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Re:Formlabs Studio 1 $699 Resin Printer
on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:59PM (#50309365)
I run 2 SLA printers (Form 3) and print often on them. Don't get a resin printer unless you know what they're good at and specifically want that capability.
Re:Formlabs Studio 1 $699 Resin Printer
on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:57PM (#50309343)
I do it routinely. It goes in a glass container that sits in water in the ultrasonic cleaner. It doesn't throw off noticeably more vapor than IPA that's just sitting open.
Re:Formlabs Studio 1 $699 Resin Printer
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @12:50AM (#50284693)
I run two Form 3's and run functional prototypes often. If you don't specifically need prints that are good in the way that SLA prints are good, don't get one. There's also the issue of managing and disposing of uncured resins (hello photoinitiators! we gotta keep you out of the water table!) and waste solvent. All the SLA vendors are real quiet about what you're supposed to do with the waste. "Just do whatever your local regs require."
Re:Austin's Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents
on Thursday March 19, 2026 @12:05AM (#47434816)
Most blue metros in the US have a bad combination of high labor costs/low labor availability, high regulatory burden, wealthy conservative inhabitants who oppose construction, and working class people who are convinced that construction is gentrification.
I've been racking my brain trying ti figure out what it looks like for US cities to pull out of the housing crisis, and I think it's either going to take about a generation, or there will be some catastrophic event (Great Depression II, WWIII) that changes the political landscape so drastically that nobody can really oppose housing anymore.
Re:Austin's Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents
on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @08:43PM (#47433289)
Public housing projects were and sort of still are a thing. Glass Amendment limits the number of units that can be produced but most areas are well below those limits and the larger issue is that there's no budget or political willpower for social housing projects right now.
Re:Animation 10k Starlink Satellites
on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @12:52PM (#47428128)
Hardware gets a bit easier in some respects when you have unit scale and don't need to make COGS+margin back on the sale. If Ubiquiti sell a base station, half of the unit price is gross margin. If SpaceX sell a Starlink terminal, they don't even have to cover COGS for it to be a good business case, because they're selling the service not the device.
The Starlink terminal is a very cool piece of kit, but it's not nearly as interesting as what they're hucking into LEO, and how they're doing it.
Re:(Media over QUIC) on a Boat
on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @10:41AM (#47426411)
After all the LLM written or lobotomized^W"polished" writing that gets surfaced here, seeing human writing makes me want to do drugs and fall in love.
Re:Honda is killing its EVs – and any chance of competing in the future
on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @10:30AM (#47426268)
devs have really got to start using NSA style naming conventions where they use the Joycean compound with random stuff that sounds cool e.g. BANNANADAIQUIRI or FOXACID.
Re:Have a Fucking Website
on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @10:09AM (#47426004)
Thanks, I was actually trying to find this the other day. By trying, I mean I thought about it but wasn't near my phone so I forgot to do it.
Re:Have a Fucking Website
on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @09:25AM (#47425526)
looks up latin conjugation chart
fuck this i'll learn mandarin instead
Re:Animation 10k Starlink Satellites
on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @09:19AM (#47425463)
Beamforming is an old technology though. It's not hard to do, just a pain to do cheaply when you've got a bajillion emitters unless you have custom silicon.
Re:Have a Fucking Website
on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @12:52AM (#47421711)
In MX and elsewhere lots of them are just mobile number through Whatsapp specifically. Like they have a phone number but it may be data-only.
Re:Honda is killing its EVs – and any chance of competing in the future
on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @12:32AM (#47421612)
1. Synonyms exist in language.
2. You're on a site with a bunch of programmers who regularly use weird words for stuff that already has a name. Reading through HN is wading through a swamp of made up names and tech neologisms, you're just used to it already. I once told a software guy that our team's SWEs had migrated away from React and Node to Stork.JS and Blackadder. He nodded like that meant anything.
3. I like it and you can't stop me.
Re:Honda is killing its EVs – and any chance of competing in the future
on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @08:48PM (#47420367)
CAFE regs made USian hugecars relatively profitable, and car makers got USians to demand them via savvy marketing. That's what I reckon anyway.
