This is the longest I've ever held a job, and I actually enjoy it for the most part. But I asked for a raise at my three month mark, and the GC basically told me I'm too incompetent and replaceable to deserve a raise. I took it to heart, and ended up blowing off the next workday because I was so drunk. I guess I sort of assumed I could find another job, but they were all too far away (even if they paid more), so I came crawling back.Apparently my 12AM text woke him up, and that's mainly why he said "my respect for you went from here '-' to here '_', but instead of firing me he just transferred me to HVAC. I don't think he hates me, he just doesn't want to deal with me anymore. Apparently I'm "doing a good job" in HVAC as a total beginner (although it was recommended I apply more deodorant). But I'm still capped at 15 an hour. And I had a conversation with the GC today, about what economic value there actually is in bringing a new helper onto the crew (when it's been a three man job as long as I've been there), and he called it a 'mind-boggling question'. As in, it's a waste of time to ponder the systems and frameworks behind all of this in an economic sense.I would chalk it up to 'neurodivergence', but then again, it seems like just about every coworker I have is always talking about their "ADHD" or "dyslexia". The designer is literally a diagnosed sperg and it shows.It still feels like a hostile work environment to a degree, but I'm just grateful to have stable income. From what I understand, autonomy and efficiency are what's most valued on a jobsite, and I guess that's basically the reason they told me I'm not eligible for a raise. But the GC also said that "we don't discuss wages here" and the HVAC guy said "I'll let you know when you get a raise, don't ask", which seems like a red flag desu.Call me a faggot or a retard or whatever, thanks for reading my blogpost.
>>2983501>But the GC also said that "we don't discuss wages here" if you live in a one party recording consent state, get him on audio saying this then talk to a jew lawyer who will work on contingency.
the OP does sound way too young and in his head to really be that valuable at this point, but I will point outLikely he was being told "other people who offer way more productivity have put in far more time before receiving more for their labor, so read the room."then yeah, he got drunk as shit and texted his boss in the middle of the night? wtf dude.
and OP, the straight simple answer to your mind-boggling question is the obvious one. they are just fine without ypu, and there's a good possobility you are actually a drain on resources and the overall bottom line of THIS particular project. they are hoping training you is an investment that pays off. through diligence and application hopefully you someday get out of your head and become valuable enough you actually help the company make money. they are using the clients money to train you with what otherwise would be profit. and you were just shat into tour current role, they didnt ask for youthe fact that you want to waste the GC's time talking about this, not getting that you should be just learning as much as you can like a sponge, really is mind boggling.then yeah, the you basically rage quit, get drunk, quit the rage quit then post here? Yikes bro
>>2983501Shut up and do your job. HVAC is piss easy work, even easier for an autist like yourself. Quit being a retarded zoomer.
I'm a painter/drywaller. Started at 15/hr three years ago, I now make 20.It's absolutely insane to me to ask for a raise after three months. In construction, you are not profitable for a very long time, everybody sees you as a paid intern until you can go on jobs on your own. Until then, you suck it up, make a good job and ask for a raise ONLY when you know you've gotten better, which won't be before next year. And you better be able to back up your raise request with tangible, material proofs that you've gotten better.
Last Threads: https://warosu.org/diy/?task=search2&search_username=artbyrobotTo begin: the project goal: I am working to make a series of humanoid robots. I am using a Biblical theme of naming the first 3 robots I make Adam, Eve, and Abel. The goal is for these robots to have human body inspired musculoskeletal systems, advanced AI, and that they look human and pass for human to a casual observer at least at a distance. They must be able to walk, talk, run, dance, do sports, do chores, manufacture products, and make more robots just like themselves if not even better. My aim is to build a single robot arm and head and then add sufficiently advanced AI to that arm and head to enable it to build the rest of its own body for me. This way I am delegating the work of building the majority of my first humanoid robot to that robot rather than doing that work myself - and this is to save me time.In a like manner, my goal with the AI is to code just enough AI that the AI can begin coding itself and this way I don't have to code most of the AI myself because it will self create itself. I liken this to building a seed and that seed growing into a tree because for me to code that tree would take too long for me and just creating the seed would then save me time.
