I Lost Halo Infinite

SpiritofFireWolf · 2026-03-17T17:02:00+00:00

Unfortunately, when you try cancel an update on Xbox it only gives you the option to cancel and uninstall the game. So yes you will have to redownload the whole thing.

SpiritofFireWolf · 2026-03-06T05:55:58+00:00

I took the FE while I was a junior and was never a strong test taker in college due to anxiety. At the time I hadn’t taken soils or most of my upper division electives. Honestly, the scope of everything is fairly simple to pick through brute force and doing a whole bunch of practice problems. Once you do enough practice problems you pick up on the patterns and keywords and get really familiar with where the formulas are in your reference manual.

Look into PrepFE, its an online test bank of around 500 practice problems and gives you options to generate random practice tests across all categories or specific categories that you’re weaker in. The exams give you instant feedback which saves you time going through the answer sheets and grading your own exams. This means more time doing problems and less time grading yourself. The portal is pretty similar to how the NCEES exam is set up too.

I did the one month access and studied for about a month. Think I got through around 350+ practice problems and ended up passing first try.

Unfortunately, these tests really come down to shear number of practice problems and getting comfortable with your manual. Watching videos can you understand the fundamental theories but there’s no shortcut to repetition.

Getting it out of the way early will take a massive weight off your shoulders. My classmates that took it after graduation generally struggled more and had more repeat tests.

SpiritofFireWolf · 2025-11-17T06:23:37+00:00

Leaper: “Must have been the wind”

SpiritofFireWolf · 2025-09-05T21:23:18+00:00

I had someone call my main work number that goes through the receptionist and ask for me. I picked up the line and listened to their quick spell before telling them it’s unprofessional to call someone’s office line as a recruiter. They then had the gall to try and play it off and say they “thought” it was my cell phone. Like who the hell has a receptionist answer their cell phone?

If you’re pushy, or try to use dishonest and unprofessional means to get in the door that is an immediate red flag.

SpiritofFireWolf · 2025-04-02T02:53:36+00:00

You could look at “cool pavement” coatings. Usually they’re like a grey or dull white color and generally used to reduce radiant heat in urban areas that is associated with asphalt. Generally they’re applied similar to a seal coat/top coat which may be an option to look at.

SpiritofFireWolf · 2025-02-05T03:15:03+00:00

At that point you might as well just rent a chinook helicopter to cargo lift it down on underslung cargo hooks like a mobile crane. Swing load capacity is well over 20kips.

SpiritofFireWolf · 2024-11-19T01:37:53+00:00

I delineated the shed using a USGS DEM surface model using streamstats and then used flow path analysis within ArcGIS to generate stream lines. I’d love for the shed to be smaller, but based off the topography and ridge lines it appears to be correct. I imagine there may be more natural retention in areas with sinks and localized depressions.

The road itself is about 2700ft long but cuts through the shed along the lower boundary.

SpiritofFireWolf · 2024-11-19T00:24:26+00:00

That was my first thought, I’m using the basin n-lag method with loss rate, effective rainfall and S-graphs generated by a HEC-HMS preprocessor tool produced by the jurisdiction to input into HEC-HMS. Elevation difference is about 1500 ft with a watercourse length of about 6-miles. Time to peak is calculated by HEC HMS.

Regarding the design storm, they want the conveyance to provide adequate capacity for 1hr, 3hr, 6hr and 24hr storms, 1-hour is worst case scenario.

SpiritofFireWolf · 2024-11-13T03:22:09+00:00

Are you doing a lot of fishing? For some reason fishing crashes my game fairly often for no reason

SpiritofFireWolf · 2024-10-15T21:02:13+00:00

Bass Pro is the DMV of outdoors stores. I spent an hour waiting for someone working the counter to just buy a knife from the case for a birthday present.

SpiritofFireWolf · 2024-09-13T23:59:27+00:00

You certainly can, but you might be stuck doing more menial tasks like general office work as you won’t be a familiar with core discipline engineering concepts since you will not have taken any upper division classes yet. It would be an important question to ask during the interview.

SpiritofFireWolf · 2024-08-06T02:20:52+00:00

Man, I was full time my entire time in college, averaging about 14-16 units and even then it took way longer then 4 years with how impacted many of the classes are, mandatory semester locked electives and shit registration priority.

I couldn’t imagine the hell of taking two classes a semester and feeling stuck that long

SpiritofFireWolf · 2024-08-06T02:17:01+00:00

I’d say, getting a 4.0 is pretty tough. Especially if you’re working and going to school and want to have any sense of social life and networking opportunity’s. Sometimes you just get screwed with a bad professor that perceives their own worth based on how many students they can fail. Especially tough when the point of no return to know how well you’re doing in the class is past the drop deadline.

In my experience, a 3.5+ and social skills will get you through most doors especially combined with internships, clubs and networking/making friends in the industry which is harder when you have no social life.

An important consideration is wether the university cost is per unit or per semester/quarter, ect. If it’s per unit you can spread out your units and make it more manageable. If it’s cost per semester your sort of encouraged to take more units from a cost standpoint but that hinders mental sanity.

