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The problem with traditional Websites is that search engines don't index them in a way that attracts visitors. I know this because my archaic, out-of-date, 34-year-old static-page Website https://arachnoid.com/ has no
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It's an example of modern tech capitalism: you buy a nifty consumer product, after which you don't own it, it owns you . The few exceptions to this rule are run by conscientious developers who make sure their products don't
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> How many of you are working in tech without a STEM degree? Many tech big names got by without a degree. Bill Gates. Mark Zuckerberg. Steve Jobs. Larry Ellison. After a short, successful career in aerospace engineering, I bought an Appl
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> I just saw a video on Reddit where a woman still managed to take a selfie while being literally face to face with a black bear. This is not uncommon. Bears aren't always tearing people apart, that's a movie trope with little
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This might not prevail in the world of tech, but in language studies, words mean what the majority of their users think they mean. Examples: * Decimated. How many of you know this means (or once meant) reduced by 1/10? * Litera
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Eventually people will separate interface from implementation, not unlike the now-disparaged OO programming paradigm. But not yet. This article discusses something well-known among insiders -- interface schemes frequently expire along with
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> [ ... ] by adding on-board PVs to cover less than 50% of the projected horizontal surface area of a typical mid-size vehicle (e.g., Toyota Camry or Nissan Leaf), up to 50% of total daily miles traveled by an average U.S. person could b
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> The problem is with 0.05 criterion. That's certainly one problem -- many have argued that it's too easy to meet this evidentiary standard, which explains why so many weak, non-replicable psychology papers get published. You c
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> I had never seen 'pc' used as a short hand for percent (%) until recently in an article (can't remember where), where they used 'pc' repeatedly. A couple of possibilities: * For plain-text content that mig
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> they say people felt 23pc less animosity. Assuming their measurements are okay, what would the statistical power of this experiment ? I dont think they report a null hypothesis. It's a psychology study, a study from a field whose
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> (One reason I stick to CW - being an asshole on there is too time consuming) ... --- / .. - / ... . . -- ... .-.-.-
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> In a recent series of experiments, we paid people a few dollars to unfollow the most divisive political accounts on X. This is instructive. It suggests that, unless they get paid, people aren't inclined to unfollow conversations
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Not the topic, but here's my favorite Larry Summers story. A while ago Summers was president of Harvard. During a speech he put forth a theory about why there seems to be more geniuses among men, in spite of the well-established fact t
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This alludes to a longstanding debate with no meaningful resolution. I can see and appreciate Michelangelo's "David", in one of its two best-known Italian renderings (not counting the one in Las Vegas), even though the sculpt
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"Rules of good writing", really? The article's title ironically commits a lexical gaffe by presenting its topic as a value instead of a choice. Whether the title draws more readers than "Rules of clear writing" is a
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> ... you seem to just assume that a Prusa requires "tinkering". I would have said "allows tinkering." Many Prusa buyers expect to be able to improve things by tinkering. It's more a philosophy than a necessity.
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> ... I was thinking "this is a PR disaster", because people are going to see the contrived, extreme ways this guy has fucked up his Prusa printer to illustrate his how-to and think it's representative of the printer that
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> Why does enclosed matter, though? I print mostly ABS filament, and during the winter here in Washington State, I could't make my printer room hot enough to avoid warped prints from my earlier unenclosed printer. This printed compl
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> What practical reasons are there to choose the Core One over an MK4S or vice-versa? The Core One has a Core-XY motion system, meaning the print bed doesn't have to move very fast during printing. This greatly speeds up typical pri
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> You mentioned you stripped one of the tensioners - does a screw thread into a 3d printed part? Sort of. A metal screw is threaded into a square nut that sits inside a 3D printed part. All good unless one gets to the end of the screw&#x
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You are most welcome! Because AI has taken over most low-level coding, I think more people will be looking for fulfillment outside tech. And thank you for your kind words. Link to my free book "Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor&quo
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Tuning the Prusa Core One(arachnoid.com)
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Learn how to set up and use the new Prusa printer. The article includes troubleshooting tips and example projects.
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Complete agreement. Here's a brief, practical action plan for Windows users: * Download all your data from Microsoft's "OneDrive" cloud storage, which if not disabled, is the default storage method in a new Windows i
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> ... The voice generators used by YouTube sound extremely robotic and are sometimes accelerated to 1.5 times the original speed This might only apply to German, notorious for requiring more syllables to convey a given idea than, say, Fr
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> A true shame that he went insane I assume you're referring to Stephen Wolfram, not Neil Sloane, but it seems many people would like clarification. As to Wolfram, assuming this is your focus, nothing undermines one's sanity as
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Ahh ... retro. The many ways by which the past beckons us. All right. Apropos the retro theme, here's a Web page dedicated to my Apple II program "Electric Duet": https://arachnoid.com/electric_duet/ The
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The universe's expansion, and a black hole's increase in mass over time, are unrelated phenomena. We could have one without the other. In fact, because of Hawking radiation, in the far future we might see a larger universe accompa
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> Or do you assert trees don't produce fruit in response to good growing conditions? That's correct -- it's not a response as that term is defined, indeed use of the word "response" implies a misunderstanding of

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