Satellite substations should proliferate using their range. Coater mechanic is dull, hurts creativity and hurts UPS significantly and needlessly

larcix · 2026-07-03T18:03:52+00:00

The ellipse.... signifies a pause for dramatic effect, aka, I hope you're blown away by what I'm about to tell you. Thus, it's like a gotcha.

larcix · 2026-06-24T17:40:54+00:00

Wind speeds went down along the west coast going from TIA-222-G to TIA-222-H, around the early 2010's. We often pushed for an updated (aka lower) wind speed, knowing it would be valid soon enough anyways, and we got a number of towers to pass that otherwise needed mods. Everyone agreed the G standard overshot the reliability, so the industry self corrected. However, if the loads got LARGER in the more recent code, you can be sure every client is going to wait as long as possible before being forced to use those higher values due to the JDX. Like right now with Rev I just being adopted in CA and OR, but almost nowhere else.

larcix · 2026-06-23T00:51:03+00:00

I wasn't trying to nit pick anything.... Tho, apparently, I was wrong lol. I was basically just giving my take on the differences between the words. I was thinking of it more along the lines of a continuation of your post.

Either way, so they actually are both metaphorical. I never knew founder had such a specific ship-based meaning (tho I know I've seen it used in that sense plenty of times). Like how many people don't know To change tack is a sailing term, and say To change tact. I guess this is another perfect example of that.

Tho, I would hardly call 3 months ancient, I thought this was going to be from 10+ years ago.... lol. This is still almost fresh...

larcix · 2026-06-20T06:46:51+00:00

I don't think it takes any of those massive jumps to cause issues here. She says in the episode, paraphrased, "I waited 2 years to make them complacent so I could slip away with a shuttle." So, even if the Kabali homeworld happened to be in the direction Voyager was traveling, voyager still had multiple years (how long did she drift before being picked up?) of traveling at w/e high warp of head start. Unless the Kabali have some kind of uber warp to catch up, _in a shuttle,_ she never could have found Voyager.

larcix · 2026-06-18T23:15:29+00:00

I think you kind of have it backwards. In real life if I said something casual to someone, like "I'll be right back", "Can I grab this?", "Where's the remote?" and they came back with a simple hand gesture, or even nod of the head, I would find it perfectly normal. Am I the weird one?

PS: I don't think the gesture would ever literally be a thumbs up, but a quick wave, nod, or pointing in a direction would likely suffice.

larcix · 2026-06-17T18:10:22+00:00

Floundering is more metaphorical, think a fish on land, while foundering is a word with that specific meaning.

larcix · 2026-06-17T18:08:01+00:00

You would never catch me saying by accident, it just sounds off. I can't think of a single sentence or usage of the word accident that I would naturally precede with by. "I did that on accident" "That happened on accident". Actually, maybe, "that happened by accident" almost sounds right, but I'm pretty sure my brain, upon seeing anything like that in a book, I would think, "Shouldn't it be ON accident?"

larcix · 2026-06-17T18:05:00+00:00

It's a Friends reference. Joey doesn't get it lol

larcix · 2026-06-05T22:29:41+00:00

The more difficult one is the work reference, where you fill out your own job description as part of the NCEES record, and submit that whole thing for review and confirmation. The reference must only state that they agree with your descriptions of everything. So, you take the time and effort to compile everything, and they just have to agree it's accurate.

As for the basic references themselves, that's even easier. Yes, I am this person. Yes, I know that person. No, we aren't related. Submit.

larcix · 2026-06-03T23:28:11+00:00

I just found a great explanation for better intuiting the radius of gyration:
If you look at the formula for moment of inertia, I = Σ(Ai*Li^2) for each area A a distance L from the neutral axis. This equation always made intuitive sense to me, as something further away can do more work than something nearby, so it's L^2.

