• 3 Posts
  • 280 Comments
Joined 3 years ago
cake
Cake day: July 15th, 2023

help-circle





  • Try Changing the width and Hight of the First Layer to smaller Values, no clue Why, but it Fixed this kinda issue before for me!

    reducing the width of the first layer seems counter intuitive to me. usually adhession is improved by using widths wider than the nozzle since the plastic has to get smooshiefied into the surface. I don’t know there’s much difference on the first layer 125%-200% of the nozzle width, but I find going over definitely helps. (I use 150% for stronger parts in general.)

    or at least that’s been my experience. nozzle height/z offset would be the first thing for me to check, but PLA shouldn’t be warping that bad, IMO, so there might be some thermal issues as well.





  • This is incorrect. I’m a teacher and CONSTANTLY use the analog clock for multiple reasons.

    It’s the clock of record. Doesn’t matter what YOUR particular clock says, the clock on the WALL is the time we all go on.
    

    Irrelevant. This function would be served regardless of what type of clock is on the wall. A digital wall clock would serve just as well, and likely be less expensive to maintain than the electromechanical clocks you presumably use. (something about obsolete technologies becoming increasingly more expensive to maintain.)

    Reaching into your pocket to pull out a phone and look, no matter how much you want to pretend it’s trivial, still takes SIGNIFICANTLY more effort and time than glancing at the wall. Those seconds add up.
    

    See the above reply.

    Momentum. Are you PERSONALLY going to provide the billions of dollars in funding to replace every analog clock in a public space with digital ones?
    

    an irrelevant red herring with a false dichotomy. Clocks in public places are mostly installed by the people who maintain those public places. We all pay taxes to keep those places up. I don’t need to personally fund such a project and you know it.

    This is not like learning to write cursive - reading an analog clock is a trivial skill that should not take longer than a day for anyone to master.

    It may be trivial, and there may be some benefit besides learning to read said clock. But like cursive, it’s an irrelevant skill that generally won’t be used outside of class. That’s how it’s like cursive. Or, if you prefer, using a slide rule. as a teacher, I am, however, sure you understand that you only have so many hours of instruction available. A day spent on this, is a day not spent on something else. You might have arguments for why this is more important than that something else, but its still an obsolete technology that, like the slide rule and fountain pens, is going away. Nostalgia is not a good enough reason to keep it around.

    btw, my middle school had all digital wall clocks back in the mid 90’s, and probably had them for quite some time before i was there.


  • or maybe they should invest in digital clocks rather than continuing to use an archaic, obsolete technology.

    Yes. You read that right.

    Analog clocks are obsolete.

    Same with the fountain pen and dip pens and calligraphy (and the cursive writing styles that relied on them,) carrier pigeons and the telegraph. not to mention all sorts of other technologies that are of only passing interest.

    You probably don’t know how to read a sundial, or to locate yourself on a map using a magnetic compass.

    While there’s some esoteric value in such skills, the skills themselves are obsolete and useless to modern life. We’re not preparing them for the past. we’re preparing them for the future.

    Guaranteed the teachers aren’t using the analog clocks if they don’t have to either.

    (edit, I can’t find the full article, everything points back to that atlantic article. The gyst that they cropped out so crudely is two fold: the point of cursive was to minimize blotting caused by lifting and setting the pen across each letter when using a pen with a nib. It required a relatively light hand when writing, so as to glide over the page and not dig itn. Ball point pens, on the other hand, transfer ink differently- you’re rolling a ball over the surface- and they require significantly more pressure. the fluid motions of cursive writing cramp the hand sooner compared to print, if you’re writing with a ball point.)








  • Why do they gotta turn the plane around?

    FTA:

    However, moments before departure, the flight’s crew discovered that the woman had died. The aircraft was forced to return before it had even departed the tarmac, with the journey from Spain to Gatwick eventually postponed by 12 hours. Travellers claimed the dead woman had been taken to towards the rear of the aircraft in a wheelchair before she was hoisted into her seat with assistance from five family members.

    so. first off, the plane had never taken off by the time they had found her dead.

    Even then, the flight was from Spain to the UK, so jurisdiction matters. if she died on the plane (which is what Easyjet says) she still died in spanish territory. And if she died before they boarded… well… that’s probably something they want to look into.


  • You can make a fruit syrup that’s to die for on ice cream. It works with most fruits, but berries are great. Blackberries, raspberies, blueberries. Straw berries. Some mix of all of them. Get a pot, sort out the bad berries, cover in water and simmer until it’s mush. run it through a strainer or sieve or somethingt to clean out the worst of the mush/seads and add sugar, lemon and maybe some cinnamon to taste. while you still have mostly-liquid juice, take some out to make a corn starch slurry. mabye a tablespoon of juice and a half to a quarter for the corn starch. (this helps it become glossy.) Sugar to texture/taste, and reduce to the desired thickness.

    (Yes, it’ll eventually become jam.)

    Also goes great on waffles, pancakes or anything like that… cheesecake, brownies. I can think of a lot of things.