I think HBO thinks they have a great asset because Maher can still pretend he's left wing on the surface (getting thinner by the minute though) and suck up to Trump and the magats at the same time. So HBO nurtures him and his show to edge their bets.
I'm missing limbs and I can still feel them.
People who have a heart attack feel pain down their left arm.
A lot of stuff in the human body doesn't seem very logical. Just go see a doctor. Trust me on that one.
I quit finding Bill Maher funny years ago, and I can see right through his "I'll talk to anyone" shtick: the man is basically MAGA-adjacent to put it kindly, and his vehement and frequent critique of Trump and MAGA is just a distraction.
That's why Trump invited him to dinner: Maher is the useful pseudo left-wing pundit whom he hopes will legitimize him.
Fuck Bill Maher.
Go see a doctor. Because which is more logical?
-or-
Occarm's razor says it's the latter.
Weirdly enough, they might even be less corrupt too.
Surely he can be resurrected: the Christian faith is big on magical stuff like that.
Hello Mr. Raykov,
Please listen to this song to understand what happened to you.
It's crypto. You should've known better...
Looks like the US, Israel, Russia and El Salvador are turning into quite the little fascist club. Maybe we could call them the Axis powers...
Ooh that's clever. And I have just the part to test this - a big clamp that needs to hold a part together in 2 axes and regular breaks on the axis that was printed vertically.
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All the things you can critique him for, as well as the church in general, and you choose the thing that children were basically forced to participate in under a fascist regime? The dude clearly wasn’t a Nazi and he was a kid.
Where did you read I was criticizing B16 for being a Hitler youth? All I said was that his - definitely forced - stint there gave him the experience to deal with fascist authoritarian figures.
B16 should be at the receiving end of many criticisms - not least of which choosing to be part of, and ultimately lead a disgusting religious cult. But being forced to join the Hitler Youth is not one of them.
They should unmothball Benedict XVI: he's uniquely qualified to deal with Donald Trump, being a former Hitler Youth.
As a hardcore anticlerical atheist, I'm cracking a beer open to celebrate!
Okay so I've readjusted the belts' tension this morning. The X belt was a bit loose and the Y belt was a bit too tight, strangely enough. Both in the green though. So I set them to the middle of the range. Good thing I checked anyway because all the screws on the X motor mount were so loose they were on the verge of letting go completely.
And since I was at it, I cleaned the entire enclosure and re-lubed the rails and the linear bearings.
However, I don't think the printer faulted because of any of this: I checked where the hard limit was in X and Y and found that the nozzle came right at the edge of the previous prints that failed on the left and on the top:
At this point, I'm convinced the printer got lucky twice when it printed that print right, and when it didn't, it was the result of the carriage hitting the limits when the motor(s) overshot the extreme positions a bit. I re-sliced that print to leave some margin with what PrusaSlicer believes are the limits of the printing area and I came to a perfectly printed set of parts today. And the new set I started 2 hours ago seems fine too.
So I think the lesson here is that PrusaSlicer is a bit too optimistic with how large you can print, both in X and Y. It pays not to believe it too much.
EDIT: 6 hours later, another perfect batch. So I think my theory is confirmed.
Grid infill is crossing, get a decent blob or buildup and you could have nozzle collision, I personally like gyroid but it is slower.
I've had the extruder collide into blob on solid infills (or perimeters) when the filament was too hot - usually TPU or TPE - but never infill. I'll give gyroid a spin though.
prusa has an article for troubleshooting layer shifting
That's a great article. Thanks!
I'll go check everything tomorrow. The thing is, it's the first time this happens (well, second time now). The only unusual thing I did compared to previous prints was fill the bed to the brim, right up to the edges as allowed by PrusaSlicer. I've corrected that to make sure this isn't the issue. Other than that, it's a printer that's been printing all day every day for a good year and a half. So yeah, it probably needs some TLC at some point...
Interesting. I'll have to try the reverse experiment: I have a roll of TPE that's been drying in the dryer for at least 3 weeks. I'll take it out and see how fast it'll reabsorbs water.
How much weight difference do you see? Do you simply wait for the weight to stop changing?
Good thinking. I didn't think about that.
I am not sure where to draw the line for free-will or even if it exists.
You know a moron who shouldn't vote when you see one. It doesn't matter if they're victims of bad genes or bad upbringing: some people just aren't fit to decide important things. In fact, I'd argue a majority of the population isn't.
But you hit the nail on the head: where do you draw the line?
In this case, where is that hypothetical line that decides those who are "good enough" to votes and those who aren't?
Of course, it's impossible to make the distinction because the decision is almost completely arbitrary. There is no well-established, proven set of scientific criteria to decide whether a human being is worthy of the right to vote.
