MollieTheMare
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MollieTheMare
18hr ago
Sorry, I thought you were speaking euphemistically and answered somewhat elliptically.
My point was that sometimes there may be some overlap between people using the term "engineer" and a more clinical ASD-type terminology. For example, consider the case of someone who:
- Has a preference for highly systematized thinking
- Has poor conversational reciprocity
- Experiences high cognitive load from focusing on specific social responses, leading to missed social context
- Has unusually specific interests
- Has a low tolerance for ambiguity
It might be socially acceptable to say, "That person is very engineer-brained." An alternate explanation might be: "I'm no psychologist, but I'm not ruling out level one ASD."
Epistemic status of the following: I'm no psychologist; illustrative only.
More generally, there's probably a group common in engineering that has some combination of high intelligence and ASD-like cognition. This combo would allow highly adaptive compensation, specifically through systematized, internalized social cues and intellectually derived rules. This might suppress clinically significant impairment, but might not constitute a separate type of cognitive cluster.
With respect to clustering, if you do a clustering analysis on what you might term natural kinds, for example from fMRI, genotype, or other biomarkers, or from clinical agreement on severity levels, you may actually find significantly better silhouetting within the "group," specifically on bimodal projections such as verbal versus non-verbal. If you extract the cluster from latent space that is most highly associated with ASD, I expect the most stable cluster is likely to contain both members who are clinically diagnosed with ASD and other people. That is, members who are not dysfunctional by clinical standards but have similar cognitive habits. The members who do have "dysfunction" may not be a pure representation of their natural kind in the state of nature, but rather an interaction between the environment and the natural kind. The non-pathological members of that group might be those with:
- Unusually high capacity for explicit system-building
- Learned social rules
- Selected into an occupation with explicit norms
- A peer group that is tolerant of unusual communication
- A profession that grants enough autonomy to structure their environment
And they would not appear dysfunctional, but may belong to the same latent cluster as ASD. So they are "level 0": no apparent support needs. But like the other support levels, this is a function of the current environment, not latent cognition.
MollieTheMare
21hr ago
Ah yes, "engineers."
MollieTheMare
1d ago
For some time now, for the purposes of the progressive stack, Asians have become white. Though sometimes not white, or extra white, depending on the context.
MollieTheMare
1d ago
a small loan of one million dollars.
Almost $10MM now, using CPI adjustment.
people tend to dislike my house designs
Assuming you could solve the "small" problem of how capital-intensive this is, there's probably some class of people looking for custom houses where they have an off-the-shelf plan requiring modification / site-specific edits or something in mind and need someone to make plans and stamp them. I don't recall if you are/were a Civil PE, but I assume it would not be an automatic transfer to Gatorland SE anyway. Though I think their structural engineering recognition program is supposedly less onerous than some other states, excepting the hurricane/wind-loading note you already made. The prospective clients would presumably also be expecting you to handle most of the project management stuff too. But this is all starting to look like real work and not a retirement hobby at that point.
MollieTheMare
1d ago
good land sit overgrown
I assume since gramps hasn't been getting constant notices about the lawn being overgrown, they are not in an incorporated area?
lots are buildable
Like based off of minimum size and setbacks, or did you also check the hydrology? Selling someone an unseen ½-acre (20 Qb) parcel of Florida swamp is a tale as old as time.
I would just sell them
fun retirement hobby
Since you are retired and associated with New J⁎rsey, aren't you constitutionally required to snowbird, even if you hardly go outside of your climate-controlled shack?
MollieTheMare
2d ago
In the interest of justice, we should really be lobbying for Auckland to be centered on the map.
leading in particular to a symbolic minimization of Africa in collective imaginations and knowledge systems
Yes, because placing Africa centrally in the most common default maps was a conspiracy to minimize the importance of Africa.
Edit: I realize I should probably have made a clearer point. I am aware of the general argument for why the African Union is arguing for an equal-area projection to be "encouraged." I do not find it convincing that area is the only factor in visual prominence, or that area alone should be the only factor for determining if a map introduces undesirable bias or will promote justice. I seriously think the map being aesthetic is more important, and that quantitative comparisons have better forms. I also think developed-country elementary school classrooms can afford and should have a globe available. Preferably a planimetric globe that can be dismounted from its stand and rotated freely to examine.
