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A while back I wanted to carve some custom handles for a tool out of wood so I printed some prototypes, and once I had decided on the shape I used the printer as basically an x-y plotter to print out some negative templates to check my carving progress.

He’s talking about the US$2.1B figure, and when he says “single hospital” I think that he means “single hospital system”. And it tracks: my local hospital system, one of 3 in my Australian city of 2.4million, has a budget basically bang on US$2B. It runs 2 regular hospitals, the...

Things I hate: the Oxford comma, a needless grammatical rule, and ambiguity.

That’s not the way Intel chipsets work. The 16 PCIe 3.0 lanes on the processor are almost certainly dedicated to the main graphics card slot. NVMe drives, non GPU slots etc will be connected via PCIe lanes to the PCH(Platform controller hub), which is itself connected to the CPU via DMI lanes...

I’m still using my GTX 970 and i7 3770, which was fine for a few hundred hours of BG3, but not great in Elden Ring. I’m already planning the upgrade though, just waiting for B850 motherboards to come into stock, and perhaps I’ll wait for the 5060 for the GPU?

The instruction set being supported isn’t all there is to running. You also need the WoW64 libraries, which have been optional in Server Core since Windows Server 2008, and not included in Nano Server since that was introduced. So there are many Windows Server installs that can’t run 32 bit...

I feel like the real innovation with the cat tower is that cats already sit on any flat surface, like the control panel on top of a tower purifier, so having the manufacturer put a cat bed there instead means they have accounted for it. Now I just need a PC case that comes with a cat bed on top.

My 11 year old has been loving his 400, and using different SD cards to have different Distros installed. He even asked if he could bring it to school at his High School entrance interview when they told him he needed to BYOD a laptop. Getting that laptop may end his interest in the Pi, but on...

I upgraded in 2022 when my 3rd gen kindle finally stopped charging. (The screen forever taunting me with a progress bar that would never finish) I really wanted the USB-C base model, but that was a few weeks away from releasing and I had a work trip to the US (from Australia) coming up, so I...

“Leave the Hinterlands” was literally a meme in 2014.

Rider is basically ReSharper: The IDE. Probably the main benefit is if you mainly use the ReSharper version of features then you don’t also have the VS version. And for some reason I can’t understand, Rider doesn’t have the Regex Editor feature that ReSharper has.

I really like IA-64, and when I worked at Microsoft our team was still releasing software for it. (Mind you this was 2008-2012, and our team was also still supporting our software on Windows 2000 for one large customer) As someone who mostly only reads assembly, my very much non-expert opinion...

My wife was struggling with the NHL in Australia. She was paying for NHL streaming but then a couple of years ago ESPN got the rights in Australia, right before the season started, but ESPN don’t have a direct way to subscribe. We had to get a Fetch TV box (IPTV service) in order to subscribe to...

When I was reading it to my son, I really liked having the ebook version of the Hobbit which has audio embedded of Tolkien himself reading some of the songs and poetry. That he didn’t necessarily have a “tune” for it helped me to just do what felt right. He just left for year 6 school camp...

Me: reads comment Also me: calls out to other room “<7 year old daughter>, what are you doing on the Xbox?” <7YOD>: “Playing MineCraft!” (Why yes, this was a good use of my last post as a Seniorius Lurkius)

In cricket, a metal bat was famously used by one player in one test match in Perth in 1979, and shortly thereafter the laws were changed to specify that the bat had to be made of wood. Modern bats have gotten much thicker though, as modern kilning techniques allow the wood to be dried...

From what I’ve seen online, it is The Administrator account (aka LocalAdministrator, super admin, or RID 500), and not an administrator account. This account is special, in that it always has the highest privileges, and can’t use UAC. (Which is why it’s usually disabled, just like how “root”...

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Given that the Steam Deck isn’t available for purchase in Australia, and the ROG Ally is, this would be many people’s only option to get Steam OS.

According to Malcolm Gladwell, that just makes you a double expert at gaming.