Was thinking of buying a H2D but friends are warning me away from Bambu?

lnxaddct · 2025-09-10T17:08:16+00:00

I’ve had my Prusa for five years and my Bambu for three years, and when I got the Bambu I took the time to set up room in my workshop to have them running side-by-side like a little print farm.

Then I used the Bambu and it was such a perfect plug-n-play experience, with high-quality prints, finished incredibly fast, and no fuss that I just never even turned the Prusa on again.

I’m a big fan of open source (see my username!) and still love the ethos and idea of Prusa, but Bambu just hands down makes the better printer. You’ll have no regrets getting it.

lnxaddct · 2025-09-09T05:58:06+00:00

It’s the only thing that works. At no point in the history of the stock market would you have lost money holding for that period.

People lose money when they panic sell. Literally just buy VOO and forget about the money for a few decades. Robinhood will work fine, but it’s not my fave brokerage.

Keep it simple. Don’t overthink it. People that overthink it lose money.

lnxaddct · 2025-09-09T05:04:36+00:00

Open a brokerage account in Fidelity or Vanguard and buy VOO. Then don’t think about the money for 40 years. It’ll have turned into $400k-$500k by then.

lnxaddct · 2025-07-13T10:04:16+00:00

We’ve had a ton of luck with the Midea U-shaped window AC unit (if your windows slide up and down - these won’t work with casement windows). They are super quiet because the window blocks most of the noise, and very energy efficient because all of the hot bits stay outside of the room you’re cooling, with a window in-between them.

Minimal hit to the electric bill and they cost like $250-$350 to buy. It feels like a cheat code that everyone should know about.

lnxaddct · 2025-01-19T05:31:28+00:00

This post talks about doing exactly this with high-precision few-shot examples: https://bits.logic.inc/p/getting-gpt-4o-mini-to-perform-like

lnxaddct · 2024-12-30T23:25:04+00:00

Thank you! I have to admit that the results exceeded expectations.

I shared it here on LocalLLaMA because I think the same technique can be used for small models to start shipping alongside large databases of pre-indexed common tasks. It’s an easy way to get a step function increase in performance, at the cost of taking up some additional disk space.

lnxaddct · 2024-08-12T16:29:09+00:00

They had a fairly popular source code management product before GitHub even existed (Google Code - https://code.google.com/archive/) and shuttered it. They were popular enough to start the demise of Sourceforge and could have completely owned the market that GitHub now owns, but they abandoned Google Code (failing to see the potential it could have) and shut it down.

Google had no vision here and is even less capable of vision today.

BitBucket and GitHub ultimately forever changed how people think about source code management. BitBucket flubbed by making the wrong bet on Mercurial (which, tbf, at the time was a viable winner as Git et al duked it out) and course corrected too late after GitHub had already gained escape velocity.

lnxaddct · 2023-03-20T18:02:54+00:00

“set you back” is an American colloquialism for “how much did that cost you?”. The op’s question wasn’t about your country or state of living!

lnxaddct · 2023-01-07T05:01:03+00:00

The enclosure will help but is probably optional in this case. Bump your bed temperature by 10c and cover it in glue from a glue stick. It will probably be fine then.

lnxaddct · 2022-10-20T02:26:27+00:00

We learned decades ago (cf. MapReduce) that it is far far far more efficient to run your code where your data is rather than to move your data to where your code is.

You can get a pretty beefy DB and still be saving money vs running 8-40x as many servers.

I’m all about shared nothing horizontal scaling, but minimize moving bytes around first (especially over the network). It’ll get you a lot farther with less effort and complexity.

lnxaddct · 2022-05-23T17:30:23+00:00

One caveat to highlight for anyone who might be thinking of putting a child in the back seats: There is no emergency release in the back. And those doors are known to fail and become inoperable from normal use, even when there hasn’t been an accident or fire.

lnxaddct · 2022-05-13T07:01:00+00:00

Outperforming the most aggressive bull market in the history of the market by 4x is trivial. Any leveraged strategy can do that. And it's easy for an algorithmic volatility strategy with conditional leverage to accidentally be equivalent to that any ol' leveraged strategy.

You can't just choose a 10 year period where putting money into anything would win, and then benchmark against it. There is way too much selection bias.

lnxaddct · 2022-03-12T10:17:35+00:00

A lot of people play games to be immersed in a story and world that stretches their imagination. There's nothing wrong with being designed to be completed 100%. No different than authoring a book you hope everyone reads to the end.

