100% a better way of doing it. I was just trying to answer the question of notching versus drilling a hole.

Much better. Imagine you’re bending something. The maximum tension is going to be at the very bottom and the max compression is going to be at the very top (this is why steel I-beams are shaped the way the are - to put the most material in the areas doing the most work). If you can put the hole in the middle you’re not impacting the structural integrity of the joist too much. You’d still have to worry about shear forces so you’d not want the hole to be too close to either end. Look up “castellated beam” if you want to see some steel examples.

Thanks for doing the math. That’s really interesting. If we don’t count labor costs, electricity makes up about 40% of the cost of a loaf of bread. However, if you didn’t have a bread maker and just used your oven, it would take much longer to recoup your investment. I love how efficient that machine is.

What about electricity costs? Might need to bake a few more loaves.

t is a much more common letter than x, making the chance of confusion higher. x rarely gets used and kinda looks like a cross.

“The teen’s stepfather, Donald Mayer, 51…”

Horrible, but at least not that part.

This reminds me of my buddy messing with a girl called Justina. When she introduced herself he responded by calling her Tina and ask her if she was a pop star or something since she only went by one name.

So post a few pictures of minimum speed limit signs at entrances to municipalities. Everyone else is saying they’ve never seen that (outside of highways). Nobody is saying there isn’t a minimum, just that it’s not commonly posted.

If I have a lot of garlic I’ll do that or one of those silicone tube garlic peelers, but if it’s just a few cloves it’s usually not worth the effort for me.

Bonus points if you leave a tiny bit of the root attached to the skin so that when you pull the root off it starts the peeling process