[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Yup. This right here.

I was moving very slowly at full depth, so I wouldn’t have to try to get to the exact same endpoint multiple times at different depths.

This is the textbook source of burning on routed pieces, especially with a bit that's anything less than pristine. As mentioned, stop blacks are the best solution. Barring that, plunging at the beginning and end, maybe twice, will give you cushion to stop without needing millimeter-accuracy, but hell, the best way to get those plunges in just the right spot is stop blocks. :-) As an added bonus, you'll get less tearout doing multiple shallow passes. You sanded that down very nicely indeed, and the big open grain of red oak is actually quite good for masking that, but other materials might be less forgiving.

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I think part of it is that most peoiple aren't watching, but the threshold for being a viable network show is so much lower than it used to be. At its peak around season 12, it was averaging 14 million viewers. Season 35 was coming in around 2 million, and it's been going down every year for a while. I guess the trend is predictable though, and the advertising and streaming revenue still works out for their cost structure.

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

I used pixel-level zoom and drew top-down Star Wars starfighters and then copied and pasted them to have battles.

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Look for restaurants that offer “smash burgers.” That’s going to be a thinner patty that’s stacked to make the bigger burger rather than making a meatlump that never comes out quite right. It looks like there a good number of places in Istanbul you could try.

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No. Apart from being another huge chain, they absolutely do not make fast-food style burgers, just lower-end fast food quality burgers. The patties are overly thick and watery, and they think they're too good for processed American cheese when they most assuredly are not.

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67g would be a good number to pop into various search engines. For the Outemus, the Oranges are sort of intended to be a slight refinement of their basic brown. I'm not surprised you found them similar feeling.

Zealio tactiles are supposed to have some pre-travel, as are "Moyu Blacks/Everglide Dark Jades". I haven't tried either, but it seems more common to push the tactile event to the top front of the curve than to leave it in the middle. NovelKeys Cream Tactiles may be have some weight and pre-travel as well. The force curve for Kinetic Labs Penguin also looks promising.

One outside the "box" (LOL) would be Kailh Box MUTE Jade. These are "silenced clicky" switches that are supposed to have a very distinct event in the middle but not have the sound profile that we clicky degenerates love but so many people don't.

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Even some Kalih Box clickies of his preferred weighting would be better, though I have to admit the bottom-tier Outemu "dustproof" Greens I have on some of my boards are surprisingly nice if you're into clickies.

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Nice choices! the QK seem to hit that sweet spot of Group-Buy custom features at 1/3 to 1/2 the price. I'll get one someday, I reckon, but right now I'm having too much fun building junkboards from scratch.

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Scott Grimes, J. Lee, Halston Sage, and Anne Winters on The Orville. Every single one of them does amateurish line readings that make it hard to suspend disbelief. I still like the show overall, though.

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Throwing heavy clickies and no-name caps onto a budget 1800...

  • RK96 that's been de-foamed, de-batteried, and remapped to the extent its garbage software will permit
  • Kailh Speed Navy
  • Mix-n-match QX SA caps from two different sets

It's a loud, cheap MF'er, and I kinda like it.

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EDIT: Decided to get 16GB more RAM, a Ryzen 5 2600, and a Gen 3 Sabrent Rocket 1TB SSD. About $145 all-in. If there are still issues, then a GPU in the ~$150 used range is really the last upgrade for me on this platform, I think. Thanks all!

So, I am currently running an absolutely ancient Ship of Theseus desktop. I have fairly modest needs, looking to play games, lets say on the order of Starfield, at 1080P, medium-ish settings, and not dropping below 30FPS when things get busy on-screen. Something like Minecraft I'd like to run a touch more aggressively, but I know it has its own technical bottlenecks that make it more intensive than you might think (don't murder me... I still play Bedrock because I like vanilla survival and it runs well). I also do some light 3D CAD using paid-for software that I like, so some sort of legal-ish Windows partition or VM with some form of GPU acceleration would also be nice, but I'm okay with running Linux for most things.

Current specs:

  • Gigabyte B450M mobo
  • Ryzen 5 2400G as CPU only
  • Radeon RX 580
  • 16GB PC3200 DDR4
  • Unholy accumulation of SATA III drives: a Lexar 250gb for Windows 10, a 120GB Samsung for a couple of games, and a 640GB 7200RPM drive for Linux and storage.

I have actually been able to get the aforementioned Starfield running at 50fps (inside and light load) and 20-25ish FPS (outside action) at a customized set of low settings that isn't too horrifyingly ugly, but (1) that's clearly about as good as it's going to get, and (2) it's probably contributing to my not playing it all that much. So, what would help, and is anything salvageable? Would prefer to keep the upgrades as cheap as possible while getting a noticeable improvement to tide me over for a couple more years of low-end gaming and CAD. I'm not targeting any specific number, just "better." If it helps, let's set a USD $300 cap on upgrades, but cheaper is better. I'm hoping that staying at the lower resolution will be helpful.

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/8032101

From the author of the "Shift Happens" book that came out a little while ago.

spoilerIt's Gorton

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I guess there was a huge legal fight that he eventually won through argument and opponent apathy, so as long as he doesn't let the character sit completely idle, he keeps the rights despite no longer giving a fuck either. It's utterly petty, and if I cared more about Dick Tracy I'd probably find it infuriating rather than hilarious.

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[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 244 points 7 months ago

This one is even better than Tolkien's response to a German publisher in 1938, asking for proof of his ancestry, which may or may not have been sent, but tellingly there was no official translation of The Hobbit into German until 1957.

Thank you for your letter. I regret that I am not clear as to what you intend by arisch. I am not of Aryan extraction: that is Indo-Iranian; as far as I am aware none of my ancestors spoke Hindustani, Persian, Gypsy, or any related dialects. But if I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people. My great-great-grandfather came to England in the eighteenth century from Germany: the main part of my descent is therefore purely English, and I am an English subject—which should be sufficient. I have been accustomed, nonetheless, to regard my German name with pride, and continued to do so throughout the period of the late regrettable war, in which I served in the English army. I cannot, however, forbear to comment that if impertinent and irrelevant inquiries of this sort are to become the rule in matters of literature, then the time is not far distant when a German name will no longer be a source of pride.

Your enquiry is doubtless made in order to comply with the laws of your own country, but that this should be held to apply to the subjects of another state would be improper, even if it had (as it has not) any bearing whatsoever on the merits of my work or its sustainability for publication, of which you appear to have satisfied yourselves without reference to my Abstammung.

Don't fuck with posh and emotionally repressed Oxbridge motherfuckers when they realize they are finally on the right side of history. 🤣

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 212 points 9 months ago

This is a big deal, but just a reminder that this is the District (trial) court, so the next step would be the Circuit Court of Appeals, followed by an appeal to the Supreme Court. There may be some intriguing injunctions that come out of this, but we're years away from a final disposition.

For the curious, this one came out of the DC Circuit, informally known to be the most technically and administratively savvy circuit, as it deals with a LOT of nitty gritty stuff coming out of Federal agencies.

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