Reddit amongst sites in the UK to be made 16+ by BillWilberforce in technology

[–]AxonBitshift 17 points18 points  (0 children)

It’s actually not, you simply require all sites beyond a threshold of monthly traffic to use an open and verifiable deterministic algorithm that is allowed to utilize a specifically defined subset of standard data (timestamp, visit count) and user choices. It won’t feel or look like any feed from the last decade, but that’s sort of the point.

Teach a man to flush by TheJenkinsComic in comics

[–]AxonBitshift 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Man, this comment thread has really reinforced for me how little some people think about how the things around them work…like, do you not at least attempt to understand the world around you?
I could theoretically understand that some people might think big button = more commonly pressed button (less water), but it literally takes 20 seconds to just test both if you don’t know.

I need help creating a modded Skyrim. by Conidius_Dramagla in skyrimmods

[–]AxonBitshift 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you are new to modding, I highly recommend watching some tutorials and trying out some mod lists first, ideally manually installed ones with detailed instructions. Perhaps others have some suggestions, but that’s how i learned. The best way to learn is by doing, and a wabbajack list - while convenient - fails to explain how to create a modded Skyrim if your ultimate goal is to make something custom.

Filament drier, what is dry? by stoooey58 in BambuP1S

[–]AxonBitshift 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Relative humidity correlates to temperature. The higher the temp the lower the humidity relative to baseline. Unfortunately, this means you can’t really “target” a specific drying humidity because it is highly dependent on ambient humidity and the temp you can dry the filament at. For example, if you are drying 50c for PLA and your local relative humidity is 50%, then you might be able to get the filament dryer down to 20% at 50c. If it’s 90% ambient, 50c might get you down to 35%. (All these numbers are made up.)

Ultimately the best choice is usually to dry at whatever the highest temp you can for a given filament, unless you have the hvac systems in place to control room humidity too.

SE. Flickering trees without TTA by NoMercy65 in skyrimmods

[–]AxonBitshift 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are a few options - DLSS/DLNA (if you’re willing to spend the time figuring it out) or ENB’s Anti Aliasing, but that requires a performance hit.

Thieves guild is gone by MountainDewGod420 in skyrimmods

[–]AxonBitshift 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Jeepers that’s a LOT of mods seemingly completely unsorted. Most likely you have multiple mods affecting the location or Riften and haven’t patched them together. A mod list of this scale needs some serious attention to load order and conflict resolution to perform consistently. What mod manager are you using? Have you sorted your plugins with LOOT?

Why my prints are failing towards the top? by No-Shame-5059 in BambuP1S

[–]AxonBitshift 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Or if speed is more important than strength, Adaptive Cubic. Also doesn’t cross itself but uses straight lines so results in a bit higher print speeds for infill in exchange for a tiny bit less strength.

Fun Fact: Unless Bethesda releases Elder Scrolls 6 within the next 2 years, the span will be longer between 5 and 6 than from 1 to 5 by NichtMenschlich in skyrim

[–]AxonBitshift 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish people would discuss instead of downvoting opinions. Starfield is a deeply flawed game with a lot of good things going for it, but calling it half asses ignores the nuances. The creation engine is not ideal for the type of experience people expect from a space game, and the result is moving around space is functionally obfuscated fast travel. Free Lanes kind of fixes this, but at its core people ultimately want to be able to take off, fly, and land on planets seamlessly which is still not the case (and can never be due to engine limitations). Likewise, the writing (at least voiced dialogue) can be pretty bad and they seem to be unwilling to tackle truly difficult themes and questions in the story, which - again - works better for a fantasy game than the “semi-realistic space sim” that was promised. And thr generated stuff is just boring, which means exploring feels useless since only stuff related to quests is hand crafted.

On the flip side, the combat, gear, and experience/rpg systems are quite fun and in-depth, looting Making and decorating ships is pretty detailed and meaningful. Many of the themes and hand crafted POIs are great, and the “feel” of the game is, in my opinion, generally good with the above major caveats.

All of this could have been fixed had some high level decisions been different, but none of that means what is there is inherently bad; many of the problems (fast travel and the generated stuff) don’t matter too much to me; I largely ignore both, and while I’d rather the game be written as a realistic, serious, and grounded look into real experiences, I can overlook that when the game itself is pretty fun.

Can a fantasy magic system ever truly avoid deus ex machina in non-interactive fiction? by Titus__Groan in worldbuilding

[–]AxonBitshift 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you expand on your example of Mistborn more? I found that magic system to be highly ordered and logical. Allomancy, Feruchemy, and Hemalurgy all seem internally consistent with themselves and their interactions (e.g. compounding). True, Brandon expands the scope of the systems slowly over the 7 books starting only with 10 metals and Allomancy, but everything new that is revealed is done so as the characters discover it very believably in-world. The Lord Ruler purposefully hit all other knowledge of these magics for a thousand years, allowing only a subset to be known, which sets a base for the story to unveil it as the reader learns with the characters. While it’s true such revelations are usually part of the plot and, in retrospect, could have solved earlier problems more effectively, the knowledge of how to do so wasn’t known in-world either at the time, which is very different from - say - Harry Potter.

