Thanks that exactly proves my point. As your diagram says. You’re allowed to drill a hole at a max of 1/4 the width of the joist. So even if that’s an 8 inch wide joist the biggest hole you can put in it is 2 inches wide.

That looks like 4" waste pipe. So to drill a hole through a joist for that the joist would need to be 16" inches wide.

So you can’t just drill holes in joists in the “middle that isn’t critical” As I said there are specific rules about where the size of holes you can put in joists because the size and location matters very much to the strength of the joist.

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No, no they wouldn’t. In the UK there are very strict rules about notching or putting holes in wooden joists. Precisely because it weakens them.

Full joist the load is spread through all the fibres of the timber. Drill a big hole in the middle and the load only goes through the top and the bottom fibres. So essentially it’s as strong as those two blocks of fibers. So why not make the joist just that thin the the first place then? The answer is because it’s nowhere near as strong.

There are various steel, composite and wooden joists with a special frame construction that can have hollow sections. A standard piece of timber with a big hole drilled in the middle of it is not one of them

Well also they are more likely to report the rarer, more dramatic ways of dying.

What would be the alternative? Just a daily article listing all the people who died from heart disease? Where’s the journalist and narrative in that?

I can’t believe that I’m going to be the first to say this but…

My wood is already ten times stronger than steel!

I’ll see myself out.

I hope whomever owns the rights to that photo makes it available to southpark.

The photos they’ve been using for trump are perfect and this would fit right in!

Oh yeah where do waffles come from then? Do they just magically fall from the sky?

It could certainly be simplified.

New to Linux > No > Do you value your mental health and sanity > No > Arch.

My guess would be that they were manually written by individuals then certain words did overlap and become more common. Which would be normal for the language of a system.

However now the speeches are being written by the essentially the same author. Which works by looking for patterns and repeating them. So those common words become even more common. Which the model then picks up and makes sure to include more. Repeat until no diversity exists.

That’s the actual future of AI…

Except that this says there are things that exist and have been measured on super scales which exceed the speed of light.

Unless I’m not understanding it correctly there is something faster than light it is just beyond the boundary of the universe so we could never achieve it as we can’t exceed the speed of light within the universe to get to it.

That’s funny. I’m sure I’ve seen an awful lot of stories recently about many nations looking for alternatives to buying from America.

Glad that this article has revealed to me that it’s America that is “quietly pausing” things…

Could be something to do with keeping Intel going on the CPU side as well. So that the processor market doesn’t all go to AMD

So the takeaway from this is invest in a company that promises better WiFi?

I’m confused. I know “Facebook AI who should I give my money to?”

Were you staying in just one floor of what used to be a multi floor properly? Could be part of an old internal staircase. Removed the top of it when the property was split but never bothered with that bit.

If I remember correctly there was a writers strike that disrupted series 2.

I also seem to remember that they got it back a bit in series 3 but then went rubbish again in 4

Yes that is the rule at West Jesmond Metro station.

There’s been a lot of trouble round there and it’s very tough to identify people without a face.

Instead of the patients coming in already bleeding you’ll have to make them bleed and then stop it.

Seems like extra work to me.

Long live gaming cartridges!

Oh wait it’s now “mini SSD” to give consoles fast removable storage…

The vegan one is just green just because vegan…

They only use one bag for all products and this key is on the back to help people identify each item.

Sometimes people do a Greggs run to get stuff for a few people and this shows the pastry finishes and shapes so that products can be identified if they are carrying a few bags and they get mixed up.

Now the article does suggest she’s not the most proactive of people. After the first 10 years of this she filed a complaint.

When that didn’t go anywhere after another 10 years she sues them.