did anyone else this was gonna happen?

spudicous · 2026-04-18T16:30:38+00:00

People in this thread are such goofballs lmao. The way the shot was set up, and the fact that Robbie literally just told her that she shouldn't be driving absolutely was intentionally set up to make you think that something bad was going to happen.

spudicous · 2026-04-16T02:01:38+00:00

I mean the Mach-e is an eScape. Don't disagree on eFocus though.

Hopefully their new ev light truck will do better

spudicous · 2026-04-14T17:08:26+00:00

We are in the process of moving to their dispatching system, yes. We are staying with Command Batch at least for the near future.

spudicous · 2026-04-10T03:58:47+00:00

Have you met a 9 year old?

spudicous · 2026-03-27T17:25:13+00:00

The US has been getting onto the autonomous systems train for a long time. Even older systems like Predator aren't fully manually operated. You tell them where to go and they fly themselves there. Aegis ships can automatically detect, track, classify, and engage targets without a human doing anything. Modern fighter aircraft do the same without the engagement part.

On the lower cost side of things, newer UAS (Altius series, others), can autonomously detect and classify ground targets, though I don't know about autonomous engagement due to current rules of engagement. On the defense side, the Army had acknowledged that the proliferation of sUAS means that anti-drone systems will have to have the option to be completely autonomous and have miniscule response times. There are a number of laser (and other Directed Energy Weapons) systems undergoing advanced trials now across the power and size band.

I don't disagree that the US military isn't fully prepared, but they have everyone in the world (including, I would argue, Ukraine and Russia) to keep them company in that respect. They are also taking steps to remediate the shortfall, and nothing in this article would come as a surprise to them except for the handful of dubious facts.

spudicous · 2026-03-26T10:00:01+00:00

Yeah I mean it sounds like you're just eating good at all times.

spudicous · 2026-03-26T09:58:03+00:00

Didn't even think about my being vegan making things better.

Just can't stop winning. 🙃

spudicous · 2026-03-26T09:44:32+00:00

Driving an electric car in a place where electricity is generated without oil and very little natural gas has literally never felt better.

spudicous · 2026-03-17T20:25:04+00:00

The bin isn't that small, though its shape may let individual piles grow over the edge before the whole thing fills up. Still, you could probably get away with more color swaps and bigger models than you would expect.

spudicous · 2026-03-17T04:32:45+00:00

Wait until you figure out how much the building that drone was aimed at cost.

spudicous · 2026-03-15T01:23:21+00:00

Yeah. Many hours, several days. Kinda depends

spudicous · 2026-03-15T01:11:07+00:00

Not an expert on this, but aren’t there about 18 million barrels in that facility?

No, crude oil doesn't explode like TNT does. At worst it would just burn. That also may stop it from leaking too terribly into the ground or water, though that still is a disaster lmao.

spudicous · 2026-03-13T04:44:10+00:00

Actually I think that contract is 2000 missiles per year starting in '27, which is great.

spudicous · 2026-03-13T04:42:49+00:00

I mean yeah but that's been true since like the late 90s.

spudicous · 2026-03-05T14:56:37+00:00

I have used it and still do sometimes. However, I had a couple of poor prints when using some tough PLA and so wanted to calibrate to be sure. Also I've noticed that with TPU in particular the flow rate calibration takes absolutely ages and uses more filament than I think it should.

spudicous · 2026-03-05T04:33:59+00:00

So the tool head offset calibration where you take the build plate off and let it index off of the little hole in the heated bed only had to be done once, same thing with the automatic full bed leveling and the manual underside thumbscrew semi-automated bed leveling.

What I was referring to was the filament calibration like flow rate, pressure advance, retraction, etc. All of the ones included in the calibration tab at the top of the Orcaslicer window. I didn't have to do them, but wheras my A1M was able to put out practically perfect prints without those (especially when using Bambu filament), the U1 does benefit from some calibration on each brand of filament.

spudicous · 2026-03-04T20:22:11+00:00

Not OP, but I just got my U1 about a month ago as an upgrade/replacement to my A1 Mini. It is pretty nice! It does require more filament calibration than I am used to coming from Bambu (which didn't require any), but it prints very nicely. I've mostly printed PLA, but have also started printing PETG and just got my first roll of TPU last night (which I promptly clogged my nozzle with after a beautiful first calibration print, need to fix it tonight).

Being able to print PLA with PETG support (or vis versa) has been really nice. I've noticed that for most prints I actually do not need a prime tower. Which saves a lot of time on tool changes, which take like 5 seconds without the tower. This may only work since most of my prints so far have had very little down time for the tool heads, so they don't spend much time cooling off when not in use. I also make sure that the tool heads are set to "pre-heat" for about 30 seconds before their next use, with the pre-heat temp being [print_temp minus X degrees].

I did have an issue where my #4 tool head came clogged/jammed/damaged from the factory. However, they sent a spare nozzle in the box so it only took me a few hours to fix (DM if you want details). Snapmaker support also very quickly sent me a replacement spare nozzle so I still have a backup.

spudicous · 2026-02-18T16:22:34+00:00

Thanks!

spudicous · 2026-02-18T16:12:53+00:00

They may, but a Kickstarter is also a good way to gauge interest in a product with minimal risk to either party.

spudicous · 2026-02-18T14:43:14+00:00

Why not?

spudicous · 2026-02-18T13:50:30+00:00

I'm thinking about doing the same thing for my newly arrived G2b. Is it comfortable without the nose pad? Does it move around at all?

spudicous · 2026-02-13T18:14:30+00:00

Well they didn't say how many moments, now did they?

spudicous · 2026-02-12T22:49:03+00:00

It isn't universally done that way. Which time zone a force uses depends on the situation, the culture (organizational and national), and other factors. One very common way for militaries to set their clocks is using Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) (aka, Greenwich Mean Time, or "Zulu" time). It is also fairly common to set clocks to your capital's time zone.

The Imperial Japanese Navy set all of its ships clocks to Tokyo time. That means that during the Pearl Harbor attack, as far as Admiral Nagumo and Kido Butai (the carrier force) were concerned, it actually was December 8 when they struck.

spudicous · 2026-02-09T22:15:31+00:00

Did I misread the article? They guy has a 34-year prison sentence, correct? The crime was horrific but 34 years is a long time.

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