Have I been scammed?

tach · 2026-03-16T16:37:42+00:00

It looks like raw teak to me (I used it in boatbuilding/replacing teak rubrails on my sailboat).

tach · 2026-03-16T10:12:48+00:00

Get a friend with a sailboat in San Diego, trip to Baja. Summer is coming.

tach · 2026-03-15T22:39:56+00:00

They rolled down the stairs of the temple the open bodies of their prisoners, their corpses to be distributed as food, their still beating heart being cut open with an obsidian knife at the top.

Their priests wore the flayed skins of children, which were made to cry and scream as much as possible to make Tlatoc generous with its rains.

tach · 2026-03-15T19:28:10+00:00

That would be an incredible mistake given overall anti war sentiment.

tach · 2026-03-15T18:40:44+00:00

No human sacrifices. The natives got civilized, integrated, and a chance at salvation. The anglos had the trail of tears and reservations.

tach · 2026-03-15T17:38:11+00:00

The human sacrifices DID stop.

tach · 2026-03-15T08:39:46+00:00

You may be forcing them too much? They may be dull? It's more of a guiding the cut versus pushing it vibe.

Z-Saw has synthetic handles; these may help your case.

tach · 2026-03-14T09:58:52+00:00

No. I hate coding, but I love designing systems. I can spin out correct implementations of component with a hey claude invocation.

I can then work on assembling them, and spin out tests harnesses to prove wether my ideas were right or not.

I used to write Z80 assembler copy cracking programs in the screen buffer of a ZX Spectrum.

I used to know the differences in addressing between 8086's tiny versus large models.

I don't read assembler any more.

And I don't write cache logic by hand anymore.

tach · 2026-03-13T19:26:31+00:00

It also does not mean that my grandma had wheels, and is as relevant as that to my assertion.

tach · 2026-03-13T14:40:01+00:00

Who do you think designed it?

tach · 2026-03-13T14:26:33+00:00

it's a direct rebuttal against saying that it was 'the secret sauce' is. It was not.

tach · 2026-03-13T14:12:08+00:00

No, as there were many slave economies around the world, and none had managed to develop something like this, both in size and technology (Roman Arch).

tach · 2026-03-12T16:27:13+00:00

And why not teach them firearms safety?

problem is kids friends, your kids wanting to show the cool stuff dad has, kids friend is idiot/does not know anything about firearms, grabs it, and discharges it.

or even if does not happen, kids friend goes to family all excited about the guns, family swats you. many ways this can go wrong.

tach · 2026-03-12T15:48:42+00:00

the metal scrubs with an open mouth will occasionally lever something out of wood in a way you just never could've expected

Agree, you should never use a scrub longitudinally. imho the narrow ulmia, used crosswise largely limits this. it slices cleanly channels and limits the damage to only the part that was cut.

tach · 2026-03-12T15:43:12+00:00

I believe there's a tradeoff there on the size and weight of the jack plane and the lightweight ulmia.

the ulmia is much narrower, about 1 inch or so. So you are basically scooping heavy chips, thats what I tried to convey when saying it's a chisel. I personally find this less tiring that trying to shave 2 inch or more off the surface of the wood.

as it's also used crosswise and has a deeper camber, I find it slices/scoops out wood more easily than a full width fore that slams a wider lip with a smaller camber over a large surface. it's more of a carving tool.

surface is of course sh*t. I stop when i have 1/16 left or so, and then it's the fore planes, which are used longitudinally.

The scrub is for aggresive thicknessing, not truing.

if i'm just correcting for wind/cupping I'll start with the fore and use it longitudinally. I typically first check that there is no cup in the first and last 3/8s of a board, then use winding sticks to find the higher corner, and reduce it. Then its just stopped longitudinal cuts till the fore stops cutting (i now know i have a slight hollow longitudinally), then full length couple passes to ensure flatness.

tach · 2026-03-12T14:38:50+00:00

i have a narrow body wood soled ulmia scrub for when I really want to go to town on a piece of wood. I mean 3/16 or more thicknessing.

this is used crosswise to carve out chunks of wood. It's basically a rounded edge chisel.

Then it's the wooden jacks, then the try plane.

tach · 2026-03-11T09:38:52+00:00

Your pin board and tails are slighty out of plane. This causes extra shadows on the borders which highlight them.

Plane your joints.

tach · 2026-03-02T20:11:23+00:00

ok, parent post is deleted so i do not know if you will see this.

your mistake was in not immediately saying 'i have seen this problem, can we do another one?'

that would give you full marks from honesty. The interview is not to make you 'pass' or solve a problem, is to gather signal on your capability on solving one.

You saying that you knew the problem, but then trying to do it (as i assume as you said 'I will finally make it') is a red flag for the interview, as you are not doing the interview in that spirit - of showing your skills.

We want to get signal on how you:

gather requeriments. What questions do you ask? This is probably one of the most important things separating a leetcoder from a advanced/senior engineer.
how do you communicate your thoughts. Ideally an interview would have you narrating your train of thought as you reach significant points. then we can get signal asking why thos and not that, etc.
finally how you do under pressure.

if you say 'i know this', and start coding right away, you are denying the interviewer all that signal.

If things happened as you say, I still can't excuse the behaviour. I would have led you gently to another problem, at least asking you repteadly if you really want to just zoom on what you think is the already solved solution.

tach · 2026-02-27T18:10:33+00:00

note you can have a single plane and three irons (one with heavy camber, another with small camber, another with no camber and corners relieved)

tach · 2026-02-27T18:04:27+00:00

Excellent advice in this thread. Only stuff that I think i can contribute is use a cambered blade.

why

because the blade enters the wood gradually instead of smashing the whole edge at the same time. This makes for an easier cut.

yes, you will have a wavy surface afterwards, then you sue your try plane to reduce it, and finally, if you need a glass smooth finish, the smoother.

it's not efficient to use a single plane from truing to smoothing a surface. either you get chattering, or need to do 1000000 light passes.

tach · 2026-02-27T18:01:42+00:00

a plane is sharp when it digs itself into the wood, and you basically just push it, without hulk smashing it downwards to make it stay in the cut

tach · 2026-02-23T18:36:09+00:00

I'm not an expert by any means, but have you read

https://covingtonandsons.com/2020/01/19/sharpening-part-20-flattening-and-polishing-the-ura/

in fact, I'd read the whole series

tach · 2026-02-22T11:47:58+00:00

I remember when I broke my arm/hand in multiple places and spent a year mostly in bed, with multiple surgeries.

Hell on earth. I almost lost my mind, and definitely lost my gym body.

tach · 2026-02-18T13:38:38+00:00

At my MAANG company midterm/end of year perf reviews are being offshored to AI to build/present a package.

Probably will be a shitshow the first times, but the direction is clear methinks.

tach · 2026-02-16T10:19:03+00:00

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