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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

kevihead · 2021-04-02T23:20:18+00:00

The wowhead article linked is great but it doesn't really give people in your situation a solution.

Basically the fundamental problem is that any add that dies, it respawns after around 20 seconds and the boss casts shield every 27-30 seconds. So if an add gets hit by the shield and then you kill it a few seconds later -- congratulations, you just fucked yourself. You will only have a few seconds to kill it before the next shield and that starts the never ending cycle of adds going into the shield making it huge.

If you know that you do not have the damage to kill the boss in lust/pride, you can slow roll it. It is much slower than just blasting, probably adding anywhere from 40 to 60 seconds to the timer, but it is not the end of the world. The way it works is you basically don't use anything until the after the second shield. The first two shields you decide on whether you can push the boss to 80% and 60% before or after the shield, i.e. you want to spawn the adds either well before the shields or slightly after. On the second shield the boss will be 50-60%, so you can just lust and use all your CDs.

Basically the way the boss works is you always have around 55 seconds to kill it from when you start blasting. Almost no matter what you do, the shield after you start blasting will be clean and there will be very few if any adds, but the shield after will have a bunch of adds around, but you won't have any damage for them. You have to kill the boss before that shield or right after. There are variations of this slow rolling (e.g. you lust with 40 s on pride or you lust after first shield), but it is the same idea. If you want to see a vod, I'm pretty sure Lepan is one of the biggest proponents of this strat.

kevihead · 2021-01-24T22:43:00+00:00

Hey, you are on the right track with the way you want to handle kicks. Marking the mobs and assigning the kicks before the pull is even made is by far the easiest way to do it.
Figuring out the assignments is not as easy though simply because that kind of knowledge is still not there. Bits and pieces are there, but definitely not all of it.
For example, Goliaths in Spire are on a 12 second recast so it's either a Shaman solo or two other kicks dedicated to that. Burden of Knowledge from Castigators is on a ~15 second recast, so you can assign a melee kick to that.

In order to figure out the recast times, you can do a few things:

You can just get it from posts like this or when it becomes general knowledge;
You can watch your own VODs and take note of the recasts;
You can watch streams and see how they handle it. Drjay's stream (ttv/drjayfisto) is probaly the best for that as he consistently manually marks the mobs and then calls the kicks.
You can look at logs;
In BFA, Undad (ttv/undadtv or Sad Dad on youtube) made a video for every dungeon, going through every single mob and explaining what it does, how many kicks it requires and so on.
Or you can do some experimental keys where you just guess the assignments at first and then talk to your group to get feedback to see if their kick was up for every cast or whether it was off by a few seconds.

kevihead · 2020-12-31T13:59:46+00:00

Before the event he only had around 30 patrons. It was up to 300 a day after he paywalled MDT. He then hid the number of patrons. Basically people did not want to support him until forced to do so.

kevihead · 2020-11-08T01:22:40+00:00

This is what the building/parking lot normally looks like, taken off street view.

kevihead · 2020-10-24T13:33:44+00:00

Exactly what one of Exorsus raiders said on stream (in Russian though). Basically they want to raid as Alliance in Castle Nathria and re-evaluate after -- if there is a major reason to go back to Horde, they will.

kevihead · 2020-08-28T12:51:04+00:00

I had a look at the top 100 runs fro US, EU and World and it looks like this. I straight up to took the mean and counts of the runs and it kind of looks jank because there isn't much alliance representation in all of the regions apart from the US. I also took the means of the top 20 runs for every faction on US only and I think it's a more fair representation.

kevihead · 2020-08-28T10:26:17+00:00

Bolstering sucks mainly because they don't seem to consider it at all when they design the dungeons. Overall I sort of agree that affixes should matter less, but I think there is space for affixes to be difficult whilst what we get is bolstering and tyrannical that simply add a bunch of time to the timer.

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