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Cake day: May 19th, 2024

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  • Create the situation where there is nothing to do except reading.

    Make the time. Make an appointment with yourself. Put the books to the place where you plan to read them. Shut off everything else, computer, laptop, music. Don’t put a clock near you. It’s not about “getting through this chore”. Focus on reading. If it’s a room with a window, the rising and setting of the sun will give you enough of a clue how early or late it is.

    I just don’t feel attracted to those books.

    Boohoo. Do it.








  • impractical for an airplane

    Depending on how much effort you’re willing to put in, I would suggest switching material.

    Use fiber reinforced plastic.

    The process can be done at home, though you may need some practice. You can print the shape you want with a thicker wall thickness and then use that as a negative. You get the best results if you have a compressor and can use vaccum techniques to get the excess plastic out of the material. This will put you in the thickness space you want, and it will still work, and you don’t have warping problems.






  • Open Source and git mean this is basically a non issue. It’s just effort to manage it again.

    People can fork a pre… 2020? version if they insist and if it’s enough people who want that, they can group up again and form a new community.

    The problem AI slop coding is mostly the untested bullshit that causes problems. That’s not going to happen because I believe that a good bunch of stuff is thoroughly tested now, and also, this is maintainers doing it. If it doesn’t work, it’s their project, their career and their success on the line. And again, the worst possible outcome is that people have to roll back to an older version.

    The code we use is not art the same way that gen-ai replaces “real artists”. I agree with opposing that tech in that area, and I agree with rejecting unchecked, untested, hallucinated nonsense in coding too, especially when it promises new features in corpo software that you are forced to use, and then have that fail on you.

    But there will be a very normal selection process happening. If the process doesn’t work, the software will fail and lose users.

    I fully support the people who absolutely reject it though, that means diversity of approaches and that’s good.



  • I don’t know much about 3d printing, so disclaimer. The modern printers are very much built on open source so it shouldn’t matter too much which screen you use.

    I have also not done a firmware flash myself yet, but doing that sounds plausible to me.

    I can’t believe that was the only issue that made someone trash it.

    As you can see (and as you will see), it’s a bit tinkering leaning hobby, if someone doesn’t have the energy, patience, skill or motivation to learn, a broken part can be a major problem. I don’t think there are repair shops you can go to…




  • You are free to admit you like dictatorships, extreme policing and eradication of creativity and human emotion.

    If you look at the death star, see grey, white and black imperial uniforms, how terrified people are upon making a single mistake because those incur the death penalty, and the disregard for life, both of victims and their own troops, and you think “that’s a society I want to live in” there is really nothing left to say.

    It’s clean tho!! Can’t are argue with that, right?