Iconoclast@feddit.uk to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 7 days agoWhat’s an obscure but concrete technical fact that keeps creating preventable issues in the real world?message-squaremessage-square112linkfedilinkarrow-up1126arrow-down11
arrow-up1125arrow-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 · 7 days agomessage-square112linkfedilink
minus-squareAlmacca@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·6 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-up5arrow-down1·edit-26 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-squareSlurpingPus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 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.
minus-squareQuadratureSurfer@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 days agoSame thing for castles/forts in Portugal.
minus-squareZwuzelmaus@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·6 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-up2arrow-down1·6 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
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.
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.
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