Bambu already has their quick-release hot end. I can see it being much less work for them to develop something like that. Wrap induction heating into the mix and their new extruder, and that would be one hell of a piece of kit.

Derecho Imminent said:

In all my years, I never heard it used in context of the cold war. Its always been a measure of how poor the conditions of a country. From googling I see the new accepted term is underdevoped. Ok. But underdeveloped seems like a greatly understated description of the actual conditions in countries like Ethiopia. Hell, 3/4 of the US is under-developed imo.

But whatever term you use the point stands that if you are a foreigner visiting Ethiopia you should not drink well water without boiling it. It’s just foolish.

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3rd world was a term devised to describe non nato aligned countries. It has long lost its original meaning.

Fasteddie42 said:

A return to the Moon is the most costly "been there, done that" in history.....and all NASA can muster to justify the program is to state the goal as "land the first woman and person of color on the Moon". That is horribly cynical on the part of NASA Manned Spaceflight.

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You might be right that unmanned exploration offers better bang for the buck (I don't know enough to hold an informed opinion). And the SLS is an absurd waste of taxpayer money. But you're mischaracterising the Artemis programme.

Across six landings, the Apollo programme managed about 12d 12h on the lunar surface, 3d 9h of surface EVA time, and returned 382kg of samples. The "extended" Lunar Modules used for the last three missions could each carry a scientific payload of about 450 kg, including the 210 kg lunar rover.

Currently, the plan is for Artemis III through VI to each spend a week on the lunar surface. Artemis III will take samples of water ice and other volatiles found in permanently-shadowed craters at the south pole. Sure, a few probes have managed a soft landing there, but none are capable of sample return AFAIK. I can't find anything about Starship HLS's max payload, but vanilla Starship is supposedly capable of carrying 100-150 tonnes to LEO, so I would assume it's more than the Apollo LM. And we can obviously fit far more powerful, varied instruments into a given mass and/or volume than was possible in the early '70s.

Perhaps I'm being unkind, but your position is like someone in the '80s and '90s arguing for the cancellation of Galileo and Cassini-Huygens. "Why are we wasting money on more probes to Jupiter and Saturn? The Voyager probes already did that, plus Uranus and Neptune to boot."

wildsman said:

Alternative headline:
Researchers show AI significantly boosts debugging effectiveness when given proper tools.

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Caude 3.7 is drastically better than both o1 and o3 mini, despite all being released in just the last year.

Curious where Gemini 2.5 stacks up. And how last generation models did. As well as human coders.

Constructor said:

Fun fact: NATO members Greece and Turkey hate each other's guts and have been on the brink of open military conflict between each other for decades.

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I doubt either genuinely want it, not for the foreseeable. Aside from their cross border adventures in Syria, I suspect Turkey are more focused on the likely resurgence of the Russian empire and keeping as many allies as they can.

mikeschr said:

The people who voted for Trump weren't even a majority of people who voted, much less a majority of Americans.

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And interview after interview and poll after poll shows most of them didn't believe he would do everything he said he would.

They liked some of what he said, convinced themselves those were the only things he really meant, and voted for him.

Thus making this truly the stupidest timeline.

Megalodon said:

All of that is feasible for a uranium fuel cycle with harder neutron spectrum. The plutonium isotope balance takes care of itself if you run on longer fueling cycles, which civilian power wants to do anyway. The only civilian reactors with a real proliferation risk are CANDU. Natural uranium, online fueling, tritium as a byproduct, if you'd deliberately designed them for nuclear breakout capability I'm not sure you'd do anything differently.

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And CANDU can also run on Thorium...

I use chrome exactly once when I get a new phone. I use it to download the fdroid client, install fennec-fdroid, then disable chrome. It never gets seen again.

caramelpolice said:

The fundamental design of the US government sucks ass and always has. The most obvious flaw - the one that's really biting us in the ass right now - is that federal law enforcement agencies and the military are under the control of the executive branch. Congress can pass any laws it wants, the courts can rule however they want, and it's all meaningless if the president says he will not enforce it. There are no checks and balances on this.

