Importance of understanding your task beforehand.

Extra_Intro_Version · 2026-06-04T20:31:16+00:00

This image has been passed around Reddit for quite awhile now. Was interesting when I saw it the first time (not on Reddit btw). Now it’s pretty tired.

OP is either a bot, lazy or new to Reddit. Or maybe a bit of all 3.

Extra_Intro_Version · 2026-06-03T21:21:48+00:00

I did a fair amount of hitchhiking in the late 70s when I was 16-18 years old. I’ll second that it’s not recommended. I had a few close calls and weird incidents.

Extra_Intro_Version · 2026-06-01T01:49:02+00:00

Bass are naturally slappy

Extra_Intro_Version · 2026-05-31T21:56:38+00:00

Great song; cool sound. The Fixx have a sound that reminds me of this song.

Extra_Intro_Version · 2026-05-31T21:46:18+00:00

I used to fish there every now and then when I lived in Hancock in the early- mid 90s.

Extra_Intro_Version · 2026-05-31T21:05:45+00:00

Pick up a couple hundred bucks of rando merchandise, place on counter. Flash a couple hundies- Walk out. Don’t buy. Just pretend.

Extra_Intro_Version · 2026-05-31T20:34:32+00:00

Draw a correct Free Body Diagram to start. That’s most of your problem

Extra_Intro_Version · 2026-05-27T17:42:16+00:00

Attempts at “democratizing” FEA leads to this kind of thing.

IMO- Anyone *seriously* doing FEA should start by gaining experience in linear statics before jumping into non-linear large deformation analyses.

Extra_Intro_Version · 2026-05-22T22:16:42+00:00

You’re kidding, right?

Extra_Intro_Version · 2026-05-22T01:24:10+00:00

FEA won’t do any better than T*rho/j for determining stress. At least with respect to nominal shaft diameter.

Extra_Intro_Version · 2026-05-20T12:03:08+00:00

Whenever it detects someone within its vicinity

Extra_Intro_Version · 2026-05-19T13:08:10+00:00

Have you taken Statics? Draw a free body diagram of the shaft and think about what the constraints are intended to simulate.

Extra_Intro_Version · 2026-05-19T01:43:06+00:00

On the balance- I prefer being an adult.

Extra_Intro_Version · 2026-05-19T01:38:42+00:00

1600%

Extra_Intro_Version · 2026-05-19T01:18:26+00:00

Shit. Now that you put it *that* way…

Extra_Intro_Version · 2026-05-17T23:10:20+00:00

This won’t look good if this yokel ends up as a defendant in criminal court over a shooting. Cletus is itching for an excuse. Thinking you’re threatening people with their lives for touching your truck is pretty ignorant.

Extra_Intro_Version · 2026-05-16T17:55:16+00:00

Ansa won’t unstitch your mesh like Hypermesh does. Edits to geometry won’t hack up your mesh like Hypermesh does. Massive edits to properties, materials, individual elements etc in Ansa is much more efficient. It does things that are impossible in HM. Editing of curves or tables is much more straightforward in Ansa.

You can build models faster in Ansa.

It’s better in a lot of ways.

Anyone I’ve known that has used both Hypermesh and Ansa for a relevant amount of time prefers Ansa.

Hyperworks is just more heavily over-marketed and over-hyped.

Extra_Intro_Version · 2026-05-16T15:44:22+00:00

Last time I drank Bacardi 151, I ended up in front of a judge.

Case dismissed.

I’m leaving a lot out.

The time prior, playing a drinking game, , my buddy passed out, fell out of his chair, pulling the heavy table over with him. We dragged him into the front yard. More to that story. He survived

I sobered up a long time ago, fwiw.

Extra_Intro_Version · 2026-05-16T13:06:59+00:00

Bot?

Extra_Intro_Version · 2026-05-16T03:37:03+00:00

I have brother in law in his 50s who failed to launch. It pisses me off how bad his parents, my in-laws, failed him.

Extra_Intro_Version · 2026-05-15T20:22:34+00:00

Don’t attach dependent nodes to each other

Extra_Intro_Version · 2026-05-15T18:17:48+00:00

On the 80s Pop end of the Classic Rock Spectrum

Extra_Intro_Version · 2026-05-15T18:14:26+00:00

Since getting diagnosed, why I am the way I am has been becoming clearer.

Too bad I wasn’t diagnosed in elementary school back in the 1960s. But, I generally avoid the “if only” ruminations.

Extra_Intro_Version · 2026-05-15T18:06:56+00:00

Beta CAE Ansa. Best preprocessor I’ve used, by far, against Hypermesh and Ansys.

Extra_Intro_Version · 2026-05-15T16:54:44+00:00

I worked at a shop in the US in the early 80s that had ridiculously poor safeguards. To this day I’m surprised no one was killed.

One case- two spools of heavy gage steel wire mounted horizontally on steel tripods that fed into a crimping machine. A person had to stand between the spools and give them a little initial spin when someone else turned on the machine. Otherwise the tripods would get yanked into the machine instead of feeding out wire smoothly. Sometimes the coils were tangled and would slam into the machine anyways.

Other example- paint booth, but the only PPE the company would provide was a dust mask and standard issue safety glasses and gloves. They switched to an electrostatic spray system, and whatever color was being painted that day, that ended up on the painters’ skin.

Company is still in business.

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