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by abakker 5y ago
What’s your favorite wood? I used peach recently and it was nice, but I’d be open to try anything.
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by abakker 5y ago
I do this in a smoker sometimes. Smoke to 100*, rest, and then sear on grill or in pan. Don’t use much smoke. Can be a really killer way to do ribeyes and porterhouse.
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by abakker 5y ago
I think this is a frame of reference issue. The I buy beer at whole foods, someone checks my ID and won't sell it to me if I don't have one. If I vote via mail in ballot, I sign my name on a sheet of paper that arrives to an unsec
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by abakker 5y ago
They require proof to buy alcohol. They do not to vote. the consequences are not the only part of "requirements".
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by abakker 5y ago
I can't tell if you are suggesting that the standards for alcohol be higher than for voting or not? Because currently they are.
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evidence?
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I am not certain, but I think they can’t. I think those critical functions cannot have foreign owners or officers if they want to sell to the government.
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by abakker 5y ago
I'm curious about the Value prop for an FEL. I bought a bobcat T590 last year because it had a lot of capacity - both PTO power and absolute ability to lift. It isn't good for turf, but I can pick up a 4000lb pallet. FELs all seem
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by abakker 5y ago
Look how hard it was for Tesla to build cars. the Capex businesses are notoriously unattractive for VCs. I suspect that it will take some other innovation to make this worthwhile to fund. Right to repair is not innovation, its just a single
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by abakker 5y ago
There’s also a lot of people with skills and very useful jobs, but who don’t need 40hrs/week to add a ton of value. Playing dumb for all the BS that could end up assigned to you is a reverse-performance-management hack that keeps your
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by abakker 5y ago
it would also probably reduce the opportunity costs for other good candidates to be members of congress for shorter periods. Career politicians are a blight.
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by abakker 5y ago
Store them offline in the YouTube app that deletes them from your device if the original is taken down, yes.
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by abakker 5y ago
And, even as a YouTube red subscriber, I like YouTube DL because it lets me create local Copies of music from great concerts. Many artists release a lot more great live stuff than there are albums for.
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by abakker 5y ago
But we left without taking any lithium. At some point second and third order hypotheticals are just conspiracy theories. There is no evidence we invaded Afghanistan to get lithium, and at the time (2001), we were not worried about lithium s
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by abakker 5y ago
Guessing sounds like really good public health policy.
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by abakker 5y ago
I agree, but this is a tractor. You’d need to hack the fertilizing units or the chemical dispensers etc. unless I’m really mistaken this would just be a device for dragging other stuff around.
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by abakker 5y ago
Man, I was making a joke. Obviously maintainers of documentation aren’t jerks. I’m usually good at reading documentation. I’ve run Ubuntu on a laptop for a year or two in the past, but the headaches of audio and Wi-Fi drivers were beyond do
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by abakker 5y ago
More terrifying than a guy with a gun, though? Don’t get me wrong, the worst case scenario is bad. but anyone interested in creating that scenario probably has better tools at their disposal. If this tractor gets hacked, it will be to allo
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by abakker 5y ago
I’ve always found that windows is free as in beer, but Linux is just some jerk handing you bunch of grain and hops and a vague diagram of what to do next. It’s free, and it’ll make beer, but it might also make weird oatmeal instead.
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by abakker 5y ago
I don’t want to judge here, but, as someone who was well versed in fabrication before I used fusion, I found the model of sketch/constrain/extrude to match well with what I do when I physically make things. It is well suited to th
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by abakker 5y ago
I've got two beer glasses from WeWork that say "glass half full" on them. They make me laugh every single time I see them.
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by abakker 5y ago
Of course! this is a tip I got from HN years ago. it gets old to add Reddit, PracticalMachinist, Fine Woodworking, etc. I really want a proxy for user generated content where nobody got paid to write it. Fun story: I knew a person who worke
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by abakker 5y ago
I have a version of fixing this that I would personally enjoy a lot. Leave google alone, let it crawl the web, prioritize what it wants to via algorithms. But, give me a version of that which ONLY surfaces results from discussion forums (in
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by abakker 5y ago
Maybe the answer shouldn’t be “one big thing” but an exploration of a variety of endeavors?
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by abakker 5y ago
I would never degrade the effort spent on shop fixtures or tools. Often the highest Echelon of any craft is toolmakers. It is certainly true in machining. I know very little about software engineering as a trade, but it seems that half the
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by abakker 5y ago
I really recommend reading “Why we Make things and why it matters” by Peter Korn. Others in this thread have written a lot about the void that you fill by making real progress on discrete things. I think this book looks a bit more at the p
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by abakker 5y ago
As long as it’s not an M1. I tried recently to read some old CDroms that were formatted for OS9. Not a straightforward process to read those old file systems. And, if you have an M1, you then need to have a w OS that runs on the arm chip. O
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by abakker 5y ago
I wish they could cite some evidence that any number of people (who were not early crypto investors) even wanted this kind of thing to happen. Honestly, it is wankery.
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by abakker 5y ago
I have spoken to some of my relatives about this. They asked whether I thought it was a good idea, and I asked them how many times their passwords have been compromised from other sites on the internet. Most responded with >1. I then ask
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by abakker 5y ago
An interesting read to answer this question would be "Stress Test" by Timothy Geithner. I think the general consensus was that in the moment, all appearances of financial contagion were very real.

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