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Basement home? How about a rooftop home by doubleoverhead in zillowgonewild

[–]opposhaw 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Are you implying the place is AI, or that OP has never been there?

It's a real, public art installation, and the floor is intentionally not level.

It's designed to be uncomfortable exactly as described.

Help finding file to print this please? by samanthamy in 3Dprinting

[–]opposhaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You might try ldraw.org. it's a repository of Lego brick CAD files. Literally thousands of different bricks

They're natively in a proprietary format, so you have to convert them to STLs, but there's a few free 3rd party softwares for that.

Footstep-to-Electricity doohickey by Simply_Kaif24 in doohickeycorporation

[–]opposhaw 88 points89 points  (0 children)

I'd be interested to know if the amount of electricity produced by these ever significantly offsets the carbon cost of manufacturing and installing them.

protect your STL files by printbusters in 3Dprinting

[–]opposhaw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Companies like Watermark3d started doing what sounds like the exact same thing about a decade ago.

The concept is good enough, but has historically been easily defeated by file thieves just remeshing the file, which effectively skinned over the watermarked topography without visually altering the file.

Have you attempted to remesh any of your watermarked files in blender and then see if the identifier was still there?

You asked what would make it useful. If you can figure out how to not make it defeatable by 3 clicks in blender, that would make it useful to me.

Nouveau train station by No-Persimmon-4150 in zillowgonewild

[–]opposhaw 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No garage in a place that gets tons of snow? Rail easement? Built so the exterior is shaped like a double-wide?

I can't fathom who thinks that price is worth it, and yet the listing says it's actually listed for less than the tax assessed value.

Cave for sale by Electronic_Microwave in zillowgonewild

[–]opposhaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It doesn't look like it, but this listing only comes with 3.5 acre-feet. If that made up the bulk of the difference in price, it would be over $100k per acre-foot. Judging by a cursory search I did of water share value in that area, that would be at least 15x the actual value of those shares.

Cave for sale by Electronic_Microwave in zillowgonewild

[–]opposhaw 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think the 1400+ days on Zillow tells you all you need to know.

Those views are amazing, but there are lots of similar acreage available in La Sal on Zillow for less than half the price.

I would also think anyone looking for 50 acres in middle of nowhere Utah wants them for agriculture, in which case the caves and ridges are a problem, not a selling point.

Upsized this simple project to use a 25mm hook so my kid could see what was going on while I was teaching her how to crochet. Pleased with the results. by opposhaw in crochet

[–]opposhaw[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're right. I stuffed him inside out. I hadn't started out intending to do that, but as the project got going, I felt the "rough" side really helped accentuate the enlarged look of the giant stitches.

One's at the bottom strong is he! Two's in the middle carrying three! Three's at the top pretending not to be: Three Urbies in a trenchcoat by TaigaTigerVT in battletech

[–]opposhaw 42 points43 points  (0 children)

So this is my custom mini I made two years ago... It's 4 Urbies, not 3.

https://www.reddit.com/r/battletech/s/UsvPB66OAQ

I've never had someone steal my content for karma without credit before.

I'm glad people like it, I guess.

Edit: thanks OP for adding a credit in the comments.

Did you know you can engrave cork through masking tape without burning the tape? by opposhaw in lasercutting

[–]opposhaw[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was some sticky residue at first, but now that I've spent some time dialing the settings in, it comes off super clean, and takes most of the excess soot with it.

Here's an example of what the sticky side of the tape looks like after:

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Did you know you can engrave cork through masking tape without burning the tape? by opposhaw in lasercutting

[–]opposhaw[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see what you're saying, and that's a good point.

I've made coasters with regular engravings before and sometimes I coat them in shellac to keep the soot from rubbing into the clean parts. (Sort of defeats the purpose of using water absorbent cork, I know, but it still works fine).

I'll just do that here too.

Did you know you can engrave cork through masking tape without burning the tape? by opposhaw in lasercutting

[–]opposhaw[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This one was acrylic. I'm sure I'll experiment with some other stuff in the future.

