bluGill

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[–] bluGill@fedia.io 16 points 3 weeks ago

True, but I have an old ICE that I can keep running for a while. The question is should I spend more than it is worth on maintenance?

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 8 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Better yet get a bike (or ebike) which is much less pollution and improves your health.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

are people who are driving 6 more hours non stop peeing in a bottle or something?

They are stopping every 3 hours for gas, but they have a "when the pump stops better be in the car" rule. Generally two drivers, one goes in, pees, and returns to watch the pump so the second can go in and pee. If you are young and fast is possible for two people to pee in the time it takes to fill your tank with gas. (males typically take half as much time as females)

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 3 points 3 weeks ago

It is a proxy for don't use too much on the busy towers. In small towns it doesn't matter, but if you are in a downtown the tower will have many people connecting to it and the radio frequencies are shared. By putting a limit on everyone they force better sharing of that limited bandwidth. The limit is very large - far more that than the large abusers will use alone, but in a dense areas it is less than the common person will use all at once.

Tmoblie has (or had?) a binge on plan - if you used video (which we quickly figured out meant low quality - but probably good enough for a tiny phone screen) or audio you were using a lot of data, but it was consistent all day and so they didn't have to count it - if the tower doesn't have enough bandwidth for everyone on the first day of the month they have to fix that. That is the real worry: the tower running out of bandwidth on the first day of the month.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io -1 points 3 weeks ago

It was implied

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I said check out his book, not follow his patterns. There are some great ideas in this build, but also some things Gingery did better - and since Gingery explained why he did a lot of things like he did you will likely in turn be able to adapt the good ideas to this build. The way Gingery does the head stock is much better than this cast in place option for example. Combine the two and you will get better results.

BTW, if you are serious about building a lathe I'd recommend epoxy-granite not concrete or castings. Something more to research before building (or maybe just stop someplace and build - your choice)

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 3 points 3 weeks ago

If you are sued you just say you felt you had to post that because the fediverse is such a liberal haven, but really you voted for Trump - since it is a secret ballot the court will never be able to know if you are telling the truth or not. So long as one person in your jurisdiction voted Trump. The judge should not allow any question of who your voted for to be asked while you are under oath as that violates the secret ballot laws - though I'm not sure if they will.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 10 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Nice, but be sure to check out the Gingery lathe (and the whole series) before building - Gingery did a few things that would improve this if done. (and this does a few things that would improve what Gingery did)

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It is possible I bought the item at my local warmart though and then review it on amazon. I don't know if anyone does that, but it is possible.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Humans are bad drivers as well. Technology should try to do better than humans, not accept the limitations of humans. When Radar, lidar (and others - possibly including things not invented yet) exist we should use them to make cars safer.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

shipping a complete house is expensive. site construction is very efficient and well setup for quick building with minimal people. And because you don't have to design for what can fit on roads ends up almost as cheap while being more flexible-

i'm not arguing that site built is just as cheap only that it isn't much more expensive and the other benifits make it worth it.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

People hate it when all houses are the same and that limits what eificience you can get.

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