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A general rule I used in industry was that on plant air @7-ish bar, it took at least 5 hp worth of compressor capacity do 1 hp worth of work at the end of the hose.... No biggie on…

My grandmother from rural Saskatchewan said that back then they would exchange their radio batteries when they went to town. Her husband, my grandfather, lived in Regina but worked…

At work that phone would be called a secondary contamination source....and in an aquarium perhaps a refugium?

Same, but for the cleanliness and safety of my phone.

Only 50? I think that's pretty good when considered on its own but STC doesn't look at the whole picture. STC ratings and requirements for discrete wall and floor assemblies are a …

Something I've seen with renovations is construction companies not understanding how to attenuate sound, and not bothering to learn or, even better, consult someone who knows. Well…

Where I am in British Columbia, there are sound isolation requirements in the building code so the landlords can't be cheap...but it doesn't help with older or non-permitted work.

"You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed" - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46319826

I have encountered PDFs that would exhibit this behavior in one browser but not in another. One fun thing I encountered from local government is releasing files with potato quality…

>Growth and sales can heal just about all wounds ... A similar thing seems to apply to marriages: If the money and sex are good, any other BS in life is easier to tolerate.

The term I've heard is masking.

I believe vending machine operators that take card payment have to deal with a lot of charge-backs. Perhaps this is a workaround?

I used to show a clip to new helpers/labourers of Fred taking down a chimney one brick at a time because it beautifully showed what a person can do if they just get at it and keep …

>A huge amount were clearly faked resumes that far too closely matched the job description to be realistic. In government work programs in British Columbia, we were taught to addre…

Where I am, in British Columbia, the solution formoving even the biggest windows in single family homes is to use ten men and a boy.

I haven't been there in 20 years but I'm not surprised. Back then there was a tidal wave of drunk, loud men from the UK whenever they had a bank holiday. My unsolicited advice to p…

Even consumer drones have a use. The branch of the family that still farms has a neighbour that has their son use his drone to zip out over the fields and check on their irrigation…

My Lawyer says not to tell you a spud gun can heave a line a good height/distance if you want to make a folded dipole antenna using an old growth fir tree. Just tie your line throu…

On the Assembler side of things, my experience is that the right temperament is much more important and difficult thing to find than any specific skill. Regardless of the skill set…

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Do any of you follow expiring patents? Albion Strawberries can be propagated royalty free after January 29th, 2024.

Just apply a label saying, "Print Server" and nobody will mess with them.

Old boats are a HAZMAT nightmare. Assuming you need to do everything responsibly and above board, you may get paid for the scrap, but you need to pay to remove and dispose of pipe …

Yes, they are beautiful and natural. If you don't buy into a humanity/nature dichotomy then skyscrapers can be as well.