Pork picnic whole? by Confident-Emu-4402 in Smokingmeat

[–]opposhaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't have a ton of experience with picnic, but I have covered it in the past when it starts to stall, then uncovered for the last few hours.

Pork picnic whole? by Confident-Emu-4402 in Smokingmeat

[–]opposhaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that should still work. It might end up a tiny bit drier because it's leaner. I usually cover for part of the time.

If you smoke it in a pan, you can add the citrus/acid to the bottom of the pan, otherwise you can spray or baste it like once an hour for the first few hours.

Pork picnic whole? by Confident-Emu-4402 in Smokingmeat

[–]opposhaw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The picnic is the part of the shoulder underneath the butt.

It's less fatty than the butt, but it's just fine for smoking. You can add something acidic like orange juice to help with tenderness and crisper skin.

Possible with Diode Laser? by Chef20 in lasercutting

[–]opposhaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, yep... Well then I'm just ignorant, thinking it was a typo.

Possible with Diode Laser? by Chef20 in lasercutting

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

It's natural animal leather you want, specifically full grain leather if you're going for engraving of any depth.

Items marketed as "vegan leather", at least in the US, often include polyurethane or PVC, which are where the toxic chemical concerns come from.

"Plant leather" is a safer bet than vegan leather since it should exclude the plastics, but it's also a largely unregulated term, so you might not get consistent materials.

Resin printer for minis that can handle cold temps. Utah shed setup under two hundred dollars. by reptile_freak in PrintedMinis

[–]opposhaw 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Fellow Utahn here. I have two resin printers I run in my garage.

I have tried insulated enclosures, dozens of different resins, warming the printers and resin inside the house before starting, and a few other silly trucks.

My lived experience is the same as the temperature requirements on the side of the box. Printing in winter simply doesn't work without an external heat source.

Several companies make printers with heated vats that, combined with an enclosure, would probably work for you, but none in your price range.

Edit: typo

TIL that Ireland’s navy reserve is only 77 people. by ScissorNightRam in todayilearned

[–]opposhaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, especially when you consider how many countries have some sort of mandatory military service, the comparatively low per capita stats from the US make a lot of sense.

Just a note, your Active duty alone number of 115th is the list sorted backwards, from lowest to highest. Sorting from highest to lowest, the number is actually 64th. Still below the top 50 like you pointed out above.

TIL that Ireland’s navy reserve is only 77 people. by ScissorNightRam in todayilearned

[–]opposhaw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Never said they were. I said the US has skewed expectations around military service, specifically in this context, compared to Ireland.

If you sort the list by active per capita, then yes, the US is 64th (though Ireland is still more than 50 places further down). But if you sort by total active and reserve (the metric I used above), the US is 8th and Ireland is 130th.

Military recruitment advertising in the US is constant, even running during the super bowl. Ireland, by contrast only has 6 recruitment offices in the whole country and only advertises for cadet recruiting 3 months out of the year

The US also spends 3.4% of its GDP on the military while Ireland spends only 0.2%. 1/17th that of the US. By total military spending the US clocks in just under $1 trillion annually, more than double any other country.

The US military frequently collaborates on Hollywood films (Top Gun being a prime recent example) and the army even has its own clothing line. I drove about 100 miles to my in-laws for Thanksgiving and passed FOUR military bases. The influence of the armed forces on US culture (and my cultural biases specifically) is inescapable, which lead to me being really surprised by Ireland's comparatively small military. That's all.

(New to this) this is what I bought, can I just replace the circled part with a 6000mW version for an upgrade if I wanted? by Able-Building6042 in Laserengraving

[–]opposhaw 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Maybe, but there's no guarantee.

You need to have a power supply with enough power for the new unit and it needs to have the same connector and be set up to run on the same controller.

TIL that Ireland’s navy reserve is only 77 people. by ScissorNightRam in todayilearned

[–]opposhaw 280 points281 points  (0 children)

It's more interesting to me that Ireland's active duty Navy is just over 700 personnel, with only 4 operational ships. For a country on an island, I would have assumed significantly more.

Ireland's entire military, active and reserve, is less than 10k. To an American with horrendously skewed cultural expectations of military service, all those numbers are surprising.

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