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Bought a Broken CNC Lathe They Don't Want Me to Fix [video]

vermontdevil — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 03:11:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuQZeiAugp4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46093263

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by vermontdevil in "Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, has died"

vermontdevil — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 03:31:20 +0000

One strange aspect about Apollo 8 is that all three astronauts have passed away on the 7th day of the month.

Frank Borman Nov 7, 2023 William Anders June 7, 2024 James Lovell Aug 7, 2025

New comment by vermontdevil in "Safer roundabouts are replacing traffic signals (2023)"

vermontdevil — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 19:51:36 +0000

Carmel, Indiana has over 150 roundabouts and they are building more. I believe we have less than 5 traffic light intersections now but I'm not 100% sure.

The movement around Carmel is remarkable compared to driving next cities (Indy, Fishers, etc). Fishers and Westfield are building more roundabouts as well.

As for one person who commented about high traffic locations - Carmel would make an overpass for those intersections though they are not many.

New comment by vermontdevil in "Ask HN: Why aren't there any cars in Nineteen Eighty-Four?"

vermontdevil — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 13:39:03 +0000

Come again? UN Plan?

Dear Electric Vehicle Owners: You Don’t Need That Giant Battery

vermontdevil — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 20:52:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/dear-electric-vehicle-owners-you-dont-need-that-giant-battery/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34153644

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by vermontdevil in "Amazon Alexa is on pace to lose $10B this year"

vermontdevil — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 03:35:53 +0000

Alexa, print my CV

New comment by vermontdevil in "World military expenditure passes $2T for first time"

vermontdevil — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 15:00:24 +0000

My theory - similar with guns, the more we have the higher chances of it being used (guns and military).

We need to have less of both, not more. But I know it won't happen. Not for a long time.

Purdue Research Foundation sues Google over alleged patent infringement

vermontdevil — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 21:09:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.purdueexponent.org/campus/article_cd2a814e-baff-5c3c-8344-0feb8b9ad526.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30251206

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by vermontdevil in "James Webb telescope reaches its final destination in space, million miles away"

vermontdevil — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 13:19:36 +0000

To show the comparison (737 for example here)

https://icdn2.digitaltrends.com/image/shuttle-948x1500.jpg?v...

Can ‘Banana Buffers’ Save California from Wildfires?

vermontdevil — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 03:56:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/bananas-california-fires

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29859892

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by vermontdevil in "I resigned from Twitter"

vermontdevil — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:56:24 +0000

He announced his resignation of course via a tweet:

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1465347002426867720?s=20

Gov. Parson releases video attacking newspaper for viewing HTML

vermontdevil — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 18:56:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IBPeRa7U8E

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28980855

Points: 59

# Comments: 26

New comment by vermontdevil in "The red warning light on Richard Branson’s space flight"

vermontdevil — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 19:01:01 +0000

My apologies. Not Sturckow but a different person, Mark "Forger" Stucky.

New comment by vermontdevil in "The red warning light on Richard Branson’s space flight"

vermontdevil — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 21:03:03 +0000

Telling they fired Sturckow when he was pretty outspoken such as this:

In another e-mail, in 2019, he urged his fellow test pilots to be more transparent: “Failure to admit mistakes in flight test is a cancer that must be nipped at the bud.” Stucky, whom I wrote about in the magazine in 2018, had been particularly troubled by Mackay and Masucci’s unwillingness to take responsibility for what he perceived to be their mistakes on the July, 2018, flight.

New comment by vermontdevil in "The real OnlyFans scandal is the unaccountable power of platforms and banks"

vermontdevil — Sat, 28 Aug 2021 13:25:38 +0000

Not really. They are more concerned about government cracking down on the banks due to these acts.

New comment by vermontdevil in "Over 96% of Apple Users Have Blocked Facebook from Tracking Them"

vermontdevil — Sat, 08 May 2021 12:51:45 +0000

How was this tracked if you turned off the “allow apps to track” setting?

New comment by vermontdevil in "Someone Has to Run the Fabs"

vermontdevil — Tue, 04 May 2021 22:40:08 +0000

Where is the de-emphasizing of STEM in the US? I see nothing but STEM being promoted everywhere in colleges, high schools, camps, etc.

Why are people renting u-hauls in Hawaii? Blame the pandemic

vermontdevil — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 01:52:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2021/04/22/why-are-visitors-cruising-around-u-hauls-blame-pandemic/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26921525

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by vermontdevil in "Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years"

vermontdevil — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 21:25:34 +0000

What is shocking is the number of active cases right now. 250 or so around the world. Wow.

New comment by vermontdevil in "SpaceX wins contract to develop spacecraft to land astronauts on the moon"

vermontdevil — Sat, 17 Apr 2021 00:25:29 +0000

What actual flights? Not the New Shepard? That's a suborbital rocket. They haven't gone to space yet!