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- Comment on AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto 2 days ago:
Sometimes you have a run in with a customer that ain’t worth having-- no matter how much money they pay.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 3 days ago:
As a very old lefty, I wish my handwriting looked that good.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 3 days ago:
Boys in particular, (though girls are not exempt from poor handwriting), will have “poor” penmanship pretty much all through elementary school and even into Jr High. And fractions are generally introduced at the end of the 3rd grade school year. And based on the question, that’s the likely grade level that test was created for.
I would bet that most of the students in that class got the answer correct because they were coached to read the question correctly-- to look for the fractions and simply compare them. And anyone else that didn’t, simply chose the wrong answer. Still, you will get a surprise answer like that every once in a while because kids are cool like that. It’s worth a chuckle as you move on.
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 3 days ago:
That’s Best Korea^TM^ to you!
- Comment on Gillibrand Announces Legislation To Ban Distribution Of Blueprints For 3D Printed Firearms And Curb Epidemic Of “Ghost Guns” - Kirsten Gillibrand | U.S. Senator for New York 3 days ago:
I have designed several 3D printed firearms related items.
I designed and printed shims for my Winchester SX4 shotgun, (Winchester claimed they couldn’t design them and make them work), and I uploaded the .stls for the set so other shooters could make their guns fit better so they could hit targets better.
I also designed a 3D printed EZLoader for a SIG P365 pistol. Those 12 round double stack single feed magazines are nearly impossible to load without one. And I felt the commercial ones that cost $40 or more were too expensive. So I designed something simpler and cheaper you can make at home for yourself.
These designs came about because I discussed problems with other shooters on several different shooting forums. Does that make me a criminal? While neither of my designs are anything like a Glock switch, no one knows just how far the law could be stretched if wanted. And one thing everyone knows is just how ignorant police are about laws. Not to mention just how impossible it would be for the state of New York to police the entire internet in search of such files and discussions. They can’t even stop you from downloading a pirated copy of your favorite video game. This proposed law is more feel good theater than anything that can be considered effective.
And if what I could do with my 3D printer scares people, just imagine what I can do with my metal lathe, mill, and welders…
- Comment on Sustainable 3D Prints With Decomposable Filaments 5 days ago:
I looked PHA up. Color Fab offers some at a fairly reasonable price, but limited colors. It seems an interesting choice for printing. I do like the heat resistance of >120C. The printing temp range is low and pretty narrow and needs hair spray. I wonder if it’s comparable with PEI print sheets.
But it still has a price hard time competing with the $11US per kilo of PLA brands like eSun.
- Comment on Definitions 5 days ago:
I have used a pizza cutter to cut more than one pizza. I have also wielded a sword, (Ren Fair and fought a dual), and cut pizza with it. I have also field dressed a couple of deer and cut a few pizzas, (along with apples and sandwiches) with a Victorinox Classic keychain pocket knife over the years.
Of the 3 pieces of cutlery, I find the Victorinox Classic to be the most useful.
- Comment on Gemini will now automatically summarize your long emails unless you opt out 5 days ago:
Gemini has popped up pnce since it became a thing. I simply clicked no and it’s gone away. So hopefully it stays away.
- Comment on Gillibrand Announces Legislation To Ban Distribution Of Blueprints For 3D Printed Firearms And Curb Epidemic Of “Ghost Guns” - Kirsten Gillibrand | U.S. Senator for New York 1 week ago:
There are firearms related .stl’s that can be found, but they are accessories rather than the actual parts that make a firearm function. But there are forums that do discuss and build 3D printed firearms that can be found with some searching.
I’ve done a couple of designs, shims for a Winchester SX4 shotgun to fit several guns to their owners for target shooting and hunting. And an easy loader for my P365XL. That 12 round double stack single feed clown car of a magazine is hard to load without it. But I haven’t bothered to publish either design and I have never wanted to either.
- Comment on Gillibrand Announces Legislation To Ban Distribution Of Blueprints For 3D Printed Firearms And Curb Epidemic Of “Ghost Guns” - Kirsten Gillibrand | U.S. Senator for New York 1 week ago:
Congtrats! you just made a pipe bomb! And one that isn’t as good as a steel pipe You do understand that PVC pipe would not be able to contain the pressure of even the most anemic cartridge don’t you? Even a 1" schedule 80 PVC can only contain up to 520PSI @ 73F. Modern Cartridges easily generate 12,500PSI for a light shotgun target load of birdshot.
