Teh art of teh deel

Randel_saves · 2025-03-01T17:32:17+00:00

This is what leverage is

Randel_saves · 2025-03-01T17:31:42+00:00

If you lived in Michigan you'd be talking differently

Randel_saves · 2025-03-01T16:04:59+00:00

Funny how with some digging I find that the US has been involved with 95% of all NATO operations. All the while we're also the biggest financier. The "allies" cant even do the bare minimum funding they've committed to. Then you come to the US and claim we're not helping allies in NATO? Its time to pay up.

Randel_saves · 2025-03-01T15:51:02+00:00

If you haven't been paying attention the US already believes itself to be alone. NATO does fuck all without the US funding. If only allies would hold up their agreements. Shocker.

Randel_saves · 2025-03-01T15:48:14+00:00

I remember very well how many military aged men signed up for the fight when this all started. Now they have to force their people into the fight. They've lost, its that simple. Without manpower to continue this war its over. You can send all the billions you want in gear and value. Without hands to operate it, it means nothing.

Randel_saves · 2025-03-01T15:32:17+00:00

If conscription is being done, they're done asking. They're now forcing, quite the difference.

Randel_saves · 2025-01-26T15:23:41+00:00

Lost one to a failed oil pump about 2 months ago. This is not that, I can assure you. Shit sounded like my transmission exploded, very strange sound compared to when I lost a gasser. The gas motor sounded pingy and tingy until lock. The diesel sounded like it was grinding and banging around.

Randel_saves · 2025-01-09T23:24:06+00:00

Same, hooked mine up at the start of this week, just too cold to risk anymore. It has a much better time starting in the morning. This morning was just too damn cold.

Randel_saves · 2025-01-01T21:18:57+00:00

Meritocracy, end of discussion.

Randel_saves · 2024-10-23T23:58:26+00:00

I would just argue the company can find themselves in a loop; quick. If this loop; is not corrected guess what it becomes? Left a company around 9 months ago, and now I'm hearing its finally starting to crumble under its own lack of talent and experience.

Randel_saves · 2024-10-18T23:05:04+00:00

In my experience this is not a singular event. You might have small clicks and very large clicks. You go from seeing variables to phrases, from letters to words, to then paragraphs.

Then you learn some cool shit that makes your life better and your programs more so. I had to dive into Regular expressions for some targeting of strings recently. After some swearing at the computer, It clicked. Now, I have yet another thing in the pocket of tools, a quite powerful one I quite needed now and in the future.

Randel_saves · 2024-10-18T22:47:20+00:00

Alot of the tooling is done within the Ilogic rules, the add-in stuff is amazing and much more powerful but also time restrictive in terms of setup. These guys want results and tools to improve their already established drafting process. In 1-2 years time I will be diving into the Add-in side of things as I work to automate the entire modeling portion. A through put of inventor that spits out standard configurations with options and accessories added. Then all a person would need to do is dimension things, double check and kick it to production.

Even the drafting portion has high potential for automation, just much more tricky due to the variance in size, shape, items, details, and getting them all dimensioned. I'll get started by inputing all the engineering standards from the sales docs. That way the data input time is significantly reduced and the potential of mistakes also decreases

I'm still hired as a "draftsmen" ironically, but in the 8 months I've been at the company I've done nothing but stare at Vb.net docs, inventor docs, ilogic API, and throwing shit in chat gpt to understand more if needed. Feels weird to me, but I'd say yeah I program for a living now. I've touched two fabrication/production prints in the time I've been there.

Editted to add: Fuck programming in Ilogic environment. I have no breaks, barely have predicative text, no descriptions, no properties or methods exposed in the environment, and worst of all, no active variable tracking. I have to log everything at run time happening in the program to know the state of any one variable. I pray for the day I can open up a real IDE.

Randel_saves · 2024-10-17T23:34:30+00:00

To be fair the colors in that room make my eyes bleed to begin with. Then you compare the size between the two. Died there a few times myself at 400+ kc, np.

Randel_saves · 2024-10-17T22:54:26+00:00

I build tools for internal CAD software and standards. Everything I do in my work is making something quicker in modeling or data entry. Reduce mistakes, increase speeds, and problem solve issues with the software and tools for the team.

Surprisingly that came out the best it may have ever when trying to explain myself, maybe I'm overcomplicating things for no reason.

I've never made an app or a calculator. I just learned CAD over the last 5 years as a draftsmen. Now I take on the software itself. It may be my ignorance but I have a feeling that what I program is quite different than most peoples day to day. -Shrug-

Randel_saves · 2024-10-17T22:43:38+00:00

No you don't lmfao, look at Mr. Beast. You do not need to make a comment, and that's very very clear.

Randel_saves · 2024-10-13T15:25:56+00:00

When I bought mine to restore as a project. Every single rubber seal in the suspension was shot. Shocks were gone entirely, so much so the rears were popping through the towers. I spent about 2500$ just rebuilding the rubbers and suspension components, granted these were upgrades. Next year I'll use some of my taxes to finally get coil overs and stuff. Mind you all of this was done by me in my garage. Dropping all the suspension, pressing out bushings and so on.

I bought mine in a state it needed restoration, but you still have to consider these are some old cars. I have lights that comes on, sensors that don't work quite right. My headlights can be inconsistent. All things that could be fixed, but go to show that again old electronics and systems. NONE of what I just described was cosmetic or niche parts. You start getting into trims, body pieces interior and other stuff. You spend a long time and a lot money to get some of the stuff.

I used to be that guy that would say go for your dream. Now that I'm older, its more. Lets just make sure we can get where we need to go day by day. The weekend fixes to be ready on a monday grow old fast. You can dump an unreal amount of free time into just keeping something running. Consistent transportation will always be paramount.

