[-] [email protected] 45 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Not a bridge expert, or really any kind of expert, really. But railroad rails are laid with a little gap to account for thermal expansion of the rail on hot days. If the expansion is more than designed for, you get buckling like this. This bridge was probably also designed to account for thermal expansion to a certain degree. It seems like more and more of our infrastructure is starting to fail, encountering heat levels it was never expected to encounter. I wonder if failures like this and worse are going to become a common headline

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Now that we don’t have to pay for any of the infrastructure, it turns out that mainframes and timesharing is awesome. Can we go back to that please? - Silicon Valley, 2024

[-] [email protected] 175 points 1 month ago

You and your 692 partners can fuck off

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Hell yeah I knew my performance anxiety would come in handy someday

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

record scratch Yup. That’s me. You’re probably wondering how I ended up in this situation. Let me explain….

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