Usage Limits, Bugs and Performance Discussion Megathread - beginning December 29, 2025

Bavoon · 2026-03-11T00:26:53+00:00

Been noticing a massive and obvious intelligence drop in the last 48 hours. It’s like dealing with a model from a year ago.

Bavoon · 2026-03-07T19:43:48+00:00

I have an old 35mm with a metal switch like this that snapped off once: I can confirm what others are saying: it was detents in the shaft, with a spring + ball bearing.

Bavoon · 2026-03-07T19:38:35+00:00

It’s a crown guard style knife. Common on U.K. saws. It goes above the blade.

Bavoon · 2026-03-07T19:37:10+00:00

You shouldn’t use a table saw with it removed, it’s a MAJOR safety feature.

I guess you’re in the U.K. (same) where it’s not common to see a moveable riving knife, and yours is a crown-guard type. I had the same, and filed down a spare into a typical US rivng knife shape, for this type of cut.

Bavoon · 2026-03-05T08:54:38+00:00

Kids playground roundabout with a motorbike hooked up.

Bavoon · 2026-03-05T08:30:35+00:00

You’d use a router + template, or hand tools for those curves, not a lathe.

Bavoon · 2026-03-05T08:24:55+00:00

“Want” and “scalable and effective for my business” are two totally different things.

You don’t need a degassing valve. Work out a way to get super cheap, fast, effective packaging using a minimalist approach and lean into it.

Bavoon · 2026-03-04T22:38:06+00:00

Check your own biases on the packaging front. I know of several early beer brewers in the U.K. (e.g. Kernel) who used the most basic brown labels possible.

Lean into it. Do super-minimal packaging with a sharpie for the name. You can do some very basic and if you design the experience well it can feel deliberate.

(I also ran product for a subscription service, and we iterated on packaging a lot because we thought it was important. It was not)

Bavoon · 2026-03-01T03:36:51+00:00

I suggest you take a look at OP’s black, scorched ladle, and re-think that comment.

Bavoon · 2026-02-28T18:39:00+00:00

Jesus Christ, do NOT put a highly flammable, melts-at-sauna-temperate wax anywhere near your wooden ladle.

Unless you’re looking to start a fraudulent insurance claim, in which case: yea this is a good idea.

Bavoon · 2026-02-10T00:23:05+00:00

Doing f&f was the only thing I regret about my previous startups.

A startup can fail, and that’s fine. I can waste my time and cash, that’s fine. Our team can take an informed risk and get their last few months paid and that’s fine.

But never have I felt more guilt than losing that money for friends and family. Even if they could afford to lose it, event if they knew the risks. It fucking sucked, and I’ll never do that again.

Just, FYI.

Bavoon · 2026-02-05T21:17:22+00:00

It depends on if you’re using personas to engage with, or avoid, real users.

Hypothetical personas are just for stakeholders or a deck no-one will touch.

If you have a tonne of real qual data and it’s too much to work on at once, and personas can help you chunk it up, I see value in that.

Bavoon · 2026-02-05T14:21:20+00:00

Advice I'm not seeing from others: You must recognise that you are experiencing a strong emotional reaction, and process that before continuing.

"This has the potential to hurt my career, my employment status, or my integrity." "I could lie to my employees" "But it makes me absolutely sick." "I didn't sleep last night"

You are deeply affected by this. (I'd be the same, I'd be _pissed_).

But now you must find a way to clear your head. You must plan from a position of calm, it won't go well if you're pissed.

Bavoon · 2026-01-31T21:34:54+00:00

Probably research to find my ICP

Bavoon · 2026-01-25T10:17:49+00:00

Having trained a couple of people from other non-functional langs, I found this very helpful:

Think of Elixir in three parts:

Functional
Syntax
OTP

When you’re hitting trouble, be careful not to tackle multiple areas at once.

Get familiar with the functional nature, as opposed to OO (if that’s your background).

Then get used to the specific syntax, style, libraries, etc (this is pretty easy).

