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Captainant

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  1. The houses were looking around at now were $300-400k in 2019, and all over $550k or $600k in 2024. Something has gotta be driving up those costs, 100% price growth in 5 years is outrageous and a strong indicator of artificial supply constraints - or demand boosting. Both of which are driven by price-insensitive investment buyers
  2. Or perhaps the problem isn't with lending, but rather supply? Home building never recovered after 2008, and any excess value is immediately captured by shareholders and investors rather than going to the people buying a home. Plus, if/when we do mass deportations that's gonna really fuck up build timelines
  3. @MirrOlure I couldn't find that setting, but are you clicking the thread title, or the most recent page? If I click the page number I get the top of the page, and if I click thread title it goes to the first unread post
  4. There's a setting in your profile (I believe) to take you to the first unread post in a thread OR the top of the thread
  5. I just wanted to point out a trend in this thread (not by you though) to talk about "how much healthcare spends on R&D" and then move the goalposts to "well they only pay for development, not research". Well which is it? Do they receive the majority of their R&D funding through public means or not? Holy shit why is everything a goddamn shell game with healthcare and the leeches who sit and charge tolls between caregivers and patients
  6. The Independent: Musk says ‘hateful unrepentant racists’ must be removed from Republican Party as visa feud deepens
  7. It really is remarkable how little it takes for them to turn off their critical thinking. I've seen it all over surly for years, growing in my family and in laws, and it's crazy how bad it is professionally. Less so politically at work with turning off critical thinking, but some folks just forget their basic fucking skills and troubleshooting whenever a critical issue hits. It's like they revert back to an idiot child that believes whoever talked to them last. And these are fucking senior managers and directors. Our country has gone backwards and made it acceptable to be fucking dumbass without an original thought in your head
  8. I'm on Samsung Internet and it works great on my phone - better than chrome IMO. Every iOS browser is still just safari though, so idk ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ Usually once you're off the learning curve it's the same experience and tools as desktop browser
  9. When corporations and generationally wealthy oligarchs pull this sort of shit and ensure that nobody can make any meaningful changes, it all but guarantees violence. Historically speaking, at least.
  10. Lol Elmo pulling a Kevin Durant on Twitter was unexpected
  11. The punchline is the implicit admission of breaking immigration law, which up until a week or two ago was a carnal sin for him and his ilk
  12. Lol your preferred information sources that you bring to surly feel differently than you - you should scroll back to 2020 times and see how they feel how they feel about police accountability
  13. Captainant

    3D Printing

    Eh, the filament is just a convenient way to get a consistent stream of material to deposit. The real juice is in the print head and axis that you're printing on
  14. Captainant

    3D Printing

    The A1 mini's heat bed doesn't get hot enough so ABS and Nylon just warp right off the build plate, plus that material usually needs a heated enclosure AND a HOT heated bed, like 85 or 90C. The A1 mini's max build plate temp is 80C, and in practice it's not consistent past 70C. The engineering materials also tend to be a little rougher on internal parts, so something like the X1 with its hardened steel gears and filament advance system are preferred. Carbon fiber or glass reinforced materials are incredibly tough - like production strength swing arms on cars tough - but they're hell on not hardened parts. Not to say you couldn't just upgrade your own printer to handle it, but honestly I'd rather just get the warranty on the equipment out of the box.
  15. Captainant

    3D Printing

    10 years ago it was really just hobbyists, but there's all sorts of businesses popping up as 3D print farms for hire. They get a bunch of business for creating custom tooling jigs, short run products, and all sorts of etsy shit. And there's a ton of real practical engineering-grade peices that are built using FDM 3D printing, not to mention that basically every tooth implant is SLA 3D printed now because of the speed, low cost, and minimal post processing required. Literally Bambu's A1 mini is the sweet spot for this with a 180mm^3 (7 in^3) build volume. You can get just the printer for $200, or the combo with the 4 filament switcher for multi material printing for $350. I've got a high end Bambu printer for almost a couple years now, and it's been more of an appliance than a tool. I made model or get file, and printer makes it. Simple as. The A1 printers are every bit as fast as the high end printers, they just don't have an enclosure so they aren't really suited to printing engineering materials. But it'll print PLA, PETG, TPU, and probably even ASA with a $20 tent enclosure.
  16. If you're looking to have a better feel for the sorts of ideas quantum computing works on and with, this video is pretty solid I like the fundamental descriptor of: classical computing input is a zero OR a one, quantum computing input is a zero AND a one. Boolean logic and fundamental proofs still hold consistently, but inputs are more complex than simple binary. It's the difference between hearing a single note, and a chord of notes creating overtones (constructive interference) that wouldn't exist but for everything being just so. The computational magic comes in building a quantum system/algorithm that collapsed onto the correct set of inputs for a classically hard computing problem. And wouldn't you know it, highly dimensional inputs like what we use for crypto and LLM's and ML are logically similar. The work being done now is to set up a "hello world" for a real computational problem. The disruption will be when they build a quantum system of algorithms that can find large primes, which is basically already theoretically possible. Willow isn't the goal line, but it certainly is a fresh set of downs
  17. "Furtive halftime movements"
  18. Lol why waste your time arguing with a sheep fucker that would post that the sky was yellow and the sun was blue if tucker carlson said so
  19. Captainant

    3D Printing

    The A1 mini with AMS is $310 through Jan 4. I just picked up a super tack build plate and they have some good sales rn
  20. Captainant

    3D Printing

    Nice little home repair project - while visiting my in laws for Christmas I noticed a bracket broke in their fridge that held a drawer's front onto the glass shelf, and they had it bodged with some binder clips. Luckily they still had the broken piece so I took a reference picture and some critical measurements and CAD'ed up a new one in Fusion. I did have to cut the part in half to fit it in my printer, but that won't affect function one bit EDIT: lmao had bed ahesion issues with the 1/2 length part. So instead I chopped it up into 1/8th length peices and giving it another rip. Faster print time too, so that's nice
  21. Yeah, we know slorch.
  22. You act like they wouldn't be doing this even if they were still paying minimum wage lol
  23. The thing is - a traditional market model is an extremely poor model for healthcare. If you're sick and at a hospital, you're probably not going to be price shopping between facilities for the cheapest care and least dickish medical coders. People have no choice but to pony up or die. And wouldn't ya know it, THAT """market""" will bear a shitload of price increases. Because it's life and death. Wow, what a free market lol
  24. This is also the case for basically any medical or doctor or hospital care. They have no idea what it'll cost because it basically just matters what they code it as. And if you disagree with the coding, you can go get bent
  25. I saw this hit my feed but haven't had time to listen to it all. They did mention that the Gettysburg fired two SM-2's, so it sounds like they fired on a returning flight - not just a singleton
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