- Gillibrand Announces Legislation To Ban Distribution Of Blueprints For 3D Printed Firearms And Curb Epidemic Of “Ghost Guns” - Kirsten Gillibrand | U.S. Senator for New Yorkwww.gillibrand.senate.gov ↗Submitted 1 week ago to 3dprinting@lemmy.world | 18 comments
- Comment on This graph but with fediverse apps? 1 week ago:
So, I don’t know what 3/4’s of those pictographs on the chart mean. Am I in the wrong place?
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 1 week ago:
So would I need up upgrade to First Class to get that kind of service?
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 1 week ago:
I don’t know about how much fat it might take, but my 2 knee surgeries and both my deteriorating hip joints, (been searching eBay for a good used hip joint for cheap), tell me that standing for 2 hours is a painful idea.
- Comment on What are some of your favorite prints/models? 2 weeks ago:
It’s part of a joint for the handle of an electric snowblower I have. It’s a cool looking part for sure, but it was easy to recreate as a model to print.
But after breaking the original injection molded glass re-enforced nylon and 3 other home printed parts, I redesigned the joint to be a single piece solid part. So while I can’t fold the handle down for storage, it no longer breaks.
- Comment on FYI, You Can Totally Repair an Extruder with Junk. 2 weeks ago:
Or if you can scrounge up a guitar string, you can simply make your own coil spring from scratch.
- Comment on What are some of your favorite prints/models? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 2 weeks ago:
I had a 486DX running DOS for writing and editing CAM programs for CNC mills, lathes, pipe bender, and a laser cutter. And for funsies, an even older Macintosh that booted from a 5 1/4" floppy that ran a CMM, (co-ordinate measuring machine). And the software for the CMM ran from another 5 1/4" floppy.
This was about 2017 before I retired as a toolmaker.
- Comment on Prices are out of control 4 weeks ago:
It doesn’t even work for dissolving rusted pistons or valves!
- Comment on Prices are out of control 4 weeks ago:
Real men drink Old Granddad BiB. As a bonus it will make the best Old Fashioned you will ever have.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Do you want to pay for the heating and cooling of a bunch of those tanks out of your pocket? Or even the cost of upkeep to keep the tanks clean?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, those are going to last at -40F/-40C nights we often experience where I live. Nor do I see them being able to add any cool relief from their shade on a hot day.
That said, it is hard to grow healthy trees in the poisoned soils of a big city. They tend to struggle and be sickly when choked by concrete and asphalt.
- Comment on List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs 5 weeks ago:
If you are looking for FOSS CAD, then FreeCAD 1.0 is about the only game in town. SolveSpace is fine for fairly simple uses but lacks all the advanced toys one might like. Nor has it been updated in 3 years now. Siemans SolidEdge has a free community edition, but it’s Widows only. OnShape is is a popular alternative to Fusion, and is fully cloud based, but it is restricted like Fusion.
As an acolyte that wears the sackcloth and ashes of FreeCAD, there is a growing community of tutorials, (I highly recommend MangoJelly on youtube) for beginners to learn with. But the learning curve can be steep as you get past the basics. There is a FreeCAD community here, but it’s small and not very active. Sadly the best place for answers remains on reddit.
- Comment on Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it 5 weeks ago:
One has to wonder if Recall just isn’t as profitable as they had hoped.
- Comment on Philosophy moment 5 weeks ago:
I’m thinking 3/4oz #8 birdshot is the zeroday attack.
- Comment on Philosophy moment 5 weeks ago:
But it does work in an electrically challenged environment when the latency of the internet is infinite. But it can be hacked by 3/4oz #8 birdshot.
- Comment on Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump 1 month ago:
Like most prepper things for sale, this is a better product to skin money from the ignorant and the unreasonably fearful than it is truly useful. It assumes you have electricity and the functioning equipment to access it.
In a real prepper situation, you either already ready have the knowledge in your head, (the best method), or you have real books and pamphlets to read, (slow to access).
Remember Kiddies, if a real SHTF gets here, there not only won’t be no google or youtube, but there won’t be much time to use it anyway. Survival is a real time sink. And most living in the big cities will simply die in place anyway.
- Comment on Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video! 1 month ago:
It’s supposed to be in the US also.
- Comment on 3D Print Anything Without Supports - Non-Planar Slicing & Core R-Theta Printer 1 month ago:
There is a lot of potential here. I have little doubt the printer and slicer algorithm will make it’s way to mainstream printing at some point.
- Comment on Keychain tool and text 1 month ago:
Yeah, Orca has issues with Fedora. The appImages often fail in particular. But I do have it running on Fedora Cinnamon 42 and Aurora 42, (spin off of Kinninite 42) with the flatpack from the GitHub.
