IdiotSavage

Definitely.

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But can you show me a "top of the range" product? Not Ikea's top range, but "high end" in the common sense.

The point was to show that machines can produce knifes with precision. The other commenter stated that "CNC can't do the tolerances needed behind the apex.", whatever that means exactly.

Are you talking about a chef's knife? If well done, I see no reason why it should be any worse than a high end knife made by a skilled human.

Have a look at this if you're interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5lq2d-03T0

They have "bottom of the barrel" and slightly better quality products. But the better products are nowhere near the (top) end of the range.

> Goods are usually (although not always) inferior when made by a machine.

This is only true in the beginning, when machines are still primitive (e.g. first automatic looms). Nowadays machines mostly yield much better quality than any human can produce (e.g. automated welding, anything CNC controlled). Many things are only possible to build with machines (e.g. semiconductors).

> A hand-crafted solid wood table is still superior to something from Ikea.

This is by choice. Ikea chooses to produce the cheapest furniture possible, using cheap, crappy materials. Other manufacturers still produce high quality furniture, which is much more expensive.

They all seem to be single nozzle.

The upcoming INDX looks promising. But I can't see how Prusa solves the "dust and moisture" problem. They don't have something like Bambu Lab's AMS, do they?

Same problem with the Snapmaker U1.

Edit: the Snapmaker U1 also seems to have an open top, which is problematic for ABS, I assume.

I have a problem:

I'm in the market for a new 3D printer. My old Ultimaker 2 is still going strong, but it's from a different generation and doesn't fit my needs anymore. Looking purely at features, I really want a Bambu Lab X2D. However I hate what that company is doing, don't want to give them my money and don't want to lock myself into their increasingly locked down ecosystem.

Features I want:

- 2 nozzles (print parts with a different support material or a combination of solid and TPU)

- make simple 2-color prints without manual intervention (to add labels on parts, only a few layers require two colors)

- hassle-free filament storage (protected from dust and moisture, multiple spools ready to print at all times)

- a choice of different nozzles (e.g. 0.8 mm) which can be swapped easily

- able to print ABS reliably (or another material that is more heat resistant than PLA), the Ultimaker 2 with its open chamber is not good at this (parts lift off and warp)

- hassle-free operation (no tinkering)

Don't need:

- cloud stuff (I print everything locally, my own models)

What should I buy?

Amaze!

> I am wearing a T-shirt right now in fact that was advertised to me a week or two ago as "on sale" for £8 (eight) and which I clicked through and purchased.

This means the ad was effective. But was it useful to you? Did it save you from having to look for it yourself?

If you were not thinking something like "I need a certain T-shirt" before this came up, it's likely the ad created a desire in your mind which you didn't have. You got manipulated successfully by the advertiser.

With AirSane [1], you can make scanners integrate nicely with macOS. This page [2] has a writeup (in German) how to set it up on a RaspberryPi. On non-macOS devices you can still use the web interface, as demonstrated by the "yes-we-scan" app.

[1] https://github.com/SimulPiscator/AirSane

[2] https://archive.ph/1D2EQ

As an outsider, trying to make some UI/UX changes in old open source projects is often extremely energy consuming and difficult. You have to convince all the old hands, who feel it's their project (maybe rightfully so) that the changes are good for new users. Old users will mostly fight any change (don't want to relearn). Many discussions end with "maybe let's make this a setting?". This leads to crappy software with bad defaults, way too many options and nobody will ever use the new settings.

Even though I have a background in UX design, I'm not cut out for this kind of open source work. I've tried.

> Do you remember that foolish Windows-Themes on Linux? Luckily GNOME has killed custom theming.

In what way has GNOME killed theming? There are lots of themes available on [1] and some of the most downloaded ones are consistently imitations of the latest macOS or Windows style.

[1] https://www.gnome-look.org/browse?cat=135&ord=rating

Graphically perfect, but content-wise nonsense. The pelican's center of gravity is clearly behind the wheel. It needs to be above or very slightly ahead of the wheel.

Guys, this is not replacing your favorite station, you don't have to listen to it. It's an experiment.

If you scroll down a bit, there are various audio snippets of interesting dialogue the models produced. I think it's interesting to see in which ways the models fail and that they actually produce some good stuff once in a while.

... stopped on a railroad track.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/waymo-trai...

Do they have the Makita coffee maker?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xOEIpbxM4w

Isn't the promise that once all vehicles are autonomous, traffic will flow much more efficient, cars weaving through intersections at high speed etc.? They can't even get it working with a fleet of their own cars, driving slowly on what's basically a roundabout.

Soon: ads on your HUD while you wait in traffic.

The Sixties where the time!

in the office: https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/14040813590...

in university: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1315981/mediaviewer/rm154904524...

in airplanes: https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/15032513024...

Or set network.http.referer.spoofSource to true.

So, basically you need to micro-manage it. Where are your 10x gains now? And is it fun to work like that?

Yes, there are some YouTube-manufactured issues. However it bothers me more when I try to watch a 21:9 video fullscreen on my 21:9 display and get black bars on all four sides.

YouTube, as well as any decent player, plays any aspect ratio video, even portrait mode.

As an uploader you should never add black bars (if they are in the source, crop them out before uploading) and of course never distort the video. This ensures the best playback experience for all devices.

This is cool. I would totally use this if I had a SoundTouch speaker. My mother has one at home – unfortunately there's no way to run a local server.

Annoying design choice by Bose, that the speaker even needs a server for the presets. I don't see why it couldn't just save a URL for each preset. Press the button and it starts streaming from that URL.

Edit: Seems like a workaround for that is already in the works :)

https://github.com/gesellix/Bose-SoundTouch/issues/196

I just found a new(?) setting in Firefox, to spoof the Referer header, instead of omitting it. Will try that for a while and see how it works.

  about:config -> network.http.referer.spoofSource

> Where you were before

> news.ycombinator.com

This has always bothered me the most. I disabled the 'Referer' header once, but it breaks many websites.

Yes, this is exactly the kind of prompt I often see. Then you have stuff like "8k resolution". WTF? The output is fixed anyway.