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SteevyT

@ SteevyT @beehaw.org

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  • It’s getting harder to skirt RTO policies without employers noticing

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  • weird-looking Ps.

    Yup, everything I see this in the wild it takes two reads to figure it out, especially since in my font the upper tail is barely there. I'm about ready to see if there's an extension for Firefox thst will convert them back to th at this point.

  • This startup wants to use the Earth as a massive battery

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  • In the cycling world it's kinda funny how people try to make a low climbing century (100 mile route) as a first go, and where I am I have a glut of choices for centuries with well under 1,000 meters of climbing. I just cleared out a bunch of my routes, and still have two century routes with under 600m of climbing.

  • Australia’s attempt to join the space race lasts 14 seconds

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  • Add fuel until it stops going, add engines until it starts exploding, then add struts until it stops exploding. Repeat to orbit.

  • Rain barrel spigot.

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  • Rain barrel spigot.

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  • I found a bulkhead fitting that would fit through the barrel bung on mine. There is a string trick to thread it into place; but I just kinda shook the barrel a bit and it fell into place.

  • how's your week going, Beehaw

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  • Discovered a couple days ago that the rear brake on my nice road bike was dragging badly. Like, give the wheel a spin and it would stop in half a turn bad. No clue how I never noticed that in the not quite a year I've had the thing.

    The insane part is that for a similar effort, my nice bike with a dragging brake still resulted in something like a 2 or 3 mph higher average speed than the still pretty nice gravel bike. I haven't had a chance to ride it since fixing the brake so I'm curious how it does now.

    Although, that also would explain some downhill coasting speed weirdness I noticed on group rides.

  • The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia | 404 Media

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  • Half-assed Google search suggests he's worth somewhere between 20 and 70 million.

    Astronomer as a company is worth around a billion.

  • 3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought | 404 Media

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  • Just a note on how nozzles are made, they are machined brass usually. They can wear pretty significantly over their lifespan too, especially if you run harsh materials (glow in the dark is harsh enough that a brass nozzle might not last a single print).

    There are hardened steel nozzles, but even those are a wear item, they just wear slowly. As I said somewhere else, it's like trying to chase down a ransom note by analyzing the shape of the lead of a pencil that may have been used to write it. Just using it changes the properties.

  • 3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought | 404 Media

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  • Both the ones for adjustment, and the operator.

  • 3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought | 404 Media

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  • You'd also have to use the same slicer settings, similar room conditions, make sure that you have the same filament roll (assuming it's an FDM printer), make sure that nothing hardware wise was tweaked (eg. fixing belt tension), make sure nothing software wise was tweaked (it's nuts how much difference temp can make), make sure nothing firmware wise was tweaked, and the nozzle cant have had too many prints between the suspicious one and now (or like half of a glow in the dark or carbon fiber filled print).

    Edit: and same print orientation, just turning the part direction in the slicer causes different artifacts, in extreme cases I've seen a part facing one way fail, but a quarter turn right or left prints flawlessly.

  • 3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought | 404 Media

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  • I can change what an individual print line looks like to the naked eye just by something as simple as tweaking temperature or print speed. Good luck getting anything remotely consistent intentionally by clever nozzle machining.

    Also, nozzles are dead simple to make, it's literally just a large drill bit (1.75mm diameter or so) with a smaller (.05mm to 1mm) drill poking the last bit through. Tip is slightly flattened off and away it goes.

    Also, as someone else said, nozzles are a wear item, it's like trying to track a car down by the brake pads, or a pencil down by the shape of the lead at the tip, using it changes the characteristics of it.

  • I Signed Up for Trump Mobile So You Don't Have To

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  • At work, cant watch.

    Does it still have a 5,000 mAh long life camera?

  • Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.'

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  • We are the priests of the temples of Syrinx

  • What's growing on, Beehaw?

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  • Well, I do have a couple stair rails with 550 cord strung between them to attempt to get them to climb. My wife is a bit afraid that the vines wont be able to support the weight of the squashes when they start coming in though.

  • What's growing on, Beehaw?

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  • Chicken wire fence worked well to keep the groundhog away from the squash. Squash is going nuts again, not sure how I'll keep it in the garden bed. Green beans are going well, replanted a bunch of carrots to replace the ones that died hopefully. I think that whst I thought were Brussel sprouts are actually cucumber, and what I thought was cucumber is Brussel sprouts so neither is where I wanted them. Raspberry bushes are also coming in very quickly, blueberry bushes are being very slow.

  • Walmart Scales Back Self-Checkout Amid Security and Customer Feedback

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  • Something something pass the butter.

  • Walmart Scales Back Self-Checkout Amid Security and Customer Feedback

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  • As said elsewhere, you're probably farther north, or in a larger city (or both) than them. Where I am I can get away with about 4 words. Even just a day's drive south starts to test my patience.

  • Zelensky assassination plot foiled: what to know

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  • It's basically R.E.D. but from wish.com.

  • What's growing on, Beehaw?

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  • I put fencing up around the plot today, hopefully that works. Next step is to systematically armor up all the areas that it keeps trying to dig into with landscaping blocks.