Hot metal looks like cold metal, but feels different.
Greg Koenig
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Greg Koenig
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You'll go where I go, defile what I defile, eat who I eat.
He/Supreme Allied Machine Commander
- Why aren’t people going out anymore? Sister in law in town. Let’s go to Shake Shack and see Naked gun: Shake Shack: $67 3 Movie Tickets: $56 3 drinks and a popcorn: $39
- Fun fact; In the outskirts of Portland is a nice little shop in an anonymous industrial park. You walk in to a little foyer with a folding card table and 9 thick, vacuum sealed Mylar bags, each about 1' long and 4" in diameter. They are sitting on top of about 70 pages ofThe US Military paid $45 dollars for this one bolt
Readers added contextThis is a picture of an AN series bolt, used on various components of an aircraft. These bolts might seem expensive, but with the FAA’s strict quality control and limited production, the price is considered pretty standard. machinedesign.com/mechanical-mot… kitplanes.com/whats-the-deal…. reddit.com/r/mildlyintere… - Also an A&P - This has been going around, let me explain as a manufacturing guy what you are seeing: Economic 5th Generation Warfare That is 100% what this is. The CCP subsidizes every aspect of these operations with the express intent of destroying America’s prototype and productionDyson knockoff turbine motor fans are dirt cheap on Aliexpress and going into fun stuff like these handheld fans that move a lot of air. 200 watts 200 grams CNC impeller $5, crazy.
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- Fun fact: years ago they busted a prostitution ring inside the Boeing plant.TIL the largest factory in the world is right here in america, where we assemble wide-body aircraft
- Of course, my wife is basically a lib yoga instructor, she was getting worked up over how “disgusting” Trump/RFK are for how they rolled out this news. I said there was a major study at Harvard, authored by the dean of Public Health and with Mt Sinai. She then started reading an
- WTF is a "38 pixel" corner radius?Fun fact. Apple uses a consistent corner radius of about 38 pixels across ALL its products, including iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple Watches. A strategy that helps all their devices look and feel connected. This is a demonstration.
- Somewhere, a Chinese engineer is designing the robot that will kill you. He's using a ripped off copy of NX on an old laptop, in austere conditions, working day and night. He doesn't have Zyn. He doesn't have a Zeiss CMM. He doesn't even know what a Space Mouse is. The only thingChinese landing party: A pack of robot dogs (at least 2 armed) in action.
00:00 - "But Kushner is making money off the countries he is negotiating with!" Given the evidence of recent history, you can do foreign policy one of two ways: - The Georgetown School of Foreign Service way where excessively pedigreed individuals with extensive academic/think tankWhat Jared never told anyone is that he also stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
- You build the fucking toaster in America because that is the feeder industry that makes it easier to build the god damn rocket ship. Having a progressive up-skill ladder in industry, starting at the toaster factory, is what accelerates/stabilizes the sexy, glamorous, high-value
- Replying to @avidseries @eyeslasho and @MattWalshBlogCommunists bombed the US Capital in 1983
- I always thought "My gods, why do missiles cost so much?" Then I got to work on a couple of parts, with the engineers who showed me larger parts of the assembly (like this) and immediately realized that they are sort of a bargain. The engineering going on inside a modern guidedsoviet R-60 "aphid", this is the head for infrared homing & guidance system, this is the earliest version nicknamed "komar" and it was uncooled, had to be fired at the rear of an enemy to latch onto the engine heat
00:00 - This is, not true. The machines in Apple's model studio are very different from the production machines used by Catcher and Foxconn for mass-scale production. Fun Story: The iPhone 6 bending debacle forced Apple to quickly re-evaluate using a 7000 series of aluminum in place ofJony Ives’ studio at Apple didn’t just have CNC machines for prototyping, they were identical to the machines in the factories in Shenzhen. His team designed the parts, the fixtures, and the manufacturing process.
