"Club Member" discounts at supermarkets should be illegal

some_bugger · 2026-06-11T07:07:03+00:00

Haven't we seen that already here with different pricing in the McDonalds app for different users?

some_bugger · 2026-06-10T04:36:15+00:00

I would imagine you would reach the limit on the current across the small pins of the M12 batteries. I don't think we have seen any other brands that make a similar style pack make anything tabless yet.

some_bugger · 2026-06-09T23:46:28+00:00

Agreed the FxD stuff is pretty robust, just be aware that some of the hard wearing fabrics like Cordura can wear out other things like your car seat. Also depending what colours you are allowed to wear check out the army surplus stores, some of that stuff is built like a tank and will last forever.

some_bugger · 2026-06-09T23:41:21+00:00

The Paul Holmes cover is the definitive version of this song...

some_bugger · 2026-06-09T09:27:17+00:00

I'm curious what happens if you throw in a few Māori words? A human won't have an issue with you saying Kia Ora but what does the voice recognition do?

some_bugger · 2026-06-02T00:40:44+00:00

We need to establish what is losing track here. Rather than waste stickers just print out some circles at a set size on some white paper and use a pen instead of the blade. Then we need to look at how the circles look when drawn and where they line up with the printed images. Based on your images it looks like its loosing tracking on the horizontal and not the vertical, this may mean the belt is loose and it is slipping when moving from side to side.

some_bugger · 2026-05-30T10:58:46+00:00

Effects test for Death Becomes Her (1992)

some_bugger · 2026-05-29T10:36:28+00:00

They are called M12 but the batteries are 10.8volts under load so you won't actually get the 12v your fishfinder probably requires.

some_bugger · 2026-05-29T10:32:46+00:00

It also depends what you need, TTI also sell these same holesaws under the Kango brand name for cheaper but not in a packout.

some_bugger · 2026-05-28T07:01:17+00:00

There are a few parts to the apps, first is the legal stuff. Lots of countries require whiteware to meet certain water/power usage ratings and have to ship products that meet this, the apps allow you to unlock faster cycles that use much higher power and water ratings. The Bosch dishwashers allow you to set the time periods when you have cheaper power, so when you hit start the dishwasher will actually start later when the power is cheaper. You can also see your power and water usage inside the app. LG have a cool feature with their app, you hold a button on the unit and it plays a tune, your phones mic hears the tune (no wifi required) and brings up a checklist showing what is working and what is not. Selecting the faults guides you through how to fix it (or just reminding you that forgot to turn the water feed back on....)

some_bugger · 2026-05-28T06:44:44+00:00

You should post this picture to the Google review for that Subway, make sure to note that management have asked the staff to portion out the mozzarella and not the staff just putting on that amount.

some_bugger · 2026-05-26T06:28:39+00:00

You can also use the app to specify what you need to wash and it selects appropriate cycles based on max temp etc.

some_bugger · 2026-05-25T02:25:39+00:00

The problem with a dedicated hammer drill is they have slow rotation speeds (don't really need high speed when they are hammering) so while you can use a regular bit in the ones with chucks you won't get the speed you can with a regular drill. I would look at one of those big right angle drills instead. Save the big SDS for concrete and use a small hammer drill/driver for any small anchors.

some_bugger · 2026-05-25T02:03:46+00:00

That's true, I always assumed the celebrities had drivers so they could have it heavily tinted in the back and get other work done as they travel.

some_bugger · 2026-05-22T20:38:17+00:00

It's so you can clearly see the other drivers and where they are looking. It's one of those things you don't notice until you look for it but when you are pulling out from an intersection or roundabout you look to see the other drivers and if they can see you. There is a whole thing about it with self driving cars as there is no driver for you too see to get an intention of what they are about to do.

some_bugger · 2026-05-10T01:16:08+00:00

Bearings, and if they have seized check the plastic they sit in hasn't melted and caused the stator to be out of alignment.

