bluGill

That is most of them saddly

You could do that too. I’m not old enough to punch cards but that doesn’t need to stop you.

Why did you stop? I still manually crank most of my engines. (between lawn mowers and collectables I have a lot of engines without electric start) . I spend a lot of time filing points as we… Even when I have electric start, I find getting moving and popping the clutch works just fine.

Generally you are allowed to drive whatever you could at home. Since US licenses allow you to drive a manual you can drive a manual even if you never had. By contrast if you are from a country that makes the distinction you can’t drive a manual even if you have been practicing (how?) and just need to do the final test to drive a manual. (I’m not sure how someone without a manual endorsement would go about getting it in such countries, but whatever that process is)

Write your gcode by hand and you can do curves thus ensuring lines won’t meet. I last wrote gcode by hand in the 1990s, and I’m pretty sure industry stopped hand gcode around 2000 (before 3d printing), but the language isn’t difficult and so you can do it.

Use something other than FDM 3d printing - SLA (resin) printers have higher resolutions and will not have those issues. Or you could put a solid sheet of plastic on a mill and use subtractive machining to make your parts. There are a few other options.

All options have pros and cons, and your best answer might be just live with it (see other replies for ways to mitigate the issues). However don’t get locked into 3d printing just because it is the “in” thing.

The older I get the less sense this makes. I cannot dodge a car, and the roads I’m on have a narrow shoulder such that I cannot move off. As such seeing the car doesn’t’ help me at all. Worse if there is an on comming car someone has to stop because there is not room, at least if I’m going the same way as cars they can slow down to a walking speed (granted they probably won’t, but…)

a band saw the blade is a contiguous loop, in a scroll saw the blade is just 5 inches long (6?). You can thus put the blade through a hole in the work and cut inside parts (if you can weld blades you could do this with a bandsaw). Bandsaws have a blade guard which makes it a bit harder to see where you are cutting. For find work like the above a scroll saw is better than a small blade in the bandsaw. However the bandsaw can do much heavier work (resaw) and so if often a good enough compromise for people who don’t do much fine work.

Every music store sells humidifiers because it is well known that if you don’t keep your acoustic wood instruments (not just guitars, violins, harps, pianos…) at a very consistent humidity year round they will crack. If you go looking for antique musical instruments you will see a lot of them with cracks. The ones that are not cracked are the ones where the owners have cared about humidity and temperature.

Stable of falling for more than a year. us demand hasn’tbeen mattively reduced that long-

https://curlie.org/ was trying to be that, but they seem to be down right now.

The best gifts are the ones where I get something great that I didn’t even know I wanted. Or something you make yourself because that knowledge you made it is part of the gift.

For a kid a great gift is something they know they want but cannot afford. For adults though if we want it either we buy it, or it is outside your budget as well. (if you are filthy rich and your target is poor you can perhaps afford something they could never afford, but this is rare - but even then be careful not to show off your wealth)

Sunk costs are sunk and don’t count. It doesn’t pay to build a coal power plant but is already there so you only pay for fuel to run it. This the ammortized costs and current costs are different and so it pays to run the old plants.

the top Managers (both of them) earn $100k\year I’m sure. But not the commot person.

if I’d had stayed at mcdonalds I’d still be making more per year than I do now as a staff engineer - but I’d also have a few dozen stores under me and no control large parts of my life.

Good point, put a hat on the ground in front of you can you can make a buck or two… (this isn’t legal in every city, but it should be)

I have noticed that too, which is really odd because they well know I’m the center of the universe not them. \s

They probably have a good cease and desist on Broadcomm for automatically installing updates on their system against the contract.

That is another way to cheap, if the cost of getting caught is less than the gains from winning you just get caught.

If you are releasing regularly - MWF, or every Sunday a monthly subscription works well. However if you are the type that makes good content but can’t release often you want pay per episode. If you sometimes release twice a month, and sometimes go months between a release it isn’t fair to ask your viewers to subscribe in months where they get nothing.

The key to winning is figuring out how to make winning things safety related and thus not subject to the price cap. New tires won’t blow out unlike the old worn out tire - safety so now you can spend a lot of money on the best racing tires. Good brakes are important so I replaced the warped rotars with competition ultralight racing brakes (if you want to check I can find worn out brakes at a junkyard and you won’t the actual brakes were fine). Those are easy/obvious examples, winning teams are really good at finding such things.