America needs a ground-up rethinking of the structure of the federal government.

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Actually there is, impeachment. The real issue is that Congress is currently controlled by people who wouldn't impeach trump if he declared the US to be a territory of Russia.

Constructor said:

A slight majority of americans have indeed knowingly voted for exactly this! Trump has never during his campaign held back about which insane and criminal things he wanted to enact, and people voted to have exactly all that!

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The people who voted for Trump weren't even a majority of people who voted, much less a majority of Americans.

Constructor said:

And we sincerely wish he did! Doesn't anyone think of the children??

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I hear some Republican politicians think about them far too much.

graylshaped said:

utility boards, school boards, other commissions; non-federal judgeships may also be subject to election.

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this is the bit which is peculiar to this onlooker. Voting for a sheriff or a judge could lead to the candidates spending all their time on their constituency, like a university lecturer trying to maintain tenure and grants rather than doing research. The sheer size of the ballot paper must be time-consuming. This sort of thing lends itself to party vote.

Alfonse said:

There is no plan. At least, not from Trump.

Maybe he's having his ears whispered into, but the man has always been mercurial in the extreme. He doesn't know what he's doing, and he doesn't much care. He's now planning to undo the undo he just did. Maybe. He doesn't fucking know.

Accelerationism and fascism don't really go together. Fascism needs a functioning system through which to oppress the populace. Trump is not breaking the system because he believes it needs to be broken. He's doing it because he genuinely thinks this is fixing it.

Just... let that sink in.

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Sink in it has, oh God. Does this mean that Fox News is in charge and Trump just follows their lead as to what is popular and will fix things?

videobruce said:

That's a nice secret they don't tell you in those annoying TV ads. App this.

But that PSIP data is almost useless. It only goes out to a day (if you are lucky) or less depending on the local station. Low powered stations are not required to post anything (unless something changed). It's back to a "TV Guide" subscription in paperback fashion.

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Not useless.

"Record xyz" doesn't need to know it's on Tuesday at 8, it just needs to record it when it sees it, and know what it's recording.

Drizzt321 said:

You mean physically hold it in place against the backside aluminum angle until the jb weld cures sufficiently? And hope that it doesn't crack and fall apart as the wire flexes as I open and close the solar panels, hook/unhook them, etc?

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JB Weld is darn tough. If "physically hold it in place" is a timeframe issue (not enough clamps!) and you are reasonably dexterous/competent, I recommend using "JB Kwik"* instead.

*Godddddammmit! They apparently rebranded as "JB KwikWeld" - but you get the idea. Fast curing epoxy. Sticks to lots of shit, thousands of PSI pulloff strength.

Cranioclast said:

In order to make sure I don't again find myself with less than five minutes to pick a car, tune it and qualify, I started practicing for Hakone already. Looking at ruet and pittsburg's Rivals times... I don't think it's going to make a difference.

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I gave up and grabbed a community tune again for this week. They really are miles better than anything I have managed to make. I'm following the "Can't use the same car twice" optional rule Ruet joked about a few weeks ago, though.

So getting with the Japan thing, I've got a Silvia for this week.

Man, last weeks race had an incredible opening 10 laps or so. The battle for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th was one of the best I can recall ever being in. Between Kilkenny's handling, amazing outside passing, and pure steel nerves, my exit and straight-line speed, and Penguin's more balanced approach, there were so many passes, and none of us could really get clear of the others.

A Man A Plan A Canal Panama said:

Why are you still using Google anything? Every other substitute is superior.

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Umm BS. Sorry I'm going to call it when I see it. I've yet to find ANY mapping software that isn't garbage in comparison to Google Maps. Even Organic Maps using OpenStreetMap really is not good. You may hate it. But it still is far and away superior to pretty much everything out there. I absolutely am not a Google fan, but I'm going to give credit where it is due. Google Maps, Waze, Google Earth, Google Photo, Google Translate are easily class leading products. That said it really has suffered from enshittification over the last 7 years.

Shavano said:

Well they've left it to the lower court to give the orders, so that court should give the orders and start handing out coercive daily fines for non-compliance.

