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He got his waay before the Titan came out. He did the gold coating himself. The video is unlisted but still online

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Came across this and immediately wanted to be that handsome:

:sweat_drops:

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Plans to hide access control readers covertly behind drywall in commercial buildings

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Wife approved access control!

:sweat_smile:

Thankfully, Iā€™m not married.

:robot_windows:

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Agree. Basically the wifeā€™s only requirement for anything is ā€œI just donā€™t want to see a bunch of wiresā€. Therefore each project has to be as close to completely clandestine as possibleā€¦ therefore I have begun implementing projects without even telling her. If she can tell something has been changed, I have failed.

Meanwhile, every single one of my projectsā€¦

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r/cableporn is all the inspiration i need.

not an original idea, but the first time ive seen a diagram of it

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Yeah Iā€™ve definitely seen diy and heard of the idea for commercial access control but seeing it in blueprint / building plans is like ā€¦ official. Crazy but cool.

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That breaker box is horrifying! Pure cable spaghettiā€¦

:spaghetti:

Iā€™m probably weird and bordering on insanity because of this, but I try to keep my projects as clean as possible when it comes to wiring. And I have no intentions to get married, so this is probably pointless but it makes me feel good about my work. :sweat_smile:

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Haha you havenā€™t seen the main box I inherited buying this placeā€¦ it makes my sub-panel look pristine. Iā€™m still working on getting all the accessible knob and tube replaced.

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Wait, thatā€™s in your home and not a generic picture from the internet!?

:emoji_mindblown:

You should separate the neutrals and the grounds into separate bars as itā€™s a subpanel. Also, you should never mix grounds and neutrals in the same screw terminal even if everything is connected to the same bus bar. This could create a shocking experience if something gets looseā€¦

Itā€™s almost 2:00 AM on my end, Iā€™m going to need an xSleep or somethingā€¦ Help!

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I have a weirdly curious metric question for the non USA crowd.

If you were going to buy wood to build a wall, what would you ask for and what size would it actually be?

I ask because it occurs to me that (at least in US), construction is one of the most conservative old school mindsets when it comes to such things.

I would ask for a 2x4 stud, which is usually defined as 2 inches by 4 inches, and usually 8, 10, 12 feet long. And it actually measures 1-1/2 inches x 3-1/2 inches. Because long ago they decided the tolerance was +/- 1/2 inch, and they started making them all right at the minimum size to save wood and make more money per. Capitalism, am I right?

Just wondering if theyā€™re actual metric dimensions, or imperial measurements that just get expressed metricley like the 1/2 inch drive socket thatā€™s 12.7 mm in europe.

Also, itā€™s late, I should go to sleep, and Iā€™m fighting it like a toddler, so itā€™s come up with stupid questions time.

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People would know what you meant if you said 2 x 4, and the term is still used, but we would also say 50 x 100mm and thatā€™s how it is advertised.

here is no different, you will likely get 45 x 90mm

lengths would normally be
1.2, 2.4, 3.6, 4.8, 5.4m

Actually, this conveniently leads me into this question for Americans, as I have only heard Americans say this, and Iā€™ve only noticed it in the last couple of years.

Rather than saying 2 times, they say 2 X (ex)

It sounds really dumb weird, and its becoming more common; I compare it to the word ā€œliterallyā€ that has been bastardised and is frequently misused rather than using the correct word figuratively

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I would read 2 x 2 = 4, as two times two equals four.
The first being mathematical notation, and the second the english language.

Thereā€™s other variations too. A four wheeled vehicle that drives all four wheels would be written as 4x4, but spoken as four by four.

This is probably similar to the way Iā€™ve heard English / British people say theyā€™re working maths problems, when Iā€™ve always heard it as theyā€™re working math problems. It just sticks out like crazy to me.

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What the AI said, although there are metal studs that are cheaper than wood in most of the world. I think that those follow American sizes. Or whatever the standard brick thicknesses are, we donā€™t have cheap wood like you Americans doā€¦

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Interesting.
4 feet is 1.2192 meters
8 feet is 2.4384 meters
12 feet is 3.6576 meters, so on and so forth.

Basically itā€™s all imperial measurements, just rebranded.

Dude, I literally live in a forest that is primarily used as a supply of pine lumber.

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Yep, we just moved with the rest of the world and metricised

The 50 x 100mm
is very close to 2 x 4

Same

Same

Maths here also, and likely the rest of the commonwealth, maybe europe, but not sure

So you havenā€™t heard this?
I hear it far more frequently that I would like, often Amercans on YouTubeā€¦

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The only place I hear it is used as a multiplier.

For example,
ā€œThat game server has 2x resources.ā€ In that usage, itā€™s really being used mathematically, not in the english language.

I see other non linguistic uses of terms that fall in and out of use. Do you remember when it was super popular in the 90ā€™s for kids to insult somebody by adding ā€œNot!ā€ to the end of a compliment? Like, ā€œYouā€™re really smart, NOT!ā€ Thatā€™s actually correct (but obnoxious) usage in digital logic. It just got mashed into language as slang.

I could probably come up with more examples, but super tired.

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https://x.com/sainimatic/status/1896420863517630673

Human anatomy is gross but kinda interesting at the same time.