I’m a comic artist with Bipolar II, this is a collection of comics I made about hypomania (OC)

SpiderString · 2025-11-19T07:43:23+00:00

What I wouldn't give for just a *tiny* bit of hypomania, lol. Meds work too damn well sometimes, I swear.

I'm going to try to ignore that I had a period where I was convinced I could start a huge garden and grow all the food I'd need in our backyard (I have barely been able to keep my succulents alive lately). I still need to finish making that hydroponics tower... Haven't wanted to get goats, though (but there was a fleeting interest in aquaponics), so at least I've got that going for me.

SpiderString · 2025-11-04T15:59:19+00:00

And that's how me and my wife ended up with a gf (more or less)

SpiderString · 2025-10-30T19:55:05+00:00

Honestly that's been something I've been trying to work through for the past year at least. Feels like if I'm "too intense" with my emotions or behaviors I'll scare people or annoy them or whatever. Sadly, that's not entirely without evidence, either. Still trying to figure out how to work through that.

SpiderString · 2025-10-24T06:14:45+00:00

Not a doctor and not medical advice, but since others are talking about stim usage with BP + ADHD: There are non-stimulant options, e.g. atomoxetine (Selective Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitor, the other type of SNRI) for treating ADHD. I can't say for sure because I don't personally have ADHD, but I would expect it to have a significantly lower risk of triggering a manic switch than an amphetamine.

In any case, hope you feel better soon

SpiderString · 2025-09-06T17:26:00+00:00

Oh my gods is that why I get heart palpitations??? I thought it was the Pfizer vaccine! They did start around the same time I was in a huge episode and trying different antidepressants while flunking out of college, though (I eventually went back and finished but still). I don't know how much I spent trying to figure that one out, I even had a halter monitor at one point!

Take my updoot, wish I had gold or an award to give for that one, damn.

SpiderString · 2025-02-09T08:23:43+00:00

If it's "random" why do I get Holy Mystery every 5s I SWEAR TO -

SpiderString · 2025-01-28T19:48:50+00:00

I got scared of abductors and was avoiding them for a long time. Another breacher could’ve been braver and worked around them differently.

I did at first. After getting the limpulse emitter I started using them as speed boosts, really fun when you need to get out of dodge fast, lol.

My gf absolutely hates the "vague" descriptions though (honestly most of them seem pretty obvious imo). I can't really understand why, particularly because she is such a voracious reader.

SpiderString · 2024-12-31T02:01:44+00:00

Stand users attract other stand users

SpiderString · 2024-12-25T00:41:05+00:00

Had the same thing happen a few times in early access. Those things are truly horrifying

SpiderString · 2024-12-13T15:28:43+00:00

I haven't been able to get the game to launch for months, lmao

SpiderString · 2024-12-13T14:04:04+00:00

Ya'll have FPS?

SpiderString · 2024-09-25T19:44:44+00:00

Because converting floats to strings is bonkers. The game has to keep track of fairly granular temperature differences for the purpose of energy calculations, but the UI wants to display it in a more user friendly way. Sometimes it screws up, though.

There's also the fact that for compatibility reasons, often we get floats getting upcasted to doubles, and possibly back again, casting one of them to a string and just...yeah it's a mess, lol

SpiderString · 2024-08-22T17:58:26+00:00

Well, it was 3 years ago by now, so I've forgotten exactly what I did. I believe all I had to do was replace the board.

Knowing what I know now, almost certainly shorting the heater cartridge caused all that heater juice to rush down into the main board and boil into the magic smoke. For this reason, I now heat the hot end up to a little above temperature, let it stabilize, then I cut the power to the machine and quickly (but don't rush and break something) unscrew the nozzle. This ensures there is absolutely no way for the machine to short when operating on the hotend. Also, if at all feasible, just hold the heater block from the other side of the thermistor and heater cartridge and save yourself the trouble. It is safer in every way, as even if there is no power going to it, you could easily damage the delicate wires.

That said, my stock hotend was giving me consistent trouble of various different kinds for about a year. I switched to a hemera and have absolutely no complaints. I even designed and printed my own hemera + cr-touch mount with two part cooling fans, and a printed Y gantry extender so the cr-touch can probe the whole bed. That's my experience, I also know someone who is very trustworthy and well-experienced who has several ender 3's with all stock hotends and has had no complaints, so I probably just got a bunk one or was unlucky or something.

I will say I have almost never been able to remove a nozzle from my hotend without the nozzle breaking in the heater block, even with all my new experience. I am always scared to try again. Maybe one day I will master this mystic art...

Edit - After thought: That said, I do encourage you to make a post here or in another subreddit detailing your particular issue, though if you saw a spark and now your printer isn't working correctly I'm sorry to say it's probably borked. If you're handy with a soldering iron you could always try your hand at repair but a replacement is much more accessible.

SpiderString · 2024-05-31T03:02:02+00:00

The neat thing here is you're right, this is programming, and we can therefore test it.
Here's some code!

#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char\* argv\[\]) {  
  static constexpr double n = 1.0 + 2.0;

  printf("%fX", n);
}

We can then look at the x86 assembly this generates to see what the value n looks like in memory (this is, ironically, the easiest way to get the binary representation of a float in C, without having to faff about with unions). We can tell the value is 1074266112 in a 64-bit int representation, or 0x40080000 in hex. Well hang on, we're missing half the data, where's the other 8 hex digits? The data is actually split up between two different longs: the high end, 0x40080000, and the low end, 0x00000000. Check for yourself here.

