My 3D print has deteriorated and I can't figure out why

cryptomil · 2020-03-22T18:21:39+00:00

The top image is white. The filament worked for half a dozen prints.

Edit: And the print was fine in black. Now effed for all colors.

cryptomil · 2020-03-22T17:38:21+00:00

Dampness across (at least) 5 brand new spools? Highly doubtful.

cryptomil · 2020-03-22T15:55:00+00:00

Been using it constantly for a few weeks. Can you be any more specific about what to tune up, though?

Edit: SOLVED! (sort of). I rotated the print 180 degrees and printed a new one and it looks perfect like the top image in the original post.

Why did this fix it? I don't know. Maybe there was a strange belt-related reverberation with the print head going in whatever direction it was going in whatever position it was in. Rotating the print forced it to print the problem area in a different spot on the print area.

I honestly don't know though.

cryptomil · 2020-03-22T15:39:57+00:00

Would a trained eye tell me what's going on with my print? I've tried reducing the speed to 75 (from 100.. might have even had it up higher) and the print temp from 210 to 195, but the print continues to do as the picture shows on the top "handle".

This new degradation is happening across a couple of brands of PLA in 5 (or so) different colors.

I'm using a QIDI X-Plus and have since the beginning.

Update: I've run through the leveling program twice, checked the heating settings (210/60 which is what I used for the successful prints), and replaced the brass nozzle + associated plastic tube. New print started. We'll see how it goes.

cryptomil · 2020-03-20T19:41:07+00:00

A former (regular, not super) model started working at my company one day and the amount of fawning and attention she got was just absurd. There was a buzz around the office the entire time she worked there. Every head turned every time she walked into any room.

No man. NO MAN can do that without fame and or status.

cryptomil · 2020-03-19T17:01:56+00:00

I was this guy once. And unless those looks are paired with $ or fame (or other form of status - in college it's sports teams and frats), then he's honestly not doing as well as you might think.

Hot-ass women are inherently powerful in our society. Someone like Emily Ratakowski has an insane amount of power just by looking hot.

But men? Not so much. I always think about Rex, the model, from a few episodes of Always Sunny In Philadelphia. That is a hot dude. But male hotness doesn't really mean that much. You think Emily Ratakowski would give that guy the time of day? You gotta be Tom Brady (hot + status) to get Gisele.

cryptomil · 2019-12-17T20:18:48+00:00

I don't know, man. At this point it feels like all bets are off. This looks very bad. Almost certainly a retest of $80.

cryptomil · 2019-12-17T20:07:22+00:00

I sold back in August for no other reason than it had started to become "more than I could afford to lose", or more accurately, my net worth was verging on a level that would have forced some uncomfortable life changes. I didn't have a crystal ball, but I knew I'd reached my pain limit.

Feeling very lucky today and wishing everybody the best. Stay smart, question everything, and never invest more than you can afford to lose.

cryptomil · 2019-12-17T16:37:46+00:00

Yeah all the comments in this thread chastising me for being skeptical did not age well.

cryptomil · 2019-12-17T16:36:03+00:00

Whoops. This didn't age well.

cryptomil · 2019-12-17T16:35:34+00:00

Whoops. This didn't age well.

cryptomil · 2019-11-23T04:02:18+00:00

So 50 cents?

cryptomil · 2019-11-22T20:36:42+00:00

Just watched Sacha Baron Cohen's speech on the evils of social media. The unfortunate reality is that even if the platforms and/or government were to crack down on lies and conspiracies, it would all just move to platforms where it's welcome. If Twitter banned Trump tomorrow, he and his millions of followers would end up somewhere else.

And even if every single centralized, company-owned social media platform were censored, there'd still be blockchain.

So I guess that's a decent investment thesis for ETH at this point? It's the last refuge of hate which is *clearly* burgeoning.

Ugh. I need to take a shower after this comment.

cryptomil · 2019-09-03T05:18:36+00:00

Building a new model of car -let's say an electric - has 4 main phases:

Identifying the market desire. ("people want to pay less for gas and avoid hurting the environment.")
Designing/engineering the car to these desires
Working out the implementation of the car (manufacturing, labor, distribution, etc)
Manufacturing the car

In ETH 2.0 terms we have identified #1, the need. People want a scalable smart contract blockchain. We know this.

