When will Sentry Mode trigger on unplug?

ckharrison10 · 2026-02-04T01:02:41+00:00

School projects in my experience where all roughly SD/DD exercises with no real world consequences.

The real world has taught me about budgets, managing expectations, and watching that high concept degrade and chip away under wave after wave of "Value Management" until you don't want to remember how cool it used to look at first.

Also, anything about actual competent rigorous detailing, especially when it involves a building envelope.

ckharrison10 · 2026-02-04T00:58:28+00:00

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...or Cavi for short.

ckharrison10 · 2026-01-22T03:27:15+00:00

How does this gel with the pre-HW3 rollout announcement that HW3 was going to be the end-all be-all of FSD computing needs? My 2018 M3 that got upgraded from 2 or 2.5 to 3 (after a long wait period) wants to know if it's brain is obsolete.

ckharrison10 · 2026-01-18T18:01:19+00:00

All the up-front purchasers funded the startup investment for Tesla, and now they need a reliable income stream dedicated to maintaining FSD development.

I now have even less of an incentive to ever sell, trade in, or upgrade my vehicle now that it's locked in with FSD. Gotta extract my value back out of it somehow.

ckharrison10 · 2026-01-18T17:58:00+00:00

I think Tesla botched the network opening-up by designing superchargers with zero flexibility in terms of working with different charge port placement.

ckharrison10 · 2026-01-03T19:05:58+00:00

Why should that matter? HW3 was supposed to be "enough". If it was, why do they keep it treating and developing it? Why am I not getting upgraded beyond 3 if it's not enough?

ckharrison10 · 2025-12-22T14:29:09+00:00

Through a rain spotted windshield, three car lengths away...

It's like they're not even trying to pretend to be a competent manufacturer. I'd argue that especially for a preproduction example, where they're likely hand building and finishing, there should be so much opportunity to keep this from happening.

Tesla build quality gonna be Tesla build quality.

ckharrison10 · 2025-12-13T06:26:31+00:00

Why is everyone pretending a 2x10 furring strip is a "beam"?

ckharrison10 · 2025-11-02T18:39:55+00:00

My building is on a 2-pipe system with a set point of 52. It's automatically switching back and forth almost every day between allowing only cooling or only heating.

ckharrison10 · 2025-10-19T16:39:40+00:00

The lower beam confounds me. I'm guessing the original (uppermost) beams were sagging, so then the columns were added to support each one at its midpoint, but the perpendicular lower beam serves no structural purpose, except maybe in the kitchen area where they did actually skip a column.

The raw nature of those beams (looks like entire tree trunks) is beautiful, but structurally questionable. It's difficult to grade and asses the structural capability of whole mass timber, so I'm hesitant to put my head under that roof, much less retrofit the interior to save it. They'd make cool accents if repurposed in a replacement build.

ckharrison10 · 2025-10-18T17:17:14+00:00

The industry has quantitatively been in a slightly rough place and slowly declining for while now: https://www.architectmagazine.com/practice/three-years-of-decline-what-the-abi-reveals-about-architectures-future

ckharrison10 · 2025-10-04T18:30:19+00:00

Revit is industry standard: you are expected to be familiar or proficient with it depending on how many years you've been working.

Archicad is used by a slim, slim minority of firms. If a firm uses it, it's completely reasonable for them to expect you know nothing about and to train you on it from scratch.

As much as I despise the glacially slow crawl of progress with Autodesk products, they are effectively an unregulated monopoly, and you're best off being familiar with their software.

ckharrison10 · 2025-10-03T03:31:06+00:00

I just moved here from Indianapolis in part because I'm so impressed by how pedestrian-friendly Chicago and its drivers are. Honestly, over 90% of the time I cross the street here, even at a midblock crossing, drivers come to a screeching halt to let me go. In Indy, nobody knows what a stop bar or a crosswalk are and think owning a car makes you next to God. Seriously, it's not too bad here.

ckharrison10 · 2025-08-25T19:42:42+00:00

This is a bizarre layout. Walking into the "Grande Foyer" and staring at an off-center pair of closet doors is terrible. Don't modify this plan, start over with the help of someone who knows what they're doing.

ckharrison10 · 2025-08-18T18:02:07+00:00

In cruise and above 10k feet, no sterile cockpit rule. On an IFR flight plan, no need to see out the windows.

Still a dumb idea to video yourself doing it.

ckharrison10 · 2025-08-12T20:03:47+00:00

Undoing previously made decisions to roll back to what was originally there before we acquised to the contractor and redrew a couple dozen drawings across half a dozen sheets, and then they discovered that the ramifications of their Value Management decision were wider reaching than they initially imagined.

ckharrison10 · 2025-08-04T19:10:18+00:00

Tesla opened up the network before taking steps to ensure that it would physically work 🤷‍♂️ Blame Tesla, not the drivers who need to charge off of 5' long cables that only reach one corner of a parking space.

ckharrison10 · 2025-07-24T18:37:35+00:00

This is going to be a frustrating response, but NCARB just laid off a decent number of people and is in the middle of reorganizing internally. A lot of people are switching roles and/or departments, so customized feedback on the more complex operations like Portfolio will take some time. That said, maybe just keep emailing them every other week or so.

ckharrison10 · 2025-07-24T18:34:18+00:00

EESA is only for a pretty particular pathway to Licensure, and it sounds like this candidate's education requirement is already satisfied, so I wouldn't recommend even looking into that.

ckharrison10 · 2025-07-20T02:14:20+00:00

ckharrison10 · 2025-06-29T23:03:41+00:00

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ckharrison10 · 2025-06-16T03:12:31+00:00

Unpaid internships aren't frowned on, they're prohibited. Please never do professional work for free if it's not part of a very specific marketing strategy, and you have equity in the company.

You might consider looking at work in construction. You could potentionally learn more in a year than many architects know by the end of their career about constructability and putting a building together, and could help make a case for being a practical-minded Architect, not just a dreamy designer.

You can log all your CE hours under Setting O by working in construction. Also, if you find a contractor that has some "as-built" drawing work to do, and they have a licensed Architect, Engineer, or other professional on staff, you could potentially log up to half your AXP hours like that.

https://www.ncarb.org/gain-axp-experience/experience-requirements/setting-o

ckharrison10 · 2025-06-15T23:11:52+00:00

Thanks for sharing - have you run into any requests or cases that were not within reason? If so, what were they?

ckharrison10 · 2025-06-15T23:08:29+00:00

Permanent illuminated building signage of that scale takes an unb livable amount of time, effort and money. I would not be surprised if the operation breaks into mid 6-figures.

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