BastingChemina
@BastingChemina@slrpnk.net
- Comment on YSK about the French Republican Calendar 1 week ago:
Yes, they also decided to change the time to decimal time.
The day was divided into 10 hours, each hour was 100 minutes …
- Comment on Scandal 1 week ago:
Does it matter of it’s true or not?
It’s been years that MAGA is showing us that truth does not matter,
- Comment on It's important! 1 week ago:
Congrats, you are now Flemish!
To give some context: in Belgium there is two main regions, Flanders and Wallonia. Flemish people speaks Flemish Dutch and Walloons speak French.
Since Flemish Dutch and French are the two official language of Belgium a lot of Fleming are learning French as a secondary language to be able to communicate with Walloons. Walloons on the other hand don’t care to learn Flemish Dutch at all.
So as consequence a lot of Flemish do know French but refuse to speak French with Walloons.
So as a French person I ended several time in a situation where I’m trying to communicate in English with a Fleming who refuse to use French with me, until he realize by my accent that I’m not Walloons, then he would start speaking to be in French.
- Comment on The Perfect Picture of Helth 1 week ago:
Moderation is the issue with pizza, at least for me.
I’ve been making pizza and pasta from scratch. It’s basically the exact same ingredients:
- flour
- tomatoes
- cheese
But when I’m making pizza I know that I can almost double the amount of flour because we are eating way more pizza than pasta.
- Comment on Arguing for the car as a good method of transportation is like arguing that having personal diesel generator to power you home is a good idea 1 week ago:
It’s a chicken and eggs problem, without cars the nearest place to spend money wouldn’t be 20 miles away.
- Comment on Edible Wood 2 weeks ago:
Heart of palm as well
- Comment on Maybe there was a cure for human cancer, but it didn't work at all in mice. 2 weeks ago:
I believe the vast majority of cultivated human cells are cancerous cells anyway.
- Comment on New South Korean law will turn large parking lots into solar power farms 2 weeks ago:
There is regulation about rainwater management for parking lots as well.
Parking lots manager are required to setup systems to let the rainwater infiltrate the soil
- Comment on PRUSA releases the OpenPrintTag, open source standard for filament spool identification and data tracking 2 weeks ago:
By itself, it’s does not solve anything.
However it gives some extra data that can be used by the printer firmware.
The NFC tag contains data about the right printing temperatures, the color, the amount of filament left in there spool …
So a lot of QOL features can be developed with that. For example
- having a message of the amount of filament left in not enough to finish the print I’m about to start,
- auto adjust temperatures depending on the loaded filament,
- importing a library of available filament in the slicer just by taping the spool on the NFC reader.
- using this library of filament for multicolor/multi material printing. So instead of printing selecting each head individually in the slicer and then having to remember to load the right filament, right color in each head you can just select the filament you actually want and the printer will manage.
- Comment on one bright second 5 weeks ago:
I don’t want to imagine the level of procrastination I would have if I was immortal.
- Comment on NASA will say goodbye to the International Space Station in 2030 − and welcome in the age of commercial space stations 5 weeks ago:
Which SpaceX contact was a disaster ?
There is a lot to criticize about SpaceX but overall for NASA they’ve been pretty good partners, especially composted to ask the contracts NASA has with traditional aerospace companies.
Someone correct me if I’m wrong but I see several contracts
- The commercial crew development: NASA awarded two contract to SpaceX and Boeing for sending astronauts to the ISS (with Boeing receiving almost twice the amount for the same missions).
- Result: the capsule Crew Dragon has been sending astronauts regularly and safely to the ISS. The only astronauts that used the Starliner capsule from Boeing had to use another capsule (sent by SpaceX) to return because it was too risky to use the Boeing one.
- All the satellites and probed launched for NASA. NASA chose SpaceX for multiple missions, I don’t think any of the missions failed because of SpaceX. It include Europa Clipper, a probe that was originally supposed to be sent on the SLS (the SLS program is a disaster).
- The human landing system: even though there is delays SpaceX is progressing well in the development of the system. Blue origin got a contract as well but so far they only launch their rocket once and didn’t managed to recover the first stage. I don’t know about their moon lander, I don’t think there is many info available about it. As a comparison SpaceX launched the Starship rocket, recovered the first stage AND reused it several times already. Although comparison between the two companies is hard since they have very different approaches.
