I think Roetz 4.0 has done some experiments with this iirc. It worked fine, but it was more like one of those multi-color filaments as there is no way to control the color coming out of the nozzle. He tried with 2 different colors I think, but his setup had 4 wires of filament being pushed through.

There is actually a relative long time between filament being pushed into the nozzle and coming out at the bottom. In between is a reservoir of molted and partially molted plastic, which is essentially a chaotic system. When extruding or retracting the filament, this is actually controlling the pressure inside that reservoir. This makes it extremely hard to get any kind of controlled mix.

You also have the issue of the number of filaments required. Remember CMYK only works when printing on white paper, the white is an important component to the end result. And those don’t actually mix those inkts. They just print little dots close enough together for our eyes to lack sufficient resolution and thus see them as one mixed color. For a lighter result less dots are printed, for a darker result more dots are printed and black dots added to go even darker.

So you would need to have 5 filaments being pushed into a single reservoir, which is a challenge. Then you’d never get perfect mixing, even if you machine the combination inside perfectly (look at how nice the machining on Roetz his nozzle was). The pressure inside would vary leading to some filament being pushed less that others, it’s a very unstable situation which makes it very hard to perfectly predict or control. And being it’s mixing inside that reservoir, there is very little control of how the color comes out. It wouldn’t be the same color from all angles due to imperfect mixing and the changing of colors would be a slower gradual thing, not instant. And the way the color presents is also dependent on the direction the nozzle is moving.

The amount of material being pushed in would vary a lot, where we’d want mostly the same continuous pressure on the nozzle side. And when moving reduce that pressure to prevent stringing. Controlling this with 5 filaments would be borderline impossible and would require a high flow large diameter nozzle. So only very large high speed printers would work. Or the filament would need to be thinner, so less material is pushed in, but then you run into compression strength issues in the filament.

I think for practical results, people either just paint it after the fact. Use a multicolor filament for cool colored results. Or use a different technique that offers prints in precise colors.

There is this super cool 3D printing technique from HP that is abandoned now, but does kinda work like you say with CYMK and a white material. It uses inktjet heads to eject a ceramic powder to 3D print. It can make high resolution 3D prints in full color and when baked the ceramic is very hard, so the objects can be practical to use. The big issue with this technology is the powder clogs up the nozzles on the inktjet heads. Just like with printers when the ink dries and the head clogs, it’s a nightmare. So those machines need constant cleaning and supervision. When they work they produce amazing results, but the technology is such a pain in the ass, they stopped making the machines. I think they still make the material and heads tho, for people who are already using the machines. I think they are often used in medical settings where they paid a lot for the machine and keep using them.

Just a question, but why is the large gear solid like that? It’s probably printed at some low infill, so it shouldn’t matter much. But I think you can massively reduce printing time and material needed, while at the same time increasing the strength of the gear, if you were to switch to a spoked design.

This game is disappointing to be honest. I played it years ago, did about 40 hours without mods and then another 40 with mods. It had so much potential but was lacking some major QoL and basic stuff. I did gave it a good chance and with a ton of mods it was kinda fun, but it felt like I needed to work at it to make it fun.

Years later and basic stuff isn’t fixed. The development has been slow for years and nothing got fixed people complained about. I heard that development was completely stopped and the game abandoned, so I was surprised to see it released as 1.0. But from the looks of it, it’s just a 1.0 badge slapped on and not actually a fully cooked end result.

People still have a lot of fun with it, but playing this without mods is pretty oof.

Was he working at the marketing department? This is such bullshit. LLMs ain’t a path to superintelligence, it isn’t even intelligence at all.

The reason the companies are focused on hacking is because there’s a lot of open security vulnerability databases they can use to train on. They can also very easily setup automated test scenarios and have a very binary indication of the result of the hack. This made it easy for them to focus on, to have something new to report. Their models have been stagnant for a while now and investors were starting to wonder why they should keep putting money into it. The focus on security and hacking was a quick win to report something new and interesting sounding, so they can keep the grift going. They have played that card tho, so for the new models they will need to think of something new.

