• gegil@sopuli.xyz
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    2 days ago

    Everyone can build a tower which stands. Only engineer can build a tower which barely stays.

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      This is what the engineers claim, and then they tack on a 50% margin of error they don’t bother to explain because the business major ghouls would make them remove it if they knew.

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        Both material factors and load factors are very well explained and grounded, they are not arbitrary. The problem is that they are too technical to explain to a non-engineer.

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      Hugely disagree. Most people can’t build a tower which stands at all. In fact if they managed, I would say it’s much more “barely standing” than the engineer’s.