I am an architect and I do a lot of ai work. My specialty is actually in generative parametric design and I'm just taking a break from writing some code for an AI project I am working on.

I'm seeing a lot of bad takes here, I'm assuming from a mixture of not reading the article and not knowing what actually goes on in the field. No, we don't just make pretty pictures. No, a trend you don't like of boring or shitty buildings you've seen doesn't mean the profession is dying (and for a lot of those you can look at developers to share the brunt of your and my irritation).

People working as "architects" do a huge variety of work and no two you talk to are going to have the same workflow or process so I cant speak for everyone. For me, ai tools aren't ever going to take my job, just remove more time consuming tasks and, in the long run, increase complexity and expectations. Same as when we moved from hand drafting to CAD, and again when we moved to 3D BIM design.

Each step drastically reduced busy work but over time increased the base level complexity in the design work. When architecture was all analogue, we weren't doing statics modeling and parametric studies. And now with BIM, I have to consider and model equipment and MEC feasibility. Even compared to a couple years ago, now I'm doing solar and environmental modeling to track energy performance and inform the designs and suggest changes early on.

There was a doctorate researcher I spoke with recently that mentioned that the direction the profession is going is that we will no longer make individual choices for every design element. Instead, we will manipulate the data and direction that end up at the final choice. And I think he's right. I think in the last year I've hand modeled maybe one project? Everything else has been purely data driven generative design.

I use AI image generators to do early design inspiration alongside sketching. I have a local Stable Diffusion AI instance trained on my wireframe modeling that I use to create scenes for presentations faster. I build small tools that help me recursively optimize structural elements. The last few months I've been working on my own big AI project that could really help a lot of my peers as it develops, too. I can't talk about it just yet but I will after the funding period ends. The future is looking bright.

Tldr: the whole field of architecture isn't responsible for those shitty city apartments you don't like, AI tools are helping us because architecture is much more data driven and complex than you think it is, architecture isn't a struggling or dying field like the article quotes- what's killing the joy is greedy cheap developers.

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I'd really love if state actors moved from Twitter to something like NOSTR. The server relays would be cheap for municipalities to run and manage and it wouldn't be tied to a private corporation. Kinda like how some EU countries had schools and departments move away from Office to FOSS alternatives.

Sync doesn't support making posts yet so it's not a bug on your end. That's why you get the "coming soon" message

What ai stuff are you running on apple silicon where you’re seeing that much improvement? I’ve always been windows/linux but just recently switched over to a m2 MacBook Pro because I’m doing a lot of travel this year.

Lugging around my 5900hx/rtx3070 just became too much of a pain in the ass with like 3 working hours of battery life. I was able to transfer most of my development/design workflow over (and the one I couldn’t works fine in W11 parallels) but I thought most of my AI stuff would just have to live on my desktop rig.

That’s because the Deathloop exclusivity period on PlayStation and PC was set before the acquisition and they had to honor existing contracts. It’s not indicative of a pattern they’re going to follow

The other reason, also related to military, is that a couple of months ago the FAA integrated their records system with the VA. Because of some records disparities, specifically health records, thousands of pilots have had their license suspended. This happened to someone I know and they got all their documentation to the FAA in early April and as of 2 weeks ago they were told to expect 3-5 more months of a wait before it’s reviewed because they’re so bogged down

I think it might just be a bug or weird optimization issues.

And I'm pretty sure OP has that much data use because they're on lemmynsfw. Not only are they consuming a lot of media content, lemmynsfw admins have been turning off caching for images so he's fetching the linked media every time. I only have 1.06GB used since August 2

Can someone check and let me know if it supports marking read on scroll like Sync for Reddit did and Voyager does?

I felt this way about Risk of Rain 2 and I was proven wrong. I'm willing to wait and see.

I did a lot of that work when I was starting out. Trust me, not a fan anymore than you are. But the developers that buy up all the land and do the construction are, which I hate but understand. What I didn't understand is that, your average SFDH buyer loves that shit. There were times I was cranking out tweaked designs for 15-20 builds a week across 3-5 neighborhoods. People would come to our company specifically because of that "cookie cutter" design. They loved it and loved paying for it with just a couple tweaks. They knew that there were just tweaked versions of maybe 3 house styles in the entire neighborhood and they loved the suburb feel. Me personally? I've always hated the suburb vibe since I was a kid but that's what paid the bills until I could go back to school and get something I cared about off the ground

I really enjoyed Project Hail Mary, just couldn't put it down and it is similar enough to OP's prompt to recommend to them.

