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What I’d love to see even more than that is some kind of pigment cartridge system. You’d use natural, unpigmented filament and the printer would inject pigment in different mixtures as it prints. Just seems… I dunno. More efficient?

I remember seeing a YouTube video (that I might search for and find again if I remember) where some company had developed (and probably patented) an approach that involved inkjet-coloring as it printed. I remember the colors looked pretty pale and washed-out looking. Not vibrant the way I would have hoped. But the approach might be one that could be improved on. 🤷

• Sounds sensationalistic.
• Misleading AI hype. (The kind of AI that helps discover drugs isn’t the same kind that runs LLMs, but the tech bros like to conflate all “AI” to make it seem like ChatGPT or Claude or whatever is actually useful when it’s not.)
• Paywalled.

“AI” can mean a lot of things. Are we talking LLMs here or something else?

I don’t chose what gets built.

Yeah, this is definitely true. I’m the sort of software engineer who logs off after work and works on my own side projects for the passion of it. At work, I do what I can to advocate for better ways of doing things. Not just for customers, but just to keep the cognitive load manageable. But I definitely have to choose my battles. Battles with management and also battles with my coworkers who might think such-and-such super-heavy framework should be imported so they can use one three-line function that it provides.

I’m a software engineer and I can say it’s a huge systemic issue in the whole software industry. (I wouldn’t want to speak to the hardware industry given how little experience I have with it.) Part of the problem is managers. They think more features is better.

A good example is Java web development. (Not directly relevant to your story about iPads, but it’s an example I’m familiar with.) Java 1.0 was released in 1995. In 1996, they released a framework for doing web development in Java called “Servlets”. They definitely made some terrible design decisions when they made Servlets. (The use of XML for configuration. JSPs being impossible to render to strings. The near impossibility of writing your own “Servlet container”. Etc.) But it worked. And many of the issues with it were products of the time and only became apparently “mistakes” a decade later or more.

When people started realizing those were mistakes, they abandoned Servlets and built something bett- just kidding, they built a new layer of way-overengineered bullshit on top of Servlets called “Spring”. It became the industry standard for Java web development. So then in order to do web development in Java, you have to understand both Spring and Servlets. Actually, no you don’t. You just have to be able to throw shit at the wall and enlist the help of the guy who does understand both Spring and Servlets and isn’t afraid to look at the source code of both to figure out why they don’t act as advertised.

Well, of course, that wasn’t good enough. “It’s too cumbersome.” “I have to type too many things.” In true Java fashion, they added another janky floor to the house on the crumbling foundation. “Spring Boot”. It sits on top of Spring and configures a bunch of stuff “aUtOmAgIcAlLy” for you. But if you change the tiniest thing, you better just plan for days of dependency hell trying to get it to JUST COMPILE YOU MOTHERFUCKER.

Java sucks ass in every way and I hate writing Java. But if I have to write Java, I’d rather just use Servlets directly than the house of cards the industry has built on top of it any day. For all its warts, at least it does what you tell it and nothing more. Not to say there are no better alternatives not built on Servlets. But there’s no need for anything on top of Servlets. Any attempt at such could only make things worse.

(Ok. One exception. If I could get Servlets except you can eschew XML with the absolute minimum amount of moving parts strictly necessary to make that happen, I think that would improve Servlets. Also, I’d try to find an alternative to JSPs.)

That’s far from the only example in the Java ecosystem. Java’s just addicted to adding layers of complexity to “fix” the layers underneath.

Outside the Java ecosystem, there are similar issues in a lot of other communities. JS and Ruby developers are known to pull in tons of heavy dependencies without considering the consequences, for instance. C++ is so complex that development teams have to choose a common subset of the language to get anything done.

That’s epic!

Questions for you:

• What material did you print it out of? (PLA, ABS, etc.)
• And have you had any trouble with warping or softening due to the heat generated by the laptop and/or hard drives?

If you don’t have a CR touch on one or both of those, you desperately need to get one (or you’re unlikely to be able to use more than a tiny little spot in the middle of the bed without massive adhesion issues). And getting a CR touch will probably require upgrading the motherboard on your v1.

Hope you like outages.

As dual_sport_dork said, you really shouldn’t worry about it, and you’re better off not having anything to do with Admiral Patrick, but if you really wanted to pursue it, you could PM Admiral Patrick and (very nicely) ask him how you ended up on the list and ask him to remove you. (Right now, he’s probably getting flooded with messages that are likely to generally piss him off (more so than usual), so it’s definitely worth being extra nice if you want that to have any chance of success.)

Oh sweet. Perchance if I 🥺👉👈 fill my posts with keywords like “what would the french do” and "crossposted from anarchist.nexus", famed boot licker Admiral Patrick will declare death to me and try to remove me from reality and then maybe I can be part of the list of proletairat freedom unit users in his “policy.json” list where I can claim Tesseract is censoring me. Hey @admiralpatrick@lemmy.world: ACAB.

Quote from the article.

Last season ended with the Star Trek friends fending off a Kingon farmer’s corn crops from little pink aliens

Kingon

“Kingon?” KINGON!?

Which is it? Either:

• Scouts mispronounces the name in a “baby talk” way.
• “Kingons” are a distinct species from Klingons.
• Scouts changed the name of Klingons.
• That article was written by someone who apparently lives under a rock so huge that they’ve never heard the word “Klingon” mispronounced.
• That article author typoed.

Whichever it is, I’m pissed.

Is it too late to get on the list?

I have to wonder how the intellectual property shakes out with Beholders and Mindflayers and Kuo-Toa and so on that WotC has trademarked. I think if you’re doing business on DM’s Guild, I think they let you do more than if you’re not, but I haven’t found any indication that MZ4250 is doing business on DM’s Guild.

I once knew an author who wrote a book with a character whose name was the same as a D&D character (I don’t remember which one… it wasn’t “Vecna” or some super-well-known character name, though) and he got a cease-and-desist from WotC. And he didn’t have the means to fight anything, so he quickly unpublished the book and hoped they’d leave him alone. (They did, AFAIK.) At least he didn’t get harassed by the Pinkertons.

But yeah. WotC is basically Satan, and not in a cool way. (Oh, sorry. I misspelled “Hasbro”.)

Anubis is nice. Like, as a user I get kinda pissed when I have to deal with CloudFlare’s CAPTCHAs, so seeing Anubis instead is always a breath of fresh air.

“You?” As in me? I’m confused.

Ah. Ok. I did watch it at double speed, so I guess I can’t really argue.

What was wrong with the video exactly?

Of course! Just figure out how to get the potato into superposition for long enough to run the algorithm first. The rest is the easy part.

Anything can run on anything with enough effort and ingenuity.

My most played game is probably The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. No idea in terms of how many hours. But I played it, then hundred-percented it (yes I found all the Korok seeds), then the DLC came out and I played that, then I started over in master mode, then I replayed it with mods, then I replayed it with cheats, then I speedran it for like a year.