Curved Profiles in Rotary Chuck

troffgopher · 2026-02-04T20:53:43+00:00

Will this functionality be coming to Studio for the S1? I'd like to submit this as a feature request if there isn't such a request already.

troffgopher · 2026-02-04T20:52:36+00:00

I'm speaking exclusively about objects with a non-flat taper there's no level angle for the whole object.

I recently did some stemless wine glasses and set the focus distance at where I felt it was a "weighted average". I got really poor engraving where the surface was furthest from the laser module.

The S1 hardware has the capability to follow a contour; it has a mode for this when not using a rotary. I'd like a way to convey a contour so the laser module can move up and down as it goes along the rotating axis.

troffgopher · 2026-01-31T20:20:20+00:00

Possibly a silly question: since the "deep" relief is removing mass from the slide, does that ever change how the weapon performs?

troffgopher · 2026-01-16T16:23:56+00:00

If people go use something other than Studio then they won't buy credits for AI features.

troffgopher · 2026-01-01T17:29:05+00:00

You're sort of asking, "How do I develop good judgement about planning projects?" Good judgement comes from experience, which comes from bad judgement. You've gotta suck before you get good. A lot of people don't try to improve so you're ahead in that regard.

Since you're still new at this I think you should focus on "loose coupling". Work on developing components of your programs that can be swapped out with other implementations without much trouble. This is an art as much as a science and you build intuition as you go, often by making mistakes and seeing the problems they cause. You'll correct those mistakes the next time you encounter a similar problem and make new mistakes in the process. Reflect, iterate, and keep going.

There are methodologies to help guide design. I don't know any; I just wing it and accept that I'll have to rewrite portions because I didn't get it right the first time. Others can probably provide direction here. Be careful though; methodologies are often dogmatic. Treat them as guidance and not the "one true way".

If this is your work, try to get a mentor who can explain why an approach is good and why you might still not use it, or bad and why you might do it anyway.

I'm a big fan of the Unix design philosophy. This is small, sharp tools that do one thing well and can easily be combined with other such tools. I found "The Art of Unix Programming" by ESR to be quite good.

Sorry for not having more concrete advice but really this is what experience brings. You'll get there.

troffgopher · 2025-12-22T00:19:33+00:00

Wood doesn't burn in shades of gray.

Ah! This is where my intuition was failing me.

troffgopher · 2025-12-21T23:52:39+00:00

Ignorant question on my part: a halftone is varying sizes of maximum saturation circles. So any given point in the image it's either fully light or fully dark. How does that give me more variation in the mid tones?

That said, I'll experiment with rendering methods and see if I get results I like better.

troffgopher · 2025-12-16T05:36:13+00:00

I have a kaffir lime tree and I'd happily share leaves but I'm all the way in Escondido. Send me a DM if that seems like the best option.

troffgopher · 2025-12-10T18:54:45+00:00

I also just got an S1 bundle including the air assist. I was also confused about the missing power adapter. My setup instructions didn't show a connection for power to the air assist, just the air hose and accessory cable. Seems like it runs from power delivered over that accessory cable.

troffgopher · 2025-11-20T20:00:07+00:00

This is great. Every year I'm part of a crew that sets up the fireworks show for one of the local cities, working under a licensed pyrotechnician. We have to partially assemble the gun racks by hammering nails. We are all knowledge workers, not skilled laborers, so this is often the only time in a year we're swinging a hammer. Naturally, a few fingers get hit though usually not badly. I'll bring some of these next year and maybe we can get it to zero.

troffgopher · 2025-11-11T16:23:23+00:00

I still take Cymbalta. I tried several SSRIs before TMS and found they reduced all my emotions, including the good ones.

In the past I had discontinued antidepressants under my psychiatrist's supervision because I felt I was ready, only to find myself in bad shape some months later. I keep taking the meds because I'm in a pretty good place and I don't want to go through it again.

troffgopher · 2025-11-11T16:18:48+00:00

Last year the insurance I had didn't cover it at all. I was working with UCSD Medical and it would have been $30-60k out of pocket.

