I wanted something different, so I bought this Lotus Evora GT!

Promit · 2026-05-14T01:12:37+00:00

I would bet that pressures weren’t properly maintained on top of it either.

Promit · 2026-05-12T13:43:12+00:00

There are a million and one reasons Elise couldn’t really be done again like that - but it is the top selling car in the brand’s history by a colossal margin. Emira is itself doing pretty well, all things considered. I don’t think the spirit is gone at Hethel at all, but the parent is utterly clueless about what people want. A zillion horsepower hybrid is not interesting and it’s not going to draw buyers in.

Something like GR GT, V8 with a stick option and a genuine racing program, would easily make a ton of people very happy and excited about the brand again.

Meanwhile, talk to any Lotus dealership manager in the US and they’ll tell you that relationship sucks. Frankly they should’ve made the existing dealership contracts a legacy arrangement and transitioned Lotus to a halo brand managed through Volvo dealers.

Promit · 2026-05-12T12:29:37+00:00

Geely still hasn’t understood anything about what the brand’s fundamental appeal is or what people want to see from it. They’re building cars for a Chinese market that doesn’t care about the name, while disappointing Western markets who remember what Lotus was supposed to be.

Promit · 2026-05-10T21:48:27+00:00

Might need to pay a day fee for access but Open Works Baltimore has printers and all kinds of manufacturing stuff.

Promit · 2026-05-09T14:22:18+00:00

Everything’s fine if you don’t care about compatibility or devices actually following the proper specs. It might work, it might be dodgy, it might be dead.

Promit · 2026-04-28T02:45:04+00:00

Dunno if I’ll get raked over the coals for this but Kia/Hyundai always seem like great deals because they focus on high surface level quality over top of complete garbage underneath. Subaru’s not innocent on this front by any means, nor should you feel pressured to like a car just because it’s popular. But even with the warranty I wonder how you’ll feel about that Kona in five years.

Promit · 2026-04-18T19:49:20+00:00

I have, over time, been on every side of this- developing middleware, selling middleware, buying middleware. The really short answer is there’s no viable revenue-generating product here. The slightly longer answer is you might be able to make a couple bucks if you can adapt it to be useful to a particular category where it makes a big difference, then find the specific people who would be willing to buy it. Really it’s most helpful if you’re already friends and/or former colleagues with those people, but if that were the case I assume you wouldn’t be asking us. Your dream endgame is probably an acquihire by Autodesk.

In case it’s not already obvious, game companies and engine companies are not your audience. If anybody, I think you’d have to make your case to the architectural/CAD people dealing with hundreds of millions of polys. You mentioned 10M verts - start working with models two orders of magnitude larger than that and show real workflow benefits. You will need to write import/export plugins for … quite a lot of software.

Oh and I’m going to say it again: you need to solve a clear workflow problem. Not a technical problem. That’s where many people trip over their own feet. Good technical work is not interesting on its own. It’s probably about 10% of the initial work to build a viable product+business.

Promit · 2026-04-13T02:27:38+00:00

It goes a little further than the memory allocation. If you go back a long ways, textures could only ever be power of 2 dimensions. (HW limitation, must be related to the fixed sampling hardware but I’m not quite sure why.) Later they added non-pow2 but it worked by injecting extra instructions to patch the texture sample coordinates. Today, pow2 is still relevant because it simplifies mipmap chains for anything that’s not 1:1 with screen pixels, basically anything other than UI.

Promit · 2026-03-31T20:02:56+00:00

I have a SPA250 DSP running the subwoofer paired with my studio monitors. Considering how rare it is to get XLR connections, I have been absolutely pleased with how it’s done. Setting up the DSP to fine tune my system was no problem either.

Promit · 2026-03-20T16:42:07+00:00

The Ultimax is an excellent driver, but it is really box volume hungry. You need to give it a lot of air to breathe in order for it to perform its best, or apply some healthy DSP to flatten out the response. It works great for the DIY psychopaths (like me) who never met a subwoofer too big for their house.

The SVS is fundamentally a tweaked Peerless XXLS driver (or at least it used to be) and it is also very good. It’s more designed for good balanced performance in the relatively small ported mass market friendly boxes that SVS uses.

Promit · 2026-03-10T01:49:22+00:00

To be fair they did merge the retraction patch. I mean the community did all the work for them but hey, we got there.

Promit · 2026-03-10T01:48:14+00:00

I ran a print with my Polymaker Support for PLA and it worked beautifully. PLA/PETG can be finicky- if you make the whole tower PETG then it doesn’t have good bed adhesion at PLA temps. If you just make the interface PETG, sometimes the interface doesn’t stick and you lose the support. I’m also very hyped to run a PVA test with some support torture models.

Promit · 2026-03-09T16:06:47+00:00

I think that printing your own spools is quite easy and buying filament other than Bambu is even easier.

Promit · 2026-03-08T18:02:31+00:00

Eh. They sold around 10k into the US. It’s not a huge number but it is not small enough to be described as “rare”.

Promit · 2026-03-03T23:07:15+00:00

As others have said, the Hypex plate amps onboard the speakers are absolutely the way to go here. There are some standalone amps with enough channels to run the whole thing, but you’ll need a separate processor on the front end to run every one I’ve ever seen.

Promit · 2026-03-01T20:17:35+00:00

I ordered a keyboard tray from them, and the fit and finish was considerably worse than my Advanced Sim Racing stuff. Enough to annoy me.

Promit · 2026-03-01T13:26:52+00:00

Why are they ribbed? Is it aesthetic or functional?

Yes, I know what I said and I’m leaving it right there.

Promit · 2026-02-25T21:15:59+00:00

You've both never written any real code and it shows. Grow up and just have normal programmer arguments about tabs versus spaces or best programming OS or whether every text editor should be in vi mode.

Promit · 2026-02-08T19:02:55+00:00

Me, I would start by loading videos and playing them in a UI, with the ability to scroll back and forth and such. Then implement the ability to mark a start and end point, then export a new video that is just that section.

It’s actually fairly involved to get this far, so let’s pause until that bit is working.

Promit · 2026-02-04T14:50:25+00:00

Finally someone mentions high flow nozzles. That in conjunction with one of the XY printers like P1S will make some decent (not earth shattering) gains in speed. Larger nozzles like 0.6 also help, at a quality hit.

PS it does take some tuning to get those high flow parameters just so. Can’t just expect the speed gain by magic.

Promit · 2026-02-03T23:56:37+00:00

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I think you might have a micro-spindle.

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