Flux

scalzi, 1 month ago to random

To be fair, it's easy to forget something that costs more than you were ever going to spend for it, to do things that your phone and/or laptop already do better

https://gizmodo.com/apple-vision-pro-already-forgotten-about-1851426564

Flux, 4 months ago to 3DPrinting

Added a 3D printer to the shop this week. Prussa MK3S, acquired second hand from a fellow who didn't successfully assemble the kit. It's now running beautifully. First useful items the next day. A bushing for my 5C drawbar which pulled 2 10ths out of my run out, and a press-on handle for the tube. Even just press-fit it provides enough traction to hold the work well. Both designed in #openscad. #machining #3dprinting #lathe

A donut shaped handwheel on the window of the draw tube in the spindle of a metal lathe.

johnefrancis, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

A fine Graham MacKay from Saturday...

I'm thinking PP's going to stick with the strategy:

• blame vulnerable minorities for everything
• say little to nothing in campaigns. Offer no solutions.
• after the election, pivot to a Doug Ford style kleptocracy.

The "working class" supporters get nothing. They got nothing from Harper. They got nothing from Ford. They got not much from Trudeau.

#cdnpoli

Flux, 5 months ago to Nvidia

Today was my last day at #Nvidia. Four years where I've never been better aligned between my interests, my abilities, and my responsibilities. I'm incredibly proud of how far #GeForceNOW has come in that time.
What's next? After nearly 40 years of being paid to write software it's time to retire and spend time moving whole atoms instead of just electrons.
I'm certain there will be software - it is the most tractable medium I've ever worked with - but now it will be to scratch my own itches.

Flux, 1 month ago to Canada

Raising capital gains taxes on the portion over 250k: A very nice move in the new budget. It's unreasonable that large incomes from capital gains have been taxed at half of the income from the sweat of the brow.
#canada

cstross, 11 days ago to random

Wrt. Trump, all I can say is:

FOUR MORE YEARS! (In Prison!)

mcdanlj, 21 days ago to random

Had my first commit to FreeCAD merged today. Removing one stray character in a tooltip. 😀 About as trivial as possible...

ZachWeinersmith, 1 month ago to random

Garrison Keillor is really strange to me career wise. He wrote exactly one outstanding novel - his first. Then ever after he wrote the same novel, only worse, and with more weird sex stuff. He also wrote very good (really!) poems early on, and then over time what he counts as poems is just aw-shucks Minnesota stuff. It's like he noped out of a lasting literary career for kitsch.

Flux, 1 month ago to random

Cut the tapers on this part, and just reached for it to test fit the pins that will go through the holes (to spin the part on the rotary table) and poof it has vanished into thin air. The shop isn't even a disaster area. I'm reduced to looking instead of remembering.
Vexed.
#machining #frustrated

aral, 12 days ago to random

That’s so weird… I know so many people who know so many good people who work there.

https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112525685484114107

#PeopleFarmers #BigTech #surveillance #capitalism

Flux, 5 months ago to random

Retirement party prep work pretty much done. The raclette melter emerged from the workshop over the last couple of weeks. That wheel of cheese will get chopped in half at the right moment, the power will go on, and we'll get it melting.

Flux, 1 month ago to random

#cbcnews publishes the Fraser institute's "but the wealthy already pay almost all of the taxes!"
Of course the wealthy pay most of the taxes. When you have low income the tax bite cuts deeply into your ability to pay rent and feed your family. When you have high income you can pay much more without threat of homelessness or starvation.
That's the basis of progressive taxation.
If the FI wants the poor to pay a higher share they should back a flatter income distribution.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/wealthy-canadians-fair-share-taxes-1.7179031

hankg, 7 days ago to Humor

If you want proof that how people act on the internet is pretty much the same as it's ever been, back to ARPANET in 1984 no less... #humor #computer #RetroComputing

bradford-delong.com/2013/07/ho…

Flux, 11 months ago to woodworking

I just spent some hours with the ghosts of #woodworking #boatbuilding projects past, moving the lumber I've been storing for much too long. I had a little lapstrake boat on the molds when some eye problems shut down my shop work for 3-4 years, some 20 years ago. When that was resolved a lot of other things had changed.

The good news is that the itch is returning, I have space to work in, and now I'm actively figuring out how to make the time for myself.

A decent sized pile of lumber, with the backbone of the boat in the other photograph sitting on top. The pile includes planking lumber for the boat, some oak for some furniture I haven't built, some pine to finish trimming out my spouse's weaving studio.

Flux, 30 days ago to random

I really want physicians to stop claiming a description of the symptom is a diagnosis. I mean "arthritis". Yeah, we already know that.

Flux, 5 months ago to random

"Disruptors - a group of highly uninformed people with expertise in a different field, often technology - who mistake their ignorance for a kind of bright-eyed clarity" - Tantacrul
Watch this video. The punch line 10 minutes in is killer.
https://youtu.be/Eq3bUFgEcb4?si=h-UKXSmT1FLCiahA

Flux, 4 months ago to random

@pluralistic writes: For longer-form works like novels, I "leave myself a rough edge," finishing the day's work in the middle of a sentence. That way I get a few words for free the next day, meaning I never start the day's work wondering which words I'll type"

I do this for software - end the day with a necessary cleanup, or a scope block just opened and unfinished. I never thought of applying it to writing! Genius.

Flux, 2 months ago to Victoria

This recumbent bike was abandoned near my house a few days ago, Victoria BC. Anyone able to reconnect it with it's owner?
Please boost!
#yyj #victoria #bikes #recumbent

Flux, 18 days ago to woodworking

Chopped this nice angled mortice in the wrong face(-palm). #woodworking #facepalm

Flux, 6 months ago to random

How do you make a python program multithreaded?
Use two docker containers.

Flux, 17 days ago to woodworking

I am undeterred. Last of three frames for the awning to go over the front of my timber-framed office/shed.#woodworking

A small cabin in the woods.

Flux, 12 days ago to random

I mean, what's the point of being a corrupt judge if you recuse yourself from the cases where you're using your corruption? Duh.

Flux, 30 days ago to random

Someone needs to remind me that this work is easier in bigger stock. This 1/4" fussiness is no good. But it's a collar and this little test grille is getting there. #blacksmithing #blacksmith #metalwork

Four scrolls in a frame. Many collars left to make.