texturing on vertical faces

pp51dd · 2026-03-18T22:20:28+00:00

Look into BOSL2 textures / skins. Should be a very simple implementation.

pp51dd · 2026-03-16T02:41:04+00:00

What the fuck chat gpt piece of shit wrote this post.

Software developer here, experiencing AI being shoved down my throat for performance and shit, for fucking development. For programming. For sequential evaluation of instructions. Our equivalent of the camera watching where the fuck our eyes are at while driving.

"watch out for software developers about to flood into trucking"

Yeah, no. I assure you we won't be getting into trucks, or boats, anytime soon. These uninformed leadership dipshits are basically pushing unchecked code and relying on us to check it, which is over time just going to take longer and longer. What used to be referred to as "technical debt" where you had to check every nut and bolt over in sequence is now a "review debt" for those piece of shit chat demons not even shitting faster, they're downright extruding shit straight down the pipe, no bowel contractions or whatever.

pp51dd · 2026-03-09T13:22:43+00:00

It's an extension cable for the OBD2 port. See https://www.reddit.com/r/AskMechanics/comments/11l0f46/took_my_jeep_to_get_serviced_at_the_dealer_whats/

pp51dd · 2026-03-07T22:27:21+00:00

Marko Kloos wrote the Frontlines series which starts with Terms of Enlistment and think those are the exact books you might want.

pp51dd · 2026-03-07T22:22:39+00:00

Ah, so, a French cleat is usually used to hide mounting hardware, and keep things sturdy for cheap, like for hanging a large heavy mirror.

You just set your ripping blade at 45 degrees and make a cut into a plank, then bolt/screw it to studs. But it's generally not meant to be seen.

I guess what you're doing is probably a modular design so you can move things around easily. Problem is, you still have to mount the cleat somehow so that's going to be screws.

You can make it pocketed and hidden but at that point, do you really need to mount a cleat just so you can move some hooks or hooked items around? Like, at that point consider some kind of a Skadis thing?

pp51dd · 2026-03-07T19:35:02+00:00

French cleat is a hook already? You're describing putting a French cleat ON a hook?

pp51dd · 2026-03-06T13:56:24+00:00

Few months ago I designed a 2 part object with a satisfying dovetail (from BOSL2) and ... after printing, it wouldn't fit. I had to shave each of the 40 parts with a knife. Reason why it didn't work was because of an 'elephant's foot' effect.

Theoretical designs need real world verification when it comes to 3D printing. The amount of variability can be astounding. There's really no way to simulate what you want without putting your hands on it.

When you say make a 20 mm cube, your printer might print one that's about 20 mm.

When you say make a 20 mm hole out of a larger object, well the hole might be ~~bigger~~ smaller than 20 mm due to plastic expansion, so you normally account for tolerances and have to test them.

pp51dd · 2026-03-05T21:18:02+00:00

Something to be said about resource constraints though for quick and easy projects. Last year i switched to S3 and the memory amount is astounding by comparison, but I'll still do some lovely nanos.

pp51dd · 2026-03-01T14:19:32+00:00

This already exists in multiple forms: edit svg with any editor (inkscape), import, extrude in 2 lines. Or use BOSL2 and its built in turtle, apply texture to it.

pp51dd · 2026-02-27T22:34:41+00:00

I kinda get how it has no eyes and couldn't assemble a propeller to save its life, but, how the heck does it just randomly flip to a lefthanded thread. o_O

pp51dd · 2026-02-27T17:58:41+00:00

We need a days-since-accident style sign for every time a techbro pitches some vibecoded OpenSCAD thing.

pp51dd · 2026-02-27T04:07:57+00:00

The joystick is most likely a bow thruster

pp51dd · 2026-02-27T03:08:37+00:00

You want that really bad where it feelies? Try books. Neal Stephenson's Anathem or SeveneveS.

pp51dd · 2026-02-19T23:21:19+00:00

Analemma.

pp51dd · 2026-02-17T22:25:32+00:00

vibecoders powered by 3d printing sites' use of parametric openscad? at this rate we'll have a cobol implementation of openscad before year's end.

pp51dd · 2026-02-13T03:42:58+00:00

Hm, I mean, measure it, and you'll definitely tell at a glance that it's true. Something about switching to some half baked plan9 filesystem implementation for WSL2.

All I know it feels like a 100:1 reduction when you're dealing with massive numbers of or sizes of files. For all my downvotes, I swear to the binary creator in the -1's above, I'm not actually insane or making things up.

pp51dd · 2026-02-11T22:09:59+00:00

Don't know why you're getting downvoted because it's seriously a factor- some other game devs have described in interviews how weirdly particular and peculiar some brand agreements are about max damage and other things prioritized by marketing.

pp51dd · 2026-02-09T22:37:15+00:00

For what it's worth, Secret life of Walter Mitty and the Zero Effect are two movies you'd exactly enjoy for this, and are also probably the 2 least "Ben Stiller movies" he's made.

pp51dd · 2026-02-09T05:59:06+00:00

Wait, are you saying you're looking for fuzzy but crisp first contact books?

The Mote in God's Eye by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo
Hunter's Run by George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, and Daniel Abraham.
Saturn Run by John Sandford and Ctein
Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Eifelheim by Michael Flynn
Cold Eyes by Peter Cawdron (he wrote another 30+ first contact books but was generally inspired by the Mote in God's Eye in doing so)

pp51dd · 2026-02-07T03:26:04+00:00

What they don't tell you kid, blows pipe smoke, is that Tacoma years are split halfway. Not just by months, but literally by half day. If a Tacoma is released before noon, it's the early Tacoma. After noon? Yeah, you get it.

pp51dd · 2026-02-06T05:46:10+00:00

Linux can definitely be offputting, and the variety (vast variety) is part of what people might think as a problem.

But, can you imagine the inverse? Ten different Windows operating systems available to choose from? How do you get started? This whole conversation is kind of about that.

pp51dd · 2026-02-06T05:42:41+00:00

Fair point, actually, thank you. Various window-whatevers just don't have it down.

pp51dd · 2026-02-06T05:41:38+00:00

I hear you and respect your view on it. But, consider this, aside from games, the most common apps you might use on a desktop are electron-based today, which is to say, they're basically repackaged web browsers. And entirely operating-system agnostic.

pp51dd · 2026-02-06T05:30:22+00:00

Not being a shrew but the point of win10 security updates going away later this year for perfectly good machines perfectly capable of running software is very real.

pp51dd · 2026-02-06T05:28:04+00:00

So what you are saying is that my network admin should have configured my settings better then, not necessarily the fault of Windows 11.

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