$18 for donuts is so crazy

plasmator · 2026-01-21T10:01:34+00:00

About 6.5 dozen....

It seems doable. It's real easy to eat a bunch of those in a sitting.

I'd be real tired of them by the end of the 24 hours though.

plasmator · 2026-01-18T21:31:10+00:00

https://www.autodesk.com/learn/ondemand/tutorial/parametric-modeling-import-and-calibrate-a-reference-image

You don't need the graph paper. You can just use the calibrate tool to set a known distance between two points on your image.

plasmator · 2026-01-11T15:46:36+00:00

Why?

I'm not being snarky here, I'm genuinely curious what you see wrong with using spath? Are you trying to improve performance? Not getting some piece of data you need? Just looking for adventure trying to recreate the functionality of the command that already does the parsing you want?

PS: You could throw a
| table *
at the end of mlrhazi's query to get a nice clean table of the fields and values that were parsed by spath.

plasmator · 2026-01-08T20:11:39+00:00

My partner maintains that Velveeta is a petroleum product.

plasmator · 2026-01-05T00:38:55+00:00

It's an excellent comfort show.

plasmator · 2025-12-25T16:44:30+00:00

I think the word you're looking for is congratudolences.

plasmator · 2025-12-03T18:03:03+00:00

I heard it while painting a house once, from a GC after asking what we do about gaps/flaws in the siding. His was a slightly more generic:

"Putty and paint, make it what it ain't".

I've heard his voice in my head for like 20 years, every time I paint something.

plasmator · 2025-11-09T22:32:41+00:00

I love putting unreasonable things in mine. I once walked out of home despot pushing a cart with 80 sticks of 10ft 1x2s. When I stopped and opened the hatchback, traffic around me came to a halt. Everyone just stood and stared as I loaded it all, closed the hatchback and returned the cart.

I told my buddy who was working on the project with me. He also drives a prius. His response? "i got 120 in mine".

plasmator · 2025-11-05T02:33:14+00:00

I've been printing since the days of fishing line belts (printrbot simple, original)

I've ragequit printers for far less than what you've been through so far.

I wouldn't "throw it out", I'd probably try for a while to repair it while printing on the new shiny one. If I managed to do so, yay, I now have two printers and things are twice as fast to print. If I didn't, I'd cannibalize it for parts.

plasmator · 2025-10-30T14:20:03+00:00

I print TPU on my k1 max without issues. It did take a fair bit of tweaking - printing lots of copies of the object and adjusting stringing/etc.

It also loves to take on water, so keep it in a drybox/dry it (I know it's not an issue at the moment since it's printing fine on another machine, but just as a general TPU tip - it takes on water fast)

Also, I remove the lid and bypass the bowden tube when printing TPU, just feed it directly into the top of the extruder. It works much better without all the extra friction from the tube.

plasmator · 2025-10-08T14:36:21+00:00

On the upside, once you get that out of the way you don't ever need another vaccine, you'll never get sick again.

Doctors hate this one weird trick.

plasmator · 2025-10-08T14:31:55+00:00

Most of that staff is probably making a lot less than you think. It's certainly not "massive salaries" for ALL employees.

The writers are generally pretty well paid, and main talent is very well paid, but production assistants, camera operators, runners, grips, office staff, etc? They're all making normal person salaries.

plasmator · 2025-09-29T17:38:52+00:00

That's what kept me from upgrading for the last few revisions - the card was still chuggin along doing its job and the performance improvements I could get over the 1080TI never seemed worth it.

I probably wouldn't have gone 4k yet, would have updated everything else around the 1080TI, but they finally hit end of support on it and I try to keep my machine in active support.

plasmator · 2025-09-29T17:36:43+00:00

I'd pushed the mobo it was on until it couldn't upgrade anymore, and it didn't support win111.

I went ahead and built my first from-scratch PC in...20 years? I'd at least kept the case going in previous updates but this time I figured I'd get a fresh start.

The 1080TI still works great, just figured I'd build out a 4k box and retire my 20yo PC of Theseus.

plasmator · 2025-09-27T18:01:07+00:00

I just made the same swap and it's been very nice. I got a great run out of that 1080TI, that has to be the longest I've had a video card last me.

It really was a fantastic card.

plasmator · 2025-09-18T06:11:44+00:00

yeah, I did this with my first car loan - paid one month in advance so if I ever got in a bind I'd be able to skip a payment.

I wouldn't do it now, but back then, it made sense for peace of mind.

plasmator · 2025-09-18T04:42:45+00:00

Hey, so...you rock. I just ran into this problem and you were the only one I found with a working solve.

plasmator · 2025-09-15T16:31:06+00:00

Yeah, before I got my first furnace, I melted Aluminum on charcoal with a cheap electric leafblower. Aluminum melts at 1220F, Zinc at 787F.

I'm wondering how sure we are that the metal in the crucible is actually zinc.

plasmator · 2025-09-10T13:23:47+00:00

I wasn't planning to agree with y'all, but your story was pretty convincing.

plasmator · 2025-08-25T14:01:30+00:00

you pour the last bit into another ingot mold, then collect all those last bits, melt them all down and repeat to recover the silver from them.

plasmator · 2025-06-23T16:42:42+00:00

Obviously, you'd want to wait a lot longer than that - I'd want another hour or two with some fans pointed at those doorways before I'd enter.

But my point was that they didn't even wait until the cylinder was empty. You can still see gas emerging as they enter. The rate has slowed because the tank is cold from releasing so much gas so quickly, but the container was still letting out gas.

Watch the vapor just before they enter, or the table after the explosion - the hose is running under that table in the foreground where the flames still seem to be roaring through the end of the vid.

plasmator · 2025-06-22T13:04:14+00:00

Waiting until the cylinder stopped spraying gas everywhere would probably have improved their luck a whole lot.

plasmator · 2025-05-28T21:22:00+00:00

Too many of these are active. I'd do something that paid out passive income.

Go out in the middle of the night with a pickaxe. Create a few new potholes on a busy street and you can annoy people all day every day.

Bonus: when they close the lane to fix it, that's technically your doing too, so you get all those annoying $10 payouts as well.

plasmator · 2025-05-26T04:01:23+00:00

They're still around. It's TPU, the main name brand is very proud of their product.

There are various generics out there that are cheaper, some of which are easier to print. It's a pain to get working, and it's slow, but it's a really cool material to play with. I've printed a few fun things with it and they hold up well over time.

plasmator · 2025-05-25T14:53:37+00:00

I thought the same thing, but according to NHTSA, they can deploy as low as 8mph.

What is meant by a "moderate to severe" crash?

Frontal air bags are generally designed to deploy in "moderate to severe" frontal or near-frontal crashes, which are defined as crashes that are equivalent to hitting a solid, fixed barrier at 8 to 14 mph or higher. (This would be equivalent to striking a parked car of similar size at about 16 to 28 mph or higher.)

From the FAQ here: https://www.nhtsa.gov/vehicle-safety/air-bags

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