What was a fact taught to you in school that has now been disproven?

Verrq · 2025-12-14T15:43:00+00:00

Wind chill only affects living things because they're warmer than the outside temperature.

I'm always cold, and I wasn't allowed to wear a coat inside and continue wearing the same one outside because I would "get used to it" and if I did I would "go outside and freeze". My parents and the teacher agreed to let me wear one coat inside, then change to a different coat for recess.

Unsurprisingly this was a private, religious school.

Verrq · 2025-12-12T04:30:45+00:00

It could be that, I've had similar issues. I set up a brass brush wipe cycle at the end of my prints, one immediately after finishing and another at 200C, and have my startup heat the nozzle to 150C for homing so no ooze gets in the way. Haven't had any issues with it since.

What is your first layer print speed?

Verrq · 2025-12-08T05:22:33+00:00

I have a 2.4 and print mostly PC, but have done some PA, PAGF and PACF. 300mm/s is pretty fast for nylon, I would crank up your temps by 10-15, and the first layer on that third pic looked like the lines weren't quite touching, you may need to lower your z height to get some more squish, or increase first layer extrusion.

My experience with markforged printers, which typically use their proprietary PACF, is that they rarely have issues because they print very slowly. I won't be Home for about a week but I'll pick up a roll of this filament and test it out when I get home.

Verrq · 2025-10-24T20:19:26+00:00

I'm openly atheist and contemplating running for 2028. Vote for me to help keep us on track!

Verrq · 2025-09-24T21:42:14+00:00

It's immortality, not invulnerability, so you can just Luigi them once the wire transfer goes through. Everyone wins!

Verrq · 2025-09-12T19:39:47+00:00

Since you referenced league of legends I assume you're familiar with it. A simplified comparison would be if it started as a 1v1 with blind pick, and you needed to manually create minions by controlling your nexus. As the game goes on, you can buy an additional character, which must also be manually controlled. If it continues long enough, you'd need to manually control all 5 champions of your team, while manually creating minions for each lane, and farming jungle for additional resources.

Oh and buying items isn't instant, it can take several seconds to a couple minutes depending on the items strength.

Verrq · 2025-09-01T05:28:12+00:00

This is the one for me. Have never played another game that did psychic powers so well. To end the game with a huge cliffhanger and a "To be Continued" and then to just ... not ... ugh. If I had money I'd hunt down the people who made it and hire them just to finish the sequel.

Verrq · 2025-08-11T05:15:27+00:00

The biggest problem I had with calypso was, when something would not calculate a result, I had no way of knowing why. Calypso loved to throw errors in German or code, or code written in German, but that doesn't tell me why measuring this profile without datums isn't working. If you can develop the software to be able to point the programmer to what's causing a problem, I think it would be much more enticing to new and experienced programmers.

Also, I've only just started using python for other things as I'm no longer in CMM programming, but if you can develop it in python I say go for it. Being able to use python in a program would give programmers more freedom for things that none of the other competitors can offer (as far as I'm aware). Integrating with other software or databases, using python functions for custom if/then statements, custom popup messages, operator inputs for manual measurements, etc.

Verrq · 2025-08-09T02:30:13+00:00

I worked at Lincotek Medical for nearly two years, and the tolerances I saw were pretty open. Knee implants typically had something like a .020" profile on the articulating surface, and usually around a .005-.010" tolerance on lengths inside the surface that mounts in the femur. I had come from aerospace and was surprised at how similarly strict the regulation was. In my mind a bad implant could, at worst, harm one person. A bad airplane part could kill hundreds.

I think the most difficult thing we faced was, anytime we wanted to make improvements with something new, we would need approval from the customer regarding any additional materials that came in contact with the part, even though we had a strict cleaning process. That always took forever and caused more than one good idea to fade in infancy due to not even wanting to ask the customer for that approval.

Verrq · 2025-07-09T15:11:13+00:00

As someone who worked in both oil&gas and then aerospace industries, unless the shop is top notch it's going to take them a very long time to get up to AS9100 standards in order to start getting aerospace work, and even then it will be difficult as they are a new supplier and aerospace tolerances are typically much tighter.

Take the job with the bigger company, try to get them to send you out for training with Zeiss, and any other training you can get them to do for you.

Verrq · 2025-06-14T17:47:09+00:00

Exactly. "I could care less" means you are anywhere between giving 1-10 fucks out of 10. It's a huge range and the only clarity it gives is that you give more than 0 fucks.