>>2983538>once I get the arm working, the robot will build everything else after that using that armtruely staggering
So what kind of sensory feedback are you going to equip this arm with so it can know, what angle every joint is, how much force it is applying, if there is a failure or wear compensation.like will it have strain gauges all through the "bones", radial encoders for the pivot joints, cameras, lidar, gyroscopic/inertial sensors to watch where the arm is in the world?
>>2983931potentiometers for every joint to measure joint angle. current sensing for every motor to measure how much force each joint has applied to it since that maps to current pulled by motor. As far as cameras, only for the eyes (in them). gyroscopic/inertial sensors will be in the main body for overall balance but not in arms. Lidar is a dead end for robotics and not to be used for humanoids.
>>2984026>Lidar is a dead end for roboticsAre we sure this isn't just Elon Musk's identical twin brother "Nole" trying to get Optimus working?
Ok I used the tip of my exacto knife to carefully scoop on low temp solder paste and then carefully drag soldered it over the key areas I wanted pre-tinned. There do not appear to be any short circuits and the amount of solder on each pad and trace seems a decent amount to me. I forgot to wipe it with alcohol wipe but have done so since taking this snapshot. The next step is I have to carefully uv cure solder mask that little trace runs under the IC chip. It definitely will short a pad to something I think if I don't. I have to apply it very thinly so it doesn't prevent IC chip from seating flat and soldering into place well.
I know prepping is a bit of a meme, but what are some of the best food items to store long term? Is rice one of the best emergency foods? It’s cheap, it lasts for a very long time if kept somewhere dry (relatively easy to store), and a person can survive off of it in dire situations.What does /diy/ think?
>>2983230This M'fer eatin beans!
>>2983152Pressure cooker.
>>2982808More of a second thought, but keep a stock of Vitamin C, D and B12. A dire situation is pretty much an end to most fresh fruits but apples and you don't want your physiology turn into that of a mediaeval peasant.
>>2983052Congrats, you die from scurvy.
>>2984221tomatos are a significant source of vitamin cbut yeah throw in a multi vitamin or some dried fruits
I hath conquered my fear of cement. Feels goodman.
>>2975767Really? Would you mind figuring out a concrete mix using G100 aluminum oxide, G40/G16 steel grit, and 12/18mm basalt fiber? Wall thickness is around 1.65" at minimum and a total volume of ~660 cubic inches. I'm trying to make a burglary safe out of a reclaimed amsec star round door floor safe, 8" schedule 80 steel pipe, and a propane tank.
>>2975767Congrats, I'm just now planning to fight my own trepidation with concrete.HOW DOES MY PATIO LOOK GUYS? Im planning to put a pergola on it. 6" thick slabMy question is "do I need that central post?" (Circle in the center of ground plan)I'm concerned about the strength of the pair of 2"x10" boards I'd like to support the span with.I live in a hurricane zone so I want to make it strong.
>>2984209For some reason these post in the wrong orientation...Also: AM I MISSING SOMETHING A MORE EXPERIENCED PERSON MIGHT POINT OUT?
>>2983060Why are you adding all the fancy admix bullshit? Just use normal concrete and stuff a matrix of bullshit scrap metal in there. Don't overcomplicate it. No one is going to try and get into your propane tank safe, or if they do they'll still manage to get into it anyways...
>>2984217It turns out to be within budget of the cheapest real burglary safe you can buy new and it's what real UL rated tool resistant safe's use so why not?I'd only be saving like $100 at that point anyway.
i receive lots of barrels of free waste motor oil, and i can't burn all of it quick enough. does anyone have experience with cleaning up waste oil cheaply? i am hoping to remove the ashes without needing to buy an industrial centrifuge. chemistry is ideal
>>2983688>Not so much to save fuel, more so to just use up the used oilIf your goal is to just do whatever with it in an effort to use it up, why get it in the first place? Just sounds like you're creating unnecessary work for yourself.
