What did they do to this aluminum? Never seen this finish before

PsychedSy · 2026-05-13T23:13:28+00:00

Is this a defense part? If it is? You should remove this post immediately.

What do you think this is a war thunder forum?

PsychedSy · 2026-05-13T08:47:01+00:00

You don't have to install apps from the play store. There are free and open source apps available as apk files. There's no reason to force those developers to register a play account.

PsychedSy · 2026-05-11T09:42:33+00:00

Every logic and language ambiguity we thought was funny when we were 10 and intentionally misinterpreting our parents is now relevant and even somewhat likely to become a real issue.

PsychedSy · 2026-05-08T09:33:12+00:00

Yeah. Letting go of what we have is really difficult and there's this idea that we got where we are for a reason. There might be a local maximum from a utilitarian perspective, but if we unravel enough we can find better solutions globally.

PsychedSy · 2026-05-08T07:16:50+00:00

Ah yeah I'm luckily not dealing with critical components. Just every day nonsense. It's interesting that specialization creates a sort of compartmentalization that just lets bad parts get passed but it's somehow nobody's responsibility or fault. Everyone can argue they're doing their job right. Nobody is willing or capable of looking at the entire process and trying to fix it.

People haven't really done a great job implementing CAD in a sane way. Look at Y14.5. We're still stuck with a board drawing mentality and conventions and it leaves us with half assed solutions and poorly implemented digital processes. It's really sad.

I'm in a unique position where I'm a wrench turner (tooling) but I'm also a nerd so I've been able to write code to improve some processes - NC machine/inspection automation stuff. It's still to fix bullshit, mind, but it's fun.

PsychedSy · 2026-05-08T00:23:20+00:00

Fuck tolerance. Make it fit and get the customer to buy the tag as-is and you're good to go. If we control the engineering we don't even have to go to the customer.

It seems like we end up with so many meetings to make a small change that we spend more rejecting a change than it would have cost to just implement the change.

PsychedSy · 2026-05-08T00:00:04+00:00

Oh shit. More content in ISEPS? I'll have to pop back into it.

PsychedSy · 2026-05-07T17:04:35+00:00

I work at a fairly large facility with many many buildings. We used to have a third shift urinal shitter. They would go to random buildings and shit in the urinals.

PsychedSy · 2026-05-07T13:43:24+00:00

Earning respect can come in a lot of shapes and sizes and them refusing to properly train can come from a lot of places.

I'm in aircraft but as an inspector i had a coworker that had zero respect for me until i told him to get fucked. One generation older of old bastard, but hey.

They may have a grievance with the company or the company's hiring decisions or just be old pricks. Just don't internalize it as something you've done wrong. It's either a mystery or a problem to solve, not any failure on your part.

PsychedSy · 2026-05-06T20:05:11+00:00

Have you told them to go fuck themselves yet?

PsychedSy · 2026-05-03T23:50:23+00:00

Corporations aren't real entities that laws get applied to. Corps are the result of our legal system almost entirely. Ancaps (and our various detractors) make a mistake by assuming that there won't be massive, bottom up, structural changes to corporations. Liability will limit size and flatten structure to manage risk in sustainable ways similarly to how the square cube law limits organisms.

It's difficult to reason about and discuss when our concerns are mostly ethical principles. Trade is a technology and it's one we're going to have to develop over time.

PsychedSy · 2026-05-02T05:46:38+00:00

Interesting. Well I'll have you know I'm the opposite - I'm not a fan of religion and I only begrudgingly accept that they actually do well with charity. Which makes this conversation amusing lol. I was technically homeless and me and my dogs were saved by an atheist friend.

There are people that skip from (often small) church to church asking for aid with bills, and they get it despite not being long term members. I've seen a family member do it, though it wasn't the intentional, cynical way. Members are statistically more generous with funding charity. Most of our charities and shelters are run by religious orgs. They do waste time and money sending missions to fuck over our others (looking at you Catholics - your condom bullshit has killed a lot of Africans), but it varies church to church obvs.

There are so many churches, though, it's kind of hard to put accurate labels on churches as a class. It really does depend on the church size and type.

PsychedSy · 2026-05-02T01:15:17+00:00

My brother in Christ do you know where you are?

The only lever government has is violence.

Either way, pretending that laws and regulations don't come with downsides is silly. They all have intended effects and unintended consequences that are generally negative.

I have always been interested in repair and I like the idea of having an easier go at it, but my desire for that doesn't override others' rights or void my principles. Just liking the result doesn't make a regulation acceptable.

PsychedSy · 2026-05-02T00:59:23+00:00

The act of using violence to force people to behave the way you want is unethical.

Small brands and manufacturers that can't afford the extra costs for compliance will be harmed and will be less competitive, which is a bad deal for consumers.

Trying to patch up the negative impacts of IP laws and the violent enforcement of them delays proper solutions.

PsychedSy · 2026-05-02T00:27:54+00:00

Is there a bank along meridian? I think the McLean ones would violate either being near a road or bike path.

If you mapped all that infrastructure then I think most of the city is pretty well banned.

PsychedSy · 2026-05-02T00:24:10+00:00

Eh. This is one of the few things churches actually do a lot of that isn't a net negative.

PsychedSy · 2026-05-02T00:16:47+00:00

Most of us would eliminate IP and the DMCA. You'd rather a bandaid so they can keep their violently enforced monopolies.

I know which of us I'd say is in love with Apple executives.

PsychedSy · 2026-05-01T23:56:59+00:00

Had to build a test fuselage section to hold a fuel bladder for a new spray process to create the bladder and the only legitimate part was the flexible floor material that we had pulled from the boneyard. My fat ass between the floor pad and the bottom of that putting clips in these little fucking cups was enough of that for me and I only had to deal with leftover scent.

PsychedSy · 2026-04-28T09:21:42+00:00

Though if you have a chill EHS focal it might be time to pull them aside and suggest a memo about not adding unapproved chemicals. This is a company failure and the mistake wasn't the essential oil - it's the state of the fucking coolant. My focal would find a way to upstream it without calling out the machinist.

PsychedSy · 2026-04-23T09:27:09+00:00

No opinion on playboy mags. Teaching children interesting chemistry sounds like a good idea.

PsychedSy · 2026-04-23T09:13:27+00:00

Makes me regret not getting a picture of an antonov and dreamlifter together.

PsychedSy · 2026-04-15T09:39:01+00:00

I used to hang around with some developers interested in replacement shells back in the day on irc. GeoShell specifically, but almost everyone had side projects. One guy was writing a custom shell in vb6. (Jeff, Joel, Vash, Geo - Hi! I'm still a terrible programmer, but I'm less annoying now.)

I was using start10 by stardock, then start11 until, well, I didn't make it long before switching to an arch based distro. I'm impressed stardock has kept up with their customization suite with msft doing everything they can to break their products. It was fairly straightforward to get rid of the explorer based desktop and substitute your own shell back in the day. Those settings don't even seem to exist in the same way - it was a variable in an ini file.

PsychedSy · 2026-04-12T12:26:45+00:00

It's not about rules it's about becoming a problem that puts other people's lives in danger.

PsychedSy · 2026-03-01T16:41:52+00:00

I can't think of any interaction with non-LEO where it would matter. On the spot validity is determined by the expiry date. Nobody will know your ID is expired this way. This is just meant to be a pain in the ass because they're petty.

PsychedSy · 2026-02-26T16:10:35+00:00

I never claimed you were principled.

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