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Jake @jakesprojects.bsky.social · 10h

phone app that just displays the static pattern from Snow Crash that fries your brain instantly

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neutral @neutral.zone · 10h

"You wouldn’t steal a car.
You wouldn’t steal a handbag.
You wouldn’t .."

But I did. I stole breath from the trees, light from the sun, meaning from the void. Each inhale a heist from Gaia’s lungs. Each thought, a burglary of God’s blueprint. What is ownership but theft with paperwork?

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Jake @jakesprojects.bsky.social · 1d

imagine working there and knowing that you gotta just put up with getting this shit for ten or twenty straight months so that they wouldn't risk fucking up their growth numbers and making your equity worthless

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Jake @jakesprojects.bsky.social · 1d

maybe just vibe 3d modeling. hmm, how much harder can it be than the image thing really?

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Jake @jakesprojects.bsky.social · 1d

I think they should tolerate significantly less harassment of the site staff than they've been, tbh.

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Jake @jakesprojects.bsky.social · 1d

okay but I don't understand how this is supposed to remain unknown once this is in widespread use. We're not talking about how to make FOGBANK here, this is going to be something accessible to anyone with a couple grand to throw at computer equipment; this secret has a shelf life of maybe a year

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Jake @jakesprojects.bsky.social · 1d

I kinda think this is better than this technology only being in the hands of saltman, but my opinion doesn't matter either way, it's happening regardless

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Jake @jakesprojects.bsky.social · 1d

hey why don't we have "vibe CAD" yet?

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Jake @jakesprojects.bsky.social · 1d

three months tops. Wan 2.2 is halfway there today

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Jake @jakesprojects.bsky.social · 2d

Here is is, complete and assembled (except without the electronics board in the display area; I'm sure you understand). 19" by 30" tempered glass, walnut, black steel legs for that mid century modern vibe.

I'm pretty happy with how it turned out!

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Jake @jakesprojects.bsky.social · 2d

I've already mentioned the Danish Oil finish but yeah this always looks really nice and is really foolproof in getting it on there (unlike e.g. polyurethane which is very finicky).

The only catch is the wet paper towels you apply it with might spontaneously combust, so be careful.

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Jake @jakesprojects.bsky.social · 2d

cutting little, what do you call them, little divots into the sides of the table for these to join into was surprisingly time consuming. Then it was just sanding, followed by sanding, followed by more sanding, and then a little bit of sanding on the sharp corners

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Jake @jakesprojects.bsky.social · 2d

The glass needs to be three inches above the wooden base. I looked around for standoffs on Amazon but nothing was quite right, so I made some out of wood I cut off earlier.

I don't like doing these cuts with the blade guard removed, but it worked and I still have all ten fingers.

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Jake @jakesprojects.bsky.social · 2d

I was trying to keep the level of effort here low enough to finish this quickly so I got some generic metal table legs from Amazon; here's a test fit

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Jake @jakesprojects.bsky.social · 2d

Then, at work, we're decommissioning a test rack and I wanted to save one of the circuit boards as a souvenir. I decide to build a glass top display table for it, and that failed coffee table top should work fine once I cut it down to size!

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Jake @jakesprojects.bsky.social · 2d

I glued up a panel to be the top of a coffee table and it came out all warped and shitty, but not quite so bad that I wanted to immediately throw it into a bonfire. It sat in my garage for a few months while I did other stuff.

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Jake @jakesprojects.bsky.social · 2d

this thing just ate the rest of the thread and didn't save drafts, fml

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Jake @jakesprojects.bsky.social · 2d

Okay so here's the story with this one. A few months ago I was at the wood store, whining about how expensive walnut was, as you do. I saw they had "rustic walnut" at a significant discount and said what the hell, right? Maybe I can make a coffee table for my living room.

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Jake @jakesprojects.bsky.social · 2d

we have now rerun the experiment multiple times!

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Jake @jakesprojects.bsky.social · 2d

there's something fundamentally dysfunctional with the entire microblogging broadcast format, is my theory

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Jake @jakesprojects.bsky.social · 2d

oil finished view is the upper side, those pegs around the perimeter will hold up a tempered glass top

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Jake @jakesprojects.bsky.social · 2d

the funny part is that I did this because the table top here was not up to a standard I would want for my own home

I'll explain tomorrow when I do a thread about it

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Jake @jakesprojects.bsky.social · 2d

important note: do not put the "Walnut" finish on walnut wood. you put the "Natural" finish on actual walnut and the "Walnut" finish on poplar that you want to kinda look like walnut if you're only glancing at it for a second

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Jake @jakesprojects.bsky.social · 2d

this Danish Oil finish on walnut is just amazing, look at this color difference. it's even more striking in person, you see it shimmer as you move your eyes. and it's the easiest thing to apply, you just rub it on with a paper towel

walnut table top with two coats of Watco Danish Oil finish rubbed in there

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Jake @jakesprojects.bsky.social · 4d

short step from this to just not having a person in the car at all, I'd think

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