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- Comment on Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $79m, despite devastating year for layoffs: 2550 jobs lost in 2024 4 weeks ago:
Dont mean to pry, but I’ll gladly do whatever you’re doing
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 4 weeks ago:
My dream is to make or at least be a part of the former
It is very hard
- Comment on I ain't going... 4 weeks ago:
Audio GIF!
- Comment on I designed a cardboard cutter that turns boxes into free cat scratchers 1 month ago:
Check local sales, as much as I hate Facebook, marketplace around me sometimes has some nice steals, like my OG ender 5 for 100$, and that job was selling off their Prusa MK3s to afford MK4s about half off. You never know -o-
- Comment on I designed a cardboard cutter that turns boxes into free cat scratchers 1 month ago:
I own an Ender 3, 5, and a Prusa Mini. The mini is by far my most reliable printer, but both enders have had a lot of work done to them to get them where they are… and not quite click to print yet.
At one of my jobs I maintained some 35 Prusa Mk3s, about a dozen Elegoo’s, and witnessed their graveyard of Anycubics and some other brands. The Prusa’s generally only needed to be unclogged or have their nozzle changed less than once a month, with only a couple failures per week max, the room also was not temperature controlled and they had some… questionable engineering practices.
The elego’s were like pulling teeth, needing glue to keep it adhered, frequent clogs and skips, thermistors needing replacement after under 100 print hours, blobbing would get into the part coolig fans. Small leveling knobs. Prusa’s IMO were designed to be serviceable, but seem to need it way less.
Especially at a business, the premium on Prusa printers over say bambu labs is well worth their customer support. Ive never used a Bambu so I cant necessarily recommended or not, and I do wish I had an MMU on the cheap as you’d get with their mini, but Im most pleased with my Prusa mini
- Comment on What else is there 1 month ago:
Oops, all pseudovectors
- Comment on 2real4me 1 month ago:
The best code its given me I’d been able to search for and find where it was taken. Hey it helped me discover some real human blogs with vastly more helpful information.
(If you’re curious, it was circa when there was that weird infight at
openclosedAI with altman, I prompted to give code to find the rotational inertia per axis and to my surprise and suspicion the answer made too much sense. Backsearching I found where I believe it got this answer from) - Comment on Musk’s plan to axe X's block button is a real win for stalkers and abusers. 1 month ago:
I’ve practically been groveling begging my girlfriend to switch.
Its not that bad just ignore the ads Yeah I don’t go in replies because it’s always bots There’s still some things on there
She didn’t really catch onto mastodon, discoverability is the problem imo. May try getting her onto bluesky even though it wouldn’t be my pick. Some people just like whatever they currently have more than change - which maybe not being able to block like EVERY OTHER media platform may be a big enough change.
- Comment on Butts 2 months ago:
Well farts aren’t just methane
- Comment on Disney knew 2 months ago:
Thats so fucking funny, this came up a few days ago for me after I came across this:
- Comment on [Help] My Ender 3 isn't powering the extruder motor. Do I need a new motherboard? 3 months ago:
Do make sure you’re running the nozzle, if you’re trying to move axis from the menu, Enders’ won’t let you move the extruder if it isn’t heated, it has fooled me a few times
- Comment on TikTok pushed far-right AfD party on young voters in Germany 4 months ago:
Saw crazy YouTube recommendations: ghost gun tutorial
- Comment on Google and Microsoft consume more energy than some countries due to AI advances | Windows Central 4 months ago:
Second law of thermodynamics would like to chime in, even with such a perfect nonexistent power source, waste heat is still an issue… which you can radiate to space, which would take tremendous land use to facilitate…
Or we use that land and capital and effort for solar power, which exists and could power practically everything in our lives, minus AI. Sounds like a win to me.
(Also not to mention the necessity to fire up more fossils for this shit to compensate for the current lack of miracle power to power their pipe dreams)
- Comment on TikTok wants to be YouTube now, tests 60-minute video uploads 6 months ago:
And we’ll put a series of ads to round it up to 1 hour, brilliant!
- Comment on Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED 6 months ago:
So four months til GPT starts calling everyone “kitten”
- Comment on Need recommandations for a home server 6 months ago:
I got a 1U 32GB and a 4 core Xeon for 20$, you just have to make at least 3 more posts
- Comment on pooch/repkord made a printer lift itself 6 months ago:
It is fun when its intentional
I learned a valuable lesson about tangles
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 6 months ago:
It does help to know what those funny letters mean. Now we wait for regulators to catch up…
/tangent
If anything, we’re a very long way from anything close to intelligent, OpenAI (and subsequently MS, being publicly traded) sold investors on the pretense that LLMs are close to being “AGI” and now more and more data is necessary to achieving that.
If you know the internet, you know there’s a lot of garbage. I for one can’t wait for garbage-in garbage-out to start taking its toll.
Also I’m surprised how well open source models have shaped up, its certainly worth a look. I occasionally use a local model for “brainstorming” in the loosest terms, as I generally know what I’m expecting, but it’s sometimes helpful to read tasks laid out. Also comfort in that nothing even need leave my network, and even in a pinch I got some answers when my network was offline.
It gives a little hope while corps get to blatantly violate copyright while having wielding it so heavily, that advancements have been so great in open source.
- Comment on How did we get humans on the moon in 1969 and are still struggling to get the Starship rocket to launch properly? 6 months ago:
Work on that reading comprehension, it’ll do you well.
