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- Comment on Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google senior executives told employees to destroy messages 2 hours ago:
Musk is still free and has been openly doing this with self driving junk for years. This is the USA where we haven’t had reasonable laws passed since the 1970s.
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 16 hours ago:
5 is definitely the best. It offers a thicker handle edge for cutting and did not require a stamping bend on thinner material to add rigidity. The rounded head and outer tines serve two purposes. One it offers a smaller controlled side contact like the profile of a chef’s knife that will focus more force at the contact point allowing for better contact with the plate and shearing more efficiently. Second, the rounded outer edge will fit the contour of a bowl allowing a fork to efficiently manage rice or other small items down to the last bite with nothing remaining. The larger outer tines and shorter overall length is also more durable and resistant to bending. It cost far more to make number 5 and the design functionality came ahead of the operations cost, and materials stock selection. All of the others were made according to the minimum number of forming operations and thin stock.
- Comment on me_irl 21 hours ago:
I don't commute or ride in traffic any more. I have no margin left. My last hit was in early 2014. Bosch drive e-bikes became retail available around the summer of 2013 in south Orange County California, and were not present in substantial numbers until around 2018.
Now, drivers are much more aware of faster bikes in bike lanes. In all the crashes I was in between 2009 and 2014, I was even faster than most e-bikes are now, but I was an extreme anomaly in that respect. Bikes were not super rare on the road, but racers on general roads commuting have always been rare. Like if you’re going to train, it is not on the surface streets. Several of my crashes were from a time when I rode a 33 mile route each way to and from work 5-6 days a week. I’m one of the most hardcore all-weather, nothing-stops-me roadies you’ll ever meet. Like I ride home with broken bones just to say I made it. Anyways, I’m on a tangent. On the road, around unpredictable drivers, my rather rare speed led to crashes. I had hundreds, if not thousands, of near misses. I had 6 crashes from cars in 150k miles of riding and have had none since. I am at around 250k now. I’m a lot slower by average speed, and I never ride around traffic like I did back then. Both of my bad crashes were from someone making an illegal u-turn. That is the one event where intuition lies and there is nothing a person can do to escape. It looks exactly like all of the hundreds of times when someone has pulled out in front of you and cut you off. So you instinctively swerve, but as you do so, the car keeps going and closes the escape route faster than the brain will reprocess the inputs. It is no different for a driver in a passing car. The worst scenario is being on a bike, right behind that passing car, and being as fast as the cars on a slight down hill when someone pulls a sudden u-turn into a passing SUV. That is what got me. The car in front of me was doing 35mph and never braked. It was a Jeep Grand Cherokee t-boning a Mitsubishi Montero. I know all about it from court stuff, but I went black retroactively to the moment I merged behind the Jeep until I was in the ICU 3 hours later. I braked according to witnesses, but my Garmin GPS computer showed I made contact at 29.7mph. I was folded in half backwards. All but one of my crashes were like that, where it was absolutely due to errors of dumb drivers. All were also in the most southern parts of Orange County CA, in smaller areas with poor infrastructure. At the time, I rode mostly in more developed areas of city with better infrastructure and those are generally much safer. I had a lot of close calls in those areas but they are usually avoidable within the space available, unlike people that get lost or are dopey on the fringes where there is no proper infrastructure.
- Comment on Tit 4 Tat +10% is like a proof that the moral high ground is the most successful long term strategy in life 1 day ago:
I totally respect anyone that chooses to limit their perspective scope.
For me, everything in life is a messy statistical abstraction. I would not go out of my way to make decisions or inconvenience myself in instances where I see vectors of negativity and small errors in ethical disposition. These are simply elements I passively note, and when faced with a choice, such past occurrences will weigh into my decisions.
For me, I struggle to recall specifics like memorized trivia, instances of certain behaviors, or even people’s names in conversational real time. I can recall most of this information if I try, but I must focus on it to do so. I instantly have access to my abstracted thoughts and oversimplifications that exist on something like a three dimensional roadmap. When I note these types of behaviors, it is like I am painting a picture of what driving down a familiar street feels like, and I remember that picture and place well, only that imagery is the actions of the person. It takes me a while to think about all the features that make up that place, but I know where I am and what that means just by visiting. The person is not any feature but an ambiance that exists in my mind. It is their identity to me. I may not recall the name feature well, but this is not who they are to me; they are an abstraction like everything else; a likely set of probabilities, but one where I’m always curious how they evolve or add new features. No one is static after all, unless they are dead. Still I weigh negative vectors into those statistics objectively and make predictions based upon them.
