Steel_Phoenix

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by Steel_Phoenix 10y ago
I've found that even a couple percent of something synthetic, like polyester, seems to make black shirts hold their color. Unfortunately, it also makes them hold odors for some reason.
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by Steel_Phoenix 10y ago
I'll take that one farther. I've been obsessed for 25 years with their 2 1/2 pencil. The hardness seems just right to me to make a nice line, and they rarely need sharpening. There's also something analog and low quality
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by Steel_Phoenix 10y ago
The last time I bought a microwave I had two feature requests: Two knobs, one for time, one for power. An inverter so it would run at that power instead of just turning on to full power for a while and then turning off and on again, which e
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by Steel_Phoenix 10y ago
Norpro 917 Nylon Turner spatula. I just use it for serving or frying things up in a pan. I don't know why everyone else makes long spatulas that are either floppy or hard metal. It feels silly, but I was so happy to find a replacement
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by Steel_Phoenix 10y ago
A proposal to salt the Arctic in order to lower the melting temperature wouldn't get much support, but it seems like it's also a valid description of the plan.
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by Steel_Phoenix 10y ago
Not entirely wrong. You're proof that people have the expectation that products are being well regulated. I think most people do assume this, even if they can't name a law or regulatory authority that would do so. In a way, we&#x2
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by Steel_Phoenix 10y ago
Assuming you were to put your foot on the scale a bit with the polling in order to demoralize the opposition, the only way you would be able to use that trick more than once would be to make sure to make sure that you quit doing it in the f
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by Steel_Phoenix 10y ago
Being able to tell who grabbed the data and when is nice, but what's to stop someone who is willing to grab the data and run/leak?
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by Steel_Phoenix 10y ago
Assuming they managed to make some kind of bug that was viable outside of the lab, we genetically engineer a spider to eat the fly. Obviously, this kind of thing has the potential to get out of hand as the technology improves and becomes mo
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by Steel_Phoenix 10y ago
Men between the ages of 18 and 34? Otherwise referred to by the Obama administration as enemy combatants[1] I'm not sure what it says about a conflict when the people most likely to be able to defend their homes leave, while their fami
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by Steel_Phoenix 10y ago
I actually worked on beta testing what was, around eight years ago, the most precise waterjet in production. It did indeed use very fine sand that seemed to get into everything. Keeping it from caking was the main challenge. Edge quality on
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by Steel_Phoenix 10y ago
CO2 lasers aren't great for many metals due to wavelength issues. Waterjets create essentially no heat affected zone. As an example, I've cut two inch thick black granite with a waterjet, and I'm not sure a CO2 laser would do
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by Steel_Phoenix 10y ago
Well, when I see someone using a bandsaw, they're usually running a piece of wood through it with their hands near the blade. Cuts seem relatively likely, severity seems moderate. With a waterjet like the one I use, you would generally
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by Steel_Phoenix 10y ago
Waterjet operator for about a decade here (OMAX). The nozzle slowly and unevenly wears until such a point as you decide it's hurt precision enough that you want to replace it. Everything else on the machine wears out in sudden and near
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by Steel_Phoenix 10y ago
The US, under Obama, has nearly doubled our oil production, largely through fracking, to the point where we are now producing more than we use, and also lifted the ban on exports. We're not in the business of trying to make oil cheaper
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by Steel_Phoenix 10y ago
This one: http://ants.aichallenge.org/ I greatly enjoyed it, and it taught me Python. I keep checking back in the hopes someone will get a new competition together.
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by Steel_Phoenix 10y ago
No face detection? It noticed there was a baby in my picture and commented on the expression: https://keegan.regaind.io/p/XCBCz-9_TrC31c4Opa1mdQ I'm sure there are many different definitions of face detection. Car