>>2984001>If your goal is to just do whatever with it in an effort to use it up, why get it in the first place? Just sounds like you're creating unnecessary work for yourself.I am not seeking out additonal used oil, This is my own used oil from vehicles and equipment.
>>2983999>he doesn't collect free energy
>>2984084OK that makes a lot more sense. Because when you said "i receive lots of barrels of free waste motor oil" it makes it sound like you're getting used oil from outside sources.
>>2984138I'm also not OP. He may be getting barrels of used motor oil from outside sources, I am not. These are me:>>2983567>>2983688>>2984084
>tools you can tell were designed by engineers who never use the tools themselves
>>2983949They're heavy, but I like mine because it's versatile enough that I don't need other ladders. The ability to have the legs at different lengths is great when working on the outside of my house. If I used it daily for work I'd probably get tired of it though.>>2983893Wondering this too.
>>2983973I lift metal plates, not metal ladders>>2983974I had to use one for a job once and that was enough for me
I have the Little Giant Velocity, pic-related. I just used it to clean my windows and gutters. As others have said, it's pretty heavy. It is pretty damn stable and well-made though, and I feel safe when I'm high up.
>>2983949If a 16' Little Giant is getting the best of you, stay away from any kind of 40'. Those will put the fear back into someone at every stage of the process.
I use mine mostly for a 4' high 8' long scaffold/walkboard.
I purchased two 2 in (50mm) circular lens which I need to run in series to collimate a beam of light. The problem is that they are circular (duh), and need to be secured. I was originally planning to fit them in a series of 2 in couplings but it turns out that plumbing fittings are a hair shy of 2 in. I think I will have to file them to make the couplings to get the lenses to fit but I wanted to know if there is some time of pipe out there which actually has a 2 in inner diameter before doing this.
>>2984054about 3:30 but I don't think I can make it.
>>2984054water pipe, like 2" pvc or black pipe, has an inner diameter of 2 inches. tube is measured by its od and pipe is measured by its id
>>2984054Use epoxy putty.
What's the best pressure washer you've used? I'm planning to buy one to clean certain areas where trash is kept and where there's often grease and food waste, but I have no idea which would be the best option.
>>2983602I've used tons of different pressure washers.I like electric, but their underpowered for the price. A 3000psi electric is a light duty go to for me.If you need heavy duty go gas. But it's annoying as fuck doing maintenance. But if your cleaning like industrial grease from a restaurant go gas. Aside from that it probably doesn't fucking matter.. all pressure washers are basically the same.It probably really comes down to gas vs electric and not much else.
>>2983965I use a Westinghouse I got from like Menards.
I like it well enough. I really recommend one of the surface cleaner pads. Bro those are a game changer.
>>2983640Please don't tell me there is a power washing community....like you guys have preferred engines and shit?
I'm seriously thinking about going and getting some 3-53 Detroit powered "water blasters" for sale on craigslist... Not much into I can find on them. Metal tag states 12,000 psi. Price is nice. Look to have the correct engines that match some Michigan loaders I own. Worst part is its a several your drive and near the city. Probably wouldn't ever use them for their intended purpose, but rather as spare engine parts.
>ai powered bots will not take my trade jobLol, lmao even.
>>2977628>if a robot can easily remove a stuck on rusted bolt from a really tight space without having to dismantle or destroy the machine I will willingly bow to them and become their sex slave
>>2978233Very true.When I joined my company, one of the first things I set out to do was automate this monotonous and annoying task that we would periodically get throughout the week. It's literally just pulling some files from a web service, uploading them to an S3 bucket, and running a job through a third party web app. Automating that process was easy as hell, but there would always be the most seemingly inconsequential revisions that would need to be made to those files for it work, and it was never consistent. Way too much contextual information required to do it right. >inb4 just use ai broThis is an incredibly complex system that interfaces with ANCIENT mainframe code. AIs today don't have nearly as much training material on mainframes as it has webdev shit. AI is useless in this context, not even considering the crazy obscure business logic that drives all this code.
