Aren’t ribs a good thing sometimes?

I use regex find and replace for rename/refactor edits across files. No AI necessary. But I’m also a Luddite using Textmate on an old Macbook.

That’s also why they get so excited about the current chatbots.

Hardware store buckets with rubber seal lids have worked great for me for the last 6 years or so. They fit 5x1kg rolls perfectly and there’s room for silica packets down the middle and sides.

I’ve done some dovetails for a puzzle design before. They were meant to assemble and disassemble in multiple orientations.

Depending on the layer line directions the problem I had was getting the fit tight enough to not fall apart, but not too tight to remove. I abandoned it because the PLA absorbed water and they became stuck after sitting in humidity for a few days.

More likely humidity. Mine is in a windowless room and gets brittle like that after sitting.

Monotonic top layer setting is there exactly to mitigate this problem. The reason it isn’t default is because it requires more travel time so takes a little longer in some models.

It’s not a software bug, but a problem with the way speed/time-optimized paths fit on some models.

If the EU can fine Apple (formerly the most valuable company in the world), they better fine Nvidia (recently the most valuable company in world) let’s see if they are really valuable, or just propped up by AI hype after the crypto crash.

1 button mouses haven’t been a thing for 15 years. Just because you can’t see it doesn’t meant the other button isn’t there and working.

And more importantly, Mac trackpads are the shit, 2-4 finger gestures, pinch zoom, 2d smooth scrolling and occasionally even rotating is super handy and really intuitive. Especially for 3D CAD on a laptop. They’re so good that a lot of people buy magic pads for desktops.

It’s why I’ve never settled on Gimp or Inkscape unless I’m on a Linux box. Also it’s not much fucking work to swap ctrl/alt/command keys around, but hardly any devs even bother with that because they assume Macs are still little blue blobs from 20 years ago.

Just get the docker image and run it in a vm…

Oh and if you’re a Mac user go fuck your self. We’d never change the keyboard shortcuts, native mouse/trackpad gestures, or use any of the menu conventions that you use in all your native apps.

Sure, but 3D printings greatest advancements have been opening up new engineering possibilities, not replacing old refined and efficient ones.

3D printed complex structures for cooling systems, or molecular structures are things we couldn’t do before. Or printing small batches of rare parts or prototypes that would otherwise require injection mold design and fabrication are great advancements.

We don’t have any problems building houses fast. It’s all financial (capitalistic) and social problems that are making home ownership hard right now.

How many people actually want curved walls though?

You need curved couches, shelves, cabinets, windows and picture frames then too.

Geodesic domes housing is even faster to build, but it turns out not very many people like living in circular (or spherical) houses.

Programming should be more like other trades, apprentice for a year or two before getting journeymen status, then work up to master status. Pay and job changing becomes more fair, and we get some reasonable fucking hours and rules to keep us from making overworked mistakes.

Companies know what they’re getting asked on the programmer’s level (specific experience will still matter, but baseline will be much more standard).

And workers get experience and learn from the gray beards instead of chatgpting their way into a job they don’t understand.

How do you really know it torqued to 5 Nm? Did you test this on a fixed nut?

I would like to see real yield curves before trusting the torque bales coming off a plastic socket.

I used Dejavu sans mono (but modded to have a slashed 0. It’s based on Gnome’s Vera font, but at the time it had a very large open type feature set that appealed to me.

https://dejavu-fonts.github.io/

Edit: bumped send before finishing thought…

Fira was my replacement, but I never really could get used to the operators ligatures, so left them disabled. I’m about to switch and try Neon or Argon (though I may end up mixing them a bit if it’s not too much work). Jetbrains has a neat design, but the r and f feel really out of place and I’d have to mod them to not be annoyed all the time.

“Dern it.”

My first apple product was a PowerBook (the first aluminum one after the titanium laptop).

It came with a DVI/VGA dongle and had FireWire 800, 400, Ethernet, 56k modem, a bunch of USB ports, headphone and mic jacks, a DVI port, and even cardbus slot.

I only ever really used the DVI, FireWire, USB and headphone ports though. And the separate mic port was actually a pain in the ass.

Yeah, I haven’t bitten the bullet and tried abs yet, mostly because I’m not ready to setup ventilation and better temp control.

Asa seems to be another option, but I’ve been having too much fun printing TPU parts to bother.

Yup, and any interior vehicle parts I’ve done that have any loads have yielded after any kind of sunny week or so.

Massively oversized parts can last a bit longer, but they just have very low creep temperatures.

I get what you’re criticizing, but it wouldn’t have the same aesthetic if there was a giant motherboard in there.

I like it. I wouldn’t want to keep it clean, but I like that someone else built it.