Ok but my neighborhood children have started using electric leaf blowers as jet propulsion on skateboards. I have insisted they use hearing protection, but the rest of us are shit out of luck…
Readit Newsmsds commented on Let Kids Be Loud afterbabel.com/p/let-kids... · Posted by u/trevin
msds commented on Parametric Modeling with Grasshopper baharmon.github.io/basics... · Posted by u/downboots
It’s fun seeing an uptick of rhino/grasshopper content here lately - two articles in a week?! The McNeel extended universe is a fun place to play around in, and I’ve met lots of great people since I started working on Rhino.
msds commented on Stainless steel strengthened: Twisting creates submicron 'anti-crash wall' techxplore.com/news/2025-... · Posted by u/wglb
I sometimes watch machinists and blacksmiths on youtube.
One of the things I've become more aware of lately is the fact that hardened steel eats through cutting tools like candy, so the solution is to anneal the steel, do most of the shaping, harden it again (temper it for as much as 24 hours in a very smart oven that slowly slowly drops the temps), and then finish the piece with sanding and grinding tools instead of cutting tools.
I wonder if this treatment survives annealing and hardening cycles or if that just destroys the structure.
You've got the heat cycles for annealing, hardening, and tempering confused. The slow cooling is for annealing, hardening requires a fast cool from rather hot and is a very different process from tempering, which is a short soak at a comparatively low but tightly controlled temperature.
msds commented on A AI etymology deconstructor – can guess fake words deconstructor.ayush.digit... · Posted by u/hyusap
It doesn't really detect stringing together latinate nonsense, so all of my coinages got perfectly coherent definitions. On the flip side, I guess if you're erudite and willing to butcher other languages for sport, nothing has ever stopped you from making up perfectly quasiaryiumaryesque words.
msds commented on Vinyl carver sparking a craze for cutting records at home theguardian.com/music/202... · Posted by u/n1b0m
msds commented on Ask HN: Is anyone making money selling traditional downloadable software? · Posted by u/101008
I'm not running the show, but I am working at a place that does this. One time fee for a perpetual license for the current major version, free support, and historically ~6 years of updates per version.
Users tend to be quite happy about it, and we're profitable enough to pay comfortable salaries and have...a lot...of runway.
Of course, this model is possible because there was never any outside investment.
msds commented on Making an intersection unsafe for pedestrians to save seconds for drivers collegetowns.substack.com... · Posted by u/raybb
If they get that close to me, the car is getting kicked or slapped to elicit a reaction from the driver.
Turns out you can take out a driver side mirror by putting most of your weight on it and bouncing a few times. But that's reserved for drivers that have made contact with me...
msds commented on Air Canada to remove free carry-on from basic economy loyaltylobby.com/2024/12/... · Posted by u/lxm
If we're "unbundling"/giving into "free market" nonsense in a highly regulated area, I just want to be able to pay reasonably proportional fee for musical instruments and get a guarantee that they'll be carry-ons, and not destroyed in the cargo hold. My only other alternatives are buying first class tickets or flirting with the gate agent (...works remarkably well...).
msds commented on Show HN: Stretch My Time Off – An Algorithm to Optimize Your Vacation Days stretchmytimeoff.com... · Posted by u/zachd
Good luck traveling on work days!
This is a real worry? Don't you just not go to meetings but otherwise solemnly swear that you're working on the plane?
msds commented on Blue whale skeleton at New Bedford museum still oozing oil wpri.com/news/street-stor... · Posted by u/geox
It sounds like it’s whale oil because:
- it’s coming from the bone marrow
- it has a reddish tint
- the curator says the smell is reminiscent of a whaling ship and not, say, a machine shop or oil rig.
Machine shops actually used whale oil until quite late. Much better than equivalent petroleum products until the '50s or later.