True - but it did have the benefit of giving the majority of people who passed through it the same benefit of a baseline understanding of "things" - those with aptitude and talent (and time and privilege) could take…
The invasion issue is also further remediated by using a "workstation style" laptop which only gets 60-75m of battery life (plus also weighs far too much to be used on your actual "lap")...
You know you are getting old (insert AI generated meme) when your default of "20 years ago" was the 80's... Nope...
Yeah, normal people look at me funny when I am "out and about" and they want me to do something on a random website and my reply is: "naw, I will look at that when I am back at a real computer".... I have had every type…
In a country far from home, on my own I was out late on a Saturday night in the bar district. Decided on a whim to buy a pack of cigarettes and have a smoke - a few minutes later a group of guys approached me and asked…
That's actually what I did - upgraded from a 5-bay Synology to an 8-bay in December (before HD prices skyrocketed even further than they had since my last NAS build), still have a couple free slots, but doubled my…
As a book want-to-be-hoarder without enough room to actually do so, these stories always make me sad - I spent alot of time in quiet, cool empty libraries picking up random books as a child. OTOH - I personally don't…
Oh that's easy... "money". When it was just about the "love of technology" and the building of the skills involved, things were different...
... try being a Canadian with a bit of a hearing deficiency that is always saying our "verbal tic" of: "sorry" just prior to asking people to repeat themselves...
Came for this - happy to see it here...
I would be 3d-printing some janky feet in TPU before submitting myself to that process. Even if they "wear-out/fall-off", I can print some more.
... well, that would guarantee I never take a gig in one of those data centers...
Well - the fact that they don't pay attention (or lack critical thinking skills and a baseline reasonable education) is a large part of the problem. But - with a person like POTUS - and those he surrounds himself with,…
If you vote/support someone who runs on a racist platform - you are getting that as part of the "package deal": https://whatever.scalzi.com/2016/11/10/the-cinemax-theory-of...
AI is already coming for "art" and "research" - by "slop metrics" it's already there for "art".
Curtis Yarvin, who pals around with Peter Thiele posted in 2008 on how to deal with "non-productive" people: "convert them into biodiesel, which can help power the Muni buses." Of course, he was "just joking" and it is…
Am so "teh old", that honestly - I can't say whether or not that product was worse than the "CueCat": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat (Naw - the CueCat was better, at least it was a generic barcode scanner)
I was lucky enough to have seen the initial controversy and install the X1Plus firmware on my X1C about 2-weeks before lockdown. It has worked flawlessly with OrcaSlicer ever since. For monitoring when I am away from my…
Outside of Prusa - how would you compare Bambu's documentation against it's competitors? In my experience, having owned 2-other printers prior to an X1C - there is absolutely NO comparison - EVERYTHING was community,…
I have seen one YouTube video that seemed to indicate a problem with pulling filament was because of a little flap within the new 4-1 PTFE filament adapter. There is a little rubber valve/flap (apparently it is a…
Odd - I bought an H2C about a month ago - and the nozzle-swapping Vortek rack just wouldn't calibrate or operate - blocking even calibrating the left-nozzle from proceeeding. However - yes, they did have me perform…
... Well - with a blog title of "Delphi Nightmares", I would expect uh critical or negative commentary... It's right there in the name.
Naw I did the same after I got "piled" on at Metafilter a few years back, and after 18-years buttoned my account because I was sick of the toxicity (I am an ancient BBS/usenet guy from decades ago - I can handle…
General agree... I still do the things (mid-50's) I used to do when I was a teenager with no computer, no phone. But - now they are easier - I can read books on an e-ink screen and pretty much instantly find what I want…
While Microsoft is hierarchical - but it did encourage reaching out in a "flat" manner internally. In my experience - a loooong time ago ago now - executive leadership would participate in high-level…
True - but it did have the benefit of giving the majority of people who passed through it the same benefit of a baseline understanding of "things" - those with aptitude and talent (and time and privilege) could take…
The invasion issue is also further remediated by using a "workstation style" laptop which only gets 60-75m of battery life (plus also weighs far too much to be used on your actual "lap")...
You know you are getting old (insert AI generated meme) when your default of "20 years ago" was the 80's... Nope...
Yeah, normal people look at me funny when I am "out and about" and they want me to do something on a random website and my reply is: "naw, I will look at that when I am back at a real computer".... I have had every type…
In a country far from home, on my own I was out late on a Saturday night in the bar district. Decided on a whim to buy a pack of cigarettes and have a smoke - a few minutes later a group of guys approached me and asked…
That's actually what I did - upgraded from a 5-bay Synology to an 8-bay in December (before HD prices skyrocketed even further than they had since my last NAS build), still have a couple free slots, but doubled my…
As a book want-to-be-hoarder without enough room to actually do so, these stories always make me sad - I spent alot of time in quiet, cool empty libraries picking up random books as a child. OTOH - I personally don't…
Oh that's easy... "money". When it was just about the "love of technology" and the building of the skills involved, things were different...
... try being a Canadian with a bit of a hearing deficiency that is always saying our "verbal tic" of: "sorry" just prior to asking people to repeat themselves...
Came for this - happy to see it here...
I would be 3d-printing some janky feet in TPU before submitting myself to that process. Even if they "wear-out/fall-off", I can print some more.
... well, that would guarantee I never take a gig in one of those data centers...
Well - the fact that they don't pay attention (or lack critical thinking skills and a baseline reasonable education) is a large part of the problem. But - with a person like POTUS - and those he surrounds himself with,…
If you vote/support someone who runs on a racist platform - you are getting that as part of the "package deal": https://whatever.scalzi.com/2016/11/10/the-cinemax-theory-of...
AI is already coming for "art" and "research" - by "slop metrics" it's already there for "art".
Curtis Yarvin, who pals around with Peter Thiele posted in 2008 on how to deal with "non-productive" people: "convert them into biodiesel, which can help power the Muni buses." Of course, he was "just joking" and it is…
Am so "teh old", that honestly - I can't say whether or not that product was worse than the "CueCat": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat (Naw - the CueCat was better, at least it was a generic barcode scanner)
I was lucky enough to have seen the initial controversy and install the X1Plus firmware on my X1C about 2-weeks before lockdown. It has worked flawlessly with OrcaSlicer ever since. For monitoring when I am away from my…
Outside of Prusa - how would you compare Bambu's documentation against it's competitors? In my experience, having owned 2-other printers prior to an X1C - there is absolutely NO comparison - EVERYTHING was community,…
I have seen one YouTube video that seemed to indicate a problem with pulling filament was because of a little flap within the new 4-1 PTFE filament adapter. There is a little rubber valve/flap (apparently it is a…
Odd - I bought an H2C about a month ago - and the nozzle-swapping Vortek rack just wouldn't calibrate or operate - blocking even calibrating the left-nozzle from proceeeding. However - yes, they did have me perform…
... Well - with a blog title of "Delphi Nightmares", I would expect uh critical or negative commentary... It's right there in the name.
Naw I did the same after I got "piled" on at Metafilter a few years back, and after 18-years buttoned my account because I was sick of the toxicity (I am an ancient BBS/usenet guy from decades ago - I can handle…
General agree... I still do the things (mid-50's) I used to do when I was a teenager with no computer, no phone. But - now they are easier - I can read books on an e-ink screen and pretty much instantly find what I want…
While Microsoft is hierarchical - but it did encourage reaching out in a "flat" manner internally. In my experience - a loooong time ago ago now - executive leadership would participate in high-level…