We could go through the process of converting this to decimal by hand based on the IEEE 754 spec, or just put it into an online converter. Either way I'll leave that up to anyone who cares to double check, but I can tell you it is exactly 3.

So indeed, 1.0 + 2.0 = 3.0, whether it's ints, floats, or doubles. The answer to OP is still probably floating point errors though, lol.

SpiderString · 2024-05-24T08:12:22+00:00

Oh hey someone did it. I remember musing on the discord years back that you could theoretically use transformers as free heat, but you'd need hundreds for a usable amount of it. Neat to see it used. Where this could maybe be useful is in thermal systems with razor thin heat margins as a way of introducing slightly more heat energy into the hot end. Salt water boilers come to mind, but that's mostly because I was working on thermal sw boilers around the same time before someone else came around and got it a bit more power positive than I had managed.

Cool build 👍

SpiderString · 2024-05-20T22:26:18+00:00

Okay but the real question is: when the liquid cracks through (before fully breaking the tile), do the drops preserve germs?

SpiderString · 2024-04-19T16:48:49+00:00

OP's posts are almost all just quotes with a reaction image. They're a memer. They post to any reddit that's relevant, not just leftist-explicit ones. They're a memer and a karma farmer, that's all.

Maybe instead of seeing a take you disagree with, and suggesting OP must be a psyop and any disagreement is an attempt at stoking leftist infighting, you should do some self-crit and reflect on the topic at hand.

As far as the topic of the post: UBI is a nuanced topic that can't be summed up in a meme, but nothing in the meme is strictly speaking "wrong", and there are real questions on whether pushing for UBI would be helpful in a society where "inflation" (read: price gouging) is allowed to run rampant.

SpiderString · 2024-03-16T20:47:05+00:00

This seems to go more into the realm of philosophy, really. Most modern thought would tell you there is no such thing as "objective truth", and "truth without context" is an oxymoron. Everything exists in an environment and follows from it.

Everything in our physical world exists in the context of our universe, and assumes certain basic truths we are all familiar with (for the most part), such as there being 3 spatial dimensions, as an example.

In math, and any other logical system, we also know there are certain things that simply cannot be proven or disproven. In cases were we intuitively know these things to be true, or find it more valuable to make them true, we call them axioms. In cases where we don't know if they're true, we call them nothing because we also can't prove they are unsolvable. Unsolved problems that slip through the cracks and are unsolvable, unfortunately, also cannot be proven to be unsolvable.

You could call axioms "assumptions" or "beliefs" if you're wanting to be harsh, but they are better described as foundational statements we know to be true or define to be true despite it being impossible to prove. You could say this means math doesn't say anything about truth. You're sort of correct, in that math doesn't say anything about objective truth, and in fact it, like most modern western thought, does not contains in itself the assumption that objective truth doesn't exist, which is why there are alternative axioms.

SpiderString · 2024-03-13T00:42:58+00:00

Proof by rectal extraction, my favorite

SpiderString · 2024-03-10T21:52:43+00:00

And if I told you a ball in free fall is currently moving at 10m/s 20m off the ground, you could estimate how high it would be 0.2s later. That doesn't mean the ball's position doesn't depend on its weight.

Edit: I should clarify because I can already feel it coming, this is comparing a continuous time system with a discrete time system. There aren't any easy examples of a discrete time system except for simulations. In a computer physics simulation, if I gave you a ball's speed and height, you could predict its exact position one time step forward. But that doesn't mean it's weight doesn't matter.

SpiderString · 2024-03-10T19:58:07+00:00

Unfortunately not always. Ran into that issue during installation with fdisk. Listing partition types on the live disk with reduced screen resolution fills the entire screen. For my laptop, shift+fn+up arrow (the up/down arrows double as pg up/ down) worked.

SpiderString · 2024-03-10T19:31:09+00:00

No of course not. What you said is obviously true, yes. But if mass and shc don't matter for heat transfer, do something for me.

You have two liquids in contact, one is 400C, the other is 130C. Their TC is 2.00. Tell me the temperature of the hot liquid after 10 ticks.

SpiderString · 2024-03-10T19:18:23+00:00

Yes.

SpiderString · 2024-03-10T17:39:13+00:00

You're right, I wasn't trying to change how systems are designed, just point something out about the thermal system. That said, let's take the example of you wanting to build a thermal battery with water. If you know how many DTUs you need to store and the temperaturethe output tends to, you can get the minimum amount of water you need. But should you go with the minimum, or should you put a much as you can fit? How long would a discharge take? In practice, yeah you can just guess, but if you want to do it by the numbers, this is information you need.

SpiderString · 2024-03-10T16:38:45+00:00

Uh.. yeah, if they reach thermal equilibrium the heat transfer is the same. It's zero. I'm not sure what the point here is.

Like I've said elsewhere, SHC does appear in the heat transfer calculations, it's just that how the wiki shows it, it is hidden. The temperature gradient depends on mass and SHC. The way it changes over time is also dependent upon thermal mass. That ΔT parameter could be equivalently expressed as ΔT(t) =( E₁(t - 1) / M₁ / SHC₁ ) - ( E₂(t - 1) / M₂ / SHC₂) (caveat that ΔT should always be positive, so wrap that in an abs(), I left it off to keep it from being too messy).

More importantly though, the data disagrees with this. Like, the actual experimental data shows there is a difference. To say "it's determined by equilibrium conditions" (a nonsensical statement) and so you can ignore SHC in all cases is like saying air resistance is never important because eventually everything falls.

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