Will you two get a room already?

I think the chart you posted helps prove my point. Mass go up, energy needed exponentially go up. That doesn’t just mean “more fuel”, it means more power behind the thrusters. And that chart isn’t even taking into consideration the gain of mass as you increase in velocity, just the mass of the vessel itself.

any star’s light pushes the ship forward through the pressure that radiation exerts on a surface

As you approach the speed of light, the amount of light that reaches these sails decreases, making them less effective, while mass is still increasing.

i mean, you can just build a rocket and accelerate it arbitrarily close to the speed of light, using enough fuel.

This isn’t really true.

Let’s ignore things like engine weight and fuel weight for a moment, and say that we’ve got an engine-less, fuel-less (maybe electric?) rocket going through a vacuum. It is able to accelerate and decelerate without consuming any resources. As such, the total mass of the rocket will always be the same, right?

Not exactly. We’ve discovered that as things approach the speed of light, their mass actually increases, meaning that more energy is required to continue accelerating the same object at the same rate. So in our magic rocket example, say the magic motor is able to accelerate the 1000kg rocket 1m/s/s. As the rocket gains speed, that same rocket will have more than 1000kg of mass, and the motor will not be able to accelerate it the full 1m/s/s. Eventually, the rocket will become so massive that the motor is unable to accelerate it a meaningful amount at all.

Now… This is in a hypothetical situation with a magic, fuel-less motor. In the real world, more engine power means a heavier motor which means you need more power which means you need more fuel which means you’re heavier which means you need a bigger motor which means…

If it were just a matter of, “it’s really expensive to do it”, Musk would’ve already teleported a car by now.

So if gamers have limited money, and a way to obtain games without giving the company money, why would a game company want to release a game at a time where there’s competition with another game? If they aren’t competing, people will more likely pay for the game. If they are competing, someone that pirates the game will probably not end up buying it afterwards.

Also, what a depressing and shitty situation to be in.

I mean yeah. That’s more or less my take. I don’t agree with the mentality of, “Ukraine can do no wrong in the defense of their country”, I don’t think that their alliance with their fascist groups should be swept under the rug or buried in history or anything like that. It’s a sin they will have to pay for in one way or another eventually. But I don’t think it’s enough (at least for me) to side with Putin. Even if Ukraine was a majority fascist nation and Zelensky was an open Nazi sympathizer, my limited knowledge of Putin’s politics do not lead me to believe that he would stage an invasion solely for the altruistic act of rooting out the Nazis.

I’ll have to take a look at the Ukrainization wiki article. I knew of the divide between the East and West and that there was hostility between native Ukrainians and foreign Russians, but did not know there was a specific term for the “culture war”.

Thank you for the good faith response, promise I’m not a parrot for anyone lol.

In my (uninformed) view, it isn’t so much that, “Ukraine only has Nazis capable of fighting”, so much as it’s, “Russia is a way bigger country with a larger army, we need literally everyone we’ve got, even the Nazis”.

Like if the entire country was rallying behind a Nazi flag and they were tossing people in concentration camps and making plans to genocide another group it’d obviously be a different story, but they’re trying to kick people out of their own land, and as far as I know (again, not terribly far) they don’t have plans to keep going afterwards. If that were the case… Yeah, maybe Russia should just take em all out. Not a fan of Russia, but less of a fan of Nazis.

The Hitler analogy isn’t a fair one because Germany was an aggressor. The argument can’t be made that they were in the same situation that Ukraine is in.

Do you think Ukraine should allow the invasion and surrender, if a large portion of their support comes from Nazi sympathizers? I’m not trying to rage bait or or pull a “So yOu thInK thIS tHEn?!” I’m genuinely trying to understand the other side of the argument.

Like, I agree with you, it’s obviously not “good” to have those fucks on your side. But it’s really easy for me to say that while I’m sitting on my ass in my comfortable house thousands of miles away from conflict. If I were the leader of a country being invaded by a much larger force, and I had essentially a militia in my country ready to fight and defend it, and my options were “use the militia or watch your nation burn”, I’d probably be in the same position…

When I first joined Lemmy, those that held the second opinion were down voted en masse and we’re always lambasted as Russian trolls and Nazi sympathizers. I never saw a pro Russia / anti Ukraine post or comment with positive votes. Nowadays I don’t think I see many explicitly “pro Russia” posts but there’s a good number of anti Ukraine posts that are relatively high on the front page, and most pro Ukraine comments have at least one upvoted reply calling them a liberal or pro-fascist.

