I use metric all the time in the US. My 3D printer runs in millimeters and Celsius, I buy Pepsi by the liter, I dose every medicine by the gram, I meter electricity by the kilowatt and my lights are rated in lumens.

What I don’t do is this weird sense of superiority found in cultivated ignorance the Europeans seem so fond of on the subject.

No, dumping ice cream on the cat isn’t worth it. It’s funny for a few minutes but then you have to clean it up and cats hold grudges.

This is the internet, so obviously it means handjob.

When aren’t students treated like guinea pigs? Hank Green once pointed out that most science done on “people” were actually done on mostly white, mostly American, mostly young, mostly male college students, because that’s who signs up for “studies.”

Do the French still have a death penalty? If no, pass.

Curious how the French have jurisdiction over Austin?

I’ve gone on this tirade plenty of times, but inches aren’t stupid. 12 inches to a foot makes a lot of sense for problems we’ve had to solve for millennia, because it’s 3 times a power of two. For things like woodoworking it actually makes more sense than the metric system.

“But 10 deciliters in a liter” Using a tape measure, mark out 1/3rd of the thickness of a standard 19mm sheet of plywood. I’ll be over here doing the same with 3/4" plywood by marking at 1/4".

Maybe we shouldn’t be selling Europe any weapons that work.

*sk8r boi

No Duh?!

Okay, he was 6’5" and she was 5’2".

It is my understanding that pull requests say “Hey, I forked and modified your project. Look at it and consider adopting my changes in your project.” So anyone who wants to look at the “experimental stuff” can just pull that fork. Someone in charge of the main branch decides if and when to merge pull requests.

The problem becomes the volume of requests; they’re kinda getting DDOS’d.

or /dev/urandom?

Yeah I consider the bridge burned; their install media maker .exe thing doesn’t run on Linux so I Just Can’t Help You Install Windows Anymore^TM.

The best kind of true.

I am in the wrong goddamn business, I need to be selling $9,000 kettle cords to music morons.

You should go look at the listings for stripper poles on Amazon, it’s hilarious the places they photoshop them into.

My browser history now includes several Amazon listings for stripper poles.

I have learned that:

1. The listing ALWAYS calls them “dancing poles” but Amazon knows what you mean,

2. About half of them are sold as “unisex” even though all of the photos of them in use show women,

3. Only some require drilling into the ceiling. The few that do ship with screws or lag bolts that are approx. 2 inches in length and come with drywall anchors.

So, if installing any of the poles from Amazon’s first page of results, your floor would have to be approximately 1.5 inches thick.

If the downstairs apartment had no ceiling treatment and you looked up at joists and subfloor, you might get here if she decided to attach between the ceiling joists. In a typical residential structure with a drywall ceiling, you’d need lag bolts some 10 or 12 inches long to reach through the plate of the pole, 3/4" of drywall, 8 or 10 inches of floor system depending, 3/4" of subfloor and 1/2" of flooring.

I read thay Youtube is doing that with watch history so teens are watching videos about taxes, back pain, retirement benefits and such to appear old.

I’ve thought about that, actually. Could you use waste heat from a datacenter to, say, heat water for a laundromat or something?

Prusa was all in on open source for over a decade. All their machines up through the MK3S+ are GPL hardware, firmware and software. What did that get them as a company? A lot of people selling near identical copies of their hardware for lower prices. Prusa’s leaning away from open source hardware because it pretty much meant doing their competitors’ R&D for them. Hell, Bambu Labs relies on code developed at Prusa Research. So their ecosystem is closing up somewhat.

You are right, a big strength of Prusa’s is their mod ecosystem, their community. They are well aware of this, which is why they’ve come out with their OCL license. The Core One isn’t GPL, it’s OCL, source-available. It’s illegal for anyone to start making blatant copies, but the CAD files are there for reference when making mods and accessories.

Prusa’s MMU3 is in several ways superior to Bambu’s AMS: you get 5 spools, not 4. Retract-based tool changes are faster than purge-based ones. Retract-based tool changes are less wasteful than purge-based ones; Prusas don’t poop. And yet, Bambu finished the AMS, Prusa merely got the MMU3 working. Installing an MMU3 requires a fairly invasive modification to the Nextruder and a desk full of tubes and nonsense. I think Prusa’s going to catch up there with the INDX system with the MMU3 as basically a legacy product.

The market for “kinda polished, easy DIY 3d printing” is small and shrinking. I know because I’m in it, and us kit builders are small potatoes to them. Prusa is trying to position themselves in the professional and industrial sector; they’re releasing a “Pro” line of turnkey print farm and industrial solutions, they sell tungsten fill radiation shield filament and certified encrypted USB drives. I believe they are working on a self-hostable version of PrusaConnect, likely aimed at their higher end customers who are more likely to balk at using anyone’s cloud service. To that market, “We’re not Chinese” is Prusa’s biggest selling point.