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[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

90s UIs are fast. No fluff, mostly text.

[–] naught@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 week ago

He goes into their tech and how they do JS splitting and stuff. Looks old, but they're using modern techniques afaik

[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

McMaster-Carr ftw. If there's something you need, they most likely carry it and will get it to you next-day.

[–] NastyNative@mander.xyz 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)

At 200% mark up but it will be there the next day.

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

200% markup doesn't matter when you're billing it straight to the client anyway 🍻

[–] NastyNative@mander.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

If it’s too high someone else can out bid you. If we can get it locally we do cause some of the items will take the quote price to space.

[–] AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Let's say I'm willing to trade faster delivery for lower cost - is there another site with similar selection that you would recommend?
I ordered some common 1/4-20 bolts from McMaster recently because buying them from the local big-box is an even worse deal, but I did feel like I could get a better price somewhere else.

[–] NastyNative@mander.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

In north jersey McMaster buys out all the hardware from smaller stores so they can mark them up. Its never an easy find an alternative.

[–] jj122@lemmings.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Surprisingly enough, Amazon has a wide selection of bolts/hardware at good prices and reasonable delivery times 2-4 days normally.

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Finding the correct bolt size, thread pitch, material, and trusting that when I order grade 8 bolts, I'm actually getting grade 8 makes Amazon quite a pain in the ass.

If it's something I don't care too much about, yea Amazon is fine. But when I want to trust my life to it or it's going to take some serious stress I'm going to want McMaster.

[–] jj122@lemmings.world 1 points 1 week ago

I don't think you need to worry about sizes (or pitch) everything I have gotten from them has been correct but material and strength (temper) are definitely something to be wary of. So yea if you need ansi strength out of a bolt don't get it from Amazon, but if you are just using a 1/4"-20 to fasten something together you're probably fine.

[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago

No doubt. They're definitely not the cheapest, but if you need something in a hurry they're excellent.

[–] oyo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

Yet still VASTLY cheaper than Grainger.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wish we had something like McMaster Carr in the UK. I don't even care if it's fast! You guys had better appreciate how good you've got it.

[–] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

RS, not the same breath but the pricing is usually good.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's also CPC/Farnell but none of those are in the same league as McMaster Carr. Much smaller ranges, worse prices, worse websites, missing CAD models, etc.

Another option is Misumi but they have even worse prices and don't even sell to individuals.

I'd recommend going to McMaster Carr just to see what we are missing out on.

[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 days ago

I like Farnell (Newark in the US), but their prices are no better and than McMaster and their website can be horrid.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I love how the preview text for youtube videos is entirely fucking useless

[–] leds@feddit.dk 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Even better is that it depends on your instance , for me the preview text is some German text becuase the instance I'm using happens to be hosted in Germany

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, Google likes to guess the language preference based on the IP address, which thankfully never goes wrong.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ridiculously fast? It loads for each category 2 seconds.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The longest load for a page you haven’t encountered before is under a second, because it’s loading thousands of items. The longest paint is 176ms. It was averaging like 17ms. It’s incredibly fast.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Guess it's not CDNed and far away?