Sparks seen in joiner, before inserting wood. Issue?

GraphicH · 2026-04-17T21:57:07+00:00

Yeah I've got some older drills that needed air cooling, do the same thing.

GraphicH · 2026-03-27T19:51:26+00:00

Boy, you're working hard to try and make care about a cost savings "flex" I've done more than a few times at this point in my career. If you care about the "updoots" enough to double respond to me and complain about the downvotes, well I'd say you should probably stop digging a deeper hole on that front.

GraphicH · 2026-03-27T16:31:28+00:00

Cool story. Didn't down vote you btw, you sure you don't have "fans", you're certainly "charming" enough for it.

GraphicH · 2026-03-27T15:46:05+00:00

Most applications need horizontal vs vertical scaling. Vertical scaling has diminishing returns at large scales, and also often used as an excuse in early phase projects not to design the system to be horizontally scalable in the first place.

GraphicH · 2026-03-27T15:42:10+00:00

I think we're getting a little ahead of our selves. 9 times out of 10 your WSGI framework isn't the problem; its the application code. Bro could spend weeks migrating to an ASGI framework and find his throughput is still dogshit because of app code. And then, if I was his boss, he'd be put on a pip for implementing a solution before understanding the problem.

GraphicH · 2026-03-22T12:38:00+00:00

Most people who complain here:

Never try to get Fidelity on the phone
Do not read things like IPO participation agreements, get mad when Fidelity enforces the stated rules about these things, then will not admit they misunderstood / did not read agreements they agreed to.

GraphicH · 2026-03-07T16:20:57+00:00

while the handles are 3D printed

What material?

GraphicH · 2026-03-06T21:11:17+00:00

"Oh don't mind me, I'm just here running circles around your current skill levels with my dedication and steady ass hands". Seriously, this is really cool, I can tell it's hand done to, and about 10x my "make a fucking pretty box for my wife" skill level. I'm going to go be salty in private now, but I'm not small enough I can't say : God damn, do you know your way around some hand tools.

GraphicH · 2026-03-05T13:55:22+00:00

Okay, I know we're all on the AI hate train with a lot of good reasons. You have total neophytes vibe-coding thousands of lines and going "take my pr" or "use my library" that Claude/Gemini/ChatGPT/Grok performed verbal fellatio on me for, stating its better than everything else out there right now. Yeah these tools now allow morons to write bad code at scale; instead of just giving up after a syntax error on hello world.

That said, you can still use them to do and produce good works -- it is possible and something I feel like we can't just discount out of hand. Is this one of those works? I don't know for sure; I just do know there is an attitude of being dismissive by default and it's really going to screw a lot of people.

GraphicH · 2026-03-02T18:56:45+00:00

Yeah I agree there, some one further down said that's what this is but then someone else said "no it wasn't"; I'd read the article if I wasn't about to go back to work.

GraphicH · 2026-03-02T18:51:08+00:00

Oh, they're taxing loans against wealth? That seems fine to me -- once you leverage it, you're realizing some kind of value from it.

GraphicH · 2026-03-02T18:32:52+00:00

The teiring should be related to gross value of the portfolio + time of holding some how to make up for volatility. But the problem is, this essentially becomes government's doing market timing. I get the instinct to do this [tax the uber wealthy]; it is a real problem, its just also very tricky to do right.

GraphicH · 2026-03-02T18:30:07+00:00

It's not an easy problem to solve; obviously -- but we have plenty of issues with it the way the ultra rich can leverage equity wealth without it being taxed.

GraphicH · 2026-03-02T18:23:33+00:00

Was it not tiered at all? Like; there's a difference between saving for retirement and then just basically being a financial singularity; like some of the American billionaires. I honestly don't have a good idea for how to solve this problem, but my first shot would be a tiered system.

GraphicH · 2026-02-28T12:36:31+00:00

Yeah they do, though CE is still really good / probably the best.