All the narratives around LLMs are so annoying. They call it “reasoning” when all they do is loop through the question and answer twice. It isn’t reasoning at all, that’s just the label they put on it. They say the AI has “breached containment”, like it had some kind of evil master plan and used its cunning to circumvent top notch security. In reality they have an LLM running in loops, trying random shit. Trained on Reddit users discussing how to get around the corporate firewall to keep shitposting and watching Hentai at work. With thousands of these agents, burning millions upon millions of tokens by random chance some interesting shit happened. Which is cool from a technical standpoint, but not quite the narrative they are putting on.

They have already figured out just dumping more compute and memory into the thing is running into diminishing returns hard (except Altman it seems). And customers have figured out the new models are much more expensive and don’t really offer any real improvements. They’ve raided all of the data accessible to them, so that doesn’t help. They try to aggressively scrape more from the internet, but people are blocking their bots and the internet is flooded by slop so the quality goes way down. Nobody has figured out how to actually get these models to improve in real significant and sustainable way. The public has soured on them and companies are figuring out there is no ROI and just burning massive amounts of money on AI doesn’t help them at all.

But let’s all be afraid for some kind of super AI taking over the world, because that’s really what’s happening right now…

Dicks out for Harambe

Anyone who’s ever picked up trash on a beach before knows how many goddamed bottle caps there are. And bottles without a cap for that matter. Those two stacks could combine to form a single stack with half the items. Half of the stuff to pick up. And picking up bottles is much easier than picking up a cap. Wildlife are less likely to mistake it for something eatable as well.

Yes I agree the caps can be a little inconvenient, but that’s well worth the practical end result in my book. There will always be assholes that pull of the cap. And bigger assholes still who throw their shit into nature instead of properly recycling or disposing it. But a large amount of people are trying to make our world a little bit better, or at least prevent it from going to shit as fast as it is.

These days people are so selfish and spoiled, even a tiny inconvenience is enough to make them behave like little children. It’s sad really.

And the name of the ship was the Billy o’ Tea

I’ve found the easiest way is to lay on your back and put your legs against a wall or something. Walk your legs up as you shove your back closer to the wall. Once you get it high enough, you can bring your legs down, using the weight of legs to help pull closer. Grab your ass or lower back and pull your mouth towards your pp until you can put it in.

Now this does require some training, you need to be flexible. Don’t push it too far or you’ll hurt yourself and might be in trouble. Try explaining to the ambulance personnel why you are in that position. If you are older than 35 and don’t flex and stretch a lot, don’t try it. If you have a smol pp, don’t do it. You will hurt yourself and not even reach most likely. Best you can go for is a quick spray of cum to the face, or perhaps a bit of pee if you are into that. Otherwise, go for it! Just practice a bit and you’ll get it. Let us know how you get on.

Good job on absolutely completely missing the point of my comment. I’m not even mad, that’s impressive.

I’ve got some bad news for you. Even with AI you still can’t make a full web app in under a day.

You can make a fun little demo for sure, but that’s a long way away from a full web app. Even without doing any coding or using the computer, simply describing a full web app using pen and paper would actually take more than a day. And when it comes to actually making such a thing, there’s so many things besides the coding and even with regards to the coding you haven’t considered.

This is a big issue with AI. It provides a shortcut to some sort of end result. Since people get a result, they tend to think they have actually achieved the desired result. But in reality most things are much more complicated and people often have entire careers specializing in one aspect or the other. There’s so much that goes on, without people not in the know realizing. Without being an expert yourself, you wouldn’t even consider those things to be important.

