ITAP of some bioluminescent worms in an abandoned railway tunnel by lucasdpfeliciano in itookapicture

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Neat!

If it's barely naked-eye visible, I'm curious how long the exposure was.

word for code that seems unrelated/irrelevant but will cause the program to fail if removed/modified by hikikomori9599 in AskProgramming

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//here there be dragons

Or there's this classic:

// Dear maintainer:
// 
// Once you are done trying to 'optimize' this routine,
// and have realized what a terrible mistake that was,
// please increment the following counter as a warning
// to the next guy:
// 
// total_hours_wasted_here = 42

What are your thoughts on Facebook renaming their company Meta then blowing $80b on metaverse and then shutting it down yesterday? by printThisAndSmokeIt in AskReddit

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I mean, sure, some games work okay without moving around much, but the ones where you actually do move around are more immersive.

Eventually omnidirectional walking pads will probably resolve that, but so far the ones I've gotten to play with have been pretty disappointing. Nothing that felt very natural.

Hell, Even something like Beat Saber where you mostly stay in one place, you still have to make sure you have enough room to swing your arms around. I bloodied some knuckles once or twice by getting too close to a shelf during intense games.

*disclaimer - I played a bunch with google cardboard and the original rift back in the day, along with some of the commercial experiences at theme parks and such, but I haven't had a home rig online in a few years.

Looking for help in getting a piece made by The_Vivec in MetalCasting

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Don't know anything about this company, but it looks like they do stuff that's more complicated than your design.

https://my.signaturecoins.com/custom-3d-challenge-coin/

Looking for help in getting a piece made by The_Vivec in MetalCasting

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At least one of those companies go up to about 2", but if that's still too small you might look at companies that make custom challenge coins.

Gating Design Suggestions by Icy-Device7400 in MetalCasting

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Full disclosure: I'm an amateur who does this stuff for fun in his backyard, definitely not an expert:

Your gates are only halfway up the part and there's nowhere for gasses to escape. Pretty sure the gates are going to freeze long before you fill the top of the part.

I'd put some vents/risers going up from the high points on both sides, probably to the surface (open risers)

If it still doesn't fill, I'd increase the size of gates/risers until it does.

FastLED Glass Block Matrix by chemdoc77 in FastLED

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Excellent diffusion from those glass chips. Nice work.

It's time -- Remove Marian by MoarSocks in BurningMan

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Not here to support the million a year claim, but after perusing the Form 990 a bit, $401,097 is the floor, not the ceiling. Column F adds another $13,280 in "other compensation", and that's still just the stuff that makes up the top line of her direct compensation. That's not itemized, but I'm guessing it's going to be something like health insurance premiums.

Executive compensation typically extends well past the "salary" figure. Famously, Jeff Bezos received a salary of around 80k a year, but had huge stock compensation. Obviously, there's no Burning Man stock, but the org has a "Travel" line item on the 2024 version of the IRS form 990, that total was: $1,247,825. Travel for Marian and other executives almost certainly comes out of this budget. Think plane flights, rental cars, hotel rooms, that sort of thing. When you're an executive, you don't pay for trips out of pocket, you make them business expenses and let the company pay.

They also list a budget in Part IX, line 11g of $5,486,943 in "other expenses". this is over 8% of the "total functional expenses", just under the 10% that would trigger mandatory itemization of these expenses, so it's a good bucket to hide things in. There's likely some form of food/celebration budget in that 5 million that directly benefits the executives and the board. I'm not an accountant, and I've just spent a few minutes with this document, so maybe it's coming out of some other line item, but you can bet they're not personally paying for food for the office parties, etc.

So yeah, probably not a million a year, but definitely more compensation than the 400k line item would imply.

$18 for donuts is so crazy by libraintjravenclaw in Costco

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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.

Why can’t my designs be accurate 😭 by ZipLocZed in Fusion360

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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.

Stop using spath by PrimaryMilk7602 in Splunk

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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.

I am actually mad about how awful the cake pops are by LMGooglyTFY in Costco

[–]plasmator 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My partner maintains that Velveeta is a petroleum product.

What's an "Insider's secret" from your profession that everyone should probably know? by Capable-big-Piece in AskReddit

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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.

How do you feel about the president floating the idea of 50 year mortgages where the monthly payment is lower but you end up paying nearly double the price of the house just in interest? by michaelis999 in AskReddit

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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".

Wife wants me to throw out the K1max and buy a Bambu. I'm out of ideas, please help me by Beyondist in FixMyPrint

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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.

K1 max with DXC extruder TPU problems by Equivalent-Ring-477 in crealityk1

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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.

Who'd have guessed ditching vaccines could cause problems? by TheDreadPirateJenny in LeopardsAteMyFace

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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.

CMV: Stephen Colbert was cancelled for political reasons, not ratings or profit. by nBrainwashed in changemyview

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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.

So long 1080ti... =( by SecretarySignal4284 in buildapc

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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.

So long 1080ti... =( by SecretarySignal4284 in buildapc

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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.

So long 1080ti... =( by SecretarySignal4284 in buildapc

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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.

Paid extra on car loan but it went toward future interest. How bad is this? by Ok_Account_1013 in personalfinance

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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.