If you have two contour toolpaths using the exact same drive chain and the verify is showing a ledge when it shouldn’t, it’s because the tolerances in the verify settings and not an actual deviation in the real toolpath.

0.01 tolerance on a .1 bit will render a slightly different verify than 0.01 tolerance on a 1.0 bit resulting in a ledge if you only have the smaller bit cutting deeper.

This can be reproduced: create 1 line anywhere.

Run a contour toolpath with your larger bit with any settings to any depth.

Right click-drag to copy the toolpath, and only change the tool to a new bit .1 SMALLER than the previous operation, and change the depth to go DEEPER.

Example:
.5 bit, -.25 depth for Contour1
.4 bit, -.5 depth for Contour2

Verify will show a ledge, when the real machine path will have none, as you might expect.

Tightening the tolerances will make the ledge smaller and smaller, but it’s still there.

I feel like relying on verify like it represents reality exactly has caused me the most trouble.

If you use a drill toolpath on Mastercam and try to use the peck option, the program uses a subroutine/subprogram for the pecking operation and will NOT show up in verify.

Your verify and backplot will show one swift drilling movement all the way to the specified depth, regardless of your peck settings. It turns out the g-code generated is only a line and has the pecking written in as one of the arguments, so if you’ve made it a habit to verify everything and you’ve stopped dead in your tracks with the drill toolpath, just forget verify and run it on your machine — the pecking will be there.

I just read “Find the things in life that make you cry” and couldn’t agree more.

Life’s pleasures to me are the things that move me so much I am in tears.

Why do we cry? Sadness is obvious. But what about those times you are deeply moved by something? I seem to be chasing /that/ particular high my whole life.

Sad things make you “feel” but I think it’s the most basic of feeling. You can watch or read sad stories and cry. You’re filled with emotion and it feels good.

I’m not sure what crying is, but it’s definitely not always sadness. It’s appreciation, or something deeply moving. Something that hits your heart. Maybe pure emotion. What’s going on in the brain here? It’s definitely not a “joy”, or a high from a drug. It’s a pure expression of one kind.

A few things move me like that:

Music.

This is the most surprising to me. When music moves me to tears, I think I find myself in two camps for explanation. I’m not married to the first camp, while I know the second explanation has some truths.

1. Sometimes, the music feels so “good” and I appreciate the complexities or uniqueness of the piece so much that I cry.
2. Most of the time, I think music is tied to storytelling. Music tells a story, and I can be moved in the same way a story moves me. There are some beautifully melancholy songs that move me to tears probably with a mix of sadness and then appreciation for how it.

For example this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtPm5GiJ_iM moves me to tebars. I associate it very strongly with the movie it was created for so I can’t get rid of my story bias here, but say minute 1:00, that strange instrument is so powerful. It’s so fluid (as in its extremely far from a and the tones so sad difficult that i have a great appreciation for the raw emotion it can pull out of me.

Story.

Stories can move you. I always have this opinion that stories are “real”. There’s this thought that if something is fiction, then you won’t be as moved. Well, in my thought experiments I’ve come to the conclusion that “real” and “fake” mean nothing to a story.

An extremely touching story is touching fake or not. Imagine this: you were moved to tears by some rescue operation on the newspaper. Turns out that was fake. Ooops. It’s fake, but how it touches you is the same.

Sci fi fans have always appreciated this. Sci fi books are often all about philosophy that can only be explored through another world. If the world was like “this”, then what would happen?

What moves you in a story? Well unfortunately this one depends on how you were raised and thus your values. I can’t claim here that there are any universal values that will touch all.

Perhaps a story of a tragic love everybody might relate to, or perhaps not? Human attraction for one another is something we all have, but the values that would make a story tragic, heroic, disgusting or boring depend on the person.

Everything is in the eye of the beholder. Music? Music taste depends on which notes you were grown up with.

I asked this question once and found an answer. The human brain enjoys (as in releases “good feeling” chemicals, like when we eat food) musical combinations where the ratio between the two frequencies is simple, like 1/4, 2,/3, 4/6, etc.

Absolute frequency doesn’t matter (X hz), there is no truth in a specific absolute note, but it will sound appealing to YOU if your culture promotes those sets.  This is something that can be learned, so you can start enjoying music from another culture, it’s just that it is definitely a learned skill, not set by birth.

So, because I’ve been raised with the Japanese base notes (which use the same ABCD frequencies as Western music, but the core of it is a different pattern) I can enjoy that music as well as some crazy combination of my inter cultural tastes.

Anyways, as much as I want to go enjoy the things that make me cry, they don’t make any money for me, so I must keep moving on.

One day though, if I can work with what I am passionate for my life would be complete.

Holy shit! Damn wikipedia.. this quote hits home.

