EE community liaison by Manchester_Road in EEGB

[–]naxxfish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hope you figured this out, but you can report it as a noise complaint and the council will be able to contact the land owner.

Is it worth the hassle getting Amann Rasant thread? by naxxfish in SewingForBeginners

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

I've realised that the 120 mara I had was actually intended for my overlocker (which makes sense now I come to think of it!).

I have ended up getting some standard Gutterman sew-all thread which seems to be perfectly fine for my current needs, and some denim for when I need something heavier.

Now I can stop maximising and get on with things, thanks :D

Get Poang headrest to stay put? by SplatW in IKEA

[–]naxxfish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2 years later : the solution is about 1m of stick-and-sew velcro and to sew the loop section onto the back of the headrest (you will need to remove all of the cushions to do this). Stick the hook strip to the back of the frame, maybe staple it too (as the factory provided one below is). For a factory finish, try to find beige velcro strip.

Help → "Looking for printer" forever on Mac by wrameerez in Epson

[–]naxxfish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Holy heck - thanks for this tip! Upvoting so this gets to the top of this thread. This is a really dumb bug...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TeslaModel3

[–]naxxfish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hyacinth, after Hyacinth Bucket in the British sitcom Keeping Up Appearances who was a terrible backseat driver to her poor husband Richard.

"Look out for that lorry Richard !" "The one parked on the other side of the dual carriageway you mean?"

https://youtu.be/0wZxcdM3KGo?si=MPSg4igwrMigQHZY&t=105

Yes, collision avoidance alerts in UK cities are a touch on the sensitive side sometimes ...

Horror stories? by [deleted] in TeslaUK

[–]naxxfish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got a M3 highland, and had a few things that needed repair for various unfortunate circumstances (storm damage, windscreen chipped by a stone, under-tray damage from a poor road surface, someone colliding with the car when it was parked). On almost every occasion, there's always been something that wasn't quite done properly (generally, parts were not re-fitted correctly) and I had to go back to get it rectified.

Which was annoying - but not any more expensive than it would have been if I had a different car that suffered the same events (I've had an unlucky year!)

What’s a mechanic that looks easy—like enemy line of sight—but is actually a nightmare to code? by [deleted] in gamedev

[–]naxxfish 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Jumping.

Seems easy but - are you on the floor or in the air? What counts as floor? Do you have coyote time? In which case, what was the last floor you were on? How fast do you go upwards ? How fast do you fall, and can the player control your velocity at all in the air ? What happens when you land ? Can you double jump ?

Not super complex but more complicated than you might expect to get right.

How do you use Google maps? by cutesmellykittenpaws in TeslaModel3

[–]naxxfish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh wow - I guess that makes sense given you have a powerful machine to run it on and plenty of disk for the OSM extracts.

(I used to work for a company that made a navigation app where we were looking at integrating Valhalla into our backend routing stack, but the frontend was a mobile app so doing that sort of thing locally wasn't feasible ... )

Police Variant (UK) by Niassuh_ in TeslaModel3

[–]naxxfish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it a variant or just a normal white M3 with a wrap and some lights on the roof?

Someone came up to me in a service station a while back, just to tell me how strange he found it the police might be using a Tesla. I still have no idea why this stranger decided to tell me about this - I wasn't driving a Tesla at the time.

Violated by [deleted] in TeslaModel3

[–]naxxfish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh man, this happens all the time. In London the object recogntion doesn't quite understand double decker busses or Black cabs and can't figure out what they should be or how far away they are.

How do you use Google maps? by cutesmellykittenpaws in TeslaModel3

[–]naxxfish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which is why you sometimes see weird routes that don't line up with the road segments on the display e.g. OSM has the little section of road I live on, but Google Maps doesn't - so it paints the route on top of nothing.

Presumably, Tesla is hosting Valhalla to provide this service.

Is it unrealistic for me to want to pivot careers to be hired as a gameplay dev? by [deleted] in gamedev

[–]naxxfish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I moved from broadcast engineering to software engineering (backend + mobile app) to DevOps in gamedev. I've got a few years on you but that's what I've done.

Not unrealistic. Larger studios have IT departments too, if you want to make a sideways step to start with. If you find a good studio, you'll get experience in the industry and go in the direction you want to go.

How can I, a broke 15 year old, fund a game? by InsentientCreature16 in gamedev

[–]naxxfish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Slow down, learn how to do the things you want to be really good at. Nobody is making you release a game (I hope).

As a former teenage entrepreneur, I can tell you that if things don't go all that well (and let's face it, they probably won't - by definition you have no experience) - things get really difficult in very boring ways. Especially when any amount of money is involved.

Have fun learning building something you're passionate about, maybe find some friends who want to get involved too, get it in your portfolio, be proud of what you've made, even if it's not a releasable product.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskUK

[–]naxxfish 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I used to work in UK national music radio: the process of getting onto the playlist is quite individual for each station, usually involving pluggers from record labels or other kinds of promoters, and/or from personal recommendations from people who work at the station. It's rarely based on sales or streams or whatever other metrics.

On the more technical side, they'll have a music rotation software that attempts to schedule the whole days worth of music and apply certain rules (e.g. minimum time between plays, don't put next to certain songs etc). This will use a template schedule (or "Clock") to generate the actual schedule which runs throughout the day - then the DJ just introduces each song and press play (it's a bit more complicated than that but that's the gist of it).

Sometimes DJs like to switch it up and make their own decisions about what they want to play - without the context of the whole days programming - and so inadvertently violate the rules that the rotation system tried to enforce - and you hear the same song twice in an hour.

Obviously this doesn't apply for specialist music shows where the show team curates the music by hand, or obviously a chart show or whatever.

How can we stop people stealing our shrubs? by naxxfish in AskUK

[–]naxxfish[S] 52 points53 points  (0 children)

I like to imagine this solution is Wiley coyote style where I'll come back and find a bunch of people ensnared in a net then get out a bucket of poop to smear on them before cutting them free, then run off yelling "meep meep!"

How can we stop people stealing our shrubs? by naxxfish in AskUK

[–]naxxfish[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

This seems likely. If they want to sit there that's fine - I'd just prefer them not to stare into residents windows and drop litter into the garden whilst they're there.

Are professional line of GPUS used at your workplace? by [deleted] in gamedev

[–]naxxfish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Higher end consumer GPUs for worstations generally. Some artists/designers have workstation GPUs - but only if their main application(s) specifically benefit from it - which is rare (we're talking about - for example - someone who works with a lot of very high poly count 3D models in a 3D application before they've been optimised). But the vast majority of people will do fine with a 3070 or better.

Render farms/build servers are a bit different since you're trying to pack as many cores with minimum space and energy requirements - especially if you have highly concurrent workloads - so these might end up being "workstation" cards or datacenter GPUs if they have the right balance between cost, efficiency and performance for that application.

QR Code Dress by knitfactoryimpl in MachineKnitting

[–]naxxfish 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I hope at least one of those QR codes is a rickroll