- Comment on Prusa3D Core One assembled from kit in roughly 36 hours 1 month ago:
It took me a week to assemble my mk4 last year, between work, cores and kids but I loved the process.
I loved the process as well. The instruction is very well made and it’s an extremely satisfying process.
The printer is now getting close to 2500 hours of printing and still printing well.
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 1 month ago:
Nettle and potato soup is delicious.
- Comment on it's true! 1 month ago:
I doubt think it’s a DNA problem, the amount of roots depends on the amount of leaves.
So keeping the grass short keeps the roots sorry as well
- Comment on Cool Project? 1 month ago:
You’re CEO and VP of IT are idiots.
Of course you can have open source in an enterprise environment and have someone to blame. You hire a company to install the open source software and maintain it.
- Comment on Anyone had any luck running Fusion 360 on Linux? 1 month ago:
No, I tried for a while but I gave up.
I switched to Onshape and I’m very happy with the switch.
- Comment on Cool Project? 1 month ago:
There is also the Atelier Paysan in France that designed a lot of agricultural equipment published under creative Commons license.
- Comment on Musk becomes first person to hit $500 billion net worth, Forbes list shows 1 month ago:
To give an idea of how absurd Tesla stock is, Tesla valuation is higher than the next 35 automakers COMBINED!
Thisn article is from last year: newsweek.com/elon-musk-tesla-worth-more-35-next-b…
- Comment on EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm 1 month ago:
- Comment on Americans Are Using PTO to Sleep, Not for Vacation—Report 1 month ago:
In France things are changing and now if you get sick during your paid holiday with a doctor note you can postpone your holidays.
- Comment on Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics' 1 month ago:
The diversity and quantity of videogames accessible today is crazy.
- Comment on "Pro-life" and "pro-choice" aren't actually opposite positions 1 month ago:
Because “pro-life” is not describing their position. They are not even “pro-fetus-life”. They are not taking any action to avoid accidental miscarriage in women, no educative program in this sense or collective action like distributing prenatal vitamins.
No, the only way to describe their position is “anti-abortion”. They are not pro anything, they are anti.
- Comment on How many hands long do they get? 2 months ago:
Yes, since the 60’ in the US the measurements are based on the metric system.
In 1959 the inch was redefined to be exactly 25.4mm.
So the US and any other country using the imperial system is just using metric but which weird conversion just to make things harder.
- Comment on How many hands long do they get? 2 months ago:
Yes, it was implemented during the French revolution.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I disagree, but in not in your situation so I can be wrong.
Unless you are producing way, way more electricity than you can use I think net metering is a great arrangement for the customer. (Not so much for the utility company)
The electricity is usually bought by the utility company at a much lower cost than what the customer is paying. Because the generation cost is only a percentage of the cost, there is taxes, maintenance of the grid …
For example in France we pay 0.1952€/kWh, but the utility is buying the solar electricity produced by household at 0.04€/kWh.
Meanwhile with net metering your electricity is virtually bought at the same price as what you are buying your electricity for.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Net metering is great, much better than being paid for the surplus.
With net metering the grid is basically an free, infinite, 100% effective battery.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
How ? Is it just AC ?
We oscillate between 300 and 800kwh per month and it’s with an old water heater, an electric car charged at home, a dryer and electric oven.
- Comment on Ding ding ditch is punishable by death apparently 2 months ago:
Replace the gun with a car.
How much of the “outside” can a kid access today without taking the risk of being it by a car ? As soon as he crosses the door of the house he risks his life.
- Comment on AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet access 2 months ago:
There is probably still a bunch of old people with a dialup subscription that they never canceled.
- Comment on Bambu Lab announces the Vortek H2C, an automatic nozzle-changing version of the H2D 2 months ago:
This is what Prusa is planning to use on the Prusa Core One.
The picture released by Prusa shows 7 Indx head on a Prusa core one and has been relayed by Bontech. https://preview.redd.it/what-mmu4-is-probably-going-to-look-like-v0-a9k1435yyelf1.jpeg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=acdc5101cd9ea18d7474e89ebbf6f69e188e870c
