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  1. 1 hour ago, BearSchlong said:

    I just talked to my best bud who drives those huge 1000 ft barge strings down the Mississippi from Illinois to Louisiana. As I was hanging up I said “try not to hit any bridges” and he laughed and said since the Baltimore incident his company is shitting bricks. They made him map out every one of the 70 bridges he will transit in the next 4 days.

    Then he sent me this, from when a front pushed through recently.

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    There's a reason those guys make a half mil a year.

    Nice

  2. Elon Musk is not understood

    https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2024/01/02/elon-musk-is-not-understood/

    Long story but an interesting read.

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    Elon Musk is a divisive character. My intent here, as always, is to add some nuance and signal to a noisy, complex and/or obscure subject. Whatever your views on Elon, I feel that it is a worthy goal to move the conversation towards more meaningful engagement, hopefully without painting too large a target on my back. The problem is that 99% of the critique out there is not well-intentioned and it’s not accurate, which means that most people simply lack the context they need to understand what Elon is doing and why. This is a problem, because Elon is a relatively powerful and visionary leader, and his companies are increasingly important vehicles for the delivery of transformative technology.

     

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  3. Bump. While I appreciate RDCanecutter's reply, I am also interested in feedback on specific apps/websites. I have recently gone to work in a role where Spanish would be invaluable. I took Spanish from K-11 and then 4 semesters at UT. I was conversational at any restaurant or jobsite in my early 20s. Much of that has faded. I can still understand some things when my employees speak Spanish, but I am not up to speed and I struggle to formulate my own sentences. I want to jump into something that will help me more with speaking/hearing than reading/writing. Any app suggestions?  

  4. 7 hours ago, Elvis said:

    It was pretty easy to get an unofficial transcript for UT.  Looking back on all of that work I put it 20 years ago, I probably should have done something more practical with my brain.  Post your curriculum if you want.  At least it's the season for nostalgia and regrats.

     

    Fall 1997 Courses
    Course Title
    ASE 102 INTRO TO AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
    M E 210 ENGINEERING DESIGN GRAPHICS
    ARH 301 INTRODUCTION TO VISUAL ARTS
    CH 301 PRINCIPLES OF CHEMISTRY I
    M 408C DIFFEREN AND INTEGRAL CALCULUS
    Spring 1998 Courses
    Course Title
    ASE 201 INTRO TO COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
    GRG 305 THIS HUMAN WORLD: INTRO TO GRG
    M 408D SEQ, SERIES, AND MULTIVAR CALC
    PHY 303K ENGINEERING PHYSICS I
    PHY 103M LABORATORY FOR PHY 303K
    Summer 1998 Courses
    M 305G ELEM FUNCTS AND COORD GEOMETRY
    E 306 COMPOSITN/RHETORIC 1
    Fall 1998 Courses
    ASE 201 INTRO TO COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
    E M 306S STATICS AND DYNAMICS
    AST 307 INTRODUCTORY ASTRONOMY
    G E 207D SUPPL INSTRUCTION FOR M 408D
    Spring 1999 Courses
    PED 106C 7-WEIGHT TRAINING
    M 408D SEQ, SERIES, AND MULTIVAR CALC
    E M 306S STATICS AND DYNAMICS
    GOV 310L AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
    HIS 315L UNITED STATES SINCE 1865
    Summer 1999 Courses
    M W427L ADV CALCULUS FOR APPLICATNS II
    M 427K DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION
    PHY 303L ENGINEERING PHYSICS 2
    PHY 103N ENGINEERING PHYSICS 2
    Fall 1999 Courses
    E M 311M DYNAMICS
    E M 319 MECHANICS OF SOLIDS
    M E 326 THERMODYNAMICS
    E 316K MASTERWORKS OF LIT: AMERICAN
    PED 102G 1-BASIC SCUBA DIVING
    PED 106C 7-WEIGHT TRAINING
    ASE 211 ENGINEERING COMPUTATION
    Spring 2000 Courses
    ASE 320 INTRO TO FLUID MECHANICS
    ASE 120K APPLICATIONS OF FLUID MECHS
    E M 311M DYNAMICS
    ASE 221K STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
    E 316K MASTERWORKS OF LIT: AMERICAN
    HIS 315K UNITED STATES, 1492-1865
    ASE 121M STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS LABORATORY
    Summer 2000 Courses
    ASE N330M LINEAR SYSTEM ANALYSIS
    E E N333T TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION-W
    Fall 2000 Courses
    ASE 366K SPACECRAFT DYNAMICS
    ASE 367K FLIGHT DYNAMICS
    ASE 167M FLIGHT DYNAMICS LABORATORY
    ASE 376K PROPULSION
    E E 331K ELEC CIRCUITS AND ELECTRONICS
    Spring 2001 Courses
    ASE 365 STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS
    ASE 366L APPLIED ORBITAL MECHANICS
    ASE 166M SPACE APPLICATIONS LABORATORY
    ASE 369K MEASURMNTS AND INSTRUMENTATN-W
    ASE 372K ADVANCED SPACECRAFT DYNAMICS
    Fall 2001 Courses
    ASE 324L AEROSPACE MATERIALS LABORATORY
    ASE 340 BOUNDARY LAYER THRY/HEAT TRANS
    ASE 274L SPACECRAFT/MISSION DESIGN PRIN
    ASE 174M SPACECRAFT/MISSION DESIGN LAB
    M E 353 ENGINEERING ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
    Spring 2002 Courses
    PED 106C 7-WEIGHT TRAINING
    ASE 463Q DSGN AND TEST OF ASE STRUCT- W
    ASE 370L FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS
    GOV 312L ISS AND POLICIES IN AMER GOV

