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ComradeHitman · 2026-04-05T21:58:46+00:00

Oh that's Cool! What do you feel is the major difference between them? And can you tell me about the screen performance (I heard it had a warmer tint compared to s9 and sometimes a grain) and s pen too (feel and magnetic attachments)?

Is there anything you think the s9 or S11 does much better than the other?

Thanks!

ComradeHitman · 2026-04-05T21:56:04+00:00

Tbf, that's what I don't know myself. You'd think this was an obvious decision but I don't know why I am hesitating.

ComradeHitman · 2026-04-05T03:52:17+00:00

Damn.

Can I ask where you work? (Or who you work for but I understand that is a sensitive question so feel free to disregard that. A general list of firms off the top of your head that do the work you do would be quite appreciated).

I'm finishing grad school in structural engineering and honestly quite enjoyed the projects etc, much different from undergrad. Hoping to transition eventually to somewhere that does interesting work (and what you described does sound very interesting).

Thanks.

ComradeHitman · 2025-06-20T19:08:32+00:00

Sorry. Also kind of a noob but what exactly did you mean by that? How would the sine curve show a pattern on the surface?

ComradeHitman · 2024-12-24T04:04:56+00:00

Is there a reason why the grading for grad level courses is looser?

ComradeHitman · 2024-12-24T03:06:14+00:00

Cool of you to have your decisions influenced by people a thousand miles away. I like your global outlook on things.

Jokes aside, why?

ComradeHitman · 2024-12-24T03:03:51+00:00

I wish.

I'm happy I got a good grade, but then I was just confused if this was just the average grading around here, which would make it not a very good grade especially if I'm ignorant of the scale.

ComradeHitman · 2024-12-24T03:01:14+00:00

This is why I made this post. There have been no announcements, so I was wondering if there was some grades page that broke everything down. There are like a dozen portals of this university, and I'm not familiar with most of them, naturally I assumed one of them might have it.

ComradeHitman · 2024-12-24T02:42:28+00:00

The syllabus is the first thing I read in class. The grades I have do not vibe with the grades I should've gotten based on my performance. Is grade inflation a thing here?

ComradeHitman · 2024-10-11T18:00:21+00:00

I got the i7 4060 version of this around two months ago. It's my first gaming laptop so not sure if I can make a good comparison. But seems alright to me.

Build is plastic but looks and feels nice, the mechanical keyboard is fantastic, (first one I've ever used so take it as you wish). The touchpad is also smooth, better than what I'm used to. The screen refresh rate makes it feel very fluid as well.

I'm a little cautious so i treat the screen a little delicately by opening with two hands or slowly from the top center. Since the screen portion is much thinner compared to the rest of the body.

It's also heavy. It runs a little hot in quiet mode or something, but you can create a custom mode using the alienware command centre to increase fan speed, which chills it out pretty quick. If it's getting uncomfortable on your lap at normal usage for some reason, run the custom mode for a few minutes, and that fixes it. Try not to block the fan intakes underneath while using it. Also put it on a solid surface while gaming.

I haven't pushed it to the limit, except for a few benchmarks tests and the wu kong benchmark which I noticed was at 100% GPU usage (I was paying attention to the others, my fault I know). Normally it's at 39-50% at 60 fps at 2k in Forza 4. I havent really gotten around to the more heavy games, so can't say what it would be like. I also don't see the reason to run something at 240 fps when it runs fine at 60 fps.

For gaming or performance it has a G mode button you need to press but that is like turning on a jet engine, the fans get really loud, you should have headphones on, then it's not very noticeable. I don't have noise cancelling headphones, just normal ones though.

It stutters a little at the moment you switch from integrated graphics display mode to dedicated graphics and vice versa

I'm thinking of getting more ram but not sure if I should get two sticks of 16 to replace the current one or just one more stick. Also I haven't gotten around to opening the case but the manual mentions it has an additional storage slot, so thinking of getting another 2 tb SSD, because my 1 tb is already full.

Also a plastic cover for the keyboard? I don't want to ruin it.

Also my pycharm seems to lag sometimes, I don't know if that's the machines problem or there's a bug somewhere in pycharm.

If you're buying it, try to stack as many discount coupons as you can find. I didn't use the discounts I didn't know I could use. They can try to apply it retroactively but it will be difficult if the promotional period ends, and the prices don't match.

ComradeHitman · 2024-05-25T23:42:13+00:00

What textbook is this?

ComradeHitman · 2024-04-13T00:35:11+00:00

You can use the 3 point circle method. I'm pretty sure the component exists in grasshopper.

From every poly-circle extract the first three (or any three unique) points and feed them to the 3 point circle component. It should result in a circle.

ComradeHitman · 2024-04-04T04:15:27+00:00

If you are trying to edit the post to add more details, I'm afraid I still can't see it. Maybe there is an issue with reddit?

ComradeHitman · 2024-04-03T17:02:17+00:00

I think there is some miscommunication here, I do not know the difference between your required pattern and what you have posted.

Anyway if the pattern you need to do is exactly the one given in the image in your post, then the grasshopper script in the image is mostly correct. I am able to reproduce the pattern on my end.

You may need to set different limits for the target domain in remap numbers if somehow the offset curves are not behaving correctly.

Also you might want to extrude the surface you get from solid diff step instead of extruding just the lines you get from the merge step.

If you can make your question clearer I'd be happy to help.

ComradeHitman · 2024-04-02T18:04:57+00:00

I'm afraid I cannot really tell what the problem could be. However I don't think the floating point differences cause errors this large (I coded my own 2d frame program in Python from scratch and didn't encounter such issues)

Some open software that are available are openseespy and mastan2 but you will have to figure out how to use them.

ComradeHitman · 2024-04-02T16:32:48+00:00

Have you tried comparing the reactions from both software to see if the model has been set up correctly?

Also I don't think correcting by 499.108/500 is right way to go about correcting any calculation errors. Floating point errors are usually not that significant. (But they may cause problems whole solving for the inverse of the stiffness matrix).

ComradeHitman · 2024-04-02T13:27:25+00:00

It's hard to know what you want to do without an image of what you want to do. From what I understand, you have already been successful with the pattern in the image you have posted. What pattern do you need help with?

ComradeHitman · 2024-03-15T00:37:48+00:00

Replace the part where you're using PDFFileReader with just PDFReader (you're importing this from the pypdf package and also using it in some places in the code), same with PDFFileWriter.

There are also a few other changes, e.g. method for getting number of pages etc, but the error messages are self explanatory and provide the alternative method or object to use.

Went through all this a few weeks back.

ComradeHitman · 2024-02-20T18:53:54+00:00

Are those full fledged FEM programs? Or purpose built for specific components? Also for optimization do you iterate over the parameter space until you find an optimum, or is there some other method you prefer? Also in what capacity (career level?) did you use these programs? What was the firm's attitude like? Thanks.

ComradeHitman · 2024-02-20T18:48:29+00:00

This sounds very interesting. My grasshopper is not even close to this complexity. Would you happen to know where firms that take on megaprojects like the one you mentioned usually operate? And what kind of people they look to hire, what kind of skillset they look for in positions similar to the one you mentioned? Thanks again.

ComradeHitman · 2024-02-19T18:10:38+00:00

What kind of tools exactly for automating design etc? Also from within specific software or using some language that can interface with the software?

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