shirleyquirk

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by shirleyquirk 4mo ago
Sorry, why wouldn’t I write in the native language?
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by shirleyquirk 1y ago
It doesn’t make any sense that you’d need tongs to make tongs; just hold the workpiece. Maybe you cant draw out the reins quite so much on your first one. (Ok im a modern blacksmith that assumes the existence of rolled bar as a source mate
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by shirleyquirk 2y ago
I’m so glad to hear you say that, i was carrying it around while slogging through it and everyone else who saw exclaimed how good they’d heard it was. I do think the sequel is better, I can suspend my disbelief more and found parts of it h
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by shirleyquirk 2y ago
Did your sense of taste change after your surgery? My sister is considering a similar procedure and is concerned that everything could start tasting like hot garbage.
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by shirleyquirk 3y ago
The Nim compiler used ropes internally for years, until recently[0] because removing them reduced memory consumption and decreased compile times, so ymmv [0] https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/20433
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by shirleyquirk 3y ago
The ecosystem is smaller than some, but wrapping libraries is mostly automatable, and there is tooling to assist interop with python, c, and c++
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by shirleyquirk 3y ago
yes, Nim has move semantics, but takes care of you more than c++ does. for example, if you use an object that was previously moved, you dont get garbage, the compiler turns the first move into a copy (and tells you) the relevant docs are he
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by shirleyquirk 3y ago
they should be able to. same physics applies, right? poles dont have to be as thick or as deep to resist the same torque, and if you could somehow make the pales curvy/corrugated, they could be thinner, too.
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by shirleyquirk 3y ago
It may not come as a complete surprise that the economics of metals are more complex. Aluminium, was so expensive until the Hall/(that other guy) process was developed, that it was used for jewellery [1]. Even today it's expensive
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by shirleyquirk 3y ago
I came here to share that the importance of using contemporaneous materials, if not methods, was highlighted for me when I worked on Bath cathedral and saw how the victorian 'improvements' of using iron rather than wood to fix the
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by shirleyquirk 3y ago
Not any kind of chemist, but I'm seeing molybdenum disulfide plus (metal) coated on alumina support used as a catalyst, as well as magnetic Al/Fe composite nanoparticles used for same. Usually the metal is something more punk roc
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by shirleyquirk 3y ago
Metallic aluminium is insanely reactive and any Aluminium exposure will always be in the form of oxides or hydroxides. It's disingenuous to suggest that it is inert in this form, especially given that the point of the exercise is act
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by shirleyquirk 3y ago
> If you have children or a significant other, think how much time you spend with them. Do you get burnt out from it? New daughter. Love her immensely. So happy. Burnt out? YES.
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by shirleyquirk 3y ago
Olive oil absolutely degrades in light. Even in dark bottles. Really high quality olive oil is sold in opaque ceramic containers.
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by shirleyquirk 3y ago
You can get third party rp2040 modules or just the raw chip, easily. Not with the (proprietary licensed?) Wifi stuff, and definitely not official.
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by shirleyquirk 3y ago
Reading the manual it looks like it automatically pulls the electrode back away from the workpiece after the arc is struck.
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by shirleyquirk 3y ago
Correct. In a stick welder I care about: working all day, in the rain, up a ladder, at 130A. For ease/quality of the weld, I pay for quality welding rods, not more settings.
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by shirleyquirk 3y ago
No it's not, there's no spool. It's tungsten electrode, inert gas. Feed wire and electrode diameters are, like, 0.3mm
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by shirleyquirk 3y ago
Not fundamentally different, technically, just optimized for that low end. I think this model maxes out at 13A. And you're looking at your weld *through a microscope*.
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by shirleyquirk 3y ago
That process is called /decarburization/
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by shirleyquirk 4y ago
I grew up in a family of classical musicians, got a degree in music, and was briefly a professional classical musician myself. So my advice may be very out of touch with the experience of someone learning for the first time, but my experie
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by shirleyquirk 4y ago
'cwm fjord-bank glyphs vext quiz'
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by shirleyquirk 4y ago
thats brilliant, we should do that in english, and make the alphabet song go "c w m f j o, r d b a n-k-g-l-y. p h s, v e x, t q u, i and z"
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by shirleyquirk 4y ago
While it saddens me to hear what you're saying, I literally left my career as a blacksmith for embedded because even the interesting bespoke projects are all going to CNC. I'd be interested in your project, sounds like it's
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by shirleyquirk 4y ago
Ok this changed my mind about this tech. Tig welding really takes thousands of hours to learn, you do get limited by how much material you can burn through
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by shirleyquirk 4y ago
Or "Esau was an hairy man" from beyond the fringe https://youtu.be/UOsYN---eGk
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by shirleyquirk 4y ago
... They sit down and wait for Beckett to show up.
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by shirleyquirk 4y ago
I agree, I prefer Nim's alternate syntax for this sort of stuff: var signal*: (cint,(cint)->void) -> (cint)->void
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by shirleyquirk 4y ago
>needs an offramp I couldn't agree with you more. I work with artists who build great teetering cathedrals on top of Arduino(and Processing), and it's really difficult to incrementally move to a more serious solution once thing
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by shirleyquirk 4y ago
I've seen an 8kph limit on inland waterways. But it was very unusual to see

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