[–] 4 points 1 year ago

I like macOS a lot, but the last few versions have been unremarkable and frankly kind of ass.

Meanwhile Linux has made huge strides and I don’t know how much value a hackintosh has these days.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I've been following Jan for a while now, he does excellent work and I love his technical explanations.

    His prints always look like they are on fast-forward, but that's actually just the real speed. Amazing!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I have a friend who runs a short run contract manufacturing company in the US (prototype to 1000-ish runs). Needless to say he is fully dialed in to everything to do with the electronics supply chain. Even he sends out to China for prototype and short-run PCBs. He has tried multiple times with the few US-based companies that still do it, but quality and price are both issues, which is a bad combo.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    much more efficient (in spaces and penstrokes) than the Roman numerals they replaced, and even the “Arabic” numerals that replaced them. A single glyph could record anything from 1 to 9,999.

    But letters and numbers are not supposed to be optimized for the space they take up? What an odd metric. I rather have a system that is easy to read, easy to write, easy to expand, more flexible, ...

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I could see this process being useful for jewelry making. Traditionally, a custom pendant will be made in wax (these days that part can be 3D printed), put in plaster, burned out and then the cast metal is poured in. With this process, you could make your own re-usable metal molds.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I like to use petroleum jelly as a lubricant. Mainly because it's non-toxic (so can be used on toys for children) and is very readily available. Requires some working-in as it will be sticky at first. Too much will gum things up until its been worked in. What's really good is its initial stickiness ensures you get a good coating on any gears in direct contact with each other

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