mauvehaus

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by mauvehaus 12d ago
If you can quote spindle runout, you know perfectly well that there's no meaningful IP in this market segment. That would have been achievable by any number of manufacturers a hundred years ago. It's a pure manufacturing cost play
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by mauvehaus 12d ago
Fair. I was envisioning the statement "our town has the castle" outside of any other qualifying context about the castle. Like a couple of schoolchildren bragging about their towns. "Our town has a racetrack." "Well
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by mauvehaus 12d ago
We could avoid this issue all together by simply building several giant fiberglass ducks.
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by mauvehaus 12d ago
"Our town has the castle" would mean that of (all the gin joints in) all the towns in all the world, only yours has a castle. Also not academically qualified, also a native speaker.
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by mauvehaus 12d ago
Fun fact an adder (snake) was once a nadder, and an apron was on a napron. This fun fact brought to you by The History of English Podcast. https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/ Happily sourced in Wikipedia so I don't ha
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Jaguar XJ220 Jail Broken(theautopian.com)
3 points by mauvehaus 13d ago|1 comments
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by mauvehaus 13d ago
Why the hell would you do that? Isn't the point of going to a restaurant of that caliber the whole experience and not just the eating? Like the server has been trained to discuss the dishes on offer and can give you information not
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by mauvehaus 13d ago
This has to have been the inspiration for Milo Minderbinder cornering the cotton market in Catch-22, right?
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by mauvehaus 13d ago
On the other hand, it's kind of reassuring that if we cock it up bad enough this time around, we won't be given the opportunity to make the same mistakes a second time?
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by mauvehaus 21d ago
In the early nineties in elementary school I lived in Belgium, and went to a summer camp where we programmed with Logo in a localized French version. I had played with Logo on Apple IIe's in the US, and thought it made sense that in a
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by mauvehaus 21d ago
Bike shops have yards of that stuff in the late winter/early spring. At least Trek shops do, dunno about others. Trek uses it to tie stuff onto the frame in the box to keep it all from rattling around.
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by mauvehaus 23d ago
Depending on just how uninclined to rewatch The Odyssey you are, you may enjoy the hell out of Emily Wilson's review. For a taste: "It lacks psychological, emotional, political and ethical depth. Its narrative structure is gimmick
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by mauvehaus 23d ago
This is awesome and I love it! Congratulations, and welcome to realizing that once you can make things, you can make exactly what you want, regardless of whether it's practical or economical (as you discovered). If you have a partner,
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by mauvehaus 25d ago
I love that La Fontaine is named in tribute to Marcel Duchamp[0], even if calling a splash-free urinal a fountain would seem a bit confusing on the surface. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp)
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by mauvehaus 28d ago
We can't all be wizards at everything, as evidenced by the electrical "surprises" I keep uncovering in this house I own that was built by a plumber.
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by mauvehaus 28d ago
The solution is left as an exercise for the reader. Giving away more would spoil the fun for the curious!
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by mauvehaus 28d ago
I love that seemingly random trades that we largely take for granted have these case studies that result in awards for things us muggles never think about. A garage I went to subscribed to a trade magazine for towing and recovery companies
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The sextant as backup navigation tool for astronauts(bbc.com)
4 points by mauvehaus 28d ago|0 comments
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by mauvehaus 1mo ago
A Prius isn't taking off from a stop under strictly ICE power. The electric motor in the transmission lowers the load on the ICE, certainly enough to let the engine oil pump generate operating pressure before it's really under loa
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Why robotic pizza makers are failing(bbc.com)
7 points by mauvehaus 1mo ago|0 comments
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by mauvehaus 1mo ago
Ground products are also what lets us make more efficient use of the animal. I took my first deer a couple years ago, and had it cut by a local guy. I got back 60 pounds of meat, of which about 30 was ground[0]. Supposing cows yield a bette
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Rocky Horror star Tim Curry dies at 80(bbc.com)
2 points by mauvehaus 1mo ago|1 comments
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by mauvehaus 1mo ago
Oh man, I just listened to an episode of Decoder Ring about why making classical realist sculptures in the US is a challenge. It gives some interesting context about the rejection of realism in the post-war West: https://podcasts
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by mauvehaus 1mo ago
Before the beginning of June is mud season, and the Green Mountain Club asks people to stay off the trails to protect them. Before mud season, it's winter, which is an altogether different adventure entirely. https://greenmo
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by mauvehaus 1mo ago
My partner's place of employment has a fiscal year ending June 30th and a use-it-or-lose-it vacation policy. We are hikers who live in the northeastern United States, which means we're inevitably planning a backpacking trip to use
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by mauvehaus 2mo ago
There's a crag in MA where the access is specifically conditioned on the crag not having a guidebook or the routes being recorded in an online database. I don't know of any violence occurring over any of this, but I know there hav
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Why one name will appear 4 times on Vermont's Republican primary ballot(vermontpublic.org)
3 points by mauvehaus 2mo ago|0 comments
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by mauvehaus 2mo ago
Not by much. A mile is 1000 paces, or 2000 steps [0]. 10000 steps is 5 miles, 10km is 6.2 miles. Walking on flat, paved surfaces, I do about 1850 steps per mile of distance[1]. I have a pretty long inseam, so I'm not surprised that I&#
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by mauvehaus 2mo ago
That's in Connecticut and it's older than London, Ontario: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London,_Connecticut
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by mauvehaus 2mo ago
They what?! Can we please get a link to this to read more?! And yes, I have the same Google as you, but I'd love a link to your preferred telling of the tale of how the Soviets nuked a gas well fire just a couple years before I was bor

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