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New comment by fingerlocks in "Glue bonds to nonstick surfaces and wipes clean with ethanol"

fingerlocks — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:52:21 +0000

You should see a doctor.

Acetone only dries out the top skin layers, which immediately triggers a healing response and accelerates the shed cycle. Dermatologists use acetone prior to skin surgery to speed up the recovery.

It’s extremely safe. Your body naturally creates it and you exhale and piss it out every day. If you are having any long term health issues from exposure then this may indicate that your immune system is seriously compromised.

New comment by fingerlocks in "Has the New Cocaine Arrived?"

fingerlocks — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:23:49 +0000

A responsible adult prepares in advance for any risk of something horrible happening. This is why sober Trip Sitters exist. There is actually a market for this; you can pay someone to be your designated driver of drugs. Very common

New comment by fingerlocks in "Has the New Cocaine Arrived?"

fingerlocks — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:16:39 +0000

I’ve always been skeptical about caffeine’s alleged physical dependence. I’m a two or three cups a day consumer, but I’ve quit many times and never felt any different. This has been entirely by accident, like forgetting to pack coffee on a 2 week back packing trip, or purchasing decaf coffee by mistake, and didn’t even realize I wasn’t drinking for several days

New comment by fingerlocks in "Has the New Cocaine Arrived?"

fingerlocks — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:05:37 +0000

For every addict, there are many responsible adults that can set healthy boundaries and have a positive relationship with recreational drugs. This article is for them.

New comment by fingerlocks in "Glue bonds to nonstick surfaces and wipes clean with ethanol"

fingerlocks — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:14:44 +0000

Just like acetone.

New comment by fingerlocks in "Americans hate AI so much that politicians are losing their jobs over it"

fingerlocks — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:19:54 +0000

> If everyone loses their job, there is going to be something that works itself out.

You can’t be serious. The entire crux of your argument rests on this one hand-waving “just trust me bro” dismissive?

New comment by fingerlocks in "Perfection is not over-engineering"

fingerlocks — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:03:18 +0000

Not sure why you were flagged to death, I had all the same thoughts. Vouched.

These phrases have a different meanings and it’s important to highlight them

New comment by fingerlocks in "Texas Police Spent $4.5M on Four Chevy Tahoes"

fingerlocks — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:46:47 +0000

And Radley Balko blogged about it every day 20 years ago before publishing a book in 2013 literally subtitled as The Militarization of America’s Police

New comment by fingerlocks in "Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse"

fingerlocks — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 08:49:37 +0000

Not even technically. I had to do linear regressions by hand, pencil and paper, in college stats course 20 years ago. No machine necessary

New comment by fingerlocks in "Grok 4.5"

fingerlocks — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:06:53 +0000

Um yeah you can do all of that without legal consequences. HR is not the government. Are these your best examples?

New comment by fingerlocks in "New Microsoft 365 pricing live, some products up by 42% due to AI"

fingerlocks — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 05:51:13 +0000

Sarcasm? The new Mac outlook also stores each email as a separate plain text tarball of HTML. It’s the greatest unintentional Microsoft feature ever because you can finally read all your email however you please

New comment by fingerlocks in "The bottleneck might be the air in the room"

fingerlocks — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 06:13:51 +0000

Sounds like you need to change your cabin filter.

New comment by fingerlocks in "A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex"

fingerlocks — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 06:31:07 +0000

Nit: Your Mac does ship with a manual. Tips.app and of course the man pages. Point stands.

New comment by fingerlocks in "Where does next-token prediction leave us?"

fingerlocks — Wed, 27 May 2026 10:10:04 +0000

There is a lot less information online about the physical trades compared to software development. Plumbers don’t post on ToiletOverflow.com all day helping each other with their little tricks and sharing tribal knowledge. Pick a random brass fitting at the hardware store and try to google its purpose; you’d be surprised by the scant detail even when yielding plenty of shopping links

New comment by fingerlocks in "The Eternal Sloptember"

fingerlocks — Mon, 25 May 2026 11:24:36 +0000

Anything “live edge” is often done by hand. Also true for end grain cutting boards, end grain anything really, and any furniture made with mostly burl and heartwood. Coffee tables are common.

The reason is that knotted wood is dangerously unwieldy to machine without a lot of additional preparation. End grain work is just hard to automate. Lots of gluing into a shape that can’t be planed easily and prone to exploding if one is careless.

If you want to peek in to the weird long tail, the guys over at Sawmill Creek love to one-up each other in a never ending contest to be the king of traditional wood working.

New comment by fingerlocks in "Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video]"

fingerlocks — Sun, 17 May 2026 23:05:27 +0000

You need to say “ i’ve never met anyone who could do that in one single command line invocation”. It’s trivial to separate that result into two or more steps using bare primitive git commands and perhaps a temporary branch. You don’t need to memorize every esoteric flag if you understand the fundamentals and don’t mind spending 15 extra seconds to execute multiple commands

New comment by fingerlocks in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

fingerlocks — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:37:41 +0000

They are everywhere in Seattle. Some neighborhoods have them on almost every block. This had led to some creative variations on the concept, such as the Little Free Pantry, Little Free Art Gallery, Little Free Toolbox, Pottery, Boutique, Toybox, etc.

Not complaining. It’s a neat concept. And if you have a bunch of crap you want to get rid, it’s a lot of fun to build a big birdhouse looking thing, prop it up on the side walk, and keep it stocked with all the crap you don’t want anymore. This is why I created the Little Free Lumberyard to discard my woodworking offcuts. Seriously considering expanding into e-waste because it works so damn well.

New comment by fingerlocks in "Brembo's fluid-free electronic braking system is coming to a car near you"

fingerlocks — Sat, 09 May 2026 01:16:19 +0000

Why is a hybrid electric-hydraulic not an option? Seems like you would get the best of both worlds by using the precision of electronics to manipulate the oil, instead of the brake caliper directly. I was imagining something like a master-cylinder-by-wire system with a normally open valve to pedal in the event of electrical failure. Agreed, full electric brakes gives me the creeps.

New comment by fingerlocks in "The brave souls who bought a used, 340k-mile rental camper van"

fingerlocks — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:22:25 +0000

I had one too!

Mine had a Subaru engine, Mercedes wheels, Audi Drive train, a Porsche suspension, and brakes from a Toyota Highlander.

How did you keep your Volkswagen running?

New comment by fingerlocks in "Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024)"

fingerlocks — Tue, 05 May 2026 09:13:12 +0000

I use screen mirroring, a lot. Guess I’m in the minority around here. Really nice projecting your phone on a massive OLED to multitask on the phone. Or even pair programming and conference calls you can mirror the phone to TV for the call while coding on the laptop.

I use my Apple TV like it’s a big iPad stuck to the wall. Because that’s basically what it is. I honestly had no idea so many people just buy it to stream the same content on every other platform