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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • On the discomfort side, couldn’t they have the collection and recording happen in the background? If no other passengers or staff can see the numbers, there’s less of a chance of someone feeling uncomfortable with the process.

    The weighing process involves humans, so that wouldn’t be possible.

    Their average intelligence being what it is, when instructed to have one person on the scale, sometimes it’s one, sometimes two, sometimes two and a stroller. Sometimes somehow a horse ends up on the scale and no one really understands how, including that horse.

    Unless you check the weight, you don’t know what exactly was weighed.



  • There’s a reason you don’t often see machines over 300x300x400. At that point it gets hard to keep tolerances tight, requiring manufacturing changes or else you end up with printing artifacts.

    This thing prints at 300mm/s at 1100x1100x820 and it’s manufactured in a first world nation at low volumes.

    It’s hard to see, but I think they made the gantry (the whole Z platform, I mean) out of two plates of aluminum. They didn’t bolt i beams together, it’s just two massive plates with holes cut into them. That’s the sort of engineering they did to get this thing to work at that size, with that speed.

    Doing that is expensive.









  • I still have to log in via fucking RDP to set it up.

    Nah you don’t. I’ve made plenty of headless installations for windows. You think everyone with a datacenter with hundreds of windows servers logs in to each of them with RDP? You can do it with an unattended.xml file. Which is harder to do than what I had to do to make a headless raspberry pi ubuntu server. By a lot, although if you look long enough, you might be able to copy someone else’s unattended.xml.

    Also, Windows Event Viewer still blows

    Yeah, it’s… an acquired taste. You can actually script it. But it is harder than string manipulation, since the events are all objects, not strings.

    Then why has every Windows admin I’ve ever had to deal with use the GUI?

    Cause I’m lazy.






  • Where Wansley and Weinstein break important new ground is on the other legal standard set by the Supreme Court: recoupment of losses. If Uber and WeWork and the rest of the unicorns are perpetual money losers, it sounds like the standard isn’t met. But Wansley and Weinstein point out that it can be — even if the companies never earn a dime and even if everyone who invests in the companies, post-IPO, loses their bets. That’s because the venture capitalists who seeded the company do profit from the predatory pricing. They get in, get a hefty return on their investment, and get out before the whole scheme collapses.

    Yep. The venture capitalists found a loophole.