MollieTheMare
2d ago
I see no reason why how big something looks should be more important to visually understanding a map than border and coastline length, relative position, shape, direction, or visual centrality.
MollieTheMare
2d ago
Kavrayskiy VII is the best compromise projection
Yes, Comrade Kavrayskiy VII is clearly the most principled compromise projection. Winkel tripel and the National Geographic Society are bourgeois nonsense.
I was going to come in here and make a nostalgia argument for a Winkel tripel, but Kavrayskiy VII is clearly more aesthetic, which, re: the original discussion, is the most important property for all these maps. It doesn't make sense to me why area should be the key ontological factor for deciding which map is best. In the modern era, no one is cutting out sections of map to weigh them, or measuring border lengths with a string, or trying to find the rhumb line with a ruler; at least not for serious work and not from a random UN report. If you want to compare areas, clearly a bar chart or a table would be better.
MollieTheMare
3d ago
A few days ago I admitted my hip injury from moving in march wasn't going to go away on its own so I am doing some exercises which seem to be helping
What exercises do you like for weird hip stuff? Like your standard Cossack squat, clamshell, fire-hydrant circles type of thing; or did you dig up something more exotic?
MollieTheMare
3d ago
I'll let @thejdizzler comment on his training for himself. But don't discount his elite level dedication to diet.
MollieTheMare
4d ago
Yeah, I thought your initial usage was fine. I mostly wasn't sure everyone reading the thread below would realize the technical distinction. I guess maybe "serviceman" doesn't give land-army vibes? I thought the nautical aspect of the ship being full of seamen was important to the point you were making.
Do people really say "sailor" in a modern context to refer to a merchant mariner?
MollieTheMare
4d ago
5k soldiers who haven’t been off a boat for 9 months
I hate to be that guy, but I see "soldiers" is getting replicated down-thread. Technically, U.S. Navy personnel are sailors. There is a special type of derangement that can only be created by confining 20-something men to a box for months on end. Thus, the Village People:
In the Navy [is] where can you find pleasure.
Some might have an objection to calling an aircraft carrier a boat rather than a ship. But I would guess "I'm on a Boat" has played many thousands of times aboard the Lincoln, so who am I to object?
(What's D1? Google and DeepSeek fail me.
Judging from the context:
D1 escort from UC Berkeley or OSU
I'm going to guess it's a double-ish meaning.
- Most selective or elite top division of a given form of labor, e.g., highest division of intercollegiate athletics: NCAA Division I.
- Literally, the very attractive women you see immediately attached to top-level athletes recruited to top football program schools, where there is some implication that the women were "supplied" at some level as part of a recruiting package. Especially pre-NIL money. Presumably, that supply can also be directed at other sources of demand in adjacent industry.
Edit: I see I should have refreshed first. Yeah, that is also an implication I was thinking of but failed to mention, and is a real thing.
MollieTheMare
8d ago
@daezor already gave you the formalism. But yes, the gaps typically go up as ln(n). Also if you prefer: the musical explanation. Same paper that got TT working on it.
MollieTheMare
8d ago
I am slightly disturbed by how carefully you've thought this through, but I applaud your diligence.
MollieTheMare
8d ago
I'm giving a 70% chance that the absurdity of picking a technically correct but ludicrously non-salient option was intentional.
Odom in Nevada. Dave, 54, recently divorced, sudden passion for Thai temples. Or an unusual fascination with the canals of Amsterdam. All seem like more obvious choices.
MollieTheMare
11d ago
It's Jane Austen for boys.
I ended up unironically reading Austen after, because I couldn't find anything else to fill the hole it left. Makes a lot more sense once you are used to the social norms from Aubrey-Maturin.
Did you include 21, The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey, in your circumnavigation? I like that it ends unfinished, like the series can just keep sailing, with our heroes continuing their never-ending adventures. Though I know some people prefer a sense of finality with an "ending" from Blue at the Mizzen.
MollieTheMare
12d ago
The Letter of Marque, instalment 12?
I think yes, 12. Though The Golden Ocean and The Unknown Shore are both worth reading at some point, they are not part of the Aubrey-Maturin universe.
I recommend setting aside a decent block to read the next five novels as a reasonably tightly woven block, which The Letter of Marque sets the stage for. Though, as @CertainlyWorse says, it's not the first of the continuing voyages of Aubrey and Maturin.
