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Is it possible to use IR to see people naked with smart glasses? How would I go about doing this? I noticed that some phones can't unlock if you wear reflective hats, so naturally that implies they can see your head shape through a regular cap and regular clothes.
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>>2964533
Bringing any kind of camera to photograph hot girls outdoors is going to raise suspicion even though they don't know it's for seeing through clothes. I don't see how this is useful in any way unless you somehow manage to strap a huge telephoto lens onto your camera (which also supports IR light) and you have access to a high or faraway location near a place with women. Then you can snipe them from a distance and if anyone is curious just say you're taking scenery pictures.

TLDR, too much effort, just go watch porn incel.
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>>2964132
Get your mind out of the gutter
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Boomers had it so good.
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>>2964629

They have IR blocking glasses now. Kind of the reverse idea, but interesting.
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>>2964147
>make program that creates ai deep fakes that overlay in real time on your smart glasses
and just like that, talking to women is bearable

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is there ever gonna be a study for how retarded boomer tradies were? what prevented them from putting this receptacle in the next bay over instead of chopping up what likely was load bearing?

this wall i removed was from the 60s, original house was from the 20s. make it make sense to a young buck like me.
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>>2965062
dude half the screws were not even firmly placed in their carved out pocket. i put in some new cedar and adjusted the box to be flush with the finished wall and its firm as fuck. and no, its true 2 by wood, they didnt use that past around the post war boom and this was done in the early 60s.
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>>2965051
They added lead because it was a toxic industrial waste they wanted to get rid of
Same reason they dump flouride in the water
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>>2965277
This. They already knew ethanol wpuld stop knocking for not much more
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>>2965051
>y-you don't understand we NEED to poison the world because of...patents, yeah that's the ticket!
Lead brained boomer, or bot?

Organic lead was added to gasoline for the sole and exclusive purpose of retarding the population, hand wave excuses are just that.

>knocking
Ethanol was known to work fine for the purpose, there was no non-malicious reason to add organic lead (which was know at the time to be crazy toxic) to gasoline.

>>2965277
Organic lead wasn't an industrial waste, it had to be manufactured specifically to add to gasoline. No non-malicious explanation, organic lead was added to gasoline with the explicit intention of retarding the population.
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>>2964473
Boomers chose the load bearing over the man

>3x the price of their competitor brands
>specialise in powered tools

I don't get it, surely they can't be that good?
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>>2964811
there are like four non chink OEM for sanding paper supplies, Klingspor, VSM, Swarowski and 3M. Everybody else either buys from them or the chinks
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>>2961078
It's just boutique shit guys who are high earning engineers buy. I'm sure it's well made and high quality, but not made for a job site.
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>>2965256
it is, but you have to be making good money to afford it. way more durable than the home depot brands. better warranty service too.
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>>2965310
Which is fine, if you're an actual furniture designer that builds high end stuff or you design furniture for brand names or something.
imho warranties are only for overpriced shit, or when you have a fleet of tools for a business.
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>>2965317
I like their reliability and power for woodworking tools.

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Can you cut down a fiberglass handle like this, or is it going to perpetually shed off bits of fiberglass after that?

If so, would throwing tape around the handle and some epoxy on the bottom fix the issue, or is it just structurally compromised?
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>>2959189
If you use a softer abrasive, you increase the risk of fiber pull-out, and your cut won't be as clean.
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>>2959203
How many adzes have a multi pound hammer head attached?
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>>2961216
There are plenty of heavy adzes. Since every woodworking tool worth making has already been made down the millennia, what does one gain by shortening the handle thus reducing its effectiveness?

What is a hammer/adze supposed to do better than optimal separate tools?

A hammer head makes for a short blade by the time all that material is removed.

An adze style pick axe would be easy to mod using a cutting disk to lop off the pick then (slowly with frequent cooling) trim and contour the blade.

A duckbill tire hammer could make the ultimate heavy adze, far better than a little modded cross-pein.
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>>2962351
>A duckbill tire hammer could make the ultimate heavy adze, far better than a little modded cross-pein.

Now this at least makes sense. Good thinking anon.
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>>2961216
You ever get this done? Or were you just spitballing stupid ideas again?

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should I buy a chinese excavator ?
they are so cheap
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>>2959708
>Are you thinking about buying one? They are pretty handy if you have property.

