Nat MacDonald
@NatGMac
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find me @ https://t.co/TpV7JlxEeO Increasing housing supply with software || Product @TestFit || Mechanical Engineer PE
Somerville, MA
Joined September 2012
Pondering the single-stair debate with regard to fire safety, and searching for a road safety analogy... Imagine that instead of looking at road design, speed, distracted driving, or drinking, we focused all the discussion on requiring a 2nd stop light next to the existing one.
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if we don't change our definition of what a home is we are going to be stuck with single family houses, a worse housing crisis, and a worse climate crisis.
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Can't sleep so looking at prefab buildings on Alibaba. I'm sure my wife will understand when one of these bad boys shows up 4 months from now.
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By upping the cost of booths 2.5x, Autodesk effectively kneecapped the number of SMEs that attend AU. I respect the balance they need to find in order to run AU, but imo the value of it is significantly reduced by the decrease of the community present.
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This comes after watching a session on risk based asset management of drinking water distribution systems which was actually amazing.
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UX Professional: it needs to be a beautiful, playful interface Civil Engineers: hold my glass of drinking water
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Going to stare into one of these screens until I stop hearing innovation and collaboration
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If you believe in the MacDonald Economic Index (which tracks the price of used Pelotons on FB Marketplace), the economy is in the shitter. Over the course of the last year, it's gone from $900 to $150.
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remember when i would just shitpost bim all day long. those were the days.
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every time I read @_brianpotter I feel just a little bit smarter. a fantastic read on how @OpenAI and other AI companies will affect how and what we build. https://t.co/ZAm7yDbyiQ
construction-physics.com
This piece is the first in a new series from the Institute for Progress (IFP), called Compute in America: Building the Next Generation of AI Infrastructure at Home. In this series, we examine the...
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Being a part of a high performing team means you get to say "I trust you" a lot and often.
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The Portland Peninsula's Surface Parking Lots We have lots of work ahead in @PortlandPlan's ReCode effort to ensure that all of these lots have a viable path to a higher and better use that will be more economically productive for our city.
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the engineers keep building cool stuff so i'm going to keep posting it until my company says I can't. I present to you...Dirt
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