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by Ccecil 1y ago
Every now and again when the time seems right I message people who have helped me. Especially in the opensource world which can be incredibly hostile to the devs. Just say "thank you for your work". More than once the reply has
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by Ccecil 1y ago
Not that I totally disagree with your statement but one part.... I live in a very red state (North Idaho). They don't need to send ICE here. The sheriffs are all cooperating and lending county facilities to hold immigrants. It is sa
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by Ccecil 1y ago
My expert machinist friend (mold/tool maker) calls it "couch machining". It appears like he isn't working but really in his head he is laying out the entire process from start to finish. Then when he goes to CAM it up
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by Ccecil 1y ago
This time around they don't even need to burn the books. Just shut off internet access.
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by Ccecil 1y ago
The Reuseum in Garden City, ID https://www.reuseum.com/
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by Ccecil 1y ago
My Grandparents, mother and a couple of the older aunts lived in Rodger Young Village [1] when they first moved from Pennsylvania to Southern California just after the war. My grandparents picked strawberries until they could find "pr
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by Ccecil 1y ago
Pressure advance has been around for at least a decade with many people using it. I would say the biggest gain for the newer (cheaper) printers have is the input shaping and resonance tuning. This allowed for running higher accels/spe
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by Ccecil 1y ago
I'll start out by saying that the article seemed to cover most/all of the areas I would advise people tune around...great work to the OP. About a decade ago I was pushing for more "designing for 3d printing" classes, not
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by Ccecil 1y ago
I've learned through the years that I can't stop for every car with it's hood open. Sometimes you just need to use it as a reminder to maintain your own vehicle.
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by Ccecil 1y ago
"In 1979 the Iranian regime imprisoned two of Perot's EDS employees. Perot asked Bush, who was then Director of the CIA, to get them out" Most interesting part of that story is that once the government failed to help he organ
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by Ccecil 1y ago
And that is how the new Batman got his Spiderman backstory...
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by Ccecil 2y ago
Market prices are based on whatever number the investor decides to make up. Whether it be another investor or a website telling them to do so. There is no basis in reality. The "housing shortage" is really an "affordable hou
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by Ccecil 2y ago
Setting rental rates at 30% of median or average income for the area is the wrong way to think about it. Setting rental rates at 30% of "What the average renter makes" is more reasonable. This is the issue. There is no "what
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by Ccecil 2y ago
Unless someone decides to increase your rent by 75%.
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by Ccecil 2y ago
I have been wondering lately why the focus is on automating things like cab drivers, food service, even programmers...but the middlemen like this are still running strong. Back in the mid 2000s I watched my friend use flexmls exclusively an
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by Ccecil 2y ago
It is mostly cosmetic. (Lowers property values in the eyes of the investor) In my case it would be 2 lease violations since simply putting up a line would be a second violation for doing "unapproved work". Lease agreements are a
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by Ccecil 2y ago
Also, quite a few lease agreements I have had place restrictions on it.
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by Ccecil 2y ago
Finishing the feeder "hack" to my pick and place machine [1] so that I can begin full retail production in house of the V2 Smoothieboard CNC controller [2]. As well as finishing shipping the remaining boards to the kickstarter bac
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by Ccecil 2y ago
Schools and libraries too. In my state (Idaho) there "seems" to be a big push to defund and disrupt the local school systems, libraries [1] and community college board of trustees [2]. There is also legislation that keeps attempt
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by Ccecil 2y ago
Second that... I remember driving up the main highway into Paradise, CA and saying to myself "if there is a fire here...anyone on this highway is screwed". Fast forward less than 10 years and I was watching the news reports of pe
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by Ccecil 2y ago
In the US I have heard it referred to as "bailing wire". Often used for an emergency or temporary fix.
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by Ccecil 2y ago
I am going to venture a guess... They have access to all the data. Streamline/reform existing systems means train AI on the data.
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by Ccecil 2y ago
You mean like when Bambu issues a firmware update remotely and many printers which were sitting idle just start printing without being commanded by the user? [1] I personally do not want my printer connected to any vendor's server in a
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by Ccecil 2y ago
The "evacuation route" and crossbars guiding you through can be seen (at least last time I looked) in Umatilla, OR. US Army chemical weapons depot...they are disposing of some nasty stuff there. If there is a leak they shut down
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by Ccecil 2y ago
With lead free use SAC305 with "no clean" flux (I prefer the name "low solids"...since you still need to clean it). For leaded Kester44 is my favorite. Set the iron temp to the datasheet of the solder...then never touch
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by Ccecil 2y ago
I am not sure about that particular car but some cars have a electrically switched valve on the power steering pump which lowers the pressure for higher speed travel (less responsive). You may be able to get "some" control just by
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by Ccecil 2y ago
Back around 2004 a friend of mine worked at a car dealership in the Bronx that sold high end used cars. They were putting GPS trackers in all of the cars they financed so they could repossess them when the customer didn't make their p
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by Ccecil 2y ago
I used to use fusion for many years. Recently I transitioned to freecad. There was a bit of a learning curve since it is more constraint based than fusion requires. Once freecad 1.0 came out for prerelease use I started using that instead
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by Ccecil 2y ago
From the article under "Manufacturing plan"- "We will outsource PCB fabrication and assembly to PCBWay and handle final programming and testing ourselves, here in Cambridge UK. We have developed a programming jig, along with
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by Ccecil 2y ago
I knew a man who grew up in the depression. One thing he said that stuck with me was that they had one pair of shoes...and they were for winter only.

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