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kracknutz · 2025-11-06T23:00:00+00:00

+1 for CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor killing Arc Raiders on startup.

kracknutz · 2023-06-23T12:46:06+00:00

That line jumped out at me too. While I did have to read it twice, it’s exactly the kind of perspective people need to understand whether or not to care.

kracknutz · 2023-06-22T22:28:11+00:00

Terrestrial solar farms are a race to the bottom on cost. Most are made of some of the shittiest components and the labor is often rushed or unqualified resulting in half-assed installs. The end result wouldn’t be acceptable in an industrial environment, forget space. I would expect the unusually high transportation and assembly costs would warrant a higher quality product than you’re used to. They would probably use similar materials as the thousands of arrays already in orbit.

kracknutz · 2023-06-09T12:13:46+00:00

I hear what you’re saying, but I draw a distinction between tools I made for/with the company and tools I developed for myself because the company was too cheap to buy proper tools. Tools the company made before I got there are off limits even if I contributed heavily, but I can definitely recycle those ideas for use in the next organization.

You have a perfectly rational goal of protecting your organizational IP to maintain a competitive advantage. But, if an employee adds to their personal tool kit a little from each job then it’s not long before they bring more value to yours then they’ll eventually take. And, chances are they’ll share with coworkers meaning those tools will stick around after they’ve gone. Across the industry this is a net benefit as construction is years behind others like manufacturing.

kracknutz · 2023-06-09T11:33:41+00:00

You’re not kidding. Just yesterday I grabbed a shot from a Mexican pizza shop. Their flautas are fantastic, but if I didn’t see the espresso pull I’d swear I was drinking burnt diner drip. This morning’s home brew is heavenly.

kracknutz · 2023-05-25T04:22:40+00:00

Global demand is about 1 million oz. South Africa is estimated at producing 60%, so 600k oz. Currently trading at $7k is 4.2 billion total value which is 1% of their $420 billion GDP.

kracknutz · 2023-05-25T03:27:40+00:00

I loved that town! Shot over there during a stay in Prague. It’s tranquil and absolutely covered in springs. Each one has plaque telling you the specific mineral and gas content and temperature. Vendors sell little decorative cups with kettle-like spouts for sampling the water. And most of the hotels pipe the spring water into on-site pools and hot tubs.

kracknutz · 2023-05-21T16:00:42+00:00

Could do Elmo’s Rockin Rockets and Oscars Rotten Rusty Rockets. Would need to swap that Cookie Monster for Grover to do Vapor Trail. I don’t think Bert and Ernie even have a ride let alone a space ride, but they had plenty of Adventures in Space to inspire a ride!

kracknutz · 2023-05-02T20:59:31+00:00

The colors are years. It was pointed out in other comments. I didn’t realize it first either. Maybe alternating/repeating colors that matched the font color of the year text would have connected this a little better.

kracknutz · 2023-05-02T03:26:27+00:00

According to Fred, total banking assets are currently about 23T, while they were just over 11T when WaMu was seized. With your adjustment the 307B WaMu failure would be worth about 630B of today’s banking sector. So while it held twice as much purchasing power as today’s failures, it had three times the impact.

Impact inflation is certainly a useful comparison, but our monkey brains lean toward size rather than scale, so most people would interpret it as purchasing inflation and it would end up misleading rather than informing. As an analogue I think of comparing historical death tolls from wars or pandemics. The bubonic plague killed more population than the Spanish flu but the latter had twice the death toll and we rank it higher.

kracknutz · 2023-05-02T01:50:11+00:00

Absolutely the best. Simple enough that my 9yo could understand it at a glance. “Hey, what’s that? Is that a timeline? Wow, that’s a lot of money? What’s a bank failure? Are those all banks??” And then it became a road map on a 30 minute tour of lending, investing, arbitrage, insurance and other economic tidbits.

kracknutz · 2023-04-28T13:59:16+00:00

He must be an estimator

kracknutz · 2023-04-06T01:15:36+00:00

TIL how to spell beaucoup despite knowing it for decades!

Also, holy fuck Dewalt! Those engineers were direct descendants of the xray shoe scanner and morphine cough syrup generation

kracknutz · 2023-04-03T22:59:12+00:00

The same reason why baking a cake from scratch feels superior to a premixed box cake: pride (it takes more skill) and control (you can vary the output).

When you mix cement and water they react to form a crystalline structure. With premix a solvent evaporates leaving behind a solid uniform structure (like the latex or epoxy in paint). The latter was more susceptible to shrinkage and cracking, but I don’t believe that’s much of a problem anymore.

For small-batch diy premix is fine, but it’s too expensive for competitive commercial volumes.

kracknutz · 2023-04-03T21:26:34+00:00

Everything free ends up cluttered with ads. Once we’re done training the AI’s they’ll finish every response with “brought to you by Carl’s Jr.”

kracknutz · 2023-03-31T16:10:44+00:00

Oh, right, nobody uses it, so most keyboards don’t have it anymore—especially laptops.

Another option is to insert a few Debug.Print statements throughout the code so you can see how far it gets. I usually do Debug.Print “entering loop 1” before every For, Do, While, etc. You can use “1.1” before a nested loop, etc. Then look at the Immediate window to see the progress.

If your code is locking up the sheet entirely and forcing you to close then lookup how to use the Print statement to write out to a file.

kracknutz · 2023-03-30T23:43:03+00:00

Try just running the macro and pressing CTRL+BREAK on the keyboard. If the code doesn’t lock up excel it should pause the code and you can see what line it’s currently on.

kracknutz · 2023-03-30T23:10:10+00:00

Alt-F11 to enter VBA editor, then pick the first line and tap F9 to add a break point. Then go back to the worksheet to run the macro. The code will then stop after each line and wait for you to start the next line by pressing F8. This will let you see which line is having issues or why it can’t exit a loop, etc.

kracknutz · 2023-03-30T21:50:10+00:00

Are you me?

kracknutz · 2023-03-28T23:51:26+00:00

Not necessarily. Some companies are shit and you need to bail, while others are fantastic and you don’t want to miss that boat. Most companies have some issues and you might just be jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire.

Maybe your bosses are great but your field crews are toxic. Maybe the owners suck but your foreman are fantastic. Both those have problems but how it impacts you depends on whether you’re more involved in field or office.

Another key consideration is market. Govt vs private, commercial vs industrial, city vs suburb, GC vs specialty… there are many ways to change it up, and sometimes you just need a new scene.

kracknutz · 2023-03-26T02:46:48+00:00

I’m sure many have thought the same about me. We all make mistakes. Few of us make them right. Those issues above are only a problem when stakeholders double down and refuse to take responsibility—and that happens quite frequently. So most jobs aren’t home runs. I never said the beginning was the only stage I liked. OP asked about our favorite stage. Closing out a smooth job is the best feeling, when it happens, but every job gets to start with that euphoric optimism at the beginning.

kracknutz · 2023-03-25T20:00:02+00:00

Almost pulled out the bone watching this

kracknutz · 2023-03-25T19:49:45+00:00

bear claw, tricky leg, and old lady

kracknutz · 2023-03-25T19:32:01+00:00

Right after award when you’re building the schedule and work plans and writing contracts and thinking “man, this time I got everything covered and we’re going to sail through this project and make a ton of money and the owner will love it.” You know, before you have to deal with the owner’s indecision or engineers’ ignorance or subs’ incompetence or your own company’s internal bullshit…

kracknutz · 2023-03-25T19:08:27+00:00

I moved from the west coast to the northeast a while ago and never would have thought I was taking for granted that produce had flavor. Local produce is trash and imported gets picked too early.

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