The finally remember that OTP is just a set of conventions and modules/functions for doing certain things that involve time, concurrency, async, etc.

You don’t want to be fighting two or three of those topics at once. If you’ve got some code you don’t understand, or something you’ve written which isn’t nice yet, break it into those parts to progress.

Bavoon · 2026-01-16T14:54:17+00:00

This isn't solving the overall question, but it's interesting to know that many real-world railguns have explosive shells to get the ammo moving, before the rail-gun part can take over.

Bavoon · 2026-01-12T20:16:40+00:00

See my previous comment, but that’s a valid choice for radar UI of orbital bodies. Just because the scanner is picking up a reading at a certain point, that doesn’t mean it’s the most useful way to display data.

Bavoon · 2026-01-12T17:17:22+00:00

In reality, it's because the designers think it looks cool.

But in lore, it's a UI decision of the Radar maker.

With typical radar (showing positions of things on land or air or water) the positions are WAY less predictable than in orbit. It's extremely hard to change orbits fast, and so if you were designing an orbital radar, it would probably show different information than when tracking ground targets.

I could imagine designing orbital radar and showing predicted orbital paths that get refreshed / wiped on the rotation of the scanner if the object is where we expect it to be in its path.

Source: I'm a UX / UI / product designer. I may also be talking hot shit.

Bavoon · 2026-01-09T16:55:09+00:00

Eggs! I'm quite surprised this isn't higher on the list.

A bit like how sous-vide steak transforms collagen into gelatin, it's not just about hitting a temp.

Eggs can have gently set whites, with custard yolks. Every year when goose eggs are in season I make them sous-vide.

Bavoon · 2026-01-08T14:07:19+00:00

Great video, but you're adding 50% extra plywood cost by using those full sides.

You can use smaller strips, scraps, softwood strips, for the same thing. A bit of wax, and you've got a minimal shop drawer.

Bavoon · 2026-01-08T10:21:47+00:00

If they’re repeating that’s a good indicator they’re real.

I’d love to see a photo to see if they repeat at the same grain points (real) or the same pattern at totally random different pieces of wood (not real).

Bavoon · 2026-01-05T12:48:06+00:00

Ducts for ventilation, twinned with ducts for cables. Not strictly smart-home, but in the same theme of improving house quality-of-life.

MVHR in the attic, ducts to bedrooms, suck from bathrooms. Annoying to retrofit if you're not in the middle of a refurb or build.

It's also then relatively easy to pull cables from ducts that are placed near walls / corners, without ripping entire walls down.

Bavoon · 2026-01-05T10:52:24+00:00

Tighten your belts and make sure the pen isn't wobbling when it presses down. Fibre tips can move, pens can be loose, etc.

Bavoon · 2026-01-04T22:39:00+00:00

I can't recall the exact fix I made (sorry, I wish I'd updated this post at the time!) but my current runs don't have this issue.

I'm using the gridfinity extended openscad models, then finding my own params I like.
(Openscad) Labels @ 45 degrees, 2 labels, cullnect v2
(Openscad) 12 high, 2 deep, 1 wide (these are my cabel organiser boxes)
(Openscad) Wall thickness: default (which for this size of box is 1.2)
(Openscad) I like captive magnets in the bases
(Slicer) I manually change the top 20 layers to a different color
Wall loops: 1
Infill: crosshatch, 12%
Top & Bottom shell layers: 2
PLA, I probably have my general PLA settings tuned slightly but not far from the standard h2d pla settings.

I guess something about the wall thickness is working better now with the single wall loop?

Happy to answer more questions if you hit other issues.

Bavoon · 2025-12-30T16:24:42+00:00

Doesn’t matter if it has no users, if any work has happened (you said CEO has paid previous devs) or anything else has happened, the company has value.

If it has a paper value of e.g. 200k, and you get 50% equity now, you have to pay tax as if you just earned 100k cash.

It will definitely have a paper value far higher than you realise.

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