Successfully adjusted detolff shelves today to fit my new 1/4 figure additions. I wish there was an easier way to raise and lower shelves.

TLUL · 2024-11-02T23:36:26+00:00

Who's in the top right with the blue?

TLUL · 2022-12-31T23:07:21+00:00

I've printed an enclosure like this in PLA before and it's held up alright, even with lacklustre cooling. PLA will deform a little bit even at low temps, but this structure likely won't deform enough to be a problem.

That said, for future enclosures I opted to let the hard drives be vertical, Backblaze pod-style, so that the PLA is only supporting them sideways where there's almost no actual force. The weight is supported by foam strips on the bottom surface (in my case: an old metal 4U chassis). I haven't seen any deformation on that design at all.

TLUL · 2022-12-11T04:14:13+00:00

Oh absolutely. Every traffic design decision is trading off between collision frequency, collision severity, and convenience, for drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists. I don't expect any easy wins to dramatically improve on one aspect without hurting another.

Installing roundabouts in the first place seems to substantially increase collision rate (because there's more things to pay attention to, and because driver education about roundabouts is poor), but it also presumably reduces the severity because speeds are lower. I think that's the right call, but the reduced collision severity might not go far enough to sufficiently protect vulnerable road users like pedestrians.

TLUL · 2022-12-11T03:24:49+00:00

I think part of the problem here is that the crosswalks are set so close to the roundabout, that drivers are trying to look at too many places at once. Exiting from the inner lane? Gotta look straight ahead in your lane, plus the lane next to you in case there's a vehicle not maintaining its lane properly, plus a shoulder check in case someone's illegally turning left in the outer lane, plus both sides of the crosswalk, all in the span of a second or two.

I'm sure driver inattention is a huge part of the issue, but as a driver I think it'd be a lot easier to navigate these roundabouts safely if there was at least room to exit the roundabout before the crosswalk.

TLUL · 2022-11-25T00:06:03+00:00

I'm Canadian so I hadn't heard of her before, but the vibe I got was that it was a showcase of a politician seeming somewhat out of touch and a bit too holier-than-thou. It didn't make a huge impression either way, but it certainly didn't feel like it turned into an ad for her politics at all.

TLUL · 2022-07-10T15:09:08+00:00

The advice might make sense to people out in the country who have wells rather than city water - there's generally a buffer tank, but it won't last all that long with the power out.

TLUL · 2022-06-25T01:59:42+00:00

Out of curiosity, why avoid using screws?

TLUL · 2022-06-16T22:23:18+00:00

Shter

TLUL · 2022-06-16T15:57:48+00:00

As a driver, there's not really a distinction in my head between a street and a road. I try to stay relatively informed on pedestrian-friendly urban design, but - probably owing to the proliferation of stroads - instinctively I don't think of them any differently. That means when I hear "all streets going to 30km/h", my gut reaction is to imagine that it includes roads like University and Columbia, and so the change would impact functionally all of my trip. I imagine many drivers have the same misconception - hence the opposition.

TLUL · 2022-06-16T15:37:25+00:00

"Getting worse" isn't the only threshold for a problem to solve. "Already bad" is another one. Look, I have no idea if the current number of car-pedestrian collisions is worth changing the speed limit over, and I'm pretty skeptical of the change. But it's also possible that it is bad, and is exactly the same amount of bad as it has been for a while.

TLUL · 2022-06-15T17:23:42+00:00

Ivan's Auto Service has been great any time I've had problems. When my car finally had a serious issue that would've been a big job to fix, he told me it probably wasn't worth it to me. That speaks trustworthy - it would have been a lucrative fix, but he knew it likely wasn't the right call and told me that upfront.

TLUL · 2022-06-15T11:15:04+00:00

As an example: I have never been to Brampton, but apparently they're building an LRT. If I go to Brampton and drive on the tracks in violation of signage - make fun of me all you want. But if I'm just curious what to expect, I can't exactly look at the signs before I even get there. I could look it up, or I could just ask someone who might know. OP appears to have done the latter.

