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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Wife approved access control!
Thankfully, Iām not married.
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Agree. Basically the wifeās only requirement for anything is āI just donāt 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 Iāve 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¦
Iām 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.
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Haha you havenāt seen the main box I inherited buying this placeā¦ it makes my sub-panel look pristine. Iām still working on getting all the accessible knob and tube replaced.
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Wait, thatās in your home and not a generic picture from the internet!?
You should separate the neutrals and the grounds into separate bars as itās 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¦
Itās almost 2:00 AM on my end, Iām 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 theyāre actual metric dimensions, or imperial measurements that just get expressed metricley like the 1/2 inch drive socket thatās 12.7 mm in europe.
Also, itās late, I should go to sleep, and Iām fighting it like a toddler, so itās 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 thatās 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 Iāve 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 āliterallyā 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.
Thereās 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 Iāve heard English / British people say theyāre working maths problems, when Iāve always heard it as theyāre 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 donāt 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 itās 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 havenāt 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,
āThat game server has 2x resources.ā In that usage, itās 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 90ās for kids to insult somebody by adding āNot!ā to the end of a compliment? Like, āYouāre really smart, NOT!ā Thatās 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.