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by abakker 6y ago
Without a stepper to hold the torque all the time, ballscrews will creep. The friction is too low. You could leave the ballscrew and just add a shaft locking clamp, or be fancy and drive it with an actual stepper motor.
572.
by abakker 6y ago
Self reply - I have contemplated swapping the cheap spindle for one that has an ISO20 tool change compatible spindle so you could swap bits from the top (and share tools with my CNC router). It seems very nice, but at this point is too much
573.
by abakker 6y ago
Or, go totally overkill and use what is essentially the Z axis from a CNC router, upside down, with the ballscrew replaced with a tight acme screw. And then use a cheap 1.5KW chinese spindle with an ER20 collet system. All the parts are des
574.
by abakker 6y ago
Because in the US, it is more and more common to run everything on 14ga wire. It’s just cheaper to run low end plugs most places. OTOH, in my workshop, I just got done running a 60A circuit at 220v for a welder. I wish I could have the same
575.
by abakker 6y ago
The jailbreak jokes will be great with that one.
576.
by abakker 6y ago
Or my personal favorites about the wait staff... Story time: I once read a one star review on a restaurant in Boston which boiled down to "waiter was black". I flagged the review and yelp got back to me that "they tried to in
577.
by abakker 6y ago
Monthly Recurring Revenue - aka subscriptions.
578.
by abakker 6y ago
I’m curious what the file types you get out of this system are? I’d very much like a 3D scanning solution that could accurately capture things like molding or other smaller architectural details. Is this system good enough on small parts?
579.
by abakker 6y ago
You put the KILLED in unskilled
580.
by abakker 6y ago
Dark Crystal was so good, too. It's a shame, but that format and that concept is always chasing a small audience. I'm sad we won't get a season 2, though.
581.
by abakker 6y ago
it just needs to be glued. most joints are fine in Ikea if everything is solidly glued and the fasteners they give you are just built-in clamps. Then it can be moved and used for years.
582.
by abakker 6y ago
this is especially relevant in places with short build seasons or bad weather.
583.
by abakker 6y ago
But, then we'd need to track users even more deeply, right?
584.
by abakker 6y ago
the CRT of Damocles just doesn't have the same ring to it.
585.
by abakker 6y ago
As far as integrated CAD/CAM, I've never seen anything as nice to use as Fusion on the OSS side. Honestly, I'll just end up paying. It pisses me off that they managed this so poorly, and even more that their pricing tiers inc
586.
by abakker 6y ago
I moved from SF to Boulder over the last weekend. At the end of my first day driving in Wendover UT, the smoke was still so thick we could look at the sun directly with no eye protection. It was just dull red. In Boulder, there is STILL a h
587.
by abakker 6y ago
There were fewer loans, by $ amount - https://research.collegeboard.org/trends/student-aid/figures...
588.
by abakker 6y ago
What are they moving to? Where is the data or transaction volume to support that the rest of the world except the US and EU are moving to alternative money?
589.
by abakker 6y ago
I always thought the real point was that there was more to maximization than calculus really leads you to. It is trivial to attempt simple maximization, but very hard when you want to find maximized profits given social pressure, preparedne
590.
by abakker 6y ago
It’s the load on parking, sewer, electric, gas lines, school districts, hospitals, etc. it all adds up, and if you recover all the costs from the permitting, then nobody will build. It is quite complicated.
591.
by abakker 6y ago
Right, this makes sense, because the "Artificial" part goes away once we have a fully understood algorithm. It's just part of intelligence to use algorithms when they work.
592.
by abakker 6y ago
I tend to agree that it is problematic to embed so much power into local governments. They are ill equipped to handled the research required to make those choices meaningfully. The smaller and poorer the towns, the less equipped they are to
593.
by abakker 6y ago
probably never, honestly. Many people still feel that the guard rails are bugs, not features and imagine that things like this will never happen.
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by abakker 6y ago
I think it is pretty easy to allow consistent viewpoints which hold that crack and copyrights are different things. But, yeah, I think we might find some common ground on legalizing drugs and treating addictions as medical conditions. banni
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by abakker 6y ago
that might be a great idea, except this thread started with the blanket statement that we should all just steal it, not invest at all. Maybe cultural investment can be coordinated, but until then, I think the solution should be for the dist
596.
by abakker 6y ago
You'd rather sacrifice someone else's jobs for your ideals? What a fair, well considered trade. The freedom you see to seem to be looking for here is freedom from consequences, not actual freedom. As always with the products other
597.
by abakker 6y ago
nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded. - Yogi Berra
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by abakker 6y ago
Absolutely, many drones do use Lidar. But, there probably aren't a million drones with high res Lidar in the world.
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by abakker 6y ago
Yes, for the most part. People who need specific tools can usually find and buy the tools they need. Enterprise software is often great for the generics of "doing work" and often quite poor at the specifics of doing important, nic
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by abakker 6y ago
That was kind of my point. CA just took the work away and replaced it with nothing.

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