SzethFriendOfNimi

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SzethFriendOfNimi ,

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How to make a month go by as fast as possible other than sleeping

I'm having some personal issues causing some severe depression and anxiety. I'd like to get past this time as fast as possible, and my days are dragging on. I can't sleep, which would be a good way to make time go fast. But I also can't just play video games, I don't have the motivation to play more than a few minutes and it...

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

Audiobooks. Libby app for local library and countless audiobooks already covered by your library card.

I’ve listened to/read so many books. Short ones that are 4 hours or so to entire series where each book is about 20 hours or so.

Long drive? Audiobook. Yard work? Audiobook.

I find myself looking forward to the mundane chores because it gives me an excuse to get back into whatever story/book I’m enjoying.

SzethFriendOfNimi , (edited )

Not natively no. What you’re looking for is this

Achieve true 3D printing with non planar slicing
Note: Check the update below

Conical Slicing: A different angle of 3D printing

Not something easily done with slicers and there are hacks to do things like this but nothing that works out of the box and it’s a tough challenge with various nozzles, toolheads, material shrink properties

Edit: More recent update that could be of interest

Non-planar 3D printing in a modern slicer thanks to the community

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

I’ve had some luck with attaching silicone pie mat to prints that I wanted to have a grippy surface.

Downside is it picks up any grime, dust, dirt easily. No biggie when you throw a silicone mat in the dishwasher, more of an issue when you can’t do the same with something 3d printed.

Another consideration could be large furniture non slip pads. Something made for putting on the feet of a couch/sofa for example, cut to size?

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

Not only that but they also had the serial input for joysticks.

So if you played some Wing Commander with a game pad or stick you probably had this card.

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

They’re in an orbit that works with jupiters current mass. If Jupiter gained enough mass to trigger fusion then I would think that many of them would with fall in or be slung out of orbit.

I’d be interested to see if anybody has done the math though to see how that would all play out.

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

What about a dab of hot glue as a kind of medium between the head of a bolt/screw and the plastic it’s in?

This way you get some of the “grip” from a malleable material that’s also pretty easy to get ahold of for most people.

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

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SzethFriendOfNimi ,

And fluffle their feathers when they’re jonesing for caffeine.

SzethFriendOfNimi , (edited )

Interesting to see this one pop up again.

Steve Lehto did a good overview of this from a legal perspective

Especially the warrant argument. Dude was on parole, warrant would be an easy get instead of just being lazy.

How many people actually want fully on-site IT jobs?

I've been looking for a new job as a software developer. The huge majority of job listings I see in my area are hybrid or remote. I just had an introductory phone call with Vizio (which didn't specify the location type in the job listing). The recruiter told me that the job was fully on-site, which I told her was a deal breaker...

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

There’s a psychological stress with work that can take some time to slough off.

Some people don’t want to log out of work and be grumpy or distracted during family time.

That being said having a process or system as a habit to denote work/home is a good alternative.

A 10 minute walk, a change of clothes, or some song you play, anything that creates a mental delineation. So the annoyance from that way too long meeting asking why something isn’t done (4 hours a day giving out status updates isn’t helping) doesn’t come out on the family.

SzethFriendOfNimi , (edited )

Possible something on your motherboard has PCIe lanes that are dedicated to GPU when it’s slotted, otherwise they can be used for other devices?

For example here’s a post about m.2 slots that, when used, affect the PCI on a particular board. May be worth checking your boards manual to see if there’s something similar.

https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/questions-about-a-mb-im-looking-at-asrock-z790-pg-riptide.3787003/

The answer not only seemed a HUGE disappointment, but a bit baffling. The pdf manual says if you occupy that 5th m.2 slot, which is the Gen 5 one, the Pci-E 1 slot is automatically downgraded to 8x. This I thought would be unacceptable if running a behemoth like the RTX 4090 I eventually plan to get, as it requires a lot of power and bandwidth.

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

I’ve used it for releasing an iPad screen adhesive as well as for warming cinnamon rolls so they’ll rise when our oven was in use.

Totally had the food wrapped with Saran Wrap all around and had something between the plate and the glass pan. To make sure nothing that wasn’t safe for food prep didn’t touch it and to stop from “cooking” the bottom by accident.

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

I have free credits I’m not using for fear of forgetting some task and having to foreclose my home to cover the bill.

Who else loves this new SAAS future we’re living in?

SzethFriendOfNimi , 
eval('alert("Yep")')
SzethFriendOfNimi , 
for(i=0;i<100;i++){
    console.log("Yep")
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console.log("uh-huh")
SzethFriendOfNimi ,

That movie was bonkers… and then they made a game inspired by it? That’s…. Weird

What song should I play for my bathroom neighbors?

The work bathroom is currently a warzone, on their phone speakers people like to play music, play games at full blast, and one guy likes to chill to ambient rainforest. What song can I play to passive aggressively make it known that I don't want to listen to their tik tok feeds while I work out my demons?

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

Dude. Everybody needs to relax. Try this next time to get in the proper frame of mind.

Dalek Relaxation Tape

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

Spoiler isn’t working on Memmy client for some reason

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

The only other thing to worry about are mosfets failing in an ON state.

