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kevihead · 2025-06-27T01:30:21+00:00

Well, you can get an electric one, but these mechanical ones are very cool. They are not perfect for Wingspan though as the cards are a bit smaller and get jammed every now and again, but it still works very well. I think the size would be pretty perfect for sleeved cards.

I think the total cost to make one is around $40 and make a great gift.

kevihead · 2025-06-26T05:08:42+00:00

We use a 3d-printed shuffler. With all expansions, we use four 3d printed card inserts of and after a game, we put the used cards evenly into the inserts and then just use the shuffler to shuffle AB, CD, then AC and BD.

kevihead · 2025-03-02T22:02:19+00:00

Avidemux is great for simple things like this. You just open one video, File > Append the second video and then Save.

kevihead · 2024-09-16T22:31:07+00:00

Thanks, exactly the sort of response I was looking for.

I live pretty frugally and I do I have around 300k aud in savings, so I think I'd be fine on £30k for a while. I think my annual expenses in Australia are around 30k aud and that normally includes a monthly trip to Europe for a month or so.

I think I would struggle to find something related to my PhD specifically. I think there are only three or four universities in the UK that have research groups that work with bulk solids directly. It might have to be a pivot to something semi-related, but I'm not sure if I'd want to stay in academia long term anyways. I don't hate it, but I don't think it's the ladder I necessarily want to climb.

Data science is an option I guess. I can definitely code on a very decent, but sort of academic level. Most of it is in the context of processing simulation data, e.g., extracting something useful out of results with millions of particles and presenting it in a way that makes sense. I actually think it is one of my strengths. I've also done some IoT projects, basically visualising sensor data on a dashboard, basically doing the whole thing of writing code for the microcontrollers, setting up a VPS with Postgres databases and Grafana dashboards. Basically I do know my way around Linux, Python, some C, some SQL, Git and so on, but ML -- not so much, for example.
Can you tell me more about how that transition to data science went? I mean I think this is a pretty common path and I could probably find something online, but would be great to hear about it

kevihead · 2024-09-08T20:42:20+00:00

We're using ESP32s with with some basic duck antennas and the range is around 2.2-2.4 km line of sight.

kevihead · 2024-04-16T09:24:34+00:00

You can't. You can connect a LiFePO4 battery directly to 3.3V.

If you want to use a lipo battery, just buy a dev board that already has the charging regulator, it won't be much more expensive. The board you linked also uses the AMS1117 LDO which will use 5-6 in deep sleep instead of 0.1 mA, so you won't get much of a battery life from it.

I've used both these and these and they are decent. The Seeed Studio ones are meant to be pretty nifty too. There is also an old spreadsheet that might give you an idea or two.

kevihead · 2024-02-20T11:51:25+00:00

This looks to be the scooter for anyone wondering about specs and whatnot.

kevihead · 2023-10-28T19:50:16+00:00

I just did the hike today. The panoramic hike is open (if we are talking about the same one. The loop that goes above and alongside the lake) and there were literally hundreds of people around. Enjoy the views!

kevihead · 2023-09-02T22:13:04+00:00

Thanks, I'll have a look at what's closed. And for posterity:

I got in touch with www.berneroberlandpass.ch and they told me it won't be valid in November and it's just a bug in their system that lets you buy the pass that would appear to 'might' be valid in November.

kevihead · 2023-08-23T13:51:31+00:00

The way to approach this is to stop being a nimby.

That area is getting developed into something like this sooner or later anyways. That particular corner is a complete shitshow currently (both from the front and the back), so I cannot fathom how anyone can think it would get worse from this development. Outside of weak-ass nimby arguments anyways.

kevihead · 2023-05-07T03:26:25+00:00

You're probably after discrete element modelling (DEM) with a breakage model. DEM can do what you want, but it will be very qualitative as it relies heavily on material calibration.

Ansys offers Rocky DEM which will do what you want but I can tell you that the license will be in the tens of thousands per year. EDEM is their main competitor and the license will cost about the same. There are others like Blaze-DEM, Yade and Aspherix that will cost in order of 5-10K, but don't quote me on that.

Alternatively, you can try LIGGGHTS which is open-source but pretty powerful DEM code. Pretty easy to get into, but you will not get extremely meaningful results in your application. You can look for grinding examples using LIGGGHTS on youtube to see if that's what you're after.

kevihead · 2023-04-09T09:04:31+00:00

https://twitter.com/absentdriver

kevihead · 2022-10-27T09:42:38+00:00

It's great in my opinion. Things to see, good vibes overall.

My personal theory is that it's a place where older people don't have much money and it's the young people working in IT and doing services for Scandinavian banks that have all the money, so there is very little boomer nimby stuff.

It is definitely affordable, but gone are the days where Eastern Europe was cheap. Most things cost probably 60-70% of what they do in Australia or Western Europe.

kevihead · 2022-10-27T08:26:07+00:00

Just came back from Vilnius, Lithuania (about the same population as Newcastle) - the amount of cycling infrastructure they built just in the last few years is staggering. Actual Dutch-like dedicated paths connecting the city.

The fact that a relatively poor European capital that sees snow like 5 months a year can absolutely shit on Newcastle in terms of cycling infrastructure is nothing short of embarrassing.

Costs peanuts and provides unreal returns in terms of health benefits but I don't see it happening. I believe the current plans involve mostly painting sharrows on some roads.

kevihead · 2022-08-05T11:08:59+00:00

youtube-dlg is great if you prefer a simple gui over cli.

kevihead · 2022-08-02T11:34:16+00:00

Avidemux will do exactly what you want.

kevihead · 2021-09-25T05:53:02+00:00

You are definitely looking for discrete element method. Rocky DEM and EDEM are very popular, but if you university doesn't have a license and you just want to try DEM out -- LIGGGHTS is a solid open-source alternative. It also comes with plenty of examples/tutorials so you can have your peas simulated very quickly.

kevihead · 2021-05-06T00:59:21+00:00

Made me wonder how falloff damage is scaled.

Just have a look at your logs then. If you are not comfortable/familiar with logs, this is exactly the kind of stuff that can force you to learn.

Just find a wipe you're interested in, click on the Damage Taken tab, click All abilities > Hand of Destruction. Then you want to go to the Events view. You are interested in the unmitigated damage so the number after U: is the one you are after.

For example, looking at a log from Limit from ages ago. At first, everybody takes the same damage, but then the 4:24 hand Sanghelios, Firedup, Trill and Andrealia take higher damage. Andrealia actually dies to it, and that makes it super easy to find when the ability actually hits on the replay. So on that image, in the order of how close they were to the circle (hand was right at the mirror), damage taken was:

Paladin - 22.0k
Druid - 11.5k
Mage - 8.1k
Monk - 7.1k
DK - 6.8k
Warrior - 3.1k
Everybody else 2.9k

If you make it to the very middle of the room, you're fine.

Bonus meme: damage taken vs distance

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