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  • DisruptedCapitalistDisruptedCapitalist I swear! Registered User regular
    Is it more annoying when it is just a single tube or an entire line like that?

    "Simple, real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." -Mustrum Ridcully in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather p. 142 (HarperPrism 1996)
  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    It's all about symmetry

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  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field njRegistered User regular
    Bringing balance to the force, and such.

    She said, "You're pretty good with words, but words won't save your life."
    And they didn't.
    So he died.
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  • OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
    On site at one of our offices today.

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    What kind of god damned sociopath did this?

    If I had a dollar for every time I saw that

    I’d have far too many dollars

    For fuck’s sake people, get it together

  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    edited September 18
    Daddy woke up sounding like a chainsaw 🎶

    Delegated shit, gonna work from home 🎶

    Really fucking hope it aint covid 🎶

    People reaching out last night made it not so bad 🎶

    Edit

    Minion: Hey boss, i wanted to give an update, waste time with pointless extras, and generally kiss your problem solving ass

    Me: OK

    minion: wow, you sound terrible

    Me: I've noticed

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  • expendableexpendable Silly Goose Registered User regular
    edited September 18
    I don't know what to tell you extremely hostile and frustrated teacher person; if students can't create an account on a particular website on school devices, personal devices, or phones and the ones that can create accounts can't search for the proper things inside because they don't show it's not a school hardware or network problem. Quit telling me I'm wrong while also blaming me for the 3rd party website issues.

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    Djiem wrote: »
    Lokiamis wrote: »
    So the servers suddenly decide to cramp up during the last six percent.
    Man, the Director will really go out of his way to be a dick to L4D players.
    Steam
  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    One of my librarians has requested the following decoration for a Halloween display:
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    I made it very clear that I would approve it, but that I wasn't going to defend them when our janky-ass owl is getting roasted by a ten-year-old who just got back from the Museum of Osteology. You know, the bone museum for which we circulate free family passes and which definitely has an owl skeleton without ears.

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  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    edited September 18
    Jedoc wrote: »
    One of my librarians has requested the following decoration for a Halloween display:
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    I made it very clear that I would approve it, but that I wasn't going to defend them when our janky-ass owl is getting roasted by a ten-year-old who just got back from the Museum of Osteology. You know, the bone museum for which we circulate free family passes and which definitely has an owl skeleton without ears.

    Well if the 10 year olds are that picky, then just approve this badboy instead:

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  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    Yo I can definitely get you a real raven skeleton for cheaper than that.

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  • Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    Or go totally the other way and just really annoy them

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  • milskimilski Poyo! Registered User regular
    Technically wouldn't a normal stuffed spider also be a spider skeleton model

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  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    Imagine if that skeletal spider's abdomen + thorax was about the size of a human hand, and all of the legs were just Fingers.

    God that'd be unsettling.

  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    Imagine if that spider was actually cake

  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    The conversation did lead to this:
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    Which in turn led us to the conclusion that to an octopus, the concept of a skeleton is probably pretty horrifying to begin with. Like us encountering a creature and slowly realizing that it's mostly made of teeth.

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  • Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    That one is even weirder. Its skull is a ribcage.

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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    I want to meet the people who have to design these and ask what their brief is. "More bones! Maximum bone!"

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  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    I bet "BONER" is underlined like 4 times on a whiteboard at every meeting. Half because it's funny and half because they don't realize it should be BONIER.

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  • expendableexpendable Silly Goose Registered User regular
    So an opening on the same team I applied for last year opened up two weeks ago. I found out about it when somebody mentioned in a troubleshooting conversation that a person on that team had moved to a different team. Basically the same job description, at least nothing that jumps out at me as glaringly different.

    So I just applied. Hopefully 2nd time is the charm?

    Djiem wrote: »
    Lokiamis wrote: »
    So the servers suddenly decide to cramp up during the last six percent.
    Man, the Director will really go out of his way to be a dick to L4D players.
    Steam
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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    Starting the new job this morning.

