DCBourone "A Post-Apocalyptic Story"--"The Soldier's Son" Published/Available Jan. 17 (Page 85 of 89)
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I'm busted up as shit tonight. I'm gonna go find the knife posts and try to find a little me to love. Didn't help as much as I hoped. |
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Originally Posted By stimpsonjcat: I'm busted up as shit tonight. I'm gonna go find the knife posts and try to find a little me to love. Didn't help as much as I hoped. |
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“Chaos liberates not only the evil, but the good.” —Billy Spears
“Chaos liberates not only the evil, but the good.” —Billy Spears
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Originally Posted By DesignatedMarksman: We should do a hammer-in. Load the truck up with old leaf springs and gas bottles and just beat metal to death. Where ya at again? A Carolina IIRC? |
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DSpud good to see you. if you continue here Do not use any proper names/political parties/political figure names/popular or conventional identifiers/memes/etc. EVER ON THIS THREAD. Stj Thank you. Sttow Chastik Taro Ism: engineering language within a captive population to create probabilities of specific events. tracking that language to adjust targeting. Etc. |
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Attached File I'm trying something different from my usual work. I thought you all might appreciate a sneak peek. It all started because I didn't know if I could pull off grinding a swedge/false edge over a hollow grind like you see on a Randall knife. At this point, I think I'm going to mount a single lug brass guard in the loveless style and keep the handle a true full tang but I may still change my mind. What's ground now is just pre heat treat rough grinds to save me some headache and abrasives later. The edges are still about an eighth of an inch thick. |
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Originally Posted By DFARM: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/78442/KIMG7368_JPG-3292962.JPG I'm trying something different from my usual work. I thought you all might appreciate a sneak peek. It all started because I didn't know if I could pull off grinding a swedge/false edge over a hollow grind like you see on a Randall knife. At this point, I think I'm going to mount a single lug brass guard in the loveless style and keep the handle a true full tang but I may still change my mind. What's ground now is just pre heat treat rough grinds to save me some headache and abrasives later. The edges are still about an eighth of an inch thick. Yum! What's getting flat later and let's see the other side! |
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Originally Posted By stimpsonjcat: Yum! What's getting flat later and let's see the other side! Getting flat? Attached File |
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Originally Posted By DFARM: Getting flat? https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/78442/KIMG7380_JPG-3293127.JPG See now that side makes more sense to me. On the harsh side you've left the teeth pretty tall, so I was wondering if you were going to bring the whole face down some more. And I have to say, because I know the terror, those drops are very nice. Well done. |
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Originally Posted By DCBourone: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/345159/IMG_1893_jpeg-3294206.JPG Is that recent? Glad to see no rust or other issues. Say "Hi" to your princess. I moved mine into her dorm room last Sunday. Long way from the maze, but really just another one now. |
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Originally Posted By stimpsonjcat: See now that side makes more sense to me. On the harsh side you've left the teeth pretty tall, so I was wondering if you were going to bring the whole face down some more. And I have to say, because I know the terror, those drops are very nice. Well done. Yeah, I think I'm going to need to grind that side down some more, especially where the guard and handle scales will go. And thank you. |
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Originally Posted By DCBourone: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/345159/IMG_1893_jpeg-3294206.JPG What is that crazy yellow on the Randall to the left? Attached File |
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| Dfarm yes that is Busse. I cannot remember the name, but the carefully curated Busse rumor was that it is a super Duper special secret order/design for super creepy secret Israeli special forces. Which I believe to be fantastically unlikely because the knife is basically unusable. The tiny broomstick thin handle so slippery and slim The blade wanders around in your hand if you so so much just try and peel an apple. I really want to like Busse and have quite a few with the exception of one they are all pretty much useless. |
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Stj yes the pic is yesterday. Leaving your knife available and unattended. It's pretty much like leaving a samurai sword out and about. It just cannot be done, so I keep it in its box and take it out every now and then and ponder. It is well coated with Renaissance wax and should last generations. mind blowing to believe your girl is in college now. I hope she is close as in no more than a short drive? If that is possible? |
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| Former11 when I used to shop the net and pawnshops for affordable Randalls that model 14 showed up at a very low price and I eventually tracked it down to one of the known Randall middlemen who had commissioned some customs with his own colored laminates. So apparently now it is quite valuable as the laminates no longer exist. Just one of the several model 14s I bought with the intention of using that will never see a single slice of anything because they're just too damn pretty. |
