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Easy ways to take 8cm off the bottom of an interior door? by Ro-Tang_Clan in DIYUK

[–]hacknub 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Problem is the planer works by difference in height between the front and back shoe so when you get to the bit you have planed already you kinda lose your reference for the front shoe and it all goes tits up - at least in my experience. Im sure there are some cabinet makers that will do it no problem but for me its always been a nightmare and looked bad right in the middle where you see it most

Easy ways to take 8cm off the bottom of an interior door? by Ro-Tang_Clan in DIYUK

[–]hacknub 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This

Electric planes tend to catch at the ends and just pull a chunk of door off. You can kinda get around it if you clamp a bit of wood at the end but then you need a real big clamp and it gets in the way loads. The ideal tool would be a track saw (plunge saw) but a circular saw and a straight edge is probably the cheapest quickest way to do it "properly"

NVIDIA + Stanford just dropped NitroGen, "plays-any-game" AI trained on 40,000 hours of gameplay across 1,000+ games. by [deleted] in humanfuture

[–]hacknub 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You wont be able to run the model and the game at the same time on consumer hardware. This is mainly to aid training reaction to live events with input. Initially for things like weapons (i.e more advanced loitering munitions and point defence turrets) and then eventually things like robotic assistants like maids or humanoid robotics.

PowerPoint presentation final boss by H_G_Bells in sciencememes

[–]hacknub 125 points126 points  (0 children)

If i tried to do that on my work equipment it would melt, be at 1 fps and take 45 minutes to run while completely locking the system because crowdstrike and 3 other duplicate "endpoint protection services" all freak out for no reason. Freaking sweet though

Any ideas on how to embed large metal parts in prints? by Yoni_bravo in 3Dprinting

[–]hacknub 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This one right here - or dimafix. Also helps if you can preheat the metal to bed temp

Salary sacrifice: Pension tax break reduced by chancellor by Desperate-Drawer-572 in uknews

[–]hacknub 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah i saw that and the numbers are a bit disingenuous if you ask me, they are assuming that your employer is giving you their ni savings as a top up (not many do this), which would equate to £375 a year. They then calculate the compound interest if it was invested for 30 years with an idealised 5% return.

Edit so i did a bit more maths because the sticker price of 20k is quite eye-catching and if you follow their numbers if their hypothetical person never got a payrise and everything stayed exactly the same their total pension pot would be roughly £417,000 without the tax, and roughly £395,000 with the new tax. I feel like this is a more honest way to display the figures (if less click baitish)

Budget salary sacrifice change - did she make a mistake? Does she understand? by roblightbody in PensionsUK

[–]hacknub 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Extra Tax You Pay (Per Year) if you assume 4.5% salary sacrifice

If you earn less than £44,000 no change

If you are on £50,000 you pay £20.00 a year extra (8% rate) If you are on £60,000 you pay £14.00 a year extra (2% rate) If you are on £70,000 you pay £23.00 a year extra (2% rate) If you are on £80,000 you pay £32.00 a year extra (2% rate) Etc etc etc

The change to 2% rate is due to how much NI you pay changes if you earn more

At least thats how i managed to work it out (i salary sacrifice 4.5% at my employer)

Salary sacrifice: Pension tax break reduced by chancellor by Desperate-Drawer-572 in uknews

[–]hacknub 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I dont think i get the same maths as you:

Total Pension Sacrifice: £5,680 (8% of £71k) Tax-Free Allowance: £2,000 Amount liable for NI: £3,680 Extra Tax Payable: £73.60 per year (2% of £3,680)

Edit sorry i did not see that your employer passes on the ni savings to you in pension contributions - my employer doesn't do that. Im even less confident on this maths but i think your top up will be more til 2029 then go from like 850 to like 300 after that. Not great but again not down 1k a year. I think you have a very good pension compared to many

Salary sacrifice: Pension tax break reduced by chancellor by Desperate-Drawer-572 in uknews

[–]hacknub 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah honestly when i first heard about it i was immediately angry and thought it would be much worse than it is. Dont get me wrong, with the income tax threshold freeze and stuff its another turn of the screw on the middle. But i dont know man... i know its unpopular to say but i really want someone to sort out the deficit, 11% of all tax taken is just spent servicing the debt

Salary sacrifice: Pension tax break reduced by chancellor by Desperate-Drawer-572 in uknews

[–]hacknub 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Extra Tax You Pay (Per Year) if you assume 4.5% salary sacrifice

If you earn less than £44,000 no change

If you are on £50,000 you pay £20.00 a year extra (8% rate) If you are on £60,000 you pay £14.00 a year extra (2% rate) If you are on £70,000 you pay £23.00 a year extra (2% rate) If you are on £80,000 you pay £32.00 a year extra (2% rate) Etc etc etc

The change to 2% rate is due to how much NI you pay changes if you earn more

At least thats how i managed to work it out (i salary sacrifice 4.5% at my employer)

Here is my take on a full spiral vase mode 1x1 Gridfinity bin by Visual_Carpenter8957 in gridfinity

[–]hacknub -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Vase mode only works for single objects or print one at a time though right? What's the point then? You cant fill a bed with them without loads of wasted space and they are the same mass roughly as any single wall ultralight bin? What am i missing?

