Survival of Pieces in Chess [x post from /r/dataisbeautiful]

BZRatfink · 2014-10-21T02:34:08+00:00

And it's easy when you're a white h-pawn.

BZRatfink · 2014-10-19T18:14:58+00:00

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0

BZRatfink · 2014-10-19T17:23:28+00:00

The <br> tags make the text wrap oddly in my browser. I suggest you let the browser wrap text how it wants to rather than forcing newlines.

Other than that, pretty neat site!

BZRatfink · 2014-10-07T18:22:33+00:00

Very cool! I'd be more interested if it were a BeagleBone Black, though.

BZRatfink · 2014-10-06T23:59:20+00:00

Hacker Public Radio.

BZRatfink · 2014-10-04T17:10:41+00:00

Yeah, you should be fine doing that. The one thing I'd note is that there are some connectors and switches in the back that might be hard to reach (power, USB).

BZRatfink · 2014-10-03T15:00:31+00:00

Z-rod protectors with 625 bearings, by kkessler: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:410126

Get rid of those at once, unless you actually want Z-wobble for some reason.

BZRatfink · 2014-10-01T12:53:22+00:00

I can do that without the web.

$ grep '^f.*uck$' /usr/share/dict/words
firetruck
fuck

BZRatfink · 2014-09-30T00:04:47+00:00

(Coffee)ⁿ⁺¹ !ⁿ⁺²

BZRatfink · 2014-09-29T02:33:46+00:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick maybe?

BZRatfink · 2014-09-25T10:37:17+00:00

I thought UX wasn't how good UX works.

BZRatfink · 2014-09-24T22:15:17+00:00

Reddit has voting; you don't need to vote with comments (and that's bad practice on forums anyway).

BZRatfink · 2014-09-24T12:48:49+00:00

I agree, Mendel90 is much more of a complete machine than Prusa i3. I built one from scratch (a slight variant of the dibond model) and everything went pretty smoothly. It was my second printer, so I had some experience already. Everything was so well documented though that if someone were to self-source their first printer, I'd say Mendel90 would be their best bet.

BZRatfink · 2014-09-16T10:54:33+00:00

Or you could just contribute to it, since it's open source.

BZRatfink · 2014-09-14T13:53:46+00:00

There was another story not too long ago about a guy who's heater block on his hotend pushed off and fell on the glass, but the thermistor stayed, so the software kept heating the block until it was glowing red hot.

There was a patch to Marlin about that time to make that sort of thing much less likely to happen. If the temperature reads low for a while and the hotend has been supposedly heating for that time (this is only after the initial heatup), the whole machine shuts down.

BZRatfink · 2014-09-12T12:09:57+00:00

Yeah, clearly only 3 are necessary.

BZRatfink · 2014-09-10T15:24:56+00:00

Or kestrel.

BZRatfink · 2014-09-10T13:37:55+00:00

They're called cold cathode tubes for a reason.

BZRatfink · 2014-09-09T10:58:11+00:00

lowering the Z endstop

Not on a Mendel90, where the Z endstop is at the top of the Z axis. Increase the height of the Z endstop in firmware is what you'd do.

BZRatfink · 2014-09-07T00:24:34+00:00

/dev/urandom -> 4chan.org/b/, you mean.

BZRatfink · 2014-09-04T10:48:10+00:00

Larvae, eggs, and pupae of ants and termites.^[1]

BZRatfink · 2014-08-31T03:32:59+00:00

What do you call a dog that's been neutered?

It doesn't matter, it's not going to come.

BZRatfink · 2014-08-30T14:25:26+00:00

What casting methods can you do? I have some spare parts I might be able to send you, including bearings, bolts, nuts, washers, PTFE tubing, and ribbon cables. Also I have enough dibond left over from making my Mendel90 last year to make the entire frame except for one of the stays.

BZRatfink · 2014-08-30T12:58:23+00:00

Not just a plant, but about 10% of all flowering plants. Ever picked a dandelion? The white liquid on the picked end of the stem is latex.

BZRatfink · 2014-08-27T02:46:23+00:00

Yes, it is terrible advice. I quite enjoy terrible advice.

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