>>2983504>business logicthat's like military intelligence, innit
>>2976510Literally why labor unions were invented retard, the ai robots of the 1900s were cheap immigrants wanting to do their jobs for 1/4 pay
>>2976510i work in school IT.the issue isn't the AI, its the retards accepting AI's word as law.half the kids who come through with dead machines did so because they followed the ai chatbots suggestion to go to "x" website and install the newest drivers, with a link to a 5 year old linux BIOS.so they brick their windows/mac install, while trying to google how to access their onedrive (all they had to do was log in).until the AI can remove the step of "belive what a human tells it" as truth, and plug in a power cable to a screen, while ignoring the user blaming some iphone update from a week ago, i'm still in a job.and until the AI can identify how much you can trust an end user based on the first thing they mention while recounting an error, ignore anyone who starts with "i just..." because they for sure KNOW they fucked up, but refuse to tell you WHAT they fucked up, in case that wasn't the issue, and they just admitted to using the laptop as a doorstop but actually it WAS a virus that snapped the machine in half.
Power stationsGeneratorsPower generation.No meme no larp.I just bought a Dabson 2048 over a generator as a power solution for outages.I did this because I don't know what the future price or access of gas will be. I live rurally and have very little power needs. The most I would need power for is to power a brooder plate or keep a fridge on.I can cook with propane and wood and I heat my home with wood. I plan on getting a solar panel to charge the power station in the event of weeks or months long power outages.Is there anything I'm missing or didn't think about or reasons why a power station is dumb? I have had several generators in the past and when you really need them there is always something wrong with it or you gotta go get fuel so I got a power station instead hoping it better serves my needs.Keep a fridgeCharge a phonePlug in my fan on my fireplaceLightThat's about all I'd need it for. I got the idea because in the past I used DeWalt batteries attached to an inverter to keep a brooder on during an outage.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2984101This is how light cloudy weather looks like. Whenever a cloud clears, jumps to full power, whenever cloud is above, drops to 20-30%. Full cloud would just be sitting at 20% the entire day.
>>2984102>>2984101Thank you. Do the shade panels solve this? Or is there a gimmick?I think they are called shade resistant panels? I appreciate you taking the time on this. I'm not trying to be unrealistic, again, just kinda playing at this point. The Anker c1000 solved my "generator" thing. It runs both my fridge and freezer for 18 hours.We get rolling blackouts because we live rurally and on old infrastructure and that works fine as a ups.I didn't know I was looking for a ups till I learned what a ups was.I'm rambling. Again. Thanks for taking the time to give me a better real world perspective. If you wouldn't mind. Do the shade stopper or shade tolerant panels work? Are they worth it? Is it a gimmick or scam?I live in a crazy windy and bad weather area. But I live on a hill and get direct sunlight all day. I planned on seeing what wattage I could get if I just hang them off the side of my deck (second story). I get such a greenhouse effect in the winter i don't even start a fire till it's below freezing.Tldr:How do you feel about shade resistant panels?Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2984107Setting sun vs rising sun***
>>2984107Shade resistant is for an entirely different thing. "Shade resistance" means PARTIAL shading resistance.If you have a solar panel and you cover up 10% of it, depending on which 10% you cover, you can lose up to 90-100% of its performance. This is due to electrical nerd things but it's just how it is. So the shade resistant panels sort-of solve this problem by changing electrical whatever things inside. This ONLY solves this issue, shade resistant panels do NOT work better in cloudy weather. Only if you have a panel that, say, gets partial shade from a tree during some parts of the day, then the shade resistant one will work better. >hanging a panelSince you aim to have very few panels, you should try to get the angle right. Being out of angle again reduces your production. But if you have a lot of space and don't mind getting more panels, then hanging can work (provided the panels are properly secured, I do not mean literally hanging them by a rope). >how much does angle affecthttps://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pvg_tools/en/tools.htmlPick your location, enter slope and azimuth, see how it changes numbers. It changes numbers a lot. >600W panelIt produces proportionally more, but not "in the same space", a 600W panel is invariably bigger than a 400W panel. >hook 1000W to a thing that can only take 600W maxThey usually self-regulate, so you get better output in shaded conditions but in full sun you only get 600W instead of 1000W. But you must match voltage and amp spec of the device.
