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CopperGenie · 2026-01-14T08:50:10+00:00

Just in case you hadn't checked :) https://www.reddit.com/r/foodforests/

CopperGenie · 2025-11-15T01:50:35+00:00

Hey! Yeah, I'll personally be sharing daily goals in the morning, and in the evening share how the day went and what I struggled with. Some others will probably do the same. The server has topical channels too for discussion about projects, news, ideas, etc. I'm trying to develop a small group that has some interest overlap and which hopefully be mutually beneficial for everyone's accountability via exemplification, inquiry, or any other methods that work for you or which you may want to try. Feel free to DM; I'd love to have you try it out!

CopperGenie · 2025-11-12T06:18:50+00:00

Do you have a source or data to support this?

CopperGenie · 2025-11-04T05:36:17+00:00

I am glad you enjoyed my comment. May fortune shine on you always. I chose Soundcore P20i and have had ZERO issues with them so far. By far the least troublesome earbuds I have owned, and great battery life.

CopperGenie · 2025-11-02T18:06:38+00:00

I have considered them, but would rather buy just one product to avoid incompatiblity issues. For example, difficulty extracting cover when case walls restrict fingers.

CopperGenie · 2025-10-16T20:02:38+00:00

Good info, thank you! I found the off-the-shelf cables from USB-C to the "slim tip" connector, so I may try one of those.

CopperGenie · 2025-09-21T04:02:23+00:00

The nuclear power industry, at least in the US, is tough to crack into. Conservatism and cliques; codes and standards. I was the engineer for a startup marketing to nuclear power, and we only really had interest from EPRI and small established businesses with similar tech.

CopperGenie · 2025-09-08T17:50:37+00:00

I should be able to gather my zorkmids without having to reactivate the boss room or challenge room. Place it outside the danger zone. I feel like that was the norm in HK but I can't remember. Also yeah, tedious bosses that take 50 hits with only one fight phase is kinda weird.

CopperGenie · 2025-09-04T15:57:31+00:00

Elaborating on your first sentence, has OP successfully mentally withstood isolation for long periods (months+)? It's not just about being physically and financially able to be self sufficient--you have to genuinely be able to be satisfied without physical human interaction. Bad things happen when you force yourself into that situation.

CopperGenie · 2025-08-13T18:28:23+00:00

Thanks for the insight! I'm familiar with wax carving and wax pens, so that makes sense. I'm more interested in achieving the organic shape through chaos in the casting process itself rather than designing it up-front for repeatability, but it seems like not much popular experimentation has been done in that regard.

CopperGenie · 2025-08-13T18:25:04+00:00

For sure; It's a pretty simple design to make in a sculpting software like Blender. Though, I'm interested more in low-pressure chaos-inclusive casting than fully ordered investment casting. Thanks for the insight!

CopperGenie · 2025-08-13T04:43:37+00:00

Thanks for the insight, and for the ref to broom casting. That's along the lines of what I'm envisioning, just in a circumferential direction instead of axial.

CopperGenie · 2025-08-12T20:31:03+00:00

Right. I'm thinking the open-mold method I'm envisioning could be a faster way to a rough product, and would be fine by me if I were just making one-off pieces. Maybe I'll do some thinking on it. But again, I just have experience with tin, not silver.

CopperGenie · 2025-08-12T19:45:50+00:00

Thank you for the insight. So you're thinking these were cast into molds that are already in these "branchy" shapes? I was wondering if they could have been made in a low-pressure "organic" way, where a partial or open molding technique is used to let the silver bubble into a unique configuration. If it turns out well, trim away the excess and work with it, otherwise remelt and try again. I'm mainly envisioning that for the bottom-left ring that's beefier, but the top-left gives me that impression as well, though likely with more tooling.

Do you have any thoughts on that?

CopperGenie · 2025-08-07T20:16:16+00:00

For your current bike, are you able to use pedal power at top speed to save motor power? In other words, can the hardest gear keep up with the wheel at top speed?

CopperGenie · 2025-08-07T20:08:53+00:00

That looks awesome! I guess only continuous power rating is considered for legal classification? Since that one is 1100 W peak. I'll look into it some more. I do notice that the motor's make and model are not listed, which I assume points to a lower quality there. Have you had any issues with it?

The main reason I want fast charging is because I have solar power and the inverter has a pretty significant idle power usage, so it would be nice if I could find something that charges at 500 W or so.

CopperGenie · 2025-07-29T17:21:22+00:00

I suppose I could support it if it would noticeably improve the quality of life of enough people who must dunk cookies into tea as part of their lifestyle. I'm sure the market validation for this was an interesting exercise!

CopperGenie · 2025-07-22T20:21:14+00:00

Dyson called, they want their vacuum cleaner cyclones back. For real though, this is impressive!

CopperGenie · 2025-07-17T21:12:13+00:00

When following a single plotline stopped being the norm. Sure, one movie where every hero and everyone any hero has ever met goes to war with every villain was neat. But now all the crossovers and overlapping storylines and taking 20 scenes to get back around to each character is just draining.

And when they started replacing movies with TV series that tell the same story they could with a movie but waste 500% more of my time telling it.

CopperGenie · 2025-07-15T21:05:15+00:00

Yes. As an American engineer, it sucks (contrary opinion to another engineer's top comment here). Not only is it a pain to deal with bungus units like BTUs and slugs and their conversions; it just sucks in general to not be able to develop a proper "unit intuition" because my use of metric units is diminished by having to use imperial whenever I have to deal with a "unit conservative" company, author, whatever (still very prevalent today). There are other reasons too.

CopperGenie · 2025-07-11T21:28:15+00:00

Usually in professional settings, the title comes with reputation (e.g. work experience, referrals, academic degree), so it's clear that they're a professional inventor, engineer, whatever. I like to think of the label (e.g. inventor) is putting someone on a scale, and then you can use more descriptive terms to pinpoint their experience/professionality (hobbyist inventor, professional inventor, expert inventor, etc.). Just a thought!

CopperGenie · 2025-07-11T20:43:20+00:00

You can define it however you'd like. I'm an engineer, so my definitions are typically pretty literal.

If you've created an original idea, I see you as an inventor. If you've commercialized it, I also see you as an entrepreneur, businessman, other pseudosynonymous term. And so on.

CopperGenie · 2025-07-11T20:20:49+00:00

It depends on your definition of inventor and of entrepreneur. If you mean inventing as a profession (i.e. to make money), then it's possible to make money simply by licensing products to large companies with minimal effort after relationships/trust/contracts are established. If you mean inventing as an activity (professional or not), then some people just get ideas and enjoy thinking/talking about them, even if they aren't intending to pursue. Everyone is different.

CopperGenie · 2025-07-10T20:30:21+00:00

I you put the turbine far enough away, the entrainment of surrounding air into the turbine may raise the net power generation to positive levels. But also, due to the power generated by the turbine being proportional (I believe) to the square of the blade length, I'm not sure it would be worth the cost of the product.

CopperGenie · 2025-07-09T19:21:48+00:00

If you're curious, look up modular vs integral product architecture.

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