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https://m.xkcd.com/927/

The only real objection I have to this as a term is that it's too easy to confuse with "rubber ducking": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubberduckdebugging

https://youtu.be/ReruwpFs3Y?si=YM9HhBiwGh3G2zFT

I wouldn't really call it a favorite, but I definitely ended up liking Nier: Automata pretty well after bouncing off it really hard when trying it at a friend's house. That's because we were trying from the start, and it starts with a section that's about half an hour long, with only two checkpoints, vastly harder than anything else in the game, and in which the first half isn't even the same genre as the rest of the game. It's seriously one of the worst intros I can think of in a video game. The rest of the game is, y'know, a pretty good third-person action RPG.

Yeah, you're right. This is something I was taught at one point, and I guess I never questioned it because it sounded plausible. Sorry! I have updated my comment to reflect this.

It's also because the bacterium in question is anaerobic, so it dies in an oxygen environment; rusting consumes oxygen, so it helps preserve the bacterium longer out of soil.

Edit: I had always been told this, but evidently it isn't true. The rust does not seem to have any effect on the bacterium that causes tetanus. Apologies for spreading misinformation.

I do a lot of this stuff with the HP48 Units menu (albeit at this point via an emulator on my phone).

Shaders are terrific fun. I highly recommend ShaderToy if you want to experiment with them; it makes the loop between changing the code and seeing the effect very tight. I also recommend the YouTube channel "Art of Code" for good examples, well-explained.

I dunno, I prefer swipe typing and this doesn't seem like it would work with that.

To me the biggest barriers to long-form typing on the phone are that so many websites screw up form handling for long-form content, and that the cursor maneuvering is still pretty broken.

Websites do weird things when you're typing. Sometimes the input field won't scroll, so you can't see what you're typing. Other times it'll force-scroll to put the current line you're working on at the very top of the screen, so you can't see anything you wrote previously. At least they finally fixed the weird behavior where if you deleted more than a few characters it would start jumping around in the text and duplicating huge sections of it--I think it was around Android 9 that they finally fixed that.

As for moving the cursor, the "swipe on the space bar to move the cursor left and right" works, but trying to go back further, like going up a few lines, is very, very difficult. The cursor will scroll the text box if you move to the edge, but there's no delay in the scrolling, so instead of scrolling a couple of lines and then pausing briefly to give you a chance to stop there, it just immediately scrolls again on the next frame of rendering, so effectively your choices are "scroll within the few lines of text still visible" or "jump all the way to the beginning of your text." Anything else you need to scrub through character by character using the space bar control, which is very slow.

Basically, I don't think the issue is the keyboard itself. I think the issue is that Android has never prioritized long-form text entry, and so it's just very buggy.

It is, at least in part. This story cites a Washington Post article, which in turn brings up Project 2025.

An excerpt:

Much of the planning for a second term has been unofficially outsourced to a partnership of right-wing think tanks in Washington. Dubbed “Project 2025,” the group is developing a plan, to include draft executive orders, that would deploy the military domestically under the Insurrection Act, according to a person involved in those conversations and internal communications reviewed by The Washington Post. The law, last updated in 1871, authorizes the president to deploy the military for domestic law enforcement.

They explain earlier in the article that the use of the Insurrection Act would be in order to deploy the military to put down civilian inauguration day protests. It's a little oddly written, in that it makes it sound like this is the main thrust of Project 2025, though they do eventually mention:

For other appointments, Trump would be able to draw on lineups of personnel prepared by Project 2025. Dans, a former Office of Personnel Management chief of staff, likened the database to a “conservative LinkedIn,” allowing applicants to present their resumes on public profiles, while also providing a shared workspace for Heritage and partner organizations to vet the candidates and make recommendations.

In any case, yeah, they're not bothering to hide any of this. They know they control the media that their side hears.

Source article (as linked at the start of OP's article): https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/05/trump-revenge-second-term/

3blue1brown is a great call.

I would add Applied Science and NileRed (who does chemistry experiments) as possibilities if OP likes their voices. Their content is very methodical and uniform. My cat likes their videos, which seems like a pretty good metric for this use case.

I also love vihart, who does math videos, but her stuff is a little more varied, including some music, so OP might want to evaluate her during the day before trusting her channel for sleep.

Jeremy Fielding has a great voice if you want videos about engineering and how to salvage motors out of washing machines and treadmills.

I'll consult my subscription list and add more if I find any.

Edited to add:
Carl Bugeja (electronics)
CGP Grey (mostly history)
DIY Perks (various projects)
Henry Segerman (math art)
OskarPuzzle (designs for 3d printed puzzles)
Razbuten (video games)
Sabine Hossenfelder (physics)
Stand-up Maths (math)
Steve Mould (explanations of unusual everyday things, I guess? kinda hard to summarize)
Technology Connections (as others have mentioned)
Tim Hunkin (makes weird mechanical art and explains machines)
Tom Scott (videos about unusual places and bits of history)
Two Minute Papers (advances in AI and computer graphics)

The timeline should be at the bottom of the editor window, if you're in the default design workspace. If you started in the mesh editor workspace then "design history" might be turned off, in which case you wouldn't have a timeline. It looks like this:

https://help.autodesk.com/cloudhelp/ENU/Fusion-Assemble/images/animation/timeline-groups.gif

If some of the icons are highlighted in yellow, those have errors, so, things like broken projection links, or missing objects for some operations. You can usually fix those and patch things up.

Edit: oh, sorry, just realized you were working from someone else's file. That might not have design history turned on. The person who told you how to edit the extrusion operation has the right idea.

Did you get any warnings or errors when you changed the parameters? Are any of the elements in your timeline highlighted in yellow?

"Scary" may also be the wrong word; "tense" might be closer to the mark. In Fusion there are these sections where you'll be exploring and then suddenly your doppleganger will show up and start hunting you. It's surprising and actually pretty unnerving; you have to get away, but the thing can move basically as fast as you can and there's really not much room to maneuver. I was under the impression that the "EMI" sections in dread were basically a refinement of this, but maybe I was misinformed.

Fair enough, I only got in to the hobby around 2015. But site issues were another reason that a lot of folks migrated to printables recently, so I do think it's possible that's part of what Fogle was referring to.

FWIW though, I suspect that a lot of the folks here in the Fediverse do actually care about open source, open standards, and the value in defending truly public resources.

Metroid Fusion has some very scary segments, and my understanding is that Metroid Dread does some of the same things, though I haven't played through that one yet.

Well, also just that the site had kind of deteriorated from lack of maintenance--the search didn't work (you had to use Google with site:thingiverse.com), model pages were incredibly slow to load, etc. They've fixed a lot of that recently, but for a year or so it seemed borderline unusable.

Could still be temperature if the thermistors on e printers read differently--that is, the same setting doesn't necessarily work out to the same physical temperature on two printers, even if they're the same model, because the thermistors vary. My suspicion would be that you're printing a little hot, and the filament is contracting after it's extruded. On the first few layers it can't shrink much because of all the material in the middle, but on the vase mode layers there's nothing preventing it.

Another possibility is that your overlap percentage between your infill and perimeters is too high. This leads to something that basically is overextrusion, but it's usually visible as more of a ripple.

A third possibility is that it's just the filament.

Honestly, Google killing this will probably be the best outcome for it, because otherwise they'll try to monetize it, and that could be a nightmare. Just a straight-up conversation partner that tries to wheedle personal information out of you for their advertising profiles. Even their example question about what you like to do for fun is a little uncomfortable in that context.

Note that it also breaks our privacy if we view the link. Caution is advised.