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For me it's under Settings, Privacy and Security, Device Lock, Fingerprint Unlock. I removed my fingerprints from it the other day, though, because it was so inconsistent at unlocking my phone that it seemed faster to just use a numeric code.

Good sci fi usually isn't about the future, aliens, etc. It's about the present, but portrayed in a strange way so as to bypass your existing preconceptions about the situation, so you can look at it with fresh eyes.

Certainly! Here's how this might be phrased in a more casual manner if it appeared as a comment on a web forum: "lol git gud noob jk"

So, one thing to consider is whether you could have remnants of a previous filament getting stuck in your hotend and carbonizing and causing partial clogs. That depends a bit on what you were running just before running this filament. If this is the issue, a cleaning filament can help. Another possibility is that your nozzle isn't tight against the heatbreak, in which case plastic can accumulate there and cause issues. The only way to fix that is to disassemble the hotend and put it back together correctly--this usually involves tightening the nozzle when it's hot, but check the details for your specific printer.

But yeah, it could also just be bad filament. That's probably the easiest thing to fix, anyway.

Gluten kicks ass. It's easily the best fake meat base. I remember in college cooking a meal for my roommates and them saying afterwards "wait, aren't you vegetarian? did you cook this just for us and not eat any?" and having to explain that no, that wasn't beef, it was wheat gluten and mushrooms and miso. They were dubious, saying, "well, to me this is just really tender beef."

So yeah. I'm also disappointed that gluten has gotten such a bad rap. I'm waiting for this knowledge to trickle back into the convenience foods sector so I can buy this stuff and not have to make it by hand every time, and it seems like I'll be waiting a long time.

I dunno. Is it gluten-free?

Sure. You can always include both as well. Folks who don't have CAD software may not be able to use the STEP files.

Lots of people post STLs because you can feed them directly to the slicer for printing. But it only represents the surface mesh of an object, and only as polygons. A STEP file basically captures how the part is designed in CAD, so it's much better if you need to modify the part. It also gives you the original form of things like curves, where the STL would be quantized into a fixed number of polygons.

I mean TVs have volume buttons but also a mute. It's nice to be able to use volume to set a specific level but then also quickly toggle between that perfect level and silent.

It's not something you strictly need a physical button for, but the way they implemented it on old iPhones was nice. It was a physical switch rather than a button, and it looked different in the two positions--the slider under the switch was red on one side and black on the other. (or maybe silver, i forget, but it didn't stand out the way the red did.) So you could tell at a glance if it was muted as well without turning on the screen.

The new button seems like a step back from that to me, but if you don't use the silencing feature then a reprogrammable button is maybe more useful to you.

I think they were saying "I don't believe you and I don't believe that you believe you either."

I've thought about this too, and for a similar reason. About a third of the way through my first sock I realized that knitting was contributing to tendonitis, at least on top of my day job which was non-stop typing. I've got a tub of yarns waiting for me to figure out what I'm going to do about them. I've watched videos from various folks about the 3d printed options.

One thing I've never really figured out is how the socks compare to something like a smartwool. It seems like they might be pretty prone to becoming loose. I'd be interested to hear your evaluation of the actual end product.

I guess somebody's bullshit detector isn't working.

It mostly avoids them, but it doesn't necessarily do that on the first layer, and it does a big travel at the end to park the print head. You could probably get something to work if you wrote it with the FullControl Gcode Designer.

Travel moves wouldn't work, because the wire core has to be continuous.

I think the best bet is to design a model with a cavity that the wire can snap into, and add the EL wire after the print is finished.

Yeah. Honestly I was more interested on whether it could actually work, rather than whether I could sell it. It'd be easier to sell than to actually evaluate :P

Of course! One of the only things I actually did do on that project was get a box of Mr. Sketch markers and look at which ones might be usable as highlighters. The main reason it fell apart was that I didn't really know enough people who did highlighting as a study technique. I knew they existed because I kept buying used textbooks that turned out to be covered in highlighting, but it must be a relatively niche group that does it.

Y'know, I had an idea about this back when I was in college: scented highlighters. Use a few different scents for different categories of information, and test whether it improved recall over using regular highlighters. I never tried to follow through on it.

I don't know. I think "toot" also plays on the English expression "toot your own horn." I think it's more playful and self-effacing, and that its violation of what would be considered acceptable in corporate branding terms is part of its appeal as a rejection of those aspects which came to control and ultimately corrupt its predecessor.

I mean, how much dumber is that than "tweeted"? We just get numb to it eventually.

I think by "close to the sun" they meant "similar to the sun" rather than "proximate to the sun." In other contexts this word substitution wouldn't cause confusion (e.g. "a plantain is pretty close to a banana" would not lead most people to look around them for the subjects) but the context of space makes this word choice a little prone to this confusion.