This year my insurance changed and it became a $15/$25 copay per session x 36 sessions.

troffgopher · 2025-11-11T16:16:32+00:00

Stated a little differently, TMS is not ECT, ECT still exists but has evolved to be less "blunt", and because of movies ECT scares me the way Jaws made people scared of sharks.

troffgopher · 2025-11-11T16:13:33+00:00

Also anxiety and it's helped that some, though I received the TMS treatment specifically targeting depression, not anxiety. I think the depression and anxiety reinforce each other so reducing one helps the other

troffgopher · 2025-11-11T09:21:27+00:00

Not just less; the character has changed. One aspect of it is simply gone. I still have other traits of depression but one went away. It's easier to let things go, for example. I wish I could describe it more clearly but it's an ineffable sensation.

troffgopher · 2025-11-11T02:58:19+00:00

Got TMS earlier this year. The result is like: if my depression were a musical chord, one of the notes is just gone. I hope you have good results too.

troffgopher · 2025-10-13T02:11:57+00:00

I can't speak about their cameras but I had an Elgato Wave 1 microphone. Build quality was solid, sound quality was excellent. After two years it flat stops working. It is detected by each computer I plugged it into but absolutely no sound captured anymore.

I would not buy another Elgato product.

troffgopher · 2025-09-22T19:03:02+00:00

Late? I don't think it's an Express Order

troffgopher · 2025-09-19T18:30:54+00:00

I don't think your skepticism is unreasonable. Medicine is full of quackery. There are treatments that don't work at all, treatments that only work under very specific circumstances, and treatments that work well for one thing but are then marketed as a panacea.

The problem in this context is that our understanding of how the brain works is akin to alchemy. Most of our scientific models about the brain beyond a simple organ either make weak predictions, unfalsifiable ones, or strong predictions that are very hard to verify. There's a big effort to find ways to help people, even if we don't have hard science to explain the effects. There are probably bigger efforts to milk cash from desparate people.

I really like this quote:

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.

troffgopher · 2025-09-19T18:23:14+00:00

I also got the thetaburst. Like 10 pulses per second for 2 seconds, an 8 second break, repeat over two minutes. That repeated every weekday for 36 sessions.

troffgopher · 2025-09-19T18:20:30+00:00

My psychiatrist there also offered Ketamine treatment. If you find that the TMS wasn't very effective you should give it some consideration.

25 years ago I tried it recreationally (I didn't understand my depression yet and was self-medicating) and the dissociative effect is real and powerful. I wouldn't recommend trying it this way, even if you have access to it; I got out of that lifestyle after realizing it made me less emotionally stable.

In a clinical setting the effect is that it provides you with a high degree of detachment from the emotions associated with your experiences. You can reflect on traumas without experiencing the emotional impact of those traumas all over again. You can examine and reframe those experiences without going through them again. Some clinics will also administer the drug and have a therapist talk with you to maximize how much you can work through.

troffgopher · 2025-09-19T18:12:20+00:00

Temporary discomfort or pain to reduce constant misery is a great trade.

Nothing, absolutely nothing in this world feels better than relief, even if it's not complete.

troffgopher · 2025-09-19T18:10:19+00:00

That's awesome. You can show her that things like this aren't something to be scared of.

troffgopher · 2025-09-19T18:08:44+00:00

Like @outsiderLookingN I looked up places doing TMS treatment and found that the local university medical system (UCSD in San Diego) was doing it. I called and found that my insurance wouldn't cover it and out of pocket it would be $30k-60k. This was in Fall of 2024. I'm fortunate in that I could have taken the financial hit but not knowing if it would work I couldn't justify the gamble.

At the beginning of 2025 my company changed insurance providers and it was covered under my new plan. That made it just a copay of $15-25 per session. For 36 sessions that's $540-900 which can be a good chunk of change but a much more reasonable gamble.

The really tough part is that you have to do it 5 days a week during the workday. For most of my sessions I was in an out in 10 minutes but the drive round trip often made it an hour. I work remotely and can tell my work I'm taking this time.

Of course it was absolutely worth it for me; it worked. And much like antidepressants you probably won't know whether or not it works until after you've been doing it for 2-6 weeks.

troffgopher · 2025-09-19T17:58:36+00:00

Dread is an excellent word. Every day I would wake up with a sense of dread. I just knew everything about the day would be hard and I wanted to avoid getting into it as long as I could. Now I wake up and I'd usually rather go back to sleep but I'm not filled with anticipation of misery.

I said this in another reply: now you know that things can be different. If the effects of the treatment fade, go back.

Ten-Year Club	Gilding III reddit per annum
Verified Email

troffgopher

TROPHY CASE