Now, that’s pretty funny.

I appreciate the in-depth response. I was really just having some fun trolling engineers. You’ve been around the block so you understand the arrogance inherent in pretty much anything technical. It’s totally immature but it also makes me grin.

I was amusing myself. Trolling engineers can be pretty fun and this is a target rich environment. I’ve seen a lot of bad engineering over the years and sometimes it’s just plain cathartic to make fun of them.

My bad, not design authority as that’s a specific thing. They are allowed to design and the guy rubber-stamping often doesn’t catch much.

Ultimately, this is a religious issue. Engineers are heathens that should be burned at the stake. Occasionally, you meet a good one who’s been housetrained by the people that actually do the things.

Yup. Thing is, it’s known that ‘machinists’ coming out of trade school aren’t worth a damn for years. The same is true of enginneers, yet they turn them loose on CAD and they create designs that make everyone miserable.

This is one of the big problems with SpaceX/Blue Origin/Firefly. The designs are piss poor because the majority of their engineers are green.

Engineers shouldn’t have design authority until they’ve spent a few years manufacturing.

Only thing dumber than a mechanical engineer is an electrical engineer trying to design a housing.

You want to understand the deep magic, talk to electricians and technicians.

BBS -> Slashdot -> Reddit -> Lemmy -> ???

They all have their time. I’ll see some of y’all on whatever is next. It branches, I didn’t do digg.

Rock and roll. I’ve seen bad things happen when someone decides it’s a good idea to modernize a PC based CNC control. (I hate PC based controls). They get their own little fence to live inside where it’s always 1999.

At least the lathe isn’t running punch tape.

Don’t upgrade or mess with the control. Disconnect from the network if it’s on it. It should have RS-232. Throw a Pi or other SBC that does serial and a 12V level shifter; use that to feed it programs.

Also, make an image of the hard drive if it has one and start looking for a spare drive on ebay.

Wow! That’s amazing, I’ve never heard of a blue bee. That’s just really cool. I bet it was confusing when you first saw it. I’ve heard of/seen solitary bees but didn’t think about it. Did a little beekeeping work as a kid.

We’ve got a couple weird ones on the other side of the pond that I’ve been around. (wasps, actually)

Cow killer/Red velvet ant it’s sting is in the top 10 for most painful. They’re beautiful.

Cicada Killers are huge, 5cm/2in long. I had one fall out of a tree with a cicada right next to me. I thought it was birds fighting.

Didn’t even think it about it not being a honey a bee. You’re right.

Drones don’t have stingers. Queens and workers have stingers. Queens are from worker larva that are fed royal jelly that transforms them into a queen that is capable of reproduction. Workers are technically female but they’re closer to asexual.

So, that badass enby ace bee gave that motherfucker what for.

Time to program something nasty and tricky or tweaking in a tight part: put on the math metal and figure it out.

It’s wincest. Especially if it features little people.

Whoa. I haven’t heard of Pervertube. I have specific tastes involving a dirty mattress with no sheet or at least one overflowing ashtray.

NEW PORN!!!1!!!1!!!

Don’t they slightly increase rain and slightly decrease UV? The particulate in the exhaust acts as nucleation sites for water droplets and crystals.

I’ve only got 32tb in the family Raid 5 (actually 24TB since I lose a drive to parity), but my girl really loves her trash TV while she works so we’re on like 90% full.

And I’m just a podunk machinist.

The bat boy stuff always astounded me at the grocery store.

My son and I laughed our asses off over that presentation. Brilliant but kind of disgusting.

Steve-O would absolutely swim in a river of shit. He, however, would not allow children to follow him.