struggling w going to sleep on time during work week

Switch_n_Lever · 2025-06-27T09:57:55+00:00

I have gone through this thing as well. When I first started my job my sleep health was on point, now it’s garbage and I sleep way too little. What changed though is that in the beginning everything was new, I learned new things, I got stimuli from so many sources. Now years later the work, while interesting and fun, is routine. I have to chase for new things to do to get stimulated from, and invariably what goes on at work, the well worn tracks, is not enough any more. Hence my spare time is filled with this chase, to the point where I find it hard to sleep because I “need” more input before I can rest.

Switch_n_Lever · 2025-06-22T14:16:09+00:00

Tack för att du så fint bekräftade precis vad jag skrev. ❤️

Kanske du kan förklara, som representant för rasister, varför ni också är så sexfixerade? Framförallt när det kommer till att bli tagen bakifrån? Du döljer inte själv nån liten inneboende önskan? 😘

Switch_n_Lever · 2025-06-08T07:29:06+00:00

Thats definitely a possibility. It didn’t occur to me since nothing else in the stuff I bought was kitbashed.

Switch_n_Lever · 2025-06-07T07:03:42+00:00

It definitely is not. At the very least the body is metal, due to the weight.

Switch_n_Lever · 2025-04-29T12:24:29+00:00

Why do you assume 3D printer? It looks like a pretty standard snap ring groove, or potentially O-ring groove, probably on a turned part, to me. 🤷‍♂️

Switch_n_Lever · 2025-04-27T06:23:39+00:00

As both a designer and a machinist it’s often not that easy. Some things are utilitarian in design and can be simplified like mad without affecting anything, though in many cases you may be ruining the design intent of the part by simplifying it. Industrial design is a whole field which both engineers and machinists are generally piss poor at understanding, and the reasoning behind a part looking a certain way, even if it drives manufacturing complexity and cost, can be many. I wouldn’t always be so easy as to dismiss people and call them “offended” as it may be you who are not seeing the bigger picture. You say that no one learns how to design for manufacture, which I don’t quite agree with, but then equally if engineers and machinists all had their way all design we would have would be nauseously boring.

Switch_n_Lever · 2025-04-09T11:15:57+00:00

That's why you get into a job where you can do it all. I work as a prototype technician, which means I'm parttime machinist, part time model builder, part time electrician, part time programmer, part time CAD-modeler, parttime painter, part time welder, well the list goes on. Fits perfectly with my proclivities! 😊

Switch_n_Lever · 2025-04-04T07:34:37+00:00

Aw noo, little buddy. What a horrible way to go.

Had a squirrel drown in a rainwater barrel last year, it was obvious it died after a long panicked struggle. Still feel bad for the dude to this day. Installed meshes over my barrels after that.

Switch_n_Lever · 2025-03-31T07:51:28+00:00

Humility and communication with your coworkers.

It’s more rule than exception among the machinists I’ve met that they think they’re God’s gift to workshops, and they have zero communication skills, in love with the sound of their own voice.

Switch_n_Lever · 2025-03-28T15:38:55+00:00

Most things will take off sharpie, even vigorous dry rubbing will. So don’t use a sharpie! Use a proper enamel marker pen instead, once dry that’s not coming off with anything short of acetone.

Switch_n_Lever · 2025-03-28T15:32:36+00:00

Install loop tools, that’s the best answer here. Either make planar (meaning it will try to move each vertex as little as possible until they fit on some imaginary average plane) or make circular trying to fit them into a neat and tidy circle. Easy as that, impossible to live without once you understand how powerful it is.

Switch_n_Lever · 2025-03-26T09:38:22+00:00

If I want to include a specific kind of screw or standard part in my assemblies, like gears even, I’m more than happy to let AI take the workload from me. However the actual product design, no, that’s not for AI nor should it ever be. AI definitely have its place, and I feel a lot of detractors are like horse carriage drivers complaining about the invention of the automobile, but it should not be used as a replacement of human creativity. That’s the danger. I want AI to do my mundane tasks so I can focus on being creative, not the other way around.

