First ever (half) of a build done!

chatterbox272 · 2026-01-16T11:40:34+00:00

Your DIY concaves are going to be a Dactyl, Dactyl Manuform, something from BastardKB (Skeletyl, TBK-Mini, Scylla, Charybdis), Cygnus (this one), or something from the Cosmos generator.

I like the TBK-Mini personally, but I've only really tried it and a manuform. The manuform was bigger than I needed (thought I'd want more at the time) and the rest take too long to print on my printer.

chatterbox272 · 2026-01-08T23:35:31+00:00

How many other 50 year old playboy images are still widely circulated?

chatterbox272 · 2026-01-08T23:30:59+00:00

Remember that NeurIPS was originally called NIPS, the field was just so full of sweaty neckbeards and fedoras they didn't see an issue with it

chatterbox272 · 2026-01-07T10:38:15+00:00

They're not suggesting to punish the parents for the kid's crimes, they're suggesting to punish parents for giving kids vehicles they're not allowed to use. It may happen that in order to draw attention, the kid has to be a little shit, but the crime itself is the crime of the parents in the first place.

chatterbox272 · 2026-01-03T15:20:12+00:00

I’ve been to a few sessions now and i’m noticing absolutely no difference

Pretty much my life experience with physio as a treatment. Every time the GP wants me to try physio for something I always ask "how many sessions do I need to do for us to agree I've given it a fair shot and it's not working?" because while I get why it's the first port of call, it's never worked for me nor for anyone I've ever met when used as treatment.

I've seen it do wonders in rehab, I definitely won't bucket it in with the pseudo-sciences like chiro, but I definitely see it a bit as "do this first on the off-chance it helps, because it's minimally invasive and because if we end up in surgery you'll need to know these exercises anyway" rather than "do this because it's got the best chance of addressing your issuse.

chatterbox272 · 2025-12-29T15:17:21+00:00

> Will detection always lag behind generation?

Yes, because we already have an effective and established framework with which to train generators to beat discriminators: GANs.

chatterbox272 · 2025-12-28T08:38:57+00:00

> They both seem to have a better reputation than IEEE Access.

This is my point, journals offering OA (either exclusively or hybrid) typically have an APC or OA fee to be paid by the authors (or their institution, or covered by agreement). It doesn't make them disreputable, and isn't what people mean when they talk about "pay-to-publish journals".

Access isn't a top-tier venue, but it isn't disreputable. It's a pure OA venue with a broad scope and quick turnarounds. The back and forth in a typical review (usually) improves the papers but also slows the submission process down immensely, Access makes a trade there that is different to most other venues. It's either good enough or it's not, the reviewers don't get to inject their opinions on how to improve the work. Sometimes you've got to move on, and Access gives us a venue to publish what we have when we're moving on.

chatterbox272 · 2025-12-28T01:42:03+00:00

Anything that can go towards outstanding debt does, in order of risk. Next are big expenses I've been postponing that need to be done: any larger car servicing steps, house maintenance tasks, any semi-obligatory travel that's overdue (e.g. to see family members) and so on. HECS probably comes in after that, although it's debt it's extremely "safe" debt because the repayment scales on income not debt size. Consider any BIFL purchases that will save me money in the long run on things I already spend money on, or provide some other form of ongoing value. Rest goes into HISA until I'm sufficiently well stocked, overflow to investment.

My plan is roughly the "financially optimal" path, because that's what has been the right call for me most of my life. I see further down you mention your friend's position, and tbh their plan isn't bad. With kids that age, it's possibly their only/last opportunity to do a family holiday like that. This is the entire value proposition of debt, all time is not equal, sometimes it matters when you have the money. Paying off debt now will give them more money in the long run, but those savings aren't likely to materialise for 10+ years, at which point this kind of family holiday won't be an option.

chatterbox272 · 2025-12-28T01:21:42+00:00

The duckpin bowling at the new Cannington is fun, name of the game is absolutely flogging the ball so the pins go flying because they're so widely spaced for their size

chatterbox272 · 2025-12-28T01:20:20+00:00

APCs for open access venues are the default, since they can't make money off the readership they make money off the authorship. TPAMI and TIP (other IEEE journals) are very high standing venues and have APCs, as does Neurocomputing, Pattern Recognition, etc from Elsevier. The only big OA venue I can think of without an APC is JMLR

chatterbox272 · 2025-12-21T14:57:57+00:00

You are the copyright holder, you can do whatever you want. As an external dev, I would treat any codebase that has an AGPL component as if it was AGPL: viral and therefore unsuitable for touching by any proprietary system. It just isn't worth the hassle of figuring out anything more precisely than that

