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Is that even pressure treated lumber???? good lord
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Nitrox posted:Well, that's new. Its like the construction version of those math problems that pop up where they're obviously getting the order of operations wrong.
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SpartanIvy posted:The Arlington, TX location was "Warehouse" themed. I wish that was a joke. Sounds about right. It's been a long time since I visited that location. The Irving, TX location (no theme) was closer to me, and the last one I visited before the completely folded. Last purchase: one tube of Artic Silver. With the condition the store was in (mostly empty) I was mildly surprised to find even that. That location used to be Tandy Corp's stab at Best Buy/Circuit City, called Incredible Universe. Incredible Universe was pretty awesome, but Tandy was adept at ruining everything (see: Radio Shack.) Arlington Fry's is a discount furniture place now, as I recall. Don't know what the Dallas one is. Irving one is just an empty store. Nitrox posted:Well, that's new. Soooooo, no rebar, no beaming, no skirting, and only about 2" thick. Oh, and the weight of the structure is actually on dirt, not the concrete, as meager as it is. edit: Arrath posted:Its like the construction version of those math problems that pop up where they're obviously getting the order of operations wrong. Yes, EXACTLY! Darchangel fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Feb 21, 2024 |
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Darchangel posted:The Irving, TX location (no theme) was closer to me, and the last one I visited before the completely folded. Last purchase: one tube of Artic Silver. With the condition the store was in (mostly empty) I was mildly surprised to find even that. Hah, that was my last Fry’s purchase as well, from the Sunnyvale, CA store. Its theme was “1998 as gently caress,” which is to say, unthemed and last renovated in the mid-to-late-90s. It was similarly depressingly bare.
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Maybe it’s good there isn’t any rebar. Or am I giving that disaster too much credit, and it won’t last a month before some sort of significant failure?
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Arrath posted:Its like the construction version of those math problems that pop up where they're obviously getting the order of operations wrong. I have no idea what this is referring to. It may just be a me problem. Any hints?
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Blue Footed Booby posted:I have no idea what this is referring to. It may just be a me problem. Any hints? You pour the foundation before you build out framing on top of it. They seem to have done this in the wrong order (of operations).
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Blue Footed Booby posted:I have no idea what this is referring to. It may just be a me problem. Any hints?
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Blue Footed Booby posted:I have no idea what this is referring to. It may just be a me problem. Any hints? Like so https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/cncmbl/whats_up_with_the_people_on_twitter_who_are/ Often posted in a poll format that is really just ragebait for people to accuse each other of being bad at math or confidentlyincorrect
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Arrath posted:Like so similarly, occasionally you see people on social posting the deliberately ambiguous racist literacy test questions from the south (which were designed to make students fail by always having a reason why their answer was wrong), followed by people arguing why their answers are unambiguously correct and the questions are all simple to bring this back on topic, people often have trouble dealing with questions that are ... poorly constructed
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Baron von Eevl posted:Or gets wet. or exists where termites also exist. probably not for long in that case though.
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Beef Of Ages posted:You pour the foundation before you build out framing on top of it. They seem to have done this in the wrong order (of operations).  Anne Whateley posted:There are facebook pages where they post the dumbest poo poo in an attempt to get interaction. In this example it would be like “Only 5% of people get this right!!! Are you smart enough to do it? Solve this tricky math problem: 2 + 5 x 3” and then all the boomers reply to show how brilliant they are and make fun of how dumb everyone else is Ahhh, I'd completely forgotten about these. People forgetting about PEMDAS is funny. People doubling down on their wrong answer because they're incapable of admitting to not knowing/remembering something is pathetic. It's like the old rabbit season/duck season gag from Loony Tunes.
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PEMDAS doesn't help with the engagement farm equations because they are written to exploit some textbooks teaching that the M and D are separate so multiplication always precedes division and others teaching that "MD" is a pair standing for "Multiplication and Division" so you execute both of them in the order you encounter them left to right. 15÷3(5) can equal 25 or 1, depending on which way you learned PEMDAS. The actual answer is that the equation is poo poo.
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Shifty Pony posted:"MD" is a pair standing for "Multiplication and Division" so you execute both of them in the order you encounter them left to right. That is how I learned it in primary school. We never covered the PE part of PEMDAS. In high school algebra we learned that parenthesis come first but I genuinely don't think exponents were ever addressed. I was at least 35 before I heard any version other that My Dear Aunt Sally.
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The order of operations is ambiguous for the division operator because it’s just random bullshit that you learn in grade school which is never used in even high-school-level math
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Which is why anyone writing an equation not to farm engagement wouldn't write it in an ambiguous way and would use parentheses to resolve ambiguity.
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Multiplication and division are done at the same priority because they're really the same thing. Division is multiplication by the reciprocal. 15÷3(5) can be rewritten as 15 * 1/3 * 5, etc etc.
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As a mathematician, I have no idea what 15÷3(5) is. I don’t think there’s any agreement about how it associates. Some guy made it up and for some reason it gained a lot of traction in textbooks. Anyway, nails: good or bad?
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Isn't it BEDMAS? Brackets, Exponent, Divide, Mulitply, Add, Subtract. Fake edit, BEDMAS is a thing in Canada and NZ, but not in freedom land. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations#Mixed_division_and_multiplication
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rjmccall posted:As a mathematician, I have no idea what 15÷3(5) is. I don’t think there’s any agreement about how it associates. Some guy made it up and for some reason it gained a lot of traction in textbooks. Depends on whether you're using cut nails or string nails, where in the piece you are, and how you feel about drilling pilot holes. AHA! Trick question. You always drill pilot holes.
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wesleywillis posted:Isn't it BEDMAS? listen we're not asking for a lot here, it's not the imperial system. asking you to please excuse my dear aunt sally is a very simple request.
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Lol the engagement is farming this very thread
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Found in r/Architecture: Walstrom House, Los Angeles, by Architect John Lautner, 1996 And I'm not sure because it looks like a perspective trick, but I it kinda looks like if you slip and fall off the death steps, there is also a hole in the floor for you to fall into. Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 07:02 on Feb 22, 2024 |
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Found in r/Architecture: Walstrom House, Los Angeles, by Architect John Lautner, 1996 Only if you don't fall through a plate glass window first!
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wesleywillis posted:Isn't it BEDMAS? It's BIMDAS you heathen!
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~Coxy posted:It's BIMDAS you heathen! BIMDER BIMDAS BIMDIESE NUTZ
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~Coxy posted:It's BIMDAS you heathen! Worse still, I was taught BODMAS.
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Bertha the Toaster posted:Worse still, I was taught BODMAS. That's another one. The first one I learned actually.
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What term related to exponents and logarithms starts with O?
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BODMAS stands for B-Brackets, O-Orders (powers/exponents or roots), D-Division, M-Multiplication, A-Addition, S-Subtraction.
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What weird non-exponent notation for roots are you using that isn’t totally unambiguous about how it’s parsed?
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Dameius posted:O-Orders (powers/exponents or roots) I had not heard that term before, so thank you for introducing me to it.
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rjmccall posted:What weird non-exponent notation for roots are you using that isn’t totally unambiguous about how it’s parsed? Some people leave the top line off because old typewriters and stuff and if you do that without explicit parenthesis it can be pretty ambiguous, especially if it gets handwritten. See this page: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/square-root-symbol/ And a snippet: quote:To rationalize the denominator, we multiply both the numerator and denominator by (√2 – √3).
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Found in r/Architecture: Walstrom House, Los Angeles, by Architect John Lautner, 1996 It's not a matter of "if", but a matter of "when".
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