I'd never realized how convenient/natural a joystick is for adjusting your side mirrors. I'm not even sure my wife has the reach to both press a touchscreen in the center console and have her head in driving position to adjust the mirrors with real time feedback. Even I'd hate to have to tweak a mirror while driving with a touchscreen.
The implication is that it's your own blood, but I like the planning/forethought. I think you'll be going places. Probably at a run.
I’ve been expecting this from the cdc for a while, I just didn’t know if it would be this year or next. The mortality numbers are looking like COVID (all strains) in ‘23 was less than 2x the influenza (all strains) numbers (which are climbing again) and it may be on track for the ratio to drop again this year.
The CDC is looking at statistics and - from a population health perspective- a certain number of deaths per year is acceptable. That’s true in how I design buildings, too. We look at probabilistic numbers on external loads, evaluate the utility of the building and the number of people who will die if it collapses, and we put a chalk mark at the “appropriate “ location - and everybody beyond that mark dies. It sounds callous, but if you’ve ever complained scott the cost of housing, I can tell you that we can reduce the number of deaths in building fires/collapses/etc. I can buy back, say, 20% of those lives simply by doubling the cost of your average house. Or making your library or restaurant cost twice as much to build. We could kill more people for more affordable housing, too.
There are a lot of never-maskers out there, but I’d say that I’ve seen at least an order of magnitude increase in general usage even years after the lock downs and mandate have been lifted.
And, unlike engineers in manufacturing whose deep-pocket corporations bought an exemption, Engineers in the A/E/C field are licensed. And if you screw up you can lose your ability to work in your field…forever.
Feel the hate. Let it flow through you.
Trick question. The answer is that no party has a majority in the senate. Two independents caucus with 49 democrats to form the leadership structure, but that is not a party majority - merely a ruling coalition.
Oh, I didn’t mean to come off as dissing Prusa in general. I ponied up for an XL and it’s night-and-day better than any previous printer I’ve owned.
If this was during an auto level, it's my humble opinion that this is a manufacturer's defect in the machine that caused the damage. There should be proper coding to ensure that any increase in sensor pressure by (delta p) halt that machine and that there should be a pressure offset in the sensor such that a loss of signal or anomalous zero reading or lack of reading is done prior to levelling to ensure that a sensor failure has not occurred. My XL freaks out if a fan isn't spinning at the right speed, so they clearly know that a nominal operational check before the print starts is proper engineering design.
Of course you won't get anywhere. Unfortunately, a lot of 3D print failures really are user error so I suspect that's their default response and it takes them a good deal of proof to push them of that mark.
Indeed, I'm not sure even testing is sufficient. My family recently got it (my wife and I visiting my parents), but thought nothing of it for a week. My father had a sore throat, my mother had watery eyes and some nasal congestion. My father masked indoors (because I don't want a regular cold either) and chalked my mother's symptoms to seasonal allergies (the cars were covered with Pine pollen all week). Then, on the drive home, my wife felt off. 10 hours in the car together. She slept in the guest room that night and, just for grins, tested for Covid the next morning. She was positive. We called and had my parent's test - both positive. I tested negative so I packed my things and rented a hotel room for the week and worked there alone. I tested every other day and was never positive, but I cancelled all my client meetings.
I still never "got it" but...is it really feasible I didn't have some low level? This is my second trip in a car for multiple hours with someone who tested positive the next day. Granted, I'm about 4 vaccines in (2xOG, 1 updated, 1 XBB variant), but so is my wife. I have to think that I had some sub-clinical level of viral load, or at least below the antigen test threshold, but I'm thankful I escaped symptoms.
Wage is worthless wording. Most ultra rich don’t have wages - at least not relative to their change in worth. We need to change how taxes fundamentally work.
Not to defend them or minimize the corporate stupidity, but it sounded like there were less than 100k people affected out of tens of millions (100m?) accounts. I get that it was a big deal for those affected, but a 0.1% outage doesn’t seem “major”.
Unclear? They're putting it on [aka: holding it] wrong. User error.
Lets hope, for Apple's sake, that this isn't a Q2 Elite Strap debacle.
