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There are plenty of guns running around that are over 100 years old that are surely an antique by anyone's definition, but are safe and reasonable to show with modern ammo. Pretty much any gun of that age, unless it was some kind of commemorative thing from the start, is going to have plenty of rounds through it already.

For example - an M1903 is an antique by any definition, and you'd be hard pressed to buy one today that's unfired.

Really depends on the gun to some degree. There’s collectibles that are worth more left alone, especially old stuff pre modern ammunition. But lots of old but not that old stuff its more or less expected you’ll fire it to test it works on receipt.

Office 97 was easier - 7777-7777777

Modern management of side effects can help a lot, but it's not a surefire thing for any given patient on any given chemo.

When I did chemo, I had cycles with 5 days on - and I couldn't do anything useful during that week, or most of the next week. It was, truly, an awful experience. I completely understand and respect how some people can decide treatment isn't worth it and surrender to the disease.

> Amazon now has special search tools for buying fasteners that make it easier to find exactly what you need

Easier but they are no McMaster, by a long shot.

That’s also WAY more than you need to farm - no household will eat even 10% of that total yield.

Magsafe charger on a Ram mount has been a huge win for me in the car. It charges, and it's got a predictable place instead of wherever i drop it.

iphone has supported that forever.

Sure, you can. But 20A circuits outside of kitchens and bathrooms are exceedingly rare in north america. Heck - even on a 20A kitchen circuit, I don't know that I've ever seen one with a 20A receptacle - they always have standard 15A receptacles.

240v is even less common.

So ... yeah, you can do it, but you're talking about the equivalent work to having an electric car charger put in your office.

> PC power supplies can be in the 2200W range already. What's wrong with that?

For starters - a typical 15amp outlet is only supposed to have a 1,440W continuous load, 1,800W peak.

Not cancel all their orders and end up at the end of the line for chips.

I’ve thought about doing something like this, only using foot pedals to put it into “shorthand mode”. Having the pedal as a modifier would eliminate the need to worry about text collisions between your shorthand and normal typing.

> While there are exemptions in some states for simple or stick built homes,

The vast, vast majority of single family homes built in the US are simple, stick built homes, without anything going on that requires any more engineering than consulting the span charts in the codes.

I'm actually taking issue with that assertion - mid-sized builders absolutely don't have that kind of time put into the designs of their house. They build one and iterate on the problems - it's not so different from software. I know - we've had quite a few problems related to being the 2nd iteration of a new house plan for a builder.

> Regardless of what you see as a casual outside observer, an architect and civil engineer are putting their stamps on each set of blueprints for each construction site.

Hard disagree on this wishful thinking. I've literally seen the submitted plans for my house - there was absolutely no architect or engineer stamp on them. The true mega-builders might do this, but smaller operations (say, 25 to a few hundred houses a year) don't.

In my subdivision (which will be a few hundred houses built by one company) the plans are all new to this subdivision, designed by the head guy, and there aren't enough houses of any plan to amortize "tens of thousands of hours" among them (they've built 4 copies of my house so far, for reference).

You don't need an engineer or architect involved in building a "normal" house or developing plans in large parts of the country. There's no calculations required, for the most part, either. The codes allow a prescriptive path to compliance, so if you fall the span charts in the codes, it's good to go.

The only real notable exception is in truss design - but that's never designed by an architect either. The builder sends the house design to a truss company along with required loads in the area, and the truss company sends back trusses that cover the space and hold the required loads.

Threads like this are peak HN - people who "know better" how the world should work (and hey, I wish I worked like that too) telling people who have actually experienced something their experience can't possibly be real. I actually have had a house built recently. I did a ton of research, and this builder was the best I could do in my area and at my price range (about $600k). The options get a LOT worse as you spend less on new constructions.

You're missing my point - it's that less people have access to the type of "use an architect and build a custom home" experience you're talking about.

I was shocked when I was looking to have a new home built a few years ago how much you have to spend to actually get into a "custom home" and not a fairly templated house.

Even if you're having a new house built, you get a lot less choices than you might think. To most builders, "custom home" means you get to pick the paint and flooring, not that you have appreciable input into anything structural.

I'm sure it varies regionally, but where I'm at (Kansas City market) you have to be in about the $800k range, generally, to be able to work with an actual architect and build something custom - and that's just plain out of reach for most people.

Maybe this varies regionally?

I'm around Kansas City. The biggest builders here will be in multiple subdivisions at once, with varying topography, and they may or may not have been the ones to plat out the lots.

They will absolutely sell you any house plan in their catalog to go on any lot, so long as it fits. You might get a walkout basement instead of a full in-ground basement, but that's about how much it varies.

The only variability is that smaller plans would be available in nicer subdivisions (that require bigger/expensive houses) and larger plans won't be available in subdivisions where they don't physically fit on the lots.

This gets said a lot - but in practice, very little housing is built that way.

The mega builders that build big developments certainly don't match up house plans with the way lots are oriented, and that's where most houses are built.

I'm not trying to argue we shouldn't work on that, but to just dismiss off the shelf house plans entirely because "you have to build for the site" is rejecting the reality of how things are done.

At the very least, a repository of plans that was categorized simply by the orientation it was optimized for would be a step ahead of how most housing is planned and built today.

Is it that simple, though? Taking someone who's already crime-prone then sending them off to graduate school for criminals rarely leaves society with a better person when they get out.

I'm not saying, at all, that we should let them run amok. But at the same time, the US has a ridiculous incarceration rate as it is, and it's not like we've created a utopia by doing that.

If they have that much disregard for the law, do you think losing their license will keep them off the road? Doubtful.

Almost all voucher proponents want them for religious schools - your observation is a feature for them, not a bug.

100% this. I even went to catholic school 7-12th grade.

It was in no way a superior product like they want you to believe anyway. It was obvious in college that I had inferior math and science education, and I was considered a high performer in my high school!

They even turned me off religion completely, so fail on all counts.

> Normies usually have their updates set to automatic, so they get the updates a soon as they're out.

I have my iPhone and iPad both set to automatic updates, as are some others in the family. I have noticed several times when my iPad will get an update and then a couple weeks later I'll be on another family member's iPad and notice it still hasn't done the update yet.

My point was that most vehicles include this feature, even those you’d least expect it on.

This is demonstrably false. Even new Jeep Wranglers and Gladiators come with auto start/stop, and those are about as far removed from hybrids as it gets.

You must live on the coast. There's plenty of us in the midwestern US that could never make it to a coast before the boats were all gone.

That type of room i not just a safe, but also a "panic room." Which could be anything from living in a terrible area and worried about civil unrest, to someone wanting a 100% confidence their tornado shelter would protect them no matter what.

> after I've alleviated my own guilt by "repaying" them monetarily for all they've done in raising me.

You don’t owe them that. “They put a roof over my head and fed and clothed me” isn’t a parent doing good for their kids, it’s the minimum allowed by law. You make a choice when you have a child, and these costs are part of that choice.

NPD is largely defined by the inability to experience empathy. They don’t know they are assholes, or worse, feed of a high they get when people think they are assholes when they think they are right.