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17 hours agoPhillip Morris gets you hooked on nicotine…then ten years later sells you vapes so you can tell the Internet you quit smoking.
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Mosquitos have been in North Ontario for hundreds of years.
oh the media…remember when we were all going to die of ebola?
5·1 day agoBambu did the biggest own-goal I have seen in decades. Meanwhile, at Snapmaker…
Not in my experience. They are tools like any other tool.
their proprietary slicer
That’s the problem, it cannot be proprietary when based off slic3R. It’s not their property to lock down.
- The costs (monetary and environmental) of launching so many new satellites,
Fraction of damage and cost of earth based datacentres.
- Large-scale computing technology is untested in that kind of environment and will likely encounter a number of issues and unforeseen problems (so more launches until they get it right),
We’ve been putting computers and satellites in space for decades.
- Additional radiation will increase errors, so they will require a more robust design with more redundancy than Earth-based systems,
That’s what shielding is for. We have probes still working after 48 years in space.
- If they’re in a low orbit similar to Starlink satellites (which have an expected lifetime of 5 to 7 years) they will need to be constantly replaced.
so place them in higher orbit.
How are they going to cool these in space which is notoriously hard to cool things down in?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft_thermal_control
The problems with datacenters are power consumption and water use. This addresses both problems. Sunny side picks up tons of solar generated electricity, dark side radiates heat.
Velcro. Memory foam.
Seriously? that’s the best you could do?
You can’t even dissipate heat
of course you can, by thermal radiation. Power by solar panels which can generate a lot without atmosphere filtering sun energy.
5·1 day agoIf you’re gonna compare modern cars and emission systems to cars from 50 years ago that were straight piped and barely had catalytic converter then sure go ahead.
because of bullshit emissions laws. you think all that was voluntary?
“Doctor” Oz is no longer just a daytime TV huckster
He was fired from Columbia medical by a petition signed by real doctors.
Canada’s age is 16, irrelevant because we don’t fuck children.
Tech companies do this every week. It’s like a trade agreement with Trump. Both agree and sign a EULA, then they just throw it out. Cricut did this with their systems. Fucking legal because of shit laws.
when they locked out Orca Slicer from the cloud services originally.
Which violated the AGPL license from Ranellucci.
limited research needed to make their own products - they’re just copying open patents and software, tuning it a little, and selling the package at manufacturing cost + profit margins
So you really have no idea about these printers. Bambu has a dozen patents for novel IP.
“copying open patents” no such thing as an open patent, IP is either patent, or open domain. All printer companies exploit expired patents, including Prusa.
Stratasys is suing Bambu over: Purge Towers, Force Detection, Networked Systems & Smart Spools, but Stratasys are cunts who try to sue anyone. How did they get a patent for purge towers.
Right, there are many forks of the software, which is allowed under the AGPL licence.
Slic3r by Alessandro Ranellucci established the original open-source foundation.
Then PrusaSlicer forked from that -ok.
Then Orcaslicer forked from that -ok.
Then Bambu locked down it’s fork - not ok, violation of the slic3r AGPL.
It’s like…can I borrow your car? puts a bumper sticker on it, changes the locks, my car now.
Slic3r is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3.
The GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) is a strong copyleft, free software license designed to ensure source code remains open, even when software is run over a network. Based on GPLv3, it closes the “ASP loophole” by requiring companies that modify and offer software as a service (SaaS) to make the source code available to users.
Exactly what the GPL means, Bambu intern.
You will not be able to swap out a water heater for $3500.