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I have some Ryobi and some Makita. I like the Makita better (seem just a bit nicer designed and easier to handle), but I it's hard to justify spending more on a tool one isn't sure how often it's going to be used. The jump to Li-Ion batteries made everything so much better, especially for an occasional user. They last longer, they stay charged for a long time when just sitting there, I haven't been experiencing them degrading. Old batteries were always dead when I needed to use them and would last only a short time after a few years. It was just super annoying and better to go with a corded tool.
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SAY YOHO posted:I don't know if this is still a thing, but my dad used to have a power tool sales/repair shop, and I remember early days of Dewalt, most of the internals were exact part matches for B&D stuff. By far the most common brand to eat its gears was dewalt. Bosch a close second. Also it was told to me that a tool ostensibly the same model of tool sold in Home Depot, was cheaper than from a dealer cause they actually used cheaper parts, but I don't know how much of that was my dad making a pitch. My experience working and repairing tools there basically taught me Milwaukie and Makita are the best tools. Porter Cable(rip) third above Dewalt. Its a qa thing. Parts that fail qa but are still usable, just not as good, will go into the cheaper brand, whereas the higher quality parts go into the premium brand. Eg let's say the motors have to come in under 70db and produce 700w, but then 20% of them are loud as gently caress and only produce 650w. You would normally reject them, the supplier takes them back and over time raises their prices due to the reject rate, and/or works to get the rate reduced. Either way you spend more on motors. On the other hand if you have a budget brand using cast of parts, you can just use those motors in there, take the expected mix rate into account when placing a stock order and save money. We used to so this at lot at ingersoll rand with castings. There was a certain amount of allowed porosity, we used the best blocks for the hydrogen machines and used the lovely blocks with lots of holes for diving gases after theyd been sealed. We couldnt improve the casting quality without serious investment so this let us use all the blocks over time while keeping quality up. VW and Skoda do the same thing iirc. A lot of skoda parts are just VW parts that failed qa.
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Harry_Potato posted:Gozer the Gozerian... good evening. As a duly designated representative of the City, County and State of New York, I order you to cease any and all supernatural activity and return forthwith to your place of origin or to the nearest convenient parallel dimension. Are you a god?
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Solid state storage like USB drives are also infamous for doing that. They'll make a chip with 25x 64GB chips and if more than 24 work sell it as a 1.5 TB. 20-23 it become a 1.25 TB. 16-19 a 1 TB, etc.
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This is better than 11 foot 8 e: anyone know the intersection? I want to see the lead up to it
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Feb 25, 2023 16:45
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Oh, Seattle. I had a friend completely demolish a brand new ZX-9R on that exit, laid it down, and slid across 7th Avenue, shedding fairing and parts the entire way.
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Feb 25, 2023 16:48
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Enos Cabell posted:This is better than 11 foot 8 It’s the end of an off-ramp from I-5 in Seattle. Here’s an article about it.
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Feb 25, 2023 16:49
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Edit: beaten by much better information.
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Enos Cabell posted:This is better than 11 foot 8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C56ZLKceTPI This is the camera owner's YouTube page. Has a few newer accidents on it. https://www.youtube.com/user/michaelbasconcillo
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Enos Cabell posted:This is better than 11 foot 8 https://twitter.com/DeedeeKIRO7/status/1522379966289043456?s=20
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Feb 25, 2023 16:52
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Really, every city should have an exit just like that to identify and decertify drunks and bad drivers. (I’ve taken that exit, it’s a complete nonevent if you’re sober and paying literally any sort of attention to what you’re doing.)
