I took it more as a (very common among coders) joke about how writing code is actually just googling and copying code from Stackoverflow. (Of course it’s exaggerated, which is part of why it’s, while not completely true, funny.)

…yes?

A (human) coder should definitely be able to think about a novel problem and come up with an algorithm to solve it without copying the algorithm from someone else. Particularly for those circumstances where there isn’t any option but to come up with a novel solution.

The way I’ve embedded magnets in prints in the past was to:

• Design a magnet-shaped (plus like 0.2mm of clearance) cavity into the print, but leave it completely “closed off” to where it’s “inside” the print.
• But only “closed off” by like 2 or 3 layers (I was printing at 0.2mm layer height for this particular print).
• Use “pause at layer” functionality in my slicer (I used Cura at the time) to pause just before the first layer that would “close off” that cavity.
• Start the print and when it pauses, drop the magnet into the cavity.

Yes, I was a bit nervous about the magnet potentially jumping up and sticking to some ferromagnetic metal that’s part of the print head, but that didn’t happen in my case. YMMV, I guess.

I guess theoretically it could also be the case that the heat from printing could weaken the magnet, but again, that wasn’t an issue in my case.

Just to elaborate on what my project was, I had a freely-spinning part that I wanted to be able to fix in place or unfix. I fashioned a “stop” that when engaged would fix the freely-spinning part in place. The way it works is that the stop can move freely up and down. Putting it in the “down” position fixes the freely-spinning part in place and gravity keeps it engaged. But to disengage it, you slide it straight up. At the top of the “track” in which it slides is where I put the magnet. I used the same technique as described above to embed a little stack of about four staples into the stop itself. So, by sliding the stop to the top of the track, the magnet attracts the staples, keeping the stop disengaged until you pull it back down again to where gravity will keep it engaged until you move it back up.

Does your ISP charge per sentence or something?

The whole “Be Prepared” song sequence but with Elon, Vance, and Rubio as the hyenas and Trump doing the jerking-two-dudes-off dance the whole time.

Also, I’d really like to know who made the art.

I choose to believe the person on the other end of that text conversation fired up Gimp and made the image when they got the request for “funny shit”.

Anyone want to place bets on how long it is before Elon uses this as an excuse to whisper in Trump’s ear that he needs to classify the Fediverse as a terrorist organization? It’d conveniently shut down competition with Xitter (and other billionaire-owned social media sites) if Mastodon (and Lemmy and PeerTube and Diaspora etc) was shut down for “RaDiCaLiZiNg fErTiLiTy ClInIc BoMbErS” or whatever BS.

Then make the “one true frontpage” for Lemmy or whatever (implement ActivityPub, maybe borrowing some code from the Lemmy codebase itself, or kindof making a fork of Lemmy), and if it’s good, it’ll be used. If not, it won’t.

But then, it might well fall victim to this phenomenon:

Lemmy has lots of competing “front pages.” How will one more change anything? A more generic domain name or something?

Wake Up - Arcade Fire

And with Klarna holding all that uncollateralized debt, I’m not sure how they can afford to lose so much and not collapse entirely.

as it gets better

Bold assumption.

I hadn’t heard about the second one yet.

The new exhibit at Ken Ham’s Creation Museum.

Whoosh

I’ve never related to trypophobia at all before just now. Now I get it. This fucking post right here.

Even aside from the question of jurisdiction or personal ethics, I doubt the question is settled, at least in most jurisdictions.

One of these days, we’re going to find out some student somewhere deepfaked themself, used an LLM or whatever, and connected it all to Zoom or whatever remote learning platform to try to fully automate obtaining a degree.

There have been stories about people outsourcing their own jobs to China and collecting (part of, I guess) the paycheck. I can’t imagine someone isn’t already working on doing something similar with deepfakes and/or LLMs in either a work or academic context.

As he stands unresponsive you close your trunk and pull away. The tatters of his mind don’t even wonder if it was real or imagined. It matters not.

He seeks solice in drink and shortly thereafter narcotics, but no anesthetic suffices. Even unconsciousness provides no escape from the grip of that of which he should never have known.

Perhaps not even death will.

“Is it for a clock” sounds like he’s asking “is it four o’clock”