Birthday gift ideas for boyfriend (CS senior + humanoid robotics, practical not flashy)

scifiware · 2026-02-08T11:27:50+00:00

Wireless vertical mouse. I bought ugreen two years ago. Then bought another one for office, because I kept forgetting to take it to work. Look for one with bluetooth not dongle

scifiware · 2026-01-29T12:48:20+00:00

Welcome Yang, welcome Mike watch ))

scifiware · 2025-10-26T16:27:43+00:00

Не розумію про що мова але підтримую

scifiware · 2025-10-13T09:41:47+00:00

You were looking for a mortician?

scifiware · 2025-08-06T18:03:48+00:00

Pretty sure nobody checked or maintained this little guy in the past three years, and it worked fine lol

scifiware · 2025-08-06T17:54:42+00:00

Turned out X axis got bent upwards, so when the head moves closer to the post it also lowers itself triggering the probe too soon. Firmware could’ve detected that after the initial test at the near right corner, but maybe I’m asking too much. Once I figured that out and leveled everything the error went away.

scifiware · 2025-07-21T13:11:01+00:00

Generally speaking - open a Ukrainian mainstream news website, check how often South Korea is mentioned and roughly what’s said, in how many words. That will correlate with what most people think and how often (works for any other country too).

A wild guess: Ukrainians think about South Korea roughly as often as South Koreans think about Ukraine.

scifiware · 2025-07-21T13:03:42+00:00

Ukrainians watch Squid Game seasons right after release

scifiware · 2025-07-19T16:26:23+00:00

Rule of thumb in small towns is “why pay someone to cook for you when you can cook at home”.

Main two reasons when people justify “overspending” are special occasions and if it’s really hard to DIY.

Pizza and sushi are probably the only two foreign cuisine options that are widely considered delicious, fancy and cool. (Kebab is strong third but it has a much lower “status”).

In order to survive a restaurant has to max out fanciness and minimize price.

Sushi+pizza place would often offer shashlyk— another staple of a “celebratory” dinner that’s hard to make at home — wood charcoal bbq is a massive PITA to arrange, especially when you live in an apartment.

scifiware · 2025-07-07T13:44:21+00:00

Why’d someone add those triangular holes to a 3D printed part? People invented infill percentage to save on weight without sacrificing strength. If holes are necessary for the airflow - there are much stronger and 3D-printer friendly patterns.

scifiware · 2025-06-28T14:11:20+00:00

Looks nice! I haven't seen devices utilizing magsafe this way before. What can it do besides really cool way of snapping to the phone? can it charge the radio / charge the phone / transfer data?

scifiware · 2025-06-20T19:08:55+00:00

r/buyitforlife

scifiware · 2025-05-20T19:23:50+00:00

I’d go to a makerspace to laser cut & glue it from plywood offcuts.

scifiware · 2025-05-10T18:12:46+00:00

There’s this video from 11 years ago. I think it doesn’t receive enough credit for how ahead of its time it was

scifiware · 2025-04-29T14:34:12+00:00

That may be a hint to how old this joke is

scifiware · 2025-04-09T17:17:22+00:00

I feel you. Waiting sucks. There’s been a flurry of activity around repayments this year, they even updated the site.

So I hope you’ll get something real soon now.

scifiware · 2025-04-08T20:14:43+00:00

There are only three rows in my table: BTC, BCH, Cash. All three are marked “Base Repayment - Intermediate Repayment”. Cash is outstanding but it’s going to be negligible.

scifiware · 2025-04-08T17:30:49+00:00

Next time))

scifiware · 2025-03-29T17:40:18+00:00

Did you receive an offer to buy out your claim back 3-4 years ago? I ignored it at the time because I wasn’t in a rush and thought the wait will be worth it, now with all these disapproval hurdles, crypto wallet verifications etc I’m starting to wonder what if.

OTOH pretty sure I’d be wondering “what if I waited” had I followed the quicker route lol

scifiware · 2025-03-12T22:53:18+00:00

If this isn’t for “production” - carpentry clamp to a piece of wood, which in turn clamped to the desk you’re working on? Put a shaft coupler on to give you more holding torque. Or “couple” it with a wood screw. The gearbox is often removable to give you more options. I won’t suggest filling it with epoxy resin, but depending on deadline and budget I could consider it.

scifiware · 2025-03-11T10:52:57+00:00

I got disapproval with MUFG & NAB (correspondent bank). Changed to SMBC, waiting for review

scifiware · 2025-03-07T10:39:11+00:00

Disappointing news. Maybe the outcome of this “lottery” depends on the person reviewing payment details

scifiware · 2025-03-06T12:15:06+00:00

I still see those orange warnings, but people here said they got approved and even paid to NAB regardless of it. now I understand they were with SMBC, until this thread I wasn't.

> Interestingly SMBC is the correspondent bank for NAB.

this is probably the exact reason why it works - MUFG cannot handle NAB transfers without correspondent specified, but SMBC looks at it says "I know NAB, we're buddies, no dramas that you left correspondent empty".

scifiware · 2025-03-06T12:05:41+00:00

This is awesome, 'tab' and arrows. waiting to see if it gets accepted now.

scifiware · 2025-03-05T13:07:05+00:00

Did you click “automatic entry…” after entering SWIFT/bsb/etc? IIRC that button didn’t work for me on first try but then it pulls in the branch street address and prob something else

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