IMALlama @ IMALlama @lemmy.world

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And there is now so little choice!

There has been a consolidation of the major brands, but there's a pretty solid niche market around foot shaped shoes.

Vibrams are the extreme. Birkenstock sneakers are pretty well shaped, but their soles are a bit rigid. I don't mean that in a comfort way, I mean that in a bendable way.

More recent, to me at least, entrants are groundies, xero shoes, Barebarics, belenka, and a ton more.

Cut to the shape of an actual foot and flexible/minimalistic sole. I live in the Midwest, so I'll compromise some ok sole thickness in the winter. Standing in snow with my kid at the bus stop in minimalistic soles and even thicker socks makes for quick feet.

Shape of your foot? I don't understand why you would want your toes/foot contorted. I do not understand shoes that have a point in the middle of them. Either you're smashing your toes together or your making something stick out in front of your foot that will mess up your gate.

Minimalistic sole? This will get you landing more softly on your heel and help you use the balls of your feet more. It's amazing to me how thick/soft the soles of some shoes are. I suspect they're necessary to compensate for the way a lot of us walk.

My feet feel fantastic and my motion feels very natural.

But it looks like achieving proper dependable watertightness might be a whole side project of its own.

This is the case, especially if you want watertight prints right off the printer. Post processing (eg coating, smoothing, etc) are another approach. Post processing also seems like it would be more consistent print to print.

Genuine question: do they make money from AOSP being used on third party devices? Obviously they get revenue via the Play store, but you can avoid that by either installing something like graphine or an alternative store (Fdroid, Amazon, etc).

Agree. Heck, even when I was more fit (also, younger) a good exercise session would often result in me eating more calories than needed.

Is there a soft layer between your finger and abs that you can press through to get to your abs? It yes, jigggily and subconscious fat. If not, firm and visceral fat. Visceral is far worse for your health and is associated with higher carb diets.

Low carb is an excellent way to drop weight, regardless of what kind of fat you have.

Exercise can burn a ton of calories, but in order to be able to do that level of exercise you have to be reasonably fit. For someone who doesn't have a ton of stamina, I agree that diet is much more effective.

At my weight (175 pounds) going 10k over an hour puts me at about this amount of calories. That's 6.2 miles. I am in no way fit enough to be able to go that kind of distance, forget about the pace, which is sad to admit.

At a 15 minute mile, I would burn 120 calories/mile.

That's not to say that you can't burn significant calories exercising, it's just that your average couch potato won't be able to out of the gate. It's far easier for me to reduce my intake by 120 calories/day than it jog a mile a day on average. Ideally you would do a bit of both.

Hard vs jigggily is fairly straightforward to gauge. Sit down in jeans and a belt. Bonus points if neither stretch. Poke your belly near your belt. If it's jigggily you will be able to palpitate some skin and fat before you get to a more solid layer. To make the transition even more obvious, flex your abs. If you have no idea what I'm on about, you have a hard belly.

How about the spaghetti detective?

Companies also exist to try to find items not sold on Amazon and list them on Amazon for a steep markup.

In both these cases they're hoping that customers either won't notice or won't care enough to order elsewhere due to "convince".

100 °C is still above the glass transition temp of most plastics, so be careful.

For STLs, each project has its own folder in a bigger STL folder. After doing this for ~7 years it's a mess. That said, I very rarely print something again a few months later. When I print the first part I generally know how many I'll need. I've been questioning my STL retention policy as of late. If I don't ever use them again, why keep so many?

For my designs, and remixed CAD designs, I rely on fusion 360's cloud storage. The search works well enough for me to find what I'm looking for without the need for further organization.

If I were to implement a folder structure, I would probably functional organize prints. Examples could be kids toys and their parts, gardening stuff, loudspeakers, robotics, etc.

I knew my way around a printer before building my Voron, but the act of building it from the ground up really helps get you back to the basics: these are really just CNC hot glue guns and the components are not very hard to modify and replace. It's easy to build up a layer of mistique, which leads to not wanting to tinker, when confronted with something new.

You don't have to pick up CAD skills to build a printer, but odds are you'll find an opportunity to design some parts or iterate on someone else's design.

