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- Comment on Honda Acty Valve Adjustment Guide: When, Why & How to Do It 1 day ago:
I had to check which community I was in just now.
Is this some kind of free range dadaist avant-garde shitposting I’m not hip enough to get, or did you post this in entirely the wrong place?
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 1 day ago:
Firefox also now has “copy clean link” when you right click the url bar which also works great.
I am an avid and exclusive user of Firefox and I never discovered this because it never would have occurred to me in a million years to right click the URL bar for any reason. So I’ll be damned; there it is. (I always just lasso the relevant part myself and hit ctrl + c.)
- Comment on 1 day ago:
That, and nobody legitimate ever asks you to do anything with accounts/passwords/money/banks and ends the message with “warm regards.” Really? That’s right up there with “calvary greetings.”
- Comment on Why do some companies like a utility put out ads? 2 days ago:
For PR. They’re trying to shape public perception of themselves in order look less like the bad guys, either for recruiting purposes or in order to hopefully receive less public or regulatory backlash over whatever the next shady stunt they’re planning on pulling is.
- Comment on Oxygen 2 days ago:
Ah, see. That’s the neat part…
- Comment on minecraft modding community 3 days ago:
And, you know, beds.
I suspect their legendary refusal to add chairs is simply because nobody wants to give the player models knees.
- Comment on I just shitpost🙃 4 days ago:
Antisocial media. (I.e. perpetual bickering.)
- Comment on minecraft modding community 4 days ago:
You can already auto sort in vanilla with a sufficiently byzantine arrangement of hoppers. It’s not very space efficient, but you can indeed do it.
If I still played Minecraft I would probably be more interested in a Terraria style “throw all loot automatically at nearby chests” button than a dedicated sorting block, but given that Microsoft has displayed a dogged insistence on not giving a rat’s ass about what the player base actually wants I would not hold your breath for that one.
- Comment on What would happen to the US if it denaturalised and deported all non-whites? 4 days ago:
That sounds easy on paper but I know plenty of white dudes who work outdoors who are darker on a consistent basis than many Mexicans. Defining somebody’s “whiteness” just based on shade would exclude a lot of people these fuckers don’t want to, and vise-versa.
The list of exceptions would wind up being longer than the rules. Of course we all know that in reality if such a thing were to actually happen, it would ultimately just devolve to fascists playing favorites on an individual basis with inconsistent, ever fluid, and capricious so-called criteria that are just a flimsy excuse to justify disposing of their personal enemies.
- Comment on energy 4 days ago:
I should point out at this juncture that you can get an airsoft Claymore now, which is slightly less likely to also blow the front wall off of your house the next time those pesky Jehovah’s Witnesses ring your doorbell but likely to be at least still 80%, maybe 85% as hilarious.
- Comment on What would happen to the US if it denaturalised and deported all non-whites? 6 days ago:
First there would have to be a raging and highly politicized debate over exactly who qualifies as “white.” It turns out there isn’t a clear cut distinction there which was a problem for 18th and 19th century bigoted fucks as well.
- Comment on I can hear the 8-bit theme playing now 6 days ago:
- Comment on Get in the pod, inhale the fumes. 6 days ago:
Yeah, and you’re still paying your food subscription, electricity subscription, roof subscription, etc. That’s not the zinger everyone thinks it is.
- Comment on 3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought 1 week ago:
All of this represents a deeply flawed understanding of how such “tracing” works. In order for this to accomplish anything you have to have both the printed gun part and the printer that made it already in your forensics lab, which means whoever you’re trying to hassle has already been caught. This might help secure a conviction after the fact by being able to conclude that, yes, part A was probably printed on printer B. It absolutely will not allow any random beat cop to grab any random printed gun off the street and be able to proclaim, “Ah, yes. This was printed by Bob Smith at 123 Maple Street,” or whatever hyperbolic fantasy these authoritarian types are always wishing for.
The risk here is cocksure but incompetent investigators inevitably generating a shitton of false positives and charging/convicting the wrong people just because they happen to own a 3D printer, and judges and juries believing them. This kind of thing already happens in established fields of forensics all time and if they couch everything in enough authoritative sounding language nobody who doesn’t already know a whole bunch about the topic is going to be able to call them out on it.
- Comment on Print refusing to stay flat in corners 1 week ago:
Given all you’ve tried I can only conjecture that this may be a print temperature issue, especially since you already tried adhesive. What material are you printing, and at what temperatures for nozzle and bed?
You may also find that your printer’s sensors are not reporting temperature accurately. Mine sure isn’t and never has, at least on the bed, and it consistently reads about 5 degrees high versus reality if you poke the surface with an external temperature probe. This isn’t a big deal only so long as you know to compensate for it. The thermal conductivity of whatever your print bed material is may also force you to compensate, i.e. a glass plate will not perform the same as a steel one and may require a boost of a few degrees and/or allowing it to cook longer during the preheating phase before you start your print.
I print on a sheet of cheap Kapton tape with a later of even cheaper hairspray on it (Aqua Net, if you must know), “65” °C bed temp for PLA (60 in reality) with a first layer temp of 215 for regular PLA, and 210 for “rapid” PLA blends. My sharp corners stay put.
- Comment on Hot take: 3D printing toys kinda sucks 1 week ago:
I much prefer printing mechanical things, and stuff that does stuff (or fixes stuff) is where it’s at for me. For me to print a static model it has to either be sufficiently hilarious or fit with some inside joke in my household (penguins and ducks feature prominently) or I ain’t doing it.