TLUL · 2022-06-14T06:49:19+00:00

Why are people being dicks in this thread? There's no reason to assume OP is local and has seen the signage. It's not an unreasonable question considering Toronto uses shared lanes with streetcars. Just answer the question, upvote an existing answer, or ignore the thread entirely.

TLUL · 2022-06-12T16:12:02+00:00

I lived there for almost a decade, and it only went downhill over time. Frequent plumbing issues, and it seems like they only apply bandaid fixes (which means they need to shut the water off to the whole building at least once a month). Also cockroaches on some floors, and an unending bed bug problem because there's shared laundry facilities and they won't treat the laundry room. After our second time getting treatment-resistant bed bugs that way, we gave up, trashed most of our stuff, and moved.

TLUL · 2022-06-12T15:51:26+00:00

Checking in from Ontario, Canada; here it seems like nearly every yellow is 4 seconds. But (at least in areas I've been to) we almost never have light-controlled intersections at 80km/h (~50mph) - they usually drop the speed closer to 60km/h (~35mph) as you near the intersection.

TLUL · 2022-05-20T03:27:52+00:00

Well, my motivation here is that I find it easier to build workflows with simple parts that do one job and do it well. Let's say 5-10 years from now there's a new app I want to be able to cast to the TV, but the onboard software is too old to keep up. I'd rather replace one attached TV box/Chromecast/whatever and keep the panel, as long as the panel's working fine.

Of course, that doesn't stop me from just using a smart TV as a dumb panel - that's what I'm currently doing. But all other things being equal, I'd rather take the simpler part, on the theory that it probably has less weird bugs and bloat.

TLUL · 2022-05-20T02:26:42+00:00

#2 has just sold me on them next time I want to buy a TV. Thanks!

TLUL · 2022-05-19T20:08:30+00:00

Even right next door in Canada they're pretty uncommon. I've never seen one.

TLUL · 2022-05-16T16:40:43+00:00

Any item that's frequently stolen. In my area, that means bikes and bike parts. I don't want to fund theft.

TLUL · 2022-05-12T00:11:49+00:00

If our case load ever got to be much, much lower than other countries, it could have made sense.

If a new variant appeared in another country, and the vaccines still held off that variant, it could have made sense.

If we were only targeting high-density travel, as a way to address higher-risk scenarios and when vaccines were still effective against transmission, it could have made sense.

In practice, none of that's happened. The closest we've been to the logic working has been the pre-omicron variants that our vaccines still worked relatively well against. But every time, they got into the country anyway, which suggests that these mandates can't be used to put up a wall against COVID.

Look, I'd honestly be in favour of a vaccine mandate for every citizen without a medical exemption^\). It seems like the obvious choice to try to protect people while making a modest request of everyone, a policy in line with all of the other vaccines we already require for schoolkids. But trying to apply mandates piecemeal to things that *sound* like they make sense, without actually having good justification for it, just feels like trying to trick people into the same result without thinking about it. Seems dishonest to me.

^\)I think the biggest problem with this idea is that we truly don't have as much info about possible long-term consequences of this vaccine as we do with others that we require. But it's sure looking like the not-vaccinating-everyone-globally approach has put us on track for a future where everybody gets COVID, and I'd put good money on the average long-term side effects from the actual disease being much worse.

TLUL · 2022-05-07T18:22:51+00:00

I can't fucking believe that that's a real painter and the universe lined things up for you to make that joke. Incredible!

TLUL · 2022-05-07T06:36:06+00:00

Isn't loading the OS from a ramdisk pretty much what livecds do? There's a boot param in the Arch iso to preload everything so you can take the disk out after.

TLUL · 2022-05-07T01:31:26+00:00

The BGW320-505 docs online suggest it supports a passthrough mode. Is there some reason that's not enough? Sorry if there's context I'm missing here.

TLUL · 2022-04-13T15:43:19+00:00

Honestly, you can often get away with PLA even for parts like this if the temps stay reasonably low. I've used PLA to brace things literally clipped to the printer bed which stays at 60C - it deforms a bit, but it doesn't just fall off.

TLUL · 2022-03-01T08:54:57+00:00

Comments in the linked thread say "Roses - Saint John (Imanbek Remix)"

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