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Feb 25, 2023 17:02
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Enos Cabell posted:This is better than 11 foot 8 Something screwy with Google Maps. You used to be able to move along the roadway under there on Street View a few years ago, but it seems to stop you now. You can see into the exit from the below link though, and it's a 100% "why would you be speeding here in the first place" type of street. https://www.google.com/maps/@47.610...92!9m2!1b1!2i12
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MrYenko posted:Really, every city should have an exit just like that to identify and decertify drunks and bad drivers. Yeah. That seems fine for normal, non-impaired drivers. edit: Found the dangerous part  Remove the part circled in red, so drunk drivers don't bounce toward other traffic and/or pedestrians. Issaries fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Feb 25, 2023 |
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Yeah I've definitely taken sketchier exits than this, that is pretty clearly marked. https://twitter.com/JeffvonGroethe/status/1522728956184522752?s=20
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Issaries posted:Yeah. That seems fine for normal, non-impaired drivers. they'll still bounce though, is the thing. just at a different angle. in a crash the momentum inevitably goes *somewhere* until it dissipates, so you could replace the jersey barrier with a row of e.g. sand barrels but those cost maintenance+replacement
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Xenoborg posted:Solid state storage like USB drives are also infamous for doing that. They'll make a chip with 25x 64GB chips and if more than 24 work sell it as a 1.5 TB. 20-23 it become a 1.25 TB. 16-19 a 1 TB, etc. Every kind of computer part does this. If your CPU or GPU batch comes out with a few busted cores, you can sell them as a slower cheaper model The general principle is called binning
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Nenonen posted:For example Lidl has their own Parkside brand. Lidl shops are much smaller than Walmarts, but for some reason they have a pretty good range of tools for a store where you would normally expect to find just daily groceries. I'm not sure if I would invest heavily into a system from a chain that specialises in cheap lager, but it seems like they reach the kind of clientele to whom that is a powerful combo. I believe Parkside is designed by another (maybe multiple) German company and sold as separate cheap tool lines, and Lidl rebrands it as their own. It's decent stuff for the price, and if it's not your livelihood it's fine. I've been replacing corded tools with their 20V portfolio and haven't encountered issues, though some of it is clearly skimping out on precision or material costs.
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silentsnack posted:they'll still bounce though, is the thing. just at a different angle. in a crash the momentum inevitably goes *somewhere* until it dissipates, so you could replace the jersey barrier with a row of e.g. sand barrels but those cost maintenance+replacement I was thinking more of a 90 degree angle.
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silentsnack posted:they'll still bounce though, is the thing. just at a different angle. in a crash the momentum inevitably goes *somewhere* until it dissipates, so you could replace the jersey barrier with a row of e.g. sand barrels but those cost maintenance+replacement I mean, they would just save money by not replacing them.
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Issaries posted:Yeah. That seems fine for normal, non-impaired drivers. It's probably there to protect the bridge.
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haveblue posted:Every kind of computer part does this. If your CPU or GPU batch comes out with a few busted cores, you can sell them as a slower cheaper model There's also speed binning, which is why overclocking a CPU can be a bad idea. Nowadays yields are often high enough that manufacturers just sell chips with a cheaper speed grade than they tested out at, to get more sales. But you still could end up with one that really came from a lower speed bin, meaning that it failed when tested at the frequency that you're trying to run it at.
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Issaries posted:I was thinking more of a 90 degree angle. That's the sound of federal highway funding fluttering out the window
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Xerol posted:It's probably there to protect the bridge. The entire tunnel structure goes directly underneath the Washington State Convention Center so I presume they're trying to not have that collapse onto I-5.
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Yes, they were high quality tools from their founding in the early 1900s up through WW2 and beyond. Old Black & Decker tools are solid. The company itself (Stanley Black & Decker) continues to make good tools under the DeWalt brand. They just did the usual high-low brand segmentation that every other company does these days. I am not sure why they decided to use Black & Decker as the low-end brand. Ask their marketing department, I guess.
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There Bias Two posted:I hope this is AI generated content of some kind I dunno how accurate the narration is about the radiation though, they tend to take the radiation levels at least somewhat seriously
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Dick Trauma posted:https://twitter.com/MachinePix/status/1629288167810519042?s=20 I would find it hilarious if the melted snow just drained out into the street and froze immediately.
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Finally a solution to waiting a little while.
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OSHA IV: A man blacklisted by the Grim Reaper
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toiletbrush posted:its Kreosan so nope any time anyone (other than a nuclear scientist) makes a radiation comparison involving chernobyl or hiroshima you can just immediately ignore it. "the radiation level is 400 times that of the hiroshima bomb" is so stupid and meaningless that it makes me mad. 400 times what? the radiation level at ground zero after detonation? no, absolutely not. 400 times the (perfectly safe) background radiation level in hiroshima today? perhaps? even 400 times the background radiation isn't particularly dangerous -- just means in a day you'd get a little over a year of background dose, so if you went there for a day once a year, you'd have the same radiation exposure as an average flight attendant. the radiation level outside the Little Boy bomb casing with the U-235 core installed? maybe, but what a stupid comparison. and then what type of radiation are we talking about -- alpha, beta, gamma, electrons, x-rays, neutron? how much energy behind the emissions? quantities of specific isotopes? curies, grays or sieverts??? Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig; es ist nicht einmal falsch! Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Feb 25, 2023 |
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Can’t they like just dump the snow into the ocean like we do in our civilized east coast cities.
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Ror posted:Yeah, cordless will do that. You might want to consider a powder-actuated tool. 
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Ror posted:Yeah, cordless will do that. You might want to consider a powder-actuated tool. How the hell is a Wall Street banker from the 1980s gonna help?
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