Well, we’ll keep all the surounding untouched. The concrete is just the surface to accomodate outdoor kitchen, a table & hopefully, a jacuzzi or, for the times being, the kids “pool”. On top of the concret I’ll run some creeper vines in the to-be wooden patio. Rest assured that all the trees and surrounding pastures won’t move an inch. Before being concrete this was largelly gravel in any case. Heat behaviour has been a concern from the start but the balance tipped towards this outcome.

upvoted for the old but quality reference :)

As much as the concrete I will pour… but the sides where water can seep through will have a permeable layer. Between the walls and the pad. And the layer below the membrane sure is permeable.

That - and the vibrating plate I used yesterday - are my highlight in fun toys this year. I’d totally pay a couple of € to play with that kind of tools instead of your to six flags :)

So it’s all sitting on a layer of small rock so water would drain well. And I’ll be making a slope in the concrete so the water should get right at the end of the pad where I’ll be making a franch drain / rock walkway to make sure nothing pools too much. Additionally my roof is overhanging quite a bit so the ~40cm are most of the time dry when it rains anyway unless rains gets sideways twice every 5 years or so.

yup. Need to get the outdoors more practical as our weather is now all hot & dry…

If everyone was doing that I’d be isolated as fuck because without a lot of opportunities I just forget about others…

Ho lords… so many crevices…

That’s exactly what I have foreseen :) I saw another post a while ago showing that and I had geotextile in excess so I used it with the remaining of the rocks we had around.

This is my next nemesis : routing the conduits to my basement while keeping as much as possible of the 12cm foreseen for the slab. It’s an old staircase when they still needed to shovel coal in the basement. At some point someone closed it roughly with some prefab slab. So clearance is limited if I want to keep it as is and not take it apart (which would be… a long and shifty process). I’m currently missing about 3cm. I’ll see this week if I can grind them somehow.

Il heb ok een van deze gebruik. Slecht slecht expérience. 😅

I think an actual French drain requires some kind of pierced tubing running along the drain. I don’t think I will bother with that.

I’m taking a mental note of that. More laser fun yeahhhh 🫩

I have foreseen some kind of drainage around with a gravel ditch that leads to our water egress thingy. Though our piece of land usually drains quite well unless it pours for weeks.

My point is; maybe you are the edge case… you are the one making over-généralisations. Which, through time, will likely be found to be plainly false.

There was a time when ISDN was deemed unnecessary for home users that were relegated to 56k bauds.

And now look at your 2gbps. Then consider 10 years from now.

I’m working in telco / isp and bandwidth is certainly a topic we like to scale based on the increase of average traffic from homes.

You’re but ONE in a population of billions… « nobody » is a tad of an extrapolation based on you as a sample. I would gladly have more bandwidth. I have services that consumes a lot of it, we are 5 under the roof and everyone likes to stream & d/l on steam…

So between you and I it’s 50% in need of more bandwidth.

Hold on a minute… the field of AI and in general algorithms and models is quite old. LLM is relatively new in there. For science and healthcare we’ve been using specialist ai for a long while for things like image processing, sequencing and what’s not. Those are absolutely monitored have have generally high standards because they are healthcare related already. Don’t mix those things.

That and to clean those central channels the crew would likely block the whole street instead of one side at a time.

Yeaaahhhhhhhh

Cool this will only encourage Europe / China & other players to up their game…