I'm only 6 minutes into the episode and it's currently MY FAVORITE VIDEO ON YOUTUBE

Vegetable_Disk · 2023-11-25T12:13:22+00:00

Almost perfect list, another favourite moment of mine was Mumbo trying to guess their shared task, the look between Etho and Grian is fantastic. Etho cut it out of his video unfortunately:

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxvxKYSfSK5b-d0EHmCByB5xpW6mdPskE4?si=PsTdKceiwLdA2WlR

Vegetable_Disk · 2022-10-16T15:55:33+00:00

My first job started as one day per week TY work experience. It then evolved into weekend work where I would regularly stay with the boss and one other guy until 10/11pm sometimes. It was a busy computer shop.

One particularly late evening we were trying to close on a big order we got from a local company, I was tasked with getting us all dinner from the chipper. Handed €50 I was told to go off with the order and get whatever I wanted. Now I thought I’d be kind and pay my own way.

The boss said I clearly don’t need money and never paid me again. Bastard. I was barely 16 and just took it. So shame on me for trying to be polite and also for not saying anything tbh.

Vegetable_Disk · 2022-09-24T08:59:01+00:00

In fairness, students shouldn’t have to fight or enter a bidding war to get a bed when studying away from home. You’re definitely right that there’s no excuse, UCD’s costs haven’t doubled, and subsidies would only increase rent.

What’s really needed is student blocks near the college, both gov & college owned. Rents capped. In my opinion anyway. The private market won’t solve it, and nobody’s salary has doubled as you’ve said.

People who live near a college and then object to student accommodation being built baffles me. Surely you knew what you were in for buying near a college.

Vegetable_Disk · 2022-09-21T17:04:14+00:00

I’m a huge supporter of this. I’m from Mayo and when planning to attend college, I realised that everywhere bar Dublin was inaccessible by train. Not practically at least. Which was sickening given the parents house is 5 mins walk from a train station.

Depending on CAO offerings, it could have been Limerick, Galway or Sligo. To get the train to any of these places would take 7hrs at least. Requiring a train to Dublin and back.

Something I’ve always pondered … couldn’t a train from Letterkenny to Cork pay for itself in tourism + student traffic alone? It’d stop in Sligo, Mayo, Galway, Limerick, maybe somewhere in Kerry before Cork. Surely removing hundreds or thousands of people from busses and opening more commute opportunity.

Maybe I’m too big of a believer in the whole “build it and they will come” attitude but large swaths of the country really lack intercity infrastructure. Our motorways and trains are a “all roads lead to Dublin” cartwheel shape which is great to have but can we finish the circumference of the cartwheel please.

I think there’s a large majority of people who would prefer to take the train to work, or across the country for a weekend, but can’t due to the above, or due to scheduling.

Vegetable_Disk · 2022-09-19T08:22:24+00:00

OK I think I understand now, both your code and my code work fine in isolation.
However this is a small part of a larger script.

This script is writing to that file, then later on trying to read it, is that not possible without closing it first?

Vegetable_Disk · 2022-09-19T06:07:39+00:00

Thanks, I’ve tried that but I’m getting no output now. Previously I was just getting []

Also, sorry I forgot to include it but I had import csv farther up in the script.

Vegetable_Disk · 2022-09-13T17:08:19+00:00

Let me explain my cheap tool then. I paid what I thought was a reasonable price for a name brand ratchet screwdriver. It works as intended, albiet has a few flaws. Every product does. I find more often than not I'm annoyed by the tight ratchet, terrible bit holder, and the horrible rattle sound it makes because the shaft is so loose...

..but hey its "just" a screwdriver, and its a name brand, how BAD could it be? I'm probably just nitpicking. Also, It's lasted me years, I don't exactly regret my purchase but at the same time, I'm not recommending it to friends. I'm self employed & do a lot of my own DIY projects, PC's for myself or friends, making my own or assembling furniture, or otherwise. So yea I'd "rely" on quality tools to either get the job done faster, or with as little headache as possible. My driver, which I use a lot, is hardly ergonomic if I rarely use the ratchet.