    First time in a business casual environment. Chinos and collared shirt and leather shoes. BOO.

    Otherwise it's good I guess.

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    tynic wrote: »
    I want to meet the people who have to design these and ask what their brief is. "More bones! Maximum bone!"

    Big fans of MK2.

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  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    #pipe wrote: »
    Starting the new job this morning.

    First time in a business casual environment. Chinos and collared shirt and leather shoes. BOO.

    Otherwise it's good I guess.

    Collared shirt, you say?

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  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    tynic wrote: »
    I want to meet the people who have to design these and ask what their brief is. "More bones! Maximum bone!"

    I feel it's the ideal of what to dinosaurs really look like but the opposite
    As during the mad rush for skeletons in the US did lead to ones being built out of several other ones or misbuilt {It does suck when you don't get the instructions and have to dry fit everything}

  • DisruptedCapitalistDisruptedCapitalist I swear! Registered User regular
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    tynic wrote: »
    I want to meet the people who have to design these and ask what their brief is. "More bones! Maximum bone!"

    Big fans of MK2.

    Or fans of the Locked Tomb series

    "Simple, real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." -Mustrum Ridcully in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather p. 142 (HarperPrism 1996)
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  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    Yeah who let Harrowhark design an octopus?

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    The best thing about me new job: they pay in advance.

    So I started today, and tomorrow I'm gonna get paid for 14 days worth of work 🤣

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    I'm becalmed in the dread Tuesday doldrums

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  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    Library/3D Printing Update:

    So the people in charge of the freshmen academy want to have some kind of tokens to give out to the freshmen as rewards for doing stuff outside their normal school that they can exchange for like bags of chips or a hoodie or something. They asked if I could print something that can be reusable. Okay. I spend a while in tinkercad making a coin with the school logo and name and such embossed into it and work on the printers running through different settings and sizes to make them as clean as possible.

    Got a result that looks the best using a .20mm nozzle but it takes 28 minutes to print one and I'd need hundreds. It's like 20 cents of material so the cost isn't the issue, but the time.

    My building tech mentions how there are 3d print files for DnD coins.

    So now I'm going to pitch that because they are cool looking and way easier faster to print. Plus I can have copper, silver, and gold.

    Just full dumb fantasy rpg money this school.

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  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    edited September 19
    28 minutes seems extremely excessive. Like maybe your slicer is having trouble interpreting the gcode?

    Admittedly, I don't have first hand experience with 3D printers or slicers and the like. But it feels like you only need a couple layers for the logo to get the embossed look (I assume you are only decorating 1 side). So it should be able to just shave those off and do it like laying down the layers of a cake...

    I have a bunch of friends that are huge into 3d printing; I'd love to have them take a look at the files and see how to optimize them.

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  • HefflingHeffling No Pic EverRegistered User regular
    Library/3D Printing Update:

    So the people in charge of the freshmen academy want to have some kind of tokens to give out to the freshmen as rewards for doing stuff outside their normal school that they can exchange for like bags of chips or a hoodie or something. They asked if I could print something that can be reusable. Okay. I spend a while in tinkercad making a coin with the school logo and name and such embossed into it and work on the printers running through different settings and sizes to make them as clean as possible.

    Got a result that looks the best using a .20mm nozzle but it takes 28 minutes to print one and I'd need hundreds. It's like 20 cents of material so the cost isn't the issue, but the time.

    My building tech mentions how there are 3d print files for DnD coins.

    So now I'm going to pitch that because they are cool looking and way easier faster to print. Plus I can have copper, silver, and gold.

    Just full dumb fantasy rpg money this school.

    Move back to the Electrum Standard!

    ElvenshaeAldoTofystedeth
  • CelloCello Registered User regular
    Athenor wrote: »
    28 minutes seems extremely excessive. Like maybe your slicer is having trouble interpreting the gcode?

    Admittedly, I don't have first hand experience with 3D printers or slicers and the like. But it feels like you only need a couple layers for the logo to get the embossed look (I assume you are only decorating 1 side). So it should be able to just shave those off and do it like laying down the layers of a cake...

