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Platystemon posted:Balrog Untranslated from the original Geek
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Mar 14, 2022 19:39
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Nocheez posted:I ain't reading all that. Sum it up in one word. uh, "shityerpants"
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Mar 14, 2022 19:42
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Nocheez posted:I ain't reading all that. Sum it up in one word. You could probably do that in Turkish, but it wouldn’t be any shorter.
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Mar 14, 2022 19:43
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"Hey guys, is this giant mass of metal supposed to be moving in weird unexplained spurts?" "Nah it's fine, keep doing what you're doing." [Very nearly dies in resulting accident]
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Mar 14, 2022 19:44
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kw0134 posted:"Hey guys, is this giant mass of metal supposed to be moving in weird unexplained spurts?" Posts on SA: "In a world where everyone has turned into a pussy, with people making careers out of being offended on the behalf of other people, and with lawyers having worked with insurance companies to take all of the good honest fun out of getting your hands dirty and doing something dangerous, this was heaven for a twenty-something country boy."
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Mar 14, 2022 19:47
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That paragraph was very much, as the kids say these days, ‘cringe’. I didn’t write it. I shudder to imagine putting a comma splice on the first line.
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Mar 14, 2022 19:51
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In a world where everyone is a pussy, the man with all the heavy-flo tamps is king.
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Mar 14, 2022 20:05
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Lmao, bunch of makers don't understand elasticity. You could just cut the struts on the cableway and let physics do the rest. One dude could have dropped the whole drat thing with a few simple calculations. You were the meth heads, weren't you?
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Mar 14, 2022 20:06
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Captain Hygiene posted:That'd be fun as hell. Back when I was in college I did an engineering-related internship, and by far the best thing about it was that they took all the interns out to a work machine test facility and let us go hog wild with them for a day. Excavators, dozers, trucks, all sorts of stuff. Tons of fun, and neat to see just how intuitive a lot of the big machine controls could be. When I was a kid (grade 7 or 8, I think) they were doing some road work just down the street from our house and I'd often stop and chat with the workers on my way home from school. One day they were feeling magnanimous, gave me a quick run-down of the controls, and let me climb into the excavator and pick up and drop a few bucketloads of dirt, while one of them stood on the treads and gave me pointers. It was fun as hell and also, I am quite sure, something they were not meant to ever do. A park like that would have been catnip to grade-school me.
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Mar 14, 2022 20:18
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Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:Lmao, bunch of makers don't understand elasticity. I was totally thinking that this would be an easier method... They weren't math heads, that's for sure.
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Mar 14, 2022 20:18
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Nocheez posted:I ain't reading all that. Sum it up in one word. Platystemon posted:BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
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Mar 14, 2022 20:19
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What I want to know is how it was that the “meth heads” got all the smaller conductors, but they did not chase them upstream to the motherlode. It’s described as “so well hidden, tucked away in the beams and camouflaged in the grunge”, but some it was in easy reach for our protagonists, in and around the switchgear cabinets that the smaller conductors must have run to.
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Mar 14, 2022 20:27
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ToxicFrog posted:When I was a kid (grade 7 or 8, I think) they were doing some road work just down the street from our house and I'd often stop and chat with the workers on my way home from school. One day they were feeling magnanimous, gave me a quick run-down of the controls, and let me climb into the excavator and pick up and drop a few bucketloads of dirt, while one of them stood on the treads and gave me pointers. It was fun as hell and also, I am quite sure, something they were not meant to ever do. Lol, that's awesome. Presumably un-OSHA as hell, but who cares.
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Mar 14, 2022 20:27
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DiHK posted:I was totally thinking that this would be an easier method... It's literally a 2 force member problem, except they're all in tension, so you just calculate the margin of safety as a function of number of struts, trim to 110% of the qty required for MS=1, then notch a couple and deadblow hammer that SOB until it unzips. Instead, they choose to straddle what sounds like a description of a failing anchor. That's OSHA! Anchor failures:https://youtu.be/hMytHt1D1go Samuel L. Hacksaw fucked around with this message at 20:35 on Mar 14, 2022 |
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Mar 14, 2022 20:29
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Platystemon posted:That paragraph was very much, as the kids say these days, ‘cringe’. Oh, I didn't know this was a reddit repost, and was about to ask some questions. mom and dad fight a lot fucked around with this message at 20:36 on Mar 14, 2022 |
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Mar 14, 2022 20:33
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Platystemon posted:What I want to know is how it was that the “meth heads” got all the smaller conductors, but they did not chase them upstream to the motherlode.
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Mar 14, 2022 20:37
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They were so relieved that the cable missed them. They didn’t realize that it doomed to to agonizing deaths from ærosolized pigeon droppings.
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Mar 14, 2022 20:44
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Platystemon posted:They were so relieved that the cable missed them. They didn’t realize that it doomed to to agonizing deaths from ærosolized pigeon droppings. Wasn't there a House MD episode about that?
