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Sorry, why wouldn’t I write in the native language?

It doesn’t make any sense that you’d need tongs to make tongs; just hold the workpiece. Maybe you cant draw out the reins quite so much on your first one. (Ok im a modern blacksmit…

I’m so glad to hear you say that, i was carrying it around while slogging through it and everyone else who saw exclaimed how good they’d heard it was. I do think the sequel is bett…

Did your sense of taste change after your surgery? My sister is considering a similar procedure and is concerned that everything could start tasting like hot garbage.

The Nim compiler used ropes internally for years, until recently[0] because removing them reduced memory consumption and decreased compile times, so ymmv [0] https://github.com/nim…

The ecosystem is smaller than some, but wrapping libraries is mostly automatable, and there is tooling to assist interop with python, c, and c++

yes, Nim has move semantics, but takes care of you more than c++ does. for example, if you use an object that was previously moved, you dont get garbage, the compiler turns the fir…

they should be able to. same physics applies, right? poles dont have to be as thick or as deep to resist the same torque, and if you could somehow make the pales curvy/corrugated, …

It may not come as a complete surprise that the economics of metals are more complex. Aluminium, was so expensive until the Hall/(that other guy) process was developed, that it was…

I came here to share that the importance of using contemporaneous materials, if not methods, was highlighted for me when I worked on Bath cathedral and saw how the victorian 'impro…

Not any kind of chemist, but I'm seeing molybdenum disulfide plus (metal) coated on alumina support used as a catalyst, as well as magnetic Al/Fe composite nanoparticles used for s…

Metallic aluminium is insanely reactive and any Aluminium exposure will always be in the form of oxides or hydroxides. It's disingenuous to suggest that it is inert in this form, e…

> If you have children or a significant other, think how much time you spend with them. Do you get burnt out from it? New daughter. Love her immensely. So happy. Burnt out? YES.

Olive oil absolutely degrades in light. Even in dark bottles. Really high quality olive oil is sold in opaque ceramic containers.

You can get third party rp2040 modules or just the raw chip, easily. Not with the (proprietary licensed?) Wifi stuff, and definitely not official.

Reading the manual it looks like it automatically pulls the electrode back away from the workpiece after the arc is struck.

Correct. In a stick welder I care about: working all day, in the rain, up a ladder, at 130A. For ease/quality of the weld, I pay for quality welding rods, not more settings.

No it's not, there's no spool. It's tungsten electrode, inert gas. Feed wire and electrode diameters are, like, 0.3mm

Not fundamentally different, technically, just optimized for that low end. I think this model maxes out at 13A. And you're looking at your weld *through a microscope*.

That process is called /decarburization/

I grew up in a family of classical musicians, got a degree in music, and was briefly a professional classical musician myself. So my advice may be very out of touch with the experi…

'cwm fjord-bank glyphs vext quiz'

thats brilliant, we should do that in english, and make the alphabet song go "c w m f j o, r d b a n-k-g-l-y. p h s, v e x, t q u, i and z"

While it saddens me to hear what you're saying, I literally left my career as a blacksmith for embedded because even the interesting bespoke projects are all going to CNC. I'd be i…