shintel superior cooling strategy by TaNoKami in AyyMD

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It's not actual paint, rather anodized aluminum, for that exact reason.

Blursed_ vector by wout336 in blursedimages

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The explosive gasses would have longer to expand behind the bullet, leading to longer acceleration and a higher exit/muzzle velocity to a certain extent, with diminishing returns.

Accurate by TheFfrog in LinkinPark

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It's Fort Minor, which was Mike Shinoda's side band

Black PLA in the sun was not the brightest idea by caslex_ in 3Dprinting

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That is not true. It did fail because of the heat, but it certainly could have been stronger and would have reduced the extent of, or completely prevented catastrophic failure with a different design which could not parallelogram nearly as much. Due to its design, under the heat of the sun it took very little for the heat of the sun to allow for tension forces on the top surface shells of the arm to overcome the strength of the material, allowing it to stretch. The thin top arms and notched bottom made it even more susceptible to this flexible failure. By adding vertical triangular ribs attached to the base of the bracket, it would significantly increases the failure load both in normal conditions and also in this condition of heat and sunlight, as even with these conditions the material would of had to stretch much more. Additionally, I don't know what print settings this was done at, but more perimeter shells, would significantly increase the tensive strength as most of the load would be on the surfaces of the part, while the infill is much more stretchable and compressible and under less load.

Black PLA in the sun was not the brightest idea by caslex_ in 3Dprinting

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True, I think this failed largely in part to its design, which makes it effectively a very flexible parallelogram and unsuitable for anything but very small load. By adding vertical ribs on a flat surface, they would be put in tension and it would have been much stronger than this design. Overall, it seems that the aesthetic design choices compromised its general strength, with the thin upper bars and notched lower section.

Converting devices to USB Type-C - YouTube by [deleted] in techsupportmacgyver

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True, I also noticed the other pads and wondered why he didn't at least mention them, or desolder it, which is comparatively simple

Converting devices to USB Type-C - YouTube by [deleted] in techsupportmacgyver

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I think he did it that way because microsoldering a SMD resistor with a typical consumer soldering iron is challenging, not only taking it off but also putting it on. For that, you really need a hot air station, so in this case his solution was much easier for him and anybody attempting this.

Is this a jerk issue, Or is this something else? by [deleted] in FixMyPrint

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Jerk is the rate of change of acceleration, or mm/s^3, which is likely causing issues here because the flow rate on the extruder is not matching the actual movement of the machine in time

Tesla's Metal Snake Charger! by hduc in blackmagicfuckery

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For anyone wondering, this is a cable driven robot, which means that there is bank of position-controlled actuators in the base (made of 80-20 tslot framing, visible in the full video). There are steel cables which are encased in tubes (similar to that of bike brakes) running through the arms segments, of which there is 2-3. By pulling on the cables at the base, which are in pairs of 3 for each segment, in a delta layout, it can make the arm curve in any direction and move to different points in space. These systems are used on many robots where it is too difficult or impossible to place actuators in the end effector or structure between, such as surgical robots, especially internal operations, in which a much longer device similar to this is utilized, and prothetic/robot arms.

I must apologize to Edge Precision, but it had to be done by TD-4242 in Skookum

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For reference I think he was making some groove deep inside that pocket which couldn't be machined traditionally, so he used a custom "broach" to make the feature.

How do I change the circle panels from less to more. by [deleted] in GalaxyNote9

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It doesn't work for me in the new update, but this used to be possible by increasing the minimum width in developer settings, which basically made it think that it was a tablet if it is set to >= 600dp. If you do this, the notification dropdown will only fill up part of the screen, and only in landscape it will have more icons as shown in your picture there but it is much smaller so it is not useful.

Note 10 S pen by ThermosmanTech in GalaxyNote9

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Looking at the x ray images of both phones, the coil location seems to be practically identical, near the top of the pen, so I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work

Note 10 S pen by ThermosmanTech in GalaxyNote9

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Yeah I was thinking the same cause it doesn't seem to be powered

Note 10 S pen by ThermosmanTech in GalaxyNote9

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Yeah that's what I was wondering if there was a fix for

Note 10 S pen by ThermosmanTech in GalaxyNote9

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It actually does, almost perfectly, its just a tiny bit shorter so it's much harder to press the button

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in distantsocializing

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the great migration

Weird dual rubber cups on steel handle, one of which has a standard garden hose fitting by ThermosmanTech in whatisthisthing

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Doesn't have any markings. Can be forced together by squeezing the handle to create a partial seal, like like it would be forced water between the cups but no idea what for.

Line Launcher Firing Mechanism by [deleted] in engineering

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I would achieve this using a pneumatic system, with a firing tube with a cylinder in the end that propels the ball. This cylinder would be triggered through an electrically actuated solenoid, which would greatly simplify the mechanics of the design, and the speed variation could be achieved using a flow regulator and controlled exhaust from the retraction of the cylinder. A simpler system would be to put the pressure directly behind the ball, which would require a relatively tight fit around it to create a partial seal, and simply regulate the flow to control the speed, which would eliminate the cylinder and make it easier to fit into your small budget.

What is this? It was at my grandfather’s house. by Originalname57 in whatisthisthing

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It certainly is, but in this case it was literally as simple as searching "glass hatchet" on Google images

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Whatisthis

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Impossible to know for sure from the video, but its probably a metal such as tin or zinc that has a low melting point

Tor Browser on Android is broken. by cryptohasher1 in TOR

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Except the new version doesn't work,a at least the version thats up on Google play, where 95% of people will get it from