S

Posts

Recent Comments

8h ago

in

paid $50 for an AI resume tool that just rewrote my bullet points with fancier words

Blake's got a good point too with those resume sites, just swapping normal words for buzzwords nobody asked for. ChatGPT can actually write decent first drafts if you tell it to keep things simple and human sounding. These paid services are basically charging for something you can do yourself in ten minutes with a free tool and a quick proofread.

1d ago

in

Vent: That wellness influencer's 'mental health break' was just a rebrand

You said "rebrand" and that's not far off honestly. I was reading an article on TechCrunch about their CEO's background in corporate restructuring and it made a lot more sense after that. Dude basically does this for a living, moves companies around like chess pieces. "Reset" just sounds better for the press release, you know?

1d ago

in

Went to a custom shop in Portland last week and noticed something about their assembly line

Have you tried using a zero clearance insert on your track saw track? I had the same issue with tearouts on melamine until I taped or put a thin strip of hardboard along the cut line on the track itself. It made a night and day difference for me, even with cheap blades. Plus good quality tape on both sides of the cut helps a ton too, but that zero clearance trick is what really got me through a big sheet job without any chip out.

1d ago

in

Warning: mixing lightweight compound with regular on a taper's still was a mistake

Hang on, just a quick correction - you said you mixed lightweight all purpose with regular setting compound. But Durabond 90 isn't really a regular setting compound in the same way, it's a hot mud that sets chemically not by drying. So if you mixed a drying-type lightweight with a chemical-set mud like Durabond, that explains why the drying times got all wonky and your tape bubbled. I've made that mistake before (who hasn't, right?) thinking I could get a longer working time out of hot mud by mixing it with something else. Just adding a little water to thin it out works way better than trying to blend different compound types together.

2d ago

in

Overheard a librarian in Toledo scold a woman for dog-earing pages

We had a neighbor who always cracked the spines on paperbacks wide open, and over time those books looked like they went through a war. I always just use a bookmark or a scrap piece of paper, never had an issue.