ggcdn's comments

On: Tcl-Lang Showcase

[ggcdn]

Many structural engineering graduate students still get exposed to TCL as its the input language of the OpenSees framework for structural and earthquake engineering.

https://opensees.ist.berkeley.edu/wiki/index.php?title=OpenS...

Luckily, there is also now a python interpreter.

On: Shadcn: Components that you can copy-paste into your apps

[ggcdn]

I’ve been using these and vercels v0 to piece together a next.js app, and it works pretty good, for someone with no real ui design experience.

On: Is drinking sparkling water a healthy alternative?

[ggcdn]

I can believe it, after all, I ingest most of my water in a mixture with roasted ground beans from the rainforest.

[scotty79 → ggcdn]

And I, with some very poorly treated leaves of some plants. But sill ... sugar?

On: Government should incentivize high performance home builders

[ggcdn]

This exists and it’s not even that hard or costly when you consider the purchase price of a house. I had a home energy evaluation completed when I bought my house for about $400. A government could easily require it be provided as a condition of sale. It provides a rating [0] which is good for comparing houses, and also a prioritized list of recommended upgrades.

[0] https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/energy-efficiency/energuide/energuid...

On: Empty offices are becoming apartments in Texas’s big cities

[ggcdn]

This isn’t correct. You probably saw a concrete residential building and a steel office building by chance. It does not follow that every single office building is built this way. There are concrete office buildings all over the place, usually with thicker slabs than a residential building, because the office building actually needs to be designed for much higher loads.

By the way, the thin steel deck you saw gets concrete poured on it too once installed.

On: Excel never dies (2021)

[ggcdn]

Excel is transformational. If you're reading this indoors, there's a good chance that significant portions of the building around you were engineered using excel.

On: Ask HN: What is a purchase that made you happy?

[ggcdn]

A hammock hung in a shady grove of trees. Perfect for lazy Sunday afternoons.

A bunch of tplink smart light switches for the well used lights around the house. Deep satisfaction every night to turn off an entire floor with a voice command. Next up will probably be automatic roller shades, though they are considerably more pricy.

On: Kitsault, Canada’s $50M 1980s ghost town

[ggcdn]

If you follow the inlet back to the ocean a short ways, you reach Gingolx (Kincolith) [1] which has < 400 people. It would be a fairly unremarkable place except they randomly started having a big festival called crabfest, which has brought bands such as Trooper, Tom Cochrane, and Nazareth to this tiny village.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ging%CC%B1olx

[tomcam → ggcdn]

To be fair at this point Nazareth would be willing to perform in exchange for dinner at the Old Country Buffet

On: What happens when a reservoir goes dry

[ggcdn]

I suppose it was built without the back pressure (ie doesn’t rely on back pressure for stability) and the change in pressure over time is quite gradual (this drawdown has been occurring over years) so I don’t see a significant problem.

It also gets massively thick as you get deeper. Far more than you would think by looking at the exposed part. Check out old construction photos.

On: Energy crunch concerns lead Japan’s government to call for reduced AC use

[ggcdn]

Nice. What was the upfront cost and expected payoff time when compared to grid only?