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  • Several Regions have held meetups already, but others are being planned or are evaluating the interest. The Ontario GTA West area meetup is planned for Saturday April 26th at Greasemonkeys shop in Aylmer Ontario. If you are interested and haven’t signed up yet, click 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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    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:
  2. 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...
  3. 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.
  4. 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 :)
  5. SomeGuy

    Tool Let's Get This Started - Tool Test Tuesday

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

    Mitutoyo Metric Thread Pitch Gauge - Amazon $16.51

    @Susquatch - the price has gone back up to $50+ and it still shows as a "deal" on the side bar on the main page, probably should get changed?
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    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.
  8. 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:
  9. 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.
  10. SomeGuy

    Shoulder check

    Intersection light timing is designed to common standards to give sufficient time for all road vehicles to stop safely. This is why yellows on higher speed roads or physically larger intersections are longer. Defensive drivers can still drive too fast and can still not pay attention to all the...
  11. SomeGuy

    Shoulder check

    A lot of them do, full on red entry into the intersection. I hate speed cameras, but red light cameras? Put them at every single intersection please.
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    Shoulder check

    Almost every place that exists, they'll have yellow caution lights that come on when the light is going to turn to warn you about this....eg:
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    Shoulder check

    If you're in a large truck and going too fast that you can't stop for a traffic light as it changes, you should forfeit your license permanently. I can't think of a single situation where there wouldn't be time to stop if driving appropriately. And if you don't know how to secure your load so it...
  14. SomeGuy

    Shoulder check

    What about the people in the cars behind you that don't make the light because of your delay? Do the math on the extra light cycles that takes to get through. Not to mention, with people these days, how do you know they are going to move in the next second? Some people are completely oblivious...
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    Shoulder check

    So what do you expect the government to do? Testing won't solve this and just add another burden onto everyone. So many government regulations just continue to make life more difficult for people, cost way more money than they should, and never solve the actual problems they set out to solve.
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