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New comment by rblatz in "Print with dozens of colors: Our new open-source ColorMix for PrusaSlicer"

rblatz — Sat, 30 May 2026 04:30:07 +0000

The AMS doesn’t cause the waste, it’s purging the old filament out of the tool head. The H2D and X2D can print two colors with an AMS without needing to purge and the H2C can do 7 without purging. You still need a prime tower when switching tool heads, but that is significantly less than a full purge. But I believe the INDX has the same restriction.

I do agree though that direct feeding each tool head offers the best experience vs the AMS approach.

I’m glad to see Prius’s catching up to Bambu on the color mixing front, Bambu has had CMYK filaments for a long time and has supported color mixing in their slicer for at least a month.

New comment by rblatz in "We let AIs run radio stations"

rblatz — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:38:10 +0000

I see laziness all the time, Claude will be helping me plan work and then it will ask me how a piece of code is implemented. I then have the choice of manually verifying how it works, or to tell it to look for itself. Ideally it would just look without being told.

New comment by rblatz in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

rblatz — Sat, 16 May 2026 07:37:22 +0000

There is an argument that I’ve been seeing more recently that argues why we should expect open models to eventually reach good enough status that people use them over frontier commercial models.

Basically it boils down to geopolitics, the US economy is currently being propped up by a small subset of companies, and a lot of that is based on proprietary models and speculation in the market around them. China is going to continue to dump better and better free models out to complete. Thus pulling the rug out on all that speculation.

Helping neutralize their biggest rival.

New comment by rblatz in "Tesla Wall Connector bootloader bypasses the firmware downgrade ratchet"

rblatz — Fri, 15 May 2026 02:14:15 +0000

I spent an hour yesterday getting the wall connector back on my wifi. Apparently last October when I added wifi 7 access points my network started working in WPA2/WPA3 mode and the wall connector wasn’t compatible with that. Ended up having to create a second SSID with WPA2 only support to get it back online.

Supposedly the newest update fixes that, but I haven’t taken the time to test that out.

But WiFi is shocking my fragile on these wall connectors, I’ve had a lot of trouble keeping it connected to my home network over the years.

New comment by rblatz in "Googlebook"

rblatz — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:22:42 +0000

The US Air Force learned this in the 50's. They built a cockpit based on the average body dimensions of pilots, what they ended up with is 0 pilots that were average and a cockpit that poorly fit everyone.

New comment by rblatz in "A network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout"

rblatz — Sun, 03 May 2026 03:25:04 +0000

It’s the death penalty for anyone caught with one.

New comment by rblatz in "Modifying FileZilla to Workaround Bambu 3D Printer's FTP Issue"

rblatz — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:00:01 +0000

Bambu can't even keep their filament in stock, plus they ship the printers with multiple preloaded profiles for other filament vendors. I don't foresee them making that change any time soon.

New comment by rblatz in "Goodbye to Sora"

rblatz — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 03:14:14 +0000

So much that they walked away from a billion dollar deal with Disney by dropping Sora.

New comment by rblatz in "Claude struggles to cope with ChatGPT exodus"

rblatz — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:27:26 +0000

AI consumes entire data centers of compute. You aren’t tucking a few racks into a corner of a data center, you are building entirely new ones. There will be whole devoted teams.

New comment by rblatz in "I fixed Windows native development"

rblatz — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 20:40:39 +0000

Just ship a self contained build?

New comment by rblatz in "New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers"

rblatz — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:57:08 +0000

Ok that works for STL files, but printers don’t print STL files they print g code. G code is generated by slicers, and depending on your printer and settings the g code will be different.

Is this law obligating printer manufactures to lock down their printer to slicers that can do the STL naughty check?

New comment by rblatz in "Microsoft 365 now tracks you in real time?"

rblatz — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:17:11 +0000

Is the answer to buy a travel router and give it the same SSID as another network, either work or home? Or is this doing something more sophisticated than SSID snooping?

New comment by rblatz in "Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study"

rblatz — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 05:27:50 +0000

Some states handle this by requiring cars over a certain age to be emission checked before you can renew its registration. Failing cars have to be fixed and rechecked before you can get your tags.

New comment by rblatz in "Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable"

rblatz — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 03:10:07 +0000

My Samsung frame does that too, some TVs ignore the off CEC command. It might be a setting you can control on the tv. Last time I checked the frame did not have that option.

New comment by rblatz in ".NET 10"

rblatz — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 21:00:36 +0000

I avoided Blazor, despite multiple people on my teams pushing for it. It always felt like it fit in the same space as web forms and silverlight. A product created to fill a gap of developers that wrote desktop apps and don't want to learn how to write front end code for the web. Plus it binds you to the product lifecycle of a .net side project that likely will be abandoned.

While Blazor has some cool stuff built in, the cool stuff never felt worth the risk of building a product around it.

New comment by rblatz in "Hosting a website on a disposable vape"

rblatz — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 19:19:03 +0000

I think it’s less about managing the environmental impact of landfills and more about eventually the concentration of desirable materials in landfills may end up higher than in known natural deposits. Or at least easier to refine and separate.

New comment by rblatz in "Claude’s memory architecture is the opposite of ChatGPT’s"

rblatz — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 04:33:16 +0000

The models aren’t static, we have to build validation sets to measure model drift and modify our prompts to compensate.

New comment by rblatz in "We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own"

rblatz — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 23:56:20 +0000

NPR had 3 stories last week in their NPR News Now Podcast about K-Pop Demon Hunters. Like I said it has 4 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 all in the top 10. It's the best performing movie ever on Netflix with over 236 million streams. It was so successful they actually did a run of showings on over 1,700 screens topping the box office charts for that week and grossing over 18 million in a weekend.

I'm not sure what else it would need to do besides dominate the music, box office, and streaming charts to be considered a success. It was widely covered in the news media as well. I predict that Rumi is going to be maybe the most popular costume with kids this year. My daughter and all her friends all claim they're going to be Rumi for halloween.

Stranger Things was huge, and maybe it's trailed off over the years. It never was quite as big as say Game of Thrones, but it was probably at least same tier as a Ted Lasso.

Wednesday is big as well, but hasn't dominated the work conversations as much as other shows, but I've heard it routinely mentioned in media. Wednesday Addams is also predicted as a top costume this halloween. The Wednesday dance was definitely a huge cultural meme last season.

But I guess to your point, there isn't something as big as a Game of Thrones out there right now on Netflix. But they have hit a pretty hot streak recently.

New comment by rblatz in "We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own"

rblatz — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 05:42:43 +0000

Netflix is right in its prime right now, K-Pop Demon Hunters is a smash hit and probably the biggest cultural thing going on right now, it has like 4 songs from it in the top 10. Wednesday is coming back this weekfor the end of season 2. Stranger Things is wrapping up in November,

New comment by rblatz in "Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated"

rblatz — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 01:12:31 +0000

Copilot replacing intellisense is a huge shame. Why get actual auto complete when you can get completely hallucinated methods and properties instead.