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I had to do a fingerprint scan and photo for the visa application, then another fingerprint and face scan when passing through the airport security.

Is there a problem with the fingerprinting requirement? I imagine the face scan can be used in much more dystopian ways, as your face is probably* being tracked by the ubiquitous security cameras in every public place you go.

* If not now, then soon.

Do small margins necessarily mean there is no chance for disruption? I think structural engineering and architecture both have voids that tech can fill. Alot of the work is tedious, repetitive, and begging to be automated.

What are your interests and skills?

I'm also looking for someone to build a side project with.

I've got a few things I'm working on but they aren't necessarily huge money makers.

(P.Eng is a Canadian designation. It's P.E. in America)

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Wouldn't increased property taxes, combined with increased ability of renter's to pay, cause rents to increase?

I'll bet its more than the $664 USD this website valuator [1] reports, lol.

[1] http://www.siteworthtraffic.com/report/duderanch.com

It doesn't look like either xmatch or xlookup can lookup based on multiple search criteria? That's my main use case for index(match()).

In structural engineering we call this plasticity "ductility", but you're exactly right. We want ductile failures not sudden brittle ones, and that can only be achieved with yielding reinforcing. Ceramics generally will fail brittly, or cause the concrete to crush if the member is over-reinforced.

Because I'm a structural engineer, I like to think about the future of structures, not bicycles. Many good ideas came about by taking something from one obvious application and transferring it to another. I also don't think we will be using reinforced concrete in the year 2070 the same way or as extensively as we are now - the carbon footprint is too large. Maybe these new materials can spawn completely new types of structural systems that were never possible with conventional strengths and stiffness. Low weight is ultimately a goal of structural engineering as well, but not to the same extreme as sporting goods. Obviously cost comes into play, but many things that were once prohibitively expensive are now used on structures, including carbon fiber.

Elasticity (or in the case of conventional materials, ductility) is a trait that has applications in seismic design, so I disagree with your last claim. The trick is combining the good parts of that material with the good traits of other materials into a composite that achieves stability under gravity and predictable deformability under seismic loads.

There are two main objectives when designing conventional structures: strength and serviceability. We want to make sure structures have sufficient strength under very rare and severe loading to prevent collapse. But we also want to make sure they don't move too much under normal loading. It sounds like using silk would be a challenge to satisfy both objectives in many applications. In order to actually mobilize the tensile strength, it would require huge strains that would be incompatible with conventional materials. Or everything would need to be pretensioned up to some high stress. Likewise, for serviceability it would require either lots of strand under low stress or pretensioned strand.

That's not to say these are insurmountable problems, just something Ive never thought about before.

The move towards increased regulation of software engineering, especially with regards to security, makes me wonder if we will see state/provincial/national engineering regulatory authorities move in on the field.

You can't, for instance, call yourself a structural engineer unless you are registered with the regulatory authority as such. Nor can you offer engineering services to the public without registration. And you are bound by a code of ethics, subject to a formal complaint process, undergo somewhat regular practice reviews, and can face disciplinary actions when you fail to comply.

Right now, it seems like software engineering is the wild west, complete with tales of fortune to be had attracting code-slingin' cowboys without regard for the public's safety. I predict the lawman is coming for you.

Matlab has its quirks, but I've never come across a better IDE for debugging 'scientific' code/scripts. Seeing current values by hovering over variables, the ability to pause and execute some 'testing' code, or overwrite things and carry on, being able to easily edit arrays/matrices in an excel-like table, having matrix arithmetic that doesn't look like shit when written as code... these are things that I find very useful. I use it in my field (structural engineering) for those reason alone, even if it might be slower, or more difficult to accomplish certain tasks.

It's not possible for us all to live like the Amish. Dense housing (as opposed to sprawling single family homes) is more efficient to build, heat, provide utilities, and provide services around. It seems pretty self evident to me that urban living can produce less pollution over its lifecyle.

This is maybe okay for single family homes in arid regions, but not practical for denser forms of housing. Which we should be striving for, if we're worried about reducing pollution

For science! 67% for me.

My brain small. Sad!

I'm not experienced enough to give a proper critique of go, but I can say that as a non-cs major learning to code, I found go wonderful to work with. Type system is good enough to catch errors and understand code at a glance, yet not overly cumbersome. The language syntax strikes the right balance of verbosity. The only thing I don't like is the way errors are handled.

I find foods like this interesting because it goes against my instincts of what's safe to eat. Same with most things cured, fermented, etc.

But one thing I was wondering - in an open drying shack like that, how to they keep the bugs away?

I would think it's from cameras at vehicle border crossings. You can see an example here: https://goo.gl/maps/GRAY5GVnAYLr7aSZ8

It was a Vancouver based company called Chronic Inc. that has since gone out of business. Hopefully the government can still recoup costs from the owners for their negligence. The waste is now being brought back to Vancouver, to be incinerated in a waste-to-energy plant.

A&W (Canada) has Beyond Meat burgers. I liked it just as much as a beef burger.

As yes, wood has some pretty impressive properties if you normalise by density. But that also means you need bulk to match other materials.

You're right for typical studs, joints, posts, etc.

However, I was thinking that for a highrise timber building, you might need way larger column cross sections than what we're used to seeing (24"x24" - 36"x36" or larger). The typical wood frame construction method of using a ton of load bearing sheathed stud walls scattered throughout doesn't work with these taller types of buildings. You start to see post and beam/panel type framing, which means higher compressive loads, which means larger member sizes.The spruce/pine/fir trees slated for harvesting softwood lumber here in Canada don't seem to reach that size. Hence, you probably need engineered wood products. As a bonus, you also get better and more consistent mechanical properties.

>bamboo tensile strength is higher than that of steel

What? Tensile strength of steel is like 400-1200MPa, Bamboo is < 100 MPa.

This building has two concrete cores (elevator/stair shafts) for lateral resistance that were built ahead of time, and then the wood gravity system came later, So it kinda took more time than normal.

Another fun fact - alot of that nice looking wood had to be covered up with drywall for fire code compliance.

That's true, but here's a thought: Using engineered wood products potentially allows undesirable or unconventional wood sources to become useful building materials, rather than having to source old growth timber for larger beams/columns. There could be some environmental benefits associated with that.

Doesnt surprise me, I was in San Diego last week and it was funny seeing all these scooters littered around every street corner. In some instances they clogged up sidewalks. I could see how it might spark the ire of some business owners.

Scooter companies could offer incentives to normalize the distribution of scooters around the city (for example, a discount or credit for taking a scooter from a densely covered area to a sparse one).

So now what benefits does a subscription offer for a casual developer?

If the 3 collaborator limit isn't a problem, is there any reason to keep a subscription?

No, I assumed the rebar is orientated as the 'strong rope'.

If the rebar were positioned as you say, they would yield/bend quite easily.