I would put it down less to a nerfarous evil plan, where some exec DECLARES “I will string people along for more money MWUHAHAHAHA” to the the reason to purposely make things worse. I don’t think that fully excuses them though

They absolutely use some kind of engagement maximizing algorithm in their matching algo, and use engagement metrics in their A/B tests, and with these two forces, no one needs ot make the decisions to enshittify, the decisions are made for leadership.

I would pose one argument for why “good” competitors don’t exist. is that anyone else following modern business practices will fall into the same solution without making a single decision other than to follow best practice (and iff they choose to eschew data driven decision making then they are fumbling around in the dark and unable to improve)

First decision is if you want a resin printer or FDM printer. Resin let’s you get smaller details, but has less dimensuonal accuracy and less options for engineering material.

In practice this means that if you want to make highly detailed descriptive parts. E.g. figurines, jewlery, etc go resin. If you want to build functional parts, latches, anything that moves, or anything that is big go FDM

From your description it sounds like you want FDM

My only experience with FDM is BambuLab which gets called “The Apple of 3D printers” for better and worse. I can personally say they work fantastic, and “tuning and maintainance” of the machine is almost non-existant. HOWEVER there is a little proprietary schenanigans going on. Their system is still open for now, but people worry because hypothetically in the future they might take functionality away or something. (There is a long and boring list of controversies which could be a deal breaker or nothing burger based on your preferences. For me I find it an okay tradeoff for the performance)

Thankyou for spotting that for me! Turned out to be a single white-space at the beginning of the file breaking everything. No idea how long that was broken for :0

Oh that is embarrassing!

Can I ask what Reader you use? I thought I had ironed out the last of the details to get it to work on mine

Thanks for the advice! And since you asked ;)

My Long(ish) Form Blogs: https://caffeineandlasers.com/feeds/blogs.xml

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It feels gauche to compare myself to you, but my blog is similarly niche-less, talking about whatever I happen to find interesting when I am writing. Sometimes physics, sometimes economics, sometimes my opinions

I knew there was a reason lol

Along the same vein, could we just move entirely to Einstein summation? It seems like your solution is 90% there.

I assume there is a good reason why you didn’t

Oh Thank god. I always just thought I was stupid for having to resort to playing trial and error with Numpy indexing every time.

There is an interesting copunter-arument when it comes to euthanasia, (which you did not mention but ties in nicely with the consenting adults bit)

The libertarian / liberal view is bodily autonomy / consenting adults we should allow it.

The counter-argument however, is that by even introducing it as a possibility, you change how people interact with other possibilities. E.g. in my country the state pays for healthcare, and the money for euthanasia will certainly come out of the healthcare budget. So every year, some accountant will have to decide how much money to earmark for euthanasia, and how much for treatment. Killing people is a lot cheaper than healing them, so you will inevitably end up creating a pressure on some people to take euthanasia when they otherwise wouldn’t have (Because the money which used to go to treatment, has now been redirected to killing them)

I suspect you can construct a similar argument about kidney selling. As long as you have an environment where it is legal, it disincentives power structures from exploring the options which would make it no longer necessary.

Ooft, Crémieux is Rude AF. Yeah that is not on.

I do not understand how some people still have the year 9 attitude that paraphrasing an entire work from a single source somehow does not count as plagiarism