This is a super difficult model. There’s no good orientation for it.

I’d probably print it as oriented on the picture and use a lot of support. If classic support isn’t working for you, try organic/tree support, but I think the regular support would be better. Support should cover the full underside with this print.

When printing in PLA make sure you have really, really good cooling for this.

CAD is obviously something that got much better with better computers, but apart from such heavily PC focussed jobs, I’m not sure this holds true.

Digital systems waste a ton of worker’s time as well, and we now have much, much more bureocracy than before.

In many cases, computers are great at helping you fix problems and accomplish tasks you didn’t have without computers.

It certainly doesn’t have the weird and hard-to-understand web of random rules that r/showerthoughts has.

Germany used to be a collection of tribes and depending on which of these tribes the countries around them had contact with that’s the name that stuck in that language.

• Germans call themselves Deutsche (from diutisc meaning “the people” in Old German)
• In French they are called Allemagne after the Alamanni tribe
• In Italian it’s Germania, same as the English Germany, from the ancient latin Germania with unknown origins
• In Finnish it’s Saksa, after the Saxon tribes
• Most slavic countries use some variant of Niemcy, which means “speechless”, because slavic and germanic languages have hardly anything in common and are thus unintelligible to each other.

What’s being sold is the illusion that the robots are completely autonomous based on AI or something.

Buy it now, get the full AI self-walking update in two three seven fifteen some years.

It worked for Tesla cars, so why should the same strategy not work on the same idiots with robots?

Ceiling dust. Don’t breathe this.

It happens everywhere.

Current structures favour moving to cities. Farming and mining (which are the biggest job sectors that require people living in rural areas) are getting more and more automated, which means that there are fewer and fewer jobs in these fields. At the same time, huge, automated businesses win financially against smaller businesses operated with manual labour, so the small farmers are dieing off as well.

Manual jobs are often seasonal (e.g. picking fruit), and they are filled with seasonal foreign workers who don’t live in the rural areas either.

WIth fewer people living in rural areas other jobs (e.g. factories) also move to the cities, further removing rural jobs.

All of that push more people to move to cities and so on.

The impending demographic change accelerates that trend too.

This. In the golden age of record sales (pretty much the time before tape recoders became a thing), there were also thousands of musicians for each one that could actually live off their art.

Since people love making art even when they don’t make money off it, there’s always been an oversupply of artists.

Same with all other kinds of entertainment. For each football superstar there’s millions of kids who will never earn a cent for playing football. Same with painters, musicians and any other form of art.

Is Mozart’s music culture?

He was doing his stuff almost 100% for profit and was seen as a sell-out by a lot of the musicians at his time. He wrote his songs in German instead of Latin because he wanted to make essentially pop songs that were sung by kids on the street, and the musical establishment derided him for it, because they didn’t think what he was making was actually art.

This is very much it. If there’s people doing it for free, that pushes the resale value down a lot.

That’s a core problem with the patent system:

• Patent offices don’t really check for prior art. There’s a short period between patent applications and patents being granted where the public can submit prior art. If nobody notices that such an invalid patent is being applied for and thus nobody submits prior art, the patent is granted. Patent offices are of the opinion that it’s the responsibility of courts to sort out invalid patents like that.
• Patent litigation is super expensive and time consuming. So if a huge corporation like Stratasys holds a patent, most smaller companies (and yes, in this context Creality, Prusa and Bambulab count as small) usually don’t want to spend all the time, effort and risk of a patent fight. Also, even if you win, you don’t get your legal costs back. So even if e.g. Prusa fights Stratasys over that patent and wins, Prusa will still lose all the money they spent on legal costs for the lawsuit. All over a feature that, while cool, doesn’t bring them any money at all if they implement it.

Chemotherapy is bad for the person receiving chemo, it’s just even worse for the cancer. Yes, it cures people, but nobody in their right mind would use chemo on a healty person and claim that it wasn’t bad for that person.

If you have ever seen someone going through chemo, it’s really rough on them, and it’s only done in the hope of getting rid of the cancer and being able to stop using chemo.

But the analogy doesn’t make sense for the discussion on hand, because what propaganda bots do is polarizing, creating distrust, dividing society and cause people to do stupid things due to being angry.

