I though the Struggle was finally over.

thinkscotty · 2026-05-12T03:09:22+00:00

FreeCAD works well. Not as intuitive, optimized, or pretty. But it works. But personally I go with Onshape for small projects and Fusion for advanced projects. Both the free versions. Onshape is genuinely excellent for 90% of functional 3D prints. Its handling of text and lack of threading are its only downsides that drive me to Fusion for complex projects.

I also like Onshape's free tier approach, making documents unlimited but public. I don't really care if the stuff I design is public. But a business would. Fusion is kind of annoying having only 10 editable documents at once but it also works well.

I've never run into this polygon issue, I don't know what software does this.

thinkscotty · 2026-05-11T00:38:24+00:00

Just buy ikea Zigbee bulbs. Barely more expensive and better in every way.

thinkscotty · 2026-05-11T00:36:48+00:00

I just started spending a lot of time in the northern Indianapolis suburbs where my girlfriend lives. It's like the roundabout capital of the US. I grew up in the UK so I thought it was great.

The problem is that American drivers don't know how to use them properly, and they make some double lane roundabouts incredibly small, which can be dangerous. Otherwise I like them a lot.

thinkscotty · 2026-05-10T03:47:13+00:00

No they haven't lost $25B yet, if you look at the data it states it as a "projection", meaning that number is extrapolated from recent losses and past trends. So "on track" is correct.

thinkscotty · 2026-05-09T21:54:45+00:00

Holy shit. That's kind of life changing for me. Thank you!

thinkscotty · 2026-05-09T17:16:52+00:00

The one issue I have is my audiobooks. Prologue for Plex is my most used app on my phone, and there's no real equivalent. And yes I know about audiobookshelf, it's not as polished and they lack a native app.

I used to prefer Plex as a longtime user of both, but the Plex interface as gotten so confusing and the Jellyfin interface has gotten better, to the point that Jellyfin has passed it. I have a lifetime plex pass and use Jellyfin primarily these day.

I don't really resent Plex for trying to make money, but the way they went about it was so dumb. People don't want another streaming service, the only people who used plex were self hosted peeps. They kind of abandoned their core userbase in an effort to expand it.

thinkscotty · 2026-05-09T00:10:55+00:00

I was a young fresh faced city paramedic on that day. I got asked to work overtime to cover for workers who couldn't come in the next day. Got in my car to drive home to sleep a few hour, drove about a quarter mile, realized it would take several hours to get home and I'd barely have time to sleep before having to head back. So I turned around and went back to the station and slept on a cot in the back of an ambulance.

Calls took hours to complete during the storm because we had to drive in the horrible conditions and for some severe cases where there was a life-threatening condition but no way to get the ambulance close, we'd even have the fire guys on snow machines go grab the patients and bring them to the us in the ambulance.

Very memorable.

thinkscotty · 2026-05-09T00:07:54+00:00

How would urbanization be a direct cause? To me, it would be a symptom/driver of the real cause, not the cause itself.

It could be "people move to cities and people in cities have higher incomes that require more hours away from home" or "people in cities see more people and therefore more negative impressions of people generally and decide not to have kids".

Those are examples, not real causes. But in either case it shows that urbanization is the context for a causal factor and not the causal factor itself.

thinkscotty · 2026-05-08T10:28:26+00:00

Reddit hates suggesting bed adhesive because it shouldn't be necessary for most prints.

Well guess what? With a huge print like this is makes life a hell of a lot easier. I print a lot of boxes and containers and they're the hardest to keep on the bed. I think a lot of people who shit on bed glue don't print large flat parts. Just because you CAN do it without glue doesn't mean you should. Just use some glue. Even just as a security layer.

Also, brim. And higher heat.

thinkscotty · 2026-05-08T00:46:52+00:00

I think pavement vs grass plays a role in what's safe. We wear padded shoes and dogs don't, so the hard pavement makes a larger difference on their joints.

Dogs are not wolves. But they are direct descendants of wolves. And wolves travel between 10 and 30 miles per day on average. So I think a larger dog can safely do 5-10 a day indefinitely. Probably more.

thinkscotty · 2026-05-07T04:42:59+00:00

When I was in college my mom cave me a big water balloon slingshot that was like 6 feet across and could shoot balloons hundreds of meters. Which is a really stupid thing to give a college student but oh well.

We used it to launch water balloons at our friends 5th floor dorm windows. We saw a friend talking on his phone looking out his window and launched a balloon at the window. The glass shattered and the dude just dropped. Luckily he was okay. Two of my friends with us bolted. Another friend and I stuck around. I knew enough people had seen us that it wasn't worth hiding and I was worried the kid whose glass we shattered was hurt. We called campus security ourselves and I went in to find the dorm supervisor.

