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  • The only place I know to get it is direct from their site.

    I’m not sure that you do, as far as I know, being able to move them is the only test. I’m printing a torture toaster now to see if I’m getting similar results with that. I know there are more precise ways to measure dimensional accuracy, but I’ve always been able to print a decent benchy and calibration cube. Actual applications have been less successful.

















  • Nate Silver is a prime example of this thing that happens a lot with technical people. They get good at describing what is and then they start to think they understand “why”. Sometimes a good understanding can lead you to the why of a situation, but often you need actual experts to analyze the data you’ve collected.

    The whole thing about the way his methods work is based on not actually understanding the interactions of the inputs he’s selected.

    His book was interesting, but I wouldn’t trust his analysis too much.


  • Short answer: No, this guy is all the way up his own rear end.

    Longer answer:

    Author: “C is not ‘close to hardware’”

    Also Author: “Successful one to one struct comparisons may require padding, which isn’t automatically applied!!!”

    Like if you have an entire PhD on this stuff and you don’t understand how and why you need to pad, when you need to do it, and how to calculate the proper amount of padding, maybe somebody should’ve stopped you before you showed your whole ass on the Internet like that.

    (Padding is applied to align chunks of data more closely to the size of memory writes possible in a given architecture, it is extremely system dependent and you use it in very specific circumstances that you, a beginner, do not need to understand right now other than to say that if the senior says thou shalt not fuck with my struct you better not)



  • Given the history of outside influences on Haiti, I’m not sure how much of this story I buy.

    Could be “violent gangs” torching “civil society” for “their own benefit”.

    Could be “revolutionaries” torching “an oppressive oligarchy” for “the benefit of working people”.

    Both of them would be reported the same way in US, or European newspapers.

    I’m just skeptical when I see “violent gangs” taking over public infrastructure and when one of the “first casualties” of a “bloody uprising” is the Prime Minister who is not in fact dead, just forced to resign and flee the country.