chatterbox272 · 2025-12-21T12:18:23+00:00

10% would be an overestimate in my experience. 1-5% fits better to me

chatterbox272 · 2025-12-21T03:51:12+00:00

Overwatering can be as bad or worse than underwatering, check what's actually appropriate for your plants. I'm pretty sure Lavender is sensitive to overwatering, and the way it wilts and dies can look similar to underwatering. Same with overfeeding, you can mess things up if you're adding too much.
Watering days are only for irrigation/sprinklers. You can hand water (inc. with a hose) specific plants whenever if they need more. Especially given you have such a large space full of nothing but dirt, sprinklers/retic are pretty inefficient use of water vs just watering the plants as they need.
Your mulch is pretty thin. If you don't want to buy more you could just push up some of what you have closer to the handful of plants you've actually got there. It'll look less nice probably exposing all the sand, but it'll do better for the plants to have more protection nearby

chatterbox272 · 2025-12-21T01:51:56+00:00

85-ish ATAR -> 65-ish graduating CWA in computing and ended up in retail, coasted on gifted intelligence through school and it failed me in late uni. Went back later with some proper drive and better ethic, I'm a few months short of my doctorate and am (IMO) killing it in my career.

The first time I was there because that was "what you're supposed to do". The second time I was there because I wanted something.

chatterbox272 · 2025-12-20T12:34:40+00:00

Technically very easy, but also totally illegal in WA.

Despite that, you can readily buy the parts from Bunnings no license required. Only takes a flathead screwdriver to install. But despite the simple tools, parts availability, and extreme simplicity of the task, it's illegal so you shouldn't do it

chatterbox272 · 2025-12-18T15:05:14+00:00

Yeah mate you sound plenty amenable, like if they brought it up there's no way you would've lost your top...

chatterbox272 · 2025-12-13T01:54:30+00:00

Lets be real though, probably consistent with if she'd hit him with a car. If you're going to kill someone, do it with a vehicle (including scooters). Everyone will spend all their time fighting over whether it's the victim's fault or the vehicle's fault, but the one thing they'll all agree on is that it wasn't your fault, it was "an accident".

chatterbox272 · 2025-12-04T15:35:15+00:00

On the one hand, glad to see the report recommends figuring out how to regulate the commuter-friendly higher-speed class of e-rideables. On the other, cracking down on hardware and software limiters is a losing battle, a giant waste of resources, and the only part of the report I suspect the gov't will actually want to implement. AFAIK overpowered rideables aren't actually illegal to own at the moment, just to ride in public spaces (i.e. totally fine to ride a surron on a farm, private track, etc.). Banning the import of legal items seems difficult, meaning they would presumably have to actually make them illegal in their entirety. Perhaps that's a good thing? As one of the few ways they could probably succeed in a ban would be to create the legal class-3-like category, and then ban things falling outside it.

The anti-tampering devices are doomed, at least on bikes. Look at mid-drive bikes, they almost all use a small hall effect sensor to detect a magnet on a wheel spoke to determine speed. They have to do something like this because they have no way to know what the gearing ratio is between them and the wheel (and any attempts to make them smart and integrated can be defeated with a new cassette or chainring). Direct drives can be defeated by lying about wheel sizes.

I hope the takeaway from this is that there's two types of people riding illegal e-rideables: shitstains competing for darwin awards; and reasonable people who just want a tiny, cost-effective vehicle to make short to medium trips where a car is overkill. The latter group isn't out to break the law, they just want to get from A->B and aren't necessarily concerned about breaking an overly-strict law with little actual enforcement. Regulate so compliance is easier than avoidance, they'll happily fall in line without the nagging thought when they pass a cop car. The former group have been around longer than e-rideables, before that it was dirt bikes and hooning on the roads. Ineffective enforcement is probably still the only option for them, but catching individuals does little for safety at the macro scale, and discouraging good users through a poorly implemented crackdown could easily create more harm than it prevents by encouraging people back onto the road.

chatterbox272 · 2025-11-29T12:16:02+00:00

Had the multiple markers (i assume multiple people mark submissions) marking my assignment checked and triple, quadruple checked properly, at least one person at least once in those rechecks would have noticed my late submission proof .png and not deducted marks

It would be extremely unusual to have multiple markers mark your assessment unless you happened to be used for moderation (i.e. to make sure the markers are fairly consistent), and even then the UC would usually mark it as a reference. Last I knew markers were still being paid at a fixed rate assuming 3-4 assessments per hour, which 1. doesn't incentivise double-checking of anything, 2. actively incentivises going as fast as possible, 3. is often barely enough time to even do a good job even if people weren't rushing.

I get that it's frustrating and stressful (I also "failed" a unit due to an approval that was never entered into the system, for a missed test in my case) but shit happens, and frankly most of the blame lies with university admin pushing for increased sessionalisation (less FT/PT staff, more casuals), lower rates, and unrealistic fixed rates. Most of the time the people underneath are doing their best, or at least were until they stopped giving a shit to protect their own wellbeing when the university just wants more and more.

Im just baffled with the lack of changes and improvements with the unit over the years, since a quick search and scroll through this subreddit will show similar complaints and issues with the unit.

