AlpacaChariot
@AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world
- Comment on Structural Engineers 2 days ago:
Often we achieve very uplifting things with a huge amount of diligent hard work and planning.
It’s rarely uplifting in the arty/poetic/slightly “wishy washy” sense of the OP though.
If you want a specific example, my last project was a big concrete box bridge (6000t), it was built off to the side of the railway and pushed into position using enormous strand jacks. This allowed the railway to remain open apart from ~10 days over Christmas. It took 3 years to do all the design and construction including the temporary works design (construction methodology); all the planning paid off because it was installed successfully, within tolerance and on programme.
The bridge will last at least 120 years and will allow more rail freight instead of road transportation, which has environmental and social benefits.
We designed the bridge so that you could install overhead electrification in future if the rest of the network was upgraded (so you could use electric rather than diesel powered vehicles).
Basically, you achieve impressive things by doing a lot of hard technical work. It’s a bit of a different mindset to writing poems about beams sharing loads.
- Comment on Structural Engineers 3 days ago:
No, but a lot of us are more prone to just doing everything ourselves rather than communicating and working together in a big team.
High yield stress!
- Comment on Structural Engineers 3 days ago:
Most structural engineers are a lot less uplifting than this.
Source: I’m a structural engineer.
- Comment on My silence can hold no longer 3 months ago:
What on earth did I just watch
- Comment on Statistically, probably with the beetles. 🪲 3 months ago:
I’ve never seen cactus fruit like that before, initially I thought it was a joke image and someone had taken a cactus and put a blueberry on each needle or something. Wild.
- Comment on Standardization rule 4 months ago:
Oscar Wilde indeed!
- Comment on Paul Krugman. Former Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 4 months ago:
How does crypto increase privacy? Isn’t the whole ledger public, so if someone manages to identify your wallet they can see all your past transactions?
- Comment on some days i cant even 5 months ago:
It’s basically a big hair dryer, there’s a big fan in it
- Comment on some days i cant even 5 months ago:
I have an electric leaf blower, it’s pretty loud and you can definitely hear it >5m away, in fact you could probably hear it several hundred metres away. I do agree they are less disturbing overall though.
- Comment on "I built my own Phone... because innovation is sad rn" 6 months ago:
He used the USB port on the samsung phone to connect an old blackberry keyboard, via a custom made PCB.
- Comment on That's an impressive drop. Any ideas why? 6 months ago:
Things were definitely different to today, but I think the factors you listed are not enough to explain the massive decline in that graph.
Things like economic insecurity, cost of housing, increasing isolation / changes in living circumstances, and medication are all likely to be significant factors in my opinion.
- Comment on That's an impressive drop. Any ideas why? 6 months ago:
It says 1990 not 1900!
- Comment on Worst part about living in Europe 7 months ago:
Looks pretty cool! Should have known it was an e-bike
- Comment on Worst part about living in Europe 7 months ago:
What kind of bike is that?
That’s a lot of sugary drink 😂
- Comment on A surgeon who performed unnecessary bowel operations on more than 200 patients has been struck off 7 months ago:
Good lord, it’s only Wednesday
- Comment on hygiene 7 months ago:
Remember this from the Tony Hawk soumdtrack, what a classic!
- Comment on Is it too much to ask for?? 9 months ago:
Superb
- Comment on I've got something special for you 9 months ago:
Yes but only for 6 seconds
- Comment on ChatGPT does not fuck around 10 months ago:
I wonder if it has something to do with “frogs” in bricks - frogs being the concave indentation in the surface of a brick. “Stitching” kind of works with masonry as well…
- Comment on Death to Nickels 11 months ago:
But they don’t have complete visibility over what you do with cash, which is exactly their point right?
- Comment on Rock Identification 11 months ago:
Believe it or not, this is a legit thing. I haven’t done anything much with rocks*, but here’s a good example for soil. If it’s fine grained (smaller than sand) and you can’t see the particles by eye, you can rub some on your teeth:
Buttery texture --> clay Gritty on the teeth --> silt
Not approved for use on contaminated ground!
- I’m a structural engineer, but I work closely with geotechnical engineers and do my best to understand it as well
- Comment on Anon critiques humanity 11 months ago:
Best fact of the day!
- Comment on He's just eccentric 1 year ago:
Nope I’m pretty sure they are glass/ceramic, but they have a nice flared end so maybe they have other uses
- Comment on He's just eccentric 1 year ago:
…where does he keep them? Make sure you wash your hands after touching them!
- Comment on Anon is smarter than a genius 1 year ago:
Tell me more!
- Comment on A funny thing in Iran is how they repackage old PlayStation consoles 1 year ago:
I’ve never heard of PortMaster, I still haven’t got bored of all the tiny best set games yet!
I think I played half life (maybe 2?) when I was a kid and it scared the crap out of me!
- Comment on A funny thing in Iran is how they repackage old PlayStation consoles 1 year ago:
Aliexpress. I bought from a UK website first time and it was double the price but still shipped from China, making it a bit pointless. This is the aliexpress link I used, I have no connection to the seller and only bought from them once, but it arrived in good condition and I’ve tested it works as expected. The unit I received was a “v5”, or “screen panel v4”, I paid £25:
- Comment on A funny thing in Iran is how they repackage old PlayStation consoles 1 year ago:
Yeah it’s great, my daughter has been enjoying all the old games as well so i bought her one too for her birthday. It’s much easier as a parent to give her the R36s and the retro games because they are all self contained offline things unlike a lot of modern games.
Some things I’d say to consider before buying:
- Factor in the cost of a good quality SD card (or two, one for the system and one for ROMs) to replace the one that comes with it. There are loads of warnings in forums etc about the cards that are supplied, but even so I was shocked when the card that came with mine broke after 2 days. Get a decent card like Samsung Evo Plus 128GB.
- It’s easier to start fresh when you get a new card than it would be to clone the one that comes with the device. Get the OS from here: github.com/AeolusUX/ArkOS-R3XS/releases
- For ROMs, search archive.org for “tiny best set go”
- Comment on A funny thing in Iran is how they repackage old PlayStation consoles 1 year ago:
I’ve been playing Crash Bandicoot on an R36s recently, it’ such a nostalgic game. Amazing that you can play it on a ~£35 handheld! You can’t beat the gameplay in some of the old classics.
- Comment on The upside of the cyberpunk dystopia 1 year ago:
used