It's absolutely routine for hobby and artisan turners and carvers, though. In between the first turn and the second turn, you can air dry, kiln dry, and other techniques. With air drying, you actually want to slow the drying so that it happens more evenly. Otherwise, the outside of a vessel dries faster than the inside, which splits the wood. In general, packing a vessel inside and out with wood shavings helps even the process.
I've also had great results using silica gel on smaller items, although it can be hard to scale it to larger vessels. Much faster drying than air alone, with greatly reduced distortion and cracking.
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Where I work, three different people had exactly the same reaction to this news when I showed them: "Uh-oh."
The IBM acquisition of RedHat initiated a series of changes that wound up taking us out of RedHat. I think we expect the same degradation of product and service to come out of this acquisition as well.
With equal evidence, one might say that you didn't even spend one minute thinking about how such a scheme would necessarily be implemented before going "wooha, awesome!"
The idle compute power of millions of Tesla idle vehicles _does not belong to him_. The electricity in their batteries _does not belong to him_. The line power charging those batteries _does not belong to him_.
The Snark is described in detail, with but a single additional caution that some Snarks are Boojums, with no description whatsoever of the difference. And, in the end, only a Boojum is found.
The band of snark-hunters are _also_ described in detail, almost always emphasizing the things that they cannot do or the additional risks of having them along, but they're brought along anyway.
Email search is poor. It's not important enough to me to switch, but it's almost surprising when a search returns the emails I'm looking for.
Calendar is too separate from email, especially in the apps. I can't accept invites from other services, or if I do, they don't show up in Calendar. I forget, because I gave up on using it within days.
Pass is terrific, so far. Transition to it was easy- much better than some commercial offerings that have been around a lot longer. Password generation options are top notch.
Can someone just ask Foone or lcamtuf to help them get it running off an internet-connected toothbrush or something? It seems like there are so many people doing complex reverse-engineering of ancient stuff _just for kicks_ that this floppy-disk issue just shouldn't require a massive project.
yes, I know safety-critical systems are different. I also expect that the floppy-disk issue is just the easiest problem to explain of a long chain of terrible legacy lock-ins. However, if they're literally holding their breath every morning when it's time to IPL the system off a floppy...that part sounds solvable.
They have hundreds of patents, though. One key patent - which IIRC is on the verge of expiration - does not mean that it's possible to build a saw that doesn't infringe one or more of the others.
I have two theories here, and I don't know which I believe more. It's probably a combination of both:
1) Tesla executed a remarkable 0->1 strategy, working from the Roadster (high-end luxury price, low volume) to the S (high-end luxury price, moderate volume) to the Y and 3 (low-end luxury price, high volume), creating an apparently-successful car company that only sold luxury-price vehicles. Detroit interpreted that as "everybody is ready to spend low-end luxury money for electric cars." In fact, there's still a limited number of people who can spend luxury money for cars, and Detroit is winning those back from Tesla. That's not the same thing as "building cars for people who can only spend 25K or less for a car."
2) Detroit really only builds huge cars, leading Americans who don't want huge cars to buy imports or (recently) Teslas. These buyers have greater than random overlap with the set of likely electric car buyers. Detroit tries to build huge electric cars, but those buyers tend not to want huge cars, creating bad market fit.
It's problematic as heck for a regulation to require a feature that's comprehensively patented by a single vendor, even when it's as important an innovation as the SawStop blade brake.
Other SawStop thoughts:
- Beyond the instant-stop thing - which is spectacular and really works - SawStop's are very well-made saws with solid tables, nice fences, and decent vacuum accessories; IMO, much higher quality manufacture across the board in general than a lot of competing models with similar specs.
- The brake works once, and then you have to replace the component for <$200. Much cheaper than a new thumb.
- Green wood can be wet enough to trigger the brake. You can disable the brake to cut green wood, but what if you don't? What if you cut dry wood with the brake disabled? A safety control like that is great if you know it's always on.
Once you have to remember to check before every cut...it's in the same realm as planning and executing every cut carefully.
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