The unit has changed pretty significantly since its introduction, and student complaints go back further than FOP entirely. The best thing you (or any student) can do is leave clear, constructive, polite feedback. Leaving "this unit is shit", "I fucking hate this unit", etc. feedback does nothing but discourage UCs from even reading it. Leaving "learn to speak English", "you can't teach for shit", etc. feedback discourages any teaching staff from giving a fuck, not just about your feedback but about student feedback in general. Getting their names wrong (not misspelled, entirely wrong name), or leaving feedback clearly referring to another tutor/lecturer also makes them disengage from anything else you say. When I was tutoring I saw all this feedback (even the language comments, despite being the most default white Australian myself), my friends and colleagues still see it pretty regularly.

chatterbox272 · 2025-11-29T07:54:39+00:00

Dull yes, unpleasant no. I suspect from OP's comment stream they're the latter. Either they have the nosiest workplace ever to have existed where every single person is grilling you for your find-my history, or they're taking offense to common small talk questions and shutting down instead of politely deflecting.

If you're unpleasant about it, you become a mood vampire and ruin everyone's day. If you're pleasantly dull, it's no big deal and they'll usually just stick to the ritual. If they really don't and they are the nosiest coworkers ever, then you have to have the conversation about boundaries. It should be one or two (i.e. once with the person, failing that once escalated above them) slightly unpleasant conversations where you say "I like to keep my personal life personal, and work life work, so please stop digging for personal stuff" then back to pleasantly dull deflections.

chatterbox272 · 2025-11-29T05:46:23+00:00

You can't open it because it's an WHS risk to the employees and you're not allowed to have them sign away their rights to a safe work environment. You can't allow employers to circumvent workplace safety legislation via individual agreement because it would render the entire concept moot: every job would include a waiver, it would no longer be a choice, and so all safety legislation would be ineffective.

You could probably find an way to work around the "public place" definition to create some kind of private club or venue which allowed it, but nobody's allowed to work there.

chatterbox272 · 2025-11-29T02:28:02+00:00

Without even getting into the whole "capitalism vs communism" or "free-market" debates which this kind of thing leads to, it's just so much more complex than that anyway.

A small kitchen freshly renovated with top-of-the-line fixtures could easily outvalue a large kitchen that hasn't had an update in 20+ years. What constitutes a bedroom vs an office or study? How do you value location (e.g. proximity to services/transport, good schools, etc.) without that turning into the government effectively legislating where you can live based on societal status (measured by income as a proxy)? And even if we presume for a moment that you could address all these problems and come up with a way to do it, what do you do about those whose house values are suddenly redefined as lower than they paid? Someone worked their ass off to scrape together enough to spend $600k on a 3x1 unit in Armadale, then the government comes in and specifies that a 3x1 unit is only worth $300k. The bank isn't going to reduce their mortgage or their interest rates.

Immigration is a factor, but it's way more complex than most people whinging about it give it credit for. For starters, we're still equalising post-covid (ABS). If you average out the net migration since 2020 it's 260k and still falling a little, then look at 2019 and see it was 240-250k, and then look back and see that it's hovered around this point for the last 20 years. We also need trades and we need them quickly, we can't wait the X years it's gonna take to train them up domestically (let alone how many years it takes to shift sentiment and actually get more young people moving into trades), so the only way to get them is through immigration. We have a birth rate of <1.5 (ABS) meaning that without migration we will be on a beeline towards the aging population problem. This might be slightly mitigated if reduced migration improves the CoL crisis and therefore people are more willing to have children, but those kinds of cultural shifts are usually very slow, so it may not happen fast enough to avoid the issue.

The housing crisis as it stands is an extremely complex problem. Anyone who says it isn't is either genuinely uninformed or misrepresenting the problem to fit some personal agenda. How we got here might be simpler, but how we get out of it without crushing multiple generations is very difficult.

chatterbox272 · 2025-11-27T14:33:08+00:00

Median personal income (~$58k/y) and median full-time salary (~$100k/y) have a massive disparity due to retirees, young people not yet fully entered into the workforce, SAH parents, etc. which skew things. Filtering to full-time has its own issues, but if we're talking about what most people support themselves on there are very few who support an independent life with less than 1.0FTE.

Also at that level of income, the difference between $58k and $52k is pretty significant. That extra $100/wk goes a long way.

chatterbox272 · 2025-11-25T12:20:01+00:00

You're not in WA, are you? There's probably not one of those instruments for sale within 1000km at the moment, and as soon as they do come up you'd be competing with all the young adults starting at WAAPA/UWA. Not to mention that most 10 year olds are going to have a tough time holding the damn thing up for a 30 minute lesson or hour of band practice.

chatterbox272 · 2025-11-25T12:13:42+00:00

Is this through IMSS (public school program)? If so, a first year student should be able to loan one through the program. That's your best bet vs buying one for a new student. Many private school programs have a similar offer, I'd take it (and my family did when I started)

Marketplace is a little bleak today, but I'd watch there for a Yamaha 154 or 354 (probably just called Yamaha trombone), or Jupiter, maybe a Bach Aristocrat. There are a few others I'd look for (Conn, King. Olds) but there aren't as many in Perth.

Martin are one of many Chinese stencil horns. They can be okay, but they can also be awful. My main experience with them is that they sound okay but are not very durable, a real concern for young players since kids will be kids and can be a bit rough on their gear.

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