Re:Honda is killing its EVs – and any chance of competing in the future
on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @08:46PM (#47420353)
Birds adapt their song to ambient noise conditions. This paper [1] studies the Pearl River Delta (where Shenzhen is) as a natural experiment. It shows spectral changes in the target species correlating to background noise levels. I haven't looked hard enough to make sure there isn't a study that does find complexity changes but it's certainly clear that noise can affect bird song behavior generally.
[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235198942...
Re:'It's sweet. It's bitter. It's ours.' The chocolate ritual that bin...
on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @08:35PM (#47420280)
I think sometimes people forget that LLMs were trained on text that actual people wrote.
Re:Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
on Monday March 16, 2026 @11:45AM (#47400544)
That sounds lovely. I think too many people get attached to the structure of life as they've lived it for the last n years and resist natural phase transitions for far too long. Good luck with retirement and your dream of being the botanical equivalent of the mean kid from Toy Story:p
Re:Learning Athletic Humanoid Tennis Skills from Imperfect Human Motio...
on Monday March 16, 2026 @11:30AM (#47400333)
At least @tyrellcorp on X Social and see if you can threaten their support AIs with a bad viral story.
Re:My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant
on Monday March 16, 2026 @11:04AM (#47399987)
> "Stop" is a song by English girl group the Spice Girls from their second studio album, Spiceworld (1997).
Re:Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis
on Sunday March 15, 2026 @10:34PM (#47394521)
inconvenient for the purposes of recording, sounds like
Re:Small U.S. town, big company. Can it weather the tariff Blizzard? (...
on Sunday March 15, 2026 @10:14AM (#47387579)
If we lost Digikey, Mouser, and AVNET, it would be catastrophic. Entire US engineering divisions would leave for Shenzhen.
Re:An unappetizing shrub became different vegetables
on Sunday March 15, 2026 @02:40AM (#47384886)
you are both right of course
but for some reason my fealty to potato does not extend to tomatoes and eggplant quite the same way. i feel toward potatoes sort of how gary Larson feels about cows
Re:An unappetizing shrub became different vegetables
on Sunday March 15, 2026 @02:09AM (#47384755)
1990s research at Novartis, not sure how quickly the new cultivars were adopted,.maybe someone else can chime in
Re:An unappetizing shrub became different vegetables
on Sunday March 15, 2026 @01:59AM (#47384710)
you have done potatoes a profound insult by not including them in this list
Re:An unappetizing shrub became different vegetables
on Sunday March 15, 2026 @01:59AM (#47384705)
The modern cultivars literally taste different, it's not just cooking method. The bitter compounds were identified and bred out.
Re:RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one
on Saturday March 14, 2026 @11:35PM (#47384062)
I once tore apart my laptop and ripped out all the blue leds and replaced them with green amber reds. If yoi hate it that much you can just mod it. Soldering iron and a magnifier if you're over 30.
Re:Starlink Militarization and Its Impact on Global Strategic Stability
on Saturday March 14, 2026 @07:12PM (#47382308)
Military connectors (e.g. MIL-STD-38999) are deeply multi sourced, like you can buy compatible connector sets from Souriau, Amphenol, ITT Cannon, some others. So it depends.
Re:Apple's MacBook Neo makes repairs easier and cheaper than other Mac...
on Thursday March 12, 2026 @01:47PM (#47354597)
I've replaced a battery, screen, hinges on a macbook (2015). Did they get considerably worse at repairability after that? Because while there were a fair number of steps, it's not like they required exotic techniques to pull off.
Re:Asia rolls out 4-day weeks, WFH to solve fuel crisis caused by Iran...
on Thursday March 12, 2026 @01:26PM (#47354281)
It's all Asia. Europe is in Asia. Europeans are West Asian. The traditional boundary of the Ural Mountains is a fabricated one. There is no reason to separate Europe out of Asia except for that "people that look like that go over there."
Re:Wiz Joins Google
on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @01:54PM (#47338873)
Oof, you got me there!