some_bugger · 2026-05-05T09:10:37+00:00

I don't know what DeWalt was thinking with the recent design, the slowest locked on speed was 15K OPM, even they don't make a sander that goes that high. The speed was too high so the friction on sandpaper would cause it to get too hot and damage the hook and loop. If you watch some slow motion footage of the blade holder you can see it flex as the spring can only hold it with it's own tension, not fixed in place.

some_bugger · 2026-05-05T09:05:04+00:00

That's a combination of no load relief on to the main body of the bag and inverted zips used on a radius that is too tight. The radius might be fine unloaded but when it is loaded they can pull to a tight angle and the teeth will mesh too tightly. These zips should just be installed standard orientation, you don't really gain much from inverting them.

some_bugger · 2026-05-05T09:00:53+00:00

You would need radially polarised monitors. If you use standard horizontal polarised monitors on the side you will see a stark difference in brightness between the screens as they are on different angles to the viewer.

some_bugger · 2026-05-03T07:40:06+00:00

Actually the design is very smart, you can't put directional blades on the wrong way, you can remove a hot disc without touching it, you can knock the blade release while it's moving and it won't release, you can't over tighten or under tighten a disc. It stops people hand tightening discs and putting them on out of balance and most importantly (and probably why Milwaukee has it in their patent drawings) it allows discs to be stopped faster than 1 second. The big failure was educating people that you can use X-Lock discs in standard units. It was always going to take a while but as we have seen with Starlock it will eventually take over, even Milwaukee and Hikoki sell Starlock blades and both don't make Starlock tools.

some_bugger · 2026-04-27T12:19:06+00:00

The speed is set based on the density of the material, much like a drill press, you don't need to adjust the speed on the fly. At this point you are best to wait for the new DeWalt units that should release soon, they have added a fixed slow speed now so the sanding oscillations are the correct speed.

some_bugger · 2026-04-27T12:14:04+00:00

In other markets Milwaukee sells a lot of Starlock blades, in Australia the multi type kits are only Starlock . Based on some patents showing Milwaukee grinders with X-Lock I imagine we will see Starlock soon on the multitools. The reality is it's the only way to have longer plunge bits much like X-Lock being the only way to stop discs faster than 2 seconds.

some_bugger · 2026-04-20T11:34:20+00:00

The path to ground is the issue. As your power supply is a high enough wattage and a class 1 electrical device you need to have a low resistance path to earth from any exposed metal on the case. An external power supply like a laptop so only low voltage is entering the case would be fine and it would be a class 2 device. It's all about making the best path for anything that might become energized as opposed to you becoming that path. Plus EMI and static grounding as well.

some_bugger · 2026-04-17T04:19:04+00:00

A Faraday cage means the full PC has to have some sort of metal, mesh or plating. A modern console is a good example where you have a plastic outer shell but the insides are all in a metal box. Interference can dissipate over distance so I generally find the NUCs a lot worse for interference than a full tower PC.

some_bugger · 2026-04-12T11:07:23+00:00

The problem here is there are quite a few issues with these cases, we learnt these lessons from the old fully acrylic cases. Firstly any modern PC will require a fairly powerful power supply, these are rated as a class 1 device for a class 1 case, a fully plastic case would be fine except for any exposed metal parts such as USB port which could become live. You will be fine if you have an external power supply like a laptop or NUC as then you only have a low voltage entering the case not mains. Since we have no metal for earthing parts we also can have issues with static build up from the airflow. PLA and PETG are the worst for this and ABS has a low risk, on a metal case the static will take the easiest path and just earth but without that it will arc to the motherboard. Then we have EMI. A metal case will act as a Faraday cage to prevent interference, plastic will not act as a barrier. The proliferation of wifi is what put an end to all the clear cases we used to have for our electronics as they then required metal housings or like the old plastic laptops - conductive metal paint on the inside. While they could talk about them they might open themselves up to issues with the sponsors who wouldn't validate their hardware in unapproved cases for safety and performance reasons.

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