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squaresinger

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  • 3D design software for 3d printing?

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  • I already knew my way around blender before I got into 3D printing, so I used that ever since. It's ok. It's certainly no CAD tool. Parameterization would be great and if you use a fair bit of boolean modifiers without applying them (so you can edit parts later on) it does get laggy.

    If you already know Blender it's a decent choice to cut down on learning time, but if not I would not recommend it.

    I used OpenSCAD quite a bit as well, which is the polar opposite of Blender. It's perfect for parametrization and editing stuff later into the project is super easy, but the handling is really bad, even as a software developer.

    The language has some evil quirks, like e.g. that the resolution of curved shapes isn't a parameter of the function used to create the shape, but instead it uses a global variable. It clearly looks like a language designed by mathematicians.

  • Rate my printer gore

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  • Massive layer shift, but also the part before isn't exactly great quality. I'd say crap or wet filament.

    I've seen worse, but it ain't exactly great either.

    3/10.

  • U.S. Tech Layoffs Hit Two-Decade High in October

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  • Revenue and profit are different things. In times of low interest it's growth at all costs. Investors love market share and growth, because they expect to make money when they sell their shares. That's risky, but with low, no, or even negative interest it's still worth the risk.

    When interest goes up, parking money in safe, interest-based forms of investment becomes more interesting, so to compete companies also need to lower the risk. In a climate like that investors want to make money via dividends, so companies need to maximize dividends and to do so they need to maximize profits. Growth, market share and future plans become less relevant.

    That's what we are seeing right now.

  • U.S. Tech Layoffs Hit Two-Decade High in October

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  • Tech is a field where there's always infinite work to do, and it's always only limited by the budget.

    We had very low interest rates for over a decade, which made investments more profitable and thus there was always a ton of money to go around. The current financial downturn is the main reason of all the tech layoffs with no budget there are no jobs.

    The upside of that: Even with all the talk of AI and stuff, once the interest rate goes down and investments go up, all the jobs will be back.

  • 3D Printing help? Under extrusion?

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  • Did you try to clean your extruder gears?

    Check the filament: Is the extruder gear biting too hard into it causing the gears to grind and slip? Is the extruder gear not biting enough into it causing it to not grip enough and slip? Are the extruder gears maybe worn down and don't grip well anymore?

    WIth all the things you did so far, I'm close to sure that your issue is with the extruder gears being dirty, worn or the extruder gear pressure being too weak or too strong.

  • Tabloid: the clickbait headline programming language

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  • Is it only me or is the same old joke-esolang thing getting boring? They all read exactly the same, just with the keywords replaced by some other random string.

    No, this doesn't read like tabloid headlines. It uses similar words, but nobody would mistake it for tabloid headlines. Same as the other esolang doesn't read like Shakespeare.

    Maybe I am also just getting old and thus I've heard this joke too many times.

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  • Snap a picture of the surroundings on the laptop webcam and upload it to the geoguessr subreddit.

  • applogies

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  • In my last job we called that "optimizing", after a colleague (who usually only did frontent work) used the opportunity when everyone else was on vacation to implement a few show-stopping bugs in the backend and put "optimized backend code" in the commit message. He did the same thing a few months later during the next vacation period, which really solidified the joke.

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  • It's the cheap additives used to cut the stuff that do the trick.

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  • And if that's not enough, try military strength edibles.

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  • That's why the US is in dire need of a new constitution: bad decisions from over 200 years ago still shape the way politics is done right up until today.

  • why does noone want to join our church???

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  • Always great when people see problems that are so old they are literally mentioned in the old testament and think that it's a new thing that only emerged yesterday.

    And even if you ignore the old testament, half of the gospels is Jesus fighting the Pharisees, which are exactly that.

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  • FPTP is just an ancient, outdated system that really sucks. Unmitigated FPTP is mostly employed by countries that have been "alive" for too long without a major crisis that caused a new constitution to be passed. (And not only some measly amendments, but full re-writes).

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  • I think the point was that to change the system away from a 2-party-system, the people who got into power via this system would have to agree to change to a different system which would likely lead to them not being in power.

    Politicians are directly disincentivized from changing to a better system. The only direction they are incentivized to change the system to would be a 1-party-system with them in power.

    That's why a change to a better, more fair, more liberal electoral system only ever happens when a country is re-founded, e.g. after a lost war or after a revolution.

    Btw: If you ignore the 10 amendments to the US constitution that were ratified in the first year (which were basically zero-day patches) and the two amendments that don't have an effect (prohibition and cancellation of the prohibition) you end up with 15 amendments.

    France had 15 full constitutional rewrites over about the same time period.

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  • Because the US has a constitutionally enshrined two-party system.

    The constitution doesn't mention the two-party system by name, but it defines an election system that can do nothing but create a two-party system.

    That's because it's first-to-the-post: The winner takes it all, the loser gets nothing.

    Take for example a situation where there are three parties. One is far left, one is center left, one is right. If 25% vote for far left, 35% vote for center left and 40% vote for right, it's clear that the majority would favour a left candidate, but the right one will win.

    This means, splitting the vote is a lost vote for your compromise candidate (e.g. a far left voter would prefer a center left one over a right one), so people vote for one of the major parties, which doesn't allow third parties to ever emerge. Most people would just not risk voting for another candidate who has less chance to win.

    A run-off system would drop out the least favoured candidates, giving people a choice to vote for a compromise candidate. This would allow people to be more risk-friendly with their first vote, which could allow a third-party candidate to actually make it into the run-off round.

    A coalition-based system allows multiple parties to be in government at once. That would allow e.g. the far left and the left parties to form a coalition, which allows for finer compromises.

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  • In my country buildings and flats appreciate at a rate of 6% year-on-year on average. Rent is only 3% of the value of that property per year, on average. So a landlord can take 9% and have to deal with renters, their demands and the risk of them breaking things, or take 6% and do nothing at all. Keeping properties empty and off the market is enriching themselves on the suffering of people who now don't have a place to live.

    So in my opinion there should be a vacancy tax that exactly matches the value appreciation rate of the property. Then landlords have the choice between 0% (=loss of money due to inflation) or 9%. And if they still don't want to rent the place out, they can still sell it to someone who wants to live there.

    That proposal would still keep renting out property as a profitable way to go, while also helping people who want to buy property to live there, and the only people who would get harmed by this are people who purposely take property off the market to create scarcity to enrich themselves.

  • Miss him

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  • Are you confusing subtractive and additive colors? For subtractive (used for e.g. paints) you use CMY, with white being what you get with no colors and black is a perfect mix of full CMY. With subtractive each color takes light away.

    Additive (used for lights) works the other way round: the base colors are RGB. No light colors is black, all light colors is white. Adding another color in additive adds more light.

    So, sure, if you use additive base colors in a subtractive process, you will get garbage and vice versa.

  • Sea World

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  • Why would this not be a meme? Because it doesn't use one of the lazy default templates or the default font?

    Stick the same text in impact font over an aerial photo of seaworld and even you would accept it as a meme.

    This is just as much of a meme as any other one.