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SawStop table saw. It‘a a great saw in general, but what absolutely blew me away was the assembly. Extremely well thought out, from the order in which boxes of parts are opened, to the instructions, to the assembly procedure itself. I could not come up with a single improvement.
It’s my understanding the SawStop has a Powermatic body.
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I must disagree with you on maps. Google maps is a fantastic geographic aware search. It is a horrific map. On any given screen there is an 80% chance that the major road I'm interested in is not labeled. Finding the name of a relevant cross street is a nightmare. I feel like it used to be better. Way better. I think the map aspect has been dropped entirely as a real feature now that they supply directions (search) p…
I agree with this 100%. And there needs to be something in the design to allow you to zoom the text size. It's comical to witness myself trying to read too small text and reflexively zooming only to have the same sized font.
Turbo Pascal 7, then Borland Delphi 5 were the most productive programming environments ever. Very few bugs, wicked fast, and full proper documentation. Nothing since comes even close.
Potato peeler
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Mostly unrelated but I would like to be able to set the temperate and water pressure for my shower so I can just enter and press a single button. This would also be great for those showers where you can never get the water temperature or pressure right so you have to keep adjusting it. I would also like to run a bath by doing the same thing, and having the water stop when it's at the right level. Maybe there could be…
Thermal regulating shower/bath faucets are relatively common: https://www.deltafaucet.com/design-innovation/innovations/sh... I have one in my master shower and it's fantastic. Of course, the water starts out cold (because the water in the hot water pipes are cold) but once it's up to temperature, it's very consistent, even if you have a toilet flush in your house which would reduce the pressure of cold.
No, this should be considered a failure condition for a constant temperature shower. I don't care how they do it, just bleed the cold water into a separate pipe off to the side or something.
We have sent people into space, I want actual uniform temperature water.
Google flights is fantastic. Don't know if it is "the best-designed thing I've ever used", but it is on top of my mind as I just used it yesterday. Google doesn't get enough credit for the things that they did do well - including Search and Maps. Another is Macbooks - the pre-2015 ones at least. I haven't used the latest M1 ones, which I hear great things about. The Aluminum body, the flawless screen, magsafe, great…
I must disagree with you on maps. Google maps is a fantastic geographic aware search. It is a horrific map. On any given screen there is an 80% chance that the major road I'm interested in is not labeled. Finding the name of a relevant cross street is a nightmare. I feel like it used to be better. Way better. I think the map aspect has been dropped entirely as a real feature now that they supply directions (search) p…
HP 12C. The best RPN calculator ever created. Mine is over 20 years old and still going strong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-12C
The dough hook, whisk, and other attachments secure in place with machined fittings so there is no play or wiggle. This has made them last.
I took the top off of it 10 years ago to make sure it was still properly lubricated. That’s all the maintenance it has ever had. (Well I broke one of the Pyrex mixing bowls…but eBay)