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Mar 14, 2022 21:04
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Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:It's literally a 2 force member problem, except they're all in tension, so you just calculate the margin of safety as a function of number of struts, trim to 110% of the qty required for MS=1, then notch a couple and deadblow hammer that SOB until it unzips. Dude I just make the pictures, keep your powder dry for my engineer. (I would buy and wear a "the REAL CAD Operator arrives" shirt.) edit: "Everybody thinks they know when to use fractional or decimal references untill..."
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Mar 14, 2022 21:07
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DiHK posted:Dude I just make the pictures, keep your powder dry for my engineer. CAD/CAM was my first foray into engineering. The vagaries of GD&T are my bread and butter. I caught a systemic error with composite tolerances not having their boxes touching. It was costing millions a year in scrapped hardware because the mfg team was limiting themselves to half the available tolerance.
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Mar 14, 2022 21:14
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The RLM guys did another 'Best of the Worst' random tapes pick, and the second was very thread appropriate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khcf1hWX1B4&t=1656s ^^Timestamped.
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Mar 14, 2022 21:15
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e. let's not.
RoastBeef fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Mar 14, 2022 |
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Mar 14, 2022 21:56
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NoneMoreNegative posted:The RLM guys did another 'Best of the Worst' random tapes pick, and the second was very thread appropriate: This tape is so good I honestly hope they can get the rest.
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Mar 14, 2022 22:14
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Unperson_47 posted:Safety notwithstanding but wouldn't it be better to use a heavy roller type thing that you manually roll along this for better adhesion? Nah, too much pressure on the main section would press the grit into the tar. Too much pressure at the edge would make too much of the tar expell and gently caress up the seam. He's doing a good job there, it's a fucker to do and I'm happy that I'll never have to do it again. Looks safer than any time I ended up doing it in the past. That's not saying much though. Roofers, what a breed of degenerates
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Mar 14, 2022 22:50
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:It is also a telekinetic tire. Rubber is an amazing film. What's really amazing is that the tyre being telekinetic is probably the sanest part of the movie. It goes absolutely bonkers.
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Mar 15, 2022 00:05
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https://i.imgur.com/cWUIACG.mp4
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Mar 15, 2022 00:28
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I kept waiting for a shark to jump out the water and chomp his legs off…but it didn’t happen.
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Mar 15, 2022 00:32
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https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7074709649961930026
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Mar 15, 2022 00:37
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drat at least give the guy a boatswain's chair those harnesses are not fun to dangle in long term.
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Mar 15, 2022 00:38
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Cartoon Man posted:I kept waiting for a shark to jump out the water and chomp his legs off…but it didn’t happen. Guess I'm not the only one who caught Batman '66 on youtube instead of going to watch The Batman.
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Mar 15, 2022 00:41
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https://i.imgur.com/u96HTXf.mp4
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Mar 15, 2022 01:01
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Work smarter, not harder.
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Mar 15, 2022 01:06
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Cartoon Man posted:I kept waiting for a shark to jump out the water and chomp his legs off…but it didn’t happen. The only thing i could watch was the angle grinder.
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Mar 15, 2022 01:09
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Met this guy on my hotel balcony this afternoon. Someone didn't wear their safety boots!
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Mar 15, 2022 01:15
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Nocheez posted:I ain't reading all that. Sum it up in one word. Metal heavy. Wait, that's two words. Can I have another go?
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Mar 15, 2022 01:27
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Met this guy on my hotel balcony this afternoon. Someone didn't wear their safety boots! Ba dum bada bum baaaaa Steal fries from danger
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Mar 15, 2022 01:37
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By popular demand posted:Do people actually need this cartoon to figure out that a squashed and bent rebar frame is bad? Basically this used to not be a big deal... ...except when concrete outside the rebar spalls due to, say, lateral loads like seismic, the hoops just pop out unless they have a 135 degree loop. For reference:  You can see the spiral columns (another way to avoid this) lost all their outer concrete but confined the concrete within so they didn't lose axial load until the whole building's lateral eccentricity made it unstable. The bottom was all square columns with 90 degree hooks. It...well there's a reason you can barely tell there are columns there at all. Concrete is wild stuff; confine it in a few hoops of rebar and it can get many times stronger and be much more ductile.
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Mar 15, 2022 02:27
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This just came across my email. To quote our maintenance manager: "That's a zipper rupture. Run away!" 
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Mar 15, 2022 02:40
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Met this guy on my hotel balcony this afternoon. Someone didn't wear their safety boots! I don’t normally get sad about seagulls but now I am 
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Kibayasu posted:I don’t normally get sad about seagulls but now I am Wild animals get injured and die all the time, that's just part of life. The reason you see a bunch of one-footed seagulls is because that's one of the few injuries that are realistically survivable.
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