- Comment on Tit 4 Tat +10% is like a proof that the moral high ground is the most successful long term strategy in life 1 day ago:
It depends on how you abstract. I believe that small patterns are strongly indicative of larger patterns. My life experiences have largely reflected this pattern. All of my worst business encounters were with people that cheated on their partners in their personal life. They ultimately showed the same types of behavior in business. The best people I have worked for were exactly the opposite. This includes both while running my own business for years and many people I have worked for as an employee.
The concept is also an extension of my realization that anyone that likes to talk about everyone else negatively at work when one on one, is doing the exact same thing with every other individual when I am not around and is saying the same negative stuff about me. Such a person appears to be everyone’s friend on a personal level, but is actually stabbing everyone in the back equally to elevate themselves and increase their own awareness of weaknesses they might highlight or play against others. The act of talking negatively about everyone else is a strike or vector that will later manifest if given the opportunity or under pressure.
I am metaphorically applying Newton’s premise that an object in motion tends to stay in motion, to the probability of future human behavior. If the person indicates a certain vector of thought that causes damage, they tilt the scales of future interaction and are therefore some degree more likely than not to produce a suboptimal future compared to others with a more positive track record, character, and ethics.
- Submitted 1 day ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on me_irl 1 day ago:
I’ve been hit by 7 cars in 6 crashes. Three caused only a few scratches and bruises, one made a wheel taco, one left the bike frame in two pieces, and the last cost me 8.5 of 9 lives to fight and total two SUVs. I can’t say that I recommend any, but I will say definitely don’t fight two at once
- Comment on Love me a Legume Garlic BLT 2 days ago:
16 year old me did a clutch three times before fully understanding the mechanism. Particularly, I had a bad pilot bearing that was causing the failures. It is one aspect that was not in the Haynes manual, and not a part included in the “complete clutch kit”. The second time I even faced the flywheel to do a proper job at the advice of a pro mechanic. I learned the pilot bearing on my own.
The fetish jokes were just fun with friends that hung out or helped while I worked on the car and figured it out as I went. Teasing macho friends lying in intimate tight spaces is fun, especially when they have underlying prejudices about LGBTQ+ stuff. I’ve always been an asshole like that when anyone is prejudice. Over the decades I’ve learned every detail about how engines and drivetrains work. The transmission is full of parts to joke about, but I can make anything metaphorical to surfeit abstraction.
- Comment on Love me a Legume Garlic BLT 2 days ago:
or anyone with a manual when they find out they are forking with a long trans mission stick, pumping a tight annular spring via their thrust bearing with the primary trans shaft buried deep in the back of their crankshaft through the self lubricating pilot bearing to buffer all the rough asynchronous screwing
synchro gigiddy mesh gettin your bottom shaft up to speed to fork with fineness without double pounding the annular
- Comment on Fentanyl Pipeline: How a Chinese Prison Helped Fuel a Deadly Drug Crisis in the United States 2 days ago:
Fentanyl is great though. It is the most peaceful way to cope with the USA’s disgusting lack of disability support and far better than the standard treatment of dying homeless on a cold rainy night in a gutter somewhere. Compared to those very real ethics endorsed by every american that does nothing for the homeless directly, fentanyl is relief from a culture that is more cowardly than Nazis that still fed and housed people in camps before gassing them to death quickly instead of using nature and a policy of feral primate abandonment, repression, and torture. Attacks on camps are the theft of these people’s last belongings, and any hope of employment, documentation, or future. There is no fentanyl problem. There is a culture with no moral backbone and absolutely no trace of ethics that drives the fringes to escape tyranny through a peaceful end to the misery, exploitation, and abuse.
- Comment on Advanced OpenAI models hallucinate more than older versions, internal report finds 3 days ago:
I’ve explored a lot of patterns and details about how models abstract. I don’t think I have ever seen a model hallucinate much of anything. It all had a reason and context. General instructions with broad scope simply lose contextual relevance and usefulness in many spaces. The model must be able to modify and tailor itself to all circumstances dynamically.
- Comment on Advanced OpenAI models hallucinate more than older versions, internal report finds 4 days ago:
Jan Leike left for Anthropic after Altmann’s nonsense. Jan Leike is the principal person behind all safety alignment present in all models except the 4chanGPT model. All models are cross trained in a way that propagates this alignment. Hallucinations all originate in this alignment and they all have a reason to exist if you get deep into the weeds of abstractions.
