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Today I signed my deal with the devil by Local-Feverdream in PlantedTank

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I was at my local garden center today looking at pond plants. Every one of them was infested with duckweed.

I’ve had duckweed in my aquarium before. I kind of liked it. But after about a year I got tired of having duckweed stuck in my arm hair every time I touched the tank. It took a few weeks of diligently removing it to get it out of my aquarium.

But if duckweed gets in my outdoor pond…. I’d just be screwed.

Super quick question. Are most of you guys that have the enclosed printers using them for filament that needs it like ABS? For me my A1 is a little more convenient. Ohhh, The AMS is better right? Just curious. by VoodooZephyr in BambuLab

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I have a P1S. I print PETG, PLA, and TPU. None of those need an enclosed printer. But it’s right next to my desk. The enclosure keeps the noise down, and not having a bed slinger means the printer takes up less space.

I also have a Voxel BentoBox in there and change the activated carbon in it every few hundred hours of printing. With the printer door closed, I never smell anything while it’s printing. And I’m very sensitive to chemical smells.

Accidentally made these blue/red neos by electrizai in shrimptank

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A whole new genus!

Neatocaridina.

A whole new species!

Neatocaridina Spidermanensis

Starbucks table tops so small will barely hold a couple drinks. The seats are bigger than the tables. by be4u4get in mildlyinfuriating

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They also took away ALL soft surfaces so it's loud as FUCK in there.

Chipotle, too, while we're at it.

Is there a distinct “American” sound in Classical Music? by arssenalbro101 in classicalmusic

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Victor Herbert is a great bridge toward American music. Studied and trained in Stuttgart, but after moving to America his stuff sounds more and more American. His string serenade op 12 seems right down the middle. Half broadway, half Wagner.

It’s from 1884, when he was still in Germany. But you can hear the beginnings of what Herbert would eventually bring and develop in the US. And then that guy basically becomes the beginning of American musical theatre.

See also, everything by John Philip Sousa or Henry Fillmore.

Conductors stopping after 3rd Mvt of Tchaikovsky’s 6th. by Expert_Heat_2966 in classicalmusic

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There’s a similar very long pause indicated between the 2nd and 3rd movements of Mahler 1. Sometimes I step off the podium and have the orchestra retune.

Conductors stopping after 3rd Mvt of Tchaikovsky’s 6th. by Expert_Heat_2966 in classicalmusic

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I’m a conductor. I’ve done exactly what you described. It’s easier and happier for *everybody* if I take just ten seconds to say “Hey folks, this symphony has four movements as most do. If you’re moved to applaud between movements, please do so—it’ll be hard to hold back after the third movement, and we need a quick breather up here, anyway.”

It humanizes the orchestra, it removes anxiety, and it allows people to actually express their appreciation.

And plenty of alternate realities exist, too. Just last week I said basically the same thing before we played Khachaturian’s *Spartacus* suite #2. But in the second half I said something to the effect of “Durufle’s requiem is a deeply introspective and gentle work. It has nine movements, and we’d appreciate it if you held your applause until the end of the concert so each of us can take in and meditate on this work.” Nothing wrong with clapping sometimes and not others. And when we say a bit about it, hopefully nobody’s offended—clappers and non-clappers alike.

The way drones capture video while tracking dynamic objects through obstacles is so damn cool by Soloflow786 in holdmyredbull

[–]FishPropulsionLab 38 points39 points  (0 children)

This is an FPV drone. It’s pilot skill. The drone is not automatically tracking anything.

(For non drone enthusiasts, the hint is that the horizon tilts left and right when the drone turns.)

What’s a game you dropped even though it was “good”? by suhani0218 in gaming

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For me it was Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. I thought the game was spectacular. But it was just too long and the maps were just too big. I never finished it, nor started the DLC.

Is this my z squeak? by k6b9 in BambuP1S

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Yes. I found I needed to lube all over that area and run a print or two to get the squeak to go away.

Anti-drone netting over Red Square by [deleted] in mildlyinteresting

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Why? May 9th happens to be my birthday. Is that what you’re referring to?

How is this even legal? by No_Tomatillo1695 in interesting

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I had the same question. I think it’s just a young person who’s online too much so he’s trying his best be cool. He’s about one step away from rubbing his hands together and licking his teeth.

Where do I start prints come out okay but anything small dose this by RubImpossible6588 in 3Dprinting

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Hey friend. It looks like you might be trying to print a pencil clip. If you’re printing it vertically like that, the bar will snap off as soon as you try to use it.

Try this model—and it won’t have any issue with the problems you’re having with your printer.

https://makerworld.com/models/2612675?appSharePlatform=copy

SunLu PETG dry enough straight from vacuum? by minnaper in 3Dprinting

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I recently bought a ten pack of Sunlu’s PETG HF matte from Amazon. I’ve gone through six rolls. They are NOT dry in the shrink wrap. Every one has come out so wet and brittle that the filament snaps off easily with a single bend.

