• zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    3 years ago

    If there's one thing they teach you in Engineer School, its that you want to design your large-scale durable constructions to the narrowest tolerances possible and just assume nothing will ever meaningfully change over the next three lifetimes.

    • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Design your infrastructure around the concept of it lasting 20 years and not a femtosecond more, and also only rebuild or maintain your infrastructure every 60 years.

      • Circra [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        10 years. Seriously, there used to be some law where geologists had to ensure that the ground houses were built on would be OK for a few decades. That guaruntee was reduced to merely a decade back in the 90's.