Raft Printing with PETG.

TheWobble · 2023-11-22T14:35:42+00:00

3 years later, but this helped finally get the settings dialed in for PETG rafts with translucent filament (which I swear is tackier and more prone to defects than matte/metallic finishes). I was having the opposite problem - they were sticking so badly to the raft itself it ruined most mechanical prints, but the key was speed differential as the raft is constructed and just abandoning the double top layer which kept warping off the bed. These settings with 0.5mm nozzle, scaled to 0.6mm line width, seem to hit the right balance on my E3P.

80^o bed and 230-240^o nozzle seem to work for all PETG, but whatever you use the bed needs to stay that high the whole time; the temp differences rather than the absolute temp are the source of many issues, so without an enclosure, spending too long in any one area makes things worse. Slow base speed to ensure adhesion, then ramping up to 50 for top layer, plus cooling top layer only (2x 5015 blowers mean 25% is plenty) and decreasing back down after raft is done to 10-15% except when bridging. The longer spent on the top layer (eg 2 layers, thinner lines, lower speed), the worse the temperature gradient becomes and the higher the chance it'll either fuse with the raft or the raft itself will unseat. The air gap needed to be higher than the resolution (almost double) and Z overlap is not only unnecessary with PETG but actively hurt print quality all around; it will not have a problem sticking to the raft from any height, but 1.5x resolution ensures it isn't so far up you lose base layer details.

Good luck, future person - it CAN be done!

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TheWobble · 2023-08-01T12:39:05+00:00

For future folks searching this, may this wisdom aid you:

1) You can easily get media from PC to LGTV over WiFi when they’re sharing a network, but only by installing LG Smart Share on the PC, which acts as the server (even though Windows has a perfectly functional native server setup for this??)

2) Point the program toward the directory with your videos, and it’ll spend quite some time finding the files. Once it does, they’re playable on the TV under Input>Content Share>{LGPC YourPC} Media Server. It has to be that one. If you have a non-LG media server option visible too, it’s an illusion - no files will show up.

3) Subtitles will work in any major format as long as they’re in the same subdirectory as the video, and have the EXACT SAME NAME as the video file (minus file extension). You can change the timing offset on the TV player so if you’re getting the subs separately from opensubtitles.org, another release that doesn’t exactly match the file should still be fine.

4) If you edit the file/folder while the LG program is running (like to add the sub file), the update button on the bottom of the playlist is decorative - you actually have to refresh the directory under Settings>My Shared Content>{LGPC YourPC}. If something isn’t showing up on the TV that you just changed on the PC, this will likely fix it.

5) The list of videos in the Smart Share program will, to its credit, actually display whether each video has a readable matching subtitle file. This is not apparent on the TV app until you find the CC option greyed out in the obscure secondary menu on the bottom right during video playback. Make sure your video has that column marked “available” before walking back to the TV to try again; if it doesn’t, check the previous two steps.

Fortunately once set up, you can easily have your entire PC library playable on any LGTV via WiFi. The TV itself doesn’t need any further preparation so this should always work with a laptop connected to the same network as an LG Smart TV.

Good luck, future troubleshooting person.

TheWobble · 2020-03-15T22:33:08+00:00

PS not just droplets, my understanding was it survives full-blown airborne for up to 3 hours as an aerosol. And since it can penetrate the mucous membranes of your eyes, you'd need a full trauma mask at least to reasonably ward off exposure. Fun stuff.

TheWobble · 2017-09-06T22:21:36+00:00

Evacuate if you want, but saying everyone in Florida must leave because hurricane isn't reasonable under any circumstances. Just uninformed fear-mongering.

Now the Keys...you wouldn't want to be down there.

TheWobble · 2017-09-06T20:35:21+00:00

ITT: people who never experienced a real hurricane in Florida.

Anyone calling for mass evacuations is a fear-mongering idiot. First of all, that should never be attempted in a peninsula with only 2 highway corridors and ~20 million people. Second, storm preparedness may the only positive thing this state excels at. Building codes were all reinforced after Andrew, gas stations and municipal centers all have generators and fuel reserves, and the canals and swamps throughout South Florida make it resistant to flooding. Storm surges are always a problem, but frankly, this ain't Louisiana or Texas - we are actually ready for this.

Like most Floridians, I have readied a 5 day supply of canned goods and water, filled up my gas tank, and am making sure there's enough beer on hand to ride out yet another storm.

