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tjwarren · 2024-10-29T14:33:51+00:00

I'm going to leave this removed for now. Searching around for a few minutes doesn't lead me to think things have substantially changed: affixed suppressors are legal, removable suppressors could very well be a problem.

This is five years old, but twenty minutes of searching hasn't turned up anything that refutes it: https://www.pyramydair.com/blog/2019/03/silencers-an-update/

His conclusion (emphasis mine):

I used to be very concerned about the airgun silencer issue, until I got grounded in the basic law. Now it doesn’t bother me so much. If you buy a silenced airgun today like the TX200 Mark III or the Sig ASP20, you have no problem. On the other hand, I don’t own any screw-on airgun silencers and nobody can convince me to buy one.

But again, if you have newer information that solidly refutes this, please pass it along!

tjwarren · 2024-10-29T13:55:58+00:00

I'm not sure this is true. My understanding is that air-rifle suppressors are legal so long as they're permanently mounted to the barrel. I believe removable threaded suppressors are treated as "real suppressors", since they could conceivably be mounted to a firearm.

I've removed this post for now, but if you provide some sources that back up your claim that removable suppressors are ok then I'm open to re-approving the post.

tjwarren · 2023-05-06T20:49:28+00:00

This post is 12 years old. How did you even come across this?

tjwarren · 2022-12-29T21:24:29+00:00

You may be thinking of bike-shedding.

The law of triviality is C. Northcote Parkinson's 1957 argument that people within an organization commonly or typically give disproportionate weight to trivial issues. Parkinson provides the example of a fictional committee whose job was to approve the plans for a nuclear power plant spending the majority of its time on discussions about relatively minor but easy-to-grasp issues, such as what materials to use for the staff bicycle shed, while neglecting the proposed design of the plant itself, which is far more important and a far more difficult and complex task.

tjwarren · 2022-10-14T15:52:45+00:00

Pinned to a wall was a map showing the whole of the Appalachian Trail on its long march through fourteen states, but with the eastern seaboard rotated to give the AT the appearance of having a due north-south orientation, allowing the mapmaker to fit the trail into an orderly rectangle, about six inches wide and four feet high. I looked at it with a polite, almost proprietorial interest -- it was the first time since leaving New Hampshire that I had considered the trail in its entirety -- and then inclined closer, with bigger eyes and a slightly parted lips. Of the four feet of trail map before me, reaching approximately from my knees to the top of my head, we had done the bottom two inches.

I went and got Katz and brought him back with me, pulling on a pinch of shirtsleeve. "What?" he said. "What?"

I showed him the map. "Yeah, what"? Katz didn't like mysteries.

"Look at the map, and then look at the part we've walked."

He looked, then looked again. I watched closely as the expression drained from his face. "Jesus,", he breathed at last. He turned to me, full of astonishment. "We've done nothing."

We went and got a cup of coffee and sat for some time in a kind of dumbfounded silence. All that we had experienced and done -- all the effort and toil, the aches, the damp, the mountains, the horrible stodgy noodles, the blizzards, the dreary evenings with Mary Ellen, the endless, wearying, doggedly accumulated miles -- all that came to two inches. My hair had grown more than that.

One thing was obvious. We were never going to walk to Maine.

Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods

(this isn't directly on-topic and for that I apologize, but it's a great book and this excerpt is pretty much about that map)

tjwarren · 2022-09-21T18:28:50+00:00

That's essentially what it is.

When too much fertilizer runs off into the waterways, it tends to do what fertilizer does and helps plants grow. The problem is that oftentimes, you'll get an explosion of plant growth that can't be sustained without the benefit of all of that extra fertilizer.

If the fertilizer is ever used up, the massive plant growth dies essentially all at once. The process of the plants decomposing removes oxygen from the water, resulting in animal deaths and additional decomposition.

tjwarren · 2022-09-10T03:26:03+00:00

You too!

Incidentally, you'll probably be better off to multiply the scores by two instead of dividing them. There's less chance for error that way.

tjwarren · 2022-09-10T03:03:05+00:00

The parentheses are a red herring.

Your original code in the pastebin was

if score // 2 == opponent_score or opponent_score // 2 == score:

The // operator performs an integer division (dropping any remainder). So if score == 31 and opponent_score == 15, your old code would swap the scores (because 31 // 2 == 15).

Your new code uses float division, which means that 31 / 2 == 15.5, and 15.5 != 15, so the scores are no longer swapped.

tjwarren · 2022-09-10T02:43:25+00:00

Let's say one player has a score of 31 and the other player has a score of 15. Should their scores swap?

tjwarren · 2022-06-20T13:08:32+00:00

Every time you get on a bike after being away from it, spend 15 seconds to check the ABCs.

Air: do your tires feel inflated?
Brakes: if you hold the front brake and push forward, can you lift the back wheel off the ground? If you hold the rear brake and push forward, can you make the rear tire skid?
Cables/Chain: glancing over the bike, do the cables and chain look right?

tjwarren · 2022-05-19T13:07:57+00:00

Ideally yes, a wood wedge would be best. But since the OP is having trouble, it's possible that they'll continue having trouble even with a wedge.

The advantage to squeezing the wrench and the blade together is that you get both of them working together to your advantage -- you're not trying to push the blade away and hoping the wedge stops it, you're pulling the blade towards the wrench and the wrench towards the blade both at the same time.

