I'm just documenting how the world is, not how it should be. In general women can form relationships passively (be excellent and accept/reject offers), while men have to engage in active pursuit, or else nothing happens.
Yeah, I think some people are born with an innate desire to understand how things work. It's possible to recognize it in toddlers, based on observations within my extended family. Our society would be enriched if we were better at recognizing and nourishing that trait when it appears in women.
I don't think "anyone" can excel in STEM, but there are likely a lot of women (and to a lesser extent men) who potentially could, but fail to get the right exposure at a young enough age.
I would like to think that my biggest accomplishments (at a major tech company for 10+ years) happened through making good technical/ideological arguments, listening to people's problems, and telling computers how to fix them, rather than my physical appearance. Whenever they asked me to be a manager, I was like "ugh, no that sounds awful."
Then after 15 months of COVID isolation, I burned out and left. Now I'm thinking it'd be nice if I'd learned how to approach women and do standard masculine things. The world doesn't just give you sex for excelling in school/work.
I guess my point is that a patriarchal society makes it difficult for men who don't actively pursue power over others to form relationships.
Wow this "patriarchy" concept is intriguing. It seems like it would be really useful if I hadn't gone through life avoiding any kind of power or responsibility.
I briefly considered using Klipper to make a clock that prints 1 layer per minute, but gave up after realizing it'd be unreadable after the first hour:
When my Ender 3 S1 (not plus) had bed leveling issues, the problem was caused by backlash on the Z axis. It's important that the Z axis be just loose enough that downward motion is driven by gravity. If instead the Z screws have to "pull down" on the gantry, then the height will be too sloppy for ABL to make fine adjustments.
They’d be expensive to run but it would likely only be for a few days per year.
"Pay for more electricity" might not work very well, if everybody in a region uses resistive heat at the same time. I'm not sure what the solution is... maybe an overprovisioned power grid, cheaper battery tech, or tanks of renewable backup fuel like dimethyl ether?
Multi-hour downloads have been a thing since capacity was measured in kbps. If a simple TCP transfer causes excessive queueing, then the queueing algorithm is broken.
A router with OpenWrt and luci-app-sqm can fix this problem, at least for an internet connection with a fixed speed limit.
It's more like 3 really wide pixels.