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[-] TomasEkeli@programming.dev 5 points 2 hours ago

why remove that? it doesn't affect the new bridge in any way, except maybe making access easier

[-] jcs@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

There is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution that works.

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Every game engine older than two console generations in existence.

The primordial code from the Quake engine in pretty much ever 3d game giggles at the passage of time

[-] m33@theprancingpony.in 1 points 4 hours ago

@cm0002 Of course, of course...

#XKCD2347 #XKCD

[-] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 79 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I've been to this bridge. It's the Devil's Bridge in Wales.

Here's another angle, ripped from Wikipedia:

The river underneath is insanely deep. Pictures do not do it justice just how much further it goes out of the bottom of this frame. You do not get out of there. That is death.

The bottom-most bridge was built around the 12th century. How the hell they managed to build stuff like this way back then staggers me.

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 5 points 3 hours ago

The bottom-most bridge was built around the 12th century. How the hell they managed to build stuff like this way back then staggers me.

I find it hard to relate with this sentence. That's just 3 bridges on the top of what seems like a natural rock formation, right? With 2 being arches and the top one being a modern-ish structure.

No matter how deep it is, it's narrow enough to just move a prebuild wooden foot bridge used for people to go around constructing the thing.

90m, that is deep.

[-] magikmw@lemm.ee 6 points 6 hours ago

Duh, the Devil helpedz it's in the name.

[-] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 11 points 5 hours ago

You may joke, but that's actually part of the legend of the bridge!

The legend goes that a woman saw her cow grazing on the opposite side of the river.

To get it back, the devil offered to build a bridge in exchange for a living soul.

The woman threw a piece of bread across the new bridge and her dog went to eat it. The devil got the dog's soul 👍

Poor dog

[-] ruk_n_rul 23 points 13 hours ago

They really should continue the tradition by building a fourth bridge over the current one when the time comes.

[-] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

That's why they stopped at three. The fourth bridge always takes forever to paint.

[-] Odinkirk@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 9 hours ago

So, not only is this a Dark Souls bridge, it spans over an honest-to-god bottomless pit?

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 18 points 14 hours ago

They really needed to pass that river.

[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 16 points 14 hours ago

Clearly a cousin of The Strid. Except the Strid is usually full to the brim and you can't see the literal death walls that lie beneath the surface.

Tom Scott made a video about it during his many adventures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCSUmwP02T8

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 10 points 10 hours ago

looks like they took a bridge too far...😎

[-] jcg@halubilo.social 7 points 10 hours ago

Ah yes the ever elusive "tech debt"

[-] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 6 points 12 hours ago

Tbh I don't think my code could last several hundred years.

[-] protist@mander.xyz 16 points 15 hours ago

We should go back to building things with rocks

[-] fartsparkles@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago

My house is made of limestone and is only a few years old…

[-] protist@mander.xyz 5 points 10 hours ago

Your entire house is made out of limestone? Or you have limestone veneer

[-] fartsparkles@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Limestone (thick bastard haha) but the inside is still stud walls, plaster board, etc. Quarry is nearby so it was practically a steal.

[-] kitmayfield@lemmy.world 21 points 16 hours ago

Bridge over troubled bridges

[-] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago

I wanna put some plywood walls up and live in it like a troll

[-] crusty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 13 hours ago

Just don't look down, it's awfully deep

[-] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Laughs in hang glider

[-] tiramichu@lemm.ee 12 points 16 hours ago
[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

…marry it!

[-] LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 5 points 15 hours ago

That bridge looks pretty stout.

[-] emuspawn@orbiting.observer 8 points 14 hours ago

Don't worry, if the bridge breaks there are two backup bridges conveniently located close by!

[-] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago

Surely the devil has something to say about all of this?

[-] CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago

Due to lack of participation, I’m pretty sure he’s in Georgia dealing with a musical competition at the moment.

[-] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

I see what you did there.

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