“The otaku, the passionate obsessive, the information age’s embodiment of the connoisseur, more concerned with the accumulation of data than of objects, seems a natural crossover figure in today’s interface of British and Japanese cultures….”— William Gibson, April 2001 edition of The Observer

The information age’s embodiment of the connoisseur ahhh ha ha that’s so true. My appreciation of little details IN things outweigh the things themselves.

I suppose you can say this about every passion in life (wine, literature, music) but for some reason it hasn’t really smacked me in the face like it has tonight.

Anyways, until this moment I had huge negative association with the term Otaku. Not anymore.

This animation was enjoyable enough that I am about to write about it, the day after I watched it. For those of you I’m going to lose in the first sentence, watch it. Don’t watch the dub.

For a real review of this film, check out the bunny who didn’t even like it the first time. I think she does a great job describing how ’slice of life’ shows are supposed to be appreciated.

Anyways, these days, anything that stays in recent memory has to have touched me somehow. Most of the best movies I’ve ever seen fade into memory quite quickly, because as good and enjoyable as it was to watch the films, I don’t relate to them in any way. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is a movie that “hurts so good” because I relate to it in every way.

I’m a 22 year old Japanese American (this is about how I was raised, not race. If you’re a Japanese American but don’t know Japanese, you’re culturally American) living my life like a 40 year old American.

I’ve come to realize there are certain things one should do while young.. You have only a few years to be a young, and the rest of your life to be old. Settle into your career, have a family, and so on. This movie breaks my Japanese heart. It lingers in my mind that the life I am living can be experienced in the rest of my life, while the life I am not living can never be experienced again. This movie reminds me so genuinely about the simple pleasures in life, and the days when I don’t feel like I have a massive choice to make about my life.

It hurts when I compare it to my own life, where each day is a chore and a grind, all for a future goal of making my business successful. If I wasn’t so invested in it, I would be long gone, looking back to the days of living day by day.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time makes up for its plot pitfalls and unexplained questions with a beautiful portrayal of life. For example, every time she goes through time, whatever existence she left behind will keep existing, and Makoto would have been on the missing children list, just like the ending when *somebody* disappears.

This show is all about the small moments in life. I enjoyed every damn minute of this show. If it seems slow, it’s not a cheap frame freeze but beautifully animated “slow”. The sound is great, and I can even appreciate the sounds of doors closing.

I’ve experienced something quite like their depictions of life in my Japanese side of life, and it’s utterly memorable. I think about those days every single day. This movie reminds me that I’m just as Japanese as American, and that it doesn’t need to seem unfortunate.

I always think Americans are lucky they can only be American. And Japanese are lucky they can only be Japanese. Being raised in both cultures legitimately gives you the difficult question of who you are.

I fear my time is almost up to try being more Japanese. Here’s to the company, that I won’t be married to it for 5 more years, and that I can see where I belong before it’s too late.

In the end, some movies are life changing. I’ve had this experience before, where suddenly an experience puts my life in focus and I begin to question what I’m doing. I’m not satisfied with my actions anymore. My justifications for being miserable useless. It may blow over me as usual, but to the movies that hit me this hard: congratulations, I could watch you all day.

Your PEM pass phrase is something you set when you generated your SSL key.

It turns out you can not ever retrieve it, so if you don’t know it, stop trying to figure it out and re-key your certificate!

Your site is probably down, so disable ssl for now and get your apache or nginx or what have you started, and go on to your SSL authority and re-key your certificate!

Good luck.

Firefox error: sec_error_untrusted_issuer

If you are running into this problem with GoDaddy SSL check if you combined your .crt and gd_bundle.crt with the “cat” command if you’re running a linux server.

We renewed our SSL and our site had been unknowingly displaying this error for firefox users for a month, but not to Chrome or Internet Explorer users.

Check every browser folks. Who knows how many people we scared off.

Assuming it quacks like a duck, you can use operator.attrgetter()

Combine queryset by turning it into a list:
queryset_list = list(queryset1).extend(list(queryset2))

Sort the list by:
sorted_list = queryset_list.sort(key=operator.attrgetter(‘attribute to sort by’))

Quickly style all of your inlines with formfield_for_dbfield

class PersonInline(admin.TabularInline):
	model = Person
	extra = 6
	def formfield_for_dbfield(self, db_field, **kwargs):
		attrs = { 'size': 15 }
		if db_field.attname == 'interest_level':
			attrs = { 'size': 2 }
		kwargs['widget'] = forms.TextInput(attrs=attrs)
		return super(PersonInline, self).formfield_for_dbfield(db_field,**kwargs)

I see this used for things like custom widgets, ReadOnlyWidget, ColoredWidget, etc, but I wanted a quick and dirty(?) way to fit more fields on my inlines, since the admin just overflows.

This is documented:

To modify a query based on user, override the ‘queryset’ for ModelAdmin like so. Should give enough ideas:

	def queryset(self, request):
		qs = super(PanelTasting, self).queryset(request)
		if request.user.is_superuser:
			return qs
		return qs.filter(host__user=request.user)