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5% of Trump assets seems a reasonable daily fine.

siliconaddict said:

Actually from the standpoint of causing the most chaos it is brilliant.* By exempting some things and not others. By giving everyone but China a 90 day reprieve, but jacking up tariffs for China you've fragmented a possible unified front against his BS.
This has always been the Orange Shit Stain's plan. Cause chaos in a way that it seems like he's using a pair of 20 siders to figure out his next action. You can't defend against insanity or random actions.

That said the leaders of the world aren't dumb. Even with the 90 day stall on tariffs you can bet your ass everyone is talking with everyone else. No one with an ounce of sanity thinks that Trump is going to back down after 90 days. Well outside the morons on Wall Street. Socks when up when they have zero reason to.


*And when I say brilliant I mean in a totally random, totally unplanned sense for him. There is nothing brilliant about totally f'ing over the economy for your friends to get to pull a reverse Trump 'n Dump.

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From an overseas perspective, the big problem is that you elected him again after the last shitshow. Once is an accident, twice is a fundamentally unreliable partner. If Trump disappears tomorrow, your reputational damage remains. Who(m?) may you decide to put in charge next or four years after that?

norton_I said:

It's pretty clear this is exactly the project 2025 path. The actual goal is not to get favorable trade deals, change the trade balance, or increase US manufacturing exports. The goal is zero trade, or nearly so as part of a path to completely isolate the US from the rest of the world, to make it easier to implement their christo-fascist fantasy theme park.

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Quoted for emphasis. They brazenly published the P25 document and no one paid any attention! Pathetic. Puts the lie to "the wisdom of crowds".

theevilsharpie said:

Can you be specific about how Trump is ignoring a SCOTUS ruling? I don't have a NYT sub, and the headline doesn't match your assertion.

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When I went and had a look, it was the second subject in the link - I'm guessing this is some kind of "live updates" feed. I believe the following excerpt is short enough to be within Fair Use:

"In a brief legal filing, the Justice Department reiterated its view that courts lack the ability to dictate steps that the White House should take in seeking to return the man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, to U.S. soil, because the president alone has broad powers to handle foreign policy."

garrobon said:

Of course he did. Which product/industry will he exempt next? What a stupid, self-inflicted mess.

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Actually from the standpoint of causing the most chaos it is brilliant.* By exempting some things and not others. By giving everyone but China a 90 day reprieve, but jacking up tariffs for China you've fragmented a possible unified front against his BS.
This has always been the Orange Shit Stain's plan. Cause chaos in a way that it seems like he's using a pair of 20 siders to figure out his next action. You can't defend against insanity or random actions.

That said the leaders of the world aren't dumb. Even with the 90 day stall on tariffs you can bet your ass everyone is talking with everyone else. No one with an ounce of sanity thinks that Trump is going to back down after 90 days. Well outside the morons on Wall Street. Socks when up when they have zero reason to.


*And when I say brilliant I mean in a totally random, totally unplanned sense for him. There is nothing brilliant about totally f'ing over the economy for your friends to get to pull a reverse Trump 'n Dump.

Locke said:

At this rate we're going to need Nuremberg level trials.

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So, Judgement at Milwaukee (since that is where Trump was officially made the nominee last time)?

Works for me.

Carewolf said:

Ehh. One problem with recession is that it is defined as two quarters of negative growth. This means it technically takes six months to be defined as happening.

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In the case of Liz Truss in the UK, it took less than the shelf life of a lettuce. She fired those who refused to support her economic plan, but the markets spoke very quickly and sharply. The US is somewhat insulated from sharp increases in the cost of debt, but we will see what happens to US bonds after this latest shitshow.

Ecmaster76 said:

Hot dogs

The thing about not matching bun count has been known for ages but shrinkflation has brought a new low

Five-packs of franks

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But still buns in 8-packs. There's no solution except to buy eight five packs of franks and 5 eight packs of franks.

With the old numbers, you'd still have been committing to eat 40 hot dogs.

It isn't the sin of gluttony unless you want to eat them, right?