Elon Musk's Boring Company has only built a few miles of tunnel underneath Vegas — but those tunnels have taken a toxic toll.

[Eupalinos of Megara appears out of a time portal from ancient Ionia] Wow, you guys must be really good at digging tunnels by now, right?

      • harsh3466@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        3 months ago

        He is. Did you see the crap he posted on Twitter about the Baltimore bridge? Fucking dumbass.

        Edit: found the screen cap:

        • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Yeah, let’s reuse steel that has been weakened by unknown amounts and rebuild the bridge with the exact same flaws that caused it to be vulnerable to this type of collision.

        • blakestacey@awful.systemsOPEnglish
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          3 months ago

          The repair should be put to commercial bid with a massive incentive for early and safe completion.

          Fast, safe, cheap: pick two.

          • bitchkat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            3 months ago

            But aren’t all of these public works projects already put out for bid and include penalties for not meeting deadlines?

        • gerikson@awful.systemsEnglish
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          3 months ago

          This is major RTS gamer brain. In those games, the scarce resources are the raw materials, because it’s more dramatic to send your harvesters into the unknown to be attacked by enemies, while the actual knowhow on how to build stuff is passively “researched”. So if you need to build a bridge, you magically have the planners and the engineeers and the building crew ready and waiting, but they need steel and stone to start, which you never have, because you just panic-built a bunker to defend your base.

          In the real world, getting enough steel to build a bridge is easy enough - I imagine the lead time to be a couple months. Actually finding a team able to plan and construct one is another matter.