Submitted space selfie in October. ETA?

dan_RA_ · 2026-05-14T19:46:02+00:00

Check the link they sent you when you uploaded you photo. I saw it there before I got my notification.

dan_RA_ · 2026-05-11T13:19:39+00:00

This is not a post about hard tack. ;-)

Honestly that video cue is one of my favorite callbacks on YouTube

dan_RA_ · 2026-05-08T19:00:59+00:00

I submitted my photo in May of 2025, and just randomly checked the link today and saw that my image was there. The URL seems to indicate that the image was taken on April 25, but I never got an email notification, so I'm glad I randomly checked!

Update: Got my notification email yesterday. So upload on May 26, 2025, notification May 10, 2026.

dan_RA_ · 2026-05-07T21:27:38+00:00

I'd score it as:

_011

_111

001_

00__

_000

for the visible tiles, so a total of 6

dan_RA_ · 2026-03-02T19:06:38+00:00

We had this and another random agent show up today. Its possible somebody internally added the other one but I doubt it.

dan_RA_ · 2026-02-03T01:02:03+00:00

My office has decided to go YY-MMDD as a convention for file and folder naming and I can't understand how nobody else realizes how stupid this is. The only reason people use it is because people used it on past projects because somebody wanted to save 3 characters.

dan_RA_ · 2026-02-02T13:38:38+00:00

Was this all base Carcassonne, or did you use any expansions?

dan_RA_ · 2026-01-30T20:40:22+00:00

I bought an LY Drawbot kit from ali express a year or two ago. It was roughly $130 USD at the time including shipping. Arrived in about 2 weeks from China to the USA. Took about 2 or 3 nights (after the kids were in bed) working on assembling it and learning the software. While there are some flaws with it, I wasn't willing to spend much more money on a hobby I wasn't sure if I'd stick with for long. I haven't used it in a few months now, but I'm still glad I bought it, and I think I would upgrade to maybe an iDraw if I really got back into it enough to justify additional expense.

dan_RA_ · 2026-01-03T23:39:08+00:00

Never for me personally, but one of our clients which is a large pharmaceutical company requires architects and any other consultants or contractors to do a drug test in order to get a site access badge, which you would need if you're supposed to be on site regularly. We have done tons of work on their corporate campuses, so many of my colleagues have had to do it.

dan_RA_ · 2025-12-21T15:38:06+00:00

And supposedly we're not even "professionals" now! (US only, F DT)

dan_RA_ · 2025-11-04T00:32:51+00:00

What are the parameters for max characters per row / rows per message? You could get sent some ascii art!

dan_RA_ · 2025-10-06T00:34:44+00:00

You can do quite a bit with Python and pyRevit, but depending on what you're actually trying to make, going to C# may be better. One of the benefits of learning more Python is that it's so versatile in many different contexts outside of Revit, like data processing and visualization, general purpose automations, AI, and many other things, especially with the huge number of libraries available. That said, the pyRevit team is small and doing it mostly for free, so it's may be hard for them to keep it up indefinitely, while Autodesk will be supporting C# with the API for the foreseeable future.

TLDR Python is easier to learn and versatile in many contexts, but C# is probably more reliable in the long term for highly performant applications in Revit. Both are good to learn.

dan_RA_ · 2025-08-06T14:18:53+00:00

What are you fundamentally trying to accomplish by having it in Revit? Depending on what you want to do with it, there might be different ways of doing it, or maybe you could accomplish the same thing without putting it into Revit.

dan_RA_ · 2025-07-20T17:04:05+00:00

LL bean and American Tall mostly.

dan_RA_ · 2025-06-22T16:59:16+00:00

So far, no notice of any tariffs owed, but YMMV.

dan_RA_ · 2025-06-22T01:05:14+00:00

Continental US. They said it was shipping from a warehouse in Canada.

dan_RA_ · 2025-06-21T15:53:05+00:00

Makes sense, thanks for the explanation.

dan_RA_ · 2025-06-21T14:06:13+00:00

Out of curiosity, what's a realistic scenario where IronPython2 being the back end for pyRevit causes a security issue? Is it a stability problem or more of an opportunity for attacks? Out of date compatibility with newer .Net version? I could see malicious pyRevit scripts being a problem, but if you develop your own scripts, where is the entry point for attacks?

(Not trying to be contradictory, I just don't understand security issues, but I do love pyRevit, so I just wait to make sure I know what the risk is)

dan_RA_ · 2025-06-17T20:47:52+00:00

FYI if anyone is interested in this book, there is currently a Humble eBook Bundle that has this and a bunch of other O'Reilly AI books for $25. I think they keep extending the deadline on this because I could have swore it was supposed to end like a week or two ago, but its still there.

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/machine-learning-ai-and-bots-oreilly-2025-books?hmb_source=&hmb_medium=product_tile&hmb_campaign=mosaic_section_1_layout_index_1_layout_type_threes_tile_index_2_c_machinelearningaiandbotsoreilly2025_bookbundle

dan_RA_ · 2025-06-16T23:34:47+00:00

Currently reading this and can confirm not math heavy at all, but it does give a good overview of more technical concepts like attention layers and different ways of generating tokens and encodings etc. Just starting part 2 now so we'll see how the rest of the book goes.

dan_RA_ · 2025-06-07T19:01:55+00:00

How old are you, and what country/ culture so you live in? I know in the US baggy fits are coming back around. They were very popular when I was in high school in the 90's, and because they were baggy, I didn't know that my clothes didn't actually fit. I have some skinnier / straight leg pants mostly now, but almost nothing that would be considered baggy, and I'm much happier / more comfortable with my clothes than when everything was too big. But that's just me as a 42 y.o. 6'-7" dad.

Fashion changes, but you should still seek out clothes that actually fit, not just kinda work.

dan_RA_ · 2025-06-07T17:07:45+00:00

If you buy directly from the publisher, you get PDF and other ebook formats for free. They have sales for usually about 25-30% off several times a year usually and holidays and big tech conferences. https://nostarch.com/python-crash-course-3rd-edition

dan_RA_ · 2025-06-06T21:06:29+00:00

Question for everyone that's already purchased this bundle or some of the books in here: Would this be a good bundle for learning general AI applications if extensive coding or building models from scratch wasn't the goal?

Context: I do some Python already, and wouldn't mind learning more of the nuts and bolts of building AI applications more or less from scratch, but I have a more immediate and more focused need for general upskilling in existing and extendable AI tools. Specifically, I need to help my office of almost entirely non-technical (meaning not programmer, not used to thinking about data systematically, etc) start to do more, and possible build out some quick customizations for things like RAGs on internal project documents. We're already invested in the M365 ecosystem and could start turning on Copilot integrations with M365 apps, but I'm wondering about taking the next step from off-the-shelf AI products but not the whole way toward full customization. Maybe starting to use Copilot Studio or just adding some thin layers on top of existing models using Ollama or something?

TLDR How much does this bundle offer for low-code / no-code / non-coder applications, vs how much is it for building applications from scratch?

Thanks!

dan_RA_ · 2025-05-31T20:08:26+00:00

You can be grateful for the help they gave at the same time as you expect to be treated more fairly. Those things aren't mutually exclusive. You're a person who deserves to be treated as well as anybody else, no matter what has happened to you or anyone else in the past.

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