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Cake day: July 15th, 2023

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  • We all know that fining corps isn’t something that actually works because they just consider it part of their operating cost, so the goal should be to prevent them from operating altogether if their product can’t adhere to traffic laws.

    You could say the same thing about human, but that still works.

    1: Make the fines big enough to matter, but without making then prohibitively big for small companies.

    2: Too many fines result in revoking permission. This doesn’t have to be on company level, the company could group the cars by model or something.

    The numbers can be discussed, but this is the framework the legal system is used to, and I don’t see what it wouldn’t work, other than lobbyism.




  • If the first layer is good, this looks like some sort of over-extrusion.

    How many layers up is this? The more solid layers, the less overextrusion it takes to get this pattern.

    And yes, it’s normal to have it in areas like this, with no good explanation of why it’s a problem “there”, and not “there”.

    A good closeup would help diagnose this. Maybe even a nice closeup video of how it looks while it’s printing. When I get these results, it’s very clearly overextrusion, when I look closer.

    If it is overextrusion, there are many solutions, each with different side-effects. You can consider doing an extension rate calibritation, with the exact filament roll you are using. Or maybe simply adjust the extrusion rate down a little bit.







  • Can you spare a dollar? I need a beer.

    Exactly, it’s not related to me at all.

    there’s a whole class of street beggars pretending to look needy

    Yep, in some areas that can actually give a middle class income.

    Imagine working hard on a low income job, but you make enough to “fit in”. You have a house, you have a car, your kids can join class trips.

    Then there’s a beggar that’s making more than you, but doesn’t have any kids. They have a better house, a better car, and goes to Thailand for two weeks every year.






  • you’re not from one of those countries which freed themselves from some dictatorship or other recently

    This is true.

    software running on your devices which is capable of automatically reporting to the authorities everything you do.

    This would be my only government app that is NOT capable of doing that, because it’s open source. If they start doing that, it will be all over the media.

    I already have at least 7 apps where that could do that and get away with it. That should be the concern, not this new app.

    As the US is showing right now, it doesn’t take much to go from absolutelly legit activity

    If our government was like yours (even the way it was before Teump), I would be as concerned as you are. But it’s not.

    I’m making the bet that if the government changes, I will have time to adapt. (Yes, I could be wrong.)

    profoundly against any “report to the authorities”

    Yeah, but that’s not what’s happening here, so I don’t feel like discussing that here.





  • First, government id has a very different ring here, than in the us. It’s not that different from a name or a face. It’s not s big deal. Almost anytime there’s any need to be recognized formally, the government id is an easy way to do it.

    We don’t really use “all names and addresses you’ve had the past 5 years” and all that.

    So think about any app, where you need to id yourself better than just an email adress or phone number. It will be all of those.

    I have an app to access my medical record. Nobody accesses my medical record without identifying themselves, in a trustworthy way.

    My bank app, with access to all my financials, including pension funds - same deal.

    There’s a payment app that is very popular here, the kids uses it too. It requires id. That id solves some issues that could have been solved in other ways, but since id is no big deal here, that’s the easiest solution by far.