- Comment on How did we get humans on the moon in 1969 and are still struggling to get the Starship rocket to launch properly? 6 months ago:
Well you offhandedly gave “elon bad” memes precedence over actual critiques being offered, nobody who actually cares about this moon thing gives a damn about elon memes, so I expect to discuss the merits of the mission plan off its merits alone.
Smartereveryday was largely on about culture at NASA from what I remember from that video. That and the lack of hypergolics.
It may be a long watch but please actually watch the whole thing, he’s very well spoken and ultimately optimistic (as am I) about going back. But I am certain he had more to mention that just hypergolics. I can list a few
- astronaut access to the surface
- stability on landing with a high COM
- number of refuels necessary given nominal boiloff
- lack of a mockup vehicle for astronaut training
- undemonstrated orbital refueling (no bleeding the header tank is not a fuel transfer as per flight 3)
- yes the hypergolics, you don’t want to be stuck on the moon.
If these are “intentionally obtuse” points, well then welcome to aerospace engineering, its called rocket science for a reason.
And Destins point about the culture? People aren’t speaking their critiques when they’re most necessary to hear, people are afraid to speak. How does that contribute to a program which may or may not have flaws (that could be remedied), when no flaws are at least pointed out? Well look at Boeing for one.
The fact you don’t know how risky Apollo was to the astronauts shows you don’t know much about this
I mentioned Apollo 1, right? Im pretty sure I mentioned Apollo one and how they perished on the pad and it nearly stopped the program. Now if you’re going to be intentially obtuse, then I bid you a good day.
- Comment on How did we get humans on the moon in 1969 and are still struggling to get the Starship rocket to launch properly? 6 months ago:
Lost me at the second paragraph, Elon most certainly can be a complete moron while SpaceX remains a competent launch provider with, but to ignore his track record and business dealings in considering HLS would be a lapse in judgement.
Aside from the man, the plan of starship is vague at best, and given 2 billion in public funds is planned to be spent on starship this year alone, I would certainly like to know more details… as NASA does too:
20 launches, up from musks initial 8, will be needed to fuel the craft
Contracts have deadlines and astronauts need assurances
It’s really cringe
If NASA is to a point healthy critique is considered cringe, then I doubt we’ll be on the moon for long. Sure there’s some rashness, but in the publics eye, do you think Apollo could’ve succeeded if they had dismissed hardware failures as RUDs?
Apollo 1 nearly ended the program, yes it was the deaths of those astronauts that prompted that, but its necessary rigor that prevents another such accident. An inherent con of the trial-by-fire method SpaceX has had is the potential to miss something that wasn’t an immediate issue. This can be mitigated, but is a valid source of concern for the engineer.
I however am not nearly qualified to make a call. But I feel as though this video from the channel SmarterEverDay (whose family was involved in Apollo) sums up a set of valid concerns that I think anybody with interest in these this should at least hear.
I want us to go back to the moon just as the next person, but remember: Apollo cost some $200B in todays money, part of that cost was the extensive checks needed to avert tragedy, we must be sure we’re not cutting that its only a natural concern. And we can’t make heroes of men while we’re at it, nobody is infallible, if the proposal is solid it will be the one to take us regardless who’s running the show. Or if its not, we cannot afford to make mission proposals personal.
- Comment on Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt 7 months ago:
You are an unbiased AI assistant
(Countless biases)
- Comment on Homeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a day 7 months ago:
If you think the useless appliances are bad, just take a look at more critical connected devices.
I needed some POE security cameras, found some foscam ones on the cheap. Plug them up, go to IP, “install our app”… was pleased to find it allowed a local account without the need for an email, but found that half of my network traffic was comprised of requests to their “ivyIOT AI detection”. I didnt measure what data was going through before sectioning them behind a firewall zone.
My fault for not having looked further into other brands, they were still a bargain and work without issue with my setup, but annoying
- Comment on Despite Microsoft's push, Windows 11 and Edge see decreases in user share 7 months ago:
Thats okay, I actually live in the mountains and power my laptop via an eliptical tied to a generator, if someone hacks me I’ll simply stop pedaling
- Comment on Voting compulsory for 16 and 17-year-olds in Belgium, court rules 7 months ago:
And the penalty is not being able to vote after not voting for 15 years
- Comment on Voting compulsory for 16 and 17-year-olds in Belgium, court rules 7 months ago:
And yet the US’s (typical) drinking age is 21, opposed to voting at 18, and driving at 16. Driving likely because its necessary for any sort of mobility, and drinking because we’ve deemed that some adults are too young to drink, but are old enough to own a firearm and be recruited to the military. Its arbitrary
- Comment on I decided that I will update the nextcloud (windows) desktop client once or twice a decade 8 months ago:
I was genuinely concerened I had a skill issue with NC, glad I’m not alone
- Comment on Any docker solution to control smart light bulb? 8 months ago:
Its so weirdly addictive, started with proxmox, then to home assistant, now I have frigate handling PoE cameras, every bedroom has an alarm light automation, the vacuum starts itself, its ridiculous
- Comment on Mozilla Firefox is Working on a Tab Grouping Feature 8 months ago:
A wise person once told me
Unused RAM is wasted RAM
- Comment on OpenWRT gateway with TP-Link brand access points 8 months ago:
Thank you very much for that final note, I just love misleading marketing tactics and actually may not have noticed. Cheers!