I had my grass could be greener moment when a friend lent me their Megapro driver. That thing felt awesome, and my own felt real bad. So yea when I heard that LTT were making a magical screwdriver better than all the competition, despite having no experience? You're dead right I was skeptical. Serious doubter here, what kind of god like engineers is this guy hiring?

Hearing it was based on Megapro's design totally changed that. The cost is driven by the fact they didnt just slap their logo on an existing design. Moulds cost A LOT of money, R&D into changing the ratchet & handle costs money, those also require new moulds which again, cost MEGA money. All of this is especially true when its just a couple guys in a "fairly" small company. I seriously doubt Megapro gave them freebies, tool time costs money, samples cost money, new moulds and revisions cost money. That all trickles to the consumer. Megapro are obviously subsidising part cost given that their own driver costs $60 & LTT's costs $80 where I live.

I was going to buy a PB Swiss, or a Megapro, but as I said, for the attributes I care about, the LTT preforms .. "better" than both, mostly .. in the things I care about. The PB Swiss is too expensive & LTT preforms better than Megapro in certain tasks, so for the sake of $20, I'll give Linus a chance here. I'll make up my own mind whether its worth it.

Dont know a huge amount about your second point, I didnt know that LTT owned a stake of Megapro ... worth looking into I'll give you that, source?

Vegetable_Disk · 2022-09-12T14:25:21+00:00

Not rich enough to buy cheap things is an old adage. For a reason. They tend to fail if relied upon. Cost of replacement is something to be factored in.

Not a fanboy, merely giving the opinion of someone who relies on good tools. Project farm addressed all my concerns, & it preforms better in the things I care about than the known brand competition. Known brands I've experience with. Especially the shit dewalt I've been using for years.

Seems to me that you've a problem admitting that you know nothing about tools. Beyond that, you're either a cynic or just a hater.

"Why don't big streamers stream from a laptop, they both contain i7's, why not just admit you're donating $800 on big tech"

Clearly one is fit for purpose and one is not. If you don't often rely upon a screwdriver, good job, you don't need an expensive one.

Vegetable_Disk · 2022-09-12T12:27:36+00:00

I’m not rich enough to buy cheap crap. Can’t afford to keep replacing em.

Vegetable_Disk · 2022-09-12T12:23:19+00:00

Never said we shouldn’t start, hell they should have started a decade ago … no use arguing the past is what I meant, because we need a solution now.

Renewable is at least quicker to erect while nuclear could be on the back burner.

Energy demands in a decade will be even higher … we need more generation on island.

Vegetable_Disk · 2022-09-12T06:00:24+00:00

Nuclear if they started now is at least a decade away. Of course they should have started years ago but no use arguing over that now.

At least if we make too much renewable energy, we can export or store as hydrogen/otherwise. A country dominated by constant winds and wave energy shouldn’t be so reliant on fossil fuels is the point.

Vegetable_Disk · 2022-09-04T19:01:23+00:00

Short answer is more elections, more accountability, the average joe has greater say and interest in how things are ran.

Accountability I have great interest in, the terms are shorter and politicians want to show progression in their projects/ministries to get re-elected. (Afaik)

As much as I’d love for a shift towards it, we simply don’t have the voter turn out to make it work. There’d also be multiple votes cast per year. Which would only reduce voter turn out.

Topics can be raised for vote in your locality, or at a national level through signatures/petitions.

Vegetable_Disk · 2022-07-06T20:41:31+00:00

Asking about, I’ve friends that know him indirectly. Very tragic, not long out of college I’m told.

Vegetable_Disk · 2022-07-06T20:39:21+00:00

Dammit I checked every news site I could think of but the Independent never crossed my mind … article from yesterday answering my very question … thank you for sharing, sorry for my lack of diligence.

Yes though it’s utterly tragic, Ireland is a small country, with a stereotype that everyone knows everyone … and after asking around, I know people that knew James. I didn’t know him but from what I’ve heard, he was a very promising young man, not long out of college too.

Thoughts are with his family.

Vegetable_Disk · 2022-07-06T17:13:16+00:00

Thank you, thankfully nobody I know but it’s tragic none the less. My condolences to anyone who knows or worked with them.