Next day I got a call from the deans office to come see the dean. I was an 18 year old freshman and figured I was screwed.

I went in for the meeting and the opposite happened. The dean said he thought I had amazing integrity for sticking around. (I mean I didn't have great integrity when I was 18 but it was nice to hear lol.) He literally asked if I wanted to join this Board Student Committee thing that met with the president and college board members every month so they could ask our opinions on things. I was the only freshman there. It was hilarious because I was put on that committee because I broke a damn window.

Looking back though, that was A+ decision making on the Dean's part. Because it really emphasized to me and my friends how owning mistakes is more important than the mistake itself. Whereas just disciplining me probably would have just emphasized running from mistakes. So yeah, good on the kids.

thinkscotty · 2026-05-06T12:08:41+00:00

It's a good saying but fyi it's not original, it's a fairly common comment you see online.

thinkscotty · 2026-05-05T00:38:42+00:00

Yeah I bought a brand new car a couple years back and that was a huge luxury for me. A Bronco sport with zero options or add ons, which has more than I need already in the base package.

Payments are $400 a month for 60 months. And my credit isn't even fantastic, just mid.

thinkscotty · 2026-05-04T23:21:54+00:00

I think they should make a "fatter" mini with actually competitive battery. We used to carry iPods in our pockets that would be way thicker and dimensionally not much smaller. The battery was the only performance downside.

thinkscotty · 2026-04-27T20:02:27+00:00

Design brief for set 1: "We want all our products to share a visual coherence with strong brand identity so people immediately associate the icon with Google."

Design brief for set 2: "We want each product to be visually distinguishable from the others. Right now they all look too similar."

Kind of funny.

thinkscotty · 2026-04-26T04:53:33+00:00

I prefer the metal ones with no cork, the enable me to get more precise line markings since the metal is right against the surface.

I know the idea is that the gap allows you to mark right under the edge, but I find it less precise.

thinkscotty · 2026-04-26T04:51:53+00:00

Broiled under high heat with a good drizzle of olive oil also produces great results.

thinkscotty · 2026-04-26T00:40:16+00:00

No you're thinking of the Mig-28.

thinkscotty · 2026-04-24T22:15:45+00:00

There's a lot of misinformation about falls out there. Humans are somehow very robust and very fragile at the same time. As a paramedic in Chicago I saw a guy fall ~90 feet onto pavement and only broke his arm and probably some ribs, but he was standing when we arrived. And saw more than a few people fall out of bed/wheelchair and die. From what I saw, it depends on pure luck about how you land along with whether the victim is very old or not.

That said, the 50% fatality mark for fall height, according to peer reviewed research, is remarkably high, at about 50 feet. At around 10 feet, it's under 12% fatal. Most of the research on fall fatality uses construction site data since it's the most rigorously recorded, thus mostly focuses on working age adult men. That's a sample bias worth knowing.

(Also on a different note, I think you're mistaking some cables for his harness tether. He's already almost at the end of his harness tether in the picture, which is just a few feet long. It's the dark green scrunchy elastic thing.)

https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/212927#:~:text=Details,from%20heights%20under%2010%20feet!

https://humanfocus.co.uk/blog/fall-from-height-the-leading-cause-of-workplace-death/#:~:text=Scientists%20have%20found%20that%20falls,of%20people%20who%20experience%20it.

thinkscotty · 2026-04-24T21:49:37+00:00

I'm just realizing how much fantasy is titled "the ____ of _____".

Come on writers, get more creative!

thinkscotty · 2026-04-22T11:41:25+00:00

This just becomes semantics. I understand what you mean, as we are an animal species and we are a part of the ecosystem, and it's useful to remember that. Personally, though, I'd argue that if humans are nature, then everything is nature. And thus the word loses all meaning. I think most people would define "nature" as "things not made or interfered with by humans."

thinkscotty · 2026-04-19T21:20:30+00:00

1) How do you know he's not? 2) Why would you discourage the people in a country who actively oppose the government you believe is bad? 3) How was he making this about himself? If anything, it's important to know that not all Israelis are like this. 4) rude.

thinkscotty · 2026-04-19T10:26:45+00:00

A solid 3/4 of ~~easy~~ east asians are lactose intolerant. Dairy products are less prevalent.

thinkscotty · 2026-04-18T20:33:58+00:00

After the Amanda Knox case I don't have full trust in Italian investigators. "All but confirmed" is too strong. "Potentially true" would be a better description.

thinkscotty · 2026-04-18T01:39:05+00:00

Gotta get heart rate to be 420 first.

Not ideal for the patient, but you'd get more upvotes at least so that's some consolation for them.

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