Iconoclast@feddit.uk to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 18 days agoWhat’s an obscure but concrete technical fact that keeps creating preventable issues in the real world?message-squaremessage-square88linkfedilinkarrow-up1118arrow-down10
arrow-up1118arrow-down1message-squareWhat’s an obscure but concrete technical fact that keeps creating preventable issues in the real world?Iconoclast@feddit.uk to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 18 days agomessage-square88linkfedilink
minus-squareCorporal_Punishment@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·18 days agoVisit any old city in the UK (York and Edinburgh for example) and a lot of passages between streets have steps with uneven heights. When you’re expecting it, its fine, you take extra care. But when its a modern building and they’ve fucked it up you really notice
minus-squareAlmacca@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·18 days agoWhen I did a tour of Edinburgh Castle, the guide said they’d do that deliberately to trip up invaders.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-217 days agoOkay, sure, and watch out for Nessie. /s Did they point down at a cupboard and tell you it was a tiny dungeon for torturing people, as well? That’s a classic.
minus-squareQuadratureSurfer@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·17 days agoSame thing for castles/forts in Portugal.
minus-squareZwuzelmaus@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-217 days agoWhat if the invaders have the same in their castles at home…? 😉 (No, I don’t believe it at all. They just built something without thinking too much)
minus-squareAlmacca@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-217 days agoYou’ve got the same internet I do, friend. https://usefulbs.com/blog/why-do-old-castle-stairs-often-have-steps-of-deliberately-uneven-heights
minus-squarepet the cat, walk the dog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-216 days agoI guess this is why the old-as-balls apartment house I live in, in the middle of the old city, has stair steps go higher further up.
Visit any old city in the UK (York and Edinburgh for example) and a lot of passages between streets have steps with uneven heights.
When you’re expecting it, its fine, you take extra care. But when its a modern building and they’ve fucked it up you really notice
When I did a tour of Edinburgh Castle, the guide said they’d do that deliberately to trip up invaders.
Okay, sure, and watch out for Nessie. /s
Did they point down at a cupboard and tell you it was a tiny dungeon for torturing people, as well? That’s a classic.
Same thing for castles/forts in Portugal.
What if the invaders have the same in their castles at home…? 😉
(No, I don’t believe it at all. They just built something without thinking too much)
You’ve got the same internet I do, friend.
https://usefulbs.com/blog/why-do-old-castle-stairs-often-have-steps-of-deliberately-uneven-heights
I guess this is why the old-as-balls apartment house I live in, in the middle of the old city, has stair steps go higher further up.