jacquesm

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by jacquesm 6mo ago
You could have seen this coming a mile away. So far I have gotten away with never uploading my ID and/or interacting with one of those companies (though one idiot working for some VC thought it was ok to sign a document on my behalf by
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
Anything to avoid taking responsibility...
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
That's true, but that could be just his choice of printer. I've got a prusa that has done 100 km of filament (ok, it is the oldest one) and 50 bambus, the bambus are insanely reliable. Agreed that stuff shouldn't be breaking
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
Yes, and that's precisely why that one works, he's got the numbers figured out. Still, six figure income, but what is the margin? Looks very good though. And: very, very hard to injection mold that product (internal structure is s
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
- design time earned about $25/hour - $3666 total revenue - $3352 in expenses - ~50 orders fulfilled - ~3000 hours of logged print time. This tells the whole story... these numbers are so far off from what they should be that this is n
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
Of course it does, that's an ideal usecase. But the topic is a different kettle of fish. And I'm saying that as a complete fan of Erlang, it is one of the few pieces of software 'done right' that I'm aware of. Unfor
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
I'm going to try to figure out how to make my websites as easy as possible to peruse for humans while making it as hard as possible to do the same for agents. There should be some way make the bots pay a price of admission while keepin
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
Yes, it's absolutely amazing. But I'm intimately familiar with how the Erlang VM works and it would seem to me to be a very bad match for HPC on the number crunching side, though it likely would do quite well on the orchestration
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
That will never happen. The overhead is massive.
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
I believe I gave two options, one for more in-depth learning and one for appliance style use. As for the P1S: it is not nearly as well engineered as the A1s, and the firmware absolutely sucks. It also takes forever to get started on a print
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
You're not seriously trying to help.
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
FUD. Every inverter currently on the market immediately drops the connection if the grid isn't present, there is absolutely no way this could happen with these puny inverters.
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
It may well be in reduced AC bill as well due to increased reflectivity.
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
Oh, it only gets better. Thank you so much. If you ever get to the point where you have something ready to order please drop me a line (mail in profile) and I'll buy one set to evaluate and if it works well I will get some more people
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
I absolutely love your project and I hope it will become a breakout success. It has all the right components for a computing environment that is not controlled. Have you thought about RISC-V implementations of the kernel as well (iirc you&#
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
I've put 10's of thousands of hours on MK3s and the PINDA works fine as long as it is mounted well (which isn't always the case) and set to the right height relative to the nozzle. The automatic calibration routine - on a wel
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
The MK3 does automatic Z leveling. The MK4 is nice but a lot more expensive even today.
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
Gah and here I was thinking I'm on hackernews rather than 'appliances are us'. Sorry, I got the audience mixed up ;)
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
I print a couple of tons every year and I would not be able to do that without the knowledge required to operate a farm reliably and productively. Yes, they're tools, but like all tools it helps to know what you're doing. If I han
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
For $300 you can get an A1 mini and it's a pretty solidly engineered printer. We're running them until they break. But they don't break...
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
Get an old Prusa MKIII and stick a Revo in there, then learn everything there is to know about 3D printing without spending a fortune or getting locked in. Once you have processed a couple of rolls of filament you'll be much wiser abo
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
And just as dangerous: 50 employees. Because quite frequently these 50 employee companies have responsibilities that they can not begin to assume on the budgets that they have. Some business can really only be operated responsibly above a c
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
Because some of these are clear choices, others are not. You can be critical of Israel and I'm fine with that - and I'm plenty critical of Israel myself. But to say 'Most Jews are lunatics' is absolutely beyond the pale.
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
I'm upset at lots of things. For instance that you are still on this website after posting this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743276 But then again, we get anti Islam posts by prominent HN'ers as well so
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
No, it just replaces one vector with another.
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
Ok, so it's a bullshit comment. Thank you. You could say this about everything that is not 'Planck length', it's about as useful as Douglas Adams' 'the universe is empty' (only he had a sense of humor). Oh
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
I really can't follow your comment and I've been trying. Would you mind a longer explanation of what you're getting at here?
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
Have I got news for you: https://www.rp-photonics.com/phase_modulators.html
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
And the clean environment as a whole. That's a massive investment and there are a million ways to mess that up.
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
And because it is surprisingly difficult to distinguish between 'oops' and 'malice' a lot of the actual perps get away with it too, as long as they limit their involvement. In-house threats are an under appreciated - and

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