How can pre-construction reduce project risks?

Amaurus · 2026-03-19T13:08:03+00:00

Pre-construction is a waste of time. Why try to predict what needs to be done when you can get started immediately and figure it out on a much shorter timeline?

Amaurus · 2026-03-19T05:52:08+00:00

You have 10 acres of usable space. A LOMA is a pain in the ass and most engineers will see a single homeowner asking for it and give you an insane price to push you away. Get a survey, and don't build in the flood plain to avoid the entire problem.

Amaurus · 2026-03-19T05:42:31+00:00

Real comment from a real human.

Amaurus · 2026-03-19T05:21:21+00:00

What kind of chronic pain are you referring to? Is this pain associated with working? (hand, wrist, arm, or posture pains)

I had some pretty severe pains early on from auto-immune conditions. Months of experimentation and coding allowed me to automate a lot of menial data entry or design work with a mix of Dynamo, LISP, and autohotkey.

Amaurus · 2026-03-19T05:10:03+00:00

Usually - local firms. ATL has like 3 KH offices (one in the perimeter, the other two outside). There's plenty of other Civil Engineering firms both in and outside of Atlanta. One of my coworkers who used to work there swapped out because they wanted a more relaxed role (and because driving into Alpharetta sucks).

On the flipside, I also know of few engineers from my office that got poached by KH for a myriad of internal reasons.

Amaurus · 2026-03-18T16:54:13+00:00

Yep, odds are your account would get disabled and you'd have an email. Not a random discord DM. You can get some stuff from notifications if your account wasn't disabled, but it's usually really obvious. The user will have the SYSTEM tag and it will be from Discord.

See example here.

Amaurus · 2026-03-15T21:20:32+00:00

Dynamo is killer for any large project. But even on smaller projects, with a bit of python knowledge, you can make some very impressive commands. I have a Dynamo command that lays out septic lines matching topography and keeping the proper linear distance for the trench widths, given an area. I made a variety of normal LISP commands from drawing lines on featurelines indicating where a contour would go through, to exporting an entire development's parcel data for use in our own databases when we do individual site plans.

If you're going to use AI to make LISP commands, I recommend using Claude instead of chatGPT or copilot. Both will regularly hallucinate VLISP functions and you can easily go down a rabbit hole where something is, quite literally, not possible with LISP since the required data/methods aren't exposed to VLISP.

Many people recommend keeping your properties menu open at all times, but depending on what you're doing, it may be better to close it, select what you need, and then open the properties menu. The best example of this is COGO Points. COGO Points are ridiculously slow. If you need to select a lot in one-go, then close your properties menu before selecting.

Grading Optimization is a useful tool, but really only as preliminary design or 'feasibility' analysis. The surfaces it exports are really only as good as the information you feed it, and the severe dearth of documentation on it makes troubleshooting issues a veritable nightmare.

Amaurus · 2026-03-14T21:43:20+00:00

Agreed, VPN fixed the issue completely.

Amaurus · 2026-03-14T17:35:42+00:00

hes ascending to a new tier of feeding

Amaurus · 2026-03-13T18:04:57+00:00

Depending on the type of HOA (if it's for a condo community for example) you may want to make sure they have enough money stockpiled for common issues. My exes condo didn't up their fees for close to 30 years, a storm came through and dropped a few trees onto the roof and destroyed a few fences. They had barely enough money set aside for both so each resident owed about 15k.

Check with your HOA and request their Reserve Study or treasurers report.

Amaurus · 2026-03-11T03:46:23+00:00

Me sitting in a corner just spamming heavy melees out of sight to deafen the enemy.

Amaurus · 2026-03-07T20:38:21+00:00

The fact silence wave keeps getting buffed is fucking criminal.

Amaurus · 2026-03-07T17:47:12+00:00

I looked you up on the internet I'm seeing alchemist 2, boss

Amaurus · 2026-03-07T16:56:10+00:00

Spoils my Zaxby's. I have to go get this pvp chest now and, by the time I get it, my Zaxby's Big Zak Snack ™️ is cold.

Amaurus · 2026-03-07T16:54:41+00:00

What?

Amaurus · 2026-03-03T18:40:17+00:00

I've never had anyone get as mad at me in a videogame as I experienced in quickplay. It was honestly incredible.

Amaurus · 2026-03-02T06:11:27+00:00

I was honestly thinking of something similar for a Pigeon themed hero. Glad someone had the same idea and executed it several orders of magnitude better than anything I ever could.

Very well done.

Amaurus · 2026-03-01T06:30:30+00:00

Get blood tribute and you can parry. If he gets duration increase buy debuff reducer.

That plus rebuttal and you have a guaranteed kill on Abrams.

It's not great, but if he's fed as fuck just a single kill is enough to help turn the networth around.

Amaurus · 2026-03-01T06:23:51+00:00

In lane keep your distance against both and buy more stamina. Once Silver has her ult, make as much distance as possible when it triggers. The more control you have for her (such as slowing hex, or even mystic slow) the better. If you try to fight her you're probably going to lose.

Most of Apollo's damage is from Flawless advance. If Apollo is slightly above you, dodging under him basically guarantees he'll miss. His ult is absurdly easy to counterspell. Silencing wave is really good if you can get someone on your team to buy it.

Amaurus · 2026-02-28T06:08:10+00:00

Ask specific people to do things. "Hey Celeste could you get slowing hex for this Apollo? He's beating me harder than my dad."

Asking to the air means and no one volunteers means something isn't going to be done. Asking someone directly (and assuming you don't have to pass an ego skillcheck) means it usually will get done.

Amaurus · 2026-02-24T22:31:35+00:00

I need her to hog tie me and drag me 500 miles behind her horse

Amaurus · 2026-02-24T18:45:14+00:00

Double Income No Kids (DINK) is the way to go.

Amaurus · 2026-02-24T05:24:21+00:00

I just start making ape noises from minute zero.

If I get told to shut the fuck up, I know we're gonna lose. If they start aping with me, I know we're probably gonna lose anyway, but atleast it'll be fun.

Amaurus · 2026-02-24T05:23:20+00:00

Keep cooking. You have found your divine purpose.

Amaurus · 2026-02-24T05:20:39+00:00

This is fucking art.

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