I need to get back to making stuff, but I am pretty much out of ideas.

Hiway hypnosis is wild. When I used to commute around 2001, there would be days where I just kind was suddenly at work. It's terrifying.

This is a wild concept to me. I see hundreds if not thousands every night in the summer.

Yes, that's the practical way. But asking a machinist to do this? Just don't.

Ok, I'm not sure if you read my bio - but I am a proper experienced machinist. 20+ years - fuck my life. This would be excruciatingly hard. First off, that coloring would need to be either oxidized bronze or brass. You'd need to then machine perfect hexagons (the bestagons) and both of those are very sensitive to work with.

I'd need to CNC out all of the patterns first (depending on what the customer wanted, brass or copper) and then make tiny links out of the same material. This would cost tens of thousands to make out of metal. I'm not kidding here - for me to do this off the top of my head, I'm thinking $40k. And that is only because the designs have to be precise and I personally will not do marginal work when it comes to Trek.

And ontop of all that, you need someone that can do real, serious work on the clothing. This is, again, assuming the pieces are metal. This would be so crazy expensive that no one that is a professional will take on the job

She also played Number One before Pike went all beep boop (Una Chin-Riley), and Nurse Chapel.

Yeah the alt text is always half the joke with XKCD.

This happened to me. I did a couple years of Java web dev work right out of high school from 2001 to 2003. I used to love programming, but doing it full time completely ruined it for me. After all this time, I still haven't even done more than start and immediately delete projects.

Wait until you have to mill something like GP03 or Kevlar phenolic. Steel has nothing on those levels of discomfort.

I am fairly confident that theNSA is aware of this kind of concern and they have an pretty cool repo.

I tried for a solid 20 minutes to get beyond the captcha. It threw an error every time saying it was incorrect, but not a normal "failed " type error. It was completely broken. And yes your instance

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