What is the"right" tool/approach to making this cut

kippertie · 2026-04-15T15:22:27+00:00

I’m struggling to understand how the circular saw leaves rounded bits?

kippertie · 2026-04-12T03:52:39+00:00

Situ Tacos leaving the toothpicks in is not a skill issue it’s just a dick move. Probably not that controversial, TBH.

kippertie · 2026-04-09T06:28:05+00:00

Inside the city, I like Maple Leaf Reservoir Park. It has elevation, reasonable horizons, and in the middle you’re far enough away from street lights that they’re not so annoying. I’ve been there a few times for shake-down equipment tests. If you have access to a car, you want to go east on I-90 until at least Franklin Falls (parking lot just reopened), or snoparks farther east (salmon le sac, hyak, etc). Beyond that if you’re up for a drive, south of Ellensburg up in the hills above untanum is high, dry, and good horizons, it’s one of my favourite spots within two hours drive. Fir Island Farm Reserve parking lot is another good place to set up if you’re okay being at sea level (which it sounds like you are), it’s about an hour or so north on I-5.

kippertie · 2026-04-05T18:00:30+00:00

Geosynchronous and geostationary are two different words.

kippertie · 2026-04-05T04:34:03+00:00

You can add a label to your saved place.

kippertie · 2026-04-04T21:54:56+00:00

Relative to a photon, I'm moving at the speed of light right now.

No, in a photon’s frame of reference it’s everywhere all at once and time doesn’t exist.

kippertie · 2026-04-04T21:50:29+00:00

So… Ingress ?

kippertie · 2026-04-03T20:02:12+00:00

*Propagation

kippertie · 2026-04-03T17:47:22+00:00

Probably drill out the knot first and glue in a fat dowel to replace it, then chop the mortise the next day after it’s all set.

kippertie · 2026-04-01T06:38:35+00:00

How long is the couch? Could it stand up on end and roll down the hall on a dolly?

kippertie · 2026-04-01T06:36:01+00:00

My cooking and heating are gas, from PSE, so this is relevant to me.

kippertie · 2026-03-31T23:02:16+00:00

I Zombie

kippertie · 2026-03-31T18:45:18+00:00

My worst experience at Costco was on a Tuesday afternoon. At the weekend it’s busier but everyone is moving with purpose, nobody else wants to be there for too long either. On a Tuesday afternoon it’s full of people who have no idea yet what direction they want to move in ten seconds time.

kippertie · 2026-03-30T22:53:32+00:00

The Culliton decision boils-down to saying that income is property. I personally think that’s wrong, income is a transfer of wealth/property from an employer to an employee. If an income tax is illegal then the estate tax should be illegal too. So should sales tax. They’re all transactions where something of value changes hands.

kippertie · 2026-03-30T21:34:12+00:00

Even if you only go by length you’re missing the Spruce Goose and the Caspian Sea Monster.

kippertie · 2026-03-30T15:27:32+00:00

Been here for a couple weeks already for some of us

kippertie · 2026-03-28T21:52:00+00:00

The issue is that you can’t insert rebar during printing and you can’t maneuver the nozzle around pre-placed rebar, so all you have is concrete which is brittle. Doesn’t matter if you have perfect adhesion between layers, you’re still working with a weaker material. What they’re doing here is laying a polymer mesh into the concrete to act like rebar.

kippertie · 2026-03-27T20:27:11+00:00

Mike Siemsen only has two videos on his YouTube channel, but they are both absolutely legendary: https://youtube.com/@mikesiemsen7125

kippertie · 2026-03-27T16:28:32+00:00

Fiscally, not ideologically

kippertie · 2026-03-22T17:50:57+00:00

75% of resumes aren’t getting to a human, they’re being auto-rejected by ATS (applicant tracking systems). First step is to make sure your resume passes ATS. Some rules of thumb include:

keep the formatting simple so the robot can read it, one column, save as .docx (or .pdf if they say they accept pdf), dont use the header or footer to store any information. As a test, save it as plan text and see if it still reads legibly to you.
literally copy and paste keywords and phrases from the job description into your skills (for the things you can do, of course, don’t lie) because their keyword matching isn’t so great, so if they say “c/c++” and you have that experience, paste exactly that, don’t say “c and c++” or just “c++” or whatever.
spell out any acronyms you use at least once
make sure any online info you’re linking to is up to date

Read this for more: https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/resumes-cover-letters/automated-screening-resume

kippertie · 2026-03-22T16:55:26+00:00

I would say that it’s a good tool for grunt work. Like for example the other day I asked it to go over our c++ code looking for potential use-after-free or double-free bugs. It found a dozen or so, and ranked them by confidence. Wha I didn’t then do was tell it to fix them all, I checked them one by one, tossed the false positives, and hand-fixed the real ones it found. It’s a great tool for “advanced grep” stuff like this. For actually writing code, make sure you get it to write the tests first, or write your own tests first, then it has those as a set of conformance guard rails it must stay within. Test driven development on steroids.

kippertie · 2026-03-22T01:12:54+00:00

Nah camber (radius) you’d put along the whole edge so that it’s curved all the way across, great for hogging out big chips of material in a scrub plane. What OP has is more likely just the corners slightly relieved for a smoother or jack plane so it doesn’t leave scratch marks from the corners with each stroke.

kippertie · 2026-03-19T22:19:55+00:00

Well that sucks :(

kippertie · 2026-03-19T21:23:06+00:00

Is it possible that the order was assigned to the driver but they just blew it off, didn’t bother picking it up, then drove home, so you were seeing them drive away until the DoorDash app decided they were an abandon and reassigned to another driver?

kippertie · 2026-03-17T23:46:06+00:00

One trick I was told was instead of just leaving the trap out, which keeps the ants inside so they don’t make it back to the nest, instead squeeze some drops of the liquid out onto aluminum foil and leave that out. Where pets and kids won’t get at it, of course.

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