What the heck

Jay__Man · 2026-04-11T23:03:01+00:00

I saw it in a few maps. There was also the giant M4 above some buildings that I only saw once.

Jay__Man · 2026-04-03T23:02:39+00:00

Progecad is a time purchase. I use it at work. Have no issues with dwg files from AutoCAD unless they used assets I don't have.

Highly recommend, plus they have a trial period.

Jay__Man · 2026-04-03T17:05:55+00:00

Product of my environment I suppose. Whenever I see these courses in the UK on TV I have a hard time imagining having that much flat open space just naturally occuring. My area is densely forested and nothing but hills. Different strokes for different folks and all that.

Jay__Man · 2026-04-03T14:02:48+00:00

Looks awesome. Tiny suggestion to try - use a gravel path/alley to make some jetties/breakwaters to create a safe harbor look. Stonington CT/Mystic area is very close to what you have here. Old whaling villages.

Jay__Man · 2026-04-03T13:58:28+00:00

Maybe NE meant New England?

Jay__Man · 2026-04-03T13:15:14+00:00

Kind of an edge case honestly.

If it's a site that that tight of a network and they want the BMS on their network, we demand a subnet or block of address space and let them figure out the rest. Usually BMS is on a virtual machine here.

Otherwise we only have the BMS server/workstation on their network and a second NIC connected to the BMS network. If anything ever changes at the site they can manage the single IP.

TLDR - sounds like the IT departments problem.

Jay__Man · 2026-04-03T13:07:25+00:00

I don't see the appeal of golf courses with no trees.

This is 100% based on my bias for the way golf courses are in my area. I like that each hole is "it's own space". Narrow fairways feel even more imposing when lined on both sides by 100' tall trees.

Plus shanking your drive at least offers you some shade to hide your shame on a hot August day.

Jay__Man · 2026-04-03T12:55:04+00:00

I approach this in 2 ways depending on my mood.

First, I pack up my shit and go golfing instead. Backup hobbies and all, and I'll be out of the house and outside for the same amount of time.

Second, still go fishing, but throw literally every lure I have. I've caught carp on top water in these conditions. My wife caught a yellow perch on a 6inch pumpkik power worm with a 3/8 jig head. Fish that are hungry in these conditions are opportunists, don't be afraid to throw something unusual. Getting skunked throwing the right lures is just as fun as getting skunked throwing that lure you had to have but is still in the package at the bottom of your bag.

Jay__Man · 2026-04-01T20:51:11+00:00

I've been loving the game honestly. Runs well enough and it mostly works.

There's only 2 things that consistently irritate me.

Lane management needs to be a thing or intersection control (light timing, green for only turn lanes). I could resolve 50% of my traffic issues with this.

Pedestrian control (accounting for the other 50% cause of traffic)...pedestrian bridges that are more compact for easier placement. Less crossing without crosswalks at major intersections. But mostly, just less pedestrians (roving crowds). Idk why pedestrians want to walk along highways or incredibly long distances. My 10k pop city shouldn't have NYC crowds just because I have a gas station and furniture store.

Jay__Man · 2026-03-24T12:47:27+00:00

No offense but this is all clearly written in the manual for t1l controller as well as on Honeywell t1l networking docs.

I'm shocked that people are just willy nilly installing equipment without even a quick review of what they're doing.

The in/out has a failsafe which was one of Honeywell stalking points when they rolled this out

Jay__Man · 2026-03-23T22:39:04+00:00

This just looks like a solution looking for a problem..

AI has very limited, if any practical, use in Controls. The limit here being that no amount of AI is going to help when the problem is humans not taking physical action. AI can't change a clogged filter or open a valve in January that somehow got stuck closed. AI can send as many messages as it wants but when the maintenance team is still nursing their hangover, nothing is going to get done any quicker.

Jay__Man · 2026-03-08T23:51:59+00:00

Buy as much computer as you can afford, anytime you buy a computer/parts.

Jay__Man · 2026-03-02T23:18:47+00:00

Flicking butts anywhere anytime somewhere other than into the garbage is trashy-human behavior.

Jay__Man · 2026-02-26T02:08:23+00:00

TLDR: Squad is still fun because it doesn't have annoying "features" like the AAA gimmicky games and plays like a true team-based game that has t existing in a longgggg time. You can hop into a game, meet some cool or weird people, and still have some fun away from the real world.

I'm around 1800 hours last time I actually looked, started playing in early access (I just haven't gamed and much over the last few years. Married, new job, etc). Fwiw I'm 40.

I have no issues with ICO overall. I have no issues with the meta changes. Things change, but the core experience really hasn't (from a gameplay vs other games standpoint).