>>2984111Got the general gist as I learn more about it.Yes I saw the units have voltage ranges. Thanks a lot!
The first thing a real man does when he gets a new angle grinder is rip off the guard and toss it in the garbage.
No guardNo handleWrong discBare handsNo protectionSquattingUneven ground
>>2945415I used one of those to grind down some anchors in a slab of concrete once...Felt pretty good, gotta admit.
>>2945320I hate you abrasive dust eating faggots so much it's unreal, take off the guard to cope with your clumsy homo hands if you want but don't lose the fuckin thing for Pete's sake.
>>2945320I really wonder why its wrapped in masking tape.
I want to buy an angle grinder but scared to use one. I want to attach a vacuum and cut out lathe and plaster in a clean way. Been thinking about a cut off tool instead since they are less intimidating...I just imagine my fingers getting buzzed
The only two trades that ever mattered were masonry and carpentry. Everything else is just superfluous shit.
>>2983905Weaving palm fronds is actually the mother of all trades
And Jesus wasn't a mason.
>>2984016He was. They just mistranslated it.
>>2983905enjoy your cold dark box anon
>>2983905>he says using electricity instead of smoke signals
I would like to weave chain mail, making rings for it from wire. Has anyone had experience with this? What metal and what diameter wire is best to use?
>>2983604Basically, if you're gonna make maille you may as well do it right and get it riveted. That shit is no joke with how strong it gets once they're solid.You could cheese it by spot welding each link as well but where's the fun in that?
The only rings that makes sense to coil and cut yourself are overlapping mild steel for riveting. There is no reason not to simply buy premade rings for any other purpose. The cut quality and consistency as well as the time saved is very much worth the extra expense.>>2983606you can also use a punch to make solid rings from sheet metal and save some time riveting every ring that way. This was also done historically.
Don't try to make rivet mail first, it takes four times longer to make than butted. Decide if you enjoy the craft or not before committing to that.
I made chainmaille for a project in high school 18 years ago...just used galvanised steel wire from the hardware shop. Made a wooden frame to hold a mandrel at both ends. Mandrel was a metal rod with a hole in one end. Chucked the rod in a cordless drill to wind the wire on. Then I think slid the finished spring off the rod and cut it into rings with big side cutters. Used to do that on the lounge while watching TV kek.
It looks highly effective and borderline comfy
>>2982751So you've never ridden in a vehicle with someone? They might have a heart attack and die or decide to drive off a cliff. Some jeet might decided to off himself via crashing the plane you're one. It is retarded and gay.
>>2982756shut the fuck up.
>>2982756cars have airbags and deformation zones, I also have the ability to take the wheel and brake in case something happens, not to mention you should never trust hydraulics.
>>2982533you could lay in a hammock hoisted by the jaw
>>2982489not comfy
Do you buy/use old or novel tools?
>>2983723yeah but why is an old tool so reliant on perfect alignment
>>2983745Matching pinion and ring gears is refined work even in a low-speed application like a chest drill.
>>2983561I remember this bitch.It removed the skin from my finger when the handle dropped.
>>2983754The previous owner or whoever put two rubber rings at each end of the handle to damp the impact, seems like a nice addition
>>2983438I have one I rescued from a garage sale, brilliant tool. The original cordless drill.
