Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Back To CS Basics. Fuck AI Date: 16 Oct 2026 19:24:52 GMT Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <18dee4b6cab427fa$865$2574533$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <87ik32455m.fsf@solcaium.us> <11asn32$33n8m$7@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net HWntWGOsc+eqhAA9n0ENEQZq4ebABjQW2MLEYLS0txJSWyz64D Cancel-Lock: sha1:LKRQIikHoN29loSIHsAyAq5xKjM= sha256:jep3K30kG8MFvZ7xIjaSTWtSXYhhB45ykiXd4mIZ/pQ= User-Agent: Pan/0.165 (Kostiantynivka) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:93912 On Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:26:10 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > The lads were preparing to lift the engine out of IIRC a fork lift truck > using a chain hoist strapped to a wooden beam or rather insubstantial > proportions. I stopped them : > "We ought to calculate if that beam can take it" > "Don't worry, it can" > "How do you know" > "Because we used it to pull a bigger motor out last week when you > weren't looking" The first company I worked for chose to assemble the larger machines on the 3rd floor and fabricate small parts on the 1st floor for unknown reasons. They finally built a machine that wouldn't fit into the elevator. Like many old mills, there was a door that opened to the outside. One weekend the managers rigged a boom and tried to lower the machine with a hoist. The boom failed. Come Monday the grunts got to repair the damage. Moral: don't let the director of engineering, an EE, do CE calculations.