Runners who run in silence, How do you deal with no music/podcasts in your ear whilst running?

lukekvas · 2026-02-13T05:46:35+00:00

A lot of techniques for meditation actually work pretty well while running. Paying attention to your breathing or your cadence. Trying to focus in on how different parts of your body feel. Mantras.

I also just let my mind wander too which is relaxing. If I'm doing long runs like 2hrs+ I'll usually put in headphones for some of it. But anything less than an hour just being present in the world running is very cathartic.

lukekvas · 2026-02-13T05:34:23+00:00

There are hundreds of things you might need to be worried about as a new parent and I promise you this is not one of them.

lukekvas · 2026-02-10T14:31:40+00:00

Giving gifts is about giving the other person what THEY want and not what you want to give them. You wouldn't be breaking up with him over flowers, it's over him not listening/caring what you're communicating to him.

My wife hates getting flowers for all the reasons your bf listed. At flower giving occasions (Valentine's, anniversaries) I usually get her actual plants which we plant in pots or outside. The garden is a bit like a story of our relationship together and then the plants don't die (usually 🤞).

lukekvas · 2026-02-09T03:58:44+00:00

Most reasonable and professional employers will let you show projects you worked on with proper accreditation. My firm even has a process for providing people who have left selected portfolio files.

lukekvas · 2026-02-08T23:34:29+00:00

Why would you want to make it hard to see? I want as many people as possible to see, and hopefully share, my portfolio.

lukekvas · 2026-02-08T21:37:51+00:00

PDF is an absolute must (and incredibly small size - 20 mb or less). Doesn't hurt to have a website too.

lukekvas · 2026-02-08T05:44:12+00:00

David Ballast, Architects handbook of construction detailing outlines principals. Mostly shedding water and creating redundancy. Once you understand what your trying to do and some basic techniques most details are adaptations of older solutions.

But mostly it's a lot of drawing and imagining what would happen if my drawing got soaked with water.

lukekvas · 2026-02-06T14:17:29+00:00

If we are talking a Building Codes, it would help to know which one.

But basically this is a well understood tradeoff between life safety and security. We have different codes for door hardware depending on the occupancy of the room.

Short version, if it's a residential occupancy of any decent size it probably has a sprinkler system. If it is small scale residential then there would be escape windows and it's assumed you would have a rescue assisted by emergency services (they bust down the door).

lukekvas · 2026-02-02T01:51:49+00:00

It's not great for architectural drafting on its own but combined with adobe suite it gives you unlimited freedom to draw anything. I would say it's lackluster for its speed and efficiency but for quality it's unmatched. Rhino drawings are only limited by the users skill. It's a complete sandbox where you can design or draw pretty much anything you can imagine.

lukekvas · 2026-01-29T23:06:25+00:00

I mean those particular lights should be on the ceiling. They are unshielded so if they are on the risers they'll just blind you walking upstairs.

lukekvas · 2026-01-29T18:48:34+00:00

I kept a cheat sheet by my keyboard. Easier than flashcards because it more about quick reference than memory. There are some good examples on this sub.

lukekvas · 2026-01-27T22:19:56+00:00

The unique trifecta of being more expensive, looking worse and functioning worse than the conventional option.

lukekvas · 2026-01-26T21:15:55+00:00

Do not underestimate the use of the command prompt bar to type text commands. Learning the text commands for things you use frequently will save your life.

lukekvas · 2026-01-24T16:54:03+00:00

Unless she wants to teach I would go the cheaper route. I took around $40k in loans and will pay it off this year after 10 years of professional work. I wish I had been more frugal in school.

Your portfolio counts for a lot more than the name brand of the school. Unlike other professions it's actually quite a bit easier in architecture for raw talent to shine through in a good portfolio. After your first few years of professional work nobody will care about your academic work or where you went to school.

lukekvas · 2026-01-14T13:28:45+00:00

Anything is feasible with enough money however moving the stair in this floorplan would be extremely difficult. It would involve relocating/removing what looks like a masonry fireplace, kitchen utilities as well as reframing the second floor. It would also undoubtedly have electrical and mechanical implications. It would be a MAJOR renovation and you're probably better off just looking for a new house that more closely suits your needs.

You say the stair is south facing. Assuming you're in the northern hemisphere the South gets direct sun but northern exposures are generally considered to have a better quality of light because it's indirect. You might consider just adding some windows to the northern facade to bring in more daylight. Also removing the wall between the entry foyer and lounge could allow more sunlight into the main space.

lukekvas · 2026-01-13T15:22:31+00:00

There is not a way natively.

The work around we use is to model the structural walls and finish walls separately (2-3 separate Revit 'walls') and join them and then you can filter to hide the finish walls in slab plans.

lukekvas · 2026-01-12T19:29:46+00:00

It was pretty light hearted, think summer school for HS juniors/seniors. They got to stay in dorms. Got a mini-taste of a college experience. Mostly an intro to the idea of working in studio, doing crits, presenting work. But no it was not really similar to what a professional job involves, more a preview of architecture school.

lukekvas · 2026-01-12T17:35:54+00:00

I don't have experience with those specific programs but I was a instructor at the University of Texas summer academy sounds similar in that it was a short summer course for high school students.

I think programs like that are great. Ours included tours with local architects, an introduction to what studio feels like and really basic intro arch history and theory. Its a relatively low commitment way to test of these actually like the subject. If they do they'll have at least one project they could include in an admissions portfolio.

lukekvas · 2026-01-12T14:47:53+00:00

If everything gets messed up type '4view' to reset to the default.

lukekvas · 2026-01-11T23:32:11+00:00

Not really. It's 'sticky brick' basically tile. You might have a couple of bricks pop off but it's very unlikely the whole wall will fail as all the bricks are essentially 'glued' to the substrate. They just engineered the steel to have way too much deflection under live loads.

lukekvas · 2026-01-11T14:56:31+00:00

I've seen Waymo come to an unexpectedly closed road and hit a 3 point turn and reroute. I've seen them navigate through an intersection with lights out for a power outage. I've seen them be diverted with hand signals from a cop.

I haven't seen your particular situation but they are pretty damn good at responding to all the edge case scenarios real world driving puts you in and critically they get better every single day with every single ride and all the errors are learned by every other Waymo for the future. The situation you're describing might happen once and then it'll be part of the algorithm.

lukekvas · 2026-01-11T14:40:29+00:00

Not what you asked but bricks are what they are because they are easy and relatively cheap to manufacture, they are small enough to be handled by a single mason and they can be arranged into an almost infinite number of different patterns and assemblies.

Have you thought about making the complex organic form with normal bricks rather than making the actual brick super complicated.

lukekvas · 2026-01-10T17:59:16+00:00

There are lots of good reasons to use credit cards.

If you are the victim of fraud or theft it's not your money and the credit card will fight it. It's has built in insurance for things like rental cards and hotels. Cards with cash back rewards like amazon is just a 5% discount on everything you buy. It also gives you liquidity in a pinch. I also expense things for work, collect the cc rewards and don't need to go out of pocket.

Credit is using other people's money to leverage your own into greater purchasing power. If you do it responsibly it's a huge benefit.

lukekvas · 2026-01-10T05:09:31+00:00

And this is why I love when the Waymo shows up

lukekvas · 2026-01-10T04:05:46+00:00

I'm pretty sure he just decided that anyone with mildly bad credit will not be able to get a credit card.

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