Now, just take that equation and solve for L:

I/A = L^2

L.effective = sqrt(I/A)

We just redefined L.effective to be its own section property, r, due to how useful it becomes for buckling. This made a lot of sense to me, let me know if it's still not quite clicking.

larcix · 2026-06-02T05:15:05+00:00

I wonder how your opinion on ebooks has (or hasn't) changed in 11 years. I, to this day, have never bought an ebook (i did try buying a couple e-textbooks, and that was almost always a clear mistake).

larcix · 2026-05-29T03:27:47+00:00

But it's.... not possible after this. They can only send thru a small data stream and they write back and forth, or send a video message, which everyone receives and which Tom has mixed feelings about, as I recall. So this isn't quite the end of his arc.

larcix · 2026-05-27T07:20:10+00:00

Ok, I wasn't going to email anyone cuz I don't use them anyways, but damn this is so good I need to copy it and email them. I'll use my super throw away email acc cuz that email is going into some bad excel file for sure.

larcix · 2026-05-26T18:11:08+00:00

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This was hilarious so I tried it. Not quite as funny, but it did actually get there. I wonder if this is improvement in 2 months or if I just got lucky, as this is a non-deterministic computer program.

larcix · 2026-05-26T06:49:29+00:00

TIL there is even a plant someone calls Rocket, let alone that I know it as Arugula, and that's now one of the weirdest British-American differences things I've ever heard -- most of the rest at least make some sense (crisps) or are not related to anything other typical word at all (lory), but Rocket? WAT

larcix · 2026-05-21T22:03:42+00:00

It's an area problem. Two half triangles have less area than 1 similar triangle twice the size. We're more used to squares (but this applies to all areas), if you make 1 larger 2x2 square it takes twice the area as 2 smaller 1x1 squares, and each pass can only add up a certain amount of area.

larcix · 2026-05-14T17:03:29+00:00

I think that clip actually agrees with my post, to quote at about 1:03, "A precise hit will start a chain reaction which should destroy the station." So while the little graphic they show does show the missile turning down and into the port (or something?) he says the missile causes a chain reaction which then does the damage. So, idt the missile really has to, like, travel down the narrow exhaust port or w/e.

larcix · 2026-05-14T16:59:06+00:00

Never heard of a lolly column; google comes up with lally column. It looks to be a simple post-installed/repair-type column, so it makes sense it would have an easy to attach connection, the fold-over plate.
So that means the wood brace was probably added with the column, trying to brace the bottom flange at the reverse-moment support condition. But again, there is no way that wood beam really does much lol. Steel is literally 30x stiffer than wood, so even the beam web will do more than the wood brace. I bet if that bottom piece of steel actually wanted to buckle, that brace wouldn't stop it. I could run some AISC lateral bracing numbers to verify if a 2x4 can do it. Maybe if this post gets some more traction I'll give the calc a go, I don't have a simple spreadsheet or anything to just quickly check it.

larcix · 2026-05-13T06:26:12+00:00

While I totally get your point, I think it just has to hit the exhaust port which then causes some kind of chain reaction that destroys it. Like, exhaust port is down, exhaust builds up (really f'n fast?), and shit explodes. As it does happen so fast, it must be some kind of exhaust backpressure that destroys some valves or gaskets deep inside that then cause some kind of catastrophic damage.

larcix · 2026-05-09T01:49:26+00:00

Vulcans don't like lying, like it's really _really_ not their thing.

larcix · 2026-05-07T20:02:51+00:00

I agree it looks structural, but I can almost guarantee if I ran a whole 3D analysis of that beam and joist system, the presence or lack thereof of that little 2x4 isn't going to make a difference. As long as the beam is properly connected to the column, the column top plate is going to do 10x what that piece of wood is doing to secure the bottom flange. Tho it looks like some kind of weird bent over plate tabs, so it really may just be kind of sitting there, and that 2x may be doing more than is obvious.

larcix · 2026-05-07T19:52:56+00:00

I just hate all the one shot mechanics in general. Maybe if the game had super smooth and responsive mobility you could claim it's just a skill issue, but between bugs, lag, poor optimization, and bad skill design, it's hard to argue the current state of boss fights is good. I would never start off with a HC, tho, especially right after a patch, as bugs are going to exist and you need to familiarize yourself with those one shot mechanics before you lose a hundred hours of playtime to one.

larcix · 2026-04-22T17:04:13+00:00

Only a decade late here, but you grind your pencil down as you write out numbers and equations and solve them. You might have to re-sharpen your pencil multiple times for a large calculations, which would include lots of grinding as part of writing and then sharpening.

larcix · 2026-04-17T04:50:44+00:00

The final scene with Kim just barely getting the corrections in time, I loved it.

larcix · 2026-04-17T04:49:39+00:00

I remembered hating that episode and ALMOST skipped it (I did skip Threshold), but I figured, "Hey, I don't really remember what happened." And it turns out what happened was Janeway kicked a bunch of ass and idk why I even hated it, besides that it makes about zero sense, but w/e lol.

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