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10hr ago
To clarify, my mother used to make these boring-lump-of-dough dumplings, and she is from the hot Caribbean, where the houses need no central heating at all. So your theory does not explain the facts.
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15hr ago
My Chinese coworker laughed at me when I told him about those.
But maybe if you have not started constructing your home yet you can widen the entire house just for the laundry door.
(1) Construction already is underway.
(2) The house already takes up the entire buildable width of the lot (34′2″ vs. 35′).
If you and your roommate live in the unit together, eventually someone will be exiting the laundry room at the same time someone is entering the home. Or someone will forget something in the house and step in quickly to retrieve it (keys, wallet, credit card, etc.) and not communicate the entry as normal to the other person, knocking him senseless in a rush.
I do not assign much probability to this hypothetical event. If you disagree, you can join the betting pool with @orthoxerox. (Come on! Are you people in the habit of opening opaque doors with all your strength? I certainly am not. People can be standing behind doors unbeknownst to you even if those doors don't swing into other doors.)
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1d ago
"this spelling is wrong" (no, it's because I'm not American)
You can go into Word's spell-check settings and change it from American English to BritishNon-American English.
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1d ago
In this design, it is not intended that a bathroom will ever have both doors unlocked at the same time. Rather:
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99 percent of the time, each bathroom will be in "private mode", with the door to the living/dining room locked from the bathroom side.
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On the rare occasion that a guest is present, at least one bathroom will be in "guest mode", with the door to the bedroom locked from both sides.
Also, it's my understanding that sliding doors are very bad at blocking sounds and odors, so using them on bathrooms is ill-advised.
Regarding the laundry/utility-room door, I could have used a sliding door there, but I saw no reason to. IMO, having eight swinging doors is simpler than having seven swinging doors and one sliding door.
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1d ago
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2d ago
Q: We have the court file showing that your ill-fated high-school crush was on a girl, not on a boy.
A: If you have my court file, then you should know that that old crush was Indian as well, just like my husband.
A paper that I gave to an unrelated acquaintance (in which I fantasized about kidnapping the crush, trapping her in a cage of sonic stun guns, and making her play Scrabble with me) somehow fell into the hands of the school administration, was misinterpreted as a "terroristic threat" against the crush ("zero tolerance" for """guns""" even if they're nonlethal), and was reported to the police.
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2d ago
I'm of the opinion that the current LLM hype is starting to hit the second knee of the S-curve, both financially and technically.
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2d ago
My mother claims that I received a (now-technically-outdated) diagnosis of Asperger's syndrome at age 16 (as part of my defense against a frivolous criminal investigation). However, she doesn't actually have the records to back that claim up, and I personally do not recall being informed of any diagnosis at the time.
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3d ago
Flashback to ABC notation
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3d ago
Someday, I will finally finish my bootleg HTML/EPUB version of For Want of a Nail (currently available for purchase only as a used physical book).
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3d ago
Do any popular games other than the Splatoon series and Super Mario Odyssey use that fancy gyroscopic-aiming stuff? I thought it was mostly dead.
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3d ago
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4d ago
To be clear, I was just pointing out the fact that at least some people seriously hold this view, not actually endorsing the view.
ToaKraka, you are a wise man.
LOL.
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4d ago
One prominent sex-education website claims that masturbation should be considered a form of sex.
Sorry, Wrong Question
So first of all the question is wrong for three reasons. Sorry about that.
(1) Masturbation is sex and so if something is a thing it can’t be better than that thing. This is called philosophy.
(2) The question implies that the only kind of sex that is real sex is sex with another person, which is wrong. Solo sex is sex.
(3) It also makes out that masturbation itself isn’t sex and that only penetration is ‘real’ sex. There is no ‘real sex’, just sex. I think that if we start to see sex as what may or may not be enjoyable to us, rather than what is ‘real’ or not, then we might find it easier to enjoy.
Solo Sex
Some people just prefer not to have sexual and/or romantic relationships with other people. It doesn’t mean that they don’t like sex, they just want to do it with themselves. Maybe they have had difficult relationships in the past, or just don’t really feel very connected to many people. Perhaps they’ve had sex with other people and it was crap, or non-consensual and just don’t want to go back there. There are many reasons why people just prefer to have sex with themselves – and it’s totally totally okay.
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4d ago
Only one-fifth of bachelor's degrees and one-tenth of associate's degrees are STEM.
Censoring words that are totally innocuous is a very common online joke. On /r/mapporncirclejerk, a few months ago it was extremely popular for people to say "Fr*nce", and jokingly complain in the comments that anyone who failed to do so was using coarse language in the presence of children. That trend has died out at the moment, but see also this humorous post where the use of "Gr*ece", "K*rdistan", and "Arm*nia" was hardly questioned.
Why do I enjoy calling myself a nigger without censorship on this website (past instances: 1 2 3)? I don't know. I guess I'm just being edgy for no good reason.
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4d ago
I normally do not use office furniture in the living room in my designs. I just had that idea this week, and the designs at the top of this thread are the only ones that use such rigmarole.
If you don't keep your doors closed when you're not using them, I don't know what to tell you.
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4d ago
I don't know what you mean by that. My bathrooms and laundry/utility rooms are cramped enough that the accusation may be accurate there. But my kitchens, living rooms, and dining rooms are ample. And I believe that my bedrooms permit a few different configurations even at maximum occupancy—and how often are bedrooms at maximum occupancy anyway? (For example, the design that I am having built will have nominal occupancy of five but actual occupancy of just two.)
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4d ago
How do you get into the kitchen? Through the master suite?
The line between the dining room and the kitchen does not represent a wall.
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4d ago
May I enquire as to why you censored the term "closets"?
I personally dislike closets (which, being immovable, needlessly constrain the rearrangement of furniture) and much prefer shelving units and wardrobes. Past discussion: 1 2
I'd also say that having the kitchen and dining room on separate floors is a bad idea.
Read what I wrote again. For code-compliance purposes, the living room is on the first floor and the dining room is on the second floor—but, in everyday life, the room labeled "living room" serves double duty as either a living room or a dining room depending on circumstances, and the room labeled "dining room" serves as a living room for the people occupying the upstairs bedrooms.
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4d ago
One floor plan that I can't get right is a five-bay colonial with a mudroom-style entrance. I am looking at something like 13.2 m × 8 m or 12.8 m × 8.4 m (so that the footprint of the house is around 100 m2).
Extremely lazy spitball sketch (though possibly a bit too big)
But, no matter how I try, I can't design a staircase that feels natural without interrupting the regularity of the façade.
I don't get it. What does the stairway have to do with the façade?
Traditional foyers are designed for people who have no coats or wet boots or kids that track dirt everywhere.
Just add a closet under the stairway, and/or a wardrobe next to the wall.
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4d ago
A mildly-interesting two-story house design (including a version with cl*sets, plus one-story parent designs for comparison purposes): In theory (to satisfy code requirements), the living room is on floor 1 and the dining room is on floor 2. But, in practice, the room on floor 1 serves both living and dining purposes, and the room on floor 2 is just an extra living room.
Whether it makes sense hinges on how the first-floor room is reconfigured between living and dining uses. Obviously, folding tables and folding chairs are perfect for dining use. For living use, folding couches apparently are available for purchase, though I'm not sure how compactly they actually fold up. Alternatively, perhaps the folding chairs and folding couches can be replaced with comfy, headrest-equipped office chairs that can serve for both living and dining.
It's hidden/removed. (IIRC, the moderators have said that all standalone posts are removed by default until approved.)
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