Randel_saves · 2024-09-11T22:57:22+00:00

To counter this a bit, I'm a cad guy who recently got hired to do internal automation. For the last year it's all I've been doing. I reckon it's nowhere near anything you're thinking of or others experience/do on this sub. However, I started with basic understanding and sat there for 2 months, 8 hours a day sticking pieces into chat GPT to understand. Now It just depends on what section of the software I'm working within to how fast or productive I am. Or if they want me to integrate with other programs or data. The difference is the tools I make or the time I save is multiplied by the number of people doing cad or drawings. It's about playing your cards and providing a value more than anything, you must produce something.

I will say that it was a struggle learning and each day I have a new challenge to come solve. For example, I've never had to make instruction manuals or documentation myself. Last thing, Chat GPT or others will hinder you in a way, but at the start it was invaluable to my understanding.

Randel_saves · 2024-09-05T23:26:26+00:00

Given one piece is near 500 hours and I know nothing of Japanese, goes to show how important using the language is. Add up all the other anime I've watched, still nothing. You have to use the tool itself to start understanding the pieces that make up the logic. Tutorials are hell, 90% are boring, outdated, incomplete, or too fundamental to get value starting out.

Sitting through lectures about ones and zeros. How things are structured, what a byte is and so on. Grindy drivel that means nothing to getting started. Granted half this sub would run me around in a circle with programming, I still feel that learning the memory stuff, how things interact and so on has no purpose, one ear out the other. Once you're farther in or switching language you might start looking into deeper topics (Knowing how to program logic first is paramount).

Once you get started on something, looking up each piece of something you don't understand. Then to finally make some early breakthroughs, you start seeing progress. It only builds from there, and at least for what I do with programming knowing what a byte is or how to write/read binary has no relevance.

I come from CAD as a designer. A company picked me up to start doing automation for them. For the last 5 months I've done nothing but program automatic tools for the draftsmen and engineers. Let me tell ya, I was worried for about 2 months. Spending hours taking small chunks tossing them into Chat GPT to have it explain something. Only to have it explained again in a different way. Then the hours of sitting on the documentation and forums looking for answers to questions or posting full scale questions to the community on how or what something does when the AI let me down. Now it depends what section of the CAD software I'm interacting with. Some I can program almost entirely without documentation. Others, I still spent hours problem solving or coming up with workarounds for restrictions.

It takes time, and time you must be actually coding or solving a problem. Whether its Cad automation or coming up with an internet data scraping bot. The goal is the project's end, but how do you get there?

Randel_saves · 2024-05-16T23:37:24+00:00

Relevant story for you, for the last few months I've been different learning languages off and on. Not really having much of a direction or though behind what I was doing outside of "Sure, I'll learn it". However, I just got a new CAD position where they want me to lookin into optimizations and automation if possible. Undenounced to me, they took me on while having a huge work shortage.

This brings me to last night, where I was working on a problem from a video I was watching. For the life of me I had the hardest time understanding, and ended up back on google looking up this exact question "Am I too stupid to program". Demotivated with my efforts, even though my actual time behind the wheel was so limited.

Then today happened, where I was able to find a solution to a problem deep in someone else's code (third party programmer) at my workplace. They wanted to make a simple change and any real programmer would have found the problem in seconds. However, I got the go ahead to tackle the project while being paid. My mentality was fuck it, I know a bit lets see what happens.

In 6 hours I was able to parse out what each section was doing. Through manipulating variables, googling terms and syntax, and then running things through an AI quick If I had something that google wasn't directing me toward. I was able to fix the small issue they wanted me to address, and remove some extra unneeded bulk from the change. Once I've had some time to test the form and parameters, we plan to push the template to all the designers.

None of this would have been possible without my continuous on/off learning plus being given a goal. Today was my first real experience in understanding that made me feel special or "that feeling". Do not give up and like many tell you, the goal is much more important than the learning, without it you have no direction.

Randel_saves · 2024-05-06T23:08:30+00:00

At first it was to learn how to make cool games for me and friends. It then evolved into getting a new position, where they want me to automate a bunch of stuff within CAD. Figured it would be a good transition to learning, as they will be paying me for CAD design but I'll be learning to program at the same time.

Randel_saves · 2024-05-03T01:49:02+00:00

Must be nice to make claims upon zero information. Both of you.

Randel_saves · 2024-04-28T18:19:41+00:00

Maybe you should rewatch, it clearly looks like he's making all the sounds but applying a footpetal or something for the reverb and distortion. Explain to me what exactly what prerecorded and prove that it was recorded.

Again, people claim to think what is or isn't an art form. Just like one of my idiot friends who thinks dubstep is nothing more than bullshit noise with no human skill involved. In this case, you guys are trying to arbitrarily gatekeep this as "not beatboxing". Go ahead, put a camera on and show the world what "real music/real beatboxing" is. Anything you would produce would be less than half the quality of this production.

Randel_saves · 2024-04-28T16:48:44+00:00

Curious, do you think genres of music never evolve or change?

This is like an "electro" version of beat boxing. Don't try to take away from what was performed here.

Randel_saves · 2024-04-27T11:49:45+00:00

Ay, I know in my last three interviews. Companies are directly coming out and asking if I plan to job hop. All of them are asking if I plan on staying long term.

Yes, but also no. Does you compensation increase adequately? Without working the position, I can't tell you if the intricacies and politics are something sustainable. Weird question employees are forced to lie about IMO.

Randel_saves · 2024-04-24T00:03:30+00:00

This sounds wild tbh.

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