morbidcactus

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Terminal usage is a tool just like GUI tools, I don't think it's helpful either to preload people with the belief that it's some arcane tool that takes years before you can start using it, like anything you pick it up by doing.

Can't really say it's 100% optional as a blanket case either, heavily depends on a user, my work I've depended on having a terminal for years, and that was even before I moved into SWE, I've seen lots of business developed processes put together as an amalgam of batch files, VBA/VBS, and python because they needed to put something together with what they had rights to.

Be honest that I don't see the terminal as a barrier to Linux anyhow, for the use case of "I browse the internet and use office programs", you absolutely do not need to drop to the CLI, at least not for Debian or Mint, can handle installs and updates through their graphical package managers. Most people probably aren't setting up services or the like on their machines, and if they are they already require terminal usage on any operating system.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

I've found it varies from manufacturer to manufacturer as well as colour, some of the petg I've got has been chilling in my cabinet in the garage for at least 1 summer and it prints fine, just some stringing, other spools they're a mess right out the bag. Still worth drying filament, but more so stuff like nylon which is extremely hygroscopic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Didn't Kripke intend for that to end after season 5?

I've tried, think I made as 10.5, first 5 are legitimately excellent though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

I've used Thunderbird since forever as my go-to client, I used mutt as well for a while and that met my needs pretty well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Mmmm, yeah that sucks, that first block I mentioned was an older style that wasn't fixed in place and I must have twisted it accidentally after a nozzle change, super slow leak just enveloped the thing, didn't help there either!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Let's say that a referendum passed, how would that even work? Found this Supreme Court remark from Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin in 2014 when I was searching around for an answer of "is that even possible?", apparently the Feds referred that question to the scoc during the Quebec referendums in the 90s, (see section 5) and the answer seems to be, certainly not unilaterally (I'll read this in detail when I have a chance). The also touch on treaty rights which is my question as well, Alberta is like all treaty land, how would the indigenous land rights be handled? On top of that, as far as I recall there's a tonne of crown land in Alberta, again, how would that be handled?

I don't have answers to these, just something I think about when these rumblings come up. I have my doubts about the actual popularity of an Alberta sovereignty movement, and frankly Canada is stronger with them than without, like with Québec it would be a loss to the federation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

i was thinking along those lines for equipment monitoring stuff, klipper works with Prometheus & grafana (have metrics from my printers), was thinking about looking at using the extra accelerometers I have to do something like vibration monitoring.

I could see using a second sbc for extra sensors as well for support, thinking about printers that don't run klipper, so long as you can correlate data it should still be useful. Honestly kinda thinking something similar to PLC data, was fantastic for fault finding and failure investigations, also useful for process control + condition based maintenance, there's a heck of a lot that could be done with it.

Edit: You have me thinking about this now, what would be really cool is an ability to anonymously federate data tied to events, I recall some enterprise software I used like 5-6 years ago could do this with condition indicators, I have 2 machines, I won't see every failure mode, but if we had 1000 machines you can get much more accurate information about things like MTBF. Heck I'd even just be happy with some community FMEAs, really just thinking of taking a technical approach to my printer maintenance and usage.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

What type of filament? Acetone doesn't do much to things like pla or petg, stuff that works aren't things you generally want around the house, industrial solvents and stuff. The jar of acetone can soften it up some but you'll need to soak for some time, I've used MEK too, but that's in the "don't keep that at home" category, it's really flammable and should use ppe (I mean should use ppe for a lot of the stuff we use, 99% IPA is harsh on your skin, I use nitriles because it irritates my hands something fierce.)

Cold pull as others recommended, nozzles are consumables, def should keep some around. Cleaning filament works pretty well in my experience if you have a partial clog.

I've been there though, first block I didn't use a sock and the set screws got encased in degraded petg, I ended up scrapping it and putting it on the shelf as a learning moment, def recommend a sock if you don't have, it's saved me a lot of grief.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Canadian polls have historically been fairly on it, 338 maintains a rating for each election. Helps as well that we do have a fundamentally different system being a Westminster style parliament, national aggregates are nice but your riding is the one you should pay the most attention to.

And always, yeah, vote, early if possible, it's super easy to vote in Canada. Linking how to vote specifically for unhoused people as it also has information for how to vote without id.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I'd be totally interested to see how those work, what sensors did you grab?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Seen this clip from some american fundie podcast that was... a choice.

This person was asked something like, if you could have world peace, but all governments become socialist, would you do it? They said no and fucking justified their answer with a partial quote from something like Deuteronomy 15:7-11, claiming that well the bible says there'll always be the poor so socialism is actually bad because of that, and a quick search to see if I could find it there's a lot of stuff echoing the same stuff, that socialism is unbiblical etc.

What the actual fuck is wrong with these people? I'm irreligious but was raised Christian, this is so vehemently counter to my understanding of Christian teachings (the flavour of which I was raised has atheist ministers so there's that), which was more or less, raise everyone up, accept everyone for who they are, help people, don't turn a blind eye to injustice and like just be decent to each other. Was this podcast prosperity doctrine shit or something else because yeah wow, it's honestly sinister to me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I kinda hate they don't put error bars on the chart, it's statistical noise that's likely all within the MoE.