MollieTheMare
15d ago
slope of 1/2; see opinion for photos
Is that embankment a man-made property transition? Is that even up to municipal code? I would have thought anything steeper than 5:2 would require stabilization or an engineering analysis. There's literally a slide going down the side.
MollieTheMare
15d ago
I could probably keep it in my car.
Yeah, that's the con-ops I had in mind. Unfortunately, it looks like the single-serve pack is out of stock, but the big bags keep fine if they are dry. Shaker bottles are sufficiently cheap that you can keep a couple of spares with the powder. DO NOT let a used shaker fester for prolonged periods in the car after use.
What separates it
Technically, it's a meal substitute rather than a protein supplement. Again, not really endorsed, but it's nutritionally complete enough that you can probably survive on it indefinitely without a critical nutritional deficiency showing up. Do not do this if you are not used to the fiber load. If you are using it as intended, as an on-the-go replacement/desperation food, I think the Black Edition macros are slightly preferable for feeling "healthy." Original is marginally cheaper and tastes better, but the macros are not amazing if you are already eating a bunch of carb/fat-heavy convenience foods.
MollieTheMare
16d ago
If you can tolerate the taste and texture, and are price-insensitive, I maintain that Huel Black isn't a bad option. I find a brand-name BlenderBottle works better than the one they "give you" with your first order. A real blender or stick blender better than either, but not as on-the-go friendly. You probably want to chew something at some point, and I wouldn't recommend it being your primary "food" for enjoyment of eating. But if you don't have time, it can sustain you essentially indefinitely, as far as I can tell.
MollieTheMare
17d ago
Could be, or you're not breathing "under it" enough. Or you're wearing it too low and it's acting like a hinge. Or it's a mobility problem, and you have excessive butt wink in the hole. Hard to say without looking at it in person.
I hate to endorse it because I think the term is poorly defined, but training "core" really can help your squat and deadlift. I know the force curve is backward, and some people hate it, but I like the reverse hyper. GHD or Roman chair isn't bad. Dragon flags and hanging leg raises are my preferred options for the other side.
MollieTheMare
17d ago
The last two times I did squats, my lower back gave me hell that night.
Do you use a belt? Don't forget the third rule of strength training:
- If something hurts from what you are doing, don't question your form; hold your body together with bits of supportive equipment.
I see @ratherblather already suggested hack squats. Belt squats can also be good, especially if you have back pain. As long as you can find one where the range of motion is not ass.
One more for the road
I was surprised to find, after last month's extensive discussion initiated by a post by @ChickenOverlord of a Canadian surrogacy/abortion case, that no one had posted a substantially similar, though differing in key details, US version that has recently generated an application to the Supreme Court for a stay. The case is different enough that it seems like it might serve as a stress test for some of the claims and ethical intuitions made in the previous discussion.
To summarize the overlapping portion: in both cases the surrogate refused the "commissioning" party's request for abortion following detection of fetal abnormalities, gave birth, and was then involved in extensive litigation. The previous case had a significant same-sex surrogacy culture war nexus. This case features US federalism and jurisdictional questions, as well as the more significant but partially treatable hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
The very compressed summary is that McKenna West of Alaska was asked to abort, per their contract, by Omar Ahmed and Nausheen Gilkar of California. She subsequently fled to Texas, with ongoing litigation as to the ultimate parental rights and appropriate forum. The child is referred to as Gabriel and Rumi by the respective parties. Which probably leads into the stronger, though possibly less legalistic, metaphysical question in this case about what constitutes abdication of parental rights.
In some respects, the current case reverses the question of limiting principle. In this case, the pre-existing contract specifically called for the right of the commissioners to opt for abortion due to fetal abnormalities, and the abnormalities are arguably more incurable. There is some question as to whether that makes the arrangement more binding. It's not clear to me where you should draw the intuitive line at which the contract is entered into with so much foreknowledge, with so much consent, and with abnormalities so severe that we should feel compelled to enforce such a clause. In the previous case it was observed:
That it's unclear whether the problem can really be resolved with sufficiently strong contractual terms. I'm slightly more inclined to accept the premise that surrogacy in general opens up a Pandora's box of ethical problems. Perhaps atomizing the individual biological connections of procreation has produced a system that makes ordinary moral intuition untenable. It was argued in the previous thread that either a full retvrn to nature, or extreme proceduralization and medicalization, might be more stable equilibria.
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