So we do the next best thing: we let everyone vote. That's democracy. We let everyone vote because not letting everyone vote is always worse. But that doesn't mean it doesn't make me retch when I see a cretin in a MAGA hat who doesn't even know basic history, geography or civics proudly tell you on TV that he voted Trump because Trump'll fix it.
My company is flexible, but ultimately this is not my printer and I want to ask permission to undertake maintenance. For all I know, whoever ordered it in the first place is in fact in charge of it, or maybe they want a 3rd party to do it. It's just a matter of talking to the boss and making sure what I'm about to do is approved 🙂
Turn this (ramping lift) Off/On or tweak the settings
Before doing any of that, I'll run several prints of the new parts layout that aren't quite so close to the edges of the bed. The one currently printing is going well so far.
I really have a strong hunch that it's just a matter of not using quite as much of the bed surface as PrusaSlicer thinks is usable safely.
Oh and i wouldnt use grid as infill
Why is that?
Yes, it's obvious. But maybe it's useful to those who didn't think about it? Sometimes the most obvious things are the easiest to miss.
I'm sorry you feel so negative about it.
Here's how to determine if you have enough filament left on the spool to complete a print, if you don't have a fancy printer that tracks filament usage automatically. This is why you should always ...
If you don't have a fancy-schmancy printer that tracks filament usage and warns you if you don't have enough filament left on the currently-loaded spool to complete the print, this is how you know. You can even double-check while it's printing, like I do in this video.
This is why you should always keep a kitchen scale and one empty spool of all the filament brands you use.
Low tech but useful. I figured I'd share.
The Prusa Mk4 has done it again ☹️
This is the second time this happens: somehow the motors or the belt slip (not in just one axis) or the Prusa printer loses its origin or something, 3 or 4 layers into this large and long print: al...
This morning I came to work to a perfectly printed set of plates. So I started another instance of the exact same print, went for a swim at the municipal swimming pool nearby, came back to check on it just in case, and it had done the same thing it did on Friday.
This time, nobody was at the office (it's Sunday) so I know nobody monkeyed with the print. Clearly the plate hasn't moved. So those hypotheses are out.
The belts look tight - although the teeth feel a bit chewed up, particularly the table belt. But I doubt this is what caused the slip, as it seems to slip randomly in both directions at the same time.
At this point, I'm placing my bet on the print head coming so close to the edges that it hits the limit(s) when it's unlucky, or it causes the stepper motors' counters to overflow or something - i.e. it hits a firmware bug. The PrusaSlicer software seems very confident that I can print this close to the edges, and indeed the printer does
The magnetic printing plate shifted early in the print - or something else happened?
Yesterday before leaving work, I left a bunch of parts to print on our Prusa Mk4. This morning, I found all the parts with the same defect at the bottom: apparently the magnetic printing plate shifted ⅛¨ sideways on the bed 3 or 4 layers into the 7-hour print.
Unfortunately, I removed the magnetic plate without paying attention before I saw the defect, so I'm not really sure if this is what happened. It stands to reason, but it might also be both stepper motors somehow skipping at the same time. It seems unlikely, but maybe there has been a power brownout or something.
Or someone at the office interfered with the bed's movement at some point. But it seems unlikely too.
If the plate itself shifted, maybe it's because I had cleaned it with water just before and I may have left some slightly damp spots underneath, despite drying it as good as I could. I might also have failed to position the plate against the registration pins at the back of the bed, but I usually pay attention so th
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Sad, sad day...
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It's only a matter of time before "really bad people" includes you.
Does the US feel like a Nazi hellhole yet or do you need more convincing?
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Remapping CapsLock to be the Compose key, and double-Shift to be the new CapsLock
If you type anything like I do, the CapsLock key gets very little use on your keyboard. Add the following lines to your i3 config file to remap it to be the Compose key, and use double-Shift as an alternate CapsLock for the infrequent occasions when it's needed:
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# Remap CapsLock to Compose
exec setxkbmap -option compose:caps
# Both shift keys enable CapsLock and one shift key cancels it
exec setxkbmap -option shift:both_capslock_cancel
This should work in most Linux distro. To find out if it will work in yours, type:
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$ grep compose:caps /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst $ grep shift:both_capslock_cancel /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst
If the combos are listed in base.lst, they will work.
There are other ways to rem
Donald Trump said he plans to announce "major tariffs" on pharmaceutical imports.
And you thought you paid through the nose for your health... Cheeto is about to make Luigi totally irrelevant.
I wonder how many will die because of this. I guess we'll know in a few months when the death rate statistics come in.
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The video is a rather blatant Bambu Lab shilling job, but Matt doesn't try to hide it at all, and ultimately I find his use case for the printer interesting in its own right.