monotremata

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[–] monotremata 7 points 1 day ago

It could also just be cold reading. People who haven't been exposed to that can find it eerily accurate, even though it's just a combination of random guessing with reinforcing the guesses that got reactions. It's the kind of thing that both parties could participate in without either being explicitly familiar with the technique.

[–] monotremata 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh, yeah, the voice is a big part of it. "Everything is possible with zombocom."

[–] monotremata 2 points 3 days ago

Seriously. This is exactly what people object to about Windows Recall. In its re-released version at least it's opt-in for now, but it's still eerily close to this.

[–] monotremata 5 points 4 days ago

So, in defense of this, the corned beef in question usually has a pretty complex seasoning profile. It'll have a big packet with peppercorns, cloves, bay leaves, dill, mustard seed, coriander, and a few other things. (Sometimes mace or nutmeg? It varies with the seller.) The "corned" in the name comes from all the spices (it's "corn" like in peppercorn). And at the table it's often also served with mustard or Worcestershire sauce, which brings a whole additional suite of spices, as well as pickled beets. So it's not as flavorless as that description makes it sound. But it's true that the corned beef does contribute a salty, savory note, especially to the cabbage.

It is legitimately a very mild, comfort food kind of dish. Vindaloo this isn't. And we like that too! This just fits a different kind of mood.

I guess I just think it's hilarious how much of an anti-advertisement the name is. Like, it's so emphatically not going to appear on the menu of any fancy gastropub. Caramelized pear and arugula flatbread with candied walnuts and gorgonzola? Nope. Boiled dinner. Deal with it.

[–] monotremata 8 points 5 days ago (5 children)

My brother-in-law considers it frankly offensive that there's an actual thing called "New England boiled dinner." My sister and I love it, but he can't get past the name.

[–] monotremata 2 points 6 days ago

It turns out the real inefficiencies were the friends we made along the way.

[–] monotremata 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They're not saying that slow growth is definitely evidence it's exponential. They're saying that slow growth doesn't prove that it isn't exponential, which seemed to be what you were saying.

It's always hard to identify exponential growth in its early stages.

[–] monotremata 11 points 1 week ago

This exactly. "Do you think free will exists" could, in fact, be small talk, if neither of you is particularly interested in the topic.

[–] monotremata 5 points 1 week ago

I think he's literally talking about making a credit that's contingent on a certain IQ test score, or something along those lines. He seems to be a straight-up, unabashed eugenicist.

[–] monotremata 1 points 1 week ago

You can use that kind of HP cartridge and also modify it to take ink from a reservoir. It's perfectly possible to buy ink suitable for an inkjet printer in bulk for much cheaper than HP will sell it to you, and that kind of reservoir mod will let you use the print head built in to the HP cartridge.

 

Bear with me for a moment, because I'm not sure how to describe this problem without just describing a part I'm trying to print.

I was designing a part today, and it's basically a box; for various reasons I wanted to print it with all the sides flat on the print bed, but have bridges between the sides and the bottom to act as living hinges so it would be easy to fold into shape after it came off the bed. But when I got it into PrusaSlicer, by default, Prusa slices all bridges in a single uniform direction--which on this print meant that two of the bridges were across the shortest distance, and the other two were parallel to the gap they were supposed to span. Which, y'know, is obviously not a good way to try to bridge the gap.

I was able to manually adjust the bridge direction to fix this, but I'm kinda surprised that the slicer doesn't automatically choose paths for bridging gaps to try to make them as printable as possible. I don't remember having this issue in the past, but I haven't designed with bridges in quite a while--it's possible that I've just never noticed before, or it could be that a previous slicer (I used to use Cura) or previous version of PrusaSlicer did this differently.

Is there a term for this? Are there slicers that do a better job of it? Is there an open feature request about this?

Basically just wondering if anyone has insight into this, or any suggestions for reading on the subject.

Thanks!

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