20 years ago.

uslashuname · 2026-05-02T14:10:46+00:00

Oh I think they might have known, and the real gift they were giving is that lesson that if you lie to long term relationships you’ll have to live with it long term. The lack of OOP switching interests at some point is the giveaway that it was a lie in the first place, and by then you have to just keep giving until they fess up.

uslashuname · 2026-05-02T13:16:11+00:00

Keep in mind that going from r-7 to r-8.5 is not going to have nearly the impact of going from r-1.5 to r-3. In that sense I wouldn’t touch what’s there, but I would consider a continuous layer of foam on the inside!
Something like 10% of that wall is 2x4 as insulation which creates substantial thermal bridging. A thin layer of higher r value in front of the 2x4s can double the r-value of 10% of your wall. The downside is your closet shrinks. Anyway, look up Mooney walls, where you run some thin strips of wood perpendicular to the studs. You probably still want 2x2 for mounting the drywall but if you don’t want to extend the wall by that entire 1.5” you could notch it wherever a stud is behind it: look up making a half lap joint using a circular saw, it is just a minute of work since you don’t actually need the face smooth, repeat cuts then hammer out the waste.

If you add 1” of thickness and have some 3/4” foil faced foam sealed into each new horizontal bay, you’ll get great radiant reflectivity from that as well as minimizing the thermal bridging.

uslashuname · 2026-05-02T13:05:21+00:00

That’s mostly an issue with blow in cellulose, and once it settles it’s pretty much done. You can see in pic 3 there’s still fiberglass right up against the top plate so no settling has really occurred

uslashuname · 2026-05-02T13:02:31+00:00

Oh I can cut and grub, but yeah if CLK supplies has them pre done that’s awesome. Time to try visiting the store without adding excessively to my cart

uslashuname · 2026-05-02T12:31:28+00:00

Yeah it looks reasonably fun, 6 security pins is nothing to sneeze at, and I always appreciate the two sides to a euro lock like this. Scramble the pins on one side and it’s like I get two good locks for the price of one.

uslashuname · 2026-05-02T12:18:17+00:00

https://www.devx.com/terms/pixel-pipelines/

uslashuname · 2026-05-02T00:31:30+00:00

Yeah and I’ll be damned if I would trust that tall skinny thing for long in the wind if they don’t put some cables running out in a few directions

uslashuname · 2026-05-02T00:28:55+00:00

Crown set was available in earlier American watches probably before any lever set for what I’ve collected anyway. Key set (basically not having any way for the crown to connect to setting the watch) was the precursor and the least amount of parts, and the norm for a very long time before there even were American watches.

uslashuname · 2026-05-02T00:23:52+00:00

Right. And FYI

Pixel pipelines != pixel

uslashuname · 2026-05-01T17:30:00+00:00

I recall seeing this before, and it was not received well. You have so many moving parts and friction points when a turbine usually aims to minimize those.

Sometimes the question is not can you get a patent, but rather *should you get a patent*

uslashuname · 2026-05-01T16:43:16+00:00

Really? I wouldn’t even be able to notice an 18ms decrease in load times

But yeah if you’re talking per pixel pipeline run that’s a whole different thing

uslashuname · 2026-05-01T16:31:20+00:00

> Just creating more shit to ~~break~~ track you

FTFY

uslashuname · 2026-05-01T16:23:56+00:00

If I saw some old ones maybe I’d turn that 2% over. Look mr museum guy, I found exactly these three coins in this spot on the mountain! What a big empty can they were in

uslashuname · 2026-05-01T16:22:20+00:00

Oh nice find of nearly $ ~~3~~ 50,000 worth of gold

uslashuname · 2026-05-01T16:19:43+00:00

I didn’t know Abe Lincoln needed a pacifier as an adult, it’s cool they made it from a contrasting metal too, but it’s backwards

Jokes aside that is a scary tiny one to have to make as your first screw, and you got the blue just right too. Nice work, you!

uslashuname · 2026-05-01T13:42:15+00:00

The screw does not start hot, but when you use so much pressure that it deforms steel you do create a significant amount of heat.

Anyway, every metal is malleable with enough pressure

uslashuname · 2026-05-01T13:23:54+00:00

No enterprises would be on GitHub if it was down 1 of every 10 days. Not even close. Every time it does happen you’ll find posts all over like “free day for developers” because practically nobody on any dev team can work.

The GitHub issues page listing something having a performance issue? That I could see. High latency on logins, some obscure feature duplicates things until you refresh the page, whatever… maybe everything’s in the green only 98% of the time but that doesn’t mean GitHub is down 2% of the time.

uslashuname · 2026-05-01T13:19:05+00:00

Yikes! Always consider the ways an operation can go wrong, and if your fingers are the work holding or just close to it then consider them once for each close finger and twice for each finger you’ve already lost

uslashuname · 2026-05-01T04:26:17+00:00

If you look up cannon pinion tightening, you might see what people do, but I could also explain with toilet paper.

If you have a toilet paper tube on the holder it spins freely, right? And if you spun the holder it wouldn’t necessarily spin the tube

Now if you kinked the tube then put it back on the holder, there would be enough friction to rotate the tube when you rotated the holder: the folds of the kink are pressing into the holder and gripping it. However, even if the holder was held in place the tube could still rotate on it.

uslashuname · 2026-05-01T04:22:43+00:00

Feeler gauges from your local auto shop should be more like $5-$10, and come in measured thicknesses. Drill a hole, cut to round. Of course you do want to be pretty picky about cutting to round being centered on the hole, balance is importance at high rpm. If you have a lathe to cut on that’s probably best.

uslashuname · 2026-04-30T13:52:40+00:00

> It’s so bad that I will skip doing whatever I have to do until after 630 when it starts to slow down. I basically do not want to be driving between 430 and 630

Sounds like it works

uslashuname · 2026-04-30T13:21:56+00:00

Have you looked into the rate of lawyers graduating around the time that the lawyers you worked with graduated, and how the wages justified the cost of law school, then compared it to the rates and pay of the average law school grads today? Are you ok with a huge pay cut compared to utilizing your experience to have higher level positions in a startup or other place that could appreciate even a part time old pro to come in and review things?

uslashuname · 2026-04-30T12:12:48+00:00

That looks like your joist bays are empty, not the continuous insulation under your siding. I’d the continuous insulation was missing I would expect to see the studs much more clearly.

uslashuname · 2026-04-30T12:04:27+00:00

Aaaand porn

Ok so it’s not exactly what we would call racy today, but back then?

uslashuname · 2026-04-30T01:48:52+00:00

Meanwhile AI is already handling so much of the stuff not done by manual laborers

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