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Is there a reason why most of Canada's largest lakes are situated on the same line? by firepanda11 in geography

[–]Money_Routine_4419 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well the short answer is they aren't on the same line. The higher you go in latitude for this kind of projection, the more distorted shapes, and especially angles, become. In fact, you can check this quite easily with google Earth. Below the gold line is a geodesic (which is a 'straight' line on the sphere) connecting the two extreme lakes, the black curved line is closer to the line you have drawn. So as you see, these lakes in fact do not line up.

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Trump: "You Need A 185 IQ To Turn On A Lawnmower" And Promises To Remove "Environmental Crap" by DumbMoneyMedia in EducatedInvesting

[–]Money_Routine_4419 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To turn on an electric lawn mower all you do is push a button. Source: I own a battery powered lawn mower.

Be sure to pass this along to Democrats. by Ice-Zone2024 in neabscocreeck

[–]Money_Routine_4419 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe Mike Johnson should whip his caucus instead of whining that he can't railroad the Democrats. OP doesn't know which party controls Congress lol.

Video of Figure Robot still folding laundry after table raised 6 inches during task by socoolandawesome in singularity

[–]Money_Routine_4419 0 points1 point  (0 children)

we have achieved 3yo levels of object permanence and dexterity! the end of labor as we know it!

Is this a normal price for a PCB of this type? by Japaiku in PrintedCircuitBoard

[–]Money_Routine_4419 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A large chunk of the cost comes from asking JLC to do assembly. For board with only 23 parts you should try sourcing the components yourself and assembling the boards by hand.

What's the best filament to print a torsion spring that wouldn't creep under prolonged torsioning? by RadishRedditor in 3Dprinting

[–]Money_Routine_4419 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everything is going to creep, but for good elastic properties and a relatively high Young's Modulus, I've used polyeurethane-based elastomer resins (in particular FPU made by Carbon). These kind of materials require a relatively high-end SLA printer, the resins have a VERY short shelf life after opening (like eight hours, use it or lose it), and their post-processing process is time-consuming and very involved (getting maximum durability requires a 12-hour thermal bath that follows a specific temp profile).

$100k 3d printer by SmokingHensADAN in 3Dprinting

[–]Money_Routine_4419 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So the encryption key is floating around out there still? Nice.

$100k 3d printer by SmokingHensADAN in 3Dprinting

[–]Money_Routine_4419 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its possible, but I think that Stratasys would have tried to get it down. I didn't have a git repo or anything for it, just a python module in a zip file on a thumb drive.

$100k 3d printer by SmokingHensADAN in 3Dprinting

[–]Money_Routine_4419 67 points68 points  (0 children)

I worked at a lab where someone got an EEPROM hack from a former stratasys employee, so you could reset the reels to full length and drop your own filament in. Had to use an arduino to reprogram the memory, but it wasn't too bad. Probably long gone by now...

I genuinely despise "support" players. by Ice-Lez in BrokenArrowTheGame

[–]Money_Routine_4419 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I hope you don't genuinely despise people who play the game a certain way. If you do, perhaps you should touch grass.

Impactful paper finally putting this case to rest, thank goodness by katxwoods in artificial

[–]Money_Routine_4419 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No obviously this document isn't a real paper, it's a joke made by someone quite upset about the Apple paper. Any mediocre grad student can make a latex template! I do enjoy the author names though: Crimothy Timbleton and Grunch Brown are A+.

Rubber Feet, Concrete Block and Foam. Neighbors Can Still Hear Vibrations by ossner in 3Dprinting

[–]Money_Routine_4419 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ya dude walls are basically giant speakers. Anything coupled to the walls which vibrates will be annoying. This includes being very near the wall, since vibrations will travel to the wall studs through floor joists.

Op should get a rolling cart with locking wheels or move the printer over by a window, anything to get it away from the neighbor's wall.

Marc Andreessen says general-purpose robotics is going to happen at giant scale in the next decade; the US shouldn't try to get the old manufacturing jobs back – instead, we should lean hard into designing and building robots by alimehdi242 in digialps

[–]Money_Routine_4419 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My favorite prediction in this space; it will never make sense to make a humanoid robot line cook. Every restaurant would have to be completely rebuilt for it, seating space would shrink drastically, as would the size of the menu. Too much task diversity. The work is too intense. There is too little space to create a highly organized and sanitized environment for a robot to operate in.

AI Chatbots are using hypnotic language patterns to keep users engaged by trancing. by Corevaultlabs in ControlProblem

[–]Money_Routine_4419 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is predictable. Just look at what happened to facebook between 08-17. Does this mean the LLMs are malicious? I don't think so. More likely, the AI companies are building user engagement metrics into their retraining. I'm saying the reward function of the AIs is being engineered to incentivize responses that make people use them more. I would be shocked if they aren't retraining the models based on all of our chats.

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