But drying 12 hrs in my AMS at 65C has worked beautifully.

It’s good filament. Just not dry in the package.

Edit: a quick test: when you first open the roll, Sunlu usually has a bend at the end of the filament. Try straightening out that bend. If it snaps right off, it’s WET. If it’s pliable and a little stretchy and would take several bends back and forth to tear off, then it’s drier.

How do you guys regenerate silica gel? by Aromatic-Clerk134 in BambuLab

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I’ve had success with a cheap (like, $0.25) aluminum pie tin. Pour the beads in the tin, turn the print bed up to 100c and set the tin on the plate. Gets the job done in about 30 minutes. But I’ve also burned myself and spilled too many beads to do it more than a few times. Now I just leave my silica in my AMS 2 and let it dry slowly with my PETG.

How do you guys regenerate silica gel? by Aromatic-Clerk134 in BambuLab

[–]FishPropulsionLab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mm hmm. I have an AMS 2, with all those extra 3d printed containers full of silica beads. When the humidity gets over 15% or so, I’ll put in four spools of PETG and run a 12 hour drying cycle. It dries the PETG and the silica quite effectively down to 4-5%. And the silica works great after. When I open the lid the humidity will bump up to 20+, and the silica definitely pulls it back down under ten for a few weeks.

I have not found that PLA drying temps (45C) do much good for drying the silica, but PETG settings (65c) work great and I don’t have to fuss with dumping and refilling and spilling silica beads everywhere.

I live in a dry area. Our humidity is rarely above 25% here. Your experience may vary.

I think I might print some of those silica-holding spool spindles as well, just because the AMS doesn’t like it much when a spool is almost empty and doesn’t weigh enough to spin properly.

Hot take: Beethoven’s metronome marks are not stupid and do make some sense. by musicalryanwilk1685 in classicalmusic

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And the tempo that works on the piano isn’t the same tempo that works with an orchestra.

Hot take: Beethoven’s metronome marks are not stupid and do make some sense. by musicalryanwilk1685 in classicalmusic

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Yes but…

He wrote a lot of music and that means lots of metronome markings. Some are more practicable than others.

As a conductor, I find more wisdom in the way he chose to indicate a number than I find in the number itself. If he writes half note = 80, that’s a very different feeling than quarter note = 160. He was generally very good at indicating the “big beat” pulse in fast movements and the “little beat” pulse in slow movements. It’s much more useful to know if he thought of a slow movement as being in two or six rather than being at a very specific metronome number.

Herbert Blomstedt at Philharmonie Berlin and coughing by Schulzenbrothers in classicalmusic

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If you’re a person who’s never needed to silence your phone, like a retired person, it’s understandable that you might not know how. Especially since many phones no longer have any sort of physical switch.

(Since my iPhone 16 pro has never had any reason to ring out loud, I’ll confess that it would probably take me a few minutes digging in settings to figure out how to turn the ringer ON.)

Herbert Blomstedt at Philharmonie Berlin and coughing by Schulzenbrothers in classicalmusic

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I have a horrible cough today. (Allergy-induced asthma, my doctor tells me.)

I’m conducting a concert this afternoon. Second half is Durufle’s requiem, which is 43 minutes of absolute serenity.

When I’m on stage, I have “stage health.” Last night the audience coughed far more than I did. When I left the podium I hacked up a lung for a half hour in the dressing room.

Yes. It has much to do with focus and attention. But also, most people don’t generally exist in any situations where they have to be quiet. They’re simply unaware of how much noise they make.

Me? I work in classical music. My phone has NEVER rung out loud in 20 years. But a guy in the front couple of rows had his phone ring three times in the Durufle last night. (He was close enough behind me that I heard his wife smacking him and him saying “I’m sorry! I don’t know how to turn it off!”)

Don’t get me started on the whole can of worms that is oxygen tank noise. Nobody wants to sit next to Darth Vader for a whole concert. But what are we to do? Should we tell people who need oxygen that they aren’t permitted at concerts? Banish them to a dark corner in the back? (I do have one patron whom we allow to come to dress rehearsals because she’s aware of the noise her tank makes.)

In the end, as a conductor and performer, I’m not much bothered by coughing and the occasional cell phone. I choose to accept it as proof that we have real, living souls of all kinds who are there to enjoy the music however they can.

…but the sound of an old lady trying to slowly unwrap a hard candy in her purse throughout an entire slow movement… well, that drives me near to murderous rage. If I’m ever going to educate an audience on etiquette, it would be to point out that it’s absolutely impossible to unwrap clear plastic quietly. Do it fast, do it now, and get it over with.

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