A word to the wise for anyone printing static models or figurines for your kids, or whatever. Print these in TPU instead of PLA. TPU is functionally indestructible except via heat, can’t shatter, won’t hurt as much if you step on it in the dark, and its moderate amount of squishiness means that it’s significantly less likely to deal damage when younger brothers throw it at older sisters.
- Comment on Hotels have developed a new revenue stream: "algorithmic" smoke detectors 1 week ago:
Accumulating a history of chargebacks against you as a merchant, even if the consumer ultimately loses them, also counts against you and will raise your rates. The processors don’t like dealing with merchants that they perceive as excessively risky.
I have to deal with this in my business and the whole thing is really a pain in the ass.
- Comment on Hotels have developed a new revenue stream: "algorithmic" smoke detectors 1 week ago:
Sounds like they also need to find a new bank, then.
- Comment on Hotels have developed a new revenue stream: "algorithmic" smoke detectors 1 week ago:
I have never seen a more clear cut example of a perfect use case for a credit card chargeback.
Fun fact: You can’t dispute part of a charge. If you charge this back and win (you probably will) the hotel loses out on everything, for your entire stay. It also stacks up against them and raises their rates the more they get. An even vaguely concerted effort by people who have been ripped off by this would probably get the hotel in question booted from their credit card processor.
I imagine it’s damn difficult to run a hotel if you can’t accept credit cards. Just saying.
- Comment on Are autistic people known to post a lot in social media or websites to "fill" their imaginations? 1 week ago:
I’m definitely not doing it every day. For fuck’s sake, I can’t be bothered. That and I’d go broke.
- Comment on Get in the pod, inhale the fumes. 1 week ago:
It’s (near) the top of Spruce Knob in West Virginia, looking West over the Appalachians, into the Allegheny Plateau.
- Comment on Get in the pod, inhale the fumes. 1 week ago:
Can’t speak for others, but I don’t participate in the stereotypical mad rush from the suburbs to the city and vise-versa every day. My commute is about 7 minutes, provided I don’t feel like deliberately taking a detour to meander through the countryside on my motorcycle after work.
Due to the nature of my work I do have to be in the office, though, to interact with… ugh… clients.
- Comment on Get in the pod, inhale the fumes. 1 week ago:
Only if you ride this.
- Comment on Get in the pod, inhale the fumes. 1 week ago:
Wrong.
- Comment on Do movie actors or actress keep the skills they learned? Like no one would screw with Keanu after seeing all the John Wick films? And if they did would they just be fucked from the start? 1 week ago:
There are three effective methods of avoiding gunfire, in increasing order of efficacy:
- Be so close to the enemy that you’re on the same end of the muzzle that he is. Now would also be a good time to stick your knife and/or pistol up his nose. (Keanu’s goofy close-in pistol holding stance in the movies is supposed to be a nod to avoiding exactly this sort of thing, given the ridiculous amount of CQB that seems to be inevitable in the setting.)
- See to it that there is something that is proof against small arms fire between you and the shooter. Furthermore see to it that it stays there, or failing that encourage him to stay where he is until he runs out of bullets.
- Plug the other guy before he sees you. If you’re a rotten shot, preferably with some manner of artillery or an airstrike.
Note that there is generally a rather wide span of distance between 3 and 2, and also 2 and 1 where you probably don’t want to be standing.
- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 1 week ago:
This is musical chairs, and everyone involved is desperately hoping that they won’t be one of the ones left without a seat when the music stops. Anybody with a plural number of brain cells must know deep down inside that infinite growth is literally impossible, but they all think they’ll be smart enough to cash out before it all collapses.
There’s a problem with that, though: Money has a notoriously poor nutritional value.
- Comment on PrintGuard Is a New Open Source 3D Printing Failure Detector That Runs on the Edge 1 week ago:
I can tell you for sure they probably don’t mean this, but it was still my first thought.
- Comment on Is the cure to male loneliness shitposting? 1 week ago:
Nobody really argues with me in my niche online community. I almost kind of feel ripped off.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yes, that’s how it goes. But ammonium nitrate/ANFO (the fuel oil/diesel is mixed with it in order to sensitize it marginally, or rather to give a medium for the initiating shockwave to propagate through) has the extra special distinction of not being brisant enough to be self-propagating. Unlike dynamite, TNT, RDX/C4, etc., you need to have an initiator big enough to encapsulate your entire ammonium nitrate payload in a shockwave that’s powerful enough to set it off. That’s pretty tough for a home gamer to do.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Ammonium nitrate does a pretty credible job of preventing itself from being used as an explosive to begin with. It’s damn difficult to initiate, and anyone with the capability to do so would be able to trivially defeat pelletizing by, e.g., just grinding the stuff up first.
It’s not a matter of just sticking a fuse in it like Wile E. Coyote. You already have to have your hands on some pretty serious blasting caps or have the capability to manufacture your own, and at that rate you’re already pretty well versed in making things go boom.
McVeigh had to resort to using dynamite as a booster to initiate his truck full of ANFO and even then IIRC not all of it went off. But if you already have dynamite… you already have dynamite.
What pisses me off is that whole debacle made potassium nitrate hard to get your hands on in bulk because too many idiots in suits flunked high school chemistry. KNO~3~ is significantly more useful for purposes other than stripping the facades off of government buildings.
Oh, and after the affair some dimwit from the ATF came to my hardware store and tried to grill me about chemical fertilizers in a circumspect and very strange way that was attempting to simultaneously serve as a threat while also not letting slip the knowledge of what ammonium nitrate could possibly be used for, in case the mere act of asking gave anyone any ideas. I lost count of how many ways I had to phrase “we only sell consumer grade blended products” at him until he finally went away. Demonstrating that I knew more about it than he did probably would not have been a great idea regardless of how satisfying it might be.