This is buying into the Republican way of thinking, which is that you criticize someone's performance for any shortcoming you feel. A progressive stance is to elevate other people (There is more than one person in Government) who are doing things correctly without tearing down the current leader. It s the difference between a collaborative government and a competitive one. Within a (generally speaking) unified political block which values diversity of opinions, a collaborative approach is much more productive than a competitive one.
The strength of a movement is in the sum of the effort.
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Fun fact: the USA is the largest producer of oil in the world, extracting 50% more than it's closest rivals (Russia and SA) annually. And we've been on top for years.
Still cheaper than inkjets
I'm reconfiguring my printing closet (~6'x6') for a new printer and thought about enclosing the printer in a moderate sized cabinet (~2'x3'x6' - one "shelf" of the closet) for thermal control. Since there will be inevitable opening and closing, as well as just normal infiltration of the ambient air (usu ~65F between 40-75% RH) it would seem like a good application for a Peltier dehumidifier to keep the RH in the chamber low and reduce my need to re-dry filament which has been on the machine during (inevitable) multi-day or -week downtime between projects.
<- gallery of parts
https://imgur.com/a/dkILl03
I've been wanting to try and make a mount for space gaming to go with my office chair - a Steelcase Leap. The organic-ish arms didn't make an easy way to create a clamp system, but in fooling around with it recently I noticed I could remove the armrest pads and they had a nice 4-bolt pattern. Since this is my office chair I need to be able to swap in or out of gaming setup easily.
I added a 30mm tall adapter that lets me slide a 6mm x 30mm (actually, 1/4x1-1/4) bar in and secure at the back, with a plate adapter to mount my old HOTAS4 to the bar, and a pin at at the rear for quick release.
The plates and adapters are eSun PLA+ which is fairly stiff but has some durability/ductility to it. The bar was supposed to be 6061-T6 aluminum but I was lazy and didn't feel like making a mess in the shop, ripping down some surplus plate I have, and I was too cheap to go out and buy 1/4x1-1/4 steel bar stock so I decided to print the bars from PAHT-CF (high temp nylon with carbon fiber). The 385mm bars just barely fit diagonally on my CR-10s.
Banana for scale but, also, the desk is 6' long and the little monitor is 43" (and will be re-purposed elsewhere).
Oh, AutoDesk...you have such a way with words. Honestly, I would rather learn to design in OpenSCAD than send AutoDesk a single penny.
Every once in a while I'm hit in the face with a boomer moment, and my wife and her phone are just the pinnacle of this. My wife is GenX, and not even a particularly old one, but damn she will dig in her heels against technology and progress. She has an iPhone and staunchly refuses to use a passcode. She doesn't need one and doesn't want one. Basic security? Oh, no, not convenient. Tap to Pay? Oh, no, she'd rather dig through her purse for a credit card and get flustered while 30 people que up behind her to get on a bus while she tries to find one that has rfid (which she doesn't like because "I want to insert the card myself").
So we get new phones. eSim phones to replace the physical sim ones. And we spend the better part of an hour trying to figure out why her sim won't transfer. Mine was a simple dialog, as was DDs. What's different about hers? iOS is up to date. Phone is compatible. madly searches internet a dozen links in and buried in a t-mobile help page - "make sure bluetooth is on and the phone has a PIN code". MFer.
I suppose it could be worse. Her mother answers facetime video calls by putting the phone to her ear like it's a normal call and then talking the entire time while broadcasting the top of her ear to whoever is on the other end. 🙄
iPhone 13 Pro Max to 15 Pro - I just transferred all my data yesterday at 6PM and then must have missed the charger when I set it down to go to sleep around 11pm. I've done this before on my Pro max and it might drain 5% overnight. This new 15 Pro looks like I never set it down all night long - that drain curve is linear from my surfing on Chrome from 10-11p straight on till morning. It drained 32% in 8 hours with nothing but a (mostly black) dimmed AOD lockscreen.
I'm told that Apple now does the same thing Windows does and re-indexes your phone when it's new so maybe (hopefully) that's it. My battery page shows Chrome, Gmail, FB, and Memmy in the top 4 spots (70% of all usage) over the last 24 hours so I'm guessing that Apple's own internal iOS usage doesn't show up (how convenient for them).
Does this seem...normal?
I may have the opportunity to upgrade my home office from dual 42" 4K panels to a single 8K panel. Actually, the two 42" won’t fit as my new space is limited to a 72" maximum total width so it's drop to one monitor or go big. I’ll be moving my gaming rig into the office so gaming performance will matter but probably only a couple hours a week vs 50 hours of CAD and office apps.
