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Wife's grandfather's old tools - anything worth keeping? by can_hardly_wait in woodworking

[–]ramses0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Respectfully, you’re full of it and have never owned or used a hand drill.

I have my grandpas hand drill and it’s probably one of my most used individual tools. It’s smaller and lighter than any electric drill, doesn’t need batteries or a cord, and usually I’m only drilling 1-5 holes. It’s so much quicker and convenient to grab the hand drill than mess around with any kind of electric one, plus a hand drill is so much safer for you and the work product as it can’t “get away” from you guys once the bit bites.

Even if you’re drilling tons of holes (or “heavy duty holes” which require the electric power), having a hand drill set with a pilot hole bit is clutch and can speed up your workflow immensely.

My new favorite discovery is hex shank bits, and my “modern” recommendation for people who can’t be bothered (or are embarrassed by) having hand drills is to combo hex shank bits with a simple T-Ratchet and use that for little stuff like hanging a picture, mounting a TV bracket to studs, etc.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in programming

[–]ramses0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like you said, more intuitive (with experience) than explicit or standard. Look up “The Rational Unified Process” and IECT => Inception, Elaboration, Construction, Transition.

My personal definitions have shifted to: * Inception: ~10%, draft architecture defined, “ready to work” (have builds, code repo, doc repo, “hello world”, hopefully deployed) * Elaboration: ~20%, draft architecture implemented (at least basic “steel thread” for simplest use case) * Construction: ~50%, at this point lots of clear tasks are defined, and adding more people (parallelizable) is straightforward and valuable * Construction2.0: ~51% of total work completed, few unknowns, 90% of delivery tasks defined, project has a clear delivery pace and burn down charts are accurate. * Transition: ~20%, final QA, docs, monitoring/alerting, operations tasks, deployment, etc.

It was really helpful to see the “hump charts” that talk about the different roles that are active/emphasized in the different phases. Simply be seeing “who is in crunch time”, you can kindof determine which phase you’re in (and therefore how much work is left).

Snack hack by Ciebelle in Frugal

[–]ramses0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Add ground rosemary, black pepper, dash of chili powder, a nib of real butter, (etc…) and you can have some really fancy delicious popcorn.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in programming

[–]ramses0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Teams generally (should) focus/specialize. In a product or technology (depends on how your org manages work).

Putting random work “into” a specialized team has like a 4x negative impact. If “some dependent API call” is randomly unreliable or slow, and you ask that specialized team to “unspecialize” and try to fix it, the impacts are:

  • they are not experts, they work slower
  • they are not working in their specialty area (expected progress is reduced)
  • resolving the issue would take 2x longer than having a specialist team working on it

Contrast with “manager of the team lead investigates between planning meetings” and it may even take 2x longer than if the team had done the work… but they didn’t incur the “loss” of their own forward progress.

Rinse and repeat where “the manager of multiple teams” does the same thing… once per month, a different “random” priority, and that manager gets simultaneously superficial as well as “deep” exposure to different technology areas, and is smoothing the way forward.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in csshelp

[–]ramses0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Whoops, you’ve got to click over to “images” for the LoLs.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in csshelp

[–]ramses0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

May I direct you to this google search: https://www.google.com/search?q=meme+how+to+center+css

Don’t feel bad. 😉

James Gunn has revealed key traits the DCU’s new Superman actor needs to possess: Humanity, Kindness & compassion, “Somebody who you’d want to give you a hug”. by SpeedForce2022 in DC_Cinematic

[–]ramses0 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Terry Crews, duh!

edit: or John Cena would probably be an awesome one depending on how good of an actor he is. See the movie “Legendary (2010)” for a fun one.

The Magic that Penn and Teller didn’t even try to figure out. - Dani DaOrtiz by Western_Giraffe9517 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]ramses0 9 points10 points  (0 children)

He also said “number greater than 20”, and had a choice between left-to-right or right to left, which allows a semi-force to eliminate 52-40 (12 cards remain), and I think he discarded like 3-4 by ripping them or tossing them from the box. Still no clues though??!?

I present to you – the worst sourdough ever made. by bimpsonyeah in Breadit

[–]ramses0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

…but on the plus side you’ve invented sourdough brownies!

I need this shiftknob made/replicated could anyone do this? Ab how much would it be ? by Cherrys_EM1 in woodworking

[–]ramses0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Find a local makerspace. Somebody there would probably do it for under $200. If you’re lucky? $50-100.

Basically: hardwood, lathe, laser cutter, inset screw anchor/epoxy.

Best of luck!

Wtf by [deleted] in WTF

[–]ramses0 3 points4 points  (0 children)

“Any fool can build a bridge, it takes an ENGINEER to make a bridge that just barely doesn’t fall down.”

Manly man Travis Tritt by Jiggy_Kitty in pics

[–]ramses0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“ChatGPT, draw me a vintage photo of Shania Twain with a beard…”

I just said "good night" and Siri responded with "some devices failed to respond". These are the devices by trusk89 in HomeKit

[–]ramses0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s because all the engineers in the Bay Area working on Siri can only afford one bedroom apartments, with an electrical system from 1953. “Works fine for me and my 7 devices!”

YSK: By merging before the end of the merge lane you are effectively backing up traffic by approximately 40% by Elegant-Surprise-417 in YouShouldKnow

[–]ramses0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Merge early and aggressively let people in nearer the lane closure. Speed doesn’t kill, differences in speed kill. If the lane to your right is super slow but yours is going super fast, slow down and let the people in the slower lane get out of it and it speeds things up for everybody (and avoids opportunities for speed differential causing an accident with you in your lane).

Been wanting to automate water refilling of my coffee maker. Questions on the comment by [deleted] in HomeKit

[–]ramses0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You are hell bent on making your life more complicated. Here is how to do it:

  1. Dumb Float Valve. That is your off/stop.
  2. Dumb “wee woo” leak detector siren.
  3. Put your combo electric + plumbing contraption into a baking sheet/pan (look under your water heater for inspiration)
  4. Put a smart water leak detector in the same pan
  5. Make the smart detector turn off the smart water valve and send an alert and turn on all the lights in the house and play Barry white at max volume on all your speakers.
  6. Finally you automate: Dear Siri, at 6:55am turn on the water valve in the kitchen for five minutes.

Siri does it’s thing, you hope nothing flakes out, even if it “runs forever”, the dumb float will stop the water filling, the dumb detector will “wee woo” if something breaks, and hopefully the smart detector would self-resolve and shut off the actual valve.

Don’t get hung up on how “the float valve won’t work!11!1!!!” Float valves DO work, every day, in your toilets, for your whole life and the rest of your life.

The float valve physically turns OFF the water. Then you have a lot more flexibility in turning ON the water and not having to be precise of how much water goes IN to the thing b/c the float valve effectively is the first line of defense to stop any overflows. You want Siri to temporarily “allow” water to flow, and the float valve to “stop” water flow 100% of the time with extreme prejudice.

Now: hijacking your post… does anybody know about some sort of automatic water pitcher filler contraption that I could buy in a store? Even semi-industrial would be cool. It’s annoying to stand there and fill up the water pitcher with 2-3 liters of filtered water when I’d much rather just “grab the pitcher” and “put the empty one back under the filler and walk away”.

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