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[–] paranoia@feddit.dk 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

No not really.

[–] paranoia@feddit.dk 38 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Sugar is too obvious for such sabotage as the concrete will just not harden. What you need to do is add more water into the mix to make it weaker, and then slop off the surface water to force it to cure too quickly. Salt in the mix is an accelerant and will induce cracking/spalling.

If I had control over the total mix I would try to substitute a contaminated aggregate (e.g., pyrites).

[–] paranoia@feddit.dk 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

I don't expect a CEO to do any coding. I also don't expect a CEO to be as much of an expert as the PhD level computer scientists, machine learning experts, professors of psychology, neurology, ethics, etc., that his company is employing. It is not possible or even relevant for him to have those skills to the level of the top academics that work for him.

[–] paranoia@feddit.dk 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

No, we would not. The beams have a loading that they must adequately support. They have a span that is dictated by the column spacing. There are moment, shear and deflection requirements that must be met.

You cannot just throw in supports (i.e., columns, bracing) everywhere to reduce the span until it works, otherwise you impact the usability of the building space and drive up the cost of construction.

Reducing the beam to beam spacing means you are increasing the number of structural elements and therefore cost, and probably also using the material inefficiently. The expensive part of a beam is the connection, and you typically want to reduce the number of connections and crane lifts as much as possible.

[–] paranoia@feddit.dk 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

There is the possibility of misconfiguration, but ultimately, a member can be too weak even if the configuration is correct.

[–] paranoia@feddit.dk 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

If a member fails it is in fact because it is too weak. It would pass the utilisation check otherwise.

[–] paranoia@feddit.dk 53 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The companies in this article all sound like parodies to me

[–] paranoia@feddit.dk 9 points 1 month ago

313 million is an insane amount of money to throw in some bunk beds and barely feed some people

[–] paranoia@feddit.dk 7 points 1 month ago

Yeah maybe, shitty test though. If I was an AI agent I'd probably push back in 2026.

[–] paranoia@feddit.dk 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

dunno what you're talking about

[–] paranoia@feddit.dk 1 points 1 month ago

I just run it in a VPS, don't care if it nukes itself. Back up the files it works on every 3 hours.

[–] paranoia@feddit.dk 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Setting up a VM takes 15 mins, setting up an agent will take 45 mins. I recommend you try it.

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