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- Comment on Wanted: Printed Mug Handle 21 hours ago:
Superglue works extremely well on coffee mugs. I have one that’s got the handle held back on with superglue and it’s been that way for probably close to a decade at this point.
- Comment on What's causing this? 21 hours ago:
Unless you’ve deliberately reversed your walls/infill printing order, the default is to print walls first. Your print head and nozzle won’t have any reason to leave the perimeter of the model even if you’re printing multiple examples of the part until the entire layer is complete on one of them. It will move to the next part in the array only after finishing the infill, which is well after your problem may have occurred on either the inner or outer perimeters.
I’m not sure what you’re on about with top fill. I didn’t say anything about your fill pattern or percentage.
- Comment on What's causing this? 1 day ago:
Your nozzle won’t travel anywhere outside of your model’s outer perimeter because it has no reason to (unless your g-code is super borked, see my comment about your slicer above) but it will be dancing around within the space between the outer perimeter and center of your model many hundreds of times. Any extrusions pulled off on the outer perimeter would stay somewhere within the model.
- Comment on What's causing this? 1 day ago:
Those sections of extrusion are being pulled away from the print as the nozzle moves, because for whatever reason they are not adhering to the rest of the print properly.
Increase print temperature, reduce print speed, or reduce travel move speeds.
Also a sanity check, look at your slicer’s output preview and ensure nothing about that model is causing it to freak out and attempt to print in midair…
- Comment on Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you 2 days ago:
Do you drive around with no license plate on your car, too?
- Comment on Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you 3 days ago:
That only lists 18 states…
My own state requires it despite that list implying they don’t. Thus I really don’t think that chart is completely accurate. If you have ANY warning lights on your dash at inspection you will be failed here.
- Comment on Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you 3 days ago:
By “aren’t hard to remove” you actually mean requires dismounting the tire from the rim, remounting it, and then balacing it. This is far beyond the capabilities not to mention equipment of the typical layperson. Plus, your state is likely to conveniently fail your car on its next inspection for a nonfunctioning TPMS system, same as your check engine light.
If you’re going to go the distance anyway, get your tire shop to mount aftermarket Autel sensors in your rims. Using the readily available diagnostic tool, you can occasionally reprogram those (wirelessly!) with a set of random IDs and then also program your car to use them. You’ll be a lot tougher to track if your signature is different every week.
I’m not about to do this just yet, but I do have the tool for more mundane purposes and I only paid around $200 for it several years ago.
- Comment on Administrative task management 6 days ago:
There’s a friggin’ drop shadow on her arm and the gun as if somebody made this in Microsoft Word. The shadow falling across the corner of the computer tower wouldn’t line up with the part on the wall and bookshelf like that, not to mention the edge of the door frame.
- Comment on Administrative task management 6 days ago:
With the jank-ass safety lever and the top grip screw in the wrong place?
Don’t worry, I have a worse one you can look at. Here you go.
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 6 days ago:
When computers were just a teletype attached to a mainframe?
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 6 days ago:
Only if you want to have the black and green version of Toy instead of the white and blue version, at this rate. Barring a handfull of exclusives everything gets released on PS5 and Xbox now and maybr also a watered down port on the Switch/2. The current Xbox and Playstation are so architecturally similar to each other that they may as well be the same machine with the only difference being which asshole is at the helm, and for either of them you may as well have a PC.
- Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 1 week ago:
Random aside to rant about consumer OCR.
Recently for my work I had to do some OCR stuff to get some numbers out of a document that the vendor in their infinite wisdom refused to provide in an editable/selectable form. I.e. they just slapped a .jpeg onto a page and saved it as a .pdf. (This is a separate thing that infuriates me.)
Anyway, what I’m actually here to complain about is the baffling phenomenon that every single piece of OCR software I tried ranging from open source to trials of commercial programs, to the thingy that came with one of our all-in-one printer/scanners, and everything in between is that it’s somehow still exactly as crap as the lousy OCR programs we were all struggling with in the late '90s.
I have absolutely no idea how this particular facet of technology in particular has utterly and categorically failed to make any forward progress whatsoever in literal decades. I’ve personally worked on machine vision driven pick-and-place machines capable of accurately determining the orientation of densely printed cosmetics tubes, among other items, and placing them all face up in a box several times per second. Yet somehow the latest and greatest OCR transcription algorithms still can’t tell a 5 from a 6 or ye gods forbid an S, or an L from a J, or an M from a collection of back and forward slashes, all despite being handed crisp high contrast seriffed text that’s at least 60 pixels high.
Given the incredibly low bar for performance here given that apparently every single programmer involved just walked away circa about 2001, I can’t imagine that the current slop generation machines fare any better…
- Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 1 week ago:
You don’t have to read the release notes. It literally puts it front and center in your face the first time you launch it after this update is applied.
- Comment on Shit would be pretty sick 1 week ago:
Way ahead of you, chief.
- Comment on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. 1 week ago:
What you described as impossible to find is how basically every security DVR system has worked for decades. I have two Lorex branded boxes at work and a Night Owl one at home, and neither of them require anyone’s “cloud.”
They’re remotely accessible via your browser or a smartphone app although, yes, you do need to know your public facing IP address and poke the appropriate hole in your firewall for it.
- Comment on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. 1 week ago:
Every X seconds is pretty generous. My Subaru only seems to poll the sensors every few minutes, and only when the wheel speed is above 35 MPH or so, at least via what I’ve observed with my diagnostic tool. The sensors are battery powered and I suspect the low refresh rate is a deliberate gambit to conserve battery life.
