I have maybe a few hundred prints on Bambu Labs printers, and I've had fewer than 20 failures, pretty much all from bad design choices on my part. They have been quick, reliable workhorses that just spit out the parts I need.
I did have an issue with one of them having a warped bed, which caused bad adhesion on several prints, but I contacted support, they walked me through some debugging, then just sent me a new one. It seems that early on they had a manufacturer that was putting out warped beds that weren't caught in QC, but they've dropped the manufacturer. Maybe you got one of these warped beds as well? You can diagnose that with a straightedge, a ruler, and a flashlight.
Ah, you have a quote right above that line stating it is the firmware that is non-free; hardware isn't mentioned. You might want to edit your original post so it is consistent with what you are trying to communicate.
Prusa's big problem is that they stopped innovating. They plateaud on their current tech, and just made tiny incremental improvements, years apart. There was plenty of things they could have been working on, new technologies, massive speed increases, etc. Bambu Labs created a better product in all ways (but one; very hard to modify), and now there's just no reason to buy a Prusa. You'll be spending more for an objectively inferior product.
Honestly, as someone who's been in the 3d printing space for over a decade... Bambu Labs isn't a competitor to Prusa. There is no Prusa printer that is as fast, as reliable, produces the quality prints, as any printer from Bambu. I've used both extensively, the X1C since Kickstarter days, the Prusas for... just about ever. The only edge, the only objective property that Prusa holds over Bambu Labs is customization; Prusa gives away all the details you need to majorly modify their printers. Beyond that there just is no reason to buy a Prusa. Print quality on any of my Bambu printers was equal or better out of the box (minus one that had a warped bed, that was replaced for free) than any of my Prusa printers, even ones with extensive tuning. It's just a better product. Better design, better manufactur, better price, better quality output, better software (though I've migrated to Orcaslicer). Prusa has spent the last decade being the top of the pack, holding market share and stagnating. Now they've been dislodged, and I can't see any compelling reason for them to come back.
I think you're missing the point of that comment. Yes, you don't want to hire someone to a programming role if they have absolutely no skill or knowledge in the subject and "cannot we write a loop". But that will become quite clear during the interview regardless if you have them doing some leetcode challenge or not. The important part to me is whether they can function in the present team, whether they can employ problem solving skills in a positive way. Sure, let's whiteboard out a problem, show me how you think about it, how you approach it, what steps you take to disassemble it. But also, if you're stuck do you ask for help? Can you discuss the problem without having a solution ready, do you have ideas about how to research it, can you present paths to progress? These are the really important attributes, not "have you memorized this wacky algorithmic solution in the last two weeks". Pure whiteboard tests are just stupid, don't shed light on someone's potential, and carry a context that makes a lot of intelligent high potential individuals freeze up. They select for the wrong traits.
Fentanyl is administered daily by medical professionals in all sorts of situations. If "not understanding it's strength" is not what causes people to overdose on it, then why aren't millions of people dying from its administration in a medical setting?
There is a bill in the works right now to keep mutual funds and similar from just scooping up every house they can for rent, I imagine there are very few actions that could make more of a difference.
Question: how do you know that this third party is both well-regarded and neutral?
Answer: Read a detailed review from a well-regarded neutral party that conducts laboratory reviews.
Just a small example of why the entire mentality behind "being responsible for our own outcomes" is utter bullshit. You want to be responsible for all your own outcomes, go live on an island by yourself. The rest of us live in a complex society where everyone is interdependent, and where strong governance over the things we depend on for survival is extremely important.
Are not the police conspiring to break the law then, at the very least? If I intimidated you into breaking the law, while armed, would I not also be culpable? The more I think about this, the more it seems the police should be the only ones culpable in that situation...
Yeah, I have expectations... of the police. In most large cities, this is a guaranteed six figure income, with basically no education requirements. They are literally given an "above the law" status via qualified immunity. If they intimidate someone into doing something illegal, like giving up patient information, they should be culpable. Do not punish the weakest person in the power struggle, they are nearly always the victim.
It's redundancy. Yes, the doctor will check all this prior to prescription, but doctors can and will make mistakes. Having a secondary layer checking as well is going to save a whole lot of lives.
Well, we've spoiled our police force. We've provided them with ridiculous amounts of power, minimal oversight, and very rare and minor consequences.
The behavior you describe is that of a spoiled child, used to getting what it wants immediately by throwing an abusive tantrum, consequences to others and rules be damned. Same reason they execute PIT maneuvers on busy roads, lead high speed chases through the middle of towns, and empty full magazines into densely populated areas, all things that police in other countries are trained not to do, trained to be patient and follow instead. They want it now, and anyone hurt along the way is just a casualty of war, not their problem or responsibility.
Or perhaps the issue is law enforcement criminally intimidating these pharmacists and clerks. Seems they are the only ones that aren't held to any standard.
>the fact that you're not allowed to access the basic necessities of life if you don't allow yourself to be exploited for profit.
This is the underpinning of capitalism. Some people speculate that denying basic necessities is the only way to ensure that common people will be productive enough to make the wealthy people wealthier.
You're assuming an absolute. If none of the fish had moved to fresher water, I imagine there'd be a lot more fish washing ashore. If all of the fish had moved to fresher water, there would be no fish washing ashore. Also, abnormal ocean currents have caused this before.
It probably depends on the weather station. The cycle time on those pressure sensors can be ridiculously high and still give decent results; you really only need one measurement per minute. But that should be just one firmware patch away from being a solved problem.
Doppler radar systems can detect airflow vectors in arbitrarily large areas, so I imagine that we have the tech for that portion, but I too am concerned about trying to take something with that large a mass and surface area and counteract turbulent forces with it. That's also going to stress the airframe and avionics, cause maintenance schedule changes, etc...
Because you want it to behave differently than it does? It seems you are the one who wants things different, are complaining because they are not. Lucky for you, this is open source, and you can go ahead and fork it and change what you don't like!
And unfortunately, judges are the only legal entity empowered to use their intuition for legal decision making. Sentencing is a good example; judges can kinda just decide sentences based on feel. Just throw some number out there.
And that is supported by the known past actions of "some government authorities". This is definitely not the first time the US government has deliberately sabotaged crypto.
This is analogous to physical security doors. They are considered passive security, since they are a deterrent, and are rated by the numbers of hours they are expected to hold up against hand tools.
Ah I see, I thought the parent poster meant malice on the part of Mozilla, got confused by bouncing between comment threads. I could see malice, since it is Microsoft, but what's the "why" of it? I don't really see any motivation that M$ would have to block Mozilla, all it's going to do is piss off users. It's not like people are gonna get fed up and switch to Edge, they'll get fed up and switch to Chrome. If anything, M$ has a great incentive to improve Firefox adoption. The market that uses FF is the same market that is never going to choose Edge. FF and Edge both have a much better position if they can damage Chrome's market share.
Honestly, the singularly wonderful thing about purchasing a home is that you can do whatever you want with it. The sky is the limit, you can make the yard into a garden, build a pizza oven into your wall, turn the basement into a gaming pad. You did all of those cool things with it!
Now, don't begrudge the people coming after you for doing the same. It's their house, not yours, and they have the chance to make it how they like it. If you want control over a thing, don't sell it. Similarly, if you want to dictate what your employees do during non work hours, you have to pay them for it. You treat something as a commodity, and it becomes a commodity.