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ExtremeDullard

@ ExtremeDullard @lemmy.sdf.org

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  • The magnetic printing plate shifted early in the print - or something else happened?

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  • The plate does indeed stick very strongly against the bed. The magnets are fine.

    The most plausible explanation I have is that someone stuck their hand in the enclosure for some unexplainable reason and the bed hit their arm or something. The only problem with this theory is, there is zero reason for anybody to do that. But I did start the print early enough for a few people to still be at work when it happened.

    Other than that, I've taken to using glue on the plate lately, because I've had adhesion problems. Maybe some leftover glue turned liquid-ish and degraded into some sort of lubricant with the heat (I'm printing PETG with the bed heated at 85C) and it seeped between the bed and the plate. I've never felt it was ever slippery though.

    Or it was some leftover water that steamed over between the bed and the plate and lifted the plate for a second, air-hockey stylee.

    None of this seems very likely though. So I cleaned the bed and the plate real thoroughly, installed the plate tight against the registration pins, upgraded the firmware to the latest for good measure, slathered glue super-carefully all over the plate, making sure it didn't go overboard, and started the same print once more. I'm watching it remotely through the webcam I installed in the enclosure and it seems to be going fine.

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  • Hell, I don't even have a TV in my living room.

  • Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi and Vim

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  • I've been using vi since the mid 80's the muscle memory is so strong that I keep leaving :wq's everywhere I type text that isn't in vi. I couldn't live without vi.

  • A Math Lesson From Hitler’s Germany

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  • The article is wrong:

    Donald Trump is not Hitler, of course, and “history doesn’t repeat,"

    Yes he is, and yes it does.

  • White House says it has tech that can "manipulate time and space"

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  • Well they're right: it really feels like 1934 Germany right now.

  • Google Is a Monopolist in Online Advertising Tech, Judge Says

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  • I don't give flying fuck who controls internet ads. This does nothing to solve the problem of why internet ads that create a demand for ubiquitous surveillance and privacy invasion are allowed at all.

    I'm glad that Google is being sued and I'll celebrate when they lose in court. But they're being sued for the wrong reasons. The problem isn't who hogs the ads market, it's why there is an ads market in the first place. This court case has no benefits for us the internet users: it's another rich man's power play and respect for the users doesn't enter into consideration whatsoever here.

  • Google Is a Monopolist in Online Advertising Tech, Judge Says

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  • Oh dear... I guess Sundar's $1m brownlicking wasn't quite enough for Cheeto.

    Zuckerberg too paid his $1m due to the Orange Utan and that wasn't enough to keep him out of trouble.

    I guess the tech bros are getting their leopard-face-eating moment too like the rest of the cretinous MAGA voters...

  • El Salvador won’t return wrongly deported Maryland man

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  • Here's another thing that went through my mind: they're refusing because the guy is already dead.

  • El Salvador won’t return wrongly deported Maryland man

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  • That's one helluva team of mercenaries you're gonna need to storm that ultra-militarized Salvadorian concentration camp and sift through 40,000 innmates all dressed in white with shaved heads to find the poor dude whose life Trump ruined.

  • Despite a court order, White House bars AP from Oval Office event

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  • Trump and his goons flatly ignore the courts now. That's just another example.

  • El Salvador won’t return wrongly deported Maryland man

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  • I agree with you that you can't change the past and you can only change the present - and that's it's not terribly constructive to say coulda-shoulda.

    But honestly... It takes a particularly dim-witted individual to vote for Trump the first time, and a complete and utter moron to do it again the second time. It's not like nobody could see any of this shit coming, and anybody with an IQ above room temperature knew this was gonna happen. That's what's so damning!

  • El Salvador won’t return wrongly deported Maryland man

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  • The time to rise against Trump was before the election. Because frankly, unless you're willing to risk being shipped off to a concentration camp without due process or worse, whatchagondo about it now...?

  • El Salvador won’t return wrongly deported Maryland man

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  • I think we are now over the edge

    Indeed. I fully believe Apr 14, 2025 will be the date chosen by history and whatever equivalent of the Nuremberg trial of Trump and his henchmen a few years from now for the official beginning of the US dictatorship.

  • AI isn’t ready to replace human coders for debugging, researchers say

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  • I am indeed lucky because the company I work for cares about its employees. It's literally written in the company statutes: the company exists to make money of course, but first and foremost to serve its workforce and the community, and takes decisions to maximize the well-being and the personal growth of the employees and the community.

    We took an honest look at including AI in our workflow, but we decided it wasn't worth the social destruction. Only a few employees use it - mostly the marketdroids to generate illustrations on the sales literature.

    I am aware that this is a rare type of company and I cherish that job.

  • Removed Locked

    The Declaration of Independence has been violated.

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  • Which instance of constitutional violation is this about? I lost count...

  • Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from new tariffs

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  • I wonder if you can eat cellphones or inject computer chips instead of insulin...

    What good is cheap(er) tech when you can't afford drugs and groceries?

    Ah yes, I forgot... His tech bro backers are probably behind this.

  • AI isn’t ready to replace human coders for debugging, researchers say

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  • Unsurprisingly, it's necessary to understand a problem to solve it - just like the proverbial infinite monkey would in theory produce the entire body of work of Shakespeare given enough time, in reality, only Shakespeare managed to write proper Shakespeare the first time out.

    AI is the infinite monkey of coding. I, as a senior developer, have spend entirely too many hours of my working life fixing code written by monkeys, and I have already had to correct AI code (thankfully small and generated by a colleague who promptly apologized and decided to do his homework and study the problem at hand instead of winging it with Crapilot).

  • Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene bought stocks hit hard by Trump tariffs during the market meltdown

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  • This would certainly be the only instance when you can write "Marjorie Taylor Greene" and "funny" in the same sentence.

  • Billionaires are turning on Trump | CNN Business

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  • This is 200% about Musk. He backed the orange utan and now he's having a leopard-eating face time. Well cry me a fucking river...

    Just because Musk is hurting too doesn't exonerate him from blame. He created this situation he's so unhappy about now.