mauvehaus

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by mauvehaus 5mo ago
I own one, but it's an almost completely different tool. The fat lead doesn't stay sharp, and isn't really something you'd use for drafting or drawing figures for inking. They are great for marking lumber though.
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by mauvehaus 5mo ago
Once the box magazine is loaded, it's not like the individual cartridges are being handled heavily. Deer season involves a lot of loading and unloading a rifle (for those of use without removable magazines who are also bad at finding d
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by mauvehaus 5mo ago
Surely the rarity is partially due to the velociraptor skeleton cartel limiting the supply. And really, a velociraptor skeleton wasn't even a traditional engagement gift until they created the demand for it with that advertising campai
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by mauvehaus 5mo ago
Yeah, you're working a little finer than I am. Drawing furniture full or half scale, I'm not too bothered by a thicker line as the pencil dulls. Drawing a graph, I'd probably want a more consistently fine line too. I like the
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by mauvehaus 5mo ago
Technical drawings pens are held upright and have a circular tip that gives a specific line width based on the diameter of the tip. If you're inking your drawings, you probably don't need to worry all that much about the exact lin
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by mauvehaus 5mo ago
I build furniture and while I do my design work digitally for remote clients, I do my shop drawings by hand. One super helpful tip I got from an actual trained draftsman is to use harder pencil lead for your layout and construction lines. L
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by mauvehaus 5mo ago
That only scales to a point. When there gets to be enough work, making it everyone's job ensures that it becomes nobody's job. Usually because one person was doing anyway in an informal capacity, and now they're overloaded. S
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by mauvehaus 5mo ago
If there's a makerspace or hackerspace near you, they might have a CNC router. Apart from (I believe) the front panel being a two-sided job, this is pretty straightforward and could be done entirely on a Shopbot or equivalent. Worst ca
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by mauvehaus 5mo ago
They can, but they don't gain altitude so good. I had one fly across the road at top-of-windshield level. Since I figured it would just clear or just glance off, I did nothing to avoid it. Unfortunately, I had a roof rack on. Fortunate
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Air Power Against Mobile Targets and Missiles(secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com)
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A Vasectomy and a Side of Beef(npr.org)
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by mauvehaus 6mo ago
That's run of the mill project recursion applied to side projects. It wonder how much side project abandonment is due to it. Kudos to the author of TFA for not going and building a novel tech stack and actually learning the Latvian cas
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by mauvehaus 6mo ago
You can get them with gears to handle the hills. They also make an electric one too. I chatted up someone putting an electric one in their trunk and they love theirs. More gears, more dollars, and the electric adds considerably to the price
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by mauvehaus 6mo ago
12" wheels would be sheer hell on anything less than perfect pavement. Source: I own a Brompton with 16" wheels, and wouldn't ride it more than about a block without cycling gloves. It's absolutely punishing on the wrist
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by mauvehaus 6mo ago
If you don't know if you need a folding bike, you probably don't need a folding bike. It's kind of compromised as a bike, and if the (admittedly huge) utility of it folding isn't painfully necessary, it'd be hard
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by mauvehaus 6mo ago
My other option was leaving my all-weather beater bike down at the station near work. I ended up not doing that just because I didn't want to have to haul it back and forth a couple times a year for maintenance. But yeah, valid solutio
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by mauvehaus 6mo ago
I had a Brompton in Boston. It makes absolutely everyone happy. It's been a conversation starter with everyone from 15 year old kids dressed to give a don't start anything vibe to 75 year old retirees. As TFA notes, they're a
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by mauvehaus 6mo ago
It's reassuring in a vague, indescribable way to know that while the Irish are exporting Irish pubs to the USA, we're exporting diners to Ireland. Like, maybe they're passing each other somewhere over the Atlantic, and giving
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by mauvehaus 6mo ago
In truth, I don't follow sports much, but I'm really not sure either. I do find the model European Football (soccer) using promotion and relegation to be much more interesting, both from the standpoint of culling out perennially h
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by mauvehaus 6mo ago
I appreciate this, but the stakes have to be a lot lower bringing a book to market than making a $1,000,000 to $10,000,000 seed investment. I'd sort of expect that when you're dealing with sums of money that size there would be so
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by mauvehaus 6mo ago
Can anyone explain why on earth VC's are making actual investment decisions based on imaginary internet points ? This would be like an NFL team drafting a quarterback based on how many instagram followers they have rather than a relev
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by mauvehaus 6mo ago
Howdy from a former Somervillen (inferred from the photos)! If you have any interest in doing custom B2C instead of B2B, there's Somerville Open Studios. I did that one year (2019) before we moved to Vermont just before things went to
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The Conflict in Iran Is Changing How Engine Oil Is Made(theautopian.com)
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by mauvehaus 6mo ago
Fun fact: Angostura bitters has gentian root extract in it, which is also in the northeastern US's favorite regional soda specialty: Moxie! If you like that, you'll probably also like Moxie. It's also a great way to taste bit
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by mauvehaus 6mo ago
Earlier today? My partner and I felled a couple of trees and bucked them into firewood to clear a spot on drier ground for our chicken coop, which had sunk halfway to China because we unknowingly landed it in a soup bowl three years ago whe
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by mauvehaus 6mo ago
Anyone doubting this need only spend 15 minutes watching people using the self-checkout lines at the grocery store to see how good a good checkout person is...
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by mauvehaus 6mo ago
It feels like this is opening the door to blurring the line between outright advertising and organic recommendations for products. Like if I ask ChatGPT whether to use fiberglass or rock wool insulation, today I get an ad at the end of my a
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by mauvehaus 7mo ago
You’re welcome! If you have an interest in furniture, the Currier has a great collection of NH made furniture as well and it’s consistently on display in the museum. I really do love that museum!
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by mauvehaus 7mo ago
> Kentuck (no y) Knob Damn you, autocorrect :-( Thanks. The sunset charcuterie sounds lovely. Thank you for the tip! I’ll look into it the next time I’m that far west.
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by mauvehaus 7mo ago
For the northeastern US folks and anyone willing to travel: the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, NH has not one but two Frank Lloyd Wright houses in its collection[0]. I’ve seen the Zimmerman House a couple of times, and it hews prett

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