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Cybernaut Robb Allen (w bittorrent protocol) @ItsRobbAllen
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Back to #3DPrintedGuns - I'm a gun guy. I'm making my own guitar from scratch. I 3D print replacement parts for tables. Have a full workshop with a CNC.

Still haven't been able to successfully print a gun. It's not as easy as it's made to be.
Give it a few more years,. I'm seeing metal 3D printers starting to become a little more reasonable for the home market (still a niche thing for people with a lot of money).
Tools that can build table legs can be used to build firearm barrels. CNCs that make cool signs can cut out lowers. You can't stop tools from doing the things you don't like. You never will be able to.
Progress will continue, no matter how hard "progressives" fight it.
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My training in atomic structures back in the early 90's was still based on the Bohr model, which explains why I'm having to relearn most of it now. Interesting to see 'shells' are still correct, just not necessarily in the spherical shape I was taught. #LoveToLearn
Did a few hours of YouTube videos & Wikipedia reading on how the atomic orbitals are structured last night. While it's new information, it meshed with what I was taught insofar as energy levels & whatnot.
While I'm happy being a programmer, part of me wonders if I could have made a bigger difference in the world studying physics, something my brain is attuned to for some reason.
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Geek thread -

A free electron doesn't spin around a nucleus, but as soon as it hops back into a covalent shell.... it starts its blurry little cloud dance.

Where does that energy come from?
I know the electron itself has a spin. When it is knocked off the covalent shell, does it absorb the energy from its previous orbit & store it as more spin?

I know when it's excited into another level & drops, it emits a photon, but what about when it's completely pulled out?
Or am I thinking of the electron wrong? Is it always a cloud of probability, even when not attached to a covalent shell?
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Finally got some time on the CNC last night. I need to completely tear it down & put it back together. The wheels are just not tight enough & the flex is pretty bad at times.
I want to upgrade the Z Axis to something stiffer & maybe switch to a ball screw motion rather than belts, but I keep thinking the aluminum rails are still the weak point in the whole system.
Not sure at what point it makes more financial sense to just buy a new CNC, but I don't have the $ to do that anyway.
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Still haven't seen GOP gubernatorial candidate @marcmolinaro disavow the fascist anti-Semite who spoke at his campaign HQ on Friday, nor the Proud Boys who came along and violently attacked people afterwards.
The "Republicans embrace skinhead gang members" ads are gonna be epic.
Are you a violent skinhead gang member looking to come out from the shadows while still embracing your lifestyle of violence and crime? Good news! The Republican Party has a place just for you.
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the wolf whomst enjoy to sleep outside
lantern hiss nearly inaudible over the sound of the lake doing its best seashore impression
when I turn the lantern almost all the way off, it emits a blue-red glow from the mantles barely being warmed by the short blue flames inside. when the wind gusts, it flickers to yellow life briefly.

just now one side went out and was relit by the other with a small "fump"
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45 Days Of @ElvisCostello: a twitter megathread in anticipation of the Oct 12 release date of LOOK NOW, the new LP by Elvis Costello & The Imposters

This is either a bright idea or a brilliant mistake, but this is only, this is only, this is only the beginning...
I did something similar to this 5 years ago, in anticipation of EC & @theroots' Wise Up Ghost LP, on tumblr.

(You can still find all those posts if you look, although a lot of the YouTube links etc are now dead ends. It was 40 Days Of EC then, so for 2018 I'm upping it to 45.)
Mostly I will be going chronologically from the early years right up to the present, but it feels right to start out with Costello's 2002 song, "45."

Music Video directed by @jessebdylan


(There's an alternate "diner" version I can't find anywhere online)
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