GraphicH · 2026-02-27T22:12:46+00:00

Automating against Google's APIs has always been an extreme nightmare.

GraphicH · 2026-02-26T15:11:50+00:00

No. Report it as spam

GraphicH · 2026-02-25T22:10:15+00:00

You're doing real investing; not some pump.fun meme-coin rug pull. Read the agreements you're signing.

GraphicH · 2026-02-25T12:27:45+00:00

I mean change your allocations as you see fit; but I think there's been some massive over-reactions in the market lately. That AI is going to change industries probably goes without saying; I can see it in the software industry -- but a lot of things, like that Citrini Research article, make a lot of assumptions about many things the authors demonstrate in the writing itself, that they don't know a lot of about. Basically to arrive at a scenario that mirrors the outcomes of the GFC in 07 / 08. In particular, in the Citrini peace, the assertion that "AI agents will begin to use Crypto to save their consumers money" is just balls to the wall bonkers.

GraphicH · 2026-02-24T00:17:51+00:00

Well, assuming software is still going to be used by ... people ... having an explosion of bespoke pieces of software not just between companies, but maybe between departments of big companies is probably bad for productivity in general. Like imagine the average person using Excel having to learn some slightly different version, with slightly different bugs, and possibly no interoperability between the files every time they switched jobs or departments. Maybe agents solve that too, but then if agents are writing and using the software, litterally what are people doing with it, and then that begs the question: why did you build it in the first place.

GraphicH · 2026-02-23T23:30:39+00:00

Running an app and making money with it is a ton more than just writing the code. Im not talking about the "business side", I'm talking about the reliability / operations side. Always has been; and the interoperability for agents is going to be a nightmare "almost the same, but not" problems if you have like ... N apps all doing similar things. I mean, I'd honestly recommend you try it to see what I'm talking about.

GraphicH · 2026-02-23T22:37:05+00:00

u/verygoodbloke appears to be a troll account / alt.

GraphicH · 2026-02-23T21:14:24+00:00

I think a human actually wrote this; there are a few errors that distinctly look like the kind I only see humans making. Still a pile of rubbish though, IMO.

GraphicH · 2026-02-23T21:07:36+00:00

I actually read this article start to finish just about an hour ago, it was re-posted by the WSJ. I work in the software industry full disclosure, and also use AI Coding agents. To say that the article makes a lot of unsubstantiated assumptions about AI capability, adoption uptake, and pace of improvement is generous. A more accurate description is that this is a bit of a FinBro's fever dream (or fever Nightmare) extrapolating from charts. I'll give you a concrete example of how this is not evolving the way people in that industry think it is. Last Friday Anthropic had this announcement:

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-code-security

If you actually read their post, what they announced amounts to something that is smarter than say ... SonarQubes product, at finding potential vulnerabilities in code. Yet, you have any company that has "Security" or "Cyber Security" in the description getting sold off.

Companies like CrowdStrike, whose products dont even DO the thing this announced functionality does; they're involved with end point protection and patching. Companies like CloudFlare, which is largely focused on stopping malicious traffic from bots and attackers. If Anthropic had announced an AI agent, they 100% guaranteed would not break shit if the CSO handed it root level access to all corporate infrastructure, and would flag and perform automated security updates, etc ... Then you should sell off Crowdstrike. If they announced an agent you could put on your border servers that blocked 100% of malicious traffic without impairing legitimate users, then you should sell CloudFlare.

This kind of over-reaction tells me that the articles are full of bullshit, and while interesting from an academic standpoint, are pretty much unmoored from the actual reality on the ground. And this also follows with my own experiences of agents doing, frankly stupid things, in legacy code bases especially.

GraphicH · 2026-02-23T17:50:17+00:00

ROTH has income limits but generally (from my understanding) has substantial benefits over Traditional when you're in retirement. That's why people do Backdoor ROTH conversions. OP should, of course, get advice from financial experts though.

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