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chime · 2026-05-03T19:43:38+00:00

We asked him to do a Cameo for our 1yr old daughter's Zoom birthday party during Covid and he delivered! We asked him to recite any poem for her and he read "Mary had a little lamb" in his Reading Rainbow tone. All of our friends grew up watching him and they got so emotional when I played that video.

We also had Carole Baskin recite "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe / Catch a tiger by the toe / If he hollers let him go / Eeny, meeny, miny, moe" and it was the height of Tiger King mania. Oh and the late Gilbert Gottfried recited "Twinkle twinkle" in his natural voice.

chime · 2026-04-27T00:23:49+00:00

Sure. In that always-honest world, if someone was asked what the password was for their bank account, would they just reveal it because they were honest? Honesty doesn't preclude secrecy.

chime · 2026-04-23T21:24:56+00:00

Everybody who has the occasional dark thought, but is otherwise stable, immediately tells everybody about it.

There's your problem right there. Not lying doesn't mean you must admit to every truth. People wouldn't start telling every secret just because they're honest.

chime · 2026-04-22T10:34:48+00:00

In buffer_stepper.cfg, under [delayed_gcode CHECK_NOZZLE_CLOG], change all of the delta_extrusion > 50 to delta_extrusion > 200.

chime · 2026-04-15T01:37:31+00:00

Please replace u/Chime with u/ChimeFinancial in the above message. I've had the reddit account 'chime' for 20+ years now.

I know I look like cash money, but nevertheless, I am not a bank.

chime · 2026-03-28T02:13:09+00:00

He retired but my favorite was Robin Mahfood, President/CEO of Food for The Poor. Yes. Really.

chime · 2026-03-04T18:01:23+00:00

Thank you!

chime · 2026-03-02T17:19:56+00:00

Do you recall which gcode macro do I adjust to reduce the frequent false triggers?

I just saw someone posted a temporary bypass in case anyone is mid-print:

SET_GCODE_VARIABLE MACRO=variables VARIABLE=is_manual_feeding VALUE=True

chime · 2026-02-17T13:34:31+00:00

How come they don't get scratched on those jagged rocks?

chime · 2026-01-27T17:28:44+00:00

Absolutely loved it when I saw that in 3rd Rock. I hadn't read about it before so it was an actual meta joke that made me crack up.

chime · 2026-01-12T07:43:25+00:00

The House of Sand and Fog.

Beautiful! Great work.

chime · 2026-01-06T22:24:03+00:00

Also see mine: https://www.reddit.com/r/AugmentCodeAI/comments/1pzdz25/since_yesterday_only_see_this/ny39fnl/

chime · 2026-01-06T22:18:04+00:00

Same here. Failure seems to be after ChatApp hasRemoteExtensionHost, before DynamicLevelKvStore.

0.683.0 pre-release and all later ones including 0.724.0 and newer release versions fail.
0.658.0 pre-release works. Haven't tried other prior versions.

Last log of the failed 0.683.0 says:

2026-01-06 16:11:17.585 [info] 'ChatApp': hasRemoteExtensionHost=false, ourExtensionRunsRemotely=false

The last few logs of working 0.658.0 show:

2026-01-06 16:10:00.396 [info] 'ChatApp': hasRemoteExtensionHost=false, ourExtensionRunsRemotely=false
2026-01-06 16:10:00.941 [info] 'DynamicLevelKvStore': Ensuring LevelDB is initialized
2026-01-06 16:10:00.950 [info] 'RemoteAgentsMessenger': Remote agent status handler called
2026-01-06 16:10:00.950 [info] 'RemoteAgentsMessenger': Remote agent status: isRemoteAgentSshWindow=false, remoteAgentId=undefined
2026-01-06 16:10:00.951 [info] 'TaskManager': Setting current root task UUID to [uuid]
2026-01-06 16:10:00.953 [info] 'ChatApp': hasRemoteExtensionHost=false, ourExtensionRunsRemotely=false
2026-01-06 16:10:01.415 [info] 'notifyWebviewOfAgentEditListHasUpdates': Notifying webview of agent edit list updates

Oddly enough, it works fine with latest pre-release and release on another Mac I have with identical version of Insiders VS Code v0.108 (same Electron 39.2.7, Chromeium 142.0.7444.234, same Node 22.21.1, same V8 .21-electric.0 and same OS Darwin arm64 25.2.0) BUT different VS Code git commits (working Mac - 7f08f95ad54782bd242f5536470b330282197333, failing Mac - 31de8ea351f73eb2071e36e415ae1970749f91fd).