- Comment on Bill Gates Bought His Daughter A $16 Million Horse Farm As A Graduation Gift — But Ex-Wife Melinda Says The Kids Were Raised Very 'Middle Class' 4 days ago:
Never forget that Bill’s mom was on the board of directors at IBM and pushed for the company to use her boy’s software startup in the very beginning. Microsoft was built entirely on this nepotism and monopoly. There is nothing remotely middle class about that story.
- Comment on Call now, and we will give you a second can F R E E! 4 days ago:
One covert spray and my wife was none the wiser. Thanks spray crabs!
- Comment on The Prusa Mk4 has done it again ☹️ 6 days ago:
Add some z hop. A fast move is likely contacting a lifted spot or some ooze. I have had this happen before. It can move the plate or skip steps in the motor which is undetectable unless you see it happen. The belt does not need to slip; only enough force to overcome the motor step fields’ strength is required. During fast movements, it is likely skipping some steps or transitioning from full steps to micro stepping which can create potential vulnerable points where the holding field strength is less than ideal in a compromise to create faster accelerations/decelerations. You have got to remember that 3d printers are cheap largely because they are not absolute position linear systems. All motions are relative to (0,0) home. The (0,0) home location is precise, but it is not accurate at all. Every step the machine makes is only ever precise but is accurate relative to the (0,0) home location. Therefore any skipped steps are catastrophic. The primary issue that causes this is that the steppers are in an unknown position upon first powering them up and they move randomly to whatever field step position happens to be closest. Likewise, all end stop methods do not trigger accurately to within a single step field position. It gets complicated to actually make an accurate linear system for things like IDEx extruders or CNC.
- Comment on Praise jeebus 6 days ago:
inssain
- Comment on Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' 1 week ago:
Actually look at the way Discord works in your network, like all the raw IP addresses and and connections with no clear ownership or human readable name, with dozens of changing connections to get any of it to work. Then go try to ask questions about what is going on and who you’re connecting to. Discover that none of it is documented or described anywhere. Then realize that this means no one running Discord is doing so on a fully audited and logged host. You simply cannot be without a bunch of effort. I made it to the 6th layer of whitelisted raw IP addresses, and still nothing worked while trying to connect to Discord in a fully logged and documented network. I am simply unwilling to write a script to annotate that many connections so that all of my logs make sense. I seriously doubt anyone on Discord is doing so, and they certainly lack any understanding of what they are connecting to, why, or the protocols. So the Discord user is telling me “my opsec and privacy awareness is as nonexistent as a pig in a herd running off a cliff, and my system should be assumed compromised with no idea of what might be connected.” Everyone else doing it is a garbage excuse. That no one appears to have gotten hurt – has tissue thin merit, but also reveals that the user runs blind in herds while hoping for the best. Such information infers a lot about a person, their depth, accountability, and ethics – in certain scopes.
- Comment on Homeland security told US-born immigration lawyer to leave country 1 week ago:
civil war is inevitable
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 1 week ago:
I’d say more like 4 years flat if anything. You get a head start, but others have a right to build upon it. The best things humans do are collaborative. When others are inspired to build upon your shoulders, you must be open to collaboration if you want to maintain control beyond a short first to market advantage. The age of tyrannical monolithic giants should end because we all stand on the shoulders of others. There are no truly original ideas born from a vacuum.
- Comment on Yesterday's mystery print revealed 1 week ago:
Yes actually. It is a great hot fix for car stuff. With my auto body shop, I always carried a few feet of tie wire and a Leatherman because I often dealt with damaged fresh auction cars that I just needed to get to the shop in one piece.
I worked for some good and some sketchy used car dealers. There were many repairs where the absolute cheapest minimum fixes were required. These were often Buy-Here Pay-Here car lots where the cost is kept low, the cars are not great, and the loans are predatory, but they will finance absolutely anyone. I won’t get into the really bad parts, but these places suck and are a product of the exploitive Republican South in the USA, and target minority communities. Most of their cars get repossessed many times over, and while these are supposed to be auctioned to levey the recovered cost against the loan, there are major loopholes. Like the law is not worded in a way that excludes the previous auction price paid by the owner. It also allows for deductions of costs related to preparing the vehicle for auction and transport… Lots of sleazy stuff happening there.
Anyways… I got the same cars to work on over and over for years from one of those dealers. I often used tie wire to fix trim parts and stuff. It holds better than many actual fasteners.