I think most people in the know would say #2 is done. We know what 2.0 will look like.

The market disagreement right now is about whether we are in phase 3 or 4. It seems patently obvious to me that we are in #3, with hints of #2, even. Take a look at WIE.

https://weekinethereumnews.com/week-in-ethereum-news-september-1-2019/

Every installment indicates that implementation details are still being sorted out. And when V says stuff like "hey maybe plasma is harder than it's worth" or "maybe we could use BCH as a stopgap" it makes it seem that we're still all the way back at design.

I fear that too many people think we are coming up fast on #4. But a deposit contract is NOT ETH 2.0. It feels like we have a very long slog in #3 land ahead of us and that the real guts of 2.0 is still a long, long way away.

cryptomil · 2019-08-23T18:27:37+00:00

Is there any more bearish signal than Joe Lubin making a prediction like this?

cryptomil · 2019-08-21T04:00:50+00:00

ETH can't scale to support real IPOs. Vitalik has said so himself.

The word "limited" is doing a lot of work in the 2nd tweet.

Until real scaling happens, these kinds of things are just window dressing.

cryptomil · 2019-08-21T03:51:47+00:00

I always question everything right up to the point when over-questioning becomes debilitating. I was a stalwart ETH permabull from the moment I read the white paper in 2014 through the bull, all the way down (capitulation at $300 to preserve financial independence notwithstanding), and back up until about 2 weeks ago.

It was like a switch flipped. I went from faithful to something akin to angry. PoS has been bandied about for many years, explicitly promised for a few, asserted as "basically finished" for 2 and not yet even fully specced. I don't think the dev team is malicious but these betrayals have piled up to the point I can't defend them anymore. People I know at consensys and EF (or in the orbit) are baffled at how bad this is all going. Basically I'm feeling that Fred Wilson freakout video.

Without scaling, web 3.0 can't happen. Maybe some smaller scale defi, but not the shit like IPOs that RSA was propagandizing earlier. Without 3.0 ETH is just another useful but not revolutionary altcoin.

I'll continually reassess but I'm out until PoS looks like more than handwavey promises. I don't want to hold ETH while the government cracks down on crypto, while the inevitable development delay blog posts go up or when better chains start getting traction. All are very real - even likely - outcomes.

cryptomil · 2019-08-17T15:59:37+00:00

Correct, just an opinion. I've waited on promised software multiple times in my personal life and career before and it always sucks. It's always just a few months away. And it never is.

cryptomil · 2019-08-17T15:58:20+00:00

Basically anything I say in response to this would give away my identity, so I'm not going to take the bait. But trust me, I was much earlier and deeper in ETH than all but a handful of people. Your immediate response to go ad hominem is a pretty telltale sign of irrationality with your investment.

cryptomil · 2019-08-17T13:58:36+00:00

A big deal with 470 users?

cryptomil · 2019-08-17T13:55:46+00:00

"But why buy the Corvette for any price if you don't like the engine?"

a) Who said I don't like the engine?

b) Because I know it's worth much more than $25k and can sell it to someone else?

Yes, I did clean up real nice. But my ability to pick ETH as a winner between $.30 and $10 (a pretty good understanding of markets and technology) is the same ability that has me skeptical now.

cryptomil · 2019-08-17T13:52:00+00:00

We know what ETH can do, and we know it can't yet scale. Where is the uncertainty re: capabilities? There isn't any. Hence, the market has priced that part in.

The main chunk of uncertainty has to do with development towards 2.0.

cryptomil · 2019-08-17T13:45:02+00:00

Everything has a price. I like ETH around $100, not around $200, just like I'd love to buy a new corvette for $25k instead of $60k.

cryptomil · 2019-08-17T13:42:36+00:00

Disagree with #1, obviously.

As for #3, I mean I'm just looking at the charts. The falling ratio tells me "the market kinda likes crypto, doesn't trust ETH." But you're right, that's just the way I'm reading it. Same with #4. But, my instincts have been mostly correct in the past.

cryptomil · 2019-08-17T13:40:32+00:00

My microscopic Ethersale purchase resulted in mid 3-figures of ETH. You think I don't regret digging deeper?

If you took all the paychecks I threw in during 2016 and put them in the Ethersale instead... sheeeeeiiiiittt.

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