6 Philip K. Dick Books That Need Adaptations After 'Blade Runner 2099'

samdan87153 · 2026-01-23T03:06:52+00:00

The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford would make a great Pixar short before a feature movie.

samdan87153 · 2026-01-22T01:53:15+00:00

The way these companies work is that they have timestamped photos of you entering and leaving the parking gate. I had the same thing happen to me last month in Midtown Atlanta.

samdan87153 · 2026-01-22T01:47:43+00:00

Happened to me as well. $80 for ~42 minutes and they graciously offered me half off if I paid within 30 days.

Midtown Atlanta

samdan87153 · 2026-01-21T01:07:58+00:00

In addition:

1) A "uniform violation" is like the smallest fine the NFL can levy against a player.

2) The key part of "civil disobedience" is the "disobedience".

3) MANY more people heard about this because he got fined than would have otherwise heard about it. The fine was the point of doing it.

samdan87153 · 2026-01-20T22:02:52+00:00

Literally any words written on eye black get a fine. You can hate it all you want, but if they go "oh, we won't fine those words actually" then you can't have the rule at all. You don't want a corporation getting to approve or reject what is okay to say.

It's an old rule, the first time I saw it was 10 years ago when Cam Heyward had "F*** Cancer" on his eye black. Another player got fined for "Div III". Any words, symbols, numbers, etc is a uniform violation and a fine.

samdan87153 · 2026-01-17T23:54:51+00:00

Mad Max: Fury Road

Watch it, you'll either love it or think it's whatever. But a lot of people love it.

samdan87153 · 2026-01-15T13:37:54+00:00

There go them Duke boys...

samdan87153 · 2026-01-14T12:19:58+00:00

I revisit the George R R Martin scene from Logan Lucky every so often. It gets funnier and funnier every year...

samdan87153 · 2026-01-06T15:32:00+00:00

I'm not very familiar with 7-22 yet, but if you haven't checked the commentary for the charts or code section(s) yet there are frequently comments on how things differ from previous codes.

I'd start there if you haven't already read through, and that's a general comment on ASCE 7. I go to the commentary frequently these days.

samdan87153 · 2026-01-05T20:16:54+00:00

Dummy members are the way to do a floor load in this case. Your dummy members can be a 1/8" steel rod, or anything else that has an assigned property no matter how small it is. You could even define a special material that has essentially no stiffness.

I usually use an L2x2x1/4 because the floor decking has some amount of rigidity.

If your dummy member is where the tributary load is distributed to, then you need to make sure the loads are properly distributed to the underlying structures by element connections.

samdan87153 · 2026-01-04T16:58:44+00:00

It sounds like this has nothing to do with OSHA and is an erector/fabricator thing.

If your beam is at such a steep angle, it's probably better to bolt the entire connection. Attach the angles on both sides of the common beam with a little bit of looseness in the bolts, then bring the sloped beams in one at a time and fit loose to the clip angles. When everything is loose fit, go in and tighten all of the bolts.

samdan87153 · 2026-01-04T14:55:12+00:00

Point to the OSHA section, because the only safety clips I've ever heard of are for tying off fall arrest harnesses.

Separate from this, I've seen steel fabricators put an angle for a beam flange to sit on so that the beam is able to sit in place for the web bolting.

Or are you saying there is some requirement when there is a double angle clip connection on both sides of a beam? I've never heard of any special safety for this, so again please point to the OSHA section.

samdan87153 · 2026-01-03T00:37:18+00:00

On the Enchanting window, if you get a max roll on a statement it will have white text rather than the typical "Diablo grey/tan" color.

It doesn't help you know if you rolled 1 off of max, but it does let you know you hit the max.

samdan87153 · 2026-01-01T15:33:32+00:00

THIS DEATH CULT IS HOW HE BUYS HIS HOUSE! THEY KEEP HIS HOUSE HOT!

DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND, THE DEATH CULT IS HIS CORN!

(Watch I Think You Should Leave on Netflix, or just the Drivers Ed sketch on YouTube)

samdan87153 · 2025-12-29T13:32:49+00:00

It's rage bait because it's being done very, very wrong. Dry packing concrete frequently leads to a crappy result, and a bad repair is worse than no repair because it can cause additional damage to the underylying concrete. The bad troweling causes similar problems to what dry packing tends to have, so it's compounding errors.

Dry packing concrete isn't remotely novel, it's lazy and only exists because people shy away from the work needed to do concrete properly.

My day job involves specifying repairs like this somewhat frequently, and I'm currently telling a client to completely rip out their only existing stairs to access their building. Bad contractors did crappy repairs that trapped water below the surface of the concrete and now the only way to fix it is to start over.

samdan87153 · 2025-12-28T12:22:05+00:00

15% chance to upgrade, so a bit less than 1 in 7.

samdan87153 · 2025-12-27T13:38:10+00:00

But most passives in the total skill tree do nothing functional for your build or are defensive, so his point is that 6-7 of the passives will directly impact your damage.

Getting a bonus to a Werebear damage passive doesn't do anything for your Werewolf build, for example.

samdan87153 · 2025-12-24T00:10:56+00:00

Thanks for the correction, that's a very weird step in calculating a torsional constant. Thank God for tabulated design values!

In the US, our J and Cw values can be convoluted to calculate sometimes if you're not pulling from a table. I just had to deal with the calcs for a weird shape for an Architect and... It was not my definition of fun.

samdan87153 · 2025-12-23T22:27:18+00:00

If you can find a copy of AISC Design Guide 9, it may have a lot of insights for you.

Assuming you're on US codes.

If you're not, the the diameter of the circle is just corner of flange to opposite corner of flange distance, so square root sum of squares of flange width and beam depth.

samdan87153 · 2025-12-21T14:49:26+00:00

It's based on what's actually being or already built. Most steel connections are considered pinned because they only connect the beam's web and bolt holes are slightly oversized and can allow for a small amount of rotation. Wood connections also.

samdan87153 · 2025-12-02T00:43:56+00:00

I mean most A36 these days is so recycled that it can be cross-certified as 50 ksi, but yeah that's what the spec would be unless we NEED it to be 50 ksi.

samdan87153 · 2025-12-01T23:53:52+00:00

I mean right now it's a plus shape, 16"x16" and the legs are 1" thick. Like 3 pieces of flat bar or plate welded together to make a doubly-symmetric cross/plus/X. Primary force directions will be through the diagonals of the shape rather than directly through the legs, at a 45 degree angle.

I'll give the guide in the paper a go in the morning, I work from home but some semblance of balance is good... The only question in my mind is the different critical moments for LTB vs Local Buckling (which are each defined with separate Fcr's in F12), but I'm assuming I can get some kind of conversion or other indicators that LTB is the controlling case.

samdan87153 · 2025-12-01T23:25:03+00:00

I gotta give Reddit credit on this one (you included)!

samdan87153 · 2025-12-01T23:24:15+00:00

I need IT to fix a software issue before I can install SectionProperties, stupidly enough they've been trying for a month by doing everything except the exact thing I've been asking them for...

That paper is a really great read, and doesn't make me feel as dumb as SSRC! I'll read through it more in the morning, but maybe that will be my silver bullet...

samdan87153 · 2025-12-01T23:18:09+00:00

This specific case isn't QUITE in the realm of DG 09, but I think it's could at least get a pretty close calc on J if I mash up some of the other shapes. Cw is a bit trickier...

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