I'm the anon that was at the auction a couple weeks back. The small one cylinder ones brought 1700-1900 bucks. I do have property, but honestly they are way too small for anything I'd want to do with them. Already have a smallish trencher with a backhoe on it for digging in tight places and trenching.

>>2962752
>I bought mine last month for about 5k but its not the super cheap model
>This week I watched a bunch of one cylinder ones go for as low as 2k
>I almost bought one just on principle.

Same. Good thing the auction was a couple weeks back and I really have much disposable income at the time. If it was this week or next I probably would have stupidly bought one just to fuck around with.
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spent a few hours in a hitachi magic wand 135 zero tail this weekend that a neighbor picked up. wasnt that impressed. the pilots lagged really bad and its looser than a 2 dolla hore. but it had 9k hrs on the meter so it wasnt unexpected
had good reach for the size and decent power but felt slow on the hydraulics. not ass tippy either which was surprising. i see they have a blade option thats almost as big as a bladerunner which would be slick. have to look and see if its the same undercarriage frame
he paid a buck a pound for it
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>>2965111
>hitachi magic wand 135
Grok says thats a dildo
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>>2950243
But the block will rust after sitting for awhile and lock up
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>>2953082
They're common engines so you can swap them out fairly easily if you really break it somehow

>>>/pol/523595005
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>>2964825
>/pol/ is talking shit about Milwaukee agat
Because Makita is the best.
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>>2964825
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zj33rN7gHo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLXtImymw1w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkRY5aOlmSI
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>>2965346
i had my multitool fail the same way a month ago, same tool, same problem, they sent me a new one for free
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>>2964828
/pol/ is mostly IDF posts you antisemitic piece of
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>>2965343
Missed masterforce and performax

I like my kobalt brushless tools
They're like the best versions of non-proprietary tools
Like the masterforce line was using the same tools as kobalt with their drywall gun and collater still being identical

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who hammering
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>>2964011
>can't stop thinking about cocks
Checks out.
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Custom diy made 30lb sledge.
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>>2964352
Are those lines lipstick rings to see how deep down your throat you can take it?
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>>2964352
That's awesome anon. What did you make it out of?
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>>2960534
The Trojan hammer.

Anyone ever designed their own PCB?
Trying to replace the front IO Panel that supports a USB 3.0
Anyone know the name for Female 19 pin header?
Want to place it on the board so I can just use off the shelf USB 3.0 19 pin header extension cable.
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>>2964518
It's a very short adapter wire essentially so your chances are better than if you were designing a dense PCB but that spiderweb of traces with hard 90° bends all over the place and differential pairs not being routed in pairs half of the way and sitting right against other signal lines is not going to do you any favors. We don't make soft bends because they look pretty. We do it because once you get into the GHz range, the edges of traces become both emitters and reflectors and it starts to get properly weird.
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>>2964708
>than if you were designing a dense PCB but that spiderweb of traces with hard 90° bends all over the place and differential pairs not being routed in pairs half of the way and sitting right against other signal lines is not going to do you any favors.

Interesting, yeah if I could I would have made the PCB larger for all of those traces. Having to fit it on 18mm pcb constrained a lot of my design choices.
If this is successful. I might try my hand on doing some USB routing board from scratch. Just to learn
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>>2964712
You don't need a bigger PCB. It's perfectly simple to route those traces sensibly on the one you have. You just need to have a general understanding of how signal lines interact with one another and to follow the design guidelines.
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PCB done
Assembly is next

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>been using power company for a decade
>move home and switch to different company
>find out old company owes me money as they have charged more than i used
>old company turns into satan himself and refuses to pay me back
>only get ai answers by mail
>kids on the phone say lol not my department and put me in infinite phone queue
this is so fucking scummy
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>>2964935
Certified mail demanding final payment or small.claims court. Then go to small claims court
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>>2964938
i'll call again and try that
money by tomorrow or doom
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>>2964935
/diy/?
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>>2964938
this

this is reality of Customer Service in USA since 1985.
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>>2965322
Small Claims are also PUBLIC RECORD and once you file one other shitty Corps will see it from their Big Data and suddenly you wont be fucked with as much.

But how the fuck you gonna prove you didn't use the juice?

Did they pad rate or WTF you talking?

Old Company likely has some crooked law that allowed them "rate hike".

Obama's mentor Bill Ayers was a Trust Fund baby who's dad ran Chicago's E-company, and no doubt skimmed 100s of millions.