It's not a book but if you enjoyed Project Hail Mary you might enjoy For All Mankind on Apple TV. It has a similar vibe of engineers and tech driving the plot balanced with looking at the human costs of a rapidly advancing space program both on and off Earth

A additional concern with resin printers is VOCs, Volatile Organic Compounds, which air purifiers don’t really filter out since they’re focused on particulate cleaning. Sadly there is no solution like dilution, or in this case ventilation

Not unexpected but still really disappointing to hear. I hope the devs can find new projects to work on in this space. Especially the libreddit dev, they’ve taken a lot of hits to their work recently between Reddit and Twitter changes

Mark posts as read on scroll. It was the best feature of Sync and as far as I’m aware only Connect for Android supports it. Shortly after it got that feature I switched to iOS and haven’t found any others that have it.

There are so many posts, like photos, that I get the gist of just by scrolling past that I’m not interested in interacting with and yet there is no quick way to clear them from my feed. Lemmy still doesn’t have a really high turnover rate for content so when I come back later I have to scroll past tons of posts I’ve already seen to get to anything new.

If anyone knows of an iOS or web app with this feature let me know please. I’m using Memmy right now and it’s pretty good other than missing this.

Copy/paste mostly from another reply I made:

I have a huge audiobook library, I was fully prepared to do all the processes to move and organize my mess of a library to get it working with Plex. I'm sure you've seen the GitHub guide floating around.

But when it came time to sit down and configure my server for audiobooks, ebooks, tv, movies, and music, I found that audiobookshelf just did a way better job with less of a headache. My current stack is Beet.io with audible support to move my already downloaded library into a better folder and naming structure. Once I get those all finished I won't have to use this step. This gets stuff about ~80% of the way there except when the source is really messed up.

From there I have Readarr looking at the Beets destination folder and managing downloads. This is pretty good for getting most of the rest of the info with some clean up and is similar to setting up other Arrs. Then audiobookshelf for final tweaks and browsing/downloading.

It's quite a pain to ingest an initial large library but for new downloads it's been pretty seamless. Way easier and more consistent than having to do most of this anyway plus fight with Plex.

The audiobookshelf library is really great and can pull audiobook specific information from a lot of sources automatically. You can browse by series or narrator or genre too and if you listen through their app or through the browser it syncs your progress which is nice.

The audiobookshelf app is pretty good for browsing and downloading but I don't like the player as much as my usual one. But you can just point the download at whatever folder your favorite player uses.

Since you're already using Plex for audiobooks you can probably skip all these steps straight to audiobookshelf if your folder structure already matches

I have a huge audiobook library, I was fully prepared to do all the processes to move and organize my mess of a library to get it working with Plex. I'm sure you've seen the GitHub guide floating around.

But when it came time to sit down and configure my server for audiobooks, ebooks, tv, movies, and music, I found that audiobookshelf just did a way better job with less of a headache. My current stack is Beet.io with audible support to move my already downloaded library into a better folder and naming structure. Once I get those all finished I won't have to use this step. This gets stuff about ~80% of the way there except when the source is really messed up.

From there I have Readarr looking at the Beets destination folder and managing downloads. This is pretty good for getting most of the rest of the info with some clean up and is similar to setting up other Arrs. Then audiobookshelf for final tweaks and browsing/downloading.

It's quite a pain to ingest an initial large library but for new downloads it's been pretty seamless. Way easier and more consistent than having to do most of this anyway plus fight with Plex. I do still want them to add support, though.

The audiobookshelf app is pretty good for browsing and downloading but I think the player is way worse than Smart Audiobook Player. But what I do is just use the audiobookshelf app to download the books to Smart's library folder and then use the best player app for listening.

I mean they are ruled by 3 identical clones so it's not unreasonable to assume she would be one too. Earlier in the season someone presumed she had a separate cloning facility of her own. Wasn't she also referred to as the last intelligent robot or something last season, too?

GANTZ is really good but I don’t think I’d recommend it as an early sci-fi anime watch. There’s a lot of weird sexual stuff in it that the others on your list don’t have that I think make them a better recommendation.

I also really like .hack//SIGN to throw my own in

I would put Control pretty high on a list of all my favorite games. Phenomenal experience and definitely one of the highlights of games in the last few years

I’m not super familiar with humidex, I was going to suggest taking a look at how your values fit into a psychometric chart but it’d probably be more trouble than it’s worth, especially if you just have a single window unit. Your humidity is just going to dump every time the unit kicks on to drop the temp anyways

An easy thing you could automate would be to include time schedules as well as better temp ranges. Most of your cycling is from 1800-0600 (is this chart time offset? I don’t get why so much of your external heat gain is overnight). So you could avoid some of that by precooling below your set temp beforehand. I was going to suggest doing this at night, which is also when power prices are usually lower, but again it looks like it gets hotter outside at night so I’m not sure.

Regardless, before these periods of heat gain run the ac in a continuous cycle a few degrees below your comfort zone, which will also dehumidify the air more, extending your comfort zone time during heat gain without cycling