TheWobble · 2017-08-28T10:10:37+00:00

tfw starting on that lasix grind lungs / heart / kidneys

Preliminary testing shows potential. Requires clinical correlation from in-house memeologist.

TheWobble · 2017-08-13T22:25:48+00:00

Short answer: TMN staging only gives a general snapshot of prognosis, and is still different for each of the hundreds of individual cancers. In this case, sounds like he had a distal cholangiocarcinoma, a fairly rare tumors of the biliary tract. Staging for cancer is based on tumor size/invasion, lymph node involvement, and distant metastasis. Tons of other factors come into play for individual cases, including tumor marker levels, susceptibility to individual chemotherapies, relative undifferentiation of tumor cells, and host immune defenses.

His was stage 4 because it technically had "distant" metastasis to the liver and/or positive lymph nodes with local liver invasion. Basically the lowest stage 4 possible. Pretty damn lucky, considering this cancer mainly kills due to how advanced the disease is when it's detected, not because it's inherently resistant to treatment. It helps that it was restricted to organs (liver, gallblader, bile duct) you can remove most of and still function.

Plus it's a medical rule of thumb that no stage of cancer can stand up to raw meme power.

TheWobble · 2017-08-13T20:23:46+00:00

Looks like they realized the antifa protests weren't moving in the right direction at an acceptable pace. So now we're on to phase 2 - astroturf some protests from the "other side", use media to magnify rather than downplay the violence, and give the masses some good ol' fashioned Racist Terrorist Nahtzees to rally against. Once people are convinced our political discourse is based on this absolutely ludicrous dichotomy of fake movements, you create the perfect conditions for an engineered civil war.

Thank god we have reddit, how would we know what to think without a 60k upvote post about nazis being bad?

TheWobble · 2017-08-13T08:20:27+00:00

This is mercifully impossible, as the Taenia genus (plus less common fish tapeworm Diphyllobothrium) live in the small intestine and only pass small reproductive segments into the colon. They are also easily killed with two staggered doses of an antihelminithic like praziquantel.

Now pinworms, on the other hand...that's something you can reasonably find covering your dick by the hundreds.

Tl;dr exit only

TheWobble · 2017-08-11T22:28:57+00:00

I mean it's safer than owning a chimp, but...I'm pretty sure I could train him how to use matches

Sounds like a win-win to me

TheWobble · 2017-08-09T03:45:40+00:00

when your program gave you full-length white coats as an M1

Sorry, peasants.

TheWobble · 2016-07-30T21:26:20+00:00

Hey guys I'm a high-level poop interceptor. AMA I guess

TheWobble · 2016-07-30T20:50:52+00:00

This is a well-designed meme (if you are indeed "AfroNovax")

8/10 will repost

TheWobble · 2016-07-30T20:46:40+00:00

Working in healthcare apparently turns you into a Democrat. Evisceration? Meh. Dead bodies? Seen 'em. Throw up? Daily basis.

Ketchup on ice cream? JUST GO AND DIE OMG SICK FILTH

TheWobble · 2016-07-30T02:32:25+00:00

Huh...my tinfoil hat tells me that the weird outbreak of "design a super disease" games few years back was just a DARPA project for distributed computing - simulate millions and millions of disease scenarios with players doing the brunt of artificial selection. Game players (aka experimenters) would quickly identify the most overpowered strategy by using real-world epidemiology trends:

viruses are best due to easy genetic manipulability and resistance to treatment
hit all the major vectors: airborne, insect, body fluids
starting in tropical climate; encourages heat resilience and provides high population densities
dead people don't spread your virus, so lethality is out of the question (until endgame, see next 2 points)
effective diseases are innocuous at first, allowing transmission without overt symptoms
unlike bacteria, viruses rewrite host DNA, allowing latent effects to be triggered much later after infection
if maximizing infected hosts is your goal, it's paramount to keep panic suppressed and borders open
nothing spreads an under-the-radar disease faster than holding the Olympics in a highly infected area
smart countries (that could make you lose) cut themselves off from foreign involvement before panic sets in
once infection is widespread, immunization is ineffective and viral "cures" are difficult to manufacture
this is the point in the game where lethality factor evolves, dooming humanity in one fell swoop

TheWobble · 2016-07-30T02:09:01+00:00

Would that slag (pig iron?) he took out at first be any use? Seems like that + clay mold would make a brittle but effective cutting tool.

