Re:Pedestrian Bridge Collapse over SW 8th Street in Miami [pdf]
by yay_cloud2 on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @11:17PM
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It sometimes fascinates me (and scares the shit out of me) to wonder at all of the little errors/assumptions like this that are baked into the millions of spreadsheets that form the foundation of so much of what we build and do in the world.
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Re:Pedestrian Bridge Collapse over SW 8th Street in Miami [pdf]
by wging on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @12:09AM
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Dead comment reply by 'FakeComments' that I am not sure deserves to be dead (what happened there?): "I’d say the better part of engineering is knowing how to design in the face of small errors creeping into the project."
Re:Pedestrian Bridge Collapse over SW 8th Street in Miami [pdf]
by FakeComments on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @11:37PM
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I’d say the better part of engineering is knowing how to design in the face of small errors creeping into the project.
Re:Pedestrian Bridge Collapse over SW 8th Street in Miami [pdf]
by abtinf on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @11:27PM
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The world is held together with nothing but human thought. Man must be free so that his mind is free to think. A doctor working under compulsion should terrify those under his scalpel. Likewise for the engineer, and his customer, who designs a bridge, an elevator, or even a simple toaster.