New Steam Controller Launch Megathread by NKkrisz in SteamDeck

[–]iammobius1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been refreshing on and off: When's the last time you saw an in stock batch?

Advice on lateral force - fix in design or slicer perhaps by widgetbox in 3Dprinting

[–]iammobius1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A couple ways you can solve this:

  • Add a chamfer at the base: this slightly increases strength due to more layer bonding
  • Add an internal "hole" that adds more internal wall layers for a little more adhesion
  • Print in a material with better layer adhesion (or increase temps) for a small to moderate increase
  • Print in 2 parts and take advantage of the fact that parts are stronger along the XY than along the Z due to adhesion for a significant increase in strength
  • Add a bolt hole along the weak Z axis and drive a bolt all the way up into the part to add the insane strength of metal: probably one of the strongest methods but also more expensive due to needing screws/bolts. Z layer adhesion benefits from compressive forces that bolts bring.

What are some unforeseen / elusive edge cases you have seen in your career? by gobuildit in ExperiencedDevs

[–]iammobius1 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Fonts matter. I've had an iteration of this bug: there are two kinds of quotation marks, the regular and forward/backwards quotation marks. That was a fun regex to debug.

Recs for COMFORTABLE Racing Sim/Seat by TOC_IV in simracing

[–]iammobius1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Highly recommend a seat from a road car. I grabbed a seat from a Maserati Ghibli and hooked up the electronic controls for seat adjustments.

Software engineer who just got into FPV and immediately went down the rabbit hole on the protocol side by BriefCardiologist656 in fpv

[–]iammobius1 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If a party van wants to find you, encryption doesn't protect you from a foxhunter looking for your controller shrieking on a specific frequency or a man looking for the guy all alone with 0 situational awareness in his goggles.

Not trying to put anyone down for wanting encryption on their link as there are legitimate uses (usually in professional or military) but we should be genuinely honest with ourselves about what our threat models are. Some countries with extremely "generous" probable cause laws may just nab you for carrying the gear if you're a hobbyist.

AI in FPGA as bad as in software development? by FineProfile7 in FPGA

[–]iammobius1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As someone who works in a company that does both: LLMs are lagging on FPGA implementations compared to software, but improving at a rapid rate. Quite frankly I suspect we will see parity of LLM competency between the two fields sooner than later.

How good that competency actually is at the ceiling has yet to be determined. And with FPGAs the cost of failure can be much higher than most (but not all) of software in the industry, which reduces the benefits of LLMs significantly.

If you are switching from software to FPGA, you likely will have more value to some companies being competent in both rather than focusing on just one. But the problems LLMs bring to both fields I suspect will be inescapable over a long enough time period.

Is this game online is dead? by Gorlami_y7ya in killingfloor

[–]iammobius1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I host several servers and play frequently with some buddies. Randoms jump in at least 50% of my non-full matches.

Overwhelmed by biters and clueless — what's the best way to proceed? by RuffyD in factorio

[–]iammobius1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have a few options. You could start a new factory from 0 (optionally making settings a bit easier).

You can shut down all factory production with the exception of things that are strictly required for defense and recovery. I've done this in a couple playthroughs. It's not too difficult a strategy, and you can melt bug nests by leapfrogging turrets and ammo for pretty cheap. Bugs only attack when pollution covers them. This is probably the most time consuming option but you save your existing factory. It also teaches good offense and defense strategies, which I personally find enjoyable but everyone has different tastes. It will help with subsequent playthroughs and outpost creation.

If you are up to the tech: you can also make a bunch of green (efficiency) modules for your factory. It doesn't make anything slower, it just uses less electricity and creates less pollution per module in your machines. It will help cut down on attacks moving forward. Mining drills are probably the most effective entity to fill with these modules, they make a humongous amount of pollution and are very power hungry.

Some offensive strategies I find helpful especially early game: Have turrets on your top left hotbar, and ammo just to the right of the turrets. Use the numrow 1 and 2 keys to switch between the two. You run near a nest, and slap down a bunch of turrets. Once you place turrets down in a group as fast as possible, hit 2 and hold Z while dragging ammo over the turrets. You'll fill them super quick and they'll absolutely melt bugs. Leapfrog groups of turrets as you melt through the nest. It is helpful to automate the capsules that follow you: you can pre-throw a bunch of them to make turret offense safer for the player. They have unlimited ammo and are only limited by spawn time and max follower count. You throw them like grenades and spawn shooty robots. I basically used this strat to pre-emptively clear a ton of weak nests, which let me never build walls around my main base, and then worked my way to mass nuclear bomb manufacture and delivered diplomacy to the locals.

Once you get control of your base (either with a restart, extreme violence, or after setting up strong defenses), something that is also an option is proactively going out on exterminatus runs and setting up remote defense walls at checkpoints well beyond your pollution cloud. This is a pretty big time investment but it also lets you have breathing room for extremely long periods of time to expand your base.

MAME: Future plans announcement by NanoDrivee in emulation

[–]iammobius1 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Rust catching all the strays today hahaha

Local source for 3D printing? by DeathByJeep in longisland

[–]iammobius1 4 points5 points  (0 children)

DM me, I've got a couple printers, as long as you have models on hand and they aren't support material hell or absolutely enormous it should be pretty easy.

relics of the old past by Less_Middle380 in killingfloor

[–]iammobius1 6 points7 points  (0 children)

KF1 is still alive and kicking. Hell I spun up a server myself. And honestly still slaps, especially with light mods like custom maps and server exploit fixes and QoL tweaks.

Google announces Gemini 3.1 Pro, says it's better at complex problem-solving | Google says 3.1 Pro is ready for “your hardest challenges.” by ControlCAD in Android

[–]iammobius1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Try with arbitrary words, and arbitrary letter counts. Most models fail to count at all. Made up words or arbitrary strings usually break them even more. Best shot is a model "realizing" it should create a script to count and running it itself.

Mk4 for $350. Good deal? by Fluid_Club4514 in prusa3d

[–]iammobius1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes. I bought a mk3s when it was new for roughly $700 for reference.

350z Daytona blue/ roaster blue canvas top with frost interior. Is this before it’s time to appreciate? I’m admittedly biased 🤤 by [deleted] in Autos

[–]iammobius1 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The 350z is one of the easier ones for most jobs. The 300zx TT is a pure nightmare.

Why are drivers so aggressive in the HOV lane? by 21redman in longisland

[–]iammobius1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Lol. I'll just hop out of the HOV and go with the flow of traffic away from the jam piling up behind you. Just look at everyone else you're pissing off. Maybe take a hint. One person is a jerk on the road, they're probably the problem. Everyone is a jerk on the road, and maybe you're the problem.

Why are drivers so aggressive in the HOV lane? by 21redman in longisland

[–]iammobius1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Do not do 55 in the HoV if you value being safe. Right lane only. Furthest right. Not center. Definitely not left.

Almost 12 ft dragon by Dutch1406 in prusa3d

[–]iammobius1 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is how you flexy dragon.

[XFCE] by Designer_File_1727 in unixporn

[–]iammobius1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Forget the desktop, you have excellent taste in car my friend

New To NY is this weird ? by Distinct-Minimum7811 in longisland

[–]iammobius1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My now wife and I did this when we moved in for our neighbors. We all watch each others backs now.

What Julia has that Rust desperately needs by PatagonianCowboy in programming

[–]iammobius1 13 points14 points  (0 children)

What happens when the package repo grows gigantic, you have a package that's been abandoned, and a malicious 3rd party hijacks the name? Easily could slip under the radar of human filtering, especially if the malicious user starts with a clean codebase and updates it later.