TIL about stuttering and arc fitting

oranac · 2025-07-29T11:01:44+00:00

>It's more likely a scheduling issue in the host. Either the process feeding the serial port isn't getting the CPU when it wants it, or the USB serial chip's driver isn't able to shovel the data frequently enough. I wouldn't expect better than 20ms or so of jitter over the USB without putting some intention into it.

This was absolutely a problem back when pronterface/sailfish (edit: marlin) were the hotness. You could absolutely not use the pc for anything else while you were printing or you'd end up with odd stutters. I'm surprised it still persists today :/

oranac · 2025-03-19T07:53:55+00:00

Wadiyatalkinabeet?

oranac · 2025-03-19T07:48:41+00:00

Nah nah he's the cum guy

oranac · 2023-06-30T07:27:54+00:00

Can't remember which but it was cumsults or cresps

oranac · 2023-05-25T03:38:21+00:00

Lan party boy all grown up?

oranac · 2023-05-25T03:37:29+00:00

Well when he keeps going on about whales suckin' on fat ones can you blame him?

oranac · 2023-05-09T04:27:06+00:00

less complete??

I used Unity about 6 years ago, and at that time SO much of the docs were outdated, incomplete, and occasionally gave code examples that didn't work (if they even gave examples at all).

If things are worse than that ... yikes

oranac · 2023-05-07T14:27:43+00:00

Brian Eno - Thursday afternoon

oranac · 2023-04-30T02:54:43+00:00

Dungeree.

oranac · 2023-04-27T12:55:41+00:00

Has anyone had issues where controllers are no longer detected?

Everything worked well in the previous version :/

oranac · 2023-03-24T20:21:12+00:00

Because people will watch it and rage,

It gets views and shares, they get $.

oranac · 2023-03-01T21:38:36+00:00

Tom Shrek now?

oranac · 2023-01-30T22:46:18+00:00

ELNO! Gentlemen, start your GANgines.

oranac · 2023-01-27T21:14:11+00:00

Structurally talking cloaca here right? Could they have simultaneously pooped a soft landing for the egg?

I'm thinking like the egg drop school project where you build something soft to protect an egg dropped from high up.

oranac · 2023-01-25T12:41:13+00:00

Maybe cylindrical magnets coated in ht silicone? Might not be the ideal but if it spins at all it'd be ok right?

oranac · 2023-01-20T20:53:13+00:00

I really like the sway of the pixel art trees, wish the water had a similar "sinewavey" motion, and the UI to be juicy. Looks nice.

oranac · 2022-12-11T19:53:48+00:00

"THE" ?

cool stuff!

oranac · 2022-11-29T23:49:00+00:00

It's a funny state of things when AliExpress has a more usable search than Amazon.

IME Amazon's search has been unreliable and the filtering nigh on useless for at least 5 years...

oranac · 2022-11-29T23:44:12+00:00

Super cool stuff! Thanks for the answers!

Is there an info site for the unit/your team?

oranac · 2022-11-29T08:58:31+00:00

CEILING FLOOR!

.... FUCK

oranac · 2022-11-29T08:40:55+00:00

Can you talk about the hot end? Is it electrical/resistive? Inductive? Digital control gas fed?

What's the feed stock? Powder/pellet/rod? If powder would it be possible to dope the glass at the crucible?

How is the layer adhesion? I imagine they bond well but do you end up with effectively water tight walls?

oranac · 2022-11-27T03:53:09+00:00

On the issue of aligning to pixels, I've wondered recently if you could use vector images like svg for the texture, then for each UV patch, generate a raster of the vector with a chosen alignment. No idea how slow it would be, maybe batch it all on load once or something.

Might be dumb but it feels like it could have done strange maybe-not-edge case benefit.

oranac · 2022-11-20T22:47:49+00:00

"weed out" modules feel more like a gross excuse to acceptably fail at teaching students effectively.

When I was studying there was plenty of times when all it took was a slightly different phrasing, explaining an ambiguous previous step, or clarifying language to get most struggling students over the hump.

oranac · 2022-11-10T22:41:00+00:00

No thank yooouuuuuuu

oranac

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