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| controls engineer by day |
| computer toucher by night |
The internet is fundamentally just an idea, a set of protocols, implemented in the form of a billion computers. It's just as much ours as it is theirs.


Recently I've temporarily moved into a house with my partner which could only be described as a Frankensteins monster of expansions performed by increasingly deranged individuals. The core of the house is a 1959 trailer home, and has been expanded in the most convoluted way imaginable.

I have seen things you wouldn't believe. A bedroom with no outlets. 4 different types of framing lumber. Unfathomable electrical wiring. A room with 2 identical ceilings. A hollow foundation. This house is so far from meeting building codes that it couldn't even be meaningfully evaluated.

I know cohost is mainly Computer Vibes, but is there any interest in a longpost about this?


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in reply to @maxdevos's post:

I'm underselling the severity of it. On many occasions, I was working on fixing some problem or making sense of something, my partner suggested something about the house, and I would reply "there's absolutely no way. That's unbelievably illegal and it would require unprecedented stupidity", and it would turn out they were right

There are a bunch of panels in my house every contractor we've ever hired has urged us not to look behind or think about, and the first few times we ignored them in our hubris we learned they were goddamn right. Building codes are a lie people tell to blind themselves to the horror, all is chaos.