I think it might be time to stop blaming the boomers. We own this mess now.

How is spaceflight weighted in the CPI?

I had one of these bad boys

Wow dude I was trying to be helpful. That’s why I replied.

If I’m reading your comment right, you might be talking about gauging for inspection purposes, but that’s not what OP has here. I’d call it more of a printer calibration block.

Not really. See table 2 here (a ways down the page)

Cold generally slows degradation.

But using them at cold temps is bad

Mars was full so my ancestors had no choice but to come here :(

A drone operator usually is not standing directly under the drone, so no. Or alternately, the drone if probably further away from you horizontally than vertically during most of its operation.

One interesting thing here is that, for a given altitude, the antenna gain will be higher the further away the drone is.

they get audited, at least, yearly by law

The IRS doesn’t audit annually, companies hire 3rd party auditors. And it’s not a tax requirement, it’s a public-company requirement.

Yes there is a difference, but LLC is a legal concept, not a tax one. The IRS taxes sole proprietors the same whether or not they have an LLC.

Tax entities include sole proprietorship (default), partnerships, s corps, c corps. Any of those can be LLCs, but they don’t have to.

Profitability is just a proxy for whether someone is legitimately running a business, or just trying to save money on their hobby. Businesses can deduct expenses, hobbies cannot.

So if you are running an etsy store or an engineering company and buy a 3d printer to make parts, the cost of that 3d printer is subtracted from revenue for tax purposes. If your “business” is actually a hobby, it’s not legally a business expense and therefore it’s not deductible

(In the USA)

Now I have a virus :(

I have an MK4+MMU that I bought partially with the intent of building PLA-supported PETG and TPU parts. I haven’t dug in too far yet but in the few prints I’ve done the PLA has severely degraded interlayer adhesion. Presumably this can be addressed by purging (much) more on changes from PLA, but if I had known this before I bought, I would have seriously considered a multi-head printer.

Except…they didn’t keep up that same rate? M2 ij Jan 2020 was about 15.4 trillion, in April 2024 it was 20.9 trillion. So 26% of M2 supply was created since 2020, not 80%, not 95%.

“Tech” is a conflated term. The way I read OP is that they don’t want their cars main user interface to be a smartphone app. Doesn’t mean the car can’t be technologically advanced.

Personally, my brain manages to filter out anything with a leading underscore (I don’t know the origin offhand, I think some system I worked with at some point used those on files that I knew I didn’t care about). So when coworkers use leading underscores it slows me down a bit.

It does work though

Tangential, but Blind Guardian has one

I suspect an electrical issue on the motherboard.

• What happens if you swap the bed and hotend thermistor, and/or plug one of your reference thermistor into the bed input?
• What is the open-circuit voltage on the signal line of the hotend and bed thermistor inputs?
• What is the short-circuit current of the same?

If you see differences in those last two points, that is a clue that something is messing with the divider circuit that the thermistor is a part of.

That adds up. All the spots it broke are where the filament bends pretty substantially. Thanks.

23% is really just the bottom range of what your dryer will report. My dryer is 15%. Who knows what it really is below that, and whether those numbers are even accurate?

But after a day of drying at 50C you PLA will be bone dry regardless of what the dryer reports.