Posts by chemoelectric@masto.ai
(DIR) Post #Ad8rjjKS28HqblhcC8 by chemoelectric@masto.ai
2023-12-24T17:48:09Z
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It is a DeWalt toolset.Of course the small sockets come loose. So yesterday I stuck them down with BluTack. Any more that come loose I will also stick down with BluTack.That cart kit came with a wrench for nuts and that wrench will not fit into the space where the nuts go! But a socket will. It required a 10mm socket. My toolset had a bunch of 10mm sockets.I also needed a 4mm hex key. One came with the kit but of course it was tiny.You would not believe how many hex key sets I have.
(DIR) Post #Ad8sOjPecsrQk1gfDs by chemoelectric@masto.ai
2023-12-24T18:00:55Z
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@clive If you count bit sets and hex screwdrivers, it really gets crazy! And should I count my T-shaped ones as hex keys or as funny screwdrivers? :) And there are the ones that are like pocketknives. I guess those count as novelties. :)
(DIR) Post #Ad960vvFrXeNwp0x5k by chemoelectric@masto.ai
2023-12-24T18:02:38Z
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@clive The Bondhus ones are very nice because on one end they are round and you can turn them without bothering to be straight. When you go to the long lever arm direction you have to have it in straight, however.
(DIR) Post #Ad960wgP2FMeJ34ba4 by chemoelectric@masto.ai
2023-12-24T18:07:19Z
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@clive The other day I got out the mechanic’s tools to assemble a thing and then screamed AAAAAAACK!!!!! because the wrenches went only up to 15mm and this thing needed a 17mm.But I had assembled this thing before. I have a very nice Jaeger 17mm wrench just for the purpose. I simply did not like having to paw through a toolbox looking for it.
(DIR) Post #Ad960xP4MB5qXZyHCa by chemoelectric@masto.ai
2023-12-24T18:08:32Z
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@clive (It’s the rolling trolley for the DeWalt T-Stak system. A true PITA to assemble.)
(DIR) Post #AixQVyNOd97yUiek4G by chemoelectric@masto.ai
2024-06-15T16:40:07Z
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@futurebird Let us cross that bridge if we come to it!
(DIR) Post #AixeOtGYdAKvyayTUe by chemoelectric@masto.ai
2024-06-15T16:45:19Z
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@dgar Being Jewish, don't I know it. Like the kid who came home from Catholic school terrified. He said I had to get baptized or I would go TO HELL!Of course, the rabbi and rebbetzin would have said both of us kids were likely to end together in whatever Heaven there was, simply because we were good kids. And that there was no Eternal Hell. But I hadn't gotten that far yet.I had no exposure to nuns, so was not very afraid, anyway. Scary people, nuns.
(DIR) Post #AkC2ZT1FdRVah02WYq by chemoelectric@masto.ai
2024-07-22T15:44:39Z
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@stux What about that image of StuxOS I found at mstbn dot social?
(DIR) Post #AlpxdV4BHfZKYLQUqm by chemoelectric@masto.ai
2024-09-09T18:59:33Z
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Trump, supposedly, is threatening a 100 percent tariff on countries blah blah blah.In other words, he is promising to raise taxes!He consistently does this. Trump went to the University of Pennsylvania and yet thinks tariffs are paid by somebody other than the purchaser.During Trump's quasi-presidency, when he imposed a tariff on imported electronics, I DIRECTLY PAID A FIFTEEN DOLLAR TARIFF on a technical electronic device. The tariff was added to my bill, not to the price of my item.
(DIR) Post #AlpxdX2pvdgKgkoS24 by chemoelectric@masto.ai
2024-09-09T19:02:39Z
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This is not, I believe, his likely dementia. He's just really that stupid.And yet an Ivy League university graduated him.The Ivy League is a scandal. "Elite" universities in general are a scandal. I have a deep loathing for our higher education system.
(DIR) Post #AlxX4Enwi5L8RG2M6a by chemoelectric@masto.ai
2024-09-13T11:29:57Z
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@ErikUden I hate being kept up all night by discomfort. It happens often because I have RLS and other minor but irritating problems.
(DIR) Post #AnkeIcN6CUkaqMfk2q by chemoelectric@masto.ai
2024-11-06T02:03:59Z
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@interfluidity @bkahn @StillIRise1963 I cannot wish ill upon the Everglades, the flora, the fauna. Otherwise I might rejoice in the submerging of A1A.
(DIR) Post #AnkeYhoXjU6SMCBEjw by chemoelectric@masto.ai
2024-11-06T02:06:53Z
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@interfluidity I read that Silver Springs is now filled with Tilapia.
(DIR) Post #AnkiCRVK5kuJDapVui by chemoelectric@masto.ai
2024-11-06T02:47:38Z
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@stux In the United States you have something like 51 unitary authorities controlling election laws. That's pretty tough to work with! :)But it still would be tough to vote. I'm an absentee voter in Minnesota. I get my ballot mailed to me and just have to fill in ovals in black ink. But I do have to get my wife to witness my ballot for me. I have to pack it properly and then put it in the mail (no stamp needed). I can then check its progress online.But...
(DIR) Post #AofmOJHRfeMTDFf0JU by chemoelectric@masto.ai
2024-12-03T14:03:20Z
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@beyondmachines1 Luckily, no "AI" developer we have heard from is actually working on artificial intelligence. They are working on language mimicry, but are themselves so unthoughtful they can't tell the difference.It takes but a moment to realize their error: a chimpanzee is practically the same thing as a human, but has no language! Therefore language mimicry is a dead end approach to AI.But do not rest easy. Somewhere in Africa a family of gorillas is developing true AI ...
(DIR) Post #Av3IvWRGhTXldzN5EG by chemoelectric@masto.ai
2025-06-12T11:08:37Z
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@futurebird It would help also if we (a) didn't rate students against each other (VERY difficult to achieve in our society), and (b) taught a lot less nonsense.Our current society VERY often promotes to the top those who rate highest in repeating complete nonsense. This is a big reason why we are headed towards things like climate disaster.BTW I was soldering when I was like 8 years old but that was the 1960s. Parents had me using plastic solvent to make a model battleship when I was 6. :)
(DIR) Post #AvBdN6Hh5VIuz3045g by chemoelectric@masto.ai
2025-06-16T11:35:20Z
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@futurebird @dansinker What appears in newspapers on any political topic is mostly genre fiction, based upon current events. It is formulaic storytelling.Look at the "report" recognize how many times you have seen the exact same story, but with the proper nouns changed.There exists no story about 1 in 70 persons protesting. So it does not get rewritten with the names changed.There is the story of the neglected Johnny Punchclock. So you will see that. Etc.
(DIR) Post #AvUwDuBevJkdMcZFEO by chemoelectric@masto.ai
2025-06-25T19:06:12Z
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@Nonilex One can feel in one's bones that "bunker busters" are among those military projects where you fudge the test conditions so they "work". Otherwise you will get in trouble.A classic example is "Star Wars". There was absolutely NO WAY to counter a Soviet multiple independent re-entry vehicle attack, so they fudged the tests to make them "work".
(DIR) Post #AvzP5WUHMrVSinmlNY by chemoelectric@masto.ai
2025-07-10T11:50:56Z
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@stux And I am having computers (not just a phone) again, for the first time since I caught COVID long ago!Everything is coming up roses.
(DIR) Post #Ayay4x2ZM2L9DHEzsu by chemoelectric@masto.ai
2025-09-26T10:31:30Z
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@stux Meow.