Sir_Osis_of_Liver

@Sir_Osis_of_Liver@kbin.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What more need be said about it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Very early on in my career in consulting engineering, I had an architect tee-off on me for changing the ceiling heights of the office space she'd designed.

  I'm electrical, all I was concerned with was circuiting her lights, that was it. I had documentation showing that I'd worked off of exactly the same ceiling heights she had sent me. Heights that she'd apparently changed somewhere along the line without informing the client, who was an international conglomerate, and notoriously picky to work for.

  That could have blown over, had she not berated me over email while CCing the client, my management and just about anyone else involved with the project. I made sure to "reply all" showing where the change had happened. She was replaced on the project the following week.

  After that I stuck to industrial projects, where the buildings were non-descript concrete and steel boxes with no architectural involvement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What more need be said about it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember not picking up another book for some time after finishing it. I wanted to hang onto it as long as I could. It's epic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What more need be said about it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Back when I was in junior high in the early 1980s, I found a copy of Atlas Shrugged on my father's bookshelf, and started reading it. I can't remember how far I got into it, but I do remember thinking it was just awful in just about every way: story, writing, pacing, everything.

  I asked Dad about it, "Oh, that. It's terrible, isn't it?" A friend had given it to him. Neither one of us finished reading it and after that it ended up at a book reseller.
  On the plus side, he'd gone through his books and gave me James Clavell's Shogun to read, which was an awesome novel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why you might not want to use whatsapp anymore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Weak sauce. If they value you, they'll get in touch. If they don't, they never cared in the first place so what does it matter?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Are you sure about that?”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Setting aside the Earth vs moon mistake, much like religion, this is an illusion that uses a human creation to explain a natural phenomenon.

  Cool photo though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European electricity prices tumble into negative territory amid glut of green energy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That's the problem with private generators feeding into a grid. If this was a co-op, public utility or other form of monopoly, easily idled generators like wind or solar are added or removed as required to balance the grid without consideration for whether particular units are profitable. An idled unit is also not wearing out.

  As it is, there are all sorts of additional rules added to ensure that individual sources aren't too heavily penalized when their particular technology isn't profitable, like perfect wind conditions making thermal plants operate at a loss. That puts rates up for everyone.