Propaganda bots do that by posting extreme statements on all sides of the political spectrum. They post both pro-russia and anti-russia stuff, pro-capitalism and anti-capitalism, pro-trans and anti-trans, and so on.

So making bots to post anti-russia stuff is doing half their work.

An anti-russia bot would not be chemotherapy, it would be injecting cancer cells into the patient.

Maybe one could make a bot that posts moderate views and content advocating for reconcilliation or something like that.

Sounds like the network people at my company. They are asking us to spend more time in the office, but they don’t provide enough desks, they don’t provide working wired LAN and they only provide semi-working Wifi. All with proxies that don’t work and filters that don’t let me access the webapp I am supposed to maintain, which is blocked for “being a commercial website”. Thanks, I know, I have to program that crap.

IMHO the mask simply came off in 2008 when they bailed out the rich and not the poor. They’re pissing on our legs and telling us it’s raining. As more and more people are forced into poverty while the stock market soars, more of us are rightfully asking these questions. So what are we gonna do about it? Do you trust your savings to someone who insists that the economy is rich people’s yachts?

It’s all just a matter of goals. Is economics there to help the poor, the middle class or the rich? Depending on your answer, it’s either an absolute failure or an unmitigated success.

And considering the golden rule (“The one who has the gold makes the rules”), it’s quite clear what’s happening there. All of the economics technobabble is only there to distract and justify, not to actually make sense.

Patriotism is nationalism for people who say “I’m not a racist, but”.

Wait for a few more years and you’ll see what patriots do to a country once they have taken over everything and been in power for a few years.

I am from Austria. I know what patriots do.

Patriots are the same shit as real nazis, only they are too cowardly to admit it and they “didn’t know what really happened” until the charade finally collapses.

Over here we have another term for patriots: Mitläufer.

That’s pure projection. I don’t love my country and it would be stupid to have romantic feelings toward a made-up thing that doesn’t exist.

I live here because it’s a good place to live. If the country goes to shit, I move on.

Do you feel patriotic love towards the supermarket you shop at? Or do you go there because it’s currently the place where you get the best deal? Do you love your petrol station? Do you love the highway or train you use to get to work?

Maybe it’s the american weirdness that you guys don’t value love so that you mistake thinking that somethig is ok is automatically deep love or something weird.

Patriotism has exactly on purpose: to keep idiots in line and stop them from thinking.

Tbh, I have to disagree here.

Even in its best form, patriotism is about being proud of things you did nothing to contribute to and about tribalism and exclusion of others (namely people from places where you don’t live).

In my city we have great public transport, great public healthcare, strong worker protection laws, a large public housing sector that keeps rents low, good free education, pretty old buildings, lots of nice parks and many other great things that I like.

I did nothing to contribute to these things except of voting every few years. It’s not my achievement that these things exist, so pride would be misplaced.

I also know that all it takes for these things to vanish is the wrong people getting elected once or twice, and if that were to happen, the city could quickly be turned from a great place to live to a terrible place. It has happened before, specifically between 1933 and 1945, but also from 1809 to 1848 and 1914 to 1923.

Being patriotic would elevating my city and/or country to something more than it is: from a place to live to a place to worship or something like that, and it would mean I would have to support things that cannot be reasonably supported.

It’s totally ok to like the good things you have. It’s also totally ok to get behind good causes and further them. But it’s weird to “love” a place and bind yourself to it even if it goes bad.

But targets differ in value. Hack an IOT device and you can send some spam from it. Hack someone’s PC and you can ransomware their family pictures or steal their crypto crap.

Exactly, and still the 60 million copies sold (of which maybe a quarter or so actually ever went online) was more than enough to make Win95 comically malware-infested.

I’d venture to say that close to every one of the 60 million copies of Desktop Linux OSes running goes online frequently, so there’s much more potential Linux targets than there ever were Win95 targets. That’s why I’m saying the “Linux is to niche to get malware” argument doesn’t really work.

The “too niche” part is really weird to me. There’s an estimated 2 billion PCs in use right now. ~3% of that are running some form of Desktop Linux OS, so roughly 60 million.

Incidentally, that’s exactly the same number as the total number of Win95 licenses sold, and I can’t recall Win95 being “too niche” for malware. Quite the opposite.