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omfg, I was replying to an LLM

>It depends on the geometric stability of the column shape, which is why I said what I said. What you said was like 99% completely false. >that compressive stress limits are much l…

I'm a structural engineer, and this is incorrect. For structural steel (e.g., A992, 350W, etc.), the tensile strength is the same as the compressive strength. That's why we only ne…

It's a lot easier to have a functioning society without art majors than without civil engineers.

>it would apply even if every data center built an entirely renewable dedicated solar farm to power it. After all, energy is fungible: the newly built solar farm could be going to …

>Bitcoin attempted to replace cash, but failed because the transaction costs are orders of magnitude too high. The current fees are less than 0.40$. It may be too high for a starbu…

I use a TI nspire CX CAS. honestly, I think it makes no sense to spend more than 30$ on a calculator if it can't do symbolic math. The way you input things like division, integrals…

>And in the end, what's to stop someone from assembling an unlicensed 3D printer to make unlicensed prints? You really don't have to go that far. A very high quality control board …

The US has roughly 10x more population than Canada. The solution is really simple, just hire 10x more humans to manage the vote counting. Paper voting worked for thousands of years…

>I don't understand why voting machines can't just print your vote on a piece of paper behind a plastic window for you to see while also recoding the vote in a database If it's cou…

Then why did it happen 3 elections in a row?! We had front-page news about how the election was "hacked by Russia" and trump cheated for over a year after his first win in 2016 (le…

>And it turns out it works pretty well. Does it? This is the third election in a row where the losing party claim the election was not legitimate and/or hacked.

Yes, you can define your own named custom formulas in Excel. I prefer to do it with VBA code because I find it easier to manage, but it's also possible without VBA using just the b…

Can you name a single product that is comparable? If it doesn't have something equivalent to Pivot Tables, it's not even worth talking about.

"I give you 30B$ worth of hardware that costs me <10B$ to make in exchange for 30B$ worth of shares in your company" would be a more accurate description.

The "circular investment" is mostly start up companies using their stocks instead of cash to pay for server hardware and cloud computing. There is a few extra steps in between that…

For a power user, There is nothing even remotely comparable to Excel that exists today.

There will always be bugs you can't fix, that doesn't mean we should embrace having orders of magnitude more of them. And it's not just about bugs, it's also about adding new featu…

>I would argue that it's going to be the opposite. At re:Invent, one of the popular sessions was in creating a trio of SRE agents, one of which did nothing but read logs and report…