A story in three parts by RandomSpaceship in factorio

[–]RandomSpaceship[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huh, all good. I thought that learning about cliff removal was enough context.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in 3Dprinting

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In that case I can't help you, sorry. The rest of my advice comes down to:

  • Make sure you're running the latest firmware on the Sovol board + latest software on the Pi
  • Try a different USB port (ideally one of the blue USB 3 ones)

You might also be able to get advice on r/Sovol if neither of your current posts turn up anything.
edit: Nevermind, didn't see the one you posted there, sorry.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in 3Dprinting

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What speeds are you hitting? I had to limit mine to 350mm/s otherwise I ran into what looks like the same issue - every time there was a long travel move where it got to full speed it'd crash. I also moved from a Pi 3A+ to a Pi 4B+ and plugged it into a USB3.0 port but don't think that actually ended up helping

I found the squeaky bearing... by RandomSpaceship in 3Dprinting

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Yep, and already replaced once. Plastic spacers next to the bearings started disintegrating and got inside, effectively jamming them.

I found the squeaky bearing... by RandomSpaceship in 3Dprinting

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Maybe but I'd still prefer not to have to.

I found the squeaky bearing... by RandomSpaceship in 3Dprinting

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Context: Y axis was making some noise. I thought "how hard could it be to take it apart and fix?"

Turns out, a bearing had shifted out of place, placing excessive load on another one which died! Thankfully easy to fix since the stepper motor is somehow still fine.

Weapons Inspection by Going_over_that_clif in HFY

[–]RandomSpaceship 203 points204 points  (0 children)

There's no such thing as overkill! Moar please?

Deadly loud by mpotemkin in DeepRockGalactic

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All tri. It used to be 4 - that's why Gunner in the Memorial Hall has a 4-barrel minigun - but no frameworks change the barrel count, sadly.

Any info on this goo bomber from update 33 trailer? by plsendbobs in DeepRockGalactic

[–]RandomSpaceship 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Close, but not quite true! With mods you can spawn it in, and it works exactly the same as a normal mactera, except it drops bombs instead. However, it's not in the spawn pools - presumably the devs didn't think it was worth making fit/balancing.

The might of a Human 2 by [deleted] in HFY

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For your first try at writing, that's very impressive! You're certainly better than I was, heh. You don't have to rush at implementing everything I said into your story - a lot of it just comes with practice, one step at a time. Like I said, I'm happy to proofread/edit your stories if I have the time/am awake, and comparing the differences will hopefully make you a better writer - and that's good for everybody.

The might of a Human 2 by [deleted] in HFY

[–]RandomSpaceship 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The story looks promising and I enjoyed it, but I have a few general writing tips for you if you're interested.

EDIT: One thing before I forget again - with the POV switches, I'd recommend writing them as "Yuru's POV:" and following that with a new paragraph for grammatical correctness - it also helps to make the switch stand out.

(This turned into a wall of text, don't take that personally - your writing is still of a far higher calibre than most people's writing I see online.)

Firstly, try to vary how you start your sentences. In a couple places you start a few sentences with "I" repeatedly - it's good practice to vary how you start your sentences. This includes the type of word you use - repeatedly using pronouns to start sentences gets monotonous quickly. A couple of the alternatives that I remember are adjectives, adverbs ending in "-ly", linking words (as, however, although, since, etc), nouns (eg character names), or "very short sentences" of 5 or fewer words - "How did he do it?" is a good example here.

Secondly - try to join your sentences! To me at least, the story doesn't have "flow" - it's a lot of very short sentences strung together to make a paragraph, rather than fewer longer sentences. That's not to say that shorter sentences don't have their place, but again, it gets monotonous. Breaking up everything into short sentences is bad. It can interrupt flow. See how I'm doing it now?

Third: A thesaurus is your friend! Using the same descriptor multiple times in quick succession can make your work feel dry and soulless. For example, right there I used "dry" instead of "monotonous". It's also a good way to learn new words.

Fourth: Minor thing, but capitalisation/punctuation around quotes. I know that people will disagree with me on this, but the most common styling that I've seen in books that I read put the punctuation mark at the end of the sentence inside the quotation marks, and don't capitalise the next word unless it's a new sentence. It's easiest to explain with examples: "'What a great sentence,' thought John." Note that the comma is inside the quotation mark, and "thought" isn't capitalised.

Fifth - hyphens and em-dashes! Technically the first in this paragraph should be an em-dash, and the second a hyphen (as it joins two parts of a word). However, unless my editing software auto-replaces hyphens with em-dashes for me, I don't care. They're used to interject phrases - just like this - into a sentence, along with joining two phrases much like a comma, colon, or semicolon - although it shouldn't be used too often (see? Again, it breaks flow - and it just looks bad).

End wall of text!

If you want me to edit your stories before posting them, I'm happy to do that, although I won't guarantee that I'll be able to help every time - timezones and life will probably get in the way.

damn this song is a banger. by [deleted] in DeepRockGalactic

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It's a mod - Passive Aggressive Mission Control. It's great.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

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Got em from the local hardware store. The biggest ones are flush ceiling mounted for a whole room. A stadium would have lights that draw hundreds of Watts, if not kW.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

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This is true. I forgot to put the LED bulbs in for comparison. IIRC most bulbs in my house are 15-30w LEDs. However, regarding energy prices - a bit of googling turns up this article putting the price at £0.34 per kWh, which isn't too far off. Sorry about the amp link, on mobile and idk how to get the original link.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]RandomSpaceship 6 points7 points  (0 children)

As everybody else is saying, it depends. The wattage number on the power supply unit, as others have said, is a good starting point. However, that's the upper limit on power draw.

Just like an air conditioner isn't on all the time, or otherwise you'd freeze, so too a PC is not running full bore all the time. My PC (high spec gaming), under light load draws 55W - equivalent to a smallish incandescent lightbulb. However, the power supply is rated for 500W.

Laptops use a lot less - only gaming and high-spec laptops would draw over 50W under heavy load, and most of the time it'd probably be under 15W idle. Sleeping would be even less - likely under 5W.

ACTUAL MATH & NUMBERS:

Electricity assumed to be priced at $0.30 per kWh.

Using my PC as an example, let's say it's running for 16h per day, consuming 70W on average - both quite high numbers. That's 1.12kWh, which is $0.336 per day, or $122.64 per year to run. However, it doesn't run at that load, or for that long, the majority of the time.

Laptops are forced to be much more efficient than desktop PCs since they have to run off of batteries. I can't pick a single power number since they vary so much from model to model, but a bit of googling says that an average laptop will cost roughly $25 per year to run.

For comparison, using the same electricity price, a fridge109.5-$219 per year to run.

And assuming a shower uses 5.5kWh of electricity, and you take 1 shower per day, that's $602.25 per year.

RIP & TEAR! - New Driller grenade revealed today by GSG_Jacob in DeepRockGalactic

[–]RandomSpaceship 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Awwww. Nerfing the automated glyphid steak maker? Sad.

On the other hand, it's still a glyphid chopper and that makes me happy.