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Re:How to Make Everything Ourselves: Open Modular Hardware by Qwertie on Thursday June 28, 2018 @07:50PM (#17421400)
You can just buy the closest match and cut off a bit of the end. In the end it's much better for everyone to standardize on the superior units
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Re:How to Make Everything Ourselves: Open Modular Hardware by TOGoS on Friday June 29, 2018 @01:08AM (#17422540)
Indeed. Which is why I standardized on inches, which match the hardware at Home Depot and whose rulers make it easy to divide by powers of 2. :P
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Re:How to Make Everything Ourselves: Open Modular Hardware by TOGoS on Friday June 29, 2018 @02:51AM (#17422874)
Aw shucks. Downvoted for disagreeing with the HN groupthink.
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Re:How to Make Everything Ourselves: Open Modular Hardware by TOGoS on Friday June 29, 2018 @02:38PM (#17426595)
First rule of HN groupthink is don't acknowledge HN groupthink. Just downvote anyone who's different.
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