Like in statistical process stuff, you can't say there's a trend from a singular data point, western electric rules for example, if you saw multiple consecutive data points and/or large swings maybe you could conclude a trend, but as it stands yeah nah no change.

 

Experts say that Hudson's Bay had been in decline long before then, some tracing its issues back to its 2008 acquisition by the American investment firm NRDC Equity Partners, and saying that the company's new ownership prioritized its real estate over a cohesive retail strategy.

Emphasis mine.

 

I was joking about a Trudeau/Brazeau charity match against Trump/Musk the other day.

 

Figured I'd contribute with resources I've used and found really solid, not everything is made in Canada but all are Canadian businesses with fantastic customer service.

Filament

  • Matter3D Langford BC based manufacturer, they make some solid quality filament and promote themselves as engineering grade material. Their abs has low odor, petg prints really well, haven't tried their nylon yet but I have a few spools to work with. Their prices are extremely reasonable and they have regular sales, my go to supplier

Parts, kits, etc.

  • Spool3D Calgary AB based store, Canada wide through canpost for free over $140. I live in Ontario, but most of my purchases are from them, solid selection of material, parts and accessories. My voron was sourced with parts 90% from here, they also have solid filament, sell garolite sheets too for a build surface (trying to move away from using builtak, they're a solid product but I won't be buying American for the foreseeable future)
  • 3d lab tech another in Calgary, the other 10% of my voron came from here. Lots of kits and high quality parts, highly recommend, extremely responsive too and they constantly have new, interesting stuff.
  • Sparta 3D Brampton Ontario based, again, lots of kits and high quality parts, have quality filter carbon as well if you're looking for a good Canadian supplier of acid-free material. They have filament as well, haven't had an opportunity to use it yet however.
  • Makerparts they're moving so unfortunately site looks to be closed for now, BC based, they're all sorts of maker related stuff, not just printing. I bought a bear mod kit for my prusa from them, again, solid product and great to work with.
 

The intent, Carney said during an interview on Rosemary Barton Live, is to invest in Canada's economy "at a time when we absolutely have to build as a country."

The taxpayer dollars would "catalyze many multiples of private dollars" to build homes, energy infrastructure, AI systems and trade corridors — "all of which are fundamentally necessary if we are going to grow this economy, irrespective of how President Trump is feeling on one day or another," Carney said.

Carney also said a federal government led by him would balance its operational spending — such as government-run programs, federal transfers to provinces and territories and debt service charges — over the course of the next three years.

 

Sounds like it's focused on internal trade and global investment, I know 30 days isn't a long time, but maybe we can be better prepared, reducing our reliance on the yanks certainly seems to have public support so there's that.

 

Because mandatory minimums work to deter crime and totally haven't been struck down in the past or anything right?

20mg - 15 years, 40mg is life and Pierre's mentioned using the notwithstanding clause to pass stuff like this in the past.

 

Paper mentioned in article can be found here.

Annealing prints has been something I've wanting to do more of, probably with proper temperature control as my experience has has more waste than I'd like, mainly warping.

Paper claims some pretty dramatic improvements to interlayer strength, they're running filament through a bath before entering the extruder, not sure how accessible the entire thing would be in a hobbyist environment (using chloroform and specialised microwave equipment). Makes me wonder however if carbon fibre filaments would be able to be processed similarly, how well it'd perform with stuff like abs or nylon and if you could achieve that with consumer microwaves.

 

Bandcamp Metallum

New album out, this album is stupidly catchy. It's a mix of medieval folk and black metal, it's cheesy and I've been loving it.

 

Bandcamp for the album, Metallum for the band I'm not usually the biggest modern tech death person, but there was just something about this album that did it for me. Entire album is just under 28 minutes, definitely recommend a listen.

 

Quick question to the community, does anyone have some good tools to sculpt stls or step files?

Context, I'm working on some decorative keychains and have a vector image and text I want to add to the base object. I've used aolidworks for both in the past with alright results but I've switched over to freecad this year, haven't had a lot of luck adding in there, vector image is a tracing of a dog that I was provided, it's simplified but still has a lot of components.

I did look into blender but be honest I'm totally lost using it and have no clue what I'm doing coming from parametric modeling, I'm not an artist at all, my comfort zone is functional parts usually, but was approached by a friend. I did do some mockups in prusa/superslicer where I've added my image and text as negative volumes and merged into a single part. It works but it feels like a really hacky workaround (relevant XKCD) and would prefer to do it right. Any suggestions or resources would be appreciated!

If interested, here's the mockup that I've done a few test prints on, found I needed to change the line width of my vector a few times and made some features exaggerated so they'd come out more. I've (poorly) covered some identifying text on the back, left the rest as to get a feel for what I'm trying to do, did do some rough sanding on the below pictures. There's a pocket on the top edge that accepts a keyring, it's kinda chunky, about the size of a pog slammer or a thicker poker chip.

Rough Sanded Front of keychain with image of a Bernese Mountain DogBack of keychain with some details obscured

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