yetanotherloser

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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
Gosh, that's one big autoclave. As you say, a sub tank would be even more of a monster bit of engineering. They do exist for more normal depths but I'm not sure if there are civilian / rentable sub test tanks for this kind of
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
Electronic ones, yes. I have a couple of AEG/Carrera ones with daisywheels.
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
The advantage of testing pressure vessels with water is that the failure mode is usually less bad than gas (because it doesn't expand through any breach like gas does). Unfortunately a sub is the opposite of a pressure tank (the pressu
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
I think this might be one of very few circumstances that can be said to be both at once, sadly.
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
Hang on a moment. Headphones can be the best in the world but uncomfortable on my wonky head or incompatible with my glasses and they're worthless to me personally, so I'll give him a pass on that. I have some not-audiophile-but-b
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
You can definitely resharpen bronze. The castings are not perfectly sharp, the edges are further worked (and can be hammered and work hardened). I don't think you can redo work hardening indefinitely but you can a bit and can scrape an
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
I love your acronym formation there. There's another thread running at the moment about BARF degrading the machine's performance. I don't have enough information to be confident, but it sounded plausible and likely.
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
There's a great, if rather old, word for these machines: "tools".
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
Option B. Always option B. More seriously, I get the impression Being A Cat is rather intense and takes up their entire concentration.
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
I. love. this. I will never look at my cat the same way again.
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
He already did the "it's a theme park" ending in MI2 and it was fine. Not tbh my favourite part, but fine in that context in that time. There was something about the new one which was appallingly "fuck you for still liki
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
Makes me a little sad to think of it gradually succumbing to bit rot, even though I know everything does and I don't mind that some of my own data is going the same way. If you want to preserve it I bet it wouldn't be too hard to
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
Been a long time since I was a kid playing with Deluxe Paint, but "fill except where I missed a tiny gap" would have been exactly what I wished the fill tool would do! I don't think I've used a fill tool in earnest since
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
Ah, I see. Nice work. Thanks for the extra detail.
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
"compared to a fixed ASIC" seems like a bit of a harsh comparison. The ideal fixed ASIC is as die-facilities-efficient a solution to a particular problem as you're going to get. The ideal FPGA is as generalised a solution to
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
You've got me intrigued,but also wanting more specifics. Did you share any details of this anywhere you can link to? (don't worry if not, I'm just nosy)
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
The original didn't have to share shipping lanes with huge modern cargo ships that often rely on their radar to go quite fast in bad visibility. Faced with adding anachronistic radar vs. dying from hazards that the original ship didn&#
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
sure, let's all maximise the time we have available to spend on a couch consuming mindless tv. The "but it takes tiiiiime" argument against making your own things (and achieving a kind of satisfaction, control and learning th
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
I've done quite a bit. (never tried a dovetailing machine tbh). It doesn't have to take a huge amount of time and a lot depends on exactly what you choose to do. Also you're moving the goalposts a bit there.
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
yup. I think it's past time we rounded up a bunch of classicists and just made them go sailing so they stop worrying about this.
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
I've never tried a jointer to be honest. One of the many uses of the plane is taking out the gaps where bought wood's planed edges don't quite line up. I was a little unreasonable suggesting people could get away with only on
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
That would be pretty slow working. It's more entertaining than television and not bad exercise. And if you start with that attitude there is no helping you.
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
Not really. Youtubers with sponsors sell this daft idea that you "need" a lot of power tools to do woodwork, but you can do most of it quite precisely with a couple of hand saws, a good chisel and a block plane. Though by the time
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
Also a good point. My family desktop isn't quite grandfather's axe but it would be wasteful to just dump it, and if I convert it to Linux some of the games my wife and kids want to play can't follow.
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
I like your style.
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
Or you need a niche application that's only available on Windows, or you don't want to rebuy it or a near equivalent for the Mac.
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
I think it's just a recent fad, but it's a fad I'm quite enjoying.
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by yetanotherloser 4y ago
Thank you. You put it better than I did.
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by yetanotherloser 4y ago
This is a wholly false analogy. If I store most things properly they decay only very slowly and most maintenance tasks are easy. The software equivalent of that is only making sure I don't lose something to bit rot. No software lasts l
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by yetanotherloser 4y ago
That looks a lot like a claim that software only deserves to exist if it is made by, or attracts the fanatical devotion of, people who have a deep love of maintaining software against a moving target. Ugh. The expectation that once you&#x27

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