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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • You think you are tacking ‘real’ issues with your servers, but to the average user you seem just as crazy as a guy with a basement full of beans and piss jugs, screaming about the government is watching us constantly.

    The government is watching us constantly. There’s no doubt about this and if you think it’s not, you are the crazy one living in fantasy land.

    At the same time, how do you think a basement full of beans would help? The entire path from “the government is bad” to “therefore I’ll have a hole full of food where I can live by myself for years” is dumb magical thinking that can be shown to not work by simply looking around or reflecting about oneself for a second.

    There are many valid reasons to be concerned about a disaster. And yet nobody doing your traditional prepping for anything larger than a tornado deserves respect.






  • Do you think those really tiny bearings used for the extruder axis’ can make such a sound?

    Absolutely, yes. If it never made that sound and started with age, do not go sanding anything. Clean and lubricate again and look for broken parts.

    Any point of contact can be making that noise. Including the motor, yes, but everything else is more likely.





  • China seems very stable to me. Their government is afraid of making people angry, and removing basic help like that is very likely to make people angry.

    But also, it seems to me that the “generally” in “generally free” is doing some work. AFAIK, some care is free, some care isn’t. And the pretty good quality of life doesn’t seem to be universally distributed. Both of those seem to be improving quickly, but the “people are better than in the US” impression one may take from that comment seems to be a misrepresentation.









  • I asked the AI to be sure:

    on won what letter does the “AI” start in “IPA”?

    The “ai” sound in IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) starts with the letter “a” in the combination “aɪ” which represents the diphthong sound like the “long i” in words such as “buy,” “aisle,” and “isle.” The IPA sequence “aɪ” begins with the letter “a” and is followed by the letter “ɪ” to form this diphthong sound. So, the “AI” sound in IPA starts on the letter “a.” This diphthong consists of two vowel sounds pronounced in one syllable, starting with an open front vowel [a] and gliding to a near-close near-front vowel [ɪ].

    So, it’s confirmed. The “AI” is there where “IPA” has an “A” followed by an “I”.