squeedles

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by squeedles 2y ago
Well, that's an interesting question. Most fabric is of sufficient quality, so I select for style and look for bold color. Summer shirts are mostly light cotton, and there are a million places to get that. Quilters and garment se
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by squeedles 2y ago
Just start. Most shirt construction is based on a two-piece collar, a yoke, and button front. I started with a cheap pattern (McCalls 2447) that covered those aspects, and started modifying from there, but any dress or sport shirt pattern
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by squeedles 2y ago
About ten years ago, I started garment sewing because it was a superpower. I could create something that hit two previously exclusive conditions: It fit me properly (tall, long arms) and it was interesting (not the one bland pattern avail
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by squeedles 2y ago
Simple wins. Always. I've backed up on just about everything going back to QIC-150s, but today I just use a set of 4Tb drives that I rsync A/B copies to and rotate offsite. That gives me several generations as well as physical
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by squeedles 2y ago
Exactly the reason I still write most of my code in emacs. I’ll use visual studio when I need to do GUI work, but I feel like I’m at a casino with a thousand flashing lights all vying for my attention. I also find swapping back and forth b
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by squeedles 2y ago
Deep draw makes a lot of parts, including your soda cans. If they can roll it out in practice, this is a big deal. And yes, to the MP3 commenters, Fraunhofer has many centers doing lots of industrial research on manufacturing technology.
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by squeedles 2y ago
An excellent argument for physical artifacts. I take an archivist’s point of view and digitize my photos and music for convenience then store the original for long term stable preservation. But I keep everything locally, unlike my kids w
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by squeedles 2y ago
Also, when did the Standard Breakfast Equivalent for torus become a bagel instead of the established donut :-)
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by squeedles 2y ago
Rocket equation applies to more than just chemical fuel. The article quoted 1T for about a watt of input, which is ludicrously efficient. So the higher field means more thrust. Less input power means less power generation hardware mass a
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by squeedles 2y ago
The Joanns stores pulled double duty as their online warehouses. When you put in an online order, you got the stock from whichever one of their 800 stores had it. It was an efficient way to have two bites of the same apple.
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by squeedles 2y ago
Better tell Michaels and Hobby Lobby then, because I don't think they got your memo. Joann's won the industry consolidation phase in the 80s-90s, but took on a lot of debt to buy out House of Fabrics, So-Fro and others. They had
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by squeedles 2y ago
Yup, add my version to the fifty others in the comments! Think mine is the first Perl version in the comments though :-) https://github.com/david-loffredo/makepw
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by squeedles 2y ago
Came for the typography geek-out, stayed for the machine tools and ANSI Y14 refs. Had no idea the rabbit hole went this deep. Work with CAD standards and on my to-do list is adding rendering for IFC text notes to a GL application and was w
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by squeedles 2y ago
I thought one of the biggest barriers to Al-ion use was large dimensional change with charge state introducing mechanical stresses. No discussion of that, but a viable solid state electrolyte is pretty sweet.
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by squeedles 2y ago
Recently read that on a recommendation from a friend. Great review of the sausage making necessary to get something as big and complex as the US moving in a different direction. Only quibble about the book is that the author seems to subsc
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by squeedles 2y ago
Still keep this on my box and crack it open now and again. I also pulled the music out of the distro and put it into my listening rotation while working. You have to add your own hawk screech sounds though :-) I’m a total sucker for net
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by squeedles 2y ago
Sorry, Earl Swift, not Eric
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by squeedles 2y ago
“Across The Airless Wilds” by Eric Swift. Tells the story of how the moon buggy came to be and how it was contracted and built in 18 months. Fascinating deep dive into what it actually took to make that work on the moon. https:/&#x
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by squeedles 2y ago
Absolutely also recommend! Took a while to get through it but Moses figured out how to hack government and civil engineering projects. He literally changed the New York State constitution, used bond contracts to build a defensive barrier ar
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by squeedles 2y ago
I loved Longitude, and Harrison was a determined guy, but the most interesting part for me was seeing the “rewrite from scratch” and “never ship” dynamics are old indeed! He had a MVP with his first iteration.
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by squeedles 2y ago
The level of discussion in this thread, both pro and con, demonstrates that I have made a grave omission by never reading any of this. However, the article has one point that I viscerally reacted to: “we have been, at this point, amply caut
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by squeedles 3y ago
Had to make an account just to reply that I had a similar experience with Thomas Cole. Saw a showing of “Course of Empire” and was astonished. Looking at a photo can’t prepare you for the impact of a wall-sized painting crammed with magnif