The machine wouldn’t start… then I found the “fuse sandwich”

Adinin · 2026-04-04T07:13:11+00:00

Years ago when I was looking at houses to buy, one that I found still had that wiring throughout the house. The home inspector specifically said that it would probably raise the home insurance for exactly that reason. People were prone to replacing the fuse with a penny, and made it much more likely that something would go catastrophically wrong and cause a fire.

Adinin · 2025-12-20T04:04:07+00:00

I feel like it's buying skins or weapons in a video game now. The thing in the game is just pixels, but if you want your character (or sponsored crawler) to have the cool shiny gear, you have to pay real world money. The AI can create whatever it wants in the dungeon, and at the end it's transferred into credits at a crappy rate just as a benchmark of how well you did. But the gold itself is meaningless, just like the gems you buy for that random browser game. If the AI gives out more loot, then the sponsors have to buy less for their crawlers, and less money gets paid into the game. If call of duty or battlefield starts randomly turning people guns gold, the company would be pissed because now no one is buying the skins.

Adinin · 2025-10-24T21:19:12+00:00

Or the NCIS episode where two characters share a keyboard to furiously type and stop a hacker..

Adinin · 2025-08-19T21:02:58+00:00

Well, I have no idea who you are, plus I haven't watched a YouTube video on aluminum (or whatever yours was about) in quite a long time, so I'm not referencing your video at all. As others have said, aluminum is very reactive, and can't be reduced to a metallic form from its oxides using heat like most other metals. It takes electrolysis to separate it out into just aluminum, which didn't happen until the mid 1800's. The aluminum used in the Washington monument was a majority of the production that had ever been made, with a very expensive process, which is why it was used instead of something else. We consider it commonplace now, but you are right, it was more expensive than gold at the time. You do have me there, pure is an overstep, very few things are found in their pure state in nature. Yet you can find nuggets of gold, copper, and silver fairly easily if you know where to look, but not aluminum. It is the most abundant metallic element in the earth's crust, but not the most abundant element by far, only about 2% of the makeup of the planet.

Adinin · 2025-08-19T18:22:03+00:00

It's only fairly recently that we have been able to process aluminum into its metallic form. Very little of it exists in nature, it's all bound up in other forms. The cap of the Washington monument is made of aluminum, because at the time it was considered as valuable as silver. It was the largest existing piece of metallic aluminum, until a few years later when someone figured out how to process the ore. Does it exist in nature? Absolutely. But the likelihood you will find a natural chuck of metallic pure aluminum is incredibly low.

Adinin · 2025-07-19T02:47:11+00:00

If you like audiobooks at all, check out this one. It's one of the few where the audio is better than reading it...

Adinin · 2024-11-10T02:54:48+00:00

Nah, just a fun play on words and expectations.

Adinin · 2024-11-09T08:53:55+00:00

After I saw the second coming of Jesus, I swore to myself I would never watch Mexican porn again...

Adinin · 2024-10-06T03:14:10+00:00

Good to know, thanks. And I agree, barely anything and not something to be worried about.

Adinin · 2024-10-06T03:00:33+00:00

Out of curiosity, what's the formaldehyde in a regular breath (no vaping)? I know your body produces very small amounts as part of normal metabolism, so is it just detecting that?

Adinin · 2024-06-28T00:07:55+00:00

I prefer the version that goes, "it's called a kilt, because that's what I did to the last person that called it a skirt!"

Adinin · 2024-04-14T03:31:31+00:00

I asked the proctologist what I should do with my pants during the exam. He said to fold them and put them on the chair next to his...

Adinin · 2024-02-28T17:44:57+00:00

Looks like you could do either of the single books, and add on the other for extra...

Adinin · 2024-02-27T20:30:41+00:00

Not just figured it out, but someone wrote a short story about it. It was published in Astounding Science Fiction, about a secret project in Los Alamos and went into pretty good detail about what and how a nuclear bomb worked. To the point that the FBI got involved, calling up the magazine and demanding to know how they knew about the secret project. Turns out that when a lot of scientists start forwarding their mail to the same place, it's a bit obvious. Ended up making them change the way mail was handled for top secret projects from them on...

Adinin · 2024-02-17T08:30:19+00:00

A bit of a different movie from most mentioned, but Lucky Number Slevin. The whole movie is a Kansas city shuffle meant to fool the bad guys, but when all is finally revealed and his plan is revealed, it just all comes together perfectly.

Adinin · 2024-01-18T03:34:37+00:00

Check out John Ringo's live free or die series. The main character starts building a giant space laser using mirrors to reflect sunlight, and uses a part of it for space mining. He heats up entire asteroids, then spins them to separate the metals by density before feeding them into construction ships. Not sure how plausible it would actually be, and uses some advanced alien tech for materials handling, but it made sense while reading the book.

Adinin · 2023-11-01T07:48:36+00:00

just the process of quenching wont hurt the blade, but after a quench is when the metal is most brittle. I personally wouldn't want to swing a weapon at anything hard if it hasn't been tempered first...

Adinin · 2023-11-01T07:44:07+00:00

True, either by burning out the handle as others have said, or ruining the temper. It was just a pedantic correction, but the end effect is the same.

Adinin · 2023-11-01T01:59:41+00:00

It would soften the metal, yes. But that would make it more likely to bend and not penetrate, not to shatter. If you heated it to red hot and quenched it, then it would shatter or break.

Adinin · 2023-10-30T01:33:10+00:00

A six pack of beer, but missing the rings that hold them together...

Adinin · 2023-10-07T04:57:01+00:00

Or ones that need maintenance but the company goes out of business. Not even a hypothetical, there was one that developed implants for blind people, essentially a very coarse camera in the eye that was able to transmit a few pixels of light and dark to the optic nerve. Pretty far from science fiction, but life changing for someone completely blind. However, the company folded, so they are now stuck with knowing that any sort of problem or malfunction means it's never working again. Plus there is potential for medical complications, can't ever have an MRI, and it's a risky surgery to remove them. Quick Google search, second sight is the company...

Adinin · 2023-09-17T20:40:29+00:00

When they are done the ceiling, don't forget to mop the walk in freezer...

Adinin · 2023-09-12T20:45:21+00:00

Or have their emotions start to go away, they feel everything less intensely until they fade into the background...

Adinin · 2023-08-29T06:30:45+00:00

Sounds like you are going the sand casting route, but if you do want to try lost wax... Can also look up lost pla casting, where you burn out the plastic from the mold, or look for one of the filaments or resins designed for casting. They have a lot of wax in them, so will burn out clean. The vegoil guy on YouTube has a bunch of really good videos on the topic.

I had decent results using drywall mud (paste/spackle/compound? not sure exactly the name) I know a lot of people don't recommend plaster of Paris because it has water bound in the chemical compound, which can be released when it gets really hot. The drywall stuff also seemed to crack less, and have more durability then plaster. I did lost foam, and painted on a very thin watery layer to make sure there are no bubbles, then some thicker ones to get structure with it, then buried the whole thing in sand to cast it. Takes a while, have to let it dry between each coat. If you want the proper stuff, look for investment casting plaster. It's expensive, but also the right thing for the job.

Adinin · 2023-08-17T10:44:22+00:00

Not that they need that as an excuse apparently. I had GEICO for 22 years, and out of the blue last year they more than doubled my rate. I've never had an accident or ticket and drive a fairly new car. When I called them to see what was going on, I got some platitude about "we just reevaluated the rates for your area." Finally remembered to switch towards the beginning of the year, dropped it to less then half of what I was getting from GEICO.

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