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in concrete, cement makes up less than 25% of the mix, and here corn is like 20%, so I think when you're comparing this class of materials (concrete, epoxy granite, concrete), it makes sense to describe in terms of the binder even if it is a smaller % of the complete product.

Like a thermal printer in general or specifically attached to a calculator?

There’s just something about the paper rolls. I was thinking dot matrix. I suppose either would work. I might buy one and do something like op did.

In general, an automated system to catalog, store and retrieve trading cards (magic for now, Pokémon next.) Right now, working on computer vision recognition of magic cards, but I’m trying to tackle the hard edge cases that many other projects and products don’t (revised vs unlimited, multiple reprints in The List, automatic language detection, etc etc.)

it is planned for decommission. in the interim, they are isolating the impacted module and not planning repair (at least, that's what I got from the article!)


Is that relatively new? Maybe my info is out of date?

Maybe last year people were saying that Bambu intercepts your models, that it's not private.

As I google, they say that your camera feed also goes to the public internet.


Well yeah ofc the camera feed goes thru the Internet so you can view it from anywhere?

I suppose they could bang a hole out thru your router & host something on the printer, then have your app sync your ip when on the wifi with the printer, but then if your ip changes when out & about you'll lose access unless you've set something up for it.

Gotta remember that Bambu is all about ease of use. It does have a LAN only mode, but I do agree that they should support some sort of plugin system for the printers and just refuse to support unless you're experiencing an issue while using 0 modifications/plugins.


So you embed magnetic particles in silicon rubber and magnetize them, then use magnometers to detect how the magnetic field is changing from a few different points of reference in order to detect the deformation of the rubber and from that you can analyze the "pressure points" on the surface. the innovation here is that you dont have a lengthy re-calibration of your "input signal" to the particular magnet-infused silicone interface because the manufacturing makes them consistent enough to be replaceable parts?

this makes advanced touch sensors more like machine-cut screws than bespoke hand-forged nails.


I'll bet you could open the grippers fully and recalibrate on power up.


Great idea, you could do the same with a capacitive xy sensor.


Exactly! You need little to no re-calibration.

With capacitative sensors, it is unclear from existing literature if it is possible to detect shear. Additionally, they generally operate at significantly lower frequencies.


I have good news for you, it gets worse! Look at very large and old ruby codebases :)


Ruby and Rust have outside Turing completeness very little to do with each other.


I think your parent’s point is something along the lines of “method lookup being complex doesn’t inherently limit the popularity of a programming language.”



200 USD is a steep price damn.


Yes. Blurb increased their prices a while back. The book is large, the colour print quality is incredible, and it uses a lay-flat binding so that the illustrations have no crease. Of the $200, about $15 goes to the 24 artists and the rest goes to Blurb. The eBook is $11, which also goes to the artists.


Of the $200, about $15 goes to the 24 artists and the rest goes to Blurb.

Damn, man. I understand costs involved, but that's worse than Steam racquet for game developers.


Why is Steam a racket? They provide a service and charge 30% for it, nowhere comparable to the 92% cut here.


But here they are physically printing the book in high quality, that's clearly something that's expensive to do. How much does it actually cost Steam per game they sell? It can't be more than a cent. But here it is actually costing Blurb money to print the book to the quality required. It's not just profit.


Providing hosting of game assets for decades and bandwidth for updating it and tools for running it on Linux and hosting for multiplayer must cost a bit more than 1 cent.

Sure, not 30% either.


The other massive contribution of steam is the discoverability you get.


Steam also allows you to create Steam Keys to give away or sell on your own which they take no cut from.



They are leaders in (very long) HVDC and UHVDC which helps bring energy from west to east, an alternative to building lots of time-shifting capacity.


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