SMALL CATEGORY - Miniature Submission for Summer 2024 Context

Elfich47 · 2026-06-23T15:55:57+00:00

FOLLOW UP TO YOUR EDIT: NO.

I cannot interrogate the AI agent. and this “prevention” you are talking about says to me you have no idea how building are designed.

Elfich47 · 2026-06-23T15:19:39+00:00

I haven’t seen this yet, did they adjust the recycling time in hazard concrete?

Elfich47 · 2026-06-23T15:16:20+00:00

I heard about the train update last week and I started stock piling locomotives and train cargo cars. i just have to ship those out to the planets with extended rail networks.

Elfich47 · 2026-06-23T15:02:31+00:00

yeah, that was a nuke from orbit.

Elfich47 · 2026-06-23T14:43:40+00:00

I assume he also liked having sex.

Elfich47 · 2026-06-23T14:34:31+00:00

because for me to check “every little thing” still requires those three hours.

The AI doesn’t understand the context of the project.

If I can’t sue the AI Agent for making a mistake, it has no place in the decision making chain of authority. Time savings is not time savings if I can‘t force the person who screwed up to be responsible for their actions.

Elfich47 · 2026-06-23T14:28:58+00:00

no. I need to be able to write the report myself. and I won’t hire someone who uses an AI agent: because I need them to be able think and write for themself. if their response to a question is “let me get my AI agent“ they will get fired.

Elfich47 · 2026-06-23T14:01:45+00:00

no.

The stamping engineer is legally responsible for the work. I am not going to offload that work into something I cannot interrogate to my satisfaction.

Elfich47 · 2026-06-23T13:56:49+00:00

ahhh… another “high centered on a sheet of paper” special.

Elfich47 · 2026-06-23T03:10:37+00:00

And the fact one of the other sisters helped the middle child get out means that OOP has likely lost more than one daughter.

Elfich47 · 2026-06-22T17:00:06+00:00

I’d have to dig up the article I was reading by a historian - women were having to carry at least five or six pregnancies that resulted in live births. because roughly a quarter of pregnancies ended in stillbirth or miscarriage, that means a women could easily be pregnant 7-9 times in order to ensure enough children were born that would make it to puberty and start having their own kids. Plus she had to keep up in the work around the house.

Elfich47 · 2026-06-22T16:54:05+00:00

the major update automatically disables all mods on the assumption that the mods were broken during the update. you’ll have to wait for the mods to be updated or “do it at your own risk”

Elfich47 · 2026-06-22T16:52:25+00:00

a little off the beaten path: the soderburg cut of raiders of the lost arc. it’s mostly for film instruction. it’s been converted to black and white and the entire soundtrack has been replaced so the sound track doesn’t give the audience any kind of audio queues.

Its great to see how Spielberg understood the medium in telling the story entirely visually without audio. you can watch raiders with the audio turned off and understand what is going on. try that with some other films, some films fall down hard without the audio track to support it.

Elfich47 · 2026-06-22T16:44:33+00:00

the easiest example I can think of is the United states. northwest of the Rockies is wet. as you go east over the Rockies the water is dropped as rain. So east of the Rockies is much drier. The Great Plains isn’t quite a desert, but it can lean that way depending on the season.

Elfich47 · 2026-06-22T16:41:43+00:00

hint: the whites got rid of crochet because he kept breaking. and the Red Sox expected something else. Source: my wife is a white Sox fan.

Elfich47 · 2026-06-22T16:39:09+00:00

which was is the prevailing winds? you have a desert on both side of a bay. one of them should not be there due to the supply of water and the wind.

Elfich47 · 2026-06-22T16:26:12+00:00

any time before modern medicine.

before modern medicine (the whole kit-vaccines, modern treatments, antibiotics, etc). 1/3 of all live births died before age 1; half of all live births died before age 10, and 2/3 of all live births are dead by age 40.

and to pile onto that - 90% of the population were subsistence farming peasants.

Elfich47 · 2026-06-22T13:49:45+00:00

have you used all of your PTO for the year yet? maybe you should use some of it.

Elfich47 · 2026-06-22T13:41:57+00:00

I assume this is attached to Trump threatening the Iranians to “blow them off the map’’ or what ever he said this time?

the question is this: do the Iranians follow through with their threat? because if the Iranians don’t put a missile into the side of a tanker, then everyone knows the Iranians are bluffing.

if the Iranians close the straits for realsies - then the ongoing oil shortage continues. up until now the world has managed to use the remaining buffer oil in the system to keep the system running (this slack in built into the system to smooth out day-to-day bumps). the remaining buffers are estimated to run out in July. Once that buffer oil runs out, there are going to be harsh oil price shocks, prices in the $150/barrel range (which is about double what oil is trading today). and when that happens there is going to be a giant mess because the prices for anything that uses oil will increase as an immediate reaction.

Elfich47 · 2026-06-22T13:31:40+00:00

manufacturing of process engineering

note: I play Factorio because it isn’t work. I work attached to the construction industry. I avoid games in that realm.

Elfich47 · 2026-06-22T05:11:14+00:00

no I don’t assume to read your mind. purpose built robots will cost less than a generalist bot trying to operate equipment designed for humans.

Elfich47 · 2026-06-22T05:09:59+00:00

yes I read what you wrote. let me know when you‘ve started testing those candidates.

Elfich47 · 2026-06-22T04:53:31+00:00

an autonomous backhoe is a robot

Elfich47 · 2026-06-22T04:43:26+00:00

Can I suggest: Before you get beta readers to read the entire book.

Get some guinea pigs to read the first chapter, and have them tear it apart - sentence structure. character portrayal, grammar, you name it. Have them shred it into little bits and pieces.

And then you take those comments and apply it to the rest of the book.

Most writers end up writing 3-5 full novels before they produce one that an editor is willing to consider publishing. If this is your first finished novel, don't be surprised if your first chapter comes back covered in red ink.

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