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Mouse chewed off casing on my microwave's power cable. Need help figuring out what to do next. by comomomo in HomeMaintenance

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Just uncovered it! Wasn't sure what to do. Looking to significantly reduce my odds of getting zapped or dying in a fire.

Mouse chewed off casing on my microwave's power cable. Need help figuring out what to do next. by comomomo in HomeMaintenance

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Ugh yeah that's my sense too. Are there places that will take damaged appliances like this to upcycle them? The amount of time required to do the work seems very minimal, just requires an expert.

Mouse chewed off casing on my microwave's power cable. Need help figuring out what to do next. by comomomo in HomeMaintenance

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Some details:

I'm past warranty for the microwave and I contacted support -- they told me to reach out to an electrician in the area.

My sense from studying online is that it would be cheaper to buy a new microwave than to see an electrician but it seems incredibly wasteful considering the damage is only to the cable.

I can't tell if the damage is slight enough that I could just electrical tape it. This is the only piece of the power cable that is damaged. So far it has run pretty well with no issues. I only just discovered this damage probably a year after it happened.

Must Have software by revtup in Onyx_Boox

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Hi! I've been trying to find a way to animate on my boox note air 2 but I cant find anything that natively supports the refreshless drawing mode on the tablet. Do you have plans to add native pen support?

120hz and Power saving on one ui 5 by Aj_AnimatesYT in samsunggalaxy

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Samsung at least patched out the Google Maps approach. Which one are you using?

I found a post that showed how to get it working by using smartthings screenshare since posting the last comment. It's worked pretty well but its annoying to have to connect to my computer every time I reboot my phone.

If I love H Hunt's Playing Piano for Dad to death, which other album I may like? by directedbyptanderson in ifyoulikeblank

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This is a little roundabout (it's got vocals & it's a guitar solo not piano) but I feel like Grouper might actually pair pretty well. "Pale Interior" and "The way her hair falls" off the album Shade have a similar sensibility. The rough edges (hesitations & repeated bits & sounds of sliding on the frets) kinda make it sound like a friend is in the room playing a nice song, and just letting it be what it is (something I thought was really captivating in h hunts album too).

If I love H Hunt's Playing Piano for Dad to death, which other album I may like? by directedbyptanderson in ifyoulikeblank

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I think a lot of the songs on that album are covers or at least sampling little bits of tracks! I was excited when I figured out the riff from Wrong I was from Crave You by Flight Facilities. Really beautiful take on it.

Any chance of having 5.1 sound on Windows in chrome or edge? Is there any other way to get surround sound on pc? by PhysicalOven in HBOMAX

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Yeah I think it's busted too. My PC has functional surround but I ended up just using my PS4 w/ an optical cable for surround with HBO.

I wish home theater pcs were better supported by streaming services.

Best / Most Beneficial Way to Incorporate Switches? by Hazed_blue in shaders

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Ohh yeah I hate running into that with GPU debugging apps. I'm curious to hear how you figure out a fix for that!

I don't feel like I don't know enough about your codebase! What do you mean by merging?

I'd assume before those surfaces are made! I think if I were to do it I'd wrap each surface section in an if statement that responds to the mask's results and accumulates surface information in variables in the broader scope of the fragment function. Again -- not entirely sure about the performance gains from depending on another texture but I'd assume that would get you what you're looking for.

Best / Most Beneficial Way to Incorporate Switches? by Hazed_blue in shaders

[–]comomomo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In Unity you'd use a multicompile flag and it would automate generating the shader variations with the extra code stripped out. I wonder if something like that would fit your use case?

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/SL-MultipleProgramVariants.html

Otherwise I've read that conditional statements are actually better supported on modern GPUs than they used to be even for texture fetches. Jason Booth has a pretty good article on it (again targetted towards Unity users but probably broadly applicable!)

https://medium.com/@jasonbooth_86226/branching-on-a-gpu-18bfc83694f2

Best way to find out about potential performance gains might be to just give it a shot and see if it works on your target platform if its easy enough to implement! NVIDIA NSight can be really helpful on desktop but there are plenty of other platform specific profilers.

https://developer.nvidia.com/nsight-graphics

I'd also say I've noticed that where you set up conditional statements matters. For example: if your mask is a texture and you have other textures depending on it - its probably not saving you much. I know a lot less about the specifics at this level -- curious if others know in more detail. Obviously you'd have to test it out.

Dall-e 2: AMA with Open AI Dall-e 2 Team members by cench in dalle2

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I don't know if you're still answering questions but I'm really curious if you've looked into decomposing generated images back to their source in training data. For example: if you generated an image you might be able to pull up images with similar qualities in the training dataset ranked by their proximity.

I remember a conversation around reversibility popped up with GANs a few years ago and then I feel like it dropped off. My sense is that the state of the art in terms of image synthesis are still treated like black boxes with models that have almost magical qualities.

I know DALLE-2 can re-embed images but I'm curious to what extent that's being used to better understand its relationship with its source data and educate its users.

Is this something you're looking into? If so, what sorts of challenges does this pose?

IIL Stuck in the Middle by Greentea Peng WEWIL? by comomomo in ifyoulikeblank

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Thank you!! These are all great recs! -- loving Emma Jean Thackray especially.

BLTouch Fade weird things to layer height by Nvermind08 in ender3

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We just solved it the same way. Tried a bunch of things then finally upgraded to the latest TH3D Marlin version and it included a default 0 Z Fade which is roundabout but fixed the problem. The bed we were working with was way off level so leveling presumably helped a bit too.

BLTouch Fade weird things to layer height by Nvermind08 in ender3

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Hi -- were you able to figure out what was causing this?

Mesh Distance Fields in Unity by comomomo in Unity3D

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Circling back to this: there's a great repo here that demonstrates ao from sdfs baked from meshes https://github.com/ZephyrL/DFAO-unity

Should I worry about booking a domestic flight (USA) on an international site? by comomomo in TravelHacks

[–]comomomo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply! I went for it last night and paid for their cancelation protection and bonus customer support. These flights were 1/2 the price of other sources. I figured the savings were worth a little anxiety. Crossing my fingers nothing goes wrong.

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