People tend to assume the capex is thrown away but as we’ve seen with RAM, don’t be so sure you won’t be able flip it if you need to