diff --git a/2025-10-31.md b/2025-10-31.md index 1bb7d71..7b183e6 100644 --- a/2025-10-31.md +++ b/2025-10-31.md @@ -20,8 +20,9 @@ splashed messily in the center of the pond while a lone stork looked on with the mix of judgement and reservation typical of the species. It was the first time I had left so late. I'll visit again tomorrow, hopefully I'll be able to get better pictures. -I saw a few more around 17:00 walking around the pond after work. Some regu­- -lars: an anhinga drying her wings after a swim; a flock of mallard hens following + +I saw a few more around 17:00 walking around the pond after work. Some regu­lars: +an anhinga drying her wings after a swim; a flock of mallard hens following in case I had food; a tricolor heron, as flighty as if I were standing over it, and pointing a gun instead of my phone's camera; but I also saw a beautiful great blue heron (_Ardea herodias_)---which, despite the wide berth I gave it, @@ -32,6 +33,7 @@ today. They have absurdly large feet, moorso the juveniles.\* \*The common gallinule was formerly known as the common moorhen, only split from the Old World species (_Gallinula chloropus_) in July 2011. It may still be more widely known as "moorhen" , thus the pun. + Today was a good day---I've been at this for a while, one second... ## 2025-10-31 19:48 --- Late Friday Evening, Halloween btw diff --git a/2025-11-10.md b/2025-11-10.md index b01ae61..b3b913d 100644 --- a/2025-11-10.md +++ b/2025-11-10.md @@ -15,8 +15,9 @@ title: 2025-11-10 I've been trying to be alone with my thoughts more recently. It's almost bizarre how working in silence -for an hour makes the thought of music or an audio­- -book seem overstimulating, It feels right, though. +for an hour makes the thought of music or an audio­book +seem overstimulating, It feels right, though. + To want to converse with myself rather than let my superego be drowned out by appealing sounds or a fantasy story I've already heard, or obscure facts @@ -24,10 +25,11 @@ about a game I've never played and never will. I still relapse, of course, a lifetime (albeit a short one) of unhealthy interaction with computers -will do that, but I'm making quick -progress. +will do that, but I'm making quick progress. + I watched a video yesterday that suggested that it might be my growing understanding of computers -rather than my self discipline-that's lead to this +rather than my self discipline that's lead to this change in the dynamic between me and them. That, in understanding _how_ they function, I've turned them from _devices_ into _things_, which lack @@ -71,11 +73,9 @@ when I noticed a strange paragraph: This analysis of 334.12(A)(2) is flawed. -Based on - -* [[nfpa-70_100_definitions#Exposed (as applied to wiring methods).]] -* [[nfpa-70_100_definitions#Dwelling, Multifamily.]] - +Based on the [[nfpa-70_100_definitions|Article 100]] definitions +of [[nfpa-70_100_definitions#Exposed (as applied to wiring methods).|exposed]] +and [[nfpa-70_100_definitions#Dwelling, Multifamily.|dwelling]], [[nfpa-70_334_nm-cable#334.12(A) Types NM and NMC.|334.12(A)(2)]] can be paraphrased as follows: @@ -88,8 +88,8 @@ The prohibition of 334.12(A)(2) _never_ applies to apartments or condos, And only applies to hotels and dormitories on a basis of AHJ interpretation (See [[multi-family-dwellings#Are Hotels Multifamily Dwellings?]]). -It's unclear to me if this a misunderstanding -or a [[heuristics|rule of thumb]] to cover the case +It's unclear to me if this a genuine misunderstanding +or just a [[heuristics|rule of thumb]] to cover the case that guestrooms are not interpreted to be dwelling units. If it's the latter, I believe it's far too conservative to be used whole-cloth on all estimates. diff --git a/2025-11-13.md b/2025-11-13.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5ea78f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/2025-11-13.md @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +--- +id: +aliases: [] +tags: + - type/daily +title: 2025-11-13 +--- +# 2025-11-13 + +## 2025-11-13 08:03 + +I was thinking about recent critiques of my writing style +and how they don't really apply to my speech, +even though I don't imagine myself approaching them differently. + +I imagine I _would_ speak like I write, +but that to use the same constructions +would require a level of forethought +that I'm not capable of under the pressure of conversation. + +## 2025-11-13 08:19 + +I'm still working on articulating +my main difficulty in the transition +from Ace to PDI estimating. + +At a high level, +it's that our process is built on _instrumental_ methods, +but that it is frequently judged from a _realist_ perspective. +See [[realism-vs-instrumentalism]]. + +There may be a more accurate way to state this. +[[2025-11-10#2025-11-10 11 14]] may be an example of a similar issue, +where instrumental methods are presented as if they were realist, +causing confusion when the methods are, +as judged from a realist perspective, wrong.