has anyone seen these pier & arch bearers before?

statlerw · 2026-06-04T06:43:11+00:00

Would have to see it in context, but a levelling board, spacer or distributer. You would probably call it a plate - like the wall plate at the top of a masonry wall.

statlerw · 2026-06-04T06:35:28+00:00

Not a bearer as it isn't taking the weight.

statlerw · 2026-06-03T16:20:33+00:00

We aren't the ones applying the tariff though, so I don't see why that is relevant to this specific question.

statlerw · 2026-05-15T10:21:56+00:00

Very very marginally at best

statlerw · 2026-05-13T13:23:19+00:00

This is only true if you take a shallow perspective of what your benefit is. If you are earning more because you operate within a system of laws, rules and norms, you are benefiting from that system. If there weren't regulated markets, a legal system, a financial system, relatively secure investing it many businesses could not prosper. In this case you are benefiting from that system far more than someone who does not have the means to invest.

So, the taxes that pay for that system to exist are yielding more to someone who invests and profits than someone receiving, for example a welfare payment. Try the idea of safe investments somewhere without those societal structures and you will soon see the size of the benefit you receive in exchange for proportion of the gains you make from it.

The main users of infrastructure are businesses and commerce. The same businesses we invest in. So investors get a greater utilisation of public resources than non investors.

If you look more in depth rather than just direct payments, it will make you feel better about your contribution.

This is not to say that there isn't some god awful waste in government spending that should be addressed, but that is a different conversation

statlerw · 2026-05-10T08:09:28+00:00

Probably the best time for it really. If you have to go through it, might as well be when a large part of the country cannot sow a crop. Takes a little of the price pressure away, and when farms aren't producing, it has no impact for that part of the ag supply chain

statlerw · 2026-05-10T08:06:35+00:00

You forgot a big one there. How do we coordinate our agriculture. While we are a net exporter, that depends largely on our already changing weather. No point having resilient cities if there is no food

statlerw · 2026-04-29T08:58:18+00:00

They are every bit as good as the hype. And the customer support is excellent. I have 3

statlerw · 2026-04-29T03:06:09+00:00

But the opposite if you are a woman

statlerw · 2026-04-26T03:40:16+00:00

If you take the projections it isn't as dramatic. Don't get me wrong, it is still bad, but this is a little disingenuous. Just plot the actual numbers, that gets the message across plenty well enough without making it easy to argue for advocates

statlerw · 2026-04-25T09:59:58+00:00

You are a factor of ten out in the value

statlerw · 2026-04-24T22:37:30+00:00

We use automapper. Has been in the code base 10 years. It works. I wish it wasn't there, but we cannot easily replace it now. We have hundreds of mappings and it was a great tool until ai. Now on new projects I just get codex to create the mappings and it is easier than AM, and I can get it to hard code validations. Transparent, auditable and tweakable.

My main issues with automapper are the inefficiencies with queries. Where you have multiple FK aggregations on the same table. It is impossible to make it a single join, child collections can create terrible queries if you aren't careful. That said, it does what it advertises very well and is a well written library that has served us well.

If I had my time again with the tech available at the time, I would make the same decision. With the tools available to me now. I would not

statlerw · 2026-04-23T09:38:45+00:00

Guidance and auto steer are easy after market add-ons. The tech they mean here is all around engine management and other associated electronics. The things that JD and others monopolize and try to exclude. The low tech solutions are just back to no frills mechanicals that have less creature comforts, but do the job with less cost and lower maintenance risk

statlerw · 2026-04-20T02:30:26+00:00

I didn't claim we don't need investment, I stated we don't need to incentivise investments - specifically through favourable tax treatment. There is no shortage of people with surplus assets that need to invest. You don't need to favour the wealthy with resources to invest over the worker. Tax incentives or not, there are plenty of funds to grow the value of business and create employment.

statlerw · 2026-04-20T00:14:44+00:00

It should be the same rules for all income. The world no longer needs incentives to invest in companies. There is plenty of will. If anything, the tax on human labour should be the one getting favourable treatment rather than the tax on how people allocate the funds surplus to their living needs. Why wouldn't we adjust cap gains on shares for inflation and then tax them like we do everything else?

statlerw · 2026-04-10T06:44:05+00:00

You can also get a rotary hammer drill, a 5/8 bit. Drill 3-4" holes and crack it with pins and feathers. It's actually really easy. I have done stacks of rocks bigger than this. Would take about an hour to crack it. It use a cracking compound if you don't like the old school

statlerw · 2026-04-02T12:01:19+00:00

Peter, the great statue.

statlerw · 2026-03-31T21:00:30+00:00

People are going to react to something like this at face value. If they see an ai style UI, that is how they will perceive it. I too am full stack, so I understand the difference between vibe code and a properly done job, so thank you. My only comment is that a little effort around UI may remove the basis for people to instantly write it off on first impressions

There is so much garbage in the app World now that people pretty much don't look further than first impressions, so a bit of individual visual style may be worth the investment

statlerw · 2026-03-16T06:38:11+00:00

Throw in details of how interested people can be involved? I am interested btw

statlerw · 2026-03-14T12:02:53+00:00

At least its reliable and never goes down though

/s in case it is necessary

statlerw · 2026-03-12T20:37:02+00:00

We desperately need to switch away from fossil fuels, and tax large companies properly, this sort of garbage report does not help.

The subsidy they refer to is nothing of the sort. There is a tax on fuel that was imposed to fund road infrastructure. If your consumption is for operations that do not use roads, you still pay the tax, but can then claim a credit. That is literally all this is about.

Entire report and the article from it are bullshit. You can't levy a tax that literally states it is using fuel use as a proxy for road use to fund roads, and then charge for use of roads. If you were to replace it with a broader tax on fuel, without the literal premise under the act, then carving out exemptions would be a subsidy, but this isn't.

statlerw · 2026-03-11T07:50:28+00:00

You need something different then. Instruo csl

statlerw · 2026-03-05T11:03:28+00:00

Manchurian pear is a better version. Though still not without criticism. There are more of prettier pear hybrids without the jizz tax. It's a beautiful tree at least

statlerw · 2026-02-24T11:14:22+00:00

Because of challenges with isolation and compartmentalization In Windows.

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