I actually gave it a once over with a lighter to stop the fraying.

But my experience with some ropes is that the action of loading and unloading or otherwise jostling the knot can cause it to come loose.

That is why I used this rather than the reef knot. This wont come undone when not under constant tension.

If you need extra security it’s often better to tie a stopper knot in the ends of the lines rather than tying them together.

I believe that double fisherman’s knot is what a climber would use in a situation like this.

Here’s my favorites:

Perfection loop
Bowline / Yosemite bowline
Alpine butterfly
Trucker’s hitch
Constrictor knot
Figure eight / follow throught
Sheet bend
Zeppelin bend
Double fisherman’s knot
Scaffold/Poacher’s knot
Stopper knot

From now on yes - we needed to clear some space in the woodshed.

Trucker’s hitch. It also gives you 3:1 mechanical advantage and there’s a self-locking version too.

I’m not sure if this is even suitable for climbing. I like it because it’s easy to untie even after being tightened.

Hoist for mother-in-law transportation capsule.

Luckily I’ve yet to receive such call. The vast majority of my customers are unreasonably reasonable.

However, if there ever is an issue with the quality of my work, I’ll ofcourse come and fix it free of charge.

When installing something for a customer, yes.

The point is that when your life depends on it, you perhaps shouldn’t DIY it.

You can also make your own parachute from a tarp and some paracord.

I’m talking about one of these things. Not that I disagree about the 3D printer, though.

Yeah, they’re LEDs and the kind that you can quite easily replace if either one breaks. Also, fully opened the legs span about a meter which should be plenty sturdy.

Whenever possible I try and rig up some kind of overhead lighting, but especially when painting / plastering, getting that sidelight with long shadows is essential for a smooth finish.

I already know what the next one is going to be: vacuum attachment for my hammer drill. I just can’t justify the price as it costs almost as much as the drill itself. I bet I’ll make a similar post about that once I finally give in.

Too much is always enough.

The cross support is not needed if you use plywood. Houses are often built like that too - a stick frame made rigid by the contruction boards.

If you do use the support then make sure you put it the right way around. It’s supposed to span from the bottom hinge to the opposite top corner so that when the door tries to sag is starts compressing the wood. The other way around it doesn’t work so good and that’s a really common mistake that people make.

So I’m not the only on sitting on my bathroom floor watching the front-loading washing machine do its thing through the window. I find it mesmerizing and oddly meditative.

I’m just here to figure out what that word was even supposed to be

You’re not trying to remove a moral status but deny it in the first place. That’s different but the end result of it still seems the same.

We used to justify the mistreatment of animals with the assumption that they had no subjective experience either. I’m not suggesting AI does but I’m also not claiming it with absolute certainty does not either, and the more we develop those systems, the more likely it seems to me that at some point there’s a good chance that they will.

The psychological drive behind the urge to call something with a derogatory term is the same in both cases.