max51

I think it's the other way around. Well organised menus can help users discover what functions are available at quick glance without having to hover each icons with the mouse to know what they do. For power users, the ribbons mean you can click directly on the function you need without having to click through menus and sub-menus.

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 lower in steel than tensile

No they are not.

> as you’re noting

I never acknowledge that. Your lack of understanding in what column buckling is doesn't change anything. Unironically, you should ask chatgpt, it can probably give you a high level explanation that is more compatible with your understanding of physics than what I can give you.

Buckling is a stability problem, not a resistance problem. The compressive stress resistance is literally not part of the formulas that we use to verify it. The column could have 100 MPa, 350 MPA, or 359918 MPa compressive resistance and it would change nothing when it comes to buckling. Only the elastic modulus and the physical shape of the column (length, inertia, etc.) is relevant for buckling verification.

>And bucking within the column (and/or the resistance too it) is primarily resisted by tensile strength.

Than please explain to me why we don't need the tensile (or compressive) resistance of the material to know the buckling resistance of the column. I really want to hear that one.

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 need one value for both.

And yes, when we design beams, we check the stresses in both tension and compression. For a symmetrical shape like an I-shaped beam, both verification will be the exact same formula so we don't need to calculate both explicitly.

For columns, we do check the compressive stress, and it is the controlling failure mode for short columns. Long, slender columns will buckle before the compressive stress exceeds the allowable limit.

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 help consumers transition to renewable.

No, because that solar farm would have never been built in the first place without the datacenter. You either get both or you get none of them. It's completely different than using an existing solar farm that was already there before anyone started planning for that datacenter

>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$. It may be too high for a starbuck coffee, but that's way lower than the fees charged by a credit card provider if you are purchasing something over 50$. On a 2%+0.10$ structure, you only need to transfer around 15$ before your credit card fee is higher than the current average BTC tx fee.

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, matrix, etc. on newer calculators like the nspire is far superior than the older calculators (eg. ti-84, ti-89, etc.). They look like how you write them on a blackboard instead of relying on purely parentheses or "," and ";" to separate parameters. It's like going from Excel to Mathcad

>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 (eg. an original Prusa) is like 90$ and cheap ones go for 25$.

You could buy the licensed printer and swap the board. Or maybe even just flash the firmware on the licensed printer

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 and was at the core of the foundation of this country.

There is no need to compromise the results of the election just to scale in a slightly more efficient way. If you need 10x more people because the volume is 10x higher, just hire 10x more people.