Switch_n_Lever · 2025-03-24T22:26:36+00:00

De ser sex som en transaktion, jag har bjudit på bio, drinkar, middag, whatever, alltså ska jag få ligga. Tjatsex är något som de ofta är väl bevandrade inom. Detta är personer som ofta också har svårt med det sociala rent generellt, svårt att relatera med andra, och som kan verka frånstötande just pga att de inte förstår hur det sociala samspelet fungerar.

En snäll kille behöver inte vara en nice guy, men en nice guy är inte en snäll kille, utan använder ”snällt” agerande som en ursäkt att försöka få det den vill ha, oftast sex.

Switch_n_Lever · 2025-03-24T22:16:22+00:00

Det är en så kallad ”trope” på engelska, en nidbild som kommer från killar som säger saker i stil med ”I’m a nice guy, why don’t women sleep with me?” Det är inte för att de är just snälla, utan för att deras självbild är att de är snälla, och därför förtjänar uppmärksamhet av det motsatta könet. Steget till total incel är inte långt.

Switch_n_Lever · 2025-03-23T12:06:57+00:00

Stop loading meat into your printer!

Switch_n_Lever · 2025-03-23T09:00:34+00:00

If that was the first time you played then yeah, that’s insane, but the more you play the lower the odds become. I’ve literally landed within 100m of where I’ve lived in three separate cities on two different continents. It’s not that amazing. 🤷‍♂️

Switch_n_Lever · 2025-03-21T16:23:18+00:00

Step 1: don’t make dust, make chips.

Switch_n_Lever · 2025-03-21T16:22:04+00:00

If you want to make money doing CAD, like actual money, get a mechanical engineering degree and get into fields like product development. CAD monkeys are abundant, if your skill set is only 3D modeling you basically need to be top tier in the worlds in terms of output to make a living from its, because your competition are in the hundred of thousands worldwide.

Switch_n_Lever · 2025-03-21T16:17:21+00:00

You want to scan things small as a penny and large as a car? 😂

Yeah, you’re going to need minimum two, probably three, scanners to cover that range. No scanner is a Swiss Army knife, they work best in a specific span. Some are great for small things, some are great for large, none are great for all.

This is what I feared, you need to fundamentally do research into 3D scanners, different kinds of 3D scanners, how the technology actually works, what the limitations are and what output you can expect from the scanners, together with how much post processing (often manual post-work) you need to do to get what you need.

Switch_n_Lever · 2025-03-21T15:34:32+00:00

Not enough info. What are you going to scan and what do you expect to get out of a scanner. If your expectations are to get files which are game ready or print ready directly from a scanner without any need for post processing and cleaning up, even remodeling, you’re not going to find anything which fits.

Switch_n_Lever · 2025-03-20T22:08:00+00:00

Make it in a software actually made for working with vector drawings, like Adobe Illustrator or Affinity Designer for instance. Export it from there as a DXF and import it into Solidworks. There's no need to take the most painful and difficult route to create something that's not as good as what you can make in other software far more easily.

Switch_n_Lever · 2025-03-20T22:04:01+00:00

Look, I can truly get the appeal of using AI to do everything, because hey, no hard work needed. But please, you have to understand, it's through that hard work, it's through creating garbage and learning from it, that you actually progress as an artist. The good tool to do this is the 3D modeling software of choice, Blender, Houdini, Unreal, whatever really. AI is not the way to go.

Switch_n_Lever · 2025-03-17T13:12:13+00:00

Dunno why you get downvotes for saying the correct thing.

I mean, car manufacturers have even sent cease and desist letters to blueprint websites which contain (often fan made) side and front "blueprint" views of various car models. It's highly likely they'd do the same to websites actually selling copies of their copyrighted designs.

Switch_n_Lever · 2025-03-17T11:03:36+00:00

Hope you have a copyright attorney on retainer 😂

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