    We may have been in class together in 1997 and 1998.

    Fall of 1997 I took ME210 and M408C.

    Spring of 1998 I took M408D, PHY303K, PHY103M.

     

  5. 1 minute ago, chainsaw said:

    Can you elaborate on why?

    Because believing in free speech means allowing folks to say what they wish. But it doesn't mean that they can do so without consequences. If the speech is damaging to the business, it's a fireable offense. Open and shut. Non-disparagement clauses are probably in their employment contracts.

    Now, if Musk deleted the open letter, sought to cover it up, didn't allow employees to chat via Slack, etc. THEN one could legitimately go after him about free speech. Going after his reaction to speech is a different thing. One can't run around screaming publicly about how the management sucks and expect for the company to be thrilled and just ignore it. No doubt the open letter writers are in their 20s. 

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  6. 34 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


    Nobody reasonable is arguing with that conclusion. We’re mostly noting that when it comes from a purported champion of “FREE SPEECH!” across the board (that is, not in the state actor context, but literally in the context of people just venting to the world), it’s pretty fucking funny, and shows him to be what most of us knew he was all along: a hypocritical troll pussy who can dish it out but can’t take it at all.
    Keep stanning for a pathetic bitch boy, it keeps us amused.

    This is a retarded opinion. I don't care if one likes Musk or not, but this isn't a free speech issue. The speech was allowed, not suppressed. It doesn't take thin skin to fire those dummies. If my employees did that, I'd fire them too. It doesn't even come close to making Musk a hypocrite. 

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  7. On 6/12/2022 at 1:11 PM, Pimphand said:

    The funeral was a real tear jerker but I tell you what Chris Collins is a remarkable man.  Most of us would have keeled and not been able to function were we in his shoes (lord knows I would have) and instead he got up and spoke about the devastation and how he and his family's wounds will never heal but that they will make and and wanted to share that hope for us all.

    Having known the man for over 30 years you couldn't help but break down and cry as all of my high school classmates we were sitting with can attest.

    The state of Texas needs to bar medical transports for convicted killers and only allow medical visits on premises.  This tragedy never should have happened. 

    Did you attend Spring Woods HS? I live in that district and several of my neighbors knew the Collins family (Raymonds, Rogers) growing up. 

  8. 8 hours ago, F250 said:

    How was it political? She started off by shining light on the sexual abuse and then spoke out against Christians supporting immoral politicians. The reaction to her were political but she was speaking within the confines of Christianity.

     

    That's not what Beth Moore started off with, my man. She's her own piece of work and will jump in this every time it's in the news, but she wasn't leading the charge on it. 

  9. On 4/25/2022 at 10:59 AM, wildcat09 said:

    Twitter's moderation guidelines aren't really opaque or confusing, they just suck at enforcing them. Unless he wants to hire a lot more human moderators, I don't see a way to improve that.

    Twitter's moderation is definitely whack. The other day I was going back and forth with a buddy and jokingly told him to "go jump in a lake." Twitter suspended me for 24 hours and made me delete the tweet. Meanwhile, in the same back and forth, my buddy told me to "die in a fire" and they didn't bother him. Silly stuff.

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