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it_depends_man

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  • Anyone got ideas on how to fix this bulging issue with thin prints?

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  • impractical for an airplane

    Depending on how much effort you're willing to put in, I would suggest switching material.

    Use fiber reinforced plastic.

    The process can be done at home, though you may need some practice. You can print the shape you want with a thicker wall thickness and then use that as a negative. You get the best results if you have a compressor and can use vaccum techniques to get the excess plastic out of the material. This will put you in the thickness space you want, and it will still work, and you don't have warping problems.

  • Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice

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  • Open Source and git mean this is basically a non issue. It's just effort to manage it again.

    People can fork a pre... 2020? version if they insist and if it's enough people who want that, they can group up again and form a new community.

    The problem AI slop coding is mostly the untested bullshit that causes problems. That's not going to happen because I believe that a good bunch of stuff is thoroughly tested now, and also, this is maintainers doing it. If it doesn't work, it's their project, their career and their success on the line. And again, the worst possible outcome is that people have to roll back to an older version.

    The code we use is not art the same way that gen-ai replaces "real artists". I agree with opposing that tech in that area, and I agree with rejecting unchecked, untested, hallucinated nonsense in coding too, especially when it promises new features in corpo software that you are forced to use, and then have that fail on you.

    But there will be a very normal selection process happening. If the process doesn't work, the software will fail and lose users.

    I fully support the people who absolutely reject it though, that means diversity of approaches and that's good.

  • Should smart glasses blur your face by default? Australia's tech watchdog thinks so

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  • The pervert glasses will first run object detection, detect your face and then blur it.

    Soooooo...

    Alternative suggestion: they should be banned.

  • Last week I had zero 3d printers, now I've got 3

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  • I don't know much about 3d printing, so disclaimer. The modern printers are very much built on open source so it shouldn't matter too much which screen you use.

    I have also not done a firmware flash myself yet, but doing that sounds plausible to me.

    I can’t believe that was the only issue that made someone trash it.

    As you can see (and as you will see), it's a bit tinkering leaning hobby, if someone doesn't have the energy, patience, skill or motivation to learn, a broken part can be a major problem. I don't think there are repair shops you can go to...

  • $1,000,000 if you can move 1000 liters of water from Sydney to Los Angeles in 21 days. How do you do it?

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  • EA staff fear new Saudi Arabia owners will police their games: "Projects just won't get signed because they don't align explicitly with what the Saudi government wants"

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  • With notable exceptions by subsidiary companies like Split Fiction.

    Yeah. No they haven't.

    EA is just a big bundle that they were able to buy at all with a huge pile of cash. Going around the globe, chasing studios that do this and that is a ton of work and takes forever and is not really a good strategy.

    I think they're betting on exactly that recurring structure of licensed sports games.

    But that still depends on letting artists do some amount of stuff. For example a bunch of sports outfits may clash with strict Islam. Same for Sims.

  • EA staff fear new Saudi Arabia owners will police their games: "Projects just won't get signed because they don't align explicitly with what the Saudi government wants"

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  • It is so funny to me that the Saudis would invest into a creative industry that thrives on letting artists make what they think is right and then forbid them from doing that. And also expect that industry to then operate profitably, even though they just removed the basic foundation of that industry.

    But there is no talking and arguing with people like that, so we can just get popcorn, watch and enjoy the Schadenfreude.

  • DeSantis appointee Michael Caruso arrested on child sex abuse charges

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  • I am genuinely surprised people still get arrested for that. I suppose protection is only for the super top dogs.

    Or that's how they recruit people. Either find those with that kind of history, then make them work by offering, then spring the trap anyway, "for justice".

  • Torvalds: AI Is the New Compiler, Not the New Programmer

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  • Tools are just tools

    I don't think that's true, but we simply disagree on that.

    I don't think he's hypocritical. He simply doesn't have to deal with that negative impact he "warns" about. He is in support of using it as a tool and thinks the criticism is invalid. That's a consistent perspective, even if I don't agree with it.

    If he used LLMs to create bug reports, but also complained about LLM written bug reports he gets, that would be hypocritical.

  • Design 3D-printable parts by talking

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  • This seems like the perfect use case to make a video of the thing happening, so we can see that it works.

  • Torvalds: AI Is the New Compiler, Not the New Programmer

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  • Torvalds was careful to frame this as a correction of language rather than a rejection of the technology itself.

    Ok...

    A maintainer burden few are talking about

    Alongside the productivity gains, Torvalds described a less-discussed cost: a rising flood of low-effort, AI-generated bug and vulnerability reports hitting open source projects, including the kernel’s own security channels. He said it has become common for someone to run an AI tool against a codebase, file a report flagging a “possible” issue, and then vanish when a maintainer follows up asking for more detail or a fix.

