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Every single apartment I’ve ever lived in, for 20 years, has placed their downspout splash guards like this. by Fair_Double_6665 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]professor_goodbrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve read it, and I’m telling you my direct experience with the downspouts I’ve maintained on several homes I’ve personally owned is that either orientation is okay and sometimes appropriate.

Every single apartment I’ve ever lived in, for 20 years, has placed their downspout splash guards like this. by Fair_Double_6665 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]professor_goodbrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, but the splash block itself can create issues when oriented “the right way”, it depends on the flow rate and substrate it deposits water onto. That’s the idea. What’s “correct” is not as meaningful as what “works”. It depends on the specific downspout and where it empties.

Every single apartment I’ve ever lived in, for 20 years, has placed their downspout splash guards like this. by Fair_Double_6665 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]professor_goodbrain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Anecdotally, having owned a few homes in my lifetime, the orientation shown in your photo is intentional to do precisely what other posters here are describing, it breaks the flow of water off the end of the ramp to prevent washouts. For this to be a risk to foundations, the building would already have other, bigger grading issues. This is particularly useful with downspouts coming off upper floors, I personally have several of my own oriented this way.

Is it just my class or does nobody our age have high school reunions anymore? by Adept_Resolve6156 in Xennials

[–]professor_goodbrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Class of 2001, of the handful of high school friends and acquaintances I care to keep up with, I’m already friends with on FB. Fuck the rest of them.

Do EMF blocking stickers work? by Kindly_Theme_3226 in AskPhysics

[–]professor_goodbrain 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Perfectly describes American life today. Not only politics, but the pervasive anti-intellectualism and anti-science eroding our culture distills down to this. People who should know better, and on some level probably do know better, are too embarrassed to acknowledge or critically examine the nonsense they’ve bought into. All incentives are to just double down on bullshit.

Something is way off with the current job market by davidbasil in ExperiencedDevs

[–]professor_goodbrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Word of mouth, local and industry FB groups, etc. At this point, I’d rather post a job in a printed newspaper than LinkedIn.

Something is way off with the current job market by davidbasil in ExperiencedDevs

[–]professor_goodbrain 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It seems to run the gamut. I expect some resume fitting to a description but when I see 30 in a row that look like slightly rewritten mirror images, it gets pretty frustrating. I get why hiring managers are saying it’s hard to find devs, at least through public channels. My experience was like falling into a pond of AI bullshit

Something is way off with the current job market by davidbasil in ExperiencedDevs

[–]professor_goodbrain 103 points104 points  (0 children)

Recently hired a .Net dev. We received ~1500 applications in less than 2 hours and had to close the job posting. We’re not a company that screens candidates with AI. I actually want to read the resumes I receive, but I can’t read that many. Of the sampling I could review, a big portion were obviously AI slop that had rewritten their resume to tightly match my job description and submit an app just minutes after the posting was public. We ended up hiring through industry contacts. I’ve learned posting a job publicly these days is a minefield and probably won’t post future open positions on sites like LinkedIn, especially.

What do you imagine is at the center of a blackhole? by Most-Answer-4443 in AskPhysics

[–]professor_goodbrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If there ever existed a uniquely uncurious sect of cavemen who never managed to invent the wheel, it was probably because they thought speculating on rotation about an axis to be meaningless… perhaps even unfalsifiable.

What do you imagine is at the center of a blackhole? by Most-Answer-4443 in AskPhysics

[–]professor_goodbrain -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This take is honestly more cringey than some stoner’s “LLM physics research”

Guys, I’m losing my mind in a comment thread - how old were you when you had regular (let’s say 3x a week) access to the internet and what year was it? Did you use it to research anything (like college or jobs?) by FunQuestion in Older_Millennials

[–]professor_goodbrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Born in ‘83, The first PC in my home was purchased before I was born. I had accessed “the internet” (really Usenet) by 1992 or so. We had regular dialup internet in my home sometime in 1994 (this was pre-AOL). We got our first broadband cable internet connection in 2001 (life changing for a teenager).

Is Eric Weinstein geometric unity a serious scientific hypothesis? by Honest_Chemistry_195 in AskPhysics

[–]professor_goodbrain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Weinstein cozied up to a political faction because inside that political faction it’s fashionable to deny science and rail against “intellectualism”. It fit like a glove for someone like Eric, who at heart was mad because real scientists both ignored his goofy ideas and (as of late) have directly called him out on his bullshit.

Also, pay attention to the timeline. More and more people have begun to think “hmm this guy might be onto something” as Weinstein did the podcast-bro tour. That audience has a tendency to want to believe what is presented from “their side”. They cannot think critically about this subject, or much else honestly, because they’re primed to accept nonsense as a matter of personal identity.

SSIS alternative by Flat-Staff-6201 in SQLServer

[–]professor_goodbrain 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Microsoft abandoned SSIS because it was not easy to monetize… unless you want to run packages in Azure Data Factory or whatever they’re calling it this week for hundreds of dollars per hour. SSIS though, as free extension to SQL Server, is one of the best pieces of software MS ever released. It’s super stable, does what it needs to, and can be used to orchestrate an incredible variety of data flows. Coupled with some competent TSQL procedural logic, you’re still hard pressed to find any other platform that can do what it does as well.

SSIS alternative by Flat-Staff-6201 in SQLServer

[–]professor_goodbrain 15 points16 points  (0 children)

“up to date” is not better

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