    I have a bunch of friends that are huge into 3d printing; I'd love to have them take a look at the files and see how to optimize them.

    If you don't have experience with 3D printers, print files will always take longer than you expect with them

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  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field njRegistered User regular
    Nah, 28 minutes for a silver dollar sized coin seems pretty reasonable on the average 3d printer.

    It might be more feasible to do if you do an entire print bed full of them at a time though. Cram 9 to 16 on there and run a batch every evening. It would be a fair bit quicker per piece than doing them individually. Might still be too much of a time investment, but maybe it’s worth checking the math that way just to see.

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    So he died.
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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    If I had a 3D printer I wouldn't go for coins at all. That'd be too simple. You could make chess pieces if you wanted, or other small tokens that can be denoted in tiers of value like cards or dice types (d3, d6, d20, etc)

  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    Yeah, I was wondering about that after the fact. I think I was picturing dime or smaller coins in my mind. Silver dollar is.. definitely bigger than that.

    I also was thinking about suggesting batch printing, but that basically just eliminates the overhead of having to remove each coin and prepare the printing bed.


    ... I think the most cost effective and fastest way to do this would be injection molding, but I don't think you have the resources for that. I was going to suggest seeing if your votech folks would be up for doing some metal casting, but.. again, probably not the effort. It would just be a lot more dangerous and a lot more fun.

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  • V1mV1m Registered User regular
    I didn't log in to work yesterday

    I didn't log in to work tomorrow

    I won't log in to work tomorrow


    Holidays are great!

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  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    Heffling wrote: »
    Library/3D Printing Update:

    So the people in charge of the freshmen academy want to have some kind of tokens to give out to the freshmen as rewards for doing stuff outside their normal school that they can exchange for like bags of chips or a hoodie or something. They asked if I could print something that can be reusable. Okay. I spend a while in tinkercad making a coin with the school logo and name and such embossed into it and work on the printers running through different settings and sizes to make them as clean as possible.

    Got a result that looks the best using a .20mm nozzle but it takes 28 minutes to print one and I'd need hundreds. It's like 20 cents of material so the cost isn't the issue, but the time.

    My building tech mentions how there are 3d print files for DnD coins.

    So now I'm going to pitch that because they are cool looking and way easier faster to print. Plus I can have copper, silver, and gold.

    Just full dumb fantasy rpg money this school.

    Move back to the Electrum Standard!

    There is some sick looking color changing metallic ones we could do an even larger coin in. These are sweet looking though. I can print 1800 coppers off one spool. 105 coins per plate. Did an Archimedean spiral on the layers so it looks like polished metal. Gave the examples to the person in charge and she is going to show the teachers.

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  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field njRegistered User regular
    On a related note, I just installed a new firmware update for my 3D printer and it took the print time for a small item I sell a lot of down from 1h58m to 1h4m, which is bonkers.

    Thank god for Bambu putting the fear of god into other printer manufacturers to make their shit print faster.

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    And they didn't.
    So he died.
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  • ToxTox I kill threads he/himRegistered User regular
    Begging my colleagues to initialize either all of none of "Central Printing Service" rather than just the first two words.

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  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    On a related note, I just installed a new firmware update for my 3D printer and it took the print time for a small item I sell a lot of down from 1h58m to 1h4m, which is bonkers.

    Thank god for Bambu putting the fear of god into other printer manufacturers to make their shit print faster.

    They are announcing some crazy new printer on Friday, if these images they keep teasing are at all true. And their printers are already crazy.

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    I am ill

    I can do work from home and boss will accept pay request

    I just need the pain to stop so I can reach my desktop

  • Curly_BraceCurly_Brace Robot Girl Mimiga VillageRegistered User regular
    edited September 19
    Got fired a few weeks ago because I missed too much work (due to injury and illness.)

    Just had my first phone interview since I started looking for a new job and it went pretty bad.

    Feeling immensely unemployable right now and just want to cry...

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