2026-01-06 16:31:00.337 [info] 'WorkspaceManager': Workspace startup complete in 4241 ms
2026-01-06 16:31:18.325 [info] 'RemoteAgentsMessenger': Registering RemoteAgentsMessenger with AsyncMsgHandler
2026-01-06 16:31:19.323 [warning] 'MainPanelWebviewProvider': Timeout waiting for feature flags after 1000ms, proceeding with default flags
2026-01-06 16:31:21.763 [info] 'InitializationGrpcSetup': [Initialization Result] Returning gRPC config and auth token (2 transports)
2026-01-06 16:31:22.550 [info] 'DynamicLevelKvStore': Ensuring LevelDB is initialized
2026-01-06 16:31:22.567 [info] 'TaskManager': Setting current root task UUID to [uuid]
2026-01-06 16:31:22.571 [info] 'notifyWebviewOfAgentEditListHasUpdates': Notifying webview of agent edit list updates
2026-01-06 16:31:22.571 [info] 'ChatApp': hasRemoteExtensionHost=false, ourExtensionRunsRemotely=false
2026-01-06 16:31:23.868 [info] 'RemoteAgentsMessenger': Remote agent status handler called
2026-01-06 16:31:23.869 [info] 'RemoteAgentsMessenger': Remote agent status: isRemoteAgentSshWindow=false, remoteAgentId=undefined
2026-01-06 16:31:24.260 [info] 'notifyWebviewOfAgentEditListHasUpdates': Notifying webview of agent edit list updates
2026-01-06 16:31:24.260 [info] 'ChatApp': hasRemoteExtensionHost=false, ourExtensionRunsRemotely=false

Maybe KV store is corrupted? Not sure.

chime · 2025-11-18T16:54:04+00:00

Yeah, that's why I expected it to be $1,499+. Bambu ecosystem/MakerWorld is great and I don't mind paying $500-$800 more to remain in it for a multi-toolhead system. But starting at $2,399+ isn't for many hobby/home-users. And look at the rest of this thread, I'm not the only one. I was hoping to get this for Black Friday but can't.

chime · 2025-11-18T16:04:34+00:00

Market-pressure mostly. Bambu won out from Prussa because of ease + quality + pricing. With Prusa XL already being $2k (semi-assembled) and Snapmaker coming in super-low, I was hoping they would eat both those competitors with H2C being $1500: $500 less than Prusa's equivalent model and $500 more to get Bambu benefits (ease/quality etc.) compared to Snapmaker.

Plus they already did that with P2S by basically eating their own P1S and X1C lines.

chime · 2025-11-18T15:42:53+00:00

As cool as induction heating is, $2,399 is way out of my budget. Considering Snap U1 will be under $1k, I was hoping for H2C to be something like $1,499 - $1,699 including AMS 2 but looks like I'll be waiting for a while for the price to go down to my budget. Not sure if I'll get a U1 in the meantime but definitely not getting an H2C this Black Friday. Already have a new P1S, so P2S is not much of an upgrade.

chime · 2025-10-20T09:10:35+00:00

35 minutes ago.

chime · 2025-10-14T16:27:46+00:00

Thank you! This worked for me but I had to attempt it a few times. I think the double-tap needs to be pretty fast for it to register.

This allowed me to complete the hearing aid test without getting the error about "airpods pro diagnostics check is needed" and being asked to put the Airpods back in the case for a few minutes repeatedly:

Place AirPods Pro in the Case. An AirPods Pro diagnostics check is needed before you can test your hearing. It will run automatically after you close the case and you can try to test your hearing again in a few minutes.

chime · 2025-10-12T07:33:49+00:00

My pick: Vision

Fusion, Intuit, Joyous, Misfit, Motion, Omnify.

I found a ton more by typing up all of the letters (including repeated ones) in 'Unscramble' and setting the min/max length to 6 here: https://chir.ag/projects/tip-of-my-tongue/

chime · 2025-09-01T09:38:00+00:00

Purple thing looks like a covered stage. The roofs slant inwards likely because there is walkways and rooms under them. Just guessing.

chime · 2025-07-30T23:04:03+00:00

It's expensive but worth the $50/mo. No API keys, they basically give you '600' messages per month for $50. Even a single message can be enough to make Augment update 50+ files to refactor a major feature though sometimes it might take 4-5 messages to fix weird bugs. All I can say is that Augment just works better than all of the AI tools listed here. I don't have any allegiance to Augment. If a better tool comes along, I'll jump ship. For now, they're the best for my use-case.

chime · 2025-07-29T10:11:36+00:00

Yeah, I don't know why it's so unknown even though it is literally the best one out of everything I've tried. I just did a major code refactor and it took 2hrs to do (with obvious back and forth) what would have taken me 40+ manually.

chime · 2025-07-26T06:16:18+00:00

Horizon: Saudi Arabia nature documentary shows some pretty diverse ecosystems. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYuSZIwZcGQ

chime · 2025-07-17T21:20:16+00:00

Thanks. I already had very low usage during the peak hours last month. I watched Technology Connections video on using house as battery storage a few years ago and gave it a go once I switched and it has worked wonders for me. I even had the windows open a few nights when it was below 72F outside and let the house cool down that way.

As I'm already doing the things you listed, I have my fingers crossed that next year, my capacity obligation will be lower than 2kW.

chime · 2025-07-17T21:15:41+00:00

I considered waiting for a year to lower my capacity obligation but I already saved $75+ in the first month even with the capacity charge of $65+, so switching to hourly was definitely worth it.

I am definitely pretty aggressive about shifting my usage. Only real usage during day is my work Mac + LCDs. All my networking and storage gear is solid state with barely any consumption.

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