bluewing

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

Nah, you still good bro as long as you are moving smoothly with the traffic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

What catches the trooper's eye and gets you pulled over is doing all those lane changes if you want to be the fastest. That's what is unsafe. Otherwise, they aren't too concerned about the actual speed as long as the traffic is flowing smoothly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

There are firearms related .stl's that can be found, but they are accessories rather than the actual parts that make a firearm function. But there are forums that do discuss and build 3D printed firearms that can be found with some searching.

I've done a couple of designs, shims for a Winchester SX4 shotgun to fit several guns to their owners for target shooting and hunting. And an easy loader for my P365XL. That 12 round double stack single feed clown car of a magazine is hard to load without it. But I haven't bothered to publish either design and I have never wanted to either.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Congtrats! you just made a pipe bomb! And one that isn't as good as a steel pipe You do understand that PVC pipe would not be able to contain the pressure of even the most anemic cartridge don't you? Even a 1" schedule 80 PVC can only contain up to 520PSI @ 73F. Modern Cartridges easily generate 12,500PSI for a light shotgun target load of birdshot.

 

I have to wonder how New York plans to police the entire internet. This would appear to enforce a law that only those who weren't going to "break" such a law are going to follow anyway.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Because dying from smoking weed isn't available in all places..........

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So, I don't know what 3/4's of those pictographs on the chart mean. Am I in the wrong place?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So would I need up upgrade to First Class to get that kind of service?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

A simple google search, (which YOU could have done yourself), shows it's abut 1 in 1.5 million miles driven per accident with FSD vs 1 in 700,000 miles driven for mechanical cars. I'm no Teslastan, (I think they are over priced and deliberately for rich people only), but that's an improvement, a noticeable improvement.

And as a an old retired medic who has done his share of car accidents over nearly 20 years-- Yes, yes humans swerve off of perfectly straight roads and hit trees and anything else in the way also. And do so at a higher rate.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

You are trying to judge the self driving feature in a vacuum. And you can't do that. You need to compare it to any alternatives. And for automotive travel, the alternative to FSD is to continue to have everyone drive manually. Turns out, most clowns doing that are statistically worse at it than even FSD, (as bad as it is). So, FSD doesn't need to be perfect-- it just needs to be a bit better than what the average driver can do driving manually. And the last time I saw anything about that, FSD was that "bit better" than you statistically.

FSD isn't perfect. No such system will ever be perfect. But, the goal isn't perfect, it just needs to be better than you.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I don't know about how much fat it might take, but my 2 knee surgeries and both my deteriorating hip joints, (been searching eBay for a good used hip joint for cheap), tell me that standing for 2 hours is a painful idea.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, beyond the sheer social resistance to the idea. Turns out everyone needs to agree it's a great idea and almost no one did. Evidently humans are wired to the base12 time format far better.

The attempt at switching to base10 time quickly fell apart when people started notice that the the "time markers" were starting to drift. And at some point they finally figured out that what we call "noon" was going drift rather quickly to not happening until evening and therefore Monday was going to move to a different spot also. This is a very bad thing. Because any kind of calendaring system needs to be as consistent as possible. Noon must happen at the same point in the day every day or as close to it as it it can mathematically get. If it drifts to fast and far, then it's a worthless marker for time. And decimal time has that problem in spades.

Now, no calendar system is perfect because the orbits of the planets in our solar system isn't perfectly consistent. Sometimes the orbit of earth is a tiny bit faster or sometimes it's a tiny bit slower. So we strive to get a close as we can but we still need to make adjustments. Turns out, all that math is really bloody hard.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's part of a joint for the handle of an electric snowblower I have. It's a cool looking part for sure, but it was easy to recreate as a model to print.

But after breaking the original injection molded glass re-enforced nylon and 3 other home printed parts, I redesigned the joint to be a single piece solid part. So while I can't fold the handle down for storage, it no longer breaks.

 

I need to print some improved tubing connectors, 3 different types - 80 Pcs total, for a pair of crappy shelving units my Wife bought off of Walmart. The originals were as minimal material as possible without missing the nylon tree completely.

The Klipperized Mk3s with a .60mm nozzle is nearly as fast as the mini with a .40mm nozzle. Once again proving it's not how fast you say you can go, but how fast the parts let you go..........

 

Due to continuing injuries, Kirilloff has ended his MLB career. He was such a promising player and he should just be hitting his stride as a top hitter.

Instead, I think he has made the right choice in choosing retirement. Placing future health over trying to play a lucrative game

 

After 5 years my trusty old textured plate is wearing out and I'm in the market for something new. I print PLA, PETG, ABS, and TPU. There are so many choices now and I need some guidance!

 

These "critical fire" danger warnings from NOAA are really starting to wear on me. Living in drought conditions for 2 years is killing everything. I watch the radar and there is rain falling all around me, but very few drops for this area. And living in the middle of a forest makes for uneasy sleep.

It might be our turn to burn like Canada.

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