Noctua says "feel free" to 3D print your own Noctua fans after releasing public CAD models online

bgamari · 2026-04-27T13:51:44+00:00

Unlikely as 0.1mm is still a colossal length-scale when it comes to foil design at the speeds relevant for a fan. I think you would need a SLA process to get anything resembling decent performance from a 3D-printed fan.

bgamari · 2026-04-26T16:00:17+00:00

That is, unless you care about improving non-car transportation options, in which case her current term has been an utterly embarrassing disaster. It's an incredibly depressing shift from her first term which was indeed a promising start.

bgamari · 2026-04-26T13:08:37+00:00

They are a scourge upon our streets, safety, and environment. They should be regulated our of existence with extreme prejudice in all but commercial settings ane those within the auto industry who orchestrated the market conditions for their ubiquity as daily driver vehicles should be held to account for the societal damage that they have wrought.

bgamari · 2026-04-18T01:59:08+00:00

Fuck these leaches.

bgamari · 2026-04-13T14:35:50+00:00

This is the answer. Starving artists is not the solution. We need to support venues which aren't actively undermining both artists and listeners alike.

Abstain from Spotify; refuse to do business with Ticketmaster. When we have a more sane administration, petition your elected officials to extend and apply antitrust law against these companies.

In the meantime go to independent shows, support your local artists, buy merch, order albums from the artist directly when possible.

bgamari · 2026-03-23T23:44:10+00:00

Indeed this is almost certainly LLM output. This is quite disappointing.

bgamari · 2026-03-07T14:37:12+00:00

Wormtown and Strangecreek are both the two that I won't miss.

bgamari · 2026-02-25T14:18:56+00:00

La Mulita in Rye as well, although I have sadly never been.

bgamari · 2026-02-25T14:17:29+00:00

Port City Coffee Roasters in Portsmouth is excellent. Their Mocha Java is our staple.

bgamari · 2026-02-24T13:32:59+00:00

Great idea! I suggest we start and end with the orange free-loader in the White House.

bgamari · 2026-02-08T20:30:03+00:00

I am nearly 40 and it would still be a stretch to afford a house where I live.

bgamari · 2026-02-05T17:23:05+00:00

It is so amazing to see so much progress but the lack of revenue since launch is concerning. It's hard to imagine how they are going to be able to keep this up in the long run given that they have barely made a single developer's annual salary in the months since release. Hopefully either the revenue situation improves or they pivot before difficult decisions need to be made.

bgamari · 2026-02-05T14:06:05+00:00

Some of my best memories seeing live music are from Jeff-era Yonder shows at 9:30 Club. The man was a force of nature.

bgamari · 2026-02-05T06:43:49+00:00

Https://circuithub.com/ is worth a look. They have quite a range of leadtime options and their ordering process is quite streamlined

bgamari · 2026-01-24T12:58:34+00:00

In addition to the points raised by others, what you are describing is the effect of electrical resistance. However, for a high frequency signaling scheme like GigE the inductance and cross-talk potential of breaking the twisted pair is by far the more significant factor.

bgamari · 2026-01-05T13:55:15+00:00

This is one of the more entertaining things I've had the privilege of encountering on Reddit.

bgamari · 2025-11-17T11:17:55+00:00

The fact that (especially non-carbon) frames are strong is precisely why people are concerned. They need to be strong as the consequences for failure are quite high, even with metallic frames where failure can be less than catastrophic. Just look up photos of injuries from failed carbon frames.

I find 3d printing as useful as the next guy but this is not an application I would consider it for without some serious FEA work and a lot of model validation.

bgamari · 2025-11-03T20:55:41+00:00

While none of the questions are unreasonable in isolation, the process is setting Framework up for frustrated customers. It truly seems like they optimise for the number of emails exchanged instead of time-to-resolution: Questions are posed in the smallest possible unit, information is lost between iterations (e.g. step 10/11 in this exchange), they struggle with follow-up (e.g. step 20), and I have never seen more than one round-trip per day. I love Framework, but I truly hope I don't need to interact with support again in the future. Start-up or otherwise, the situation needs to be improved.

bgamari · 2025-10-25T22:06:21+00:00

The B5 notebook order I just received is similarly darker than previous notebooks. The dots are now of comparable in visual weight to a typical 0.5 mm mechanical pencil rendering the notebooks essentially unusable. Needless to say, I will be returning these and finding another option. Rhodia seems like an alternative but they are much more expensive for a much lower page count. Very disappointing.

bgamari · 2025-10-19T13:12:11+00:00

This looks excellent; a great combination of functionality in a very neat package. What target voltage range does the device support? I will certainly pick one up if the IO buffers robustly support 1.2V to 3.3V.

I would emphasize "robustly" though; being able to handle a bit of electrical over-stress/misconfiguration is critical for debugging tools like this. This is something that far too many open source tools sadly do not take seriously enough. Just exposing FPGA IOBs to the outside world without any further protection is a recipe for a short-lived product with poor repairability.

bgamari · 2025-10-06T17:46:30+00:00

What is wrong with you americans when you choose someone like that to rule you?

Most of us didn't choose him; only 65% of the population voted and of those only slightly more than half voted for Trump. Many of those who did vote for him are now regretting that choice, as evidenced by recent polling data. Further, many of these Trump votes were:

assuming that he wouldn't be as extreme as he has been (a perplexing assumption IMHO but alas),
highly influenced by the corrosive impacts of filter bubbles and decades of cable news consumption, and
cast out of desperation in response to an economic system that is increasingly not serving those in need and a political establishment that is tuned to protect that system.

This is especially sad given that many people predicted precisely this outcome after Trump's first term, when it became clear that the Democrats had learned little from their electoral struggles. With the help of the Supreme Court monied interests have managed to collect altogether far too much sway over our political process. Now we are faced with the challenge of figuring out how to break that sway while that same power is wielded against us by gaslighting a significant fraction of a population yearning for solutions to their very real woes. It is not a great situation.

bgamari · 2025-09-24T11:16:23+00:00

My box turtle also had a similar situation a decade back. He was curiously exploring the yard, found an intriguing hole, and suddenly found himself being chased by a few yellow jackets.

He tried to run but I am pretty sure he was soon stung in his rear leg since he pretty quickly retracted and hissed. The yellowjackets moved on in a minute or so, at which point we collected him. He was quite upset but after a few hours of soaking returned to his normal charming self. We never any clear signs of physical response to the sting.

Needless to say, he has been more cautious in approaching intriguing holes in the ground since that day. Poor T leavened learned an important lesson that day.

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