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I'd even say "around every corner lie 10 brands you've never heard of, selling 20 slight variations of the same product you're not sure about".

Everyone is going to wfh then or employers are going to splurge on a private office for everyone? Or is work basically going to be like a call center when everyone RTOs?

How does this work on public transit?

I think Nissan's quality went downhill mid-2000s after their turnaround from near-bankruptcy in the early 2000s.

This is a very interesting printer:

* the toolhead/nozzle quick-change is pretty fantastic and quite ingenius, you change nozzle and heatsink thereby guaranteeing good heat dissipation but the thermistor and heater stay put,

* the MMU seems to be able to handle many more types of spools due to center-mounting as opposed to edge-rolling and they reduced retraction distance substantially.

The noise cancellation seems a bit gimicky just like the LIDAR on the X1C.

The Makerworld integration goes a step further than most other 3D-printing-hub-websites by slicing the models and being to print immediately without having to fuss with a slicer. Should be a lot more beginner-friendly.

It does look like they're taking a page or two from the DJI playbook (not surprising, CEO and others being ex-employees). DJI went from solid drones just a tad above what hoobyists could build, like the early Phantoms, to improving video+link-reliabilty with later phantoms to crazy integration of everything in the newer Mavic and especially Minis that are way beyond hobbyist's possibilities.

I am somewhat doubtful that the exact strategy of tight integration of hardware components will work for 3D printers. After it probably won't matter if one printer is slightly smaller than another.

But they do seem to do more software/hardware integration which could be very welcome for beginners and those not in it for the tinkering, as well as their focus on reliability. Their AMS MMU systems seem to be a step above all others in terms of reliability and ease-of-use.

The probably current best solution are "dueling toolheads" or IDEX where you basically have two gantries [1] or toolchangers [2,3].

Both trade-off less waste for substantially added cost and complexity.

[1] https://github.com/zruncho3d/DuelingZero

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WqDcpxC3-o, https://github.com/ankurv2k6/wp-daksh-toolchanger

[3] https://www.prusa3d.com/product/original-prusa-xl-2/, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3sSR2QvUyA

But does that room come at a higher carbon cost than commuting to the office (45mins each way(!) afair on average in the US) and having an office building that's entirely empty at night. That building needs maintenance, gardening, cleaning, ...

"no training" gave it away for me.

I don't know, seems somewhat convincing on the surface but goes to mix some interesting ideas and facts with appeal to authority via quotes and a many unsubstantiated statements led by those ideas/aforementioned facts.

The one thing I always come back to is that nobody really seems to go into the definition of productivity - it's roughly hours worked to produce something, but the details are always sort of scarce, even from the FED.

I don't know, 1970 is also about where population growth started slowing.

Maybe it's the traction control then

https://www.yellowbullet.com/threads/evs-got-banned-from-rac...

Just the first example I could quickly find:

https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/electric-cars-banned-from...

Or

https://www.yellowbullet.com/threads/evs-got-banned-from-rac...

And sounds like it's not for lithium fires only but also traction control.

I hope so!

...and lithium fires.

Unfortunately, I think there will be pearl clutching and new rules that allow gas/diesel powered vehicles only "due to safety", at least my guess.

Research doesn't really have the sunk-cost that industry does. New students are willing to try new things and supervisors don't necessarily need to reign them in.

I wonder what is holding AMD back in research? Their cards seem much less costly. I would have figured a nifty research student would figure out quickly how to port torch and run twice as many gpus with his small budget to eek out a bit more performance.

My point is that many households have adapted to the cheap labor - larger houses, larger gardens and so on based, larger than the owner can self-suppprt, based on the cost of labor.

Owners would have to do more themselves (thus spend time) or more money (that they can't spend consuming other things) if labor costs increased.

I'm also not arguing for limitless immigration. What I'm trying to say is that there will probably not be zero illegal immigration despite what politicians promise, at this point it's baked into the (cost-)structure of society I suppose and not painlessly undone.

Oh yeah, point is "legal ain't cheap". Or maybe even moreso that it might ultimately hurt per-capita output and GDP more than just the apparent cost of immigrant labor value provided.

Imo large parts of the southwest and CA benefit immensely from immigrant labor. Both in time-savings and $ (outsourcing upkeep, housework, child-care) which allow their population to consume more and pursue other opportunities.

Also, would people pay 50% more, double or triple for fruit picked by Americans, meat packed by , those huge gardens and front yards maintained by, houses built by Americans. I think Florida and Texas after storms start to hint at what night be to come.

This makes me think of...

"The beatings will continue until the morale improves!"

I think it was from an old Steve Yegge post on Google Plus?

Afaik, it has partially to do with regulations. In Europe the max length of a truck includes the cab, thus it's as short and upright as possible to leave max room for cargo (cab over engine), whereas US trucks have the long "hood". Old trucks were quite angular but the new ones are a lot more aerodynamic.

Second, those "tapered" add-ons in the back can help a lot to approximate a teardrop shape better given that there are a lot more constraints in general in the front.

It's probably still not there yet.

Car accidents and even COVID deaths in a hospital ward are possibly different because they're isolated and you can rationalize that it will not affect you.

Might be different when a lot of people die in a whole region and it's very obvious. But who knows, I made detailed predictions at the onset of COVID and believed it would be handled like SARS and the likes and stopped in about 3 months. Well, I was completely wrong.

Yes, I had the same problem and it cloudflare DNS 1.1.1.1 unfortunately. Google's public DNS ranks higher than Comcast for me, but I'm sure there's others.

Thanks for some more in-depth info, very helpful.

Afaict, these are all recurring subscriptions. Is there any reason not to signup for a month or two and then cancel, maybe repeat every couple years? The sub is more of a continuous monitoring thing?

I assume they wouldn't just "undo" their opt-outs?

I'd prefer a one-time payment over that darn subscription-recurring-revenue-model.

I assume they had a fake CC form and collected the CC number and information on top of the charge. So that'd involve cancelling the card and compromised PII.

Looks like there a Twitter/X video supposedly showing it:

https://twitter.com/echofm_online/status/1694390751839314029

It also leads to disorganization. Imagine everyone cutting around each other and end up blocking the road. Instead of keeping order everyone slowly exiting, a few cutting ahead could cost many others dearly.

Unfortunately blatant disregard for others lives, pilot and maybe flight assistants also on board eg.

I wonder what message not-poisoning him is supposed to send.

Or you could just buy a Leica M-P "Correspondent" [1] - by LENNY KRAVITZ DESIGN - that came roughed up and brassed from the factory. I think they only charged $15,000-20,000 extra over the $5,000 base price of a regular M-P.

Ahhh, the beautiful and strange world of the uber-wealthy and collectors.

Burt more seriously, I've often seen photographers use black gaffer tape to hide the prominent camera manufacturer logos.

[1] https://leica-camera.com/en-US/Company/Press-Centre/Press-Re...

In my opinion Lua's equivalent tables or more of a Swiss army knife.

It's been a while since I've used them but afair they combine hash/dict, array and objects in one data structure.

They're hashes as usual. With a special constructor or int keys they turn into arrays, last I looked the Lua interpreter even optimizes contiguous ranges of keys as arrays. And by adding metatables and metamethods they also emulate JS-style objects.

I'm hopeful that our emissions rates have "momentum" and that we're seeing the start of a deceleration and then quick decline and it'll start slow but accelerate quickly.