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Notorious b.s.d. posted:on a related note i did once run across a guide to like, bootstrapping your own everything starting with only wood and a knife. i never read the book but i always wanted to i wanted to do a book like this for my thesis, bootstrapping from stone knives and bearskins to an industrial economy but it was waayyyy too much work for one person
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im working on a trap beat and a yostop>????
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Moist von Lipwig posted:i wanted to do a book like this for my thesis, bootstrapping from stone knives and bearskins to an industrial economy but it was waayyyy too much work for one person you got beaten anyway (p sure this is what notorious bsd is referring to) http://www.amazon.com/Build-Your-Metalworking-Shop-Scrap/dp/0960433082 starts with finding metal-bearing sand and smelting it in a charcoal foundry and goes up from there
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Sep 2, 2013 22:48
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Sagebrush posted:you got beaten anyway (p sure this is what notorious bsd is referring to) drat these own, gonna buy them all
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Sep 2, 2013 22:50
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one person wrote that whole series too so way to flake out on that
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I bought a book on blacksmithing because it seems cool. If it were 200 years ago I'd totally be a blacksmith.
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Sep 2, 2013 22:59
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wat about your puny frame and arms
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ol qwerty bastard posted:I bought a book on blacksmithing because it seems cool. have u actually seen a blacksmith irl ?
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my stepdads beer posted:wat about your puny frame and arms Lol Im 6'2" and pretty much all my jobs are manual labour Not worried about being able to swing a hammer
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Smythe posted:have u actually seen a blacksmith irl ? Yeah Grew up on a farm and the guy who shoed our horses made the shoes himself in his forge
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ol qwerty bastard posted:Yeah  was he buff and covered in soot and poo poo ?
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Sep 3, 2013 00:27
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was he half-deaf and covered in burns
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my stepdads beer posted:wat about your puny frame and arms see the interesting thing about human biology is that if you do something like blacksmithing for a living your puny frame and arms will grow to be blacksmith-sized. in fact they had these whole other categories called "apprentices" and "journeymen" so that you could do blacksmith stuff while your skills and body grew to fit the task i know this is difficult to grasp
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Sagebrush posted:see the interesting thing about human biology is that if you do something like blacksmithing for a living your puny frame and arms will grow to be blacksmith-sized. in fact they had these whole other categories called "apprentices" and "journeymen" so that you could do blacksmith stuff while your skills and body grew to fit the task this is kind of true but to an extent you'll always be limited by things like tendon and frame size there's nobody benching 400lbs with 5" wrists but yeah the human bod is v cool and adaptable
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Moist von Lipwig posted:this is kind of true but to an extent you'll always be limited by things like tendon and frame size ya for that you need to get the person to start training before puberty (apprentices would start at age 10-12) so that by the time they're growing to adult size their bodies are being molded into the optimal form for the task eg: quote:Skeletons of longbow archers are recognisably adapted, with enlarged left arms and often bone spurs on left wrists, left shoulders and right fingers.[23]
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Sagebrush posted:ya for that you need to get the person to start training before puberty (apprentices would start at age 10-12) so that by the time they're growing to adult size their bodies are being molded into the optimal form for the task yup, basically it's too late for all of us
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you could still be a blacksmith just not a really good one. no hattori hanzo
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I liked kingdom of heaven but the funniest thing was orlando bloom as a blacksmith
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Sagebrush posted:you could still be a blacksmith just not a really good one. no hattori hanzo a piece of poo poo folded a thousand times is still a piece of poo poo
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spankmeister posted:a piece of poo poo folded a thousand times is still a piece of poo poo wish i could fold up these posts and toss em in the waste paper bin to be picked up by the recycling guys every tuesday at around 10:30am
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Smythe posted:wish i could fold up these posts and toss em in the waste paper bin to be picked up by the recycling guys every tuesday at around 10:30am owned
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Sep 3, 2013 07:31
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i'm currently down the street from jared diamond maybe i can get him to write the foreword for you
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i'm actually halfway through guns, germs, and steel right now; i had watched the pbs documentary version of it but never read it before it's interesting if a bit dry and dated; is there a followup book that i should read after?