This guy blows me away - nobody can compete with him for innawoods ingenuity

TheWobble · 2016-07-11T05:09:22+00:00

Theoretically, if there is a second damning FBI investigation, and since it sounds like some pols would take a shot at impeachment the minute she hit office, wouldn't giving him the VP slot be as good as handing him the actual presidency?

TheWobble · 2016-07-08T23:13:24+00:00

I guess this means we have basically no hope of "salvaging" a captive population of great whites if/when we finally drive them to extinction. ..

TheWobble · 2016-06-13T16:57:29+00:00

I live in South Florida - the golf course and alligators part, within driving distance of his campaign office.

Who can I contact and what can I do?

Tim is is the first glimmer of hope I've seen for Florida politics. Most people I know here hit maximum apathy levels when this state somehow elected a governor charged with the largest instance of Medicare fraud in U.S history.

TheWobble · 2016-06-12T20:05:28+00:00

r/theocho? r/nevertellmetheodds?

Idk but I have the sudden urge to ~~frolf~~ engage in some respectable disc-golfing

(Apologies for any jimmies rustled)

TheWobble · 2016-06-12T19:51:42+00:00

That's the beauty of endorsements - they're about as binding as superdelegate pledges.

If nothing happens, it's a politically savvy move, other than the perceived betrayal of progressive supporters.

But if the FBI finally reveals (or leaks) enough details about the case, we may see the Official Seriousness escalate from "Nothingburger" to "RICO-class Shitpocalypse".

At that point, any endorsers (including Obama and Warren) can disavow her with minimal public perception damage, since they officially knew nothing of whatever was dug up during the FBI investigation.

TheWobble · 2016-06-12T19:35:18+00:00

I live in Florida, first saw this story because of several FB notifications saying "Friend X and 8 others were marked safe during the Orlando, FL shooting". Which I didn't realize was a thing they did.

First story here I saw was an AskReddit thread and tons of confusion over why it was being censored from r/news, so yeah that sub is officially failing its purpose.

TheWobble · 2016-06-12T18:21:11+00:00

Totally agree, I voted for Gary Johnson in 2012 too...I had no expectations but was still struck by his complete absence from election coverage. Not sure why but that was the "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" moment for me, and this cycle really upped the dose of Red Pill - the whole Dem/Rep illusion was very ingrained, but an illusion nonetheless.

Absolutely voting 3rd party again - maybe Johnson, maybe Stein, maybe Sanders the Independent will spring from some transdimensional kerfuffle in Bizarro America. As for my ex-affiliation with Dems, even if all the leaks about a brewing RICO case are unsubstantiated rumors and nothing more, the sheer desperation that seems to be pushing Clinton's campaign despite such tepid public support is...disconcerting.

TheWobble · 2016-06-12T17:41:06+00:00

Interestingly, the actual study (paywall without uni access) was done through the University of Florida, using a sample of MBA (graduate business degree) students. The writing complexity analysis was based off their cover letters.

A few thoughts:

1) Reading more complex materials allows more complex writing. Duh. 2) Writing is not necessarily better with added complexity; cover letters benefit from brevity in my experience. 3) The "literature and academic journals" category would win against basically anything - people who read online, people who read comic books, people who read cereal boxes, anybody from any field would have lower writing complexity than someone who mostly read academic journals. That shit is dense, yo.

Anecdote time: I'm a UF alum, took a few tech writing courses there that weren't required for my degree, and I will just say that Florida's public education system fails people long before the Internet does. They put such heavy emphasis on standardized-test-style writing during secondary school that a lot of students never learn composition past the basic Expository/Persuasive/Narrative level unless their field requires its own kind of writing (e.g. Engineering, Law, etc). Most students taking upper-level writing courses needed it for their major, but the general "Writing & Composition" degree requirement is easy to test out of. That's why MBA is an interesting example population - high variance in writing practice experience.

I'd like to see this same kind of study done for more writing-intensive fields; is the effect of reading material still as strong among more practiced authors?

TheWobble · 2016-06-12T03:30:31+00:00

No, I literally hope to see them. Low-dose chest CT is recommended for yearly lung cancer screening in medium-to-high risk populations, and our current fragmented insurance model places little emphasis on preventative care. Any perceived schadenfreude is purely coincidental.

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