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Gotta agree with you there, log splitters rule. We got a little 4 ton electric one for my mom, and on some pieces it would stall. I thought, what a wimpy thing, but then hitting th…

A 12 year old can indeed acquire that skill, but that doesn't mean any adult can do it.

I once took a sledgehammer to work so everyone could take a turn taking a whack at some old prototypes outside. I came to the sad realization that even hitting a particular spot wi…

Looks like its coded by someone who has never split firewood. The challenge is not deciding where to split, its executing the split. Like hitting the same gap if it doesn't split, …

A downside of profile shift is that you get away from the pitch diameter. At the pitch diameter, there's no friction on the teeth, the further away you get, the more friction. But …

The bottleneck with the pointer table may be the summation. While the fetches of elements can be parallelized, the summation can not, as the addition depends on the result of the p…

An interesting aspect is data dependencies. If your next statement reuses data you just computed, that can cause pipeline bubbles, as that result you want to use just isn't availab…

nice, but spotted several inaccuracies on the landing page. perhaps not the best reference.

Disappointed to see the dots around it all appear to be the same spacing. They should be at different spacing, corresponding to strobe sync with 50 and 60 hz mains and 33.33 and 45…

I'm sure they would not have been less than £850 in whatever currency it was sold in back then, inflation adjusted. But the justification was much better than being a fidget toy.

The JVM based devices came years later. This was around 1998, with the 386 based blackbery pager that could only do emails over Mobitex, no phone calls. It even looked like a pager…

yes

I wrote the calculator for the original blackberry. Floating point won't do. I implemented decimal based floating point functions to avoid these rounding problems. This sounds hard…

Cutting away a lot with a router is a slow, noisy and dusty process. Less work to just glue together the channels out of smaller pieces of wood. Also, that way you can take individ…

I remember spell checking my essays for high school on the commodore 64, using Paperclip 64, in 1984, Before there was ANY Microsoft windows. Spell check took a few minutes, becaus…

Actually not fair criticism, given that I even talk about changing the control parameters and demonstrate the effect of changing them.

Please re-watch the video, but THIS TIME PAY ATTENTION. I do talk about the motion parameters, even show the code on the screen briefly. I even show the effects of changing the par…

Things that scale can have a big multiplier, so to say. The problem is, more often than anticipated, that multiplier, rather than being large, ends up being considerably less than …

Since a daily activity once checked presumably never become unchecked, this could be just a big sheet of hexagons you can color in when the activity is done. Yes, you need to print…

Ok, ascii diagram for my previous comment, indented: =============== Pipe

regardless of what happens inside the S-curve, the opening ends up getting a slight vacuum from suction, but there is no such suction on the opposite side. Imagine the S is straigh…