. It was written in Matlab and we considered either Python or Matlab. So I've been learning both and holy poo poo is what I've learned. SquirrelyPSU fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Nov 2, 2025 |
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CrazySalamander posted:Can you give a few examples of the resources available? Are the videos purely Matlab videos or are you talking about videos about integrated pump curve libraries or something? They are really just MATLAB videos, but any time you roam outside of 2D linear analysis in civil engineering, you are talking about matrices and some form of simplified differential equations (Heat Equation,etc). MATLAB can handle the former (its literally built for handling matrices), and when coded properly, AI can do the convergence and boundary condition iterative bullshit for the latter. This is essentially my MS Thesis in one specific context. Just any situation where you need to compare (and or do math with) one matrix to another matrix. Excel is pretty poo poo about that unless you are doing VBA. Superelevation for roadways and Analysis by Matrix Methods (stiffness matrices) for structures specifically. I have a friend who deals with some things like this that told me the coding will take me an afternoon once I simplify the concept enough and understand all of the appropriate syntax. I've still got four months to submit my format review and I'm pretty on track mentally to haul rear end while work is slow over the holidays to be confident I can hit the "Apply for Graduation" button. And then I will be done with tests and academia forever. .......until someone makes me get an S.E. license. Which I am preparing for being told during my year end review. e: Additionally: -For hydrology, computing TR-55 combined curve numbers -Industrial engineering, any time you have to evaluate cost versus machine time versus people time etc -Mechanical engineering - Anytime you have to have to evaluate the heat equation To answer your original question, as are all things that swing over from material engineering of whatever kind to computer programming, the computer programmers have petabytes of data that tell you exactly what you need to do. SquirrelyPSU fucked around with this message at 00:00 on Nov 27, 2025 |
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