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Re: Overkill objects for everyday life

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Post by realityking » Sun, May 30, 2021, 7:09 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #49

whoisburbansky wrote: post #37

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I was surprised that the App Store would take a cut of charity donations, so I looked it up and pretty much every forum post I found says that you’re actually forbidden from collecting donations using in app purchases, and have to do so through out of band methods to get through App Review? [1] Kind of difficult to take a cut of payments you explicitly don’t allow on your platform, isn’t it? https://apple.stackexchan…

Yeah, that's Apple's excuse as it is very difficult to set up out-of-band payment methods on an Apple system.

Stripe would like to sell you a solution: https://stripe.com/docs/terminal/sdk/ios

Re: Overkill objects for everyday life

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Post by tomcam » Sun, May 30, 2021, 7:09 PM UTC

stakkur wrote: post #103

A note about the 'Ka-Bar' knife, since I've both been in the Marine Corps and am into knives: the military doesn't use it. In the real world, if you want a knife in the service, you typically buy it yourself. Does the USMC still use 'bayonets'? Yes, in certain circumstances they're issued--but it's not common, and it's not the Ka-Bar, it's another brand (I forget which one). TL;DR: Ka-Bar 'USMC knives' are a marketin…

Please tell me you have a blog, and if so, its URL.

Re: Overkill objects for everyday life

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Post by yongjik » Sun, May 30, 2021, 7:10 PM UTC

notatoad wrote: post #4

I love to use professional-grade items where i can, but sometimes "overkill" means a worse product. like the professional-grade fan - it's not just designed for a high duty cycle, it's also probably designed to be operated in an environment where people regularly use hearing protection, so quiet operation is not a consideration.

Hmm, there's a lesson hidden somewhere here about junior developers itching to implement everything in multi-region distributed services, because Google does it that way.

Re: Overkill objects for everyday life

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Post by akiselev » Sun, May 30, 2021, 7:10 PM UTC

s5300 wrote: post #96

tootie wrote: post #59

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I used to love browsing McMaster-Carr but pretty quickly realized there is nothing worth buying as a consumer. Anything remotely practical for personal use is cheaper on Amazon.

McMaster is pretty good as a consumer for fastener hardware, a good assortment of various geometries of various metals, and mixing supplies in sense of both availability, exotics (such as aluminum flake 12.9 screws), and absolute zero bullshit with regards to knowing what you're actually getting, the fact it's always there, and that it's same day-next morning delivery in most parts of the US. I've had my fair share o…

> Plus... this is something maybe only a CAD user can understand - McMaster Carr provides an outright sex bible of importable 3D CAD objects.

Luckily many suppliers are doing this. Misumi for example has plugins for CAD packages like Solidworks that even generate CAD parts for parts with custom configurations (like aluminum extrusion cut to size) so going from assembly to BOM to purchase order is a few clicks.

Re: Overkill objects for everyday life

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Post by tokamak-teapot » Sun, May 30, 2021, 7:10 PM UTC

NegativeLatency wrote: post #187

BossingAround wrote: post #150

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What's the main difference between Virtuoso+ and Encore? From just a quick glance, Virtuoso+ has a number of features that aren't very useful (like a timer, or LEDs/display) while having seemingly identical burr system?

I have one of these, the LED is dumb but the digital timer is really nice for repeatability in how much you grind. Wasn’t willing to pay even more for one with a scale

I have a Macap M5D. This has a timer with three presets. It’s perfect and while expensive, even second hand, I wouldn’t say it’s overkill for home use. The timer means I don’t get the grind wrong. I’m not sure why you wouldn’t want one. I suppose I’m quite good at ‘eyeballing’ the quantity now, but the timer means consistency.

Re: Overkill objects for everyday life

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Post by kfajdsl » Sun, May 30, 2021, 7:10 PM UTC

bluedino wrote: post #86

I see this all the time. Friend of mine bought a $200 Milwaukee drill to put up a couple picture frames.

My rule of thumb for tools is to always first buy the cheapo Harbor Freight special (I'll get something a little better for precision tools) and if that tool breaks then that means I use the tool enough to justify getting something better.

Spoiler alert: most of my tools are the cheapest I could find.

Re: Overkill objects for everyday life

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Post by elil17 » Sun, May 30, 2021, 7:11 PM UTC

Restaurant supply stores are a great place to get kitchenware. Some of it doesn’t work in a home kitchen (for instance, you probably don’t want your smallest Tupperware to be a quart). Some of it, though, is perfect. My favorite purchase has been a huge cutting board with rubber grip material on one side and rulers printed on the other. It’s thick plastic so it’s never warped despite repeatedly putting it in the dishwasher.

If you’re lucky enough to live near one that lets consumers buy food, too, that’s great. 20 pounds of very high quality pasta for like $8 or $10.

Re: Overkill objects for everyday life

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Post by orangefox » Sun, May 30, 2021, 7:11 PM UTC

killjoywashere wrote: post #90

enchiridion wrote: post #55

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That's always the line. The left out part is how rigorous the spec is.

Problem with the spec is often that the military "needs a car". But the specification process forces them to design all the parameters, and they end up with a very rigorous spec for "Toyota Camry, no A/C, coyote brown, steel wheels" which adds up to 800 pages and a product that even Toyota can't produce for less than $250k/unit. Meanwhile, by the time they've written the spec, the CyberTruck has been designed, market…

The cybertruck won't meet milspec because it runs solely on battery power. A military vehicle needs to be able to run in expeditionary environments with the ability to store and carry extra fuel for long range operations and refuel quickly. Neither one of those requirements can be met by a battery vehicle.

Re: Overkill objects for everyday life

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Post by joezydeco » Sun, May 30, 2021, 7:11 PM UTC

NegativeLatency wrote: post #170

joezydeco wrote: post #164

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Commercial kitchen equipment isn't always set up for 120V single phase operation. If you really want to rewire your house to mix 20 gallons of dough at a time...go for it I suppose. But do the homework first.

Sure some of it is but certainly not all of it. Also there are reasonably sized mixers like GP said

Oh, sorry. The point of the article was 'overkill'. It's really 'just heavier duty'.

Re: Overkill objects for everyday life

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, May 30, 2021, 7:12 PM UTC

notatoad wrote: post #4

I love to use professional-grade items where i can, but sometimes "overkill" means a worse product. like the professional-grade fan - it's not just designed for a high duty cycle, it's also probably designed to be operated in an environment where people regularly use hearing protection, so quiet operation is not a consideration.

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