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by eropple 3y ago
I can say that the FoxAlien kits are pretty okay? But I really needed something 24" x 24", and I will not recommend this one (I think the company that makes it is gone, even).
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by eropple 3y ago
Middle-class taxpayers doing payola marketing for very large companies to poison the well towards other middle-class taxpayers, yes. Nobody thinks a movie is a representative endorsement or review. There is no such distinction for content c
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by eropple 3y ago
I don't. ;) I have regrets.
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by eropple 3y ago
FWIW I don't feel comfortable using their cloud stuff either, and I'm buying one. They do, however, have a SD card and a LAN-only option.
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by eropple 3y ago
I disagree on one point: the Bambu extruder's TPU performance isn't great. It's usable, but I'm keeping my Neptune 3 Plus around specifically because its extruder and hotend do an excellent job on flexibles.
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by eropple 3y ago
Bambu Studio is open-source and available on GitHub. Prusa complains that it's hard to upstream, yes--but when you look at Prusa's GPL'd firmware for their printers, that's even harder to upstream . They don't even
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by eropple 3y ago
Patents, yes. Deployed patents, not to date. I have only marginal sympathy for Prusa when they aren't shipping things people want to buy .
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by eropple 3y ago
Prusa's primary opponent in this space would be Bambu--who, to be clear, are rattling their saber about patents, and they suck for that. They also have a better, faster printer that has its full feature set available on release, and
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by eropple 3y ago
So...the thing is, the real competitors to the Prusa i3 printers are open-source. Like, actually. The Sovol SV06 is a Chinese printer very clearly based on the Prusa i3 heritage. It's an excellent alternative to the MK3S+ and the fir
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by eropple 3y ago
I used to use Tree Style Tabs, but I moved to Sidebery a couple years ago and I'm pretty happy with it. Now somebody else can inform me about the newest one.
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by eropple 3y ago
> Blitzscaling means growing quickly. Blitzscaling , when dressed up by the VC class, is more along the lines of "prioritizing growth over efficiency". And all the halo projects from its advocates pretended or are pretending
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by eropple 3y ago
I used the term dumping specifically, because (to my understanding, and hectored at by an econ professor once who made it stick) it refers to trade out-of-your-home-market rather than purely "international trade"--and what 'h
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by eropple 3y ago
That they got away with the term "blitzscaling" still offends me. We had a plenty-adequate term for it before: dumping . When your business model is "profit margins are for after we've killed or neutered all competitors
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by eropple 3y ago
Wood dust is absolutely not something to mess with. Chips - what most people think of as "sawdust" - aren't the scary part. The scary part is the too-small-to-see stuff that has a physical structure remarkably similar to a
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by eropple 3y ago
That's not true, though; JSX can be entirely prerendered server-side. If you don't write client-side JavaScript, you're not going to get client-side JavaScript (modulo maybe a thin hydration layer if you're using par
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by eropple 3y ago
"Well they could do things to harm themselves [because we treat non-profit employees like they implicitly have a wealthy spouse or should live in a shoebox]" is also not helping the argument very much. One does not need to be a St
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by eropple 3y ago
"Hmm, you raise systemic concerns yet you use the system because you live in a society enmeshed in it" is not a winning argument.
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by eropple 3y ago
> It's been such a consistent problem for so long that it has shades of the Phoebus cartel about it. Which wasn't what the general public thinks it is and, much like equating short-run in-device transports with lossy, room-di
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by eropple 3y ago
Sure, of course you can in some contexts and with many asterisks (though in PHP it is literally text munging and that's what you get). But even, granting your correction: in the CF example you're writing representation and logic
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by eropple 3y ago
You totally can, but for my money that's kinda not great. Because HTML isn't your "templating language", PHP et al are, and you aren't templating around the DOM with typed objects, you're templating around tex
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by eropple 3y ago
Agreed--it ignores that JSX, even baked statically, was a pretty nontrivial life improvement for front-end development because you got to get away from text manipulation as a first-class citizen.
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by eropple 3y ago
I wouldn't consider myself a frontend developer--I've run infra teams, built backends, built desktop applications, all that too--and I'd definitely agree with that. There's a lot of strange smugfacing about using fit-for
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by eropple 3y ago
It's more than that: you can just call methods in ReactDOMServer to get a DOM tree. The tools to wrap this vary widely; you can use Gatsby (ehh) or NextJS (yeah!) to do it if you want a full-featured framework around all of it, you can
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by eropple 3y ago
React is completely happy to spit out a DOM tree as HTML for you; wiring up the in-browser JavaScript side of React is optional. This is how static site generators like Gatsby or NextJS work (with some hacks that as a user you don't re
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by eropple 3y ago
That doesn't really parse. React as a thing is some pretty thin DOM manipulation and some helper stuff. Are you thinking of something like Next or some all-in React+Redux stack?
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by eropple 3y ago
"What they mean" isn't correct or reasonable and is largely part of the same grumbling groupthink that willfully refuses to come to grips with the realities of the tools they've decided they don't like. React is not
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by eropple 3y ago
"A convoluted SPA" is fully orthogonal to React. If you're making a blog into a SPA, that's a you problem. It's been possible (and recommended for many things!) to just bake a static website with React and use JSX a
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by eropple 3y ago
> If Affinity was just slightly better at parsing existing Adobe files, no one would need to pay for Adobe products anymore. Maybe for Illustrator. After Effects doesn't really have a great competitor and the integration with Prem
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by eropple 3y ago
"What's wrong with a website" is that it is not part of a relevance-curated, pushed feed that people are already using . If you look at pre-idiot-king Twitter, when there's an earthquake it fills up with comments abou
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by eropple 3y ago
Unfortunately: yeah, probably.

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