They have a window on the side of the machine enclosure open so they can fit a long workpiece in it. If they turned on the coolant it would end up spraying some outside the machine and make a mess.

For 2 quick holes like this it wouldn’t be worth it, but I used run a few different parts that extended thru the machine, and would magnet a plastic shower curtain to the inside of the machine so I could continue using coolant.

If anything, DeepSeek maps a better AI future for those concerned about censorship because it was released as an “open weights” model, meaning people could modify it to talk about Tiananmen Square and whatever else they want.

2nd to last paragraph of the article addresses exactly that

Oh yeah, a high density fixture plate seems like the right call then!

Currently trying to come up with a way to make them more than one at a time.

What’re ya working with? Seems like it’d be easy enough to do an op1 and op2 pair in soft jaws per kurt vise.

The Eye of the Heron, by Ursula K. LeGuin

The Expanse Series, by James S.A. Corey

The Mars Trilogy, by Kim Stanley Robinson

Another idea on point 1 for pulling the wire through the stress relief would be to heat it up a little bit (with hot water or something) to make it more pliable.

Post a pic of it? It might be fixable

All her hainish cycle books are really good too, which is a very loosely connected shared universe, that left hand of darkness takes place in.