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My first ever hand cut dado is...not great

Make a small kerf with a knife and a chisel, saw in that.

Look up Paul Sellers on YouTube, he has great hand tools videos.

If you're doing this with hand tools don't underestimate the importance of sharp chisels. From your description I don't think they're nearly sharp enough.

The Best Teeth Whitening Kits, According to Dentists

Zoom NiteWhite Kit, Set of 3

Nearly all of the dentists we consulted said that getting custom whitening trays—which are often made of hard plastic and molded to the shape of your teeth—from your dentist is the way to go.

Just fill your tray with gel from the syringe and wear it for up to four hours a day. Philips promises results in two weeks.

Converting an octagon to a round w/rail | Poker Chip Forum

Back in 2010 a friend of mine helped me convert my 8 player octagon into a round cushioned rail table. I figured I'd re-post the info and pictures here in...

"Unbeatable Poker" Review: Worst Poker Book of 2019?
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Most poker books are outdated in a solver-era of poker, so I was curious to check out Red Chip Poker coach Ross Glover's "Unbeatable Poker," one of the only books that heavily incorporates GTO poker analysis. However, I was disappointed to find that Glover's approach was more noise than strategy. This video explains why Glover's work is a dead-end rabbit hole, using PIOsolver proofs and detailed strategy discussion that you won't find anywhere else.

The video I quote in the beginning can be found here. Uri is an insanely bright grandmaster of many games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4i7tFPZWLA

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Font style matcher

If you're using a web font, you're bound to see a flash of unstyled text (or FOUC), between the initial render of your websafe font and the webfont that you've chosen. This usually results in a jarring shift in layout, due to sizing discrepancies between the two fonts. To minimize this discrepancy, you can try to match the fallback font and the intended webfont’s x-heights and widths [1]. This tool helps you do exactly that.

You’re probably using the wrong dictionary « the jsomers.net blog

John McPhee -- almost peerless as a prose stylist -- wrote an essay for the New Yorker about his process called "Draft #4." For him, #4 is the draft after the painstaking labor of creation is done, when all that's left is to punch up the language, to replace shopworn words and phrases with stuff that sings.

The way you do it, is "you draw a box not only around any word that does not seem quite right but also around words that fulfill their assignment but seem to present an opportunity." You go looking for le mot juste.

But somehow for McPhee, the dictionary -- the dictionary! -- was the fount of fine prose, the first place he'd go to filch a phrase, to steal fire from the gods.

Take a simple word, like "flash." In all the dictionaries I've ever known, I would have never looked up that word. I'd've had no reason to -- I already knew what it meant. But go look up "flash" in Webster's (the edition I'm using is the 1913).

https://web.archive.org/web/20160108161120/http://machaut.uchicago.edu:80/websters