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  • Several Regions have held meetups already, but others are being planned or are evaluating the interest. The Calgary Area Meetup is set for Saturday July 12th at 10am. The signup thread is here! Arbutus has also explored interest in a Fraser Valley meetup but it seems members either missed his thread or had other plans. Let him know if you are interested in a meetup later in the year by posting here! Slowpoke is trying to pull together an Ottawa area meetup later this summer. No date has been selected yet, so let him know if you are interested here! We are not aware of any other meetups being planned this year. If you are interested in doing something in your area, let everyone know and make it happen! Meetups are a great way to make new machining friends and get hands on help in your area. Don’t be shy, sign up and come, or plan your own meetup!

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    Real estate listings suck

    Oh pft, I wish it were $0.5m would be way easier...down here in the southern part of Ontario those sort of lots are typically $1.0-1.5m.
  2. SomeGuy

    Real estate listings suck

    Find the conservation authority for your area's mapping tool, they'll show you regulation limits, flood plains, wetlands, etc. and you'll quickly discover that any prime piece of vacant land that isn't already built on is 99 times out of 100 not buildable due to restrictions. That, or the price...
  3. SomeGuy

    Terrible QC - Toilet Edition

    Well, good news I guess, returned the two flawed ones I had and went to a plumbing supply shop and got a "Cadet Pro" instead of the Home Depot "Cadet 3". Almost entirely the same toilet but the castings and glazing are good and a lot of what was plastic is now brass or other more durable...
  4. SomeGuy

    Terrible QC - Toilet Edition

    That is just insanity...it can't be profitable to take that many returns? And I guess it's not even QC that's the unprofitable part, fix the darn manufacturing process upstream so you have less junk in the first place.
  5. SomeGuy

    Terrible QC - Toilet Edition

    Ugh, sooo, went and bought a new toilet yesterday. American Standard Cadet, nothing fancy, mid range price, but shouldn't be total garbage. Get it home, lots of marks in the glazing of the bowl, tank is good though...store is closing in a half hour so run back without packing up the first one to...
  6. SomeGuy

    Anyone using ChatGTP?

    Fair enough...though the difference with these AI things is that it can string together complete nonsense, it's effectively just a bunch of probabilities about what word comes next. At least with a dumb person there's still a coherant thought they are trying to convey (even if it's wrong) and...
  7. SomeGuy

    Anyone using ChatGTP?

    This is going to be the problem, people are going to lose the ability to create and correct documentation, and the AI won't know any better than what it is fed...it's eventually going to result in a huge loss of knowledge and increase in stupidity and we might not be able to find our way out of...
  8. SomeGuy

    Anyone using ChatGTP?

    The problem is it's typically people telling the AI to generate the content, maybe doing one skim read, then posting it as their own work... Though YouTube has got something close they make me answer on each video I upload:
  9. SomeGuy

    Anyone using ChatGTP?

    I've never really found any of these LLM things very useful, they are slower (after all the refinement that is needed) and less precise than I can just do out of my head for tasks they might be useful for. I can type as fast as most people can talk and form my thoughts quite quickly, so I can...
  10. SomeGuy

    New tracking at Amazon

    Have seen this for the last ~6 months on some orders if you look at the right time. It's kinda neat. Dominos has been doing this for years with their delivery drivers.
  11. SomeGuy

    Tool Let's Get This Started - Tool Test Tuesday

    Continuing this, I will probably have 1 a week for most of June and then we'll see if I keep it up :)
  12. SomeGuy

    Tool Let's Get This Started - Tool Test Tuesday

    That's probably even better quality than this :)
  13. SomeGuy

    Tool Let's Get This Started - Tool Test Tuesday

    That's awesome! It is the cutest little plane but is actually well built I'd agree. I've been using it while doing trim in my basement to help with tighter fit up and it's perfect for that.
  14. SomeGuy

    Tool Let's Get This Started - Tool Test Tuesday

    Trying something new, two minute tool reviews...I tend to pick up these relatively inexpensive tools that aren't worth a full review video, so figured I'd try a new quick format for them, have a few lined up, but starting here with the Jorgensen Mini Block Plane:
  15. SomeGuy

    Shoulder check

    Then you'd likely have an oversized load and need an escort...there's no justification for trucks to run red lights lol I'd like you to explain that to the police officer or family of the person you kill.
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