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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • “Don’t turn off” is the worst kind of status message.

    When it eventually hangs for various reasons, you actually do need to turn off your pc for it to complete or to let it roll back in an error state.

    When “just hang in there” is still present on the third day you’ll start wondering why you bought that piece of furniture and won’t mind the consequences of turning it off.






  • bstix@feddit.dkto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone📄 rule
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    The advantage is folding.

    When folded at the middle it becomes the next size.

    So if you have an A4 paper but don’t have the proper C4 envelope, you can fold the paper in half and put it in a C5 envelope. This is standard.

    Let’s then imagine that you don’t have a C5 envelope either, but only have the remaining Christmas card envelopes, which are C6. So you just fold your paper one more time at the middle and it’ll fit again.

    Also, the area of A0 is 1 square meter. You probably don’t nornally have an A0 paper around, but that doesn’t matter, because you can take 8 pieces of A3 or 16 pieces of A4 papers, tape them together and it’ll be A0.

    Now it isn’t actually a square meter. It’s the same area, but it’s not square. No, the length and width makes the golden fucking ratio. This might be irrelevant for a legal document, but it’s pretty neat if you want to make a nice drawing.

    Paper come in reams. Reams come in boxes. Boxes come on pallets. The paper boxes fit perfectly on a pallet in both length and width, so the layers of boxes can be placed either way in an interlocked pattern. This is mostly a box design thing though. American paper also fit on American pallets, but without the connection through the sizes, you cannot make a pallet with mixed sizes and expect it to fit.

    Forgot to add: the real beauty isn’t the paper size. It’s simply having a standard. Cans and bottles and lots of stuff follow similar metric standards. It’s possible to mix everything and still make it fit snuggly on a euro pallet.


  • bstix@feddit.dktoTechnology@beehaw.orgMinimum !
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    That’s not exactly the take I was expecting, but alright.

    The person who posted it is apparently addicted to abusing other peoples labour. Now, as a labour dealer, I can’t provide them with one guy with 10 years experience. That’s too high of a dose.

    However, if they’re willing, I can probably find 10 guys with 1 year experience, but the price is going to be 10 times the going rate, because that’s how much it’ll cost me to hire and manage those 10 people off fiver.

    Am I cutting the shit? Go find another dealer then. It’s not my “need”. That’s a “your problem”.










  • bstix@feddit.dktoMemes@sopuli.xyzTrue quality
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    I got a lot of downvotes… Is your wood really that shit? I buy the cheapest crap in Europe and it’s still… straight (enough) for ordinary construction and even more. It’s only if I needed unfixed poles or detail work that I’d ever consider looking for “straight wood”. We do have shit wood but that’s mainly aesthetics. Look at the edge. Bendy boards are totally fine. They’ll attach just fine.

    Anyway, warning, long story coming in:

    The only time I’ve purchased wood directly from a mill was for a musical instrument. My friend wanted to build a fretless basd and asked if I wanted to come along for the ride. Sure, dude.

    So he got some kind of hardwood from Southern America perfectly cut but still a spare and it cost him more than buying a god damn finished fretless bass.

    The best part is that the idiot never even followed through and built it.

    He still has that $200 piece of perfect wood somewhere in his boxes of stuff that he didn’t unpack the last 2 times that he moved.

    Anyway, go ahead and eyeball the wood. I don’t mind.


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    You don’t want to make hockey stick from a bend piece of wood anyway. Those are made of carbon fibre, and if you want a one from wood it’d be better to use some kind of laminate glued to shape, otherwise it’d feel dead and probably break when used.


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    Yeah sure, I doubt anyone would try to sell that as a 2x4.

    Anyway the point is that the professional carpenters don’t give a shit about it, so neither should DIYers. Once the 2x4 is put up and covered in drywall, nobody will ever know if it has a mild curve.

    The actual thing to watch out for are the edges if they are visible in the end project and also cuts that position the knots poorly. I’ve seen 2x4s where a knot went halfway through the width, which would would only hold half the weight that it’s supposed to.