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I’ve tried to utilize this stuff on a development that is near a flood zone, and boy is it tough to get building inspectors and even engineers in the US to look at any material the…

I'm originally from Houston, but have settled in Dallas for my career/mid-life. It's hard to compare the two cities they are so different. The vibrant urban core inner loop of Hous…

We build residential right up to 20 lane freeways with heavy traffic speeding 75+ miles an hour. The tire humming is loud too.

If they zoned it, then the city is saying “you will commute”. It doesn’t have to be unreasonably far away, just less convenient than a Walmart. Most people commute for work anyway,…

Aesthetics are important. Everyone enjoys looking at a golf course, even non-golfers. Nobody wants to look at a datacenter. My general thought is, what’s the argument for placing t…

I live just north of the service area in Dallas and cross into it daily, it’s been pretty great to see the traction it seems to be getting here. The service area is a great way to …

I mean, I thought that was already the case. Places like The Gap has something called the essential tee. Have had it for decades. It changes all the time. It seems like every time …

I always hear a phase that goes like “we have a word for it in Language, …”. You almost never hear it said where English is that language. We just don’t have many words or don’t li…

I have the T shirt problem myself. My solution is quite simple. I have bought 500 of the shirt I like the most. My style is grayscale, so I bought greys and blacks. I’ve been weari…

Same for me, I have no multitask mode

> nobody wants to do the slower, harder work of making sense before moving. I fear it’s more perverse at times, people just don’t always understand and can’t make sense of it so th…

If you watch predator behavior, they will always go for an easy kill. The tar pit provides those opportunities. Also, if these opportunities are routine enough and occur in a hyper…

It's a gamble, stats, so what is the probability that moat can be protected to the tune of trillions of dollars of incremental enterprise value creation in the AI industry? Would y…

I used to defend CNN as decent, but it’s almost entirely sensational OpEd talk show type stuff these days. The stuff I criticized FoxNews about. Although, CNN does lean liberal, th…

While the history of news quality has been cyclical, I think there’s some objective truth if you’re starting reference points is 1970ish-1990ish and on. The internet broke their fi…

The author had ground level access. In that case, A microfiber covered sponge on a pole with a 5 gallon bucket of soapy water is probably the easiest thing. Especially if you do it…

It won’t be a proper crisis if we knew it was coming, media will go full tilt when they actually see and feel it and They’ll act like it came out of nowhere. Until then, did you he…

As you spit your listerine, please also clean your glasses and read again because the discussion is being made at a macro level and not centered on any particular industry and it’s…

I’m not trying to rationalize or humanize any of this , I’m just explaining it.

IE6 view source vibes

The HTML formatting behind the ‘Show Code’ triggered some PTSD when it appeared

Growth of what exactly? AI doesn't have the normal leverage factor that software usually does where a simple codebase can drive a billion dollars of subscription revenue with 90%+ …

It comes down to how you define "better"? Because they're looking at it from a lot of angles and sometimes easier~=better. It's not easy to onboard and train and career path junior…

It was forced on most businesses from the pandemic, you're right they never wanted it. Acting like businesses should honor it forever is a bad take too, like businesses should igno…

Sometimes there a track record of output to reference on. Project velocity. There’s a lot and I probably work in industries that aren’t comparable to yours so no use getting specif…