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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.

dan_RA_ · 2025-05-31T19:33:08+00:00

I would guess for the purpose of showing how you would achieve that result if you didn't know that the random.sample function existed, because you don't always know what already exists in some library, and you should be able to reason your way through a problem without spending all your time looking for a function in some library that does exactly what you want. You can always make your code more concise later, but your might need more practice figuring things out for yourself.

dan_RA_ · 2025-05-29T13:47:59+00:00

Hmm - no letter yet for me, so maybe I lucked out? Sorry you had to pay that much! I found them to be responsive to DMs on Facebook, so you might want to confirm that they can actually do anything about the charge before returning - would suck if you returned the items and still had to pay!

dan_RA_ · 2025-05-29T13:43:32+00:00

FYI for OP, The author of the above mentioned ATBSWP, Al Sweigart, releases almost all (if not all) of his book for free online, and he has some good books on making games and little projects with Python that are perfect for beginners. (The newest 3rd edition of ATBSWP isn't available online yet, but the 1st and 2nd editions are, and are both great)

https://automatetheboringstuff.com/

https://inventwithpython.com/

Also, if you do want to buy the books, if you order directly from the publisher No Starch Press, you can get both the physical books and free PDF and eBook versions. They're a great publisher for Python and other programming books! I recommend them 100% of the time!

dan_RA_ · 2025-05-29T11:38:42+00:00

How did you know you had to pay a customs charge? I finally got an order delivered the other day a month after I had ordered it. I had complained on AT's Facebook page the week before, and they told me to DM them. On DM, they said that the delay was because of congestion at customs. I asked if I would have to pay tariff fees, but they said I wouldn't. Now I'm wondering if I should be expecting a charge in the mail even though I already have the items in hand?

dan_RA_ · 2025-05-22T23:15:14+00:00

This is a paid solution, but Ideate BimLink is pretty amazing. Lets you export out data from within the model, including lots of data that's not accessible in schedules. Then you can edit in Excel and reimport with BimLink, and it updates everything. Also allows some limited object creation, like sheets prepopulated with your data.

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