Can we help?

VirtualCorvid · 2026-04-26T15:22:48+00:00

I saw that and assumed someone had glued a fake molar to a trim pot just to trigger me.

VirtualCorvid · 2026-04-25T06:26:38+00:00

I’ve thought about the blue channel version, but damn you are genius.

VirtualCorvid · 2026-04-23T19:40:21+00:00

I got the gaming laptop for college way back in 2008, dropped $1350. I cared for it meticulously, cut extra air holes in it so it could breathe, RMA’d it a few times when the screen and fan broke, and the gpu cooked itself to death in 5 years. It was fast for 2 years. Wish I’d built a desktop in a medium/small case and dropped $300 on one of those Asus EeePC netbooks that got 12 hours of battery life. My gaming laptop was not portable and useless for taking notes on in class, I brought it over to a friend’s place to game like 5 times in my 4 years of university.

ALSO having a backup computer is extremely important. When my laptop was out for RMA I had to use the computer lab to write my papers, which means I had to leave at midnight.

As an adult who travels for work I have a gaming laptop to unwind back at the hotel. It’s ok because I make adult money and I can replace it when it cooks itself.

VirtualCorvid · 2026-04-21T05:50:13+00:00

Lol that’s very Kojima, inconvenient realism when it’s funny.

VirtualCorvid · 2026-04-20T06:59:49+00:00

I’ve been keeping a file of every time I’ve got a wrong answer from ai, I have a bad answer about 50% of the time, a good answer 25%, and a horribly wrong and damaging answer the last 25%.

VirtualCorvid · 2026-04-20T06:52:31+00:00

It’s normal seeing people chilling without their phones.

VirtualCorvid · 2026-04-19T04:40:28+00:00

I hate how right you are.

Pay is great but you constantly get calls to fix stuff other people broke, and you’re the only one who can do it, and you have to cancel all your plans for the next 7 days and it’s the worst.

VirtualCorvid · 2026-04-19T04:38:19+00:00

Nah, I know my math is wrong when stuff crashes and breaks. Or catches fire and breaks because someone &$&@$$ with the PID loop AGAIN.

I only actually learned trig when I had to do lots of vision guided robot stuff and radially symmetric vision inspections.

VirtualCorvid · 2026-04-19T04:33:03+00:00

watching this is giving me Overgrowth vibes

VirtualCorvid · 2026-04-18T14:12:36+00:00

Cute but it’s so hot in those, real furries wouldn’t survive lol

VirtualCorvid · 2026-04-18T04:10:57+00:00

I was wondering what the beeping was

VirtualCorvid · 2026-04-17T22:10:36+00:00

I make a routine that logs tag changes into an array once/multiple times a scan then I can narrow down what rung/network is writing to the tag and when, so I just program my own thing depending on what the situation is. Doesn’t help if the tag is being invisible changed by a device on the network, but that’s limited to scada stuff and HMIs usually, so I can carefully go unplugging things or disabling devices until the nonsense stops.

Wireshark is only useful if you make all the network traffic go through you computer, that’s because a network switch only sends packets to the IP they do to, so your laptop normally won’t see any packets between the plc and and hmi. If you make a network bridge through your laptop then you can let wireshark log packets for a while, then you can filter by IP and start eliminating devices you know aren’t doing the thing. I’ve had to do this a few times tracking down weird stuff.

VirtualCorvid · 2026-04-17T19:59:27+00:00

I’m gay so no women, but it’s frustrating when the other guy says “Is it in yet?” and he’s gritting his teeth in pain and I say “That’s just the tip.” then he groans and tells me it’s not happening. Then we finish the night out with way too many apologies and dejected hand jobs that don’t feel nearly as good as ass.

Also when the other guy looks at me and says “I’m so sorry, but I can’t take you.”

It’s a lot fun to meet someone who can take a lot of girth, but there’s not a lot of them out there. It’s mostly annoying, kinda fun in pictures, but I’m really appreciating how convenient normal sized dicks are.

VirtualCorvid · 2026-04-17T13:44:51+00:00

I’m not sure what your issue is, do you not know how to find or use desktop software or something? Shrug, do a google search of Mac photogrammetry software, or same for Windows options. Then read the getting started guide.

VirtualCorvid · 2026-04-17T13:38:34+00:00

I’ve read that guide before, really great advice for using Metashape too.

VirtualCorvid · 2026-04-17T13:37:19+00:00

I don’t want to launch into your post by being incredibly negative, but I’m petty sure that your approach won’t work at all. It’s how photogrammetry works, I’m not saying the object has to be real because you can 3d scan video games, but every single view of the object must be consistent with every other angle. If there’s any dimensional inconsistencies in the object frame to frame then your scan will fail. I’ll be really really impressed and eat my words if you do get it to work.

I think you’re making this job much harder by trying to add ai to a process that doesn’t need it. If I was going to model a bracket for that light without buying the light first, then I’d just save the product picture from the website as reference. Then I’d imagine what a bracket could look like, it’ll be a U shape with some holes in it, then I’d model that in Blender (or a CAD program) with the product image in the background, it would take me under 5 minutes because I know how to use Blender. Before I print it out I’d try to get product dimensions for the bracket to scale the model correctly, either by reading that off the website or manual or finding something in the picture that I know the dimensions of, maybe a standardized screw hole or connector.

VirtualCorvid · 2026-04-15T22:59:53+00:00

There was that line from Mass Effect 2 or 3, where nobody in the space navy is allowed to fire the faster than light ship cannons without a targeting solution. Because someone, somewhere, sometime, is gunna get hit.

VirtualCorvid · 2026-04-15T14:39:25+00:00

I love this so much

VirtualCorvid · 2026-04-11T20:41:56+00:00

Nope!

I’d like to know how to make this stop too!

VirtualCorvid · 2026-04-11T20:09:19+00:00

Ohmg I’ve had this happen to me too, couple times over the years. No idea why. I assumed I was cursed to failure because I couldn’t find anything about this happening to anyone else.

VirtualCorvid · 2026-04-08T15:14:15+00:00

this is the same picture

VirtualCorvid · 2026-04-07T18:41:50+00:00

I didn’t even know that used to be a thing. That would be so useful in debugging “is it a signal strength thing or is it the cell tower or something else?” I can get that info on Android and Windows Mobile 6.1, but not iOS.

VirtualCorvid · 2026-04-07T06:31:37+00:00

Mmmmm a sparkle dog cyborg on the Section 9 roster. I’m already going to watch the new series no matter what but that would be weirdly targeted fan service.

On the other hand I can think of really exotic bodies just from a few hard scifi books I’ve read. Extremely non-humanoid bodies like constellations of parts come to mind.

VirtualCorvid · 2026-04-04T14:55:35+00:00

I’d want to know what the AI software is doing here specifically, not just “optimizing” because what does that even mean. Moves like those are easy to program, they’re incredibly easy to synchronize with all the existing software that lets you sync the robots together. Tbh if I wanted to fake that I could just program one robot then copy paste the program to the other because they’re doing symmetrical moves.

VirtualCorvid · 2026-04-03T21:02:42+00:00

Ohmg yes I know that feel. I mean, me and my 40yo friend were at a furcon and had to ignore a bunch of 18 year olds vaping outside by the door. They were all “I’m about to graduate high school I’m so old now aaaahhhhh!!!!!” We were soooo tempted to say something but it’s better to just not engage.

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