analog8374

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by analog8374 5mo ago
language is just plagiarism
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by analog8374 5mo ago
an oak chair would take forever I wonder if this could be done with bamboo. Can you graft bamboo? Maybe join it by weaving or twisting
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by analog8374 5mo ago
What species of tree is good for this? relatively durable relatively fast growing and amenable to bending and grafting willow? anybody ID those trees?
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by analog8374 5mo ago
The trees are taking our jobs
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by analog8374 5mo ago
I am inspired
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by analog8374 5mo ago
The hex-manufacturers owned the newspapers. Therefore all modern, right-thinking people agreed that hexes are serious business.
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by analog8374 5mo ago
FTA : The tool companies that are still good. Klein, Makita, Knipex, Channellock, Hilti, Bosch.
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by analog8374 5mo ago
I'm looking at some modern ones. Bostitch or whatever.
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by analog8374 5mo ago
Tangentially, Arrow T50 stapler used to be a tank but now it's wet shit. Apparently they changed to a new factory. So when your reputation is big you can slack on the product. Or is that naive? Is it the natural progression for all pro
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by analog8374 5mo ago
Dry here (southern IL). 12 years ago spring would be cool, drizzly, cloudy. Now (past 3 years) it's warm, dry, sunny. Periodically we get this big wind that lasts for a couple days.
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by analog8374 5mo ago
"Desk and bank account" makes for a very small world. Have we shrunk? Are we dwarfs now?
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by analog8374 5mo ago
Make all the surveillance cameras and satellites public access. A culture of analysis and commenting will develop. We'd check the cultural effluent against the original stuff to keep it honest.
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by analog8374 5mo ago
Facebook can do a pretty good necro-avatar. That's better than flesh. Cheaper than a retirement home too. https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-granted-patent-for-ai-l...
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by analog8374 5mo ago
https://shop.mntre.com/products/mnt-reform
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by analog8374 5mo ago
does anybody do built-in trackballs anymore? I really like those.
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by analog8374 5mo ago
Hard-working children. Uncultivated. No taste. Masters within their professional shoebox but otherwise brutally shallow. And the higher the skill level the worse it is. I see it every day.
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by analog8374 5mo ago
In this we are referring to the method of holding, not the thing held.
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by analog8374 5mo ago
Yeah I was sorta thinking in that direction too. First take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye
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by analog8374 5mo ago
I think it's a pretty good equivalence, actually. And pretty good advice. Passionate certainty should raise a red flag.
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by analog8374 5mo ago
He's suggesting that there are several flavors of blindness going around so if we're going to point fingers then we might start with ourselves.
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by analog8374 5mo ago
Godwin has entered the chat with great swiftness.
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by analog8374 5mo ago
This means that LLM human resource departments will only hire LLMs. Which is kind of beautiful.
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by analog8374 5mo ago
If it's a choice between stealing a bike and homelessness, I'll steal a bike. So the problem is the threat of homelessness. Right?
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by analog8374 6mo ago
Let's not be tribal. Even the incels have something valuable to contribute to the conversation.
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by analog8374 6mo ago
Hey I use this. Works great. Ez.
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by analog8374 6mo ago
we used to not have a word for orange. we called it yellow red. then this new fruit arrived from India
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by analog8374 6mo ago
Some of us "stare" at our breath instead. That is, you put your attention upon the feeling of breath in the tip of your nose (or something like that). It's nice because your eyes don't need to be open for it, so they don
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by analog8374 6mo ago
Shikantaza here. It's a big deal. Consider: We all know about "paying attention". Pay attention in class. Pay attention to the movie you're watching. Pay attention to where you're walking. Etc. It's important a
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by analog8374 6mo ago
The Naked Ape so fine!
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by analog8374 6mo ago
yeah I dig it a fair bit. It's good for making jigs for carpenting geometric stuff. Those funny angles.

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