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Plastic and elastic deformation are both terms used to refer to the behavior of a material under stress (such as compression, tension, or torsion).

For an ELI5 since I don’t feel like cracking open a material science textbook or really getting more nuanced than this for a basic explanation, elastic deformation is generally reversible without permanent changes to the structure of the material, while plastic deformation imparts a permanent change.

All materials have elastic and plastic deformation modes that be identified based on their characteristic stress-strain curve. Generally, the linear portion of the curve at lower stresses is the elastic region, and the plastic region begins where the curve becomes nonlinear.

For example, a wooden beam in a house will bend under normal load. As people move out of the room that beam is in, it will straighten back out- that is elastic deformation. Put too many people or some very heavy furniture in the room, though, and the beam will become permanently bent or even break altogether- that is a plastic deformation.

Some solid books on this topic are Shingley’s Mechanical Engineering Design and Roark’s Formulas for Stress and Strain

The colloquial use of elastic and plastic to describe certain groups of materials is based off the behaviors of these modes of deformation. E.g. elastics are stretchy and return to their original shape. If you really want to get into semantics, there are really only four types of materials: metals, polymers, ceramics, and composites.

You’re not missing much, it’s a pretty pathetic paragraph suggesting that we should lick billionaire boots because Amazon delivery is fast.

Here’s what I got with some element zapping in ublock:

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We ought to build statues of them, not chase them from state to state.

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Lmao no.

GIMP never called itself Photoshop. The problem here is this clone is using the trademarked name and lying about official association with Ho, not that it has similar functionality to Notepad++.

Also, Blender predates Maya by at least a couple years, so not sure what you’re going on about there.

Nice, the default file types isn’t a deal breaker for me. I’ll have to give it a shot! I’ve been testing debian on my laptop before changing my desktop over. Hadn’t found a good solution for a handful of my windows-only programs yet but this seems like it might do the trick.

Winboat looks really interesting. How does it compare to just using WinApps? It seems like it’s basically just doing the heavy lifting for setting programs up, yeah?

Where there a will to enshittify, there’s a way.

They could weave dependencies in such a manner as to prevent other critical stuff from running, or straight up build it into something that would prevent the system from running properly if you remove it.

Of course, they’re lose the vast majority of their userbase, but short term profit line must go up according to the idiots with MBAs.

Maybe they should stop platforming these geriatric fucks and make space for the next generation then.

How does half a pickup truck compare to a large boulder the size of a small boulder?

I did, but go off I guess. It’s fucking creepy to put a recording device at the dinner table, regardless of whether it’s a ‘dumb’ recording device or some bullshit slop device.

JFC. Add that to the list of brands I’m not ducking buying anymore.

THEY MAKE TOMATO SAUCE. WHY THE FUCK ARE THEY TRYING TO SELL LITERAL WIRETAPS

Dassault too. Solidworks runs like a dumpster fire and the backwards incompatibility is a daily frustration for me. Their ham-fisted attempt to pivot to online products is so divorced from the reality of how their products get used that it’s abundantly clear no engineers were consulted when defining the new product.

The situation would be laughable if any of the alternatives weren’t also garbage in their own unique ways. Solidworks is only dominant because it’s the least shitty, not because it’s good.

How so?

Finally, a vehicle for people with IBS and incontinence