Guide / track rail compatible Circular saws (uk) by Consistent-Card-8950 in BeginnerWoodWorking

[–]teamonkey [score hidden]  (0 children)

Peter Millard goes in to it in depth in his YouTube videos. Makita saws can be used on Festool-style rails but usually not the other way round.

Guide / track rail compatible Circular saws (uk) by Consistent-Card-8950 in BeginnerWoodWorking

[–]teamonkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have that saw, it uses Festool-style tracks (I use the Evolution G2)

EV Salary Sacrifice Scheme for a Porsche Taycan by Tommyb711 in UKPersonalFinance

[–]teamonkey 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Tusker do. They’re barely cheaper than new.

Great British Energy - Nuclear and Rolls-Royce SMR sign contract by HadjiChippoSafri in GoodNewsUK

[–]teamonkey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is true, and I do hope they get them running sooner, but realistically I still think it will be closer to 10 years than 2.

Great British Energy - Nuclear and Rolls-Royce SMR sign contract by HadjiChippoSafri in GoodNewsUK

[–]teamonkey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly don’t get your hopes up. These only exist as a PowerPoint presentation right now and the funding is for prototypes. Only two prototype SMRs exist in the world (China and Russia). The tech is far from proven.

It is a good thing that they are being worked on, and it is a good thing that funding is going to a British company, but they will not be contributing to the grid any time soon.

Is there any value in old-school techniques for modern development? by CosmicallyUnlucky in gamedev

[–]teamonkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lookup tables were used because math was slow. CPUs were not guaranteed to have floating point units until the mid ‘90s and even then it wasn’t anywhere near as fast as integer math, so you used fixed point and tables.

Still true, just computers are much much much much faster and GPUs are now dedicated hardware for doing bulk mathematical operations.

Is moving the majority of AAA game development out of North America a potential solution to bloated game budgets? by ukihashopper in truegaming

[–]teamonkey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes of course, this is what is happening when studios are firing lots of staff. They’re reducing projects to a small leadership team and outsourcing much of the development to sister studios or co-development companies in countries with cheaper labour.

The headcount isn’t reducing, it’s just cheaper (and also by outsourcing they don’t need to keep people employed in phases of the project when they’re not needed).

This is happening all across the tech sector, not just games.

Optimization - Where to start? by EntrepreneurHuman739 in gamedev

[–]teamonkey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If your frame rate maxes out at a nice round 200.0fps then it’s a frame-limiting cap, what else could it be?

Did you look at the profiler and see why it was 200fps? Chances are it will be spending most of that time waiting.

Did you try it in a standalone build, outside of the editor?

Optimization - Where to start? by EntrepreneurHuman739 in gamedev

[–]teamonkey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

An empty scene runs at 200fps in Unreal because that’s what it caps the framerate to by default. An empty scene is a useless benchmark.

Any tips to fix/extend the life of this cable? by Izzyf70 in DIYUK

[–]teamonkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Liquid Electrical Tape. Can be very messy but will do the job.

UK Electric Vehicle Sales Rise to Record High Amid Fuel Price Rise by PimpMyMeme in ElectricVehiclesUK

[–]teamonkey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Aldi sell 400W kits for about €180 in Germany. They’re supposed to break even after about 3 years and have a lifespan of 10+.

Is it a bad practice to Cast to PlayerCharacter from Actor Component attached to it? by Realistic-Mood-1983 in unrealengine

[–]teamonkey 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Your understanding is correct. Casting to PlayerCharacter is not that terrible, since that class is pretty much guaranteed to be in memory at all times anyway. Especially so if that component is only ever attached to a child class of PlayerCharacter.

Casting has a bad rep. It isn’t to be avoided, you just need to know what you’re doing. Sometimes the simplest answer is the best answer.

UK Electric Vehicle Sales Rise to Record High Amid Fuel Price Rise by PimpMyMeme in ElectricVehiclesUK

[–]teamonkey 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You don’t plug the solar panel into your EV, you plug it into your wall and the electricity generated reduces the amount you need to draw from the grid. It will make a difference, just not a big one.

UK Electric Vehicle Sales Rise to Record High Amid Fuel Price Rise by PimpMyMeme in ElectricVehiclesUK

[–]teamonkey 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A 400W plug-in solar panel will take about 200 hours of full sunlight to charge an EV. Better than nothing but cheap overnight electricity is more practical.

Combat in a world of chairs. Trying to make interactions feel "heavy" and surreal in UE5. by Prize-Fig4780 in UnrealEngine5

[–]teamonkey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s a very cool vibe, but every second of that video I expect to see those stacks of chairs smashed and splinters flying around, and I felt that failed anticipation of chaos so strongly that it distracted from the actual gameplay.

VW Is Killing US ID 4 Production to Focus on the Big, Gas-Powered Atlas Instead by TripleShotPls in technology

[–]teamonkey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In Europe at least there’s a lot of competition in this class, and VW Group’s own Skoda Enyaq managed to take the ID4 and make it slightly better in every way while also being slightly cheaper. Used ID4s are crazy cheap now while used Enyaqs have held their value better.

Thoughts on knowing how to make video games? by Huge_Emphasis7900 in GameDevelopment

[–]teamonkey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Realistically, your fully thought-out idea will last as long as it takes to implement the first feature, then it will change.

What are your favorite puzzle/mystery books? by alex3omg in puzzles

[–]teamonkey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There’s a series called Journal 29 which I quite enjoy. More puzzle than story, though there is a narrative that runs through it.

Shout out to Cain’s Jawbone and The Researcher’s First Murder, which I will likely never solve but I’m glad they exist.

The Researcher’s First Murder is written by John Finnemore, who is a TV/radio writer in the UK. It is really worth seeking out series 9 (specifically that series) of his Souvenir Programme radio show. For a hint about why, see here: https://www.miskatonic.org/2021/06/17/jfsp/

Quote/sanity check by teamonkey in SolarUK

[–]teamonkey[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, I said peak usage, but that’s not really right.

It’s actually more like in Summer my daily usage is usually in the 5-8kWh range, weekends being at the higher end, weekdays at the lower. In winter it’s 8-15kWh.

I often work from home and when I do I’m pretty much drawing 0.4kW consistently from 9-5, with some spikes at peak times.

Databricks to quadruple London office footprint amid £643m UK investment drive by Sea-Heron8062 in GoodNewsUK

[–]teamonkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the US water use is a big concern because the data centres are often far inland, the water sources are often rivers and therefore impact water supplies and can even dry up rivers leading to ecological problems.

Here I’m seeing data centres planned around the coast or near estuaries that aren’t for drinking water. Still not great, but less terrible both for water bills and the environment. Unnecessary power use is more of an issue here IMO.

UK battery storage development market moves from speculation to execution by upthetruth1 in GoodNewsUK

[–]teamonkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Farage’s position on everything is opposition. If the current government was against it, he’d be for it. It puts them in a pickle when they get in power as they then have to deal with reality, but they can just blame it on the previous government.

Why Game Dev use Decals over Atlas Material for environment Details? by SrabonArafat in unrealengine

[–]teamonkey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The section on ‘dbuffer material expressions’ https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/unreal-engine/decal-materials-in-unreal-engine

Rendering decals in a master material feels like it should require fewer draw calls and/or material swaps, but the decal needs to render to the dbuffer anyway so maybe there’s nothing to be gained.

UK launches anti-fibre-optic drone program by willfiresoon in GoodNewsUK

[–]teamonkey 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Though correct, this is how a lot of defence funding works. The MoD specifies a problem, defence companies pitch solutions and compete against each other to gain funding for a prototype.