#Efficiency and Production

[nnctales]

Construction Automation: Types, Benefits and Future Outlook

Introduction In recent years, the construction industry has lagged behind manufacturing in adopting automation technologies. However, the current landscape presents an opportune moment for change. The construction sector’s trajectory towards a digital transformation is now marked by the increasing integration of automated technologies. From streamlining digital design and analysis processes to…

[blank-house]

Hey! I was wondering if it was planned for the MC to have an appearance? In the sense of height, skin tone, hair length/texture, etc. So far, I haven't noticed any references to anything like that or choices that determine it, but I know a lot of visual novels sometimes rely on height to create more tension (Y'know, like some characters towering over others and that famous "let me help you with that!" When a character is too short to reach something) or hair combing/braiding to signify intimacy between characters.

If this has already been answered or I've missed something in the game, feel free to ignore this lol!

Noooope. We try to be mindful about not writing anything regarding MC’s appearance or physical features! For various reasons.

In fact, hair especially is something that we make sure NOT to incorporate or emphasize often considering that not everyone who plays this game has hair that people can run their fingers through/hair that can be ruffled/or even hair that can be seen.

So really, we try to be as ambiguous and unassuming as possible when it comes to the MC.

[suliqyre]

We put enormous emphasis on optimizing quantities. Our attention is shackled to screens where we make certain numbers go up and other numbers go down. We want to measure everything so that we can control and optimize it. The benefit of this is that we are able to fulfill our material needs more efficiently and with less effort.

But by doing so, we begin to think only about quantities. We create incentives to sacrifice quality in order to obtain better quantitative results. We become so focused on measuring and optimizing, on increasing efficiency and productivity, that we stop thinking about what is happening to us in our day-to-day lives.

It is perhaps not surprising that we then feel there is something missing — as though life is not going as well as it ought to be, even though all of the numbers are moving in the right direction.

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[savagechickens]

The Plan for More.

And more productivity.

[phantomrose96]

If u don’t mind could u explain how u unfucked redfin’s changes. because I was trying to help my uncle with house searching, but it’s literally so unusable now that he won’t do any searching himself. If I can set it back to the old layout for him then that’d be swell

Yeah sure haha! I assume you're talking about the same layout change I got (which is that the map switched to the right side of the page, and the listings now take up way more space than before yeah?)

It's actually easy to unfuck because the way Redfin did it was by adding style overrides based on a particular className added to affected Dom elements (pretty smart for A/B rollout, tbh).

Lucky for me that makes it easy to put it back. You can do it too if you do this

Go to Redfin

Open the Dev Tools (either by F12, or by your browser's menu > tools > devtools. You can look it up for your particular browser)

Find the console

Paste this text and then hit enter

```

const config = { attributes: true, childList: true, subtree: true }; const className = 'reversePosition';

const revertLayout = () => {     document.querySelectorAll(`.${className}`).forEach(element =>{         element.classList.remove(className);     }); }

const observer = new MutationObserver((mutationList, observer) => revertLayout());

observer.observe(document, config);

revertLayout();

```

After that it'll be unfucked!

(If you close that tab and open Redfin again you'll have to do it again tho.)

Here's a video of me unfucking Hollywood Hills. I originally tried to make it a gif but I'm the engineer person not the media production person

[clove-pinks]

If there is one piece of corporate-speak that I especially hate at this time in my life, it's the word efficiencies.

I never thought I would stand against the idea of, you know, minimising effort or expense—but the plain word "efficient" must mean something else. Whenever someone is creating efficiencies, on the other hand, it means they have spectacularly fucked up something that was working just fine.

[kalavathiraj]

It’s better to sweat in the lab of work rather than wasting precious minutes in the high castle of procrastination. -starting ‘somewhere’

Life Lessons, QUOTUS

[phoenixyfriend]

I wonder how many business majors turn out like I did: disillusioned leftists who view all they learned for that degree with a healthy dose of skepticism.

[sarcastic-clapping]

maybe i am the remote worker that executives and corporate real estate investors fear monger about. i saw a comment on the remote work subreddit that said something like “they think we all just roll out of bed at 10am, pretend to be online while we’re really at the gym, log off at 4, and stay in our sweats all day”

smash cut to me reading said comment while on the treadmill at the gym during work hours

[soup-mother]

man i sure do wish someone wrote a few things about the means of production themselves not being the enemy but instead something to sieze for our class. sure would be handy, oh well back to declaring the ontological evil of any technology that leads to changes in labour relations ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[puddlesl1me]

hey so uhh

you wanna be a robot?

heck yeah i wanna be a robot. human flesh is weak and pitiful.

I would be so much happier if I had robot parts. Genuinely would be fantastic. Monster parts are also acceptable honestly.

[tlcartist]

Sketch for a Halsin panting I just started

[shokupanda]

me when time moves forward at a steady pace: how the fuck is it more than halfway through july already. this fuckers rapidly sprinting when im not looking huh

[darkwood-sleddog]

not dogs, but work stuff driving me insane rn: the enshittification of all our crucial and most used programs as person working for local government.

1.) it's so clear that so many of these companies did not hire UX designers whatsoever or anybody that is meant to give any consideration to usability of the program. why must we take everything that had a relatively neutral colored but non-white background with the fields being white boxes with lots of space to breathe and turn it all into the same horrible on my eyes white background with white fields (hard to use) that bump right up against each other (hard to use)??? These are programs i have to look at most of my day. i do not want them white on white. my eyes are searing just thinking about it. LET YOUR DATA FIELDS FUCKING BREATHE.

2.) the deletion of crucial infrastructure within the programs we use and eliminating administrative control. i. am. the head of my department! i need administrative control.

3.) lack of consideration to towns that aren't city/county populations. yeah in place with a million people you might have users doing it one way but you can't JUST cater to that and eliminate the older process that works for smaller towns/villages.

like i don't know what back end the older programs/portals were made with, they certainly look "more outdated" than the new versions but they are honestly so much more functional and pleasant to look at. the new ones seem to all be made with the same drag and drop back end and it's driving me to insanity because it's so limited it what it can make. and what it does make? Is ugly and extremely hard on my eyes.

[fauvester]

trying to reframe 'i'm so fucking lazy, I do nothing 95% of the day and im wildly productive the other 5%, imagine what i could do if I actually tried to do something worthwhile that 95%' to 'Im capable of being wildly productive for 5% of my day BECAUSE i fuck around for 95% of it, it keeps me from totally burning out and gives me time to work through that eventful 5%'