I think the pine hobby panels will be fine structurally. I think you mean the ones that are a bunch of smaller pieces glued together. In using these I have found not all the glue joints are great, though.

But, I suspect its the glue in the plywood that might damage the saw. Glued up hobby panels will likely act the same.

Might want to pick up a cheap crosscut saw / general carpentry saw for utility cutting and save the nice pull saw four detail work.

I bet the people you work with are very happy to have you as a lead.

I’ve been in this scenario and I didn’t wait for layoffs. I left and applied my skills where shit code is not tolerated, and quality is rewarded.

But in this hypothetical, we got this shit code not by management encouraging the right behavior, and giving time to make it right. They’re going to keep the yes men and fire the “unproductive” ones (and I know fully, adding to the pile is not, in the long run, productive, but what does the management overseeing this mess think?)

They were just trying to make us smarter.

https://studyfinds.org/chewing-on-wood-brain-function-memory/

[kidding]

To be fair, if you give me a shit code base and expect me to add features with no time to fix the existing ones, I will also just add more shit on the pile. Because obviously that’s how you want your codebase to look.

I’m not sure why no one is direct linking it.

https://dogeque.st/

(the data looks incredibly incomplete)

There is value in just using something like this to break spending habits of the population.

A lot of people may find that a portion of their spending wasn’t that necessary after all, and will stop beyond the boycott. The businesses will need to improve services or lower prices to win customers back.

At least, that’s what I hope this achieves. The organizers might have varying goals.

Check out ibuildit.ca

He has made a vise from a screw jack, and has some videos of it in action.

While I’ve not built his vise, I have roughly followed his instructions for other projects, and I think he really suggests things that actually work (not just “content”)

In my current role, I mostly hire “senior” roles. So the applicants (which are pre screened before I see them) typically have 5+ years experience. I ask about the code they’ve written, and then I ask some questions about how they would extend the code (to meet some new requirements). What I’m looking for is not so much a specific answer, but more so “can we think through this problem together.”

That said, I’ve been the interviewer for “junior” roles…and there isn’t as much correlation between ability and experience as you might think. So no reason to feel imposter syndrome. I’ve worked with extremely smart/talented developers without any formal training.

I think all the stuff you’re doing sets a really good foundation for a career in software, if that’s where you want to go. One thing I might suggest is making a few contributions to open source or team projects. It can be useful to learn about how to read code, and present code to others (or to fit your idea into an existing code base).

They are terrible at it, compared to my mailman or UPS.

I have to do many interviews.

I don’t care if the applicant uses AI, or any other tool available to them. I just care about whether they can explain, debug, and modify/extend code (which they wrote, or at least composed somehow and are presenting as their work).

I’ve definitely been suspicious of AI use, and also had some applicants admit to it. And I don’t count that against them any more than using a web resource.

But, there is a very high correlation between using AI and failing at the explain/debug/modify part.

I feel like this could be a Columbo episode

Name and shame the brand!

I was going to say vacuum leak too. Get some brake kleen or other flammable liquid and spray judiciously near different parts of the intake while the engine is running and listen for a change in idle to help locate it.

Note: spray flammable liquids at your own risk. If you don’t know the risks and what to avoid have a mechanic do it.

This is super cool

I don’t think we’ve yet witnessed the full benefits of the distributed nature/federation.

So I’m sure it’s not your issue, but

Few weeks back I was able to solve the persistent clunk/scrape sound I had when pulling to a stop and when pulling away. I had assumed it was driveline but turned out the upper trans cooler mount had rusted away so it was flopping back and forth when stopping/starting. Zip tied it for now. When it’s warmer out I’ll bend up a new bracket from some scrap.

Be thankful you have a button and don’t need to navigate through 3 levels of touchscreen menus to get to the option.

The scary part to me (noted in the article as well) is less the technical hack but more so the amount of data they are collecting.

Subaru had/has an ongoing issue where the telematics drains the battery while the car is parked, especially if it’s parked out of reach of cell towers. With the amount of data they are sending, it’s not surprising.

There is no need for the car to report its position whatsoever unless I request assistance.

Smiling on the outside…

Should be a nice salary boost for developers in a year or two when all these companies desperately need to rehire to fix whatever AI slop mess they have created.

And I hope every developer demands 2x their current salary if they are tasked with re-engineering that crap.