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by mauvehaus 11mo ago
As a reminder: MIT has a research reactor smack-dab in the middle of Cambridge. It's like a block or two off of Mass Ave near Central. They give tours, and if you're in the area, it's highly recommended. A great Boston-area d
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by mauvehaus 11mo ago
Just want to note that The Bitter Southerner ran two seasons of an absolutely outstanding podcast that sadly went defunct in 2020. Truly it's one of the best podcasts I've listened to, and I'm bummed that they quit making it.
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by mauvehaus 11mo ago
> Would you nationalize factories but leave them idle? Yes. Historically, these would be the national armories, Navy Yards, and Air Force plants. You know, Springfield Armory (of .30-06 Springfield fame, now a museum), Watertown Arsenal
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by mauvehaus 11mo ago
Do you perhaps mean gauche, as in socially awkward verging on unacceptable or is there a connection to art supplies I'm missing here? EDIT: or perhaps your phone "helpfully" autocorrected something wrong, as mine did.
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by mauvehaus 1y ago
On the other hand, I'm impressed that a company is owning up to the problem. Is it a dumb problem to have? Definitely. Are they the only ones to have it? Almost certainly not. People are going to use the tools at their disposal, and th
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by mauvehaus 1y ago
Better blades go a long way towards not splintering your workpiece. The Bosch ones are excellent if you get the "clean cuts in clean wood" ones. Note that there are two incompatible shank styles: T and U. Get the ones that work
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by mauvehaus 1y ago
Honestly, if you aren't planning on making a regular thing of it, MDF is probably a better choice. It's more stable than even multi-ply, and cheaper too. The ply wins on edge and corner durability though. On the third hand, MDF fr
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by mauvehaus 1y ago
All yachts can be optionally submerged. Once. Surfacing afterwards is the tricky bit.
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by mauvehaus 1y ago
Yes, but the relevant comparison for the residents isn't to a coal plant, it's to the undeveloped field that the solar arrays replaced. Depending upon their other priorities, they may be upset about the loss of hunting access as w
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by mauvehaus 1y ago
Can confirm: Cleveland, OH: Ohio City Bike Co-op https://ohio-city-bicycle-co-op.shoplightspeed.com/ Boston, MA: Bikes Not Bombs https://bikesnotbombs.org/ Somerville, MA: Somerville Bike Kitchen https:&#x
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by mauvehaus 1y ago
If it's that cold, you probably have a fair amount of roof insulation anyway that's preventing heat absorbed by your roof from being conducted to the conditioned space.
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by mauvehaus 1y ago
If I throw code up on GitHub, I try to be real clear that if it's good enough for me, it's done as far as I'm concerned[0]. I'm also licensed under WTFPL. I figure if that scares off any commercial interests, so much the
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by mauvehaus 1y ago
The book Men Of Steel is about the company that erected the steel for the towers. It's highly worth reading and it talks at length about some of the challenges in not only the erection of the buildings, but the problems caused by the s
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by mauvehaus 1y ago
Isn't the principal problem with the MBTA that it's been underfunded for decades and has a maintenance backlog of about a gazillion dollars? I realize it's getting better on the rolling stock front, but it sounds like the tra
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by mauvehaus 1y ago
If the battery is dead flat, you're pooched, but you can get way farther than you have any right to push starting a car with an only mostly dead battery because you don't have the (huge) load of the starter motor bringing the volt
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by mauvehaus 1y ago
I owned an '86 BRAT. There was a bushing in the shifter that wore out, and you just about had to open the passenger door to pull the shifter far enough to the right to get it into reverse. A shim from a beer can will fix it temporarily
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by mauvehaus 1y ago
Count me interested! I've spent more time on scaffolding and a roof ladder this summer than I hoped I'd ever do in my life, and i don't think you'd get me on any of Fred Dibnah's ladders at gunpoint. I still find it
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by mauvehaus 1y ago
You don't hire someone to do the easy 95% of the job. You hire someone because when you find something crazy in the hard 5%, they have the experience and skill to pull it off while making it look easy. I'm not downplaying how much
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by mauvehaus 1y ago
Kids, shit. I'm 42 and any time I run across a copy, I re-read it just for the sheer pleasure of seeing what all's happening on every page!
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by mauvehaus 1y ago
Have I got a treat for you: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BD5oBHGmes8
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by mauvehaus 1y ago
This tracks for us in Vermont. It's barely rained since early July, and of the trees in our yard, the birch is damn near bare, the oak is starting to drop, and the maple is just holding on to its leaves. In the wider area I drive in, t
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by mauvehaus 1y ago
Sorry for the slow reply; it's noticeable in practice. I'm pretty sensitive, and it's usually a good indication that it's time to sharpen knives when I start crying a lot. Sharpening generally improves my onion-cutting e
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by mauvehaus 1y ago
Not the person your asking, but can confirm: a dull knife releases much more of what makes you cry than a sharp one when cutting onions.
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by mauvehaus 1y ago
Probably? I mean, I knew I could get the jointer moved cheaper myself, because I have an idea what a competent rigger costs[0]. I just couldn't do it myself with that level of skill. Watch some YouTube videos of people doing rigging.
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by mauvehaus 1y ago
As a general rule, if you're given a price for something by a company that specializes in that thing, and you think you can do better, you're wrong. The creator alludes to this when he says not to ask how long it took him to build
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by mauvehaus 1y ago
I have a friend who has run it for charity multiple times. They're a six-ish-plus hour marathoner. My partner has run them in the last 10 miles a couple of times pre-bombing. Her take is that it's pretty miserable if you're t
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by mauvehaus 1y ago
The AMC White Mountain huts have been doing this for years. The croo don't tend to maintain the systems, so I've never gotten a sense for what their storage capacity, generating capacity, and loads look like, but from a visitor pe
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by mauvehaus 1y ago
It's the load-bearing "just". In your case, literally.
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by mauvehaus 1y ago
This presumes that the value of the property doesn't go down. I had more than one friend who bought before the 2008 financial crisis who was pretty stuck with their home. And who the hell has a second down payment for a home after a co
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by mauvehaus 1y ago
If you're renting, getting the landlord to deal with an acute issue is pretty clear cut. They usually get it done . It's the slow burn neglect shit that's almost impossible to get fixed. Anecdote of my own: The last place we

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