    Everyone is talking about that and it is surprising to me that he doesn't recognize that as two side of the same coin. Why are you rejecting the low-effort, Ai generated bug reports, Linus, isn't AI just a productivity tool? What's wrong? Is it not being productive?

    I say "surprising", it's not that surprising. It's a "guns don't kill people, people kill people" attitude. It's willfully excluding the impact that technology has on people, and framing the outcome as coming purely from people and the existence of the technology not affecting the outcome.

  • Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic’s new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes

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  • Also a very good point!

  • Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic’s new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes

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  • Sure, but they need the watermarking to later claim the copyright on the stuff that people do create in the open with their agents.

    "They would never do that!"

    "And even if they did, I would sue them, and then the justice system would..."

    "uh... uh oh"

  • Phones should have a 'guest lock' feature

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  • Well that's useful. Good thing to learn!

  • How can i teach myself to contribute to these projects?

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  • How can I teach myself how to offer small improvements to the projects I use?

    Programming in general?

    Probably more that if you want to work on graphics software, you need to understand graphics programming?

    That's unfortunately very difficult. I know of no good way to do that. With specification based software, you can at least read the specification or related standard and then it flows from that how it should work. With programs that server a different, specific use case, there is a manual, and flow to things and then "things stick out".

    If there are issues, you just read a bunch of issues and read the code that they are about and get a feeling for why the issue is an issue and why the code is the way that it is.

    I remember one thing I helped with for a short while, didn't use the python "with" file writing dialogue, because the file they were writing was massive and opening it in one place, then doing a bunch of functions that wrote and appended to the file and then closing it somewhere else, was the best solution, even though it looked unclean at first.

  • Mark Zuckerberg Posts Deranged 6,500-Word Essay About Giving Everyone AI Superintelligence

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  • That's not deranged, that's Mark Zuckerberg personally announcing his goals, ideas, policy, suggestions and plans.

    Read it very carefully, pay full attention and take every single word seriously.

  • "Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers

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  • Remember that story about the chalk mark engineer with Ford? Chalk mark 1$, knowing where to mark 1000$ ? Same with code. "Code" is easy. Knowing what to write, why and where, that's the hard part. LLMs have somehow managed to automate the code part, without the abstraction, at least in an error proof way. I don't think "coding isn't that hard" is insulting, and I don't use C++ because I think it's hard. But it's not because writing something is hard, it's because writing precisely what is needed is hard.

    Anyway, this debate doesn't matter, negotiate better, be active politically to ban stuff or not, complaining on the internet won't do anyone any good. I know you're emotionally invested in this, just... breathe and do something else? Idk. Also I'm not your enemy on this, so no need to attack me.

  • The return of supersonic flight hinges on the race to solve one big hurdle | CNN

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  • I was not aware that the concorde flew for about 25 years? That's honestly pretty amazing.

    Overall unnecessary though. Unless they demonstrate that it's somehow more efficient, by flying higher and faster and the trip being shorter? I doubt it though.

  • Any advice y’all got for someone like me going to college?

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  • And yeah I am kinda scared now idk.

    "don't worry about it". 😐 Which is bad advice to someone after burnout and specifically asking for advice, but it's also kind of true.

    But first things first:

    Even today I tried striking some casual convos but seniors have some attitude towards freshers i guess, and freshers were too busy completing their docs maybe.

    Some people are just... useless and weird. Don't bother with them. Like, don't stress about why someone doesn't want to talk with you, or does or doesn't do something. Including professors. Some are nice, some are just there to do their job, and you will be able to tell which is which. I've met plenty of people who can't hold a conversation to save their lives. Somehow.

    mostly I just find hard to relate with them.

    Yeah, that's normal. The world is a big place, chances are you won't relate to many people.

    My biggest, best piece of advice is to join some student club that does stuff that's not just studying and does it more consistently than just one semester for some course. For example a sports club, who does try and does go to meets and stuff, but the point is enjoying the sport together. Or art. Or books. Or science. That's where I had most fun and where I got most out of my time.

    Because studying is hit and miss. Of course you try to go for something interesting but you never know in advance if you can actually stand the work or do the workload or if you need to switch... majors I think it's college? Don't worry about that either.

    The ONLY THING you absolutely must do, is attend. Get out of bed, and just GO, try to pay attention in the classes and take notes. That's the barrier most people fail at. They skip classes or attend but don't pay attention. Put yourself into the situation where "learning" is just the thing you do. Like going to the library, reviewing your material and planning your day in advance to do it.

    And everyone is constantly stressed for time too. It's a good idea to focus on some studying, but don't reject opportunities that are coming your way because you think it'll conflict with that. Occasionally try to do more than you think you can handle and you'll surprise yourself when it works out. Those places are filled with other students who want to do stuff and "career opportunities" (companies trying to score cheap employees) and events and this and that. Just go and keep your eyes open.