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ol qwerty bastard posted:i'm actually halfway through guns, germs, and steel right now; i had watched the pbs documentary version of it but never read it before 1491 or any economic history textbook diamond has some interesting ideas but they're poorly supported. he's neither a historian nor an economist, much less an economic historian (which is its own field motherfuckers)
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i felt guilty about my throwaway post so here's some seriousposting: 1491, a serious historian pieces together what we know about the the pre-columbian americas. (important thing about the columbian exchange: european explorers were basically roving through a mad max wasteland after civilization collapsed in america) The Wealth and Poverty of Nations -- a serious economic historian talks about european exceptionalism ala diamond. unlike diamond he has the background to discuss the subject intelligently. like diamond, this poo poo is eurocentric as hell, even occasionally racist. still loving fascinating, just don't take it as the last word on poo poo also economic history is incredibly loving contentious, nobody agrees on anything, and it gets worse the further you go back because the data is shittier. guns, germs, and steel is probably the worst possible intro to the field since it combines an untrained author, the worst time periods for available data, and some really insane, almost racist euro-centrism.
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:i felt guilty about my throwaway post so here's some seriousposting:
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just catching up on this thread and came across thisSweevo posted:why not make a game people actually want to play? instead of "lovely rougelike #2347" gently caress you get out, reinventing the wheel is mega interesting if you come at it with the right approach and want to learn poo poo like horsemans is gettin caremad at the 'pos, time for a walk
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Mido posted:just catching up on this thread and came across this It's ok, that post was so inflammatory I'm surprised the thread didn't burn down
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Woo MetaOCaml! Why? Just 'cuz. For now, anyway.
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i am currently trying to figure out if putting a capacitor on the 5v pins of the SNES' 1chip (which has no documentation anywhere available) and whether or not doing so will fix the disgusting vertical line issue look at that trash i figured out how to fix it, finally. but it only fixes it over RGB. and while im using RGB, i am not a FYGM type, and would like to discover a way to fix it over s-video and composite for the nubs using scrub-tier A/V cables i have been doing this guerrilla style, literally checking every goddamn one of the miniscule 160 pins individually. so far i have found that 5V is on the following pins: 10, 23, 49, 80, 100, 110, 121, and 155 of the snes' 1chip i have so far soldered a capacitor to the 10 pin and ground and so far no fix. the pins are so tiny and close together i'm not attempting this again until i drink some soothing camomile tea before going again. in other news i would also like to mod my sodastream, as goony as that sounds, because i turn water into seltzer like Jesus did and these replacement canisters are expensive and i read you can buy a fitting that converts the sodastream so it can use a huge as hell CO2 tank that will last literal years. but i am reading that "those CO2 tanks are not meant for food and will taste terrible and probably kill you" but i am just assuming that's Sodastream, Inc. astroturfing on wordpress comments 
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ur sodastream is made with palestinian slave labor, throw it in the garbage.
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:"those CO2 tanks are not meant for food and will taste terrible and probably kill you" but i am just assuming that's Sodastream, Inc. astroturfing on wordpress comments either that or just regular idiots who don't realize that those co2 tanks are inside every soda fountain in the world. go to a bottled gas place and ask them for whatever fast food restaurants use and you'll be fine
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:in other news i would also like to mod my sodastream, as goony as that sounds, because i turn water into seltzer like Jesus did and these replacement canisters are expensive and i read you can buy a fitting that converts the sodastream so it can use a huge as hell CO2 tank that will last literal years. but i am reading that "those CO2 tanks are not meant for food and will taste terrible and probably kill you" but i am just assuming that's Sodastream, Inc. astroturfing on wordpress comments there can certainly be nasty impurities in CO2 meant for industrial use, but anything rated food-grade or similar will be abs. fine
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cistps: near-final thesis draft submitted to advisors
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coffeetable posted:there can certainly be nasty impurities in CO2 meant for industrial use, but anything rated food-grade or similar will be abs. fine you can buy food-grade CO2 cans pretty easily homebrew shops will sell the canisters and regulators, you can get refills at regular gas supply shops they don't care who you are
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Sagebrush posted:you got beaten anyway (p sure this is what notorious bsd is referring to) this is exactly what i was thinking of thanks
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first person that comes to me after the apocalypse hits with some used motor oil and a bunch of metal scraps gets all the good weapons
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Jonny 290 posted:first person that comes to me after the apocalypse hits with some used motor oil and a bunch of metal scraps gets all the good weapons ahh yes, lockjaw and laxatives... the great creature comforts of pre-apocalypse arkansas
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:you can buy food-grade CO2 cans pretty easily i literally dont even know what to type into google "restaurant supplies" or something im assuming??
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