You are correct on the ID point, though. They can contain up to 16 hexidecimal digits as far as I’ve seen, and while there doesn’t seem to be any mechanism for truly enforcing uniqueness the chances of an ID collision are so low that you may as well consider it impossible. Some aftermarket sensors can be wirelessly reprogrammed with an arbitrary ID, though, which may be of marginal utility for the truly paranoid. (My diagnostic tool can do this, too. The intended use case is cloning the ID from an OEM sensor for a car whose TPMS relearn procedure is more trouble than it’s worth.)
Regardless of your vehicle’s polling frequency, most sensors can be woken up any time by a specific radio pulse, which my diagnostic tool can also do, and the range is surprisingly long. Just my car’s own BMS where the receiver is (above the rear left wheel well) can pick up the sensors in my snow tire rims even when said rims are sitting in their storage rack inside my garage, about three car lengths away.
- Comment on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. 1 week ago:
Some of them certainly are. You can also get air rifles with built in “moderators” (i.e. suppressors) that are surprisingly quiet. Precharged pneumatic air rifles can be very powerful and also extremely accurate. I have a relatively cheap Hatsan that can, provided I’m using pellets that it likes, repeatably put pellets through the same hole in my target from as far away as I can get from it in my yard (probably about 20 yards) and do so about 30 times in succession before I have to pump it back up again. Its built in moderator makes it quiet enough at the muzzle that the sound of the hammer hitting the gas valve is actually louder than the report from firing.
Watch out: Researching this type of thing may send you tumbling down the rabbit hole of big bore air rifles and entice you to spend a lot of money. Don’t say I didn’t warn you…
- Comment on My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace. 1 week ago:
It’s easy: The input side is the high voltage socket, and the output side is an abyssal cable squid nightmare that sprays out into 128 individual male type C plugs, each on the end of about a 6" long pigtail. By the time you’re done plugging all of them in, your vehicle is charged.
- Comment on My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace. 1 week ago:
Oh, there are vanishingly few hardware vendors I hate with a greater burning passion than Sony. Over the span of literal decades, Sony has consistently and systematically found so many ways to piss me off that I will never give them another red cent so long as I live. I will happily pay slightly more money for a slightly inferior version of whatever gadget rather than deal with Sony’s bullshit.
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 2 weeks ago:
So in other words, what else is new?
The danger if this passes isn’t that someone will be able to successfully implement some manner of system for identifying gun parts which will, apparently, rely on pixie dust and magic. In reality this will effectively prohibit 3D printer sales in California entirely because compliance is literally impossible. And it’ll and give overreaching cops and prosecutors yet another nonsense charge they can arbitrarily slap people with over “circumventing” this mystical technology which does not in fact exist if they, ye gods forbid, build their own printer.
It’s the same horseshit rationale as the spent casing “microstamping” fantasy that legislators have been salivating about for decades. It doesn’t work, it’ll never work, but that’s not going to stop them from wishing it does and therefore turning it into a defacto ban.
Keep in mind, California also has the precedent of their infamous approved handguns list, which notoriously does things like arbitrarily declaring that the black version of some model of gun is legal, but possession of the stainless version of the exact same gun is a felony. We’re not dealing with people in possession of any type of rationality, here.
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 2 weeks ago:
Prusa or Qidi. Avoid Bambu.
- Comment on Games you fell out of love with. 2 weeks ago:
How many other games from 2011 just got re-re-re-released on the Switch 2 for a full $60, though?
- Comment on New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles 3 weeks ago:
Poorly. According to a random Wikipedia query, commodity lithium ion is 250 Wh per kilogram. So this is around 20% of that, according to the above.
“Excellent” may be in comparison to other byzantine specialty battery chemistries, but lithium ion remains resolutely enthroned.
- Comment on My only response to Discord 3 weeks ago:
As any night club bouncer or liquor store clerk knows, ZIP code 12345 actually resolves to Schenectady, New York.
- Comment on PROTIP 3 weeks ago:
I carried my Schrade Switch-It every day in the little seam pocket of my carpenter’s jeans (as was the style at the time) and the only flak I ever caught for it was one day the principal spotting it and telling me he didn’t want to see me with my “pager” at school anymore.
I told him he had my scout’s honor that he would never see me with a pager so long as a lived. Yes, this sailed right over his head. I still didn’t get into trouble, though, which is surprising given the sheer variety of other stupid and highly spurious things that somehow got me in trouble in school.
- Comment on PROTIP 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on What to do with a roll of unprintable filament 3 weeks ago:
Filament hinges. Filament hinges everywhere.
- Comment on All fight no flight 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think I’ve ever been in a meme before.
- Comment on People don't really know their own motivation for their actions 3 weeks ago:
The most succinct summation of this I’ve seen is a turn of phrase once again lifted from Daniel Rutter:
You are not your brain. You are something that your brain does.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 3 weeks ago:
Not until somebody shuts off the investor money faucet for AI. Then they’ll come crawling back — although inevitably not until after they go whining to all the world’s governments about wanting a bailout.
But hey, look at the bright side. We’ve already had the cryptocurrency mining boom and bust, and “AI” boom and soon to be bust. There’s still time for some idiot to invent the next tech scam fad which will conveniently require a shitload of hardware for no recognizably useful purpose.
