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
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
@GustavinoBevilacqua mi fa piacere leggere le tue spiegazioni del mio lavoro. Riesco spesso a capire l'italiano scritto, ma è molto più difficile scrivere! soprattutto in ambito tecnico.
#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
@Sir_Osis_of_Liver@Flux Finland does that; the fines are set by percentage of income. Which is why the world record for traffic fines is about 100 kUSD, paid by a Nokia exec going too fast in a school zone.
This would be a simple change to make in the law. Great candidate for a private member's bill and a chance to really hammer on "a fine is a price" politically.
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
@Flux
Yes, you would have to have a substantial portfolio outside of registered investments to have that sort of capital gain. Up in the millions I think. Either that or own property outside of your principal residence. Certainly above typical middle class. @johnefrancis
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
Ok, I give up. My venerable Open Bench Logic Sniffer isn't connecting over USB. And I get directed to its succesor, the Papilio. Which is discontinued.
What are the cool kids using for innexpensive 32 channel logic sniffers for busses running at about 6-12 MHz? #electronics
It's a hell of con the billionaires have pulled, convincing us all that their yacht money is the economy, instead of, you know, the people.
Solyent Green voice: "The economy is made of people!"
@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@pluralistic The person who taught me this practice in software development was from the Bay Area. They called it "parking on the downward slope."
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
@mcdanlj The last part was dropping in the anti-spin pin which I made up out of an M4 grub screw. Held it in a sacrificial stick to grind the threads off the tip to 3mm to fit the collet slots, and tapped a cross hole to accept it. It won't back out in use since the spindle MT5 taper will hold it in.
But I failed to get pictures.
I did get a picture of my spindle holding wrench for when I want a bit more oomph on it. I made the pins in the new chuck, of course.
/fin
I have copied the MT3 taper in my tailstock, but never the MT5 in the headstock. Interesting that copying the taper with a DTI didn't work for you. Was it that you couldn't reach far enough into the spindle and cosine error was not your friend?
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.
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@TomF
I expect you to read a book, visit friends, and do something in your community.
Just don't write a self assessment or assign a rating at the end of it!