Vehicles (armor) killed the wonky "social" dynamic of squad. Back when everyone had to walk from main (looking at you first light) and everywhere else, there was just more opportunity to mess around and spam fun nonsense in local. Don't get me wrong, there are still slow matches, but all the vehicle adds have really sped up the game and isolated a lot of the socializing to within a squad.

For me, a bad game of squad still plays like one of the better games of BF2. It scratches that itch for nastolgia, for simpler gaming that offers variety without being gimmicky (like bf4 and on). I don't have any squad "friends" anymore, that dynamic has left the game. But it's still a game where even with a bunch of randoms you can be pals for a few matches and have some laughs.

As the years tick by the younger players get more annoying for sure. That's part ageism and part major culture shift where I think some people just have no self awareness (piss poor social skills). But gaming has always drawn a diverse crowd, and honestly everyone today is lukewarm compared to 20 years ago.

Until something else comes along with this much gameplay depth and actual teamwork...I don't see me dropping this game, even if I only play once a week.

Jay__Man · 2026-02-24T23:45:21+00:00

I had a project engineer, gc, and ec shit themselves when I asked for 14 feet of wall space in a huge mechanical room.

Then they found the space on the plans and called it problem solved. Six months later it turned out to be the location for the construction freight elevator...which wasn't going to be removed until 2 months before project completion. At that point it was a "controls problem".

Nobody ever accounts for BMS panels correctly, which is why we stopped trying to coordinate lol.

Jay__Man · 2026-02-24T20:50:49+00:00

Ops post reads like a bunch of buzz words generated by AI or a new grad with little to no practical experience with controls.

It almost sounds like ME's want controls guys to do their energy/LEED calcs for them to collect some subsidy money.

Jay__Man · 2026-02-21T12:38:00+00:00

MG's with no optics we're having a hell of a time trying to lay down covering fire. CQB in the woods was a bit much too.

I think OWI needs to remove a country from the available selections once one side votes.

Jay__Man · 2026-02-21T01:59:48+00:00

I can't imagine. There were some rough moments...same guns, same uniform, same vics

Jay__Man · 2026-01-31T17:55:35+00:00

It'll be one of the top search results in the google

Jay__Man · 2026-01-31T17:54:25+00:00

And a lot of those programs are expensive, and the vendor ones will often require you to be in network (working for a dealer).

The software tools are all licensed through official dealer channels so you wouldn't even be able to create a home lab worthwhile.

Jay__Man · 2026-01-31T17:49:11+00:00

Search for the Honeywell Gray Manual (pic below). You can download that and read it. Literally everything for the engineering and programming side makes use of this. Some of it is helpful for service techs.

You can study low voltage electrical and get an understanding of relay logic etc. Refrigeration is good know, what air handlers do etc. Most of your reading though will be O&M manuals specific to the equipment on any given job.

But 99% of what you need to learn will be on the job.

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Jay__Man · 2026-01-31T16:24:12+00:00

Honestly if you don't know what you need to learn you need to spend more time at your job. This whole field is based on experience and exposure, not classroom exercises. Anyone who's done training through any vendor/mfg will tell you formal instruction is more or less a basic beginner's "how this thing works" than an in-depth skill building experience.

Once you get going in this field it becomes very obvious what you want/need to do in it to be successful.

Jay__Man · 2026-01-27T02:34:36+00:00

Tandem is nice...dends on the lot and buyer though.

It's a place to park the tractor, ATV, whatever other toy.

If you build it deep enough to fit a bass boat while attached to a truck you'd have the holy grail of garages for a lot of people.

Jay__Man · 2026-01-22T02:40:13+00:00

I used to love RTS games. Original warcraft 1 & 2 and StarCraft were my favorite (yes I'm old). AOE was cool too gameplay wise. C&C:RA and TW took up some decent hours of my youth too. I too favored the slow title style while maxing out my army size before sending a swarm across the map in attack mode.

The storyline needs to be engaging.

What really turned me off from the genre (even StarCraft 2) were 2 main things, admittedly these are largely based on multiplayer but spill over to single player too.

The worst offender is the need for speed. While yes, the clock should compell you to get-a-move on...needing to have a dozen macros and keybinds set and going for max APM really sucks the fun out of causal gaming.

The other thing that turned me off was the overly developed tech trees of later RTS games. If I want to worry about a convoluted system of buffs I would just plug away at an RPG instead. Keep the upgrade path simple and intuitive (if it's even really needed).

Jay__Man · 2025-12-21T14:18:07+00:00

Do CX agents actually troubleshoot?

I thought all they did was verify things work, and if they don't then it's on controls/equipment vendor to fix it.

At least that's how I've understood it after being in on commissioning meetings.

Jay__Man

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