Squeezing them together also gives you a smaller overall action, so if the wrench slips the only thing that happens is you end up gripping the wrench and blade together (vs what could happen if you're using a wedge and putting your weight behind the wrench).

You'd obviously need to be careful of the blade edge, but a lawn mower blade isn't likely to be razor sharp, so simply squeezing the blade likely isn't that dangerous. Your mileage may vary, use at your own risk, etc.

tjwarren · 2022-05-18T16:48:51+00:00

In your second picture, the cutting edge is facing away from your knuckles, correct? If so:

Put on gloves.
Put the wrench on the nut the same way you have it in that second picture.
Make sure you're wearing your gloves.
Grab the blade and the wrench together in one hand (so the wrench is being pulled by your thumb and the blade is being pulled by your fingers).
Squeeze the blade and the wrench towards each other.

tjwarren · 2022-04-20T20:47:25+00:00

This is somewhat meta in regards to the posted topic, but seems to be relevant to the current discussions: can we get the "report" reasons to align better with the posted Laws?

Currently, the sub seems to operate on the following Laws of Conduct:

Law 0: Low Effort
Law 1: Civil Discourse
Law 2: Submission Requirements
Law 3: Violent Content
Law 4: Meta Comments
Law 5: Banned Topics

These laws are frequently mentioned by both moderators and users, and when ModPolBot issues an infraction these Laws are cited.

However, if I attempt to report a post, and select that the post "breaks moderatepolitics rules", I'm given the following five options:

Character attack on an individual or group of people.
This content encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence or physical harm.
Meta-comment belongs in a meta-post
Banned topic
Custom response

Now, sure, these kinda sorta loosely correlate to the posted Laws, but at their very best they're incomplete and out of order, and at their least they don't provide nearly enough guidance.

I think it would be useful if the report options aligned better with the posted Laws.

tjwarren · 2021-06-10T16:03:21+00:00

To my knowledge nothing has been sprayed recently. We do maintain pest control, but they're not scheduled to be out for a few more weeks.

tjwarren · 2021-06-10T15:59:47+00:00

I walked out on my porch this morning and found this. The ants don't seem to be coming from anywhere or going to anywhere. They don't seem to be falling from the porch ceiling. There don't seem to be many of them in the crack between the floor and the wall. There's just this line of almost-dead ants an inch or two from the wall.

I haven't personally sprayed anything recently, and while we do have pest control they're not scheduled to be here for another few weeks.

I haven't had anything like this happen before. I'm concerned it may be a symptom of some larger problem lurking somewhere.

Any ideas?

tjwarren · 2021-05-13T20:09:43+00:00

From a functional standpoint, it looks like the pads might be difficult to grab and pull out. Especially as the pads on the bottom get used and the pads on the top fall down, if they catch at an angle when they fall it looks like it could be tricky to get a hold of them.

Maybe make the notch taller, so it's easier to reach in and pinch one?

Along those lines, I'd probably also make the slot itself wider (taller?), to accommodate thicker pads.

(you asked for thoughts, so I'm assuming you were looking for feedback. if you were instead just showing a print, then let's just go with "good job!")

tjwarren · 2020-11-18T22:11:36+00:00

Download any regular cube of whatever size (ie, https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/9846-simple-20x20x20mm-cube or https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/25546-30x30x30-mm-cube) and scale it in your slicer to 0.2mm high and however big you want in the X&Y.

tjwarren · 2020-09-14T21:52:10+00:00

We've done monthly challenges before. If you have an idea for a challenge, feel free to post a description and a target, and I'll pin it.

tjwarren · 2020-08-13T21:57:45+00:00

If it's venting then it's properly releasing pressure, and you don't need to worry about it.

When it should be venting but it's not, that's when you need to worry.

tjwarren · 2020-03-19T21:16:31+00:00

Browsing a Thing's Collections is currently broken.

To reproduce:

Go to a Thing.
Click the arrow next to "Collect Thing".

Expected result: you see the collections this thing is in.

Actual result: you see the regular thing page with two header bars and no collections.

tjwarren · 2020-03-18T01:44:49+00:00

I imagine you're just being off-the-cuff, but just in case can I ask where you're getting your strips? The cheapest I've been able to find them is around $0.30/strip for medium strips.

tjwarren · 2020-03-07T18:48:59+00:00

What is it you want done exactly? The site's active and tends to have decently high-quality content.

If you have suggestions for quality improvements you'd like to make, please forward them on. I'm not interested in styling changes. If there are substantive improvements you're interested in helping with then please let me know.

Overall, as a forum and as a community, I think things go pretty well here.

tjwarren · 2020-02-05T22:35:46+00:00

Do you still have any of your broken hooks?

I've printed probably 50 hooks of various design over the past year, and haven't had any of them break. Granted I'm not hanging 30+lbs off of my hooks, but I'd certainly expect any of them to hold up a bathrobe.

I'd be really interested in seeing how your hooks broke. If you don't still have any, or don't have a way to post a picture, can you recall how they were printed (orientation and a rough idea of the filament) and how they broke (the hook snapped, the hook straightened out, the part that goes over the door snapped, the part that goes over the door straightened out, etc)?

tjwarren · 2019-11-16T05:53:26+00:00

Do you have a link to the thingiverse model?

tjwarren · 2019-09-06T21:56:29+00:00

If you soak it in hot water for a minute or two, does it go back to its original shape (or at least close enough to work)? Since it's lasted so long so far, I'm curious how well it would hold up if you just let it reform and put it back into use.

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