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woodsisters sharing ideas
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>>2966519
What do you plan to use it for, as a starting point?
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>>2966551
I plan to follow Paul Sellers' guide for making trestles then the one for making a workbench after that, general wood projects of (hopefully) gradually increasingly complexity.
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>>2966519
Choose your favorite color :)
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>>2966519
makita or bosch have the best ecosystem for woodworking. fuck milwaukee
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>>2966566
Aside from hogging out mortises there doesn't seem to be much in the way of drilling in his plans.

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anons i need some help. No degree, 31, current job not bad but I dont care dedicating myself to it, instead I want to seriously learn some trade.

I came across low voltage electrical+low voltage tech which sounds like something id like a lot, especially in the long term, im open to other work like it if anons know.

Any anons know a good path to take for getting into something like this for a career? Id like to start an apprenticeship ASAP but not even sure how to find something like that where someone would take one with 0 experience. I also live in tge south USA where unions apprently suck, and I worry about having to stick around after an apprenticeship because I want to move 100% in like 5-6 years
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>>2964696
Have you talked to trade school?
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>>2964696
Working in a trade usually isn't about doing what you like
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>>2964922
not seeing much of a choice, college isnt an option right now and low volt seems right up my alley in a lot of ways. Its office shit or learning a real skill via trades. Trade sounds best in the 10-15 year range
>>2964908
sent some emails over the weekend, but I need a trade school with working apprenticeships/ojt, not simply or mostly class based
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>>2964947
If you are applying for trades cast a wide net and apply to several. apply to the low boltage, electricians, hvac, etc.. find a list of trades that you are able to apply or test for. you can try to start working as assistant with a handy man. It can take months to get a call. Your best bet is to know someone. I'm a mariner by trade.
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>>2964716
Yeah you wouldn't last a day in the trades, fruitcake.

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Can I use black pipe sections screwed together to make a captain's for a home gym to build abs and do bar dips? It seems like they come in the right lenghts and angles with t-sections and such, and faily inexpensive. I was thinking maybe PVC but is may not be sterdy enough.
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>>2963587
there is nothing attractive about her.
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That's a man.
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>>2964747
>her
That's also a dude
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>>2964747
>there is nothing attractive about her
its ok to be a chubby chaser, no one laughs at you.
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>>2964747
The dedication to exercise and diet to maintain a low enough BF% to keep visible abs is pretty attractive.

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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.
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I want a paddle cordless grinder
I have all dewalt but don't want to pay 200 for one
anyone used a Hercules from Harbor Freight with a battery adapter?
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>>2962599
Your wife has her own tools? That's neat.
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>>2964875
Needs a motorcycle style throttle

Just come to ask what is the best way to start making electronic stuff e.g wires switches and stuff like that.

what is the best things to buy and what are some good resources?
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>>2964415
If you're looking to buy parts like those, Ebay is the place to go.
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>>2964415
just start with those boards where plug stuff in to make lights flash, motors spin, and start working your way up. Watch some vids on basic printed circuit board design. When I was taking high school electronics we used a pen to draw on boards then the acid batch, drilling holes and soldering. Now you can use software and send the plan to a business that will make it for you and mail it to you, so you can design some prettry good custom stuff. There are endless combos of computers and custom circuitry you can do, but start small and get the hang of it and find websites and other sources you like.
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>>2964415
try this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_mZsiZcy7s
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>>2965042
is there anything that esp32 cannot do?
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>>2965165
Mend a broken heart ;_;

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Every single screw should be torque. The alternative is madness.
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guy told me he was gonna change all the bolts and screws on his Harley to Hex Head, so he'd only need to carry about 5 hex-keys to "do anything" including tear down the engine.
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>>2964101
common on guns, and a gunsmith's screwdriver set is like 50 sizes.

they say a perfect flathead fit is best for stuff that isn't taken apart often, but can be by a "pro".
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>>2964101
This. Flatheads are a fucking nightmare to work with especially in any application where theyre not attached to an object you can just hold or move around in front of you. At the absolute most they should be a secondary backup feature (like on square/slot) just in case you strip the shit out of the main driving hole
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Flatheads suck, but they have their niche too;

In historic furniture and window renovation they look correct AND if you pain over them, no other screw is as easy to scrape the paint from the slot as flatheads.

But otherwise? Lol no
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filips cheap
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