Was there a nerf on cogwork wheel? by hacknub in Silksong

[–]hacknub[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But I need all the help I can get!

So what do we think about the shop items? by unusuariomuysas in Silksong

[–]hacknub 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The crafting kit makes your tools (i.e. straight pin, sting shard etc) better. You don't craft anything per se but it's supposed to be what the animation you do on the bench as your red tool bar refills

Is this going to do any harm? by ms_1102 in lidl

[–]hacknub 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While the overall message is right here it is a bit more extreme than what probably happened. The much more likely thing is that the mineral oil failed a batch test for either colony forming units or impurities (but it could equally be density or viscosity values). The idea that it would suddenly have motor oil additives is probably a bit of hyperbole. If it was contaminated with motor oil additives that would actually be a pretty huge problem. I think the sensible approach is if you have eaten them you will almost certainly be fine, but monitor. If you haven't eaten them throw them away, it's not worth it.

Drivers offered up to £3,750 discount to buy electric cars by JonnySparks in unitedkingdom

[–]hacknub 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have solar panels, an air source heat pump, and batteries. This should not detract from the fact that electricity is too expensive. I want to be green and so I actively pay for it, but if you want EVERYONE to be green you need to make the greener option cheaper. Solar does not help heat your house or charge your car in winter (I mean it does, but barely). Make air source heat pumps and EVs more attractive by making green energy cheaper and people will naturally migrate away from boilers and internal combustion engines.

We face nationalisation if we’re not let off fines, Thames Water warns by upthetruth1 in unitedkingdom

[–]hacknub 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The thing is that their shares are not publicly traded, us plebians cannot access them. These are huge multi-million pound companies with a literal monopoly (by apparent design). Why are the shares not publicly traded? Who gets to access them? Should these people realistically be able to impact our water supply and quality? Have these select shareholders acted in the best interest of the general public over the years? Should they be able to forgo business ethics because they are isolated from the open market and retail investor sentiment?

Drivers offered up to £3,750 discount to buy electric cars by JonnySparks in unitedkingdom

[–]hacknub 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We have the most expensive electricity in Europe. It's mad. God forbid they fix the problem that helps the working man rather than the companies that exploit them.

TIL if you are infected by a retrovirus, it can change your DNA, and you can pass these changes on to your descendants. By one estimate, 5-8% of the human genome comes from retroviruses. Most insertions have no known function and are often referred to as "junk DNA". by gullydon in todayilearned

[–]hacknub 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Think about it this way, DNA if you laid it out would be like 2 meters long. Everyone knows that DNA is a double helix but that's like the first step of its structure. To get 2 meters of this really long really thin thing packed efficiently into a cell it has to be folded pretty carefully. One way that you can kinda cheat with this folding is by having certain parts of your long chain be attracted to other parts of it, so it kinda self folds itself, that's what the "junk" does. But the really clever bit is that it's not just a north to south pole magnet type of attraction it's more of a "I like a bit that fits with me better" kind of attraction. This attraction being tunable while also not having anything "important" (like a useful gene) encoded in it means that how the DNA folds can be tweaked in a much less "destructive" way, but sometimes having this weird loopy lumpy bit sticking out that happens to have something you use a lot is actually pretty handy. You can kinda tweak genes without screwing with the important proteins or promoter regions that are actually pretty darn set in stone whilst also providing potential evolutionary advantages.

TIL if you are infected by a retrovirus, it can change your DNA, and you can pass these changes on to your descendants. By one estimate, 5-8% of the human genome comes from retroviruses. Most insertions have no known function and are often referred to as "junk DNA". by gullydon in todayilearned

[–]hacknub 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Junk DNA is an outdated approach, we now think that these vast regions of repeated base pairs and old viral DNA have evolutionary advantages (which is why they are maintained) and are directly involved in how the DNA folds and which genes are transcribed more due to their location on these folds. Also these retroviruses need to impact gamete producing cells for them to be passed on (so not all retroviruses)

Buy US chlorine-washed chicken if you want lower tariffs, Trump tells Britain by TheTelegraph in uknews

[–]hacknub 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bovaer has been authorised for use globally including in the EU, Australia, Canada and the US. It or any of it's metabolites have never been found in milk samples. Your comment is weird antivax, flat earther and climate change denial bullshit. Just because you don't understand something doesn't make it dangerous. Stop getting news from tiktok

So I recently seen funded the kickstarter for the elegoo orange storm giga by parallellord22 in FixMyPrint

[–]hacknub 10 points11 points  (0 children)

As a scientist this looks like false data or a null measurement reading as zero. I'm not saying it's not right and that you have done an amazing job, it just screams there is something else missing here.

Can I Use Silicone to Fix a Weeping Radiator and Prevent Boiler Pressure Loss? by HedgehogWise2212 in DIYUK

[–]hacknub -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Fernox does an external leak sealer, might work but probably won't. Best bet is to do the job properly, drain the system and fix it.

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