Although the easy answer is to grab the Samsung QN900C, it’s realistically more than I want to pay. I’m curious if anyone can say that there’s any day-to-day difference between the 900C flagship and either the 800C (or last year’s 800B) while I’m out looking for deals this week. I’m currently disregarding the 57" dual 4k gaming monitor due to the curve (it would obscure half my desk).
I looked all over the Golden Circle for some kitschy souvenir shirt to bring home and was hoping for a call back to the 2008 Journey movie with Brendan Fraser. Doubly disappointed as Aníta Briem (Hannah Ásgeirsson) is a native Icelander.
Since I couldn't find one, I made my own.
(I didn't actually make it to the Snaefellsjokull glacier in either of my two visits to the island. Maybe next time, and I wear my new T-shirt.)
I haven't played many (any) mech games and just watched the trailer for AC6. WTF - that looks awesome! How do most people play - kb+m or some kind of controller setup? Also, and I'm probably just asking how fast I can throw up, can this be played / is there a mode for VR?
Thanks, in advance, for humoring the simple questions. :-)
I get it, this is preproduction stuff. But, wow. From the scene selection, to the fake excitement over the weapons and modes, to the in-game voiceover this has B production written all over it.
I know we've all been spoiled by PC graphics and AAA cinematics and production values, so maybe I'm expecting too much. I went back and watched the teaser from the spring. I know, I know, we're looking at handheld console-level graphics, but that teaser is leaning on a lot of jump cuts and cinematic license to try and mask what sounds like George Lucas level dialog and Sega era effects.
I really enjoyed (at least the beginning of) the original Asgard's Wrath and thought it'd be cool to have a stand alone version, but its going to have to be a lot better that...whatever that was. And a shit-ton better if it's coming out at a $60 price point.
I mean, the title is mostly it. I haven’t played DnD for…long enough that I know none of the rules and few of the classes. I didn’t play BG or BG2.
It looks so shiny, but I’m afraid I would just be 100% lost. Can anyone say what it’s like to go in cold?
I did Iceland last fall, solo, as a 6 day whirlwind tour around the loop road (yes, it was awesome). This fall (late Oct) I'm getting 4 days with the wife and am looking for the coolest excursions around the Golden Circle, which I mostly skipped last year. We'll be staying south of the GC in Selfoss with a small 4WD vehicle, but don't intend to go offroad.
Both of us are semi-fit (lol-American) so casual hiking is great, but probably should keep it to 10 km / 500-600m rise for a single hike, and under 15-18km a day total. Free is nice, but for something really cool we could spring $150-200pp for a tour.
Oh, and I'd like to find a hot spring that is not as pricey or as busy as Blue Lagoon; ideally quiet and casual.
I might have to look more into my state's right to be forgotten law. I used PDS for about 2 weeks until no more zombie posts were in my profile (most resurrected by the opening of closed subs). I was cleaning out some gaming book marks and clicked on a reddit thread I'd kept and, lo and behold, I found myself in the comments. Except I'd purged all of those. And searching for myself yields no results. This is...disappointing.
Two words, carrots: Red. Wood.
I actually feel a little bad for titling this post as I have.
Those terrible cardboard things that you just never knew what you were going to get until they were developed? I decided on my last trip I'd make up a pretend set of prints to share with my online friends. Below is the sample. I knew there'd be some really exciting shots, so I ordered double prints when I sent it in for processing. Woo Hoo!!
(apologies if (semi-)humor posts are not allowed here)
Just pulled up a map of downtown to search for the intersection my budget and convenient lodging for a week in Amsterdam. The wife is a huge history nut and I mostly like looking at the architecture. No clubbing, nothing stronger than beer, no threesomes. Roughing it, when we're on vacay as a couple, is defined as a "major flag hotel that doesn't have 24 hour room service." We'd like to explore as much as possible on foot (/public transportation). We're totally down for a boutique apartment, though, if one comes up.
Anyone have a favorite semi-posh location that can be had for <$200 night in the shoulder season (October-ish).
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/646533
> Are you flipping through a Frommer's, scrolling on your phone, spreading printed PDF maps, or driving a multi-monitor workstation?
