A Reddit Refugee. Zero ragrets.

Engineer, permanent pirate, lover of all things mechanical and on wheels

moved here from lemmy.one because there are no active admins on that instance.

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Cake day: December 22nd, 2023

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  • There’s an old adage that I’ve heard multiple civil engineers tell me.

    There are only two kinds of concrete. Concrete that has cracked, and concrete that is about to crack.
    Your slabs having zero cracks until now is more impressive than it getting cracked NGL.

    As long as the slab does not begin to separate (different pieces sink and leave ledges) its probably not worth pursuing. I’d throw sealant over the top to keep it from flaking and call it.











  • Depends on the type of bottle jack. It’s a broad term that can mean both the hydraulic kind and the mechanical screw driven kind, which used to be more common in older american cars (lots of fords had them).
    Both do have the issue of getting under low cars, but they are safer and more stable than scissor jacks. Scissor jacks fold and crumple extremely easily if the load shifts perpendicular to the arm direction. Bottle jacks will tilt but not collapse until they fall over center.

    I agree a hydraulic jack should not be kept as the emergency spare. When they sit the seals dry out and if they tip over they can empty all their hydraulic oil out into your trunk. Plus they are not safe to be under a vehicle with as hydraulics can fail and drop the vehicle without warning.









  • One, it completes one of their long standing policy of “one China”. They still view Taiwan as a rogue rebellion state to bring back into the fold, not an independent country to conquer.

    Two, it would cripple a lot of the west’s high end silicon industry. TSMC is the only one that can make the worlds most advanced nodes, as well as Taiwan holds chip packaging infrastructure that any other nodes require on to be useful.

    To that end it is a geopolitical chip that China can use to pressure the west, but likely will never act upon until a real hot war breaks out.




  • their mobile app isn’t even their own base code. they bought out Alien Blue, which was one of the earliest and arguably best mobile apps for Reddit, and relaunched it as their own. all they had to do was not fuck that one up and they would have straight up driven the other popup 3rd party apps out of business by just being good and official. but of course, reddit must always rise to their incompetence.