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Bunch of Busse etc. Attached File |
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But this Busse sykco is almost perfect user. Attached File |
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And the perfect user cheap light easy to sharpen Attached File |
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Originally Posted By DCBourone: Stj yes the pic is yesterday. Leaving your knife available and unattended. It's pretty much like leaving a samurai sword out and about. It just cannot be done, so I keep it in its box and take it out every now and then and ponder. It is well coated with Renaissance wax and should last generations. mind blowing to believe your girl is in college now. I hope she is close as in no more than a short drive? If that is possible? Yes, she's in Athens, GA at UGA. About an hour and a half-ish. |
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Originally Posted By DCBourone: But this Busse sykco is almost perfect user. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/345159/image_jpg-3295076.JPG Oh the lines on that are lovely. |
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| Yep, it is pretty close to perfect. The only thing I would change/wish more knife makers would do keep the spine and tip thick to the very end for digging and prying, etc.. |
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Originally Posted By DCBourone: Yep, it is pretty close to perfect. The only thing I would change/wish more knife makers would do keep the spine and tip thick to the very end for digging and prying, etc.. Unless you're building a tool specific to a task, every aspect of the design is a compromise. If you made the tip durable enough to deal with real prying and digging, it's going to stab and cut like garbage at the tip. |
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Originally Posted By DFARM: Unless you're building a tool specific to a task, every aspect of the design is a compromise. If you made the tip durable enough to deal with real prying and digging, it's going to stab and cut like garbage at the tip. ALWAYS! |
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I lusted after those for years. |
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Originally Posted By last_crusader: May as well. Kind of surprised it wasn't an Indian, they are quite the bike. When's the FAL match? Dunno yet...we haven't had that meeting for 2025 yet. And 1200's are freaking cheap! |
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Originally Posted By DesignatedMarksman: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/81267/1000025894-3328251.jpg 100 year old Ithaca Flues 20ga, still slaying them. Awwww...birb nap! That maker is a happy. |
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Originally Posted By DesignatedMarksman: Pulling a trailer up to western NC Friday with food, water, gas and sanitation stuff. Bringing waders, axes, chainsaw, and smokes. Things like this are what give me hope for the future. Thank you for helping those who need it. |
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| There were a hell of a lot of people that needed a hell of a lot of help. Ended up pulling $10k worth of gas, water, groceries, sanitation up there over 3 trips in 3 days. 800mi total. No FEMA and all the NG I saw were sitting around in empty parking lots with their trucks. Only government entity I saw working was DOT, running around putting down cones on washed out roads. All the collection/distribution points down in the valleys are choked with stuff, while the people up in the hollers couldn't get down to it. I pulled that trailer up and down roads and trails that it shouldn't have been on at all. Good times. |
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“Chaos liberates not only the evil, but the good.” —Billy Spears
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Originally Posted By DesignatedMarksman: There were a hell of a lot of people that needed a hell of a lot of help. Ended up pulling $10k worth of gas, water, groceries, sanitation up there over 3 trips in 3 days. 800mi total. No FEMA and all the NG I saw were sitting around in empty parking lots with their trucks. Only government entity I saw working was DOT, running around putting down cones on washed out roads. All the collection/distribution points down in the valleys are choked with stuff, while the people up in the hollers couldn't get down to it. I pulled that trailer up and down roads and trails that it shouldn't have been on at all. Good times. Thank you again |
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Originally Posted By DesignatedMarksman: There were a hell of a lot of people that needed a hell of a lot of help. Ended up pulling $10k worth of gas, water, groceries, sanitation up there over 3 trips in 3 days. 800mi total. No FEMA and all the NG I saw were sitting around in empty parking lots with their trucks. Only government entity I saw working was DOT, running around putting down cones on washed out roads. All the collection/distribution points down in the valleys are choked with stuff, while the people up in the hollers couldn't get down to it. I pulled that trailer up and down roads and trails that it shouldn't have been on at all. Good times. God bless ya DM... good work!  |