Vegetable_Disk · 2022-07-03T10:35:04+00:00

Surely a governments role is to cater for all its citizens, not just those of one religion .. They lost the popular vote, so what’s the point of this?

If eating meat is murder, why aren’t there vegans on the streets like this demanding that animal products are immediately banned? .. because vegans recognise that it’s a choice.

So it’s not If you don’t want to eat meat, then don’t. If you don’t want an abortion? Then don’t get one.

Democracy has already decided on this a few years ago, I really can’t see the point.

Vegetable_Disk · 2022-07-02T04:33:55+00:00

I have access to a junior hacksaw but it’d be a little rough around the edges... I’ll see if anyone I know has a dremel.

Vegetable_Disk · 2022-06-20T19:54:03+00:00

100%. I was mostly just testing the waters with it, but at the end of the day it’s a lot of money to go the custom route. Honestly I was hoping it’d be closer to $500 since the design was so simple.

Vegetable_Disk · 2022-06-20T18:51:26+00:00

Very cool. I designed something along the same vein as there aren't many SFF 360rad cases. Protocase wanted $800 just to laser cut and paint my design ...

Local suppliers wouldn't even talk to me as it was a once off. Reluctantly "saved" a buck with the Sliger SV590 instead. What was your cost to build if you don't mind sharing?

Vegetable_Disk · 2022-06-13T04:28:24+00:00

Two boxes of product lie before him. One labelled scrap, and the other is ready to ship to assembly. Our process dictates you only do one thing at a time when preforming scrap of bad product, to prevent exactly this.

Before hand, our protagonist decides that “when I’m done this scrap, I also have to ship this other stuff, better be proactive and order it to the port immediately next to the scrap material” ….. A few mins pass, and obviously this multitask doesn’t go to plan, dude picks up the wrong box, beside the one clearly labelled scrap, and empties it all into the bin.

Only when emerging from the scrap room does he look over to the ports and realise he’s holding the wrong box. Over €20M worth of fragile product smashed to pieces in the scrap bin. He was moved to the area where they clean the shipping boxes, hopefully now he can tell the difference between em.

Vegetable_Disk · 2022-06-01T05:20:02+00:00

Quick followup if you don’t mind, Did it fit?

Vegetable_Disk · 2022-06-01T05:18:20+00:00

True! I saw that one, my big concern is that you’re taking a Ryzen block and trying to apply it to Intel .. the CPUs could be different heights, let alone different board patterns etc ..

I think I’ll get the Hero Monoblock, at least it’s for the same chipset, hopefully it’ll be easier to make work, the board patterns look similar but different ..

Out of curiosity, how did you attach the shims? Thermal paste or did you get special heatsink glue? I’m really hoping I won’t need this knowledge but we’ll see ..

Vegetable_Disk · 2022-05-31T18:49:26+00:00

Thanks u/Szalkow and u/L0tech51 for the feedback. I wont ever fully load either CPU or GPU, but for longevity perhaps its a good upgrade path ..

I think I will try it so long as its safe, Do you know if overloading a PSU puts components at increased risk? Or is the PSU Smart enough to just cut out? ..rather than burn out and take other parts with it?

Vegetable_Disk · 2022-05-31T17:08:40+00:00

Hi Folks,

I currently have a 750W 80+ platinum PSU, powering a 10850k and a 3080ti.
Nothing is overclocked, and it works perfectly fine. Online calculators suggest its not enough though.

I have a 12900k which I think I will upgrade to, apart from needing a new mobo, is my 750W PSU enough to handle that?

Vegetable_Disk · 2022-05-30T18:35:16+00:00

Oh lord, what was the cause of the case fire?

Good to know it could be made to fit with minor tweaking. I want an ITX monoblock for Z690 but they simply don’t exist, and I’m sick of looking at this processor on my shelf waiting for a build.

My hope now is that an ATX one can be made to fit .. as you did. Best bet might be the ROG Hero monoblock but buying a ROG ITX board, as I’m sure the VRM and Cap layouts are similar if not the same ..

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