ExtremeDullard

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[–] ExtremeDullard 20 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 29 minutes ago) (1 children)

Mo' Gestapo-style shit.

ICE officers will be tried for human rights violations in a Nurenberg-style trial one day. They should remember that. Even the Nazis knew full well the law would catch up with them months before the end of the Reich.

If you work for the DHS, now would be a good time to resign and disassociate yourself with that criminal organization.

[–] ExtremeDullard 2 points 7 hours ago

Yeah, but we're well on our way to curing autism, or so I hear.

[–] ExtremeDullard 2 points 7 hours ago

It's a self-correcting problem: people who look at their phones instead of looking at the red light end up looking at daisies from underneath.

[–] ExtremeDullard 10 points 7 hours ago

Looks like Rupert Murdoch had a flare-up last night and called the WSJ's editorial board this morning...

[–] ExtremeDullard 5 points 8 hours ago

It gives me headaches because X applications I need don't work and there are no good Wayland alternatives, is what I meant.

[–] ExtremeDullard 2 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

The longer Mint doesn't get Wayland, the longer I won't get headaches.

[–] ExtremeDullard 22 points 9 hours ago

You need a brain to have a mental breakdown.

[–] ExtremeDullard 16 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The Trump regime doesn't care about court decisions anymore. Haven't you heard?

[–] ExtremeDullard 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

What to know about the funeral and burial of Pope Francis

His body will be moving in the X and Y directions for a while, then in the Z direction for about -6 ft. And then it will come to a complete stop.

[–] ExtremeDullard 6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

People always say that Volkswagen got free from its Nazi roots; I say, not while Hitler wore his brain on the inside.

You can't hold a grudge forever though. There came a time when none of Volkwagen's employees or officers were around during the 3rd Reich, and all of the assets dating back from that era got replaced completely, making the Volkswagen brand name the only carryover from the Hitler era.

My Dad used to go vacationing in Southern France way back when. When he was on the beach, he would scream and shout at older Germans, calling them Nazis and telling them to go home. But he never did that with younger Germans. When we kids asked him why he only hated older Germans so much, he told us "The kids who were born after the liberation didn't do anything. Why would I hate them?" - Made sense to us.

[–] ExtremeDullard 2 points 9 hours ago

Yeah you're right, it's not going to happen.

My point was, while your suggestion is indeed plausible, it won't save Tesla: would-be EV buyers who give Tesla a pass don't do it because Musk is on the board or runs the company, they do it because they don't want to give their money to a fucking Nazi.

 

The National Limb Loss Resource Center, part of the HHS-ACL (Administration for Community Living) is essentially the federally-funded arm of the Amputee Coalition to provide information and support to help amputees.

The National Limb Loss Resource Center receives $3.2m in federal grant. That's the cost of just two Tomahawk missiles. Unlike Tomahawk missiles, the National Limb Loss Resource Center improves the lives of millions of amputees.

Government efficiency indeed...

[–] ExtremeDullard 2 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I'm not: if he has shares, he gets to profit from Tesla's success. Worse: in your scenario, Tesla might do better and he might profit even more.

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Trump doesn't like separation of powers.

Isn't this shit what triggered the American Revolution?

 

I use i3. I have a machine coming that only work with Wayland, so I'll be installing Sway on it.

I know Sway is touted to be a drop-in replacement for i3, but the more I think about it, the more I wonder how much of this is true.

Like for example, all the key bindings use X11 keysym names. Or the window properties likes Class and Title are also X11-specific. Surely none of this applies to Wayland, correct?

 

TL;DR: doctor uses a method called hydrodissection on Ukrainian war amputees to alleviate post-amputation pain and phantom pain.

Apparently it's a simple and promising method that has potential for amputees the world over.

More about hydrodissection here:

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20250219/Hydrodissection-may-offer-hope-for-post-amputation-pain-relief.aspx

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Open Home Foundation (www.openhomefoundation.org)
 

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.

 

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 it, but I wonder if it's overly optimistic.

So I bunched up all the plates closer to the center of the bed and re-sliced, so the printer never prints less than ¼ inch from any one edge. Let's see what happens with that.

 

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 that too is unlikely. Still, I might have been careless.

Has anybody had this sort of thing happen before? This is the first time for me.

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