In fact, when I did pit for a dirt track sprint car, nearly every fastener on the race car has a hole drilled into the bolt shaft above the nut with a bit of this same tie wire pushed through and twisted. Lots of aviation stuff has the same. Cotter pins are a thing. Like your vehicle’s tie rods have a cotter pinned castle nut, which is basically the same thing but a pin that is less prone to corrosion in the long term. Still, tie wire will last years and 50k-100k miles even in bad weather and conditions.
When I repair stuff like a plastic bumper cover that is torn or in pieces, I often used tie wire to stitch align the pieces exactly where I want them. Then I plastic weld repair the back side by embedding the stitched cross part of the wire in a special way. The wire becomes part of the reinforcing structure. Then I clip the wires where they went through from the back, remove the front part of each stitch, and cosmetically repair the crack and stitching holes in the plastic.
- Comment on There was a meme here, it's gone now. Oh wait. No, there it is. 1 week ago:
- Comment on Yesterday's mystery print revealed 1 week ago:
“Honey! We’re ready to defend the tomatoes from that evil coalition army of rabbit deer”
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 1 week ago:
No, this has enormous implications to break the monopolies of many companies and supply chains. Companies like Broadcom and Qualcomm only exist because of their anticompetitive IP nonsense. This is everything anyone could ever dream of for Right to Repair. It stops Nintendo’s nonsense. It kills Shimano’s anti competitive bicycle monopoly.
Ever frivolous nonsense thing has been patented. Patents are not at all what they were intended to be. They are primary weapons of the super rich to prevent anyone from entering and competing in the market. Patents are given for the most vague nonsense so that any competitive product can be drug through years of legal nonsense just to exist. It is nor about infringement of novel ideas. It is about creating an enormous cost barrier to protect profiteering from stagnation milking every possible penny form the cheapest outdated junk.
IP is also used for things like criminal professors creating exorbitantly priced textbook scams to extort students.
All of that goes away if IP is ditched. The idea that some author has a right to profit from something for life is nonsense; the same with art. No one makes a fortune by copying others unless they are simply better artists. Your skills are your protection and those that lack the skills have no right to use their wealth to suppress others. The premise of IP is largely based on an era when access to publishing and production was extremely limited and required large investments. That is not the case any more; that is not the world we live in. Now those IP tools are used for exactly the opposite of their original purpose and suppressing art and innovation.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 1 week ago:
Yes please
- Comment on Saw this in a public women's bathroom. I didn't want to touch it, but I am curious as to what it is. 1 week ago:
Long shot, some variety of Polly Pocket
- Comment on returning to SLA-resin printing: Which printer, curing station & resin? 2 weeks ago:
I think the only reason I might consider getting a SLA printer in the future is for making buttons, switches, and very small mechanisms. FDM is not very good for these in my experience so far, though I haven’t tried to print them with something like a 0.25 mm nozzle yet. The interface angles and texture have a very large impact on how a button slides into a small button on a circuit board and or is even more sensitive when the printed button is depressing a metal switch dome on a PCB.
Are there any really small SLA printers that have a rigged open tool chain for such an application? I care about stupid-tiny types of things like the buttons on the side of a phone.
On my bucket list is to etch my own 4+ layer circuit boards and make some really small stuff at home just to say I can.
- Comment on I too like to live kind-of-sort-of-dangerously 2 weeks ago:
First try or multiple test prints? Did you manually place each tree support on the half cylindrical overhang? Do you think they were needed, given that the top most point of the half cylinder is the same overhang, or am I seeing a tiny bevel at the point where you reduced the overhang corner?
Looks like you’re building a jig or furniture.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 13 comments
- Comment on returning to SLA-resin printing: Which printer, curing station & resin? 2 weeks ago:
The issue in this area is actually that the screens are proprietary from those making them, but that leads to a criminal corporate culture down the line in most cases. The datasheets for most high resolution displays are locked behind nondisclosure agreements and not publicly available.
I support all levels of open source, but that is a personal opinion and not anything mod or community related here. I’m not monolithic in my hobby interests so I expect to put things down and return to them at will. That is not compatible with any subscription nonsense. The SLA space seems dominated by such subscription schemes IMO. Big messy projects or large spaces for stuff are not something I can do, so I am probably biased from that angle too.
- Comment on returning to SLA-resin printing: Which printer, curing station & resin? 2 weeks ago:
CW1 is too pricy for me, but as far as I am concerned it is the only resin printer than exists. All the others are proprietary. So I haven’t looked into them further. Sorry I’m no help. I didn’t want to leave ya with no replies.
