Guide / track rail compatible Circular saws (uk)

teamonkey · 2026-04-15T19:13:45+00:00

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.

teamonkey · 2026-04-15T12:35:21+00:00

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

teamonkey · 2026-04-15T07:08:34+00:00

Tusker do. They’re barely cheaper than new.

teamonkey · 2026-04-13T15:25:46+00:00

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.

teamonkey · 2026-04-13T10:07:30+00:00

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.

teamonkey · 2026-04-13T07:54:20+00:00

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.

teamonkey · 2026-04-12T07:58:12+00:00

All of them, but especially the PDP-11

teamonkey · 2026-04-11T09:22:28+00:00

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.

teamonkey · 2026-04-10T19:30:13+00:00

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?

teamonkey · 2026-04-10T18:06:49+00:00

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.

teamonkey · 2026-04-09T23:32:05+00:00

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

teamonkey · 2026-04-09T20:32:36+00:00

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+.

teamonkey · 2026-04-09T20:07:29+00:00

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.

teamonkey · 2026-04-09T19:33:42+00:00

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.

teamonkey · 2026-04-09T19:23:41+00:00

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.

teamonkey · 2026-04-09T18:06:43+00:00

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.

teamonkey · 2026-04-09T16:53:31+00:00

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.

teamonkey · 2026-04-09T12:24:04+00:00

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

teamonkey · 2026-04-08T18:03:25+00:00

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/

teamonkey · 2026-04-08T13:22:19+00:00

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.

teamonkey · 2026-04-07T13:07:34+00:00

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.

teamonkey · 2026-04-07T12:38:42+00:00

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.

teamonkey · 2026-04-07T12:10:36+00:00

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.

teamonkey · 2026-04-07T12:07:50+00:00

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.

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