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Captainant

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  1. I'm on Samsung Internet and it works great on my phone - better than chrome IMO. Every iOS browser is still just safari though, so idk ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ Usually once you're off the learning curve it's the same experience and tools as desktop browser
  2. When corporations and generationally wealthy oligarchs pull this sort of shit and ensure that nobody can make any meaningful changes, it all but guarantees violence. Historically speaking, at least.
  3. Lol Elmo pulling a Kevin Durant on Twitter was unexpected
  4. The punchline is the implicit admission of breaking immigration law, which up until a week or two ago was a carnal sin for him and his ilk
  5. Lol your preferred information sources that you bring to surly feel differently than you - you should scroll back to 2020 times and see how they feel how they feel about police accountability
  6. Captainant

    3D Printing

    Eh, the filament is just a convenient way to get a consistent stream of material to deposit. The real juice is in the print head and axis that you're printing on
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    3D Printing

    The A1 mini's heat bed doesn't get hot enough so ABS and Nylon just warp right off the build plate, plus that material usually needs a heated enclosure AND a HOT heated bed, like 85 or 90C. The A1 mini's max build plate temp is 80C, and in practice it's not consistent past 70C. The engineering materials also tend to be a little rougher on internal parts, so something like the X1 with its hardened steel gears and filament advance system are preferred. Carbon fiber or glass reinforced materials are incredibly tough - like production strength swing arms on cars tough - but they're hell on not hardened parts. Not to say you couldn't just upgrade your own printer to handle it, but honestly I'd rather just get the warranty on the equipment out of the box.
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    3D Printing

    10 years ago it was really just hobbyists, but there's all sorts of businesses popping up as 3D print farms for hire. They get a bunch of business for creating custom tooling jigs, short run products, and all sorts of etsy shit. And there's a ton of real practical engineering-grade peices that are built using FDM 3D printing, not to mention that basically every tooth implant is SLA 3D printed now because of the speed, low cost, and minimal post processing required. Literally Bambu's A1 mini is the sweet spot for this with a 180mm^3 (7 in^3) build volume. You can get just the printer for $200, or the combo with the 4 filament switcher for multi material printing for $350. I've got a high end Bambu printer for almost a couple years now, and it's been more of an appliance than a tool. I made model or get file, and printer makes it. Simple as. The A1 printers are every bit as fast as the high end printers, they just don't have an enclosure so they aren't really suited to printing engineering materials. But it'll print PLA, PETG, TPU, and probably even ASA with a $20 tent enclosure.
  9. If you're looking to have a better feel for the sorts of ideas quantum computing works on and with, this video is pretty solid I like the fundamental descriptor of: classical computing input is a zero OR a one, quantum computing input is a zero AND a one. Boolean logic and fundamental proofs still hold consistently, but inputs are more complex than simple binary. It's the difference between hearing a single note, and a chord of notes creating overtones (constructive interference) that wouldn't exist but for everything being just so. The computational magic comes in building a quantum system/algorithm that collapsed onto the correct set of inputs for a classically hard computing problem. And wouldn't you know it, highly dimensional inputs like what we use for crypto and LLM's and ML are logically similar. The work being done now is to set up a "hello world" for a real computational problem. The disruption will be when they build a quantum system of algorithms that can find large primes, which is basically already theoretically possible. Willow isn't the goal line, but it certainly is a fresh set of downs
  10. "Furtive halftime movements"
  11. Lol why waste your time arguing with a sheep fucker that would post that the sky was yellow and the sun was blue if tucker carlson said so
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    3D Printing

    The A1 mini with AMS is $310 through Jan 4. I just picked up a super tack build plate and they have some good sales rn
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    3D Printing

    Nice little home repair project - while visiting my in laws for Christmas I noticed a bracket broke in their fridge that held a drawer's front onto the glass shelf, and they had it bodged with some binder clips. Luckily they still had the broken piece so I took a reference picture and some critical measurements and CAD'ed up a new one in Fusion. I did have to cut the part in half to fit it in my printer, but that won't affect function one bit EDIT: lmao had bed ahesion issues with the 1/2 length part. So instead I chopped it up into 1/8th length peices and giving it another rip. Faster print time too, so that's nice
  14. Yeah, we know slorch.
  15. You act like they wouldn't be doing this even if they were still paying minimum wage lol
  16. The thing is - a traditional market model is an extremely poor model for healthcare. If you're sick and at a hospital, you're probably not going to be price shopping between facilities for the cheapest care and least dickish medical coders. People have no choice but to pony up or die. And wouldn't ya know it, THAT """market""" will bear a shitload of price increases. Because it's life and death. Wow, what a free market lol
  17. This is also the case for basically any medical or doctor or hospital care. They have no idea what it'll cost because it basically just matters what they code it as. And if you disagree with the coding, you can go get bent
  18. I saw this hit my feed but haven't had time to listen to it all. They did mention that the Gettysburg fired two SM-2's, so it sounds like they fired on a returning flight - not just a singleton
  19. Non citizens do get protections within our legal system, at least theoretically. The bill of rights makes no distinction of citizens - it is the right of the PEOPLE.
  20. Tell me you didn't watch the video without telling me lol. LTT was the first example of a YouTuber getting their commission revenue stolen by Honey, which I doubt they'd be cool with What's your reason for feeling so strongly that people were getting paid to stay quiet? That doesn't make any sense to me, and LTT in particular dropped them as a sponsor a while ago. They're not the best ran company, though
  21. Lulz of fucking course. Luigi's judge is married to a former Pfizer exec and personally holds hundreds of thousands in healthcare company stocks https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigi-mangione-judge-married-to-former Classic.
  22. "The Committee determined there is substantial evidence that Representative Gaetz violated House Rules and other standards of conduct prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, impermissible gifts, special favors or privileges, and obstruction of Congress" I mean, it's no wonder trump wanted him for AG with a resume like that
  23. Idk, it's state crimes he's being accused of violating. So you'll have to ask Florida why not done. By your logic, Ken Paxton is a perfect lil boy who din do nuffin wrong
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