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Comment · 11 days ago
The Lack table is probanly the esayest piece of Ikea furniture to build. But Claude or whatever llm seems to assume that you can screw the screws in fully by hand. But you just put them in a little and use the leg for the rest. As clearly shown in the instructions.
Comment · 4 months ago
Adding a long strand of Filament in z direction is what the Author of this article tried. By injecting molten filament into a long channel in the infill.

What i meant that the z-direction does not need to be MORE stable than the other directions.

Adding a long strand of filament in the z-direction in the infill (close to the geometric center of the print) might make the print more resistant to stretching but not necessarily bending.

Carbon rods don't bend but filament does. The wing would break apart at the seams event if it had channels of filament along side its z-axis. It would still be more stable, but not as much as one might think.

Walls give a print most of its strength by a huge margin. And interlocking the walls in z-direction would have a proprietorially larger impact.

Comment · 4 months ago
I doubt that filling a long thin channel will ever work. The heat + pressure will always collapse the thin infill walls.

In general infills does not provide much strength to a part, it is way better to have stronger walls.

And z-direction does not need to be more stable than the other directions so there is no need for long continuous strands anyway.

Maybe it would work better with smaller, less tall, slots at the inside of the walls.

Lets say 2-3 layer heights tall, continuously filled slots, which are then interleaved with each other. More like bricks less like columns. The outer wall layers would provide stability to prevent collapse. And over spill or bulging would occur towards the inside of the part.

Comment · 8 months ago
I think, the cost of running and training models is going to fall due to Moore's law and friends.

That also meas that the worth of today's computers declines rapidly and all the money invested in compute power with it.

Compute is basically what the AI VC money is spend on. That money will be gone in a few years due to the hardware being worthless.

On the other side running a model (locally) will become cheaper and cheaper to the point that Ai stuff becomes a everyday commodity running on cheapo devices everywhere.

Then there are optimizations too. Which lowers the cost.

So it's not going away and it's not going to be expensive for the consumer in the long run.

My 5 year old rtx 2027 runs models those output would have been state of the art a couple of years ago. In a few years something running on the level of today's top models might run under your desk if that progress goes on at this pace.

Comment · 8 months ago
Don't confuse the soviet union with Russia.

In the Soviet union only half the population was Russian. 15% of the Soviets where Ukrainian for example

Comment · 9 months ago
I think archive has mostly news, random articles and such.

And as they say nothing is more worthless than yesterday's news.

Comment · 9 months ago
I assume an adblocker can remove those.

That would be a net benefit because pages requesting location for no reason end up in the block list and don't annoy me anymore.

Comment · 10 months ago
No the filler placement is sort of a cultural or historical thing.

Usually European cars have filler on the passenger side while American and Japanese put them on the driver side.

Afaik passenger side fillers are more safe if you run out of gas and need to fill up from a canister at the side of the road.

While driver side fillers are more comfortable because you don't have to walk as far to get there.

Comment · 10 months ago
For your V2: a Can-Bus connector would be great. Should really be standard for toolheads nowadays. Makes cable management so much easyer. And the board does not need the driver for the extruder, the heater contoll and sensors anymore.

So maybe a version which is optimized for Can-Bus toolheads?

And more driver slots, 4 is not sufficient if you want a self leveling bed.

Vorons need 4 drivers for the gantry alone.

Comment · 11 months ago
Yes but that is due to the vastly different population density.

The USA has 34 people per square km while Germany has 234. So pollution per capita would be a better metric.

Comment · 11 months ago
Or as my mom used to say: AEG auspacken, einschalten, geht nicht.

Which translates to: unpack, switch on, doesnt work.

She owned a couple of AEG devices and all broke immediately except the oven. AEG ovens and stove tops seem to be mostly OK for whatever reason.

Comment · 1 year ago
The obvious use case would be to replace the clunky head tracking systems which are often used in simulator games.

Systems like trackir, which require dedicated hardware.

Comment · 1 year ago
I definitely don't want to be randomly interrupted by Ai garbage.

Those horrible automatic translations are bad enough.

And it seems the slop can't be completely disabled. I guess sooner or later it will spew out"usefull recommendations" and end up being just another vehicle for ads.

It will be shit like "did you know that the singer of band {xyz} likes this brand of {snake oil}?" or "the song you are listening to reminds me of {insert crypto scam}".

It seems soon antoher browser plug-in is required to get rid of yet antoher annoying anti-feature.

Comment · 1 year ago
FiDA is a planned initiative that forces first party financial services like banks to provide other services like insurances or investment companies and maybe third parties with their customers data.

From what i understand it is required that this works via a unified API across all of Europe.

Data transfer explicitly requires the customers consent.

My guess is that this would be useful if you change the bank or some insurance to allow easy switchovers and of course tax avoidance and money laundering might be harder.

IMHO insurance companies should not have access to any of their customers banking data (they want to of course, to do price gauging and price discrimination).

And obviously there is no reason why any of those vile datahogs like Google, Facebook, Apple and so on, should have even the slightest access to this.

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