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e.g. Building a hut, with cross-bracing so the square-lashed frame doesn't collapse in a light breeze. Or hanging the ridgeline of a shed roof from a post so i
by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
e.g. Building a hut, with cross-bracing so the square-lashed frame doesn't collapse in a light breeze.
Or hanging the ridgeline of a shed roof from a post so it doesn't push the walls out of line.
Or building a truss for a bridge over a creek, instead of a huge arch of stone.
Lots of places statics comes in handy. And we take it for granted, that we know this stuff!
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoOh, that static analysis. I, um, was thinking of something else with the same name. Yes, knowing how to build things that don't fall down is pretty fundamental.
- YZF 4y agoYou gotta have `lint` in a post-apocalyptic world though.
- imoverclocked 4y agoYeah, it's useful for starting fires.
- renewiltord 4y agoLittle known fact: Rome collapsed because they did not use a language that was amenable to type-checking.
- ntoskrnl 4y agoThankfully Rome 2.0 didn't make the same mistake. https://rome.tools/ https://rome.tools/
- toomuchtodo 4y agohttps://youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA https://youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA