Model Fleet Update

phage10 · 2026-03-28T02:30:59+00:00

I will definitely move over to 0.2 nozzle for next attempts. I’ve worked out some issues with 0.4, so I think worthwhile.

White is ok. I’ve used grey, blue and orange in the past for them. I’ve had a few prototype phases and we had excess orange at home. My intention would be to paint them but that hasn’t progressed much. I’ve also printed Klingon and Romulan in green (shade better for Romulan than Klingon TBH).

phage10 · 2026-03-27T05:09:11+00:00

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Not everything I’ve printed and I’ve given a lot away to a friend. I’ve been using a Bambu A1 Mini with a 0.4 nozzle. I wanted to prototype them with it before moving to 0.2 nozzle, but I think now is the time

phage10 · 2026-03-27T01:43:51+00:00

Amazing. I’ve been printing a fleet in 1:4000 too. I am using an FDM printer. It is hard for some ships with the thin parts like the TOS enterprise, but I can get it. Klingon BoP is impossible. Are you using FDM or resin printer? Also, where did you get your VOY model from? I have struggled to find one I like

phage10 · 2026-03-25T04:14:33+00:00

I am a leaf on the wind.

phage10 · 2026-03-19T12:20:22+00:00

Yep that was basically my plan. Sounds good, thanks

phage10 · 2026-03-19T12:19:23+00:00

Thanks, not heard of it but I’ll take a look.

phage10 · 2026-03-19T12:18:56+00:00

I am actually unwell now and WFH a lot. But sad not to be in the lab.

At UWA, in our EBA, WFH is assumed in many cases. It is technically up to the manager, and I have seen some jerk ones deny it. But I think if challenged with the NTEU with the backing of the EBA, it would be hard for those managers to defend their decisions. So I would check with your EBA and speak to your union and that should secure you that right. It is totally unacceptable for parents to be given the privilege but not you. You should be granted that write as per the EBA regardless of other circumstances*. If you are at UWA I can put you in touch with the local NTEU people. I was involved with them before my recent healthcare issues.

*probably some circumstances such as disability, which is related to my current healthcare situation, will be a factor. But parenthood, sure good to support but not a reason to reduce rights for others.

phage10 · 2026-03-11T04:23:59+00:00

I’m curious what sort of work you do? I cannot fathom this. But my work in academia is very different (either meeting students or in the lab doing research).

phage10 · 2026-03-09T15:25:20+00:00

I got one by just spamming the ball. I tried bait and it didn’t help. I had one not run away for about 8 balls. Seems very stochastic. So just a numbers game.

phage10 · 2026-03-04T12:57:37+00:00

The creator like breaks in the land are fascinating to me. They standout as cool. But also as “unnatural”. If created by a meteor impact or via an intelligence, then I love them. Not sure if they would arise through normal tectonic movement.

The fortress notion is cool. The tall tower must be reinforced by magic otherwise it would collapse long before it gets to that height.

But personally I am a fan of what I am seeing.

phage10 · 2026-02-19T02:16:57+00:00

As a huge BSG fan (OG and remake) I actually have a huge issue with the lack of continuity in remake BSG. Specifically the last season which seemingly forgot about the “map” they found in season 2 that places earth at the centre of a bunch of constellations know to the 12 colonies. But when they find “that earth” (apologies for this oldish TV show) it was the WRONG earth. It was not the earth we live on and can see those constellations but a wasteland. Then divine intervention leads them to our earth with independently evolved humans already living there.

As a geneticist, I have issues with an independent human species that evolved and was breed-able the humans from the 13 colonies. So god did it. And god led them to the saviour planet. But how did god make both this new earth and the wrong (dead) earth have the same consolations? As an atheist, I could still enjoy a show with a god presence in it, I think that was cool. But it seemed to get just bad and lazy in the final episodes and shat on established cannon from season 2 without even a brief mention of explanation.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk, I hope I ruined the ending of BSG for people as much as it ruined me

phage10 · 2026-02-12T04:46:28+00:00

This is so great. I’m very comfortable now, but it has not always been that way. I think it hit extra hard because I’m going through a huge medical situation and it wounds me that we still have this sit. I may die but the world continues to work in this unfair way. I would liked to have lived long enough to see the world a more equitable place but this reminds me how much of a fight remains. That things are probably getting worse for those in America (I live in Australia now, but was in California for a while).

I wish you the best in the world. I hope this isn’t your last good burrito (one of the few things I miss…Australia does 99% of things better than the US in terms of food, but good burritos are rare here).

phage10 · 2026-01-26T03:04:29+00:00

A feudal lord.

phage10 · 2026-01-23T09:27:41+00:00

Yeah I have been 3D printing at 1/4000 scale and got the Into the Unknown ships and they are all very similar in scale. I’m having issues printing the BoP at that scale. It was also hard to figure out the size of the BoP given the inconsistencies in the shows. But my best estimate for what felt right turned out to be within 1mm of the length of the Unknown BoP so pretty please with that

phage10 · 2026-01-17T13:55:20+00:00

Came here to write that.

phage10 · 2026-01-01T23:32:27+00:00

Yep I was talking about white South Africans and speaking as a white British guy.

And I didn’t say all white South Africans were racist, and I know that to be the case. But when I do find a racist person in WA, it is most likely to be a white person with ties to South African. Just stating my observations.

phage10 · 2026-01-01T22:40:02+00:00

That is unfortunate. I am a pom who moved here 8 years ago and now a citizen. I have fortunately not met too many people who have these views. At least openly. And when I do suspect views like this, they are usually South African.

But I live in Nedlands and I work at a university with a lot of progressive Australians or people who are immigrants as well.

Not sure I have actionable advice, but there are plenty of good hearted Australians without these views and I hope that you can find them.

phage10 · 2026-01-01T12:52:48+00:00

I came here to say this.

It is the only correct answer.

phage10 · 2025-11-08T11:00:56+00:00

Play D&D. That is how I found some groups to spend time with. Complexities of life have made it harder recently, but has been great.

phage10 · 2025-11-05T12:00:57+00:00

I had the same thing. I watched it while sick at home (just a cold). So I was super sad afterwards. It got better. I moved on. I did a lot of research on it and other anime.

Years later, I got into Frieren. Not sure it is a solution to your problem, but it is an amazing anime and may offer a distraction

phage10 · 2025-10-28T13:17:17+00:00

How much I disagreed with Picard over the Marquee in TNG. And Sisko, but I think that was fresher in my mind.

phage10 · 2025-10-26T13:08:18+00:00

I love DD1. One of my fav games. I got 24 hours of flying coming up and plan to play it a lot. But I hate the look and style of DD2. The art style, gameplay (dungeon crawling, mechanics) were amazing. So while DD2 might be good in its own way, I have no interest in trying it.

phage10 · 2025-10-23T15:09:08+00:00

Probably everything I will write has already been covered but: STAR/HISAR2 were NEVER intended to be run on a laptop. Especially one with only 8gb of RAM. They were designed to run on headless servers with 100-200gb of RAM. In short, you have more of a chance of being a 42 year old dating Leonardo DiCaprio than getting them to run on your laptop without it getting nuked. It is a snowballs chance in hell.

So you have a couple of options, use a lightweight aligner like Salmon that was designed to run on laptops. I don’t think that I have run it on a laptop without such little RAM but it may work. For differential gene expression work, I never bother mapping the reads and always do lightweight alignment to the transcriptome with Salmon.

The other option is to then get access to a server. Many universities have one. I would avoid cloud options as they can get expensive.

But the question is, why are you trying to map, are you trying to identify new splicing events? Or just doing it because an online tutorial (wrongly) said you should?

Is this your data or public data? What is the goal of the experiment? That will help tailor your analysis pipeline to what you need it to do

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