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    Lanyard snap preferences

    My short lanyard is a petzl grillon with a tight eye, plastic-cover-orientation-retention that holds a biner. It gives the option of taking out the biner for an ugly pull back, but being short you can reach over and get it freed generally. With the biner held, it makes it easy to open the...
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    Struggling to find winter climbing boots

    Dug out my Baffin boots to confirm specs. They're older and don't even have a model name, but they're like the first Sorel's that revolutionised winter boots with rubber ankle-down and fabric ankle-up. Now there's more models than you can shake a stick at. IIRC I had CSA ohm symbol, CSA green...
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    Petzl Midline Zigzag

    Imagine how special or privileged you would feel if you were a factory tester who brought it up to the point where it's sent out as above. Holy NDA Batman.
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    Modern AI Tech

    Holy crap. Maybe an AI agent posting on here is actually trained on us! he he :) "i'm a lumberjack and I'm o.k. ..." Let's see if that regurgitates.
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    Modern AI Tech

    I came across this video quite while ago, probably mentioned it, YT gave it to me again. It's not all AI but data/privacy etc related too, like the spy smart tv's. I was discussing car black boxes, onstar etc with my son and IMO advising him to retain his older vehicle. Guess it's real...
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    Petzl Midline Zigzag

    only 5 links plus a rope pinch on the Reflex was what I considered a "bold" design choice in my first impression comment. Zigzag went up from 6 to 8 on the shift. There's a lesson in there. Power of compound, lessening individual component performance reliance.
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    Struggling to find winter climbing boots

    Half the secret of gaiters is keeping the snow from falling down into the boot and melting in there (wet) and the other half is making a partial stab at (more) insulating your lower leg. As to sizing, I think if you feel some movement or clearance, that allows pumping action to transport the...
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    Struggling to find winter climbing boots

    +1 on the technology of your sock system and boot tight/looseness. Circulating your sweat/steam out to keep a dryness level helps. The other trick is keeping your calf/lower legs maybe even a bit overwarm so they dump heat into your feet via blood circulation. If your legs are cold your feet...
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    Petzl Midline Zigzag

    Probably this vid:
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    Cracked, large oak.

    A small discussion or resorcinol glue vs others: https://sawmillcreek.org/threads/glue-question-resorcinol-formaldehyde.280176/ and https://forums.ybw.com/threads/resorcinol-glues.630478/
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    Cracked, large oak.

    The resorcinol glue bonds like a bugger, you can apparently boil a bonded joint in a pot and not wreck it, goes to -40 deg - that's why it's in a class of it's own. When I saw that perfectly clean, non splintered crack that would contact back together like a glove the light went on. I've...
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    Nerd Alert

    Brain Pain - A Peek Into AI's "Black Box" Operation I recommend viewing a basic structure of a neural net vid first. Then this gets real interesting.
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    Cracked, large oak.

    If you want to trailblaze some researchy stuff, take this opportunity to combine gluing with bolting. Works for boats and furniture, right? If you keep it away from the cambium, what can it hurt? Epoxy is the best waterproof option I'm aware of, but an expert might know better. Resorcinol...
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    Petzl Midline Zigzag

    Evo, look at the shadow in the red circle in the photo - that's the spring anchor hole I mentioned on the one particular link.
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    Cable snatch block recommendation

    Old fashioned search via reputable company names and their catalogs? Automagic web scraping's ain't always what they're cracked up to be. Sometimes I name a model part directly and it doesn't show up on giggle.
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