I’m not OOP, we will continue using Gitlab for the foreseeable future. Our company recently switched from self-hosted to cloud hosted by Gitlab.

Oh no, a HFY story… They are kinda entertaining but filled with so much weird pathos and self-dirision. That “btw, religions suck” section was just so out of place.

Imagine that: Getting abducted by aliens, fighting and winning against some of the most dangerous aliens of the whole universe and when being interviewed about it, one of the first things he chooses to say about humanity is “btw, we have religion and it sucks”.

And these stories go on for all eternity. 97 long chapters.

That’s what you get when people on the level of fanfiction writers write original stories without any oversight by an editor.

In fact, yes. Not exactly for git itself, but for Gitlab, which does the git hosting for us.

Easy: Altman used ChatGPT to come up with his numbers.

And, tbh, it doesn’t even matter in this case that this was AI generated. If anyone snuck any worthless piece of crap painting into a into a museum without permission it would be removed. AI only contributed to this by making it even more low-effort.

Tbh, no Idea. I haven’t heard anything about the Flashforge one, so I can’t say anything about it. Maybe look for some reviews.

That’s the thing with science communication. It barely exists.

There is a bogus theory. Nobody tries replicating it for decades because there’s no fame in replication. Then someone finally does and disproves the theory. If the author is lucky, it gets published on the last pages of some low-level journal, because there’s even less fame in failed replication. But the general public doesn’t read journals. They don’t even read science journalism. They might read a short note in a daily newspaper that was twisted into unrecognizability by an underpaid, overworked journalist who didn’t understand a word in the article they read in some pop science magazine.

Science doesn’t reach the general public, and if it does against all odds, it’s so twisted and corrupted that it frequently says the opposite of what the original paper said.

People do their general education in school, and once they leave they stop learning general topics.

Depends on what you are doing. I’ve been 3D printing since 2017. I’ve had maybe 2 prints over that time that wouldn’t fit on the A1 Mini. Both of which were useless throwaway toys that I could have easily done without.

The thing with FDM is that print time and filament usage scales cubically with size. Double the size, 8x the print time and filament usage.

The sweet spot are parts that are a few cm into each direction. Below that the printer often doesn’t have enough detail, above that it takes forever to print.

“refurbished” is a word that might not mean anything either.

When buying your first printer you should first choose what you want: Do you want to print or do you want to tinker?

If you want to print, get a printer like the Bambulab a1 mini. If you want to tinker, an Ender 3 is ok.

If you want to really tinker a lot, get an used one.

But I really wouldn’t recommend getting an used printer for your first one since you don’t know how they have been treated and messed up.

If its your first printer I would not go for a second-hand one. There are so many ways you can subtly mess up a printer and if you don’t know your way around printers yet, then it’s quite hard to fix all that.

Considering you can get a Bambulab A1 mini which does everything out of the box and works better out of the box than an Ender 3 after months of upgrades.

Could be an artifact of the lighting but it looks like a lot of stringing inside the infill.

I already knew my way around blender before I got into 3D printing, so I used that ever since. It’s ok. It’s certainly no CAD tool. Parameterization would be great and if you use a fair bit of boolean modifiers without applying them (so you can edit parts later on) it does get laggy.

If you already know Blender it’s a decent choice to cut down on learning time, but if not I would not recommend it.

I used OpenSCAD quite a bit as well, which is the polar opposite of Blender. It’s perfect for parametrization and editing stuff later into the project is super easy, but the handling is really bad, even as a software developer.

The language has some evil quirks, like e.g. that the resolution of curved shapes isn’t a parameter of the function used to create the shape, but instead it uses a global variable. It clearly looks like a language designed by mathematicians.

Massive layer shift, but also the part before isn’t exactly great quality. I’d say crap or wet filament.

I’ve seen worse, but it ain’t exactly great either.

3/10.

It sure is. But as a backend dev I have no part of my code that has anything to do with accessibility. It doesn’t touch my work in any way. Nothing I do will make the app that I don’t work on more or less accessible.

Office supplies are also pretty important and I personally also do benefit from them. But still it would not be very helpful to me or anyone else if I, as a software developer, attend a daily meeting on restocking office supplies.

(Not sure if you have a software development background or not, just in case you don’t: Software is usually split into backend and frontend. Frontend are e.g. apps and website, backend are the servers. Stuff like user interface, user experience and accessibility are firmly frontend things, while the backend supplies business data to the frontends, e.g. user account information, order history, product listings and so on. You could say the backend is responsible for “what” to dislay and the frontend is responsible for “how” to display stuff. Stuff like user interface, user experience or accessibility are firmly frontend topics and backend has nothing to do with them.)

Revenue and profit are different things. In times of low interest it’s growth at all costs. Investors love market share and growth, because they expect to make money when they sell their shares. That’s risky, but with low, no, or even negative interest it’s still worth the risk.

When interest goes up, parking money in safe, interest-based forms of investment becomes more interesting, so to compete companies also need to lower the risk. In a climate like that investors want to make money via dividends, so companies need to maximize dividends and to do so they need to maximize profits. Growth, market share and future plans become less relevant.

That’s what we are seeing right now.

I’d love to see the results you come up with. What you are saying makes a ton of sense, but I don’t see an obvious solution for these problems.

The worst one for me is cable management. My PCs are laptops (one for work, one private one), and while I have them mostly on my desk (where I want the cables to be out of the way), I also frequently have to take them with me and I don’t want to disassemble my cable management system to get to the laptop charger. I also don’t want to have to buy a second charger for my laptop that doesn’t do USBC charging.

Tech is a field where there’s always infinite work to do, and it’s always only limited by the budget.

We had very low interest rates for over a decade, which made investments more profitable and thus there was always a ton of money to go around. The current financial downturn is the main reason of all the tech layoffs with no budget there are no jobs.

The upside of that: Even with all the talk of AI and stuff, once the interest rate goes down and investments go up, all the jobs will be back.

Depends on what you mean.

• Hibernation as animals do it is not really in the cards. Humans don’t do that.
• A medically-induced coma is easy, but it also offers no advantages over being awake, but instead it really accelerates muscle and bone loss, something that’s already a big issue in zero gravity.
• Freezing and rethawing without killing the person is very, very far from being viable. It’s actually quite far from a concept of a plan right now. We have no idea how (or even if) we could do this.

This. Being in a coma isn’t exactly healthy here on earth either and combining that with no gravity is a death sentence.

Did you try to clean your extruder gears?

Check the filament: Is the extruder gear biting too hard into it causing the gears to grind and slip? Is the extruder gear not biting enough into it causing it to not grip enough and slip? Are the extruder gears maybe worn down and don’t grip well anymore?

WIth all the things you did so far, I’m close to sure that your issue is with the extruder gears being dirty, worn or the extruder gear pressure being too weak or too strong.