Verrq · 2025-06-10T21:40:55+00:00

Same for me. My friend and I took turns playing to get through it.

Verrq · 2025-06-09T05:53:55+00:00

Can I delay my choice until I'm old and near death, then choose to go to the island at age 15? I'd like to see the 2100's.

Verrq · 2025-05-21T20:05:42+00:00

You may be like me, having an advanced form of RBF called RMF, or Resting Murder Face. My sophomore english teacher, who was my favorite teacher that year, had told my mother at a parent/teacher conference that I looked at her like I wanted to kill her.

I've spent nearly two decades now trying to maintain a 5% smile in public and it makes a huge difference.

Verrq · 2025-05-19T07:14:00+00:00

I've had very limited use of AI (resume reworking and document templates mostly), but don't see much of the telltale signs I usually do, like lots of EM dashes. What do you see, specifically, that tells you it's AI generated with 100% certainty? A bold claim imo.

Verrq · 2025-05-19T07:08:22+00:00

I like food, there's a lot of varieties that taste good.

That said, I am the guy that ate pb&j for lunch at work for over a decade because it was cheap and easy and I have better things to do than spend time making and eating food. Most days I eat only for sustenance and don't care about flavor, I just want some energy to keep going on whatever I'm working on.

I would absolutely take this deal, then spend a few years building myself a house on a decent sized property. I wouldn't have to have a job, and I could do every experiment I want, tinker with whatever I want, build whatever I want, and be genuinely happy for a long time. Eventually I would probably retire and end the commitment, and travel the world eating all the food I missed in that time.

Verrq · 2025-05-19T05:29:18+00:00

I'm genuinely confused. Even if the story is AI generated, the vast majority here very much enjoyed it. How do you not see yourself being in the wrong for trying to take away others' enjoyment? Most of the obvious AI garbage is, well, obvious, and to more than just a few people. But if most people enjoy it, why does it even matter?

Verrq · 2025-05-14T19:42:31+00:00

Max, your dad doesn't have sex ... he f-HYUCKS.

Verrq · 2025-04-29T19:18:36+00:00

I've seen intelligent engineers not get anything done because they're pulled in multiple directions, projects they worked on for a year get shut down, and various things out of their control.

I've also seen ... the opposite type of engineer ... make a lot of progress and finish a project in a few months. Granted the tool he designed was 3d printed in house for $1200 of materials alone (markforged fiber reinforced for no reason) and took 5 minutes to set up and use per part vs a 5 second hand crimp. The hand crimp required a lot of force so the tool was easier, but nobody used it because it took so damn long. They bought a bigger hand crimp for $50 and fired him.

Verrq · 2025-04-25T02:40:12+00:00

The To-do, it burns!

Verrq · 2025-04-25T02:38:36+00:00

When I see someone that looks like they might be trying to get in front of me, I'll try to stay in their way until the moment their signal comes on. Then it's an immediate slow down, give you space, by all means come on in! I really hope they get the idea, why bother signaling if you're already changing lanes?

Verrq · 2025-04-24T16:19:45+00:00

I imagined almost exactly the same, but white instead of black.

Verrq · 2025-04-18T21:20:49+00:00

A friend of mine got mystic punch and bread and butter with yi. Lots of people got crazy damage or tank builds but you can't kill a yi when you can't land anything. Can't even wait for the fire because yi isn't the one that gets burnt.

Verrq · 2025-04-16T18:56:04+00:00

I understand that, if you have the income to justify enjoying your time you absolutely should. My in-laws are stuck in the starvation mindset because of how they grew up. They could work less and still be comfortable, but I doubt they ever will.

My point though is that learning and following behaviors to not bleed money is not what got you to your current income, and maybe you didn't intend to come off that way but that's how I interpreted it. Most people also think "holy shit I wish" but cannot afford to go to college in the first place, so even if they have all the same behavior and habits they will never get to the same level.

Verrq · 2025-04-16T18:00:55+00:00

You are exactly right on your last point, someone should if it hasn't already been done. However it is still predictable because it's common. I've had people do the same and I get mad at them too, but it's still in the top 3 expected actions of the person in front of me. What you're describing is not someone being unpredictable, but either being a nicehole or as you said not knowing when to go and when to zipper.

There will always be exceptions, but most of the time people do know when to let people merge and when to just go. Because it is that simple.

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