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  1. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    Just be aware with the cloth bag style dust collectors that they actually can make your shop air worse with regard to super-fine particulates that are the most dangerous. Think of them as cleaning but not filtering. Air quality is a deep rabbit hole and some folks definitely go overboard, but on...
  2. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    I mean he's not wrong, a true viable third party would be one of the best things that could happen to us. The game theory of two-party winner takes all is not panning out in our favor. But not him or his.
  3. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    That seems like the Right Way (tm) to fix it, and I'm pleasantly surprised you can get any tradesman to come to your house for $250, never mind complete a job.
  4. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    I have the Makita cordless because I was already in their battery ecosystem. Would recommend. Cuts beautifully, better than my contractor-grade table saw.
  5. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    Sorry, it seemed to me that the paper link was connected to your first paragraph. I'm not willfully ignoring context; message boards aren't a perfect medium for communication. A simple "that's not what I meant" is fine, no reason for ascribing ill intent. I'm happy to own my misreading. My bad.
  6. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    No we don't. Experiments produce mass values where the uncertainty range includes zero and non-zero values, and as experiments continue to grow in precision over time the bounds on that uncertainty increasingly ratchets down closer to zero. Given that all experiments will have error, it's...
  7. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    Photons have no mass. Massless things always travel at c. We know the value of c because that's how fast we measure photons traveling. As far as "why c?", I don't think there is an answer within the realm of science. Physics is observational. That's just how the universe is.
  8. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    I can never get a clean edge on the big sheets because I don't have enough infeed/outfeed support to keep from accidentally lifting/drooping the panel or coming off the fence slightly. Tracksaw is definitely a superior method for breakdown unless you have a giant shop surface or sliding table setup.
  9. Captain Suave

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    I ended up buying one of these: https://outdoorstirfry.com/product/easyflamer-natural-gas-50/?v=0b3b97fa6688 Arrived in a week despite warning on delivery lead time. The only unexpected hurdle was that I needed a 1/2 inverted female flare to 3/8 NPT gas fitting to attach the quick connect...
  10. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    Table saw sled will be cheapest, but bulkier than a tracksaw. I recently bought a cordless tracksaw to help break down sheet goods, and it's amazing. Cost aside, I'd definitely prefer it to the sled as a jointer substitute. Faster, easier setup, more stable in use.
  11. Captain Suave

    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    It's not wall voltage, it's voltage at the chip. That is tightly regulated by the motherboard and power supply and they're detecting tiny changes from voltage bleed into testing tools.
  12. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    Good. Jones needs to put up or shut up and retire.
  13. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

    The latest science project from the dude without a functioning amygdala. "Honestly, the feeling that I'm not supposed to own these really adds to the appeal."
  14. Captain Suave

    Household Major Appliances

    I have a Bosch dishwasher. One thing to watch out for is that in some models the door springs have plastic attachment inserts that tend to shatter. I replaced mine with a $15 knockoff part with a stamped steel insert that seems fine. Easy job, but requires disconnecting and pulling out the...
  15. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

    I went to a capybara cafe in Japan with my kids. Capybaras are neat animals, sort of like a stoned dog. They just wanted pets and snacks. Unrelated:
  16. Captain Suave

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    It's based off The Clone Wars series.
  17. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    Door is installed on the wrong side of the fame. How the fuck are you supposed to safely open that from the stair side?
  18. Captain Suave

    Parent Thread

    Similar scooter trend here as @Falstaff. I though about it for a bit and decided not to because I live in a hilly area. With the tiny wheel diameters the brakes on scooters just aren't up to the job, and if they could stop quickly that just pitches you off. The only problem is my daughter is 11...
  19. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    Ignoring the logistics, the first thing they'll realize is that this is a giant clusterfuck because now they have to keep track of the floating dollar <> gold exchange rate.
  20. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    I don't think this makes your ship any weaker, but it does make the propagation of causality slower. The fundamental forces being limited to c is part of the perception of time slowing. Information flow between particles has a speed limit, so time underclocks (relative to everything else) the...
  21. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    Practically speaking, physically transporting large masses over light years just seems like something the universe is hostile towards. Long before that problem is solved, if it can be, a civilization would expand by sending Von Neumann probes and printing copies at a new location. That doesn't...
  22. Captain Suave

