Prototyper of 3-D Print Things @beadsland@mastodon.social

Dumb shower thought: you know how we associate infrared with heat? iRobot Virtual Walls are literally just painting "the floor is lava" for Roombas

Question for the #3dprinting experts:

Is black (PLA) filament more or less resistant to UV degradation?

In other words: does the black color help absorb UV light before it can harm the plastic/polymers?

@InspectorCaracal anyway it's about this point in Said Family Member's soapbox rant about how the majority of AI programming these days is shit that i claim the soapbox for myself, and start yelling about how this is what you get when you divorce STEM completely from the liberal arts and raise graduates on the idea that silly social sciences where you have empathy for other people or look at history and its effects are completely not needed when you have the ability to crunch numbers

WHAT PEOPLE THINK ETHICAL ISSUES IN AI ARE: wow.... we're creating... new life........

WHAT ETHICAL ISSUES IN AI ACTUALLY ARE: techbros worshiping the almighty algorithm, not caring to look at what bad patterns the machines are picking up (racism, sexism, etc) and how to avert them, and overreliance on neural networks meaning that said algorithms are treated as magical black boxes where nobody wants to (or can, really) point out exactly how the equation works (and why it may be faulty)

normalize self-reinvention for everyone tbh. name changing should be merely the start. people shouldnt be afraid to discard the parts of themselves that are holding them back or that they feel like they need to shed

How did we let them shape the narrative with

“She’s only going after him because he has money.”

And not

“He only went after her because he had the money.”

??

Nice to see more companies put the ever controversial "respect other players" and "kick toxic dipshits out of your gaming groups" advice in their books

It's only a universal serial bus because there are an infinite number of dongles to convert it into something else.

English needs a neither-nor construction but for trinary constructions.

Holy shit, never considered that, but this is likely accurate.

my answer to "how are you" is almost always what im doing, which sounds like vulnerability avoidance but actually it's more representative of my emotional state than stupid words can convey

Common misconceptions programmers have about lists of common misconceptions https://medium.com/@enkiv2/common-misconceptions-programmers-have-about-lists-of-common-misconceptions-2436e570fcfa?sk=e75577d514513630700f84fb5d4f6b64

“Missing, bad, or inconsistent song metadata is a crisis that has left, by some estimations, billions on the table that never gets paid to the artists who earned that money. And as the amount of music created and consumed continues to increase ... it’s only going to get messier”
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RT @di2lib@twitter.com
Dit is nog veel complexer als bij boeken zo te zien. Metadata is the biggest little problem plaguing the music industry https://www.thev…
https://twitter.com/di2lib/status/1135128943340806144

Saw someone carry down a stroller into the subway station. The station was recently refurbished with anti laying down benches, new tiles and new electric displays (mostly for ads) and was closed for 6 months. They didn't add an elevator. It is ridiculous that a basic need for many people is ignored to hurt homeless and sell more products.

linux: sudo rm -rf / lolololol

commodore 64: "Remember, you can't hurt the computer by typing on it, and the best way to learn BASIC is to try different things and see what happens."

commodore 64: peek, poke, it's all in the mind, if you wanna look there, i'm sure you'll find, a register is just a box with a purpose, nevertheless you'll get a lesson from the manual now POKE

linux: :(){ :|: & };:

When someone says "wow you're like, super smart" what I hear is "wow you did a bad job explaining that thing and I now think it is accessible only to 'super smart' people"