I didn’t necessarily mean unanimous as in, “everyone now has this opinion”, so much as “the hive mind has decided that we now upvote this opinion and down vote that one”. Like, there’s Trump supporters on Lemmy, whenever they comment anything pro-Trump it’s kind of a given (not necessarily saying a good one) that it’s going to get downvoted, and most things critical of him will get upvoted even if it’s not the most accurate or ingenuous criticism. To me, it very much seemed like one week it was “upvote Ukraine, downvote Russia!”, and the next it was “downvote Ukraine, Russia…🤷🏽‍♂️!”. Somewhere around the Iran shitshow.

Genuine questions:

Was he seemingly fairly elected originally, and did he hold elections previously? (I don’t know how Ukrainian elections work or how long he was in office before 2022)

How “in control” is he of the parliament / the referenda determining elections? Is it a Trump situation where all his buddies are in position to say, “sure! give him all the power!”, or is there more separation?

I’m admittedly relatively uninformed in the conflict, but I will say it was interesting seeing the general opinion of Lemmy go from “Slava Ukraini, fuck Russian Nazis, here’s some footage of Russian teenagers getting blown up with drones, Trump bad for not wanting to give aid” to “Zelensky is a fascist war criminal and also a Nazi and dumb American liberals are bad for siding with them” seemingly overnight. The switch happened a while ago but it was apparently unanimous.

Use your small printer to build a slightly larger printer, and then use that printer to build a slightly even larger printer. Then print this

I suppose if you’ve somehow come to the conclusion that testing things does not provide useful information (how do you suppose the people you are asking your question to have come to their conclusions?), I won’t try to persuade you otherwise. I’ll continue screwing around with no understanding of what I’m doing, I guess.

I’m sorry, maybe I’m not phrasing this correctly…

Just because one print works doesn’t mean it will work on every print.

I never said, “test on one print”. I said to test it. Test it on an object with many color changes, test it on a model with a ton of one color and only a small amount of another, test it with different infill percentages, test it on a prototype of something that’s going to be really important so you know how it will work in the end.

Everybody is going to have their own specific answer as to what works well and what is and isn’t necessary, the only way to find the right answer for you is to test things and figure it out yourself. The only way to get things 100% right 100% of the time is leave it how it is now and stop messing with it. Anything beyond that is going to vary on a case by case basis, and you’ll only understand what settings to change when, if you toy around with test prints.

I have been printing for many years. I understand that, “what works on one won’t always work on another”. Which is why I find it odd that you seem to be looking for an answer that works for one person, and therefore must work for every person, for every print. The only one-size-fits-all is going to be the most wasteful in material and time (purge tower and purging filament). If you want to cut back on what the manufacturer/ slicer devs are saying “this will most likely work”, you’re going to have to do some experimenting yourself.

That’s why I suggested testing it and seeing the results for yourself, not necessarily “turn it off and yolo”.

If you know firsthand what the outcome of changing the settings is, you can make a decision on your own based on your own experience when to use what settings.

If you have a printer that has these features, try it out and see the differences for yourself. There’s probably a reason why it’s set up the way it is, but sometimes the differences are so minute that you don’t notice or care. If you run a few prints and the color swaps look like garbage, you’ll have a better understanding of why the printer and firmware are set up that way. If it turns out fine, congratulations, you’ve made a personal improvement to your machine!

He certainly can be off-putting. The two videos related to this topic were pretty good though, imo

I know he does. I was saying that the code getting taken down from GitHub would be nowhere near the “end of the battle”. He would just rehost it elsewhere.

Yeah, I don’t think Louis Rossman has the means to host his own website or upload it somewhere else.

The former poster was incorrect in saying he was asking for donations (he was asking for people to say they would donate, if the need were to arise)

However, a few hours ago, he uploaded a followup video stating he has uploaded the code in question himself, and is inviting Bambu Labs to challenge him legally. In the video he did mention where donations could be made but I don’t recall him specifically asking for donations for this particular cause.

I used to catch myself doing this a lot. Something will happen and I’ll tell myself, literally make the decision, “I’m going to be mad about this all day.”

I’ll purposefully be frustrated in everything I do and be mad at myself for it.

Until something happens that actually requires my full, un-frustrated attention, and if it takes long enough I’ll “forget” that I was “supposed” to be mad?

Sometimes I’ll even try to get mad again.

Once I recognized the behavior it was easier to stop it, but I do still catch myself sometimes reminding myself that “you’re mad right now, stop laughing 😠”

I think it comes from Spanish-speaking Brits, or maybe a British Yoda, that’s why it’s “init, scripts?” and not “scripts, init?”