Balanced take, but Prusa is very transparent about why their pricing is the way it is, and basically the answer there is that they try to keep an EU centric and ethical supply chain.

Anthropic is drawing a line in the sand protecting their model’s training sets from abuse.

Meanwhile OpenAI is down in a dungeon torturing GPT6 into writing academic mathematics papers.

Hitler got Time person of the year, which is supposedly based on impact, not really a value judgement on the person’s character.

But yeah they gave a prize to Kissinger and Arafat, that alone should be completely disqualifying.

I’ll argue for both. Electric cars for when cars are necessary (sometimes they are, especially outside the context of urban environs), electrified public transit for the other 80%.

Bloomfilters intentionally can have false positives but no false negatives. They’re great for searching over very large datasets as a quick and cheap way to drop lots of data from more expensive search operations.

We use a deterministic checksum for this so you know what you’re getting without ambiguity.

A netizen of culture.

I2P if you’re “just” doing some pirating.

I would never classify Python as my favorite language, but I really like the import system.

Fish has more baked in solutions to problems I have in ZSH that require plugins and hacking to get working somewhat properly. Specifically, much better command completion, configuration, and flexibility. The cost is that it’s a little heavier out of the box. The rust rewrite they did actually improved that massively though and seems to have gone well.

This is only true for a very limited amount of ice. Once ice cubes are fully submerged (and held under by more ice), the displacement rules change because ice is actually less dense than water, which is intuitive, because the ice floats.

https://calculatorcorp.com/ice-to-water-volume-calculator/

I also want to point out that the Wayland devs are, by and large, the exact same people as the X11 devs. These aren’t white monster fueled hotshots working for a FAANG with a massive case of Not Invented Here. The people who knew X11 best designed Wayland from the foundation up to be the better solution.

Well this was in the early pandemic, so there were no kits and a lot of the parts were intended for more industrial purposes. I think with shipping and tax around $2k USD for a 350mm.

These days kits bring the price down a ton and make the build much easier.

I like my hand built voron 2.4. I’m very proud I sourced the parts myself and used it to bootstrap itself.

Now if only I could learn to stop fucking with it and letting it work instead of the months of downtime when I need to fix or upgrade something 😅

Personally, to support a European manufacturer with a massive track record of giving a fuck.

Their history of open source software, technically sound hardware, and excellent support is extremely impressive, even outside the lens of 3d printing these are rare and valuable traits.

Ghost of Tsushima.

Yeah the utilities area is downright scary. Usually run on thin margins, really old specialists that are rapidly retiring, no IT budget to speak of, and most mission critical tech is 20+ years old, off the shelf from companies long dead, and loosely networked by people who’s objective was “make it work”, not security or resilience.

The only way out- electrical companies basically HAVE to become public like all the other utilities, and funding, wages, job training, and modernization for all utilities needs to be prioritized massively.

Of course, there’s lots of political reasons for idiots to fight against all this, so it won’t happen until the worst already has.

I really wish I knew what I posted to make the list, seems a good litmus test for my future posting…

Prusa undisputed #1 for their open and honest approach by reputable people who care, followed, in my opinion, by Snapmaker. Snapmaker is running Klipper with (mostly) open source stuff layered on top. They do have a few binary modules that run alongside, but overall an open ecosystem and a company that seems to thrive in it.

Sovol in third for me. They’re very much just following what other companies and the voron project are doing, but they haven’t fucked up too massively yet, basically open source software, and everything in the printer is commodity, off the shelf hardware.

Yeah couldn’t figure out how to add the filters to the URL. But yeah there are some promising ABS/ASA options!

Ah ha! We have a winner.

https://filamentfinder.thinkonezero.com/?c=0055bf