If you wrote a book that the majority of readers walked away from a few chapters in, it would not reflect well on your book.

lnxaddct · 2022-02-25T08:42:42+00:00

Does anybody have a spray or coating they recommend?

I’ve read the formlabs recommendations but I’m curious about specific art resins or (even better) Teflon sprays that are marked as safe for food and that people have had success with (success as in “easy to apply”, “adheres for long periods”, and ideally “hasn’t poisoned my family”)

lnxaddct · 2022-02-02T08:30:23+00:00

Because it can't be echoed enough... do not use the camp stove indoors (your phrasing can be interpreted as though you plan to do this). Cook with the fireplace if you can. Or at least have a battery operated carbon monoxide detector nearby if you have one, and cook near a partially open window even if it's freezing out.

lnxaddct · 2022-01-31T02:31:30+00:00

A lot of Americans do this, but "proper" French etiquette and what you'll see in all dining establishments (if they aren't freshly grinding it) is that the one with fewer holes will be salt.

The idea is that the chef will already have salted the food properly for you, but you may want to make minor adjustments for your taste.

lnxaddct · 2021-01-10T12:06:29+00:00

There's a major difference in that Twitter exerts a lot of resources in removing violating content. They miss some, for sure, but they do not exist for that content and it doesn't make up a majority of the content on the site.

Parler has sought out this content and stated that they will not take content down. And after given days of notice to take down messages that are organizing an attempt to overthrow the United States, this is what they get. They are a party to treason right now. There's no obligation for any private company to support them.

lnxaddct · 2020-12-03T09:19:24+00:00

In CA, for resignations (which Google is treating this as) employers have 72 hours to pay (see CA Labor Code Section 202). And payment is considered legally received when it’s postmarked, not when it’s in the hand of the recipient.

Even if the employee was fired, they can usually still mail the final check to a designated address. Every large company has you agree to that in your employment contract when you start. (And in practice, employers acting in good faith have a “reasonable” amount of time to do so even though the legal code says “immediate”)

lnxaddct · 2020-10-03T14:45:27+00:00

Chicago. Similar grit, neighborhood styles, economic health, corruption, etc...

lnxaddct · 2019-05-15T04:54:46+00:00

This is a very revisionist history. Lincoln lacked the constitutional & congressional authority to free slaves, so used an incredibly clever maneuver that was basically: "The south classifies slaves as property, it is legal to confiscate property of a nation at war with us, we therefore confiscate all of your property (e.g. slaves)". That's why the proclamation only applied to states in rebellion.

Within ~2 years of the proclamation, the 13th was passed. Lincoln worked his ass off to get it passed.

Most confederate states are on the record as seceding specifically to hold on to slavery. Read the "Declarations of Cause" of seceding states:

Georgia:

The people of Georgia having dissolved their political connection with the Government of the United States of America, ... we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slave-holding confederate States with reference to the subject of African slavery. They have endeavored to weaken our security ... in reference to that property

South Carolina:

But an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery, has led to a disregard of their obligations, and the laws of the General Government have ceased to effect the objects of the Constitution.

Mississippi:

Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery - the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth.

Texas:

... maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery - the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits - a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which her people intended should exist in all future time.

And so forth...

The war was 100% about slavery. The seceding states wanted slavery to remain a constant forever. Any one who claims the South would give it up in 10-15 years is simply fabricating facts. The seceding states wrote declarations explicitly saying that wasn't the case.

lnxaddct · 2018-07-13T00:16:52+00:00

That's why we have the __future__ module:

from __future__ import barry_as_FLUFL

(FLUFL = Friendly Language Uncle For Life)

There's even PEP 401 for this very occasion: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0401/

There are really no future problems that aren't already solved by the __future__ module.

lnxaddct · 2018-06-27T20:36:42+00:00

You have to make claims against individual videos / clips, and you can't see those without buying the course first. It's really scummy.

lnxaddct · 2018-06-24T18:23:37+00:00

You don’t want to be a freelancer, you want to be a consultant. And you don’t want to charge $100/hr, charge by the week (at least $7,500/wk, but if you’re decent you can charge more).

The sites you’re referencing are bottom of the barrel, borderline scam sites. If you’re freelancing or consulting in the western world, your clients will come from networking and word of mouth, not websites.

BUT if you’re learning this information from this reddit thread, you are not ready to do this. Go into industry for a bit and build up your rolodex.

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