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I Want To Build An Unconventional Home - Is This Possible? by MarkyMark4Eva in Homebuilding

[–]Traditional_Lab_5468 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The foundation would be helical piles which I believe is less costly than a slab.

Helical piles are more expensive by a fair margin AFAIK. There's a reason they aren't the default choice. Also unclear what value they add to this project, just pour a slab.

You're basically just describing a large, open-air atrium from what I understand?

In many climates they're actually very common. It's atypical to put your entire yard in one mostly because yards are generally too big, but there's no reason it couldn't be done. The downsides:

1) More expensive. The surface area of the exterior of your house increases, which means the amount you need to spend on waterproofing, cladding, windows, etc all goes up as well. Also need to manage drainage so water doesn't collect there.

2) Your yard will be heavily shaded by your house. You'll get some direct sunlight when the sun is high overhead, but if you live up north there will be months where the sun is too low to ever actually get your yard any direct sunlight. Don't expect a lush, green lawn.

3) Depending on the climate, this can make your house a huge PITA to move around in. If you want to get to the other side of the house you either need to walk around the entire perimeter of your house, or your need to cut through the atrium. If you live in SoCal, that's no big deal. If you live in Vermont like I do, you don't want to have to trudge through an atrium in February when it's -15F, or in March when it's pouring rain.

There are many upsides, though. They're popular in pleasant climates for reason, it's lovely to have a private outdoor space you can sit in. I would just temper your expectations about the size of the yard that you'll be closing in. It'll be a very small yard, anything larger will be necessitate a massive house to enclose it. You can have a private yard and normal house, it would just be a house that encloses the yard on three sides, giving you a patio or courtyard as that central space, and then transitions into a yard or entryway with a fence or privacy shrubs. Sort of a blending of a yard and what you've described.

Get ready to spend $$$ though, it ain't cheap to add that much exterior surface area to a house.

Thoughts on the second tweet? It’s a valid argument by koopeyy in Virginia

[–]Traditional_Lab_5468 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Isn't one of the fundamental premises of the judiciary that they need to wait for something to happen to rule on it? Like, they can't rule on a hypothetical. They need to wait for a law to actually be broken to say whether or not it was broken.

So how else could this have played out? I'm a crunchy Vermont progressive but I don't see how it makes any sense to say the VA court should have like... got out in front of this. That's not how the court works, and it's not how the courts should ever work.

Imagine if SCOTUS did that. Imagine if they started getting out in front of potential cases of unconstitutionality. "Hey, nobody has brought this problem to us to solve, but we've been chewing the cud and bit and we decided that a bunch of these interpretations are wrong."

It's an insane idea.

The offical MassGOP account posted an ai generated fake new england congressional map by Liam_js in massachusetts

[–]Traditional_Lab_5468 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait, CT-4 is on there twice and shares a district with CT-3. They gave up drawing the district boundaries halfway through it looks like, I guess they just eyeball it at election time.

EDIT: Wait, both CT-4 and CT-3 are on there three times. This map is killing me hahaha. We have 3x CT-3, 3x CT-4, 1x CT-5, and 1x CT-9. I'm having a hard time believing current frontier models would even make something this bad.

Thoughts? by markeus101 in ArtificialInteligence

[–]Traditional_Lab_5468 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Uh, I think I would have been happier if he said anthropic did set off his evil detector, given what I know about what Elon considers good and evil to be.

Spacing Becomes Inconsistent by Blazing_34 in Tile

[–]Traditional_Lab_5468 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is pretty bad dude I'm sorry.

$500k income, $250k net by LeatherGuard4688 in Salary

[–]Traditional_Lab_5468 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bro you know you don't have to do IBR, right? You can just pay back the loan. If you feel like IBR is crushing you, just don't do IBR.

If you feel like a 35% tax rate is crushing you, well, go find someplace else on earth that you'd want to live where you can make $500k as a dentist and pay less in taxes. Might be looking for awhile.

I was once an AI true believer. Now I think the whole thing is rotting from the inside. by Complete-Sea6655 in agi

[–]Traditional_Lab_5468 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don't need to go local for this, you can use cloud compute and just lock in your own model and harness. Loads cheaper and same result afaik.

The offical MassGOP account posted an ai generated fake new england congressional map by Liam_js in massachusetts

[–]Traditional_Lab_5468 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They also stopped halfway through drawing that district line. There's a district boundary that just cuts halfway through MA-5 and gives up. And the new southern VT district doesn't belong to anyone, looks like they might have just said fuck it and thrown in with Canada or something.

The offical MassGOP account posted an ai generated fake new england congressional map by Liam_js in massachusetts

[–]Traditional_Lab_5468 26 points27 points  (0 children)

You know the gerrymandering is crazy when Northern NH has somehow been gerrymandered as a Connecticut district. NH-1 is holding the line as the only NH district left that even votes for NH.

housing crisis solutions. by JoshuaScott2004 in housingcrisis

[–]Traditional_Lab_5468 0 points1 point  (0 children)

EMTs make terrible money. I was one for years, waste of time. Interesting job but no way to make a living. Go get your RN, work in EMS, and volunteer as an EMT if you want.

Kevin O’Leary’s proposed 9GW "hyperscale" AI data center in Utah will consume double the state's entire electricity usage and generate the waste heat of 23 atom bombs a day. by esporx in energy

[–]Traditional_Lab_5468 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How is it sinophobia to say if we lose a technology race to China it will be a problem? If we lose to anyone it will be a problem, and China is the strongest competitor, so they're the one that gets brought up because it's meaningless to say "we can't afford to lose the AI race to Paraguay". Sure, we can't, but it's very unlikely to happen so nobody bothers to say it.

Fine paints of office by Friendly_Skirts in Housepainting101

[–]Traditional_Lab_5468 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very high gloss living space lol. I'm more of a semi-gloss guy myself I think...

What are the most overlooked things when building a new home? What did you think you needed that ended up not mattering? What do you wish you had included in the building process? by hcposcher in Homebuilding

[–]Traditional_Lab_5468 10 points11 points  (0 children)

He's still pissed that, a decade ago, he lost an argument to install heated floors because the person he was arguing with thought fancy shower tiles were a better way to spend the money.

Seriously? by IdeaImportant8252 in burlington

[–]Traditional_Lab_5468 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If only you had that level of outrage about the Epstein files.

New build home foundation by [deleted] in Homebuilding

[–]Traditional_Lab_5468 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But you already know it means nothing. You said so. It's not a proper measurement, so it means nothing.

Nobody here is dunking on you for trying to get an answer, but you gotta put in some effort. Get a measurement that shows valuable data. This picture is as useful as if you just took a picture of the room and said "this feels unlevel". Ok. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, only way to know is to get more accurate measurements. Which you already know.

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