    Health Problems

    Up there with, "Wow, I've never seen that before!". Fortunately for me it was just my knee, not a critical organ.
  23. Captain Suave

    Marathon (Bungie)

    The good news is this was stillborn enough that most mainstream gamers haven't heard of it. The proportion of the gaming public that pays attention to streamers/game news media is small. For people like me where the original Marathon was literally my first 3d game, I'll be discerning enough that...
  24. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    Yes, I'm intending to agree with that. The closer you approach c your subjective time stretches out infinitely compared to observers outside your reference frame, so your observed acceleration appears to slow. From your perspective distance shrinks, so you get where you're going at 1G and find...
  25. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    That is how it works, though, at least assuming you had a propulsion system that could provide velocity-invariant thrust. It's the same amount of energy, not that you could ever expend it. The trick is that as you approach c for you space compresses to zero distance and for everything else your...
  26. Captain Suave

    The F*** Cancer Thread

    This is like implying the plumbers cause your pipes to leak. People tend not to go to doctors unless they have health problems. Small problems cause small symptoms. Then they grow in to big problems with big symptoms. Cancer is definitionally out of control growth. My mom had a biliary tumor...
  27. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    This explanation was popular for a while but I think it was a shortcut to get around having to explain the weirder parts of relativity. "Increasing mass" sort of applies an intuitively palatable reason why you couldn't accelerate to c from the perspective of an outside observer, but it's not...
  28. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    This is correct. Relativity is such a mindfuck and overturns the most basic heuristics used by our brains. Reality is deeply, deeply weird. Distance, time, and mass-energy all trade off against each other. From the perspective of the accelerating observer you experience 1G (or whatever)...
  29. Captain Suave

    Health Problems

    Yeah, my FitBit does a pretty good job, including adjusting for my exercise.
  30. Captain Suave

    Health Problems

    Second this. Counting calories is a huge pain in the ass but works like clockwork if you're honest. Track for a few weeks, and if your metabolism is such that the weight isn't coming off at the expected rate adjust your calories until it is. Don't forget to adjust downward for your mass change...
  31. Captain Suave

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    30-40% of all people have some level of fructose intolerance.
  32. Captain Suave

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Eh, you have to eat most of a full watermelon in one sitting. Normal portions are fine. Ask me how I know...
  33. Captain Suave

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Watermelon has lots of indigestible carbs in it that will give some people explosive shits if they eat too much.
  34. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    Meh. Earth's magnetic field inducing very low-frequency current resonances through the entire facility and its equipment (paper even mentions metal buildings) is not the same thing as the primary detection mechanism (laser distance measurement) intentionally picking up general EM waves. They're...
  35. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    Newtonian equations are good enough for a lot of work. That equation is useful and convenient, but does not describe our most accurate understanding of physics. LIGO and VIRGO are laser interferometers can don't detect magnetic waves at all. They're just really, really, really, REALLY...
  36. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    This statement is nonsense. The universe is nothing but change. Gravity is constantly changing as everything changes mass/energy and moves relative to each other. No, you. You're the one with the crazy talk. Show us the supposed requirement that gravity propagates instantly, against what...
  37. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    Objects experience gravity as propagated a the the speed of light. This has been a recognized prediction of the math for the last hundred years, and we saw it with the LIGO experiment. That's the entire point of the "relative" part of relativity. There exists only what each observer experiences...
  38. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    Something like the would be plenty sturdy (unless you need the bench to have mass for stability/dampening), with the bonus of having wheels and not being stuck to your garage wall.
  39. Captain Suave

    Routers & Other Networking Stuff

    He had his media/movie room set up as a secondary display. Looked like he was using windows display settings to choose which screen he wanted rather than fully switching the signal. Can't speak to the troubles Lanx referenced, but I totally believe that setup is finicky.
  40. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    Just do whatever you're most comfortable executing, unless you're in it as a skill-building project. Other than secret warm fuzzies about having done it "the right way", I highly doubt you'll ever notice a difference between any of the solutions. Realistically, you could just butt the panels...