I talked to a mn guardsman I know this morning about it. He said that the way they do the activations is in phases starting with MPs.

My understanding is that it’s basically a warning and a plan for where you’re at on the list of getting called up, so you know what to expect as the situation changes.

This is a shitty leader.

Praise in public. Correct in private.

Not that I even agree correction was warranted.

I generally don’t do GUIs for C. But I’m also an embedded C person.

When I have I’ll generate DLLs for the C portion then just pull them into a python based interface or something with easier to deal with gui implementations.

Programming languages are tools. Would you use a wrench to drive a nail? You could. But it would be painful, you’re gonna miss and whack your hand at least once.

If it’s a learning exercise, go for the C implementation, why not? I’ve written an XML parser in LabVIEW. (I never stopped to ask whether I should…) Is that the right tool for the job? Fuck no.

If this is an exercise in software engineering be an engineer and use the 99% already built and verified system to do the job it’s meant to.

Or you can write an entire theme park simulator in assembly because you like pain or something.

Incredible art. Any time I see marble look like cloth, it blows my mind.

As to the physics, the amount of material holding up the hammock is likely much more significant than it appears. Not to say it isn’t delicate, I’m sure much side to side movement would break it quite easily, but the vertical strength is probably significantly more than it seems, it’s sort of like a bridge with a truck on it…

I live in the us, so been denied coverage for all kinds of things.

Waited months for permission to get a new medication after going through 5 or 6 rounds of prior authorization.

Paid more in premiums every year.

Gotten less for said premiums every year.

Had to pray I could remember all my ailments when I started a new job.

Had to prove that I’d had insurance coverage the entire time I’d had said ailments.

Those last two finally aren’t a thing anymore.

So yeah, all kinds of cool shit.

Take a look at their coverage of the Holocaust. Hasn’t gotten better since.

42 Million people on the brink of starvation.

We have the food. Our government could remedy this situation easily. It is currently mid-own-goal and If it continues it will radicalized an entire generation against capitalism.

They will not be able to hide the contradictions of capital accumulation from regular ass Americans. It will be obvious, even to those not paying attention that the system is violent and it is violent along class lines most especially.

The door monitor mostly helps when a kid walks off leaving it open thinking they closed it.

The freezer temperature monitoring has saved the contents several times. A breaker had tripped once and I didn’t notice, it let me know that I needed a generator during a power outage, and one of the kids snuck an ice cream and left the lid wide open.

So yeah, it’s been useful. It’s not needed 99% of the time.

Nothing needs to be, but I do like to monitor door status and temperature for my fridge and deep freezers with home assistant.

It’s not the actual tech, generally speaking, that people are upset about. Although your Luddite reference is probably more accurate than you intended.

The Luddites weren’t anti-tech, they were anti- the damage it was doing to the people who did the work.

Most people who hate these new technologies aren’t mad at the tech itself, they’re mad at the quality that’s produced when the only concern is lowering costs and the extractive infrastructure built around it. A monthly fucking subscription for heated seats. This exists now.

The alternative to this is the galaxy brained take: “THESE PEOPLE HATE HAVING A COMFORTABLE ASS WHILE DRIVING”

That’s the most hilarious thing about being good at being an engineer it seems. I’m more than 10 years into my career at this point and I spend more time correcting other people’s work and outlining the technical work that needs to be done than writing things myself these days.

I like how they’re worried about “violence done to ICE facilities.”

Really returning to the roots of policing.

Home Depot ad earlier literally said “Earn your Sunday”

Comcast et al have taken (literal) billions of public dollars to expand rural broadband service.

Instead of laying fiber, they used that money to change the definition of broadband.

If corporations are people we need to be able to institute the death penalty for them too.

Wow. Can you imagine what would happen if an American car company’s fully automated driving were responsible for the death of three teenagers in a fiery crash in Nevada?

I can only assume there’d be a full recall, the CEO would go on TV to apologize and resign.

But not everyone can be a beacon of freedom.

I did print myself a herome mount and everything awhile back. Added dual fans and whatnot, I was having a terrible time with petg surface quality, the dual fans helped a lot. I also had to reassemble my hotend to reprint something I messed up lol.

I’m at the point now where I’ve replaced so much on my ender that it doesn’t really look like the machine I bought, except that it’s still i3.

I’ll check out the orbiter, thanks!

The lack of banding and wobble is excellent, especially compared to where you came from. You’ve got me thinking about a new extruder. I’ve got some no name aluminum extruder setup right now, but I’ve put enough abrasive filament through that it’s made all my filament paths oblong.

Nice work!

Operation Sea Spray

COINTELPRO

MK Ultra

Good thing it’s terrible and will eat the resources of any business foolish enough to attempt to actually replace workers with it.

That seems like far too little rain to do much farming without totally draining local aquifers.