oldmanpants

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by oldmanpants 6y ago
> Next, they infused the wood with a tough transparent epoxy designed for marine use, which filled in the spaces and pores in the wood and then hardened so they replaced the wood with epoxy, and called it wood. Like a car where you repla
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by oldmanpants 7y ago
reminds me of the Aston Martin Bulldog concept from '79 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston_Martin_Bulldog
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by oldmanpants 7y ago
crappier pizza, fewer jobs, fewer pizza chefs. boo. The past few years I have been making my own pizzas and think back to when I would eat frozen pizzas and just shake my head.
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by oldmanpants 7y ago
It's just adding toppings to pizza (and too much sauce!)... I was hoping to see how the dough preparation would be automated. I'm sure it could be done, but I would prefer a hand-made pizza. I enjoy making my own pizzas, and the d
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by oldmanpants 7y ago
I assume you meant a lot _less_ romantic with the buckets... and yeah it mentions in the article that he removed the head and sink to plug any holes in the hull in an effort to make it less sinkable. luxuries I myself would prefer greatly
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by oldmanpants 8y ago
I think “sites” fat-fingered with auto correction
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by oldmanpants 8y ago
they seem to be focusable with tab navigation, but there is no indication (dashed outline) of which element is selected. I was able to tab through and toggle the switches with the spacebar in Firefox.
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by oldmanpants 8y ago
Here in small-town BC, I buy local milk at a chain grocery store in glass bottles with a 2 dollar deposit. the clean empties can be returned at the checkout when buying your groceries. the milk is great and the bottle process works. I think
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by oldmanpants 9y ago
Ladyada is the founder of Adafruit. Adafruit is a company that sells hobby electronics, micro controllers stuff of that nature. She has a bit of a following in that diy community from her articles and videos.
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by oldmanpants 10y ago
How about a towed sonar array?
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by oldmanpants 11y ago
Yes the foam in the helmet is supposed to shatter. Like OP's other points, this one is made up.
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by oldmanpants 12y ago
In my opinion, there wouldn't be a good reason. Maybe I can find your app directly in the app store, but what the 'Web provides is a human readable (and rememberable) address. Without it, you would need to search the app store or
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by oldmanpants 12y ago
I just don't understand why anyone would want to find the games. Is it just for the documentary? I'm sure there's all sorts of 'new old stock' in landfills all over the world. Stuff much more interesting than a [v
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by oldmanpants 12y ago
thanks! no, I don't have the models up on thingiverse, but I plan to put them up there and to document the build. I'd like to start documenting more of my builds as well. I'm going to work on promoting myself and my work bett
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by oldmanpants 12y ago
i've been reading Hacker News forever and just now created an account to share my project similar to this... I built mine a couple years ago. I 3d printed most of the parts on a Makerbot Thing-o-matic. It uses 24 rare earth magnets bui