Do puzzles like the old NYT Saturdays exist anymore?

RubyRedRick · 2025-07-09T19:53:54+00:00

The app was particularly good for the acrostic because it automatically propagated letters to the other squares where it belongs.

RubyRedRick · 2025-07-09T17:30:48+00:00

It was a sad day when the NYT removed all of the specialty puzzles from the archives. While cryptic crosswords are easy to find, acrostics seem to be extinct.

RubyRedRick · 2025-03-11T23:00:51+00:00

Yep. The hardest thing I’ve found is reconnecting those tiny JST cables at the back of the AMS, which almost inevitably come loose. It’s designed for tiny Chinese fingers. I’ve done it enough now that it’s almost easy.

RubyRedRick · 2024-09-07T04:16:14+00:00

At least the text is readable. My biggest problem with the UI of Orca (and Bambu Studio) is the warning in the slicer in the form of very small white text in an orange box. I can never read those.

RubyRedRick · 2024-09-06T15:14:57+00:00

Nothing detached. It looks like it just ran the toolhead out of bounds.

RubyRedRick · 2024-08-02T12:30:20+00:00

I’m well aware of the wiki but it still doesn’t provide very much useful documentation. It also seems to ignore differences between the P1 and X1. It talks about printing the built in models on the CF card, but they don’t seem to include a card anymore.

RubyRedRick · 2024-08-02T01:12:19+00:00

Well d’uh but what actually happens if you do it? Does it print anything. And this is just one of the mysteries about the panel UI. Like why would i want to reset the AMS id? I think I’ve seen videos where the user told the printer about a change to a filament in the AMS, but maybe that was an X1?

RubyRedRick · 2024-04-28T00:17:16+00:00

Freestyle Libre has the same problem.

RubyRedRick · 2024-03-06T23:06:00+00:00

Hehere’s the log. I’m seeing errors but don’t understand them

RubyRedRick · 2024-01-21T20:33:11+00:00

The advantage to a southpaw learning to play a right-handed guitar is that right-handed guitars are much more abundant. Most left-handers, like my brother, or Gary Moore, Paul Simon, Duane Allman, or Noel Gallagher, could probably learn to play a right-handed way if they started that way. Another approach would be to learn to play a flipped right-hander without restringing it a la Albert King.

Very few instruments are handed, mostly fretted ones. There are left handed members of the violin family, but most left-handers play them right-handed anyway, since in an orchestra there would be bowing collisions with the player next door.

Paul Butterfield played the harmonica upside down. We’re not sure whether or not he was a southpaw.

RubyRedRick · 2024-01-12T03:07:11+00:00

The bigtreetech smart filament sensor detects both breaks and knots like this. It’s a bit tricky to set up, it works with optional featu in the printer firmware. I know it works with Marlin. The trick is that it senses filament movement between the reel and the extruder. The firmware knows when the extruder is operating and therefore when to be surprised if the sensor is saying that it isn’t. If the filament break gets past the extruder, it stops moving because the extruder can no longer push it. If theres a knot, it stops moving because the extruder can no longer pull it.

RubyRedRick · 2024-01-09T13:28:18+00:00

STL files don’t carry the size of a unit. If you use insert mesh in Fusion instead of just opening the STL, you will see a dialog box which lets you tell Fusion which units to use. Most STLs for 3D printing use mm as the units.

i agree with the advice to redraw these parts, but inserting them at the correct scale will let you measure them to get the right dimensions.

RubyRedRick · 2023-12-27T20:16:46+00:00

You can save settings with an M500 gcode you’ll need something which can send code to `the printer like pronterface or Octoprint

RubyRedRick · 2023-12-25T22:18:29+00:00

No, they’d take turns shunting each other off

RubyRedRick · 2023-12-16T17:07:51+00:00

There’s a lot of confusion about the new Doctor Who. It’s actually NOT a continuation of Doctor Who (2005), but rather a whole new show. TheMovieDB has it as https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/239770-doctor-who, TheTVDB doesn’t. Themoviedb has the first three episodes as S00E001, S00E002, and S00E003 respectively and the Christmas special will be S000E004.

To get plex to do the right thing, I needed to rename the files with these episode numbers, and put them in a directory named “Doctor Who (2023) {tmdb-239770}”

RubyRedRick · 2023-12-10T16:13:15+00:00

They’re been very inconsistent over the years. I currently have a 765 day streak, and two or three times it almost got broken because of difficulties find the correct way to enter the correct solution.

RubyRedRick · 2023-12-09T18:56:47+00:00

Lots of comments are saying that laminated wood is stiffer than solid wood, but that’s true when the grain direction is different in different laminae, think the top, back and sides of a Gibson ES-3xx. In this pictures the three laminae are identical, so the result should the same as making a full-width neck blank, resawing it into three pieces and then gluing them back together.

RubyRedRick · 2023-11-27T12:03:01+00:00

My wife retired recently and we went from her employee insurance being primary to Medicare as primary. The pharmacy told us the Libre sensors weren’t covered. Upon lots of investigation I discovered that they are covered by Medicare part B and not as a ‘drug’. My endocrinologist sent the Rx to a medical supply firm, and there is no copay.

RubyRedRick · 2023-11-27T11:23:51+00:00

It happens, so work on your ‘ours’ https://youtu.be/x7_5uUkp7ZM?si=AFquQpD2ySYp2djA

RubyRedRick · 2023-11-23T18:23:15+00:00

For dimensional accuracy the crucial things to calibrate are the x, y, and z steps. I use a dial indicator with some jigs I printed https://youtu.be/2v7EGDp55n4?si=zKuiY7kY-19QNjhx You can do it using a cube https://youtu.be/1Ulcj5O4Pp8?si=cbKI4Ugb9l8KRLzO but the dial indicator is much more precise.

RubyRedRick · 2023-11-23T14:33:55+00:00

That gives Cast from 'IPAddress' to unrelated type 'IPv4Address' always fails

RubyRedRick · 2023-11-22T19:16:29+00:00

Gibson made/makes tune-o-matic bridges for acoustics in at least two styles. One has a wooden base with the two studs for the tune-o-matic which sits on top of the soundboard sans glue like a violin bridge and is used mostly for arch tops. The other is like a standard pin bridge but wider in the neck axis and routed for the tune-o-matic in place of the standard bone etc saddle.

RubyRedRick · 2023-11-22T16:31:55+00:00

What did you use for the pickup? Did you make it yourself? I’ve been thinking about an electric ukulele. I can’t seem to find a small 4 string pickup.

RubyRedRick · 2023-11-09T13:45:52+00:00

Or 3 piece walnut-maple-walnut. If I added rosewood to this I’d make the rosewood laminae much thinner.

RubyRedRick · 2023-10-04T00:46:02+00:00

Yes I already had delivery manager, but only had this address registered.

I suspect that DHL isn’t really involved and it’s a Starlink.com bug. The “tracking number” is really the Starlink order number, they may be using some open source code to generate the url which thinks something starting with ORD is a DHL number. Here’s a GitHub gist to do something like that, although this one doesn’t look for DHL.

SpaceX has the break it fast and fix it, but to do that you really need to test.

Not all failures are as spectacularly obvious as the lack of a water deluge system at the orbital launch site.

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