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monotremata

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  • Moire/Vernier Radius Gauge

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  • Moire/Vernier Radius Gauge

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  • Sorry all! I meant to post a video of the moire/vernier effect in action, which is the most eye-catching part of the whole project, as the main image for the post, but it didn't upload. And now when I try to edit in a link, or post a link to it in the comments, it's telling me "blocked URL." But there's a link on the printables page, and the version with the older version is in the imgur gallery which is linked.

  • Republicans ask Donald Trump to revoke Zohran Mamdani's citizenship

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  • It's not just Fox News. Bezo's Washington Post ran an editorial, written by "the editorial board," about how Mamdani would be "bad for New York and bad for the Democratic Party," claiming he would destroy public transit, reduce the number of grocery stores, drive away big businesses, depress low-skill employment, etc., etc., etc. Oh, and of course that this would discredit all the other young candidates across the country. The WaPo's threat earlier this year to make their editorial page aggressively pro-capitalist and anti-public-good was apparently very much in earnest.

  • Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, Try to Woo Back Elon Musk

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  • Hubris

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  • The slides look pretty similar to the illustration. I don't think those are actually slides that end over the edge, they're slides that have a transparent section where they hang over the edge so you can get a little glimpse of being over the open ocean. Which I guess is an extra kind of thrill? I would pass.

    Here's a screenshot of the video for comparison.

    https://i.imgur.com/gHiVLF6.png

  • Hubris

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  • That looks to me like a drawing by the design/architecture team, but there is a real boat like that and it's a pretty close match for the design. Here's a video with drone footage from the launch; 1:39 you can see a view kinda similar to the drawing.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bw4_PUtqdF4

  • I HATE email

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  • Oh, yeah, the voice is a big part of it. "Everything is possible with zombocom."

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  • I HATE email

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  • In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance

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  • Seriously. This is exactly what people object to about Windows Recall. In its re-released version at least it's opt-in for now, but it's still eerily close to this.

  • Trump State Department official has called for mass sterilization of ‘low-IQ trash’

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  • I think he's literally talking about making a credit that's contingent on a certain IQ test score, or something along those lines. He seems to be a straight-up, unabashed eugenicist.

  • We are way overdue for an open source 2d printer

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  • You can use that kind of HP cartridge and also modify it to take ink from a reservoir. It's perfectly possible to buy ink suitable for an inkjet printer in bulk for much cheaper than HP will sell it to you, and that kind of reservoir mod will let you use the print head built in to the HP cartridge.

  • Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US

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  • What was sexual education like for you?

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  • Yeah, I had the same thing with the photos of diseased bodies and the disparaging of contraception. I remember in particular that the textbook chapter on abstinence was immediately followed by the chapter on parenthood, which felt like it left a pretty conspicuous gap.

    Amusingly there were two very different Health Class experiences to be had at my school. You were assigned one at random, you couldn't choose which teacher you got. One was a first-year math teacher and member of an unsuccessful local Christian rock band. He's who I had. The other possibility was a lesbian gym teacher, whose class was apparently (and unsurprisingly) a LOT more useful.

    But yeah, the 90's kinda sucked, and I hate that the US is trundling back towards that kind of "education."

  • 'End of 10' to Windows 10 Users: The Environment Wants You to Use Linux

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  • I guess I sort of agree? It's a bit tricky to get it set up, for sure. Even just installing windows is probably beyond the average user, and this has a few more quirks and gotchas than normal.

    E.g., in IoT LTSC 11 (which is what I'm actually currently using), when you connect a controller, it'll bring up an error message about not having a handler for ms-gamebar, and fixing that calls for regedit. (One it's fixed, though, it stays fixed.) It also got itself into a bit of a weird state during the initial installation where it wanted me to log in with a kind of account I don't have, and while I was able to bypass that, I don't think I did it in quite the right way, and it broke something in the install and I had to do an in-place repair install to fix it before it would install certain updates successfully. It was also failing to download the in-place repair install, so I had to look up how to do it manually using the install DVD I'd burned previously. But that fixed it, and it's been fine since.

    So, yeah, it's got pitfalls and quirks and glitches. That's also been my experience with other Windows installs, though, so it didn't seem all that different in general.

    But once you get those initial hurdles sorted out, it's really just like normal Windows. Better, even, since it doesn't have all the cruft built into it, like Cortana, Teams, OneDrive, start menu ads, nag screens about upgrading to 11, the Microsoft Store, etc. (Though you can add most of those if you really want them.) My aging parents aren't willing to upgrade to 11 because they're afraid too many things will have changed, and I'm thinking I'll probably switch them to 10 IoT LTSC instead. I'll just have to be careful to make sure everything they want to do works before I leave them to it. It still gets monthly security updates and everything.

  • 'End of 10' to Windows 10 Users: The Environment Wants You to Use Linux

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  • Unless you switch to IoT LTSC, which will continue to get security updates until 2032. It's kinda bullshit that they're still making the security patches and then just refusing to give them to consumer 10 users.

  • Library of Congress staff turn away new MAGA bosses

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  • Perlmutter was laid off from the Copyright Office after publishing a report on the contentions between artificial intelligence and fair use.

    Oh, of course it's ultimately about trying to do an end-run around Congress in order to enable the AI grift. Everything is always in service of one of the grifters providing Trump with a slush fund.

    I'm so tired of all this.

  • Hacked the system

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  • It feels like that sometimes.

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  • It's directed by Terry Gilliam, and it's brilliant. It's set in a bureaucratic totalitarian state, and follows a minor functionary who is slowly losing his mind. There are multiple overlapping plots, involving a rebel heating engineer, a man mistakenly abducted and tortured to death by the government after a computer glitch, the functionary's politically ambitious mother, a quack plastic surgeon, a beautiful truck driver, terrorist attacks, and the functionary's ever-growing escapist fantasy life. It's one of my favorite films. Right up there with Delicatessen in terms of dystopian comedy sci-fi.