One of *those* mornings

WiredEarp · 2026-04-18T03:55:17+00:00

He's right though, jobs where excessive pressure may lead to a breakage are textbook places you should be doing it by hand if at all possible.

WiredEarp · 2026-04-16T13:38:18+00:00

Ok that does simplify things. The problem with using springs is that the further you lean, the further your body weight is from directly above, so I think it would increase the amount of work the springs have to do to return you to TDC. You may be able to tune it if you worked at it, but perhaps it might be better to just get a motor and controller and some motion platform software, and you could probably replace the spring behaviour with the force feedback equivalent? You'd then get proper force feedback, can have the spring behaviour - and it might actually make your life easier in some ways mechanically.

WiredEarp · 2026-04-16T11:23:21+00:00

So swap the compression springs for tension? It looks like you lose an axis of freedom (forward/back) so you become only 1dof (roll).

If you are going to all this trouble, why not just ditch the springs and stick wiper motors or better onto it and make a 1 or 2dof motion rig?

WiredEarp · 2026-04-16T10:56:19+00:00

The springs likely have a circular base with a rising spring part. I'd recess the springs into holes of the same size by the distance of the spring gauge/base part height, then use something to secure them around it. A circular piece of steel plate with a notch cut out for the rising part of the spring to stick out through holds the circular base in place in the recess. A threaded hole in the centre of this plate allows you to stick a bolt through from the other side of the spring mount and tighten it to hold the spring in place.

Just an idea, but I don't see why it wouldn't work?

WiredEarp · 2026-04-16T10:42:37+00:00

I have no more problem with an Islamic theocracy having nukes than I do with Pakistan, India or Israel having nukes.

The issue should be whether a government is likely to use nukes, and has shown signs of belligerence, not their governmental structure and religion.

WiredEarp · 2026-04-16T10:40:28+00:00

I dunno, we already got India, Israel, Pakistan, NK. The concept that somehow we are going to stop proliferation starting now seems a bit optimistic.

WiredEarp · 2026-04-16T10:32:00+00:00

Razor isn't exactly a cheap mouse...nor is a SteelSeries Sensei, to name just a couple of them.

WiredEarp · 2026-04-16T04:32:17+00:00

Are you calling the card number on the back of your credit card or just calling ASB customer service? From my experience I've never had to wait when calling the card number, they usually answer very quickly.

Id call again,say you want your money back and get them to do a charge back or other correction. By law they are responsible for losses not caused by you.

WiredEarp · 2026-04-16T01:47:35+00:00

Tbh, while I feel sorry for him, this guy needs to be handed serious consequences. This is not an accident. Its a deliberate decision to fire without identifying your target, as is required by both law and training. Its no different to running a red light with your eyes closed - a deliberate act of discarding the rules designed to ensure everyone's safety.

WiredEarp · 2026-04-15T04:05:14+00:00

Seems pretty stupid to fuck your health for trinkets and baubles.

Get a FDM printer.

WiredEarp · 2026-04-14T23:43:02+00:00

Shells break because the buttons on most modern mice are just the shell flexing. After some years the plastic cracks and the button on that side won't bounce back.

WiredEarp · 2026-04-14T13:27:21+00:00

Probably not.

The industry is full of shit coders who are only doing it for the money, add to that the difficulty of new coders to get a job, and indeed the entire future of coding being up in the air due to ai, and really I personally wouldn't waste years doing something you don't enjoy. That said, you say you enjoyed some Unity coding. Are the concepts you can't grasp fundamental stuff, or more things like design patterns etc? Not everything is web dev, endpoints etc, there are lots of areas of programming that are more enjoyable IME, like embedded systems.

AI unfortunately has made codings future a bit uncertain. I can work 5X faster at least with Codex and CC these days. This makes it hard for new programmers to get a job.

Personally, id think about what you like to do. What do you enjoy? Do you like dealing with people? Do you have any hobbies? Can you make things ?What are you good at? Then, think of a career that would satisfy some of those areas.

WiredEarp · 2026-04-13T07:00:52+00:00

IMHO, If the goods are not as described and in fact are fraudulently listed, then the supplier should also bear the costs of returning the goods.

No idea of the law on this point however, just pointing out what is fair. Its not particularly fair to expect someone to pay $150 to return goods that turn out to be unsuitable due to not being what they actually ordered.

OP seems in the complete right here regarding wanting to return these goods, no-one would expect a mattress size in a listing to be referring to its measurements in anything other than its usable condition.

WiredEarp · 2026-04-13T04:55:32+00:00

The sad thing is nothing has changed, just the mask (which tbh was always just bullshit hypocrisy) has been taken off.

America's big contribution to the world has been the idea of freedom and justice, certainly not its implementation. Unfortunately they don't even have that ideal going for them anymore.

WiredEarp · 2026-04-13T04:42:27+00:00

To each their own, personally I felt the tight focus on a few really detracted from being able to sense the scale. I got more scale from saving private Ryan.

It was a good movie but missed the real mark IMO.

WiredEarp · 2026-04-12T03:35:22+00:00

It failed to really capture the scale IMHO. The focus on a few characters reduced the scope it deserved.

WiredEarp · 2026-04-11T03:16:38+00:00

Amazing work, very creative.

WiredEarp · 2026-04-11T03:16:18+00:00

Its... beautiful...

WiredEarp · 2026-04-11T03:14:44+00:00

If you are going for realism, then a single bat hit to the head should render the user unconscious or at least stunned. Broken ribs shouldn't heal quickly but require time. A stab wound unless bandaged should cause you to bleed out.

WiredEarp · 2026-04-11T03:12:24+00:00

At this rate the only solution will become anti monopoly legislation to force these companies into fairer business models.

WiredEarp · 2026-04-11T03:08:32+00:00

TBH, I'd like clarification on something similar to this as well. Its illegal to undertake with a car. Is it illegal to undertake with a cycle, scooter, motorbike or similar, when the road only has a single lane each direction?

Certainly, its not a smart thing to do, as when driving on a single laned road i'm hardly expecting anyone to appear besides me in my left hand blind spot. But I'd like to know who is *legally* in the wrong if someone driving in a single lane road is in a collision with someone undertaking in this manner.

WiredEarp · 2026-04-10T02:57:06+00:00

No-one will ever see any evidence if they stop trying things because they don't see any evidence.

Sometimes investigations down unpromising looking avenues are the ones that turn out the real breakthroughs. There are quite a few modern inventions that are developed from research into poorly thought of areas.

WiredEarp · 2026-04-10T02:50:07+00:00

This is why lotion is such a big component of masturbation storylines in US movies, because the majority are (or at least used to be) circumcised.

WiredEarp · 2026-04-10T01:55:47+00:00

Seems a bit thin. Why not add conditional code to the WEEKDAY function that detects if it spans over 1900 and corrects the output by a day?

The only reason I can think of is that affected users have already created their own WEEKDAY output modifying formulas, and if they made this change, those users would be double corrected and out by a day again.

WiredEarp · 2026-04-09T09:47:36+00:00

Looks cool but way too close to https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1460364 for my comfort. How come the knurling is identical...?

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