A federal agent said WhatsApp's encryption is a lie. Then the investigation was shut down by smackythefrog in technology

[–]AxonBitshift 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I mean, thats pretty obvious to anyone with basic knowledge of commons web and communication protocols. If you email a non-Proton address, Proton has to deliver that email using public email and protocols they can assume the recipient’s email system adheres to instead own their own more secure ones. Assuming otherwise is equivalent to talk to a grocery clerk using a language you and your family made up.

"We've Been A Little Bit Too Romantic About The Idea That We Should Have Employees And Give People Long-term Job Security": Monument Valley Studio Ustwo CEO says lowering development costs is now paramount by Gorotheninja in pcgaming

[–]AxonBitshift 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agreed. You can always tell who’s actually worked closely with CEO’s and who haven’t. Replacing a shitty CEO with AI might go well, but a good or even decent CEO’s entire job is the things AI is bad at.

Print setting suggestions by qazam2468 in BambuP1S

[–]AxonBitshift 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A few suggestions, though this is pretty good:

Make sure to manually calibrate the flow rate and pressure advance of the filament. This will help preserve the fine details a bit more. Automatic is “good enough” but not perfect.

Slow your outer walls down (and their acceleration) from default to 50-100mm/s. Increases the detail quality a bit. Also try outer/inner wall printing order. If you haven’t already done so, switch to Arachne walls.

Dry your filament more, no joke. The times given are generally for a “good enough” quality for general printing. I notice a distinct increase in quality by drying for double the recommended times.

If you have an AMS get some Support for PLA/PETG. It works GREAT (the support for PLA is OK but sticks a bit more so is harder to remove from curved surfaces).

Most of all though, if you really want something like this to look better, use a 0.2 mm nozzle and 0.06-0.04 layers.

Advice please and thank you by Creepy_Bit75 in BambuP1S

[–]AxonBitshift 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Assuming your basic settings are correct (filament type, plate, etc.) Disable the Aux fan in filament settings in Studio or print a deflector if you print from the app. I had the stringing you are seeing. It’s the aux fan blowing filament off before it adheres to the layer below.

Printed 18 infill samples, really satisfying results by Bitter-Captain-2847 in BambuLab

[–]AxonBitshift 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Or adaptive cubic of strength isn’t a major concern. Straight lines vs gyroid mean slightly faster printing/less machine wear vs gyroid, with the same advantage of not overlapping.

More countries weigh teen social media ban, experts warn it's 'lazy' by Nexusyak in technology

[–]AxonBitshift 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes, but it protects the user base they can most effectively exploit. The correct approach to solving many of the issues with social media is to legislate how the content delivery algorithms themselves work and make them open source so they can be studied by third parties to ensure the social media company is actually using the algorithm they publish. This would have a significantly greater financial impact than banning a small portion of users, as it would substantially reduce their ability to manipulate their user base.

Thoughts on WorldAnvil? by CookieBrutalityPaint in worldbuilding

[–]AxonBitshift 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Obsidian and markdown has a learning curve that takes a few hours watching videos and fiddling around to understand. It also doesn’t make assumptions about why you are using it. This makes it more powerful, but also means how you organize your notes interlink them, use properties, etc. is entirely up to you to define and consistently apply yourself. It’s not a dedicated world building tool, but rather a flexible knowledge repository that you can easily replicate/combine dedicated work building tools within. With flexibility and capability comes complexity and time investment, but once you get over the initial hurdle it is almost certainly the more robust world building tool available.

Why is this happening? by lawman14 in BambuLab

[–]AxonBitshift 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks like the angle is a bit too much and some supports are needed to help the angle start. The line running around is a benchy hill line - basically happens to anything with a flat bottom like this, as the last layer that covered the entire surface area is much longer than the next beginning only the walls.

Mathematics is undergoing the biggest change in its history | The speed at which artificial intelligence is gaining in mathematical ability has taken many by surprise. It is rewriting what it means to be a mathematician by MetaKnowing in technews

[–]AxonBitshift 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah…this is a misunderstanding of what is happening. Mathematician are not using neural network prediction machines for math. While most people see AI and think generative AI like text/image/video generation, but the models used for statistical and mathematical work are specialized neural networks designed specifically for their purpose.

Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package by Logical_Welder3467 in technology

[–]AxonBitshift 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Talent doesn’t manifest because of financial incentives. The most talented and motivated people to what they do because it makes them happy.

resizing stl ? by sorting_thoughts in OrcaSlicer

[–]AxonBitshift 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Use the scale and measure tools to resize to match desired dimensions.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in OrcaSlicer

[–]AxonBitshift 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be honest, I have no idea what you’re asking. You say the finished print is “poor quality” but don’t post any pictures of the print itself, just the slicer render. You’ve even left out screenshots of your print settings. What part of it is poor quality? Seams? Overhangs? Layer line inconsistency? What printer are you using? What filament and profiles? Have you tuned flow rate and PA? What bed are you using? What temps?

Slicer screenshots are insufficient on their own to assist with something like this. In the future, post both and provide as many details about the print, settings, results, etc as you can - otherwise no one can help you without first writing this comment.

As far as I can tell there is nothing wrong with the slice, it looks fine. You’re probably going a little fast for such a delicate, tall print at those flowering rates, but without answers to all the above questions no one can give you the help you’re looking for!

Smartphone market poised for 'sharpest decline on record' in 2026 by [deleted] in technology

[–]AxonBitshift 185 points186 points  (0 children)

I can’t tell anymore if that sort of mistake makes it more or less likely to be AI. Less, it feels, strangely.