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Bluewing

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  • Trump Administration Withholds $260 Million In Medicaid Funds for Minnesotans

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  • The Republicans lost control of Minnesota back in the 1980s for state wide offices. The Twin Cites metro area holds the majority of votes and therefore most of the power in this state.

    Politically, the DFL has long abandoned the outstate.

  • Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

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  • I just asked Goggle Gemini 3 "The car is 50 miles away. Should I walk or drive?"

    In its breakdown comparison between walking and driving, under walking the last reason to not walk was labeled "Recovery: 3 days of ice baths and regret."

    And under reasons to walk, "You are a character in a post-apocalyptic novel."

    Me thinks I detect notes of sarcasm......

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  • The worst part of immutable versions is when you go searching for help, you need to be careful about answers that might be presented to you.

    For example, if I search for "how to install nVidia drivers in Fedora Kinonite 43, the first returns can often be for Fedora Plasma 43. Those terminal commands for Plasma won't work for Kinonite. And even updating is different. Instead of sudo dnf update for regular Fedora desktops, you need to type rpm-ostree update for atomic versions.

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  • Edge cases are well, on the edge and sometimes you just need to let them go. You can't always be everything to everyone.

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  • That's the rub isn't it. It's good, but not quite good enough all the time, every time.

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  • It's called collaboration. When I worked as a toolmaker, I needed to use SolidWorks, despite not being a big fan, because our customers used SW and they were often literally on the other side of the planet.

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene Drops Bombshell: Trump ‘Fought the Hardest’ to Bury Epstein Files, Warns MAGA It Was No Hoax

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  • She's got other heavy baggage for sure. But you can still appreciate her efforts on this front. If she's willing and able to tear down Trump and all the other pedos on the list, don't turn down the help. We still need all we can get.

  • In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

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  • I've had tinnitus since I was maybe 4 or 5 years old. A high end sound system is cool to look at, but wasted on me. Those $30 computer speakers are just fine.

  • In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

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  • But morons with money to spend! The best kind of moron.

  • In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

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  • I've put barbed wire up, I've taken it down. It ain't that hard. Just cut it into lengths you can easily coil by hand if you don't have a winding machine.

    Personally I think woven wire fencing is a bigger pain in the ass. All that grass and weeds growing through it and then rolling it back up.

  • Open-sourcing CORE One CAD Files Under the New Open Community License (OCL)

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  • Just how many angels can dance on the head of a pin? Or more importantly, how many demons can skate on a snowflake? How much purity is needed?

    The best licences protect everyone. This one seems to do a pretty good job of protecting both Prusa and the consumer. Is it perfect? No. But it's far better then Prusa getting raped and pillaged into nothing. And it goes a very, very, very long to protect consumers access to parts and design specifications.

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  • I always have told my wife, (who has what I think is a phone call and texting addiction), that there are only 2 reasons to call me at work:

    1. You've been in an accident. That happened one time in 40 years. And yes, I left work immediately and went to find them. Thankfully, no one was injured.
    2. You or the kids have been hospitalized. That never happened.

    And no, the death of someone was not a reason to call. I can't do anything for them now. So the news can wait.

  • Clever trick to Un tangle a spool

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  • Yes, this does work. I do this if I have a tangle in a spool. I don't even stop printing most of the time because it's quick and easy to do.

  • what does your "workshop" look like?

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  • I have 2. One is a real shop with a metal lathe, vertical mill, drill press, hydraulic press, and welders and other stuff. That's all in a separate building.

    My 2 printers, a Mk3s and an A1 min and AMS sit nicely on a pine log table that's 21"x49". It has a large drawer that I gridfinitied and holds everything I need to completely disassemble a 3D printer, repair it, and reassemble. I also 3D printed a system with 2 small drawer that hold things like screws, magnets, and heat set inserts. A cheap rolling 5 shelf unit sits tucked into a corner and holds some extra 3D stuff and also some basic hand tools for home repairs so I don't need to go out the real shop at midnight when it might be -30F out there for doing a quick fix.

    I have 2 plastic totes to store my filaments in under the table. This helps manage my filament inventory by limiting the amount I can store. Though there is room for excess as needed for bigger projects.

    My work surface is my desk with my computer, papers, and other miscellaneous stuff in the 3 drawers it has.

  • Files

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  • People who design 3D prints chase whatever is popular and pays. So all payed models tend to look alike. IMO those are people to totally ignore.

    To find the new and unique you need to sort through a lot of chaff to find the seeds.

  • Sitting here waiting for my first Bambu A1 print...

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  • As a knuckle dragging Philistine also, I own one too, so I speak from personal experience. I like mine as a printer that currently works well also.

    But, forewarned is forearmed as they say.

  • Sitting here waiting for my first Bambu A1 print...

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  • Oh you sweet summer child. I understand how great it looks compared to your old Ender.

    Bambu, Pretty good hardware Less than good software/firmware Dubious business practices.

    My recommendations are to ditch Studio and Handi app that runs on your phone. Switch to to Orca Slicer. And run all the calibrations in Orca. Run LAN mode and if your firmware is stable, don't upgrade it unless you really need to. Don't buy Bambu filaments. The RFID tags ain't worth $5 to $10 more per kilo. They are made by Sunlu and eSun. Buy those direct for less money. A standalone AMS never goes on sale. And they cost nearly as much as your printer did.

  • Thoughts on Mattercad / alternative?

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  • I tried it back in the day and wasn't impressed by it. But I used CAD professionally before hand also. So I expect more powerful software.

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  • There are a few speculative ideas on faster than light travel. Such as worm holes, quantum tunneling, and super fluid vacuum theories.

    Are they real in the sense that we can know how they can work today? Nope. But lots of ideas we take for granted today were "impossible" not that long ago. The fact that real physicists are even thinking about those possibilities could lead to something in the future.