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--Soldier's Son is now a kind of antique. The world has moved past it, for now. So-- GENERAL NOTE: Everyone here knows the words "Artificial Intelligence"--and presumably most are aware of ChatGPT/Anthropic/Perplexity/other large language models: LLM/s, etc. "Knowing the words" is insufficient to the task ahead. "Knowing the words" is what 99 percent of the literate world can manifest about any particular subject that contradicts a personal bias. If we go on the general forum, or really any forum on the net, we find millions of posts on the future of A.I./work/jobs. 99+ percent of these posters are not reading/listening to original sources/leaders/developers of AI products/services. For the last year+ the largest quotient of time in this household has been learning/adapting/following the evolution of various AI tools. You need to be aware. There is no job, including manual/bespoke, that will be unaffected within the next ten years. It is not random that Sam Altman, the leader of OpenAI/ChatGPT has been quietly certain about the future of UBI, universal basic income, since he became a public figure. I cannot persuade anyone here within this or any post. But I can give you one link, and from that link and your own searches you will, or will not, adapt to this new world. You do not have decades. You have years. If you think this is incorrect, make your argument to-- Eric Schmidt, ex google CEO, after you watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKVFNg3DEng |
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Originally Posted By DCBourone: --Soldier's Son is now a kind of antique. The world has moved past it, for now. So-- GENERAL NOTE: Everyone here knows the words "Artificial Intelligence"--and presumably most are aware of ChatGPT/Anthropic/Perplexity/other large language models: LLM/s, etc. "Knowing the words" is insufficient to the task ahead. "Knowing the words" is what 99 percent of the literate world can manifest about any particular subject that contradicts a personal bias. If we go on the general forum, or really any forum on the net, we find millions of posts on the future of A.I./work/jobs. 99+ percent of these posters are not reading/listening to original sources/leaders/developers of AI products/services. For the last year+ the largest quotient of time in this household has been learning/adapting/following the evolution of various AI tools. You need to be aware. There is no job, including manual/bespoke, that will be unaffected within the next ten years. It is not random that Sam Altman, the leader of OpenAI/ChatGPT has been quietly certain about the future of UBI, universal basic income, since he became a public figure. I cannot persuade anyone here within this or any post. But I can give you one link, and from that link and your own searches you will, or will not, adapt to this new world. You do not have decades. You have years. If you think this is incorrect, make your argument to-- Eric Schmidt, ex google CEO, after you watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKVFNg3DEng AI is like guns. It's a tool that can be good or bad, so good guys need to be familiar with it because there are guaranteed to be bad guys who are. I definitely think that every trade will be affected, some definitely more than others. I think that at least for the near future, the more complex but manual your job is, the safer you are but you won't be left untouched. |
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--DFarm--did you get to watch Google dude? He would be as much of an insider as anyone, and worked very hard behind the scenes to have that video removed from all media--but was too late. Optimistic consensus that "General AI" single human equivalent within 2-4 years, pessimistic is 6 years. Human equivalent AI/s cloned/scaled/duplicated in tasking chains. Multiple robotics interviews = three iterations of humanoid bots, three years each, with general ai loaded bots within nine years. Tesla engineer says bot = car, but much cheaper/easier to scale. Tesla engineer--tesla car value is not the 'car'--it is the visual computation/software platform. Musk says tesla bots = core goal. Etc. Point is--ten years, radical change. |
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Boss has been pushing AI-assisted Tech Support for years. I have been patiently explaining that it is stupid. AI is exactly as idiotic as the data you feed it. So Skynet is gonna be a retard. I'll admit we have finally started getting a handle on what we do want to feed our variant and it is being more useful than I would have expected, if it is driven properly. And here we encounter the same old problem...incompetent customers. I just bought a 2004 Z06 and a track membership. (my new cardio!) And it frightens me to think how many people are out there who own this much bottled power and have not sought and do not want the training that should come with that. 
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Originally Posted By stimpsonjcat: Boss has been pushing AI-assisted Tech Support for years. I have been patiently explaining that it is stupid. AI is exactly as idiotic as the data you feed it. So Skynet is gonna be a retard. I'll admit we have finally started getting a handle on what we do want to feed our variant and it is being more useful than I would have expected, if it is driven properly. And here we encounter the same old problem...incompetent customers. I just bought a 2004 Z06 and a track membership. (my new cardio!) And it frightens me to think how many people are out there who own this much bottled power and have not sought and do not want the training that should come with that. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/i3fmelnjqk9gdvgoghuxk/vettetiresday1.jpg?rlkey=1e0qu65oyew0p63zt8xqh379b&st=fdjbsebd&raw=1 Old guys who's reaction times aren't what they used to be are probably the largest group of Corvette owners. Lol That sounds like a great time. |
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