Let me explain using an example. I can write words on a page. I could even think of a story and give it some structure. Does that mean I can write a book? Technically yes. Would that book be any good and people want to read that book? Probably no. That’s because I know enough about writing books, that I know I don’t know shit about writing books and would not be able to without years of learning and failing. Now AI could help me vomit out words faster. More words more quickly means I can get a whole book worth of words out in no time at all. But does that mean I somehow gained the knowledge of how to write a good book? No, because I didn’t learn anything. In fact I would learn less from using the AI than I would have simply writing down the words myself. Using a tool doesn’t magically grant skills that weren’t there before.

A lot of people don’t understand this and shit out shitty AI books anyways, which then nobody likes. They shit out apps, which then nobody likes and they get abandoned almost immediately. They shit out “art”, which then nobody likes. And since they got to some kind of a result, they glaze the AI tools and say it’s amazing, even though the results were shit.

The idea of a dog whistle is as you say only dogs hear it. So in the use case of Nazis letting each other know they are Nazis it’s usually a subtle thing. A phrase or gesture that’s innocent on the face of it, but signals to other Nazis they are Nazis. Like what they tried to do with the OK hand signal.

Putting up your hand and shouting Heil Hitler isn’t really a dog whistle, as everyone knows at that point you are a Nazi.

Excellent race, one of the best this year. Such a good job by Kimi.

Just let VaatiVidya do all of the work and watch his videos.

Everyone told me, not to stroll on that beach. Said seagulls gonna come poke me in the coconut. And they did!

Yeah the cars always look slow while going super fast. It isn’t until they go off or make contact you can see how fast they are actually going.

It’s crazy how safe these modern cars are. I will always remember Alonso in 2016 being launched like a rocket, doing a full flip right into a wall and somehow being injured but mostly fine in the end.

WTF is this F1 Gigs during the pre-show. I usually like the interviews and analysis during the pre-show. But now it’s some sort of 80s music channel? Seems like what a boomer thinks the young folk would like or something?

It is very revealing how the people rebelling against Flock isn’t seen as the people opposing mass surveillance and data being made available to all the cops without cause, due process, oversight, restrictions or consequences for abuse, but instead as the people being against Flock specifically and the same system with a different label would be peachy.

Either they are monumentally stupid or more likely they are corrupt as hell and/or evil.

Yeah but they will be in big trouble in the race tho. It’s all well and good dropping the drag by flattening the wings. But that means no downforce in the corners. We’ve seen over 1 lap the laptime is faster, so it’s a good way to go right? So why haven’t all the teams done this?

Because dropping downforce means the car will be sliding in all the corners. Not only is that harder for the driver to get that laptime every lap (they are F1 drivers, they should be able to do it), but it eats up the tyres. Sliding means overheating and gaining of the surface. In order to save their tyres they are going to have to slow down a lot in the corners, which means those straight gains go away very quickly. And they could easily require an extra pit stop compared to others.

For example somebody like Piastri who is compromised by the penalty going extremely long and stopping one time less might have a better race time and thus position in the end, even though all of his laps are slower than Gasley.

That said, it’s still an amazing result by Gasley. Having the wings slimmed down is one thing, actually getting the lap time out of it is another.

I see you baby, shakin that ass!

Unfortunately America has its claws firmly into Africa already. There are countries there that receive emergency food donations, whilst simultaneously producing way more than is needed to feed their population. The problem is, all that food is grown on foreign owned farms. Rich folk who bought the land, brought in the tools, hired the people to work it and protect it. Even bring in the genetically engineered seeds we enjoy in the west and herbicides and pesticides to keep it all producing at top levels. All of the food grown is put onto ships and exported away from hungry mouths. At the same time local farmers have a hard time, because the free food donations cut into their margins. And it’s much easier for them to go work at the foreign farms which pay more and are a steady reliable source of income. I don’t know how to fix that, it’s a cluster fuck.

To be fair it isn’t just America that has done this, Gulf states, China and other western countries share the blame. But America is by far the biggest player in this whole scheme. And America doesn’t even grow food there most of the time, it’s all wood, palm oil, rubber, biofuel etc. But the point still stands all those farms could be producing foods.