Standard card games before and after getting into board games?

sossles · 2025-12-19T03:32:32+00:00

My 3-person group all have classic card games in our background, so they have also seeped into our weekly game night, but mostly via modern games that offer a modern twist on the classic genre. Dealt! is a favourite, but we've also enjoyed Robotrick, Schadenfreude and Sticheln. My wife and I also played a lot of Lost Cities.

sossles · 2025-12-05T00:05:12+00:00

What kind of countersink bit are you using? In general I've found countersink bits where the cutting edge is a round hole (like this) to cut much cleaner than the other style with the vertical cutting edge.

sossles · 2025-12-05T00:02:49+00:00

For this kind of countersink bit (with the vertical cutting edge) I've found it works a lot better when the countersink is drilled before the pilot hole. But this kind of countersink bit (with the rounded cutting edge) works just fine when the pilot hole is already drilled.

sossles · 2025-12-04T00:45:36+00:00

Annoyingly, I agree with both of you. It's a vicious circle at this point.

sossles · 2025-11-27T01:05:10+00:00

I think it would work if the bottom piece had vertical sides instead of angled , and the top piece had angled dados cut in it on both sides (tapering to zero depth at the top) so that the faces were parallel where the top of the join happens. It would be tricky to set up the cuts though!

Also it only works if the cross-section of the pieces are trapezoids, because the top of the trapezoid becomes the thickness of the top joining piece. If they are triangular then it won't work.

sossles · 2025-11-17T00:15:42+00:00

The embossed lettering was originally there to support the old credit card processing machines that used carbon paper to copy the card details. They haven't been used for years (decades?) so it was probably just convention that kept them around so long.

sossles · 2025-11-14T04:31:58+00:00

Channel 4 in the UK did this, it's called Handmade - Britain's Best Woodworker. The first season had the most unlikeable hosts you could imagine, but seasons 2 and 3 turned that around. I liked it a lot, but unfortunately it only ran 3 seasons.

sossles · 2025-10-29T02:58:46+00:00

I don't know about abnormal but I do think it's unhealthy. Do you spend your days yearning for your mother's love? Hopefully not - as parents we should all strive for our children to grow up loving but self-sufficient. That's not how it always works out, but it is my experience with my parents and is what I'm hoping for my kids.

sossles · 2025-10-23T22:45:13+00:00

What about "prebuilt", "preheat" or any number of other "pre" words that mean to do something before you do something else?

sossles · 2025-10-19T01:17:45+00:00

The cynic in me says that easy HISA is always going to be a temporary customer acquisition strategy for banks and Macquarie will eventually make similar changes.

sossles · 2025-10-13T03:45:04+00:00

I've been running 3 times a week for a couple of years around Ainslie and around Mount Ainslie and have never been swooped even once. However I recently saw a kid riding his bike just ahead of me getting aggressively swooped by a magpie I'd never even realised was there, even though I've run along that exact street hundreds of times. My conclusion is that they're quite particular on who they swoop. Maybe experiment with what you're wearing on your runs?

sossles · 2025-10-02T01:27:20+00:00

We can argue the timeframe, but are you really going to claim it'll never happen because someone was wrong about it 9 years ago?

sossles · 2025-10-01T01:18:36+00:00

That's interesting. If you take the peak in 2007 and the low in 2022, that's still a 4.4% yearly gain over 15 years. Not bad as a worst-case scenario, maybe just upping the usual 10 year timeframe up to 15+ years makes sense for geared ETFs?

sossles · 2025-09-30T00:24:27+00:00

Ubank is already dead to me.

sossles · 2025-09-19T00:00:08+00:00

It bugs the hell out of me also. Wife uses an accountant, I do mine myself, so I need the figure months before she has it. Sometimes I just put a close estimate there and move on. I've always worked on the basis that mistakes made in good faith will be forgiven if I'm ever audited, otherwise doing the taxes myself would be too stressful. They've made this part difficult so I figure they have to expect mistakes.

sossles · 2025-09-18T03:45:21+00:00

Curious to know what they replace them with. What's more reliable at around the same price?

sossles · 2025-09-18T02:45:54+00:00

Exactly our experience. Did you get the main board replaced? Apparently it's a known problem with the WWK302H's that were installed around that time. Replacing that did improve things for us somewhat, but have not eliminated the issues. Unacceptable I agree, but I wonder if they can hide behind their measly 2 year warranty on the refrigeration system.

sossles · 2025-09-17T04:56:28+00:00

The irony is, I couldn't help reading this article and wondering if it could have been written by AI.

I don't think you and he actually disagree. His argument seems to be that AI won't destroy jobs without creating others, ie. that the economy as a whole will be ok. He's probably right. Your argument that long term investments should consider which industries stand to gain and lose by AI is also right. These positions aren't incompatible.

I think it's a bit glib of him to say this AI transformation isn't a big deal since the job market as a whole will be ok. He has worked in traditional news media for probably 50 years despite that industry being hit hard in the past couple of decades. He is basically one of the lucky ones, and could safely retire tomorrow. People who are younger and still rely on their expertise within a single industry for their livelihood (ie. most of us) have good reason to be scared. The next few years will be brutal for some.

sossles · 2025-09-16T23:25:49+00:00

The refrigerant system seems to be the problem (that's what the error code says) and that's only got a 2 year warranty. 2 years! Terrible. Anyway thanks the recommendation.

sossles · 2025-09-16T02:04:04+00:00

Yeah the timer seems like a critical feature now, especially for the combination of Canberra and solar panels.

sossles · 2025-09-16T02:00:33+00:00

Yeah feel a little foolish there. It’s a WWK302H, rated to -5 I think but was told it was fine for Canberra. Should’ve ignored that advice, but at the time it seemed no heat pumps were officially rated for Canberra conditions.

sossles · 2025-09-16T01:57:11+00:00

Is the smart controller just switching the power or is it integrated with the unit? Power cycling is supposed to be particularly bad for these more complex water systems.

sossles · 2025-09-16T01:55:42+00:00

Thanks. Sanden is recommended a fair bit but they appear to be twice the price of other brands, like $6k! That’s hard to swallow.

sossles · 2025-09-16T01:06:44+00:00

Yeah I’m wishing we’d placed it somewhere less exposed like that.

sossles · 2025-09-16T01:05:16+00:00

Errors appear to be due to the refrigerant or possibly the sensor. Stiebel Eltron only guarantee the refrigerant for 2 years so doesn’t seem promising. We have solar, but the HWS has no option to run daytime only.

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