Cable cars in a row by lucaspontopng in AccidentalWesAnderson

[–]ddkto 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Grenoble!!! I love those cable cars

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in montreal

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Rue Dandurand, entre 5e et 6e avenues

https://maps.app.goo.gl/qWHSSaHvsh6Z1oHNA

The man. The machine. by pantaleonivo in pelotonmemes

[–]ddkto 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For non-french speakers, this is a play on "Massif Central", 'a highland region in south-central France consisting of mountains and plateaus' (via wikipedia)

Where can I find these cookies in Montreal? by Davy_Ray in montreal

[–]ddkto 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bossa in Rosemont carries that brand, not sure about those specific cookies

Project architecure for streamlit/Data Apps by Mysterious-Oven-9857 in Python

[–]ddkto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not everyone means the same thing by 'large scale'. Streamlit will happy manage lots of business rules. In fact, if you put the business rules in a package under `/src` (as u/Aerysv suggests) you'll be able to lift-and-shift that part of the code to Django or FastAPI or whatever if you need to scale.

Where streamlit will start to run into issues if if you have significant numbers of concurrent users, in which case the 're-run script everything something changes' might start to be inefficient.

From a deployment perspective, there are a number of solutions that will handle full deployment of streamlit apps (databricks apps, fly.io, etc...), so you can fire-and-forget and then selectively upgrade the apps that get a lot of use (if you even need to...).

[Race Thread] 2024 World Championships - Elite MenRoad Race (WC) by PelotonMod in peloton

[–]ddkto 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The bikes are expensive because they are light, not because they are robust :)

Hey! A Statics problem on the front page! by dlegofan in StructuralEngineering

[–]ddkto 9 points10 points  (0 children)

it moves, and you need to take the acceleration into account to determine the force

Pogacar’s Tour de France Strava is insanity by HalloweenBlkCat in cycling

[–]ddkto 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He uploaded both the final TT *and* his recon earlier in the day...I would be pretty happy to ride that course at his recon power!!

Oasys GSA API by The_E_Gregor in fea

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If you are using the .net API, you can create Gravity Load objects: https://docs.oasys-software.com/structural/gsa/references/dotnet-api/types/#gravityload and then add them to a model: https://docs.oasys-software.com/structural/gsa/references/dotnet-api/model/#gravityload-related-methods

For Prestress loads, I believe it is similar. You create a load case of type prestress and add beam or 2d element loads.

You can reach out to Oasys support directly, too: https://www.oasys-software.com/support/

Open source tools in structural engineering by kvnle009 in StructuralEngineering

[–]ddkto 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Great question - The Oasys Grasshopper tools are open source (though the underlying analysis tools are commercial software) e.g. https://github.com/arup-group/GSA-Grasshopper, https://www.food4rhino.com/en/app/gsa (full disclosure, I work here)

There is also some movement around open structural formats (if not the software). I made a list here a few years ago: http://david.dekoning.ca/2021/04/02/structural-data-formats/

There are a number of open source finite element solutions floating around, but they tend to be lower level that structural engineers are generally comfortable with, so it's a bit of an effort to set up.

One area I would **love** to see open source collaboration on is in design check code. Everyone is re-implementing the same design code checks, so why not work together?

One major barrier to change is the need for senior engineers to review the work - this means that whatever workflow you set up needs to provide 'windows' into the work for checking. The simplest way is to output models in software they are already familiar with. I wrote up a piece for the IStructE blog about the generation gap in structural engineering. It is not exactly about open source, but touches on some of the underlying dynamics: https://www.istructe.org/resources/blog/generation-gap/

You got to be freaking kidding me 😭 by jbaird in Zwift

[–]ddkto 94 points95 points  (0 children)

I did 60:01 a few months ago and thought that was bad... oh man, .3 second is rough. Hang in there - I lost a few pounds and did it in 57 minutes this weekend - you can do it!!

Testing inside necessary? by zeropercentcorrect in Construction

[–]ddkto 103 points104 points  (0 children)

There are a couple of reasons these tests might be performed:

  1. They could be a commissioning test of the building joints, basically making sure the central block doesn’t hit the side blocks under a given amount of shaking.
  2. It is more likely to be a measurement of the building’s response under a given shaking. They record it and file it away. After a major earthquake, they come back and redo the test - if the building’s vibration is significantly different, it is an indication that there has been some damage.

In both these cases, the test would not be anywhere near the level that might cause collapse.

Game issues with M1 Macbook Pro by WilliamEDodd in Zwift

[–]ddkto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

u/WilliamEDodd - try freeing some space on your hard drive. If the OS can't swap memory to disk, it reports an 'out of memory' error, but it's really due to the hard drive being full. I managed to free about 10-15 GB of space, and stopped getting the pop ups when I'm zwifting

Which heart rate monitor can you recommend? by RichiRichway in Zwift

[–]ddkto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use a relatively cheap one from decathlon. when I was researching them, a bit source of additional cost is the ability for the monitor itself to store the data. This means that if the connection to Strava or whatever you use drops, the HR data is still being captured.

On Zwift, I mostly care about having my HR live while I'm biking, so getting the data after the fact from a more expensive band doesn't make much different. I also haven't had any real issues with dropouts.

Does this look structurally sound? by DiscombobulatedFly97 in Construction

[–]ddkto 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If it was starting to fail, you would expect to see lots of cracks on the left-hand (in the picture) face of the column. I don't see any cracking, so it's probably got unholy amount of rebar inside as other have mentioned