TheRealKuni @ TheRealKuni @midwest.social

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a device that is known to be anti-consumer.

Anti-competitive and monopolistic, sure. Anti-consumer? Eh.

Don’t get me wrong, Apple is just as evil as the next guy. Their practices reinforce their market position in an insidious way. But in many respects Apple performs better on the consumer front than, say, their primary competitor Google. Not in every way, but I wouldn’t call their devices “anti-consumer.”

If one of your primary concerns as a consumer is an open platform then yeah, I can see you rejecting outright Apple devices. This could in turn lead to being dismissive of the concerns of those whose priorities differ from yours, though I would strongly advise against such a lack of empathy over something as insignificant as a platform choice. Regardless, curtailing their practices is still important.

If we don’t stop bad behavior because it doesn’t affect us directly, we set bad precedents. Regulatory actions are an important tool.

If we talk about restricting stuff like rent, food prices etc, so essentials, I'm on board. But Apple? Nah.

Fallacy of relative privation. “X is worse than Y, so Y doesn’t matter.” Rent and food prices are important, too, but regulatory bodies don’t operate on a zero sum system. Multiple things can be addressed with multiple efforts. It’s not like the EU is saying “we can ignore starvation and homelessness because at least we cracked down on Apple.”

But I don't need this kind of use case as much anymore and have moved to Joplin

My first thought reading this was, “Why does moving to Joplin, MO have anything to do with note-taking?”

(Kuni from UHF)

McDonald’s still sells “hotcakes” for breakfast.

Is that a career?

Nope, choral singing is something I do as a volunteer. But I do it a lot! Primarily with my local symphony chorus, another small local group, and occasionally on tours.

This will be my third time singing at Carnegie, which is always fun. Hard to say the coolest place I’ve performed, but definitely up there is the American cemetery in Normandy, France. Also Winchester Cathedral in the UK.

The coolest thing I’ve performed is also tough. Literally my first concert with the symphony chorus was a performance of The Two Towers. Like, the movie played while we performed the soundtrack. It was incredible. I’ve gotten to do a few of those movie concerts. I also really love when we get to do video game music, those concerts are always a blast. Getting to shout the grunts in the Dragonborn song from Skyrim on a stage is so cool.

And then of course there’s Carmina Burana which features O Fortuna which most people have heard somewhere, and Verdi’s Requiem which features the most terrifyingly awesome Dies Irae of all time. Staples like Mozart’s Requiem and Beethoven’s 9th are always a blast.

I’m seriously privileged to have the talent and opportunity to participate in this stuff. It’s so much fun.

I get to sing in three concerts in the next five weeks. All three are going to be very fun, and one of them is at Carnegie Hall!

They manufacture significant parts of their cars (or sometimes entire cars) outside the US and then sell them in the US. It’s part of why small pickup trucks don’t really exist anymore, due to tariff nonsense.

They do it because manufacturing labor is cheaper elsewhere.

I’m confused what you’re asking.

Mentour Pilot had a great video about the technology they’ve been using to pinpoint search areas last year. Worth a watch, and definitely fueled my optimism that they’ll finally be able to find the plane.

American companies that do less of their manufacturing in the US than their Japanese rivals do.

The opioid epidemic is because the Sackler family and Purdue made money

Purdue Pharma. It’s important, because Purdue Pharma and Purdue University are not connected in any way, and when people from the Midwest hear “Purdue” we usually think of the university.

There was a “don’t use Amazon for a week” boycott thing at the beginning of March. It shocked me how quickly I lost the urge to just go order stuff the moment I thought of it. After the week was over I just kept not ordering stuff (with the exception of a subscription that came through).

Definitely at least helped me cut back.

I learned something today.

I was taught in my younger days that “homonyms” were words that were spelled the same but pronounced differently, and “homophones” were words that were pronounced the same but spelled differently. “Break” and “brake” would then be homophones.

But it turns out “homonym” is the broader category including “homophones,” “homographs,” and words where both are true (same spelling and pronunciation, but different meanings). So homophones are homonyms.

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P.S. Though Wikipedia says a more technical definition would limit “homonym” to, specifically, the third category, words that are spelled and pronounced the same but with different meanings. They give examples of “stalk” (part of a plant) and “stalk” (follow/harass a person), or “skate” (glide on ice) and “skate” (a type of fish).

P.P.S. This reminds me of the autoantonym (a word that is its own opposite) “cleave,” which can mean “to adhere firmly and closely or loyally and unwaveringly” or “to split or sever (something), especially along a natural line or grain.“ I don’t know if “cleave” is technically a homonym, or if these are simply two definitions for the same word, and I don’t know who would decide that. But it’s still a fun word.

I’ve been impressed by how quickly gen-AI 3D models have become somewhat useful. I expected that with the significantly lower training data than text and images it would take longer, but maybe 3D files have a lot more tagging and metadata by virtue of being “new” compared to text and images, making them more useful for training AI?

As much as I enjoy modeling, I must admit I’m somewhat excited about a future where I can think up something to 3D print and not have to spend hours in Blender.

Yeah what does “substantially” mean in this context?

The context is laid out clearly. You earn one additional dollar and that one additional dollar puts you in the 33% tax bracket.

Your tax bill would go up by 33% of one dollar. $0.33. Total.

The question doesn't specify whether we're talking about total dollars paid or just how much the tax percentage increases in that bracket.

It’s irrelevant. Your “total dollars paid” in taxes would increase by $0.33, and the difference that extra dollar is taxed vs the previous dollar is $0.05. Neither of these are “substantial.”

This question simply asks whether 0: you have reading comprehension skills and 1: you understand how tax brackets work.

What?

The question isn’t loaded at all, it just tests whether people know how tax brackets work.

The Bambu Lab printers resemble Bowden tube printers because they use lots of PTFE tubing to make the AMS work smoothly. But they’re all direct drive, with the complication of the AMS feeding system making it a sort of hybrid.

It’s a genius design (albeit wasteful due to the purging process), I just wish they’d open it up and let other companies use the concept.

You just need to feed it directly to the extruder and not through AMS.

Though Bambu Lab’s “TPU for AMS” works great (as long as it’s dry).

Fear ABS and ASA like your worst nightmare

ABS and ASA are awesome, but if you don’t have an enclosure the warping and odor can make them a pain to work with (the odor is powerful, irritating, and potentially dangerous).

But the end result is strong and can be smoothed with acetone fumes. I consider ABS and ASA my “okay, this one is serious” filaments. Parts that need to be able to withstand stronger forces and higher heat, or stuff that I want to look really good with some very easy post-processing.

Designed and printed a magnetic prime line brush, to have a use for the lines my P1S begins each print with, that can attach to the frame and live inside the print enclosure. This one uses the extra scraper magnet that came with the printer, but I designed a version of it to use 6x2mm magnets as well, and versions of each with and without the Bambu logo (I know they’re not exactly the community’s favorite these days, and I understand why).