Not sure if it’s the same risk with SSR’s

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

It’s not that they melt as much as they just keep dumping heat into the heater cartridge and wires.

And if failed in an on state thermal runaway isn’t going to stop it.

It’s relatively rare though. I’m not too worried about it but it’s one of the reasons I watch my printer and of course there’s thermal fuses for such occasions if you really needed it.

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

The heater no, but a blob of filament with the heat pumping into it is worrying.

Qualified experts of Lemmy, do people believe you when you answer questions in your field?

The internet has made a lot of people armchair experts happy to offer their perspective with a degree of certainty, without doing the work to identify gaps in their knowledge. Often the mark of genuine expertise is knowing the limitations of your knowledge....

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

Structure and build? Look at the guy using Waterfall instead of Agile development.

Source: Am also software engineer.

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

This is how EA should be used. As a way to iron out issues

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

It’s the Matrix

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

Probably what they’re targeting. Such as sites like safereddit, etc.

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

Exactly. Even for mobile use besides accessing your home resources you can avoid your cellular provider monitoring/hijacking your traffic.

Of course self hosting means you’re still sending that info from your home network over your ISP.

So it’s a trade off there but depending on your ISP vs your cellular network makes sense.

SzethFriendOfNimi , (edited )

Yeah, what about Kaladin in the Stormlight Archive?

…. Nevermind

SzethFriendOfNimi , (edited )

Nice to see Displaced Gamers getting some much deserved attention.

Some great videos of his not only show old unused code but also, in some cases, game genie codes that can be used with cartridges.

The Input Lag and Attack Animation Delay of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES) - Behind the Code

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

I assume they’re past some operational limit. But as long as you have redundancy that’s a risk I’d take for the capacity

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

I will say for ABS this can be mitigated with the following:

  • An enclosure (I use a comgrow grow tent)
  • Not opening the printer enclosure for at least 20 minutes (so the airborne particulates settle down)
  • A replaceable carbon filter (I built a Nevermore duo and bought some activated Charcoal to refill it with)

After doing the above I don’t smell fumes at all. In fact I run the Nevermore even with PLA just to capture any micro particles since the charcoal is easy enough to replace.

Even so, as cool as Resin looks, I’m not having that stuff inside my house with my family. If I did it would have to be in a garage that’s vented but I have a carport and there’s no way I can regulate the environment (temp, humidity) for decent prints. So for now I’m just going with FDM

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

Keeping in mind that may mean that somebody like a cellular provider could do so. Since your local network in that context would be them.

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

Except this bypasses that I believe.

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

Honestly it makes sense if it pushes the batteries out of the optimal (say 40-80%) charge level.

E.g. It wears out the battery faster and so makes them more prone to fail faster.

But if, and only if, you’re getting an extension on the warranty where Tesla is eating the cost of the replacements.

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

Basically and then that only makes sense if the company’s going to foot the bill. Otherwise they could just make it very very clear that by using extended mode they’re reducing the lifetime of the battery and doing so at their own risk, yadda yadda.

If it’s, as the article suggests, to use what’s already there (larger capacity) then nah. That’s slimy just like BMW.

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

At least in the space odyssey series they had a weird kind of explanation for that approach. Unlike in Independence Day

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

Oh yeah. That makes sense

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

Star Trek maybe?

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

Right. Fingerprint is something you are. Can’t be changed. Same for any biometric.

Useful as one part of a multiple factor authentication scheme at best but never on its own. Not to mention there are cases in the US where you can be compelled, forcibly if needed, to unlock a phone. But compelling you to “say” what your password may be covered under fifth amendment protections.

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

As odd as it sounds, as long as you can feed enough filament into the melt zone faster than it can come out the nozzle you can make larger widths and heights than the actual filament width itself. It’s technically just packing it in.

I can only imagine how hard it had to be to tune the retraction though

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

Extrusion is a mix of temperature, feed rate, speed and pressure.

Basically the hotend temp could be high enough that the plastic melts but it still “pushes” just fast enough to build pressure to drive it. Not too much, otherwise the filament grinds and extruder skips, but at the right amount you can keep up with the feed.

The nozzle, lifted up a bit, moves slow enough that the filament comes out and spreads out from the pressure pushing on it. Making the line wide and tall.

The dance is keeping those in sync. Move too fast and the lines are thin, too slow and they’re too wide.

Nozzle too high and it doesn’t blend into the layer below as much as sit on top. Too low and the extra pressure pushes the filament around and it curls back up onto the nozzle.

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

A little but nothing too fancy. Probably just make it hard to get consistent line widths.

Closest analogy is a hot glue gun. Unless you’re lifting up as you extrude to make a “dab” it’s just going to smear as it moves sideways

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

How’s the printer doing? Has the Gremlin moved out yet?

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

Ahh. Maybe some internal resistor was causing noise on the pin… or even the MCU.

Like trying to debug a pc issue only to find out it’s a faulty motherboard

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

Wiring from the PSU to the board?

Or any kind of backfeed on the motors like when you move them by hand quickly? Which I’ve done and not, so far, fried anything but it can.

Man… Gremlins suck.

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

And at that point it’s probably time to get a new thermistor and cartridge anyway

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

I just meant that they are generally wear/replace items so it’s easy to replace them and relatively cheap to do it.

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