I've been proficient at CAD for longer than I've had printers, but as you know printers make turning ideas into physical parts fairly easy. It took a little while for me to start printint jigs and functional prints, but once I transitioned from thinking "this annoys me" to "I bet I could design something to make this easier" I kept finding more and more opportunities to design things. To me, this matters a lot more than being proficient in CAD. I would say the same thing about programming - understanding where you want to go and why you want to get there can often be more important than writing the actual code.

I've been designing and printing things with my kids as long as they've been alive. At this point they take for granted that I'll be able to design and print something to either fix a broken toy or make something better. They're only 4 and 7, but they do like watching and "helping" me when I have CAD open. More importantly to me, they're also identifying opportunities to make something.

Good luck with your kid! I hope you're able to create an environment where their curiosity moves them in the direction of wanting to create things.

We have a test environment but it's a hot mess. All the data is made up and extremely low quality. All the things you would normally interface with are also in test, but getting other teams to coordinate testing in the test space is... a chore. We do the best we can with mock services, but without having real services or representative data some of the data pattern assumptions don't play out. Leaders value writing code and our lack of architects that span teams mean that when team architects either don't meet ahead of time, make assumptions, or don't ever agree on a design then...

We always host UAT. We also track logins. Guess how many users even show up for UAT, let alone actually click on anything.

This is why the vast majority of our testing happens in prod when our users are doing real work.

Sorry for the baby rant :)

On the envelope side: printing is more forgiving of having too small an envelope than machining. Since printing is all about adding material you can usually split the thing you want to print into pieces. I still think it's worth considering it the usual 200mm^3 will be enough since splitting parts can be annoying.

Harbor freight is a good comparison to an ender. They're fit for purpose, have some cheap parts, and are a decent platform to modify from. They will work out of the box most of the time, but you'll find yourself wanting to improve them.

Printer bones are very replaceable, especially if you have a functioning printer. I printed my Voron parts on my old i3 clone. I've now used my Voron to print future parts for itself before tearing some of it down and modifying things. People do the same with enders. There's even an Ender variant that rebuilds the Ender with a lot of Voron design ideas.

The only thing to be aware of is ultimate cost. Yes, you can turn the ender into most anything over time. It could wind up costing more money and time doing this though. Ultimately, the decision on how far to take the modifications will be yours and you can choose whether or not you want to have a frankenprinter. You'll also learn a lot along the way going this route, which takes me back to my original question: what are your goals for this project?

IMO there are two things to consider. First: do you want FDM or SLA. You're trading resolution for build volume. If you're going to be making a lot of smaller things, SLA printers can offer more output since they print the same speed no matter how much of the build plate is occupied. Also consider the size of the things you'll print. In other words, how much build volume should you be looking for.

Second: are you seeking to tinker with the printer as a point of interest/engagement or are you simply looking for the printer to be a tool?

Off-the cuff list:

• enders are cheap, but will likely result in you wanting to fiddle with the printer
• Sovol are a bit more expensive, but should require less fiddling
• Prusas have the reputation for set it up and forget it workhorses and are priced accordingly
• Voron printers are 100% open source and there is no "official" storefront or kit. Plenty of companies offer a "BOM in a box" option. You'll build a printer from parts and it's a very solid base to just print with or to fiddle with. If you dig through my post history you'll see quite a few posts and comments about mine. Sourcing a Voron can be pricey though

... There are tons of other options too

I suspect it's a different kind of stress. I waited tables for 5 years when I was younger. It took me nearly a decade before I stopped having the hopelessly in the weeds with a single table and now I'm suddenly naked dream.

I've worked corporate jobs ever since. I do not have reoccurring dreams about them, but the stress/frustration is a lot higher because it's less transactional in nature.

I think this really depends on the store. Our local Lowe's is very poorly run and organized. Good luck finding a flatbed cart that's not piled high with returns, fixtures, etc. There is stock waiting to on shelves piled in aisles gathering dust. Employees are few and far between. Our local home cheapo is the exact opposite.

You have my upvote, but it will be a different kind of hate.

OP sounds like they're coming from corporate America, where office politics and short sighted decisions reign supreme. To make matters worse, they work in IT and maybe even do some software development, where many companies continue to accumulate more and more technical debt.

I think that I wouldn't really enjoy going back to a retail job. My corporate job has much lower lows than what I used to experience in retail, but it does offer the possibility of higher highs with big/strategic/impactful decisions. But man, I've been chasing that carrot for a while now. It's almost like it's on the end of a stick that's attached to my back.