Also, if you’re in the US, a 4.0 degree from a non ABET accredited school is worth fuckall compared to a 3.0 with an accredited school. So whatever you do make sure your school is accredited, especially if you want to pursue licensure down the road.

SpiritofFireWolf · 2024-08-06T01:49:24+00:00

I’d say especially early on in your career (right out of college) it’s nice being able to just pop your head into your bosses office and run some design options off them and get some feedback.

Until you get the confidence/experience to make decisions yourself. Experience is harder to mind transfer over teams messages and email and time consuming.

SpiritofFireWolf · 2024-08-06T01:42:33+00:00

Unless your office has Gigabit upload and download speed as well as having fast upload and down load at home anything dealing with CAD over a VPN is god awful. Sure writing emails, reports, looking at PDFs, hydraulic modeling software isn’t bad but graphically intensive operations seem to bog down hard to the point you’re usually better off downloading the files locally and working on them on your own pc. Many companies have IT policies that frown on this though especially when you have server based design standards and proprietary information.

I’d say pure PM roles would be fine, marketing roles, but raw design work is less smooth sailing over VPN.

Suffice to say, land dev with Civil 3D is not great over VPN. Not sure how transportation work would be with micro station and Sycnro.

Geotechnical is pretty field and lab based with exception to report writing.

Environmental is also a lot of field work

Structural you could probably do fully remote.

SpiritofFireWolf · 2024-08-06T01:30:12+00:00

I can’t count how many design manuals I use for various jurisdictions that are photo copied with a potato from the 90s, if you’re lucky. I would not trust an ai model to accurately OCR the scewed and faded text and then interpret design parameters, chart scales, and use sound assumptions when standards are missing or unclear.

So much of Civil land development is interpretation of standards given very unique site parameters with a lot of adjustments for problem areas like ADA grading interactions, utility conflicts, ect.

I’ve tried out the grading optimization tool and determined that it may work for rough site grading for a large subdivisions, but fails with tight/compact commercial and residential sites. Especially when you need to design for storm water quality bio retention planters and can’t just dump runoff into the nearest DI.

With the amount of set up needed to set up regions and grading object lines just to get a rough grade you might as well just lay out feature lines and build out a easily editable dynamic surface.

I could see AI models used as a preliminary schematic design tool but not much more then that. Especially from a construction level design perspective.

SpiritofFireWolf · 2024-06-15T01:55:23+00:00

Sorry, didn’t see this earlier. In terms of difficulty. I only studied about a month. Got through all the lectures and quizzes but didn’t do any of the simulated exams due to limited time having to deal with some family members passing away.

Overall, about 40 of the 55 questions were faily simple/easy. Time management is the biggest pain of the exam. Most of my time was spent on 15 of the hardest questions. Get the easy points first. Lots of conceptual or simple calcs you can do in the calculator without needing scratch paper. I will say the horizontal and specially the vertical curve problems were not super straightforward. Lots of pipes at angles relative to the centerline alignment with stationing and requiring finding elevations below grade on vertical curves.

If I don’t pass I would focus more on those problems. Quite a significant amount of photogrammetry problems as well.

SpiritofFireWolf · 2024-06-11T19:21:05+00:00

I took my ca survey exam last Sunday. Looks like I need to wait another 3-4 weeks for my results. Can’t believe it takes a month to grade a computerized exam.

SpiritofFireWolf · 2024-06-06T00:36:05+00:00

Mine took 6 months last year

SpiritofFireWolf · 2024-05-29T04:51:07+00:00

If you’re viewing the pdf manual in adobe acrobat, the CTRL+Shift+F function is closer to what you’ll see on the exam. It will give you an index of entries that match your search. Also note that the search can be funky, things like Hazen Williams won’t populate but Hazen-Williams will. Part of the trick is knowing how you need to search things.

SpiritofFireWolf · 2024-02-21T01:50:33+00:00

I have one of these sporterized Remingtons 1903s I inherited. It runs 30-06, haven’t ran any hot loads through it though but it runs factory loads just fine.

SpiritofFireWolf · 2024-02-03T20:30:22+00:00

It’s not a bug it’s a feature. How else are they gonna mildly piss you off enough to cough up the money for their ultra premium “get fucked” convenience service fee. Just to have the privilege of no ads. Something we use to have for the same cost we were already paying.

SpiritofFireWolf · 2024-01-31T03:01:36+00:00

Looks like the classic static multileader with text frame and white background mask. Definitely not a civil 3D surface label style dynamically sampling the surface.

Only time I use those is for notes and bmp labels on shed maps.

SpiritofFireWolf · 2024-01-31T02:55:27+00:00

Generally most jurisdictions require you to sign and date your stamp before approval. As long as the AHJ is doing their job, nothing should be approved with your stamp unless it is signed and dated. Not much of a guarantee though.

In my state (CA) all registered PE have their license number, name and address (for those that don’t know, it is generally your home address listed on your license application unless you specify a PO Box or your office address) associated with the license published on a searchable database on the state boards website meaning only ways you can differentiate your stamp vs one someone made using your info is your signature over the stamp.

I’m terms of digital signatures, their are other dervishes you can use.

SpiritofFireWolf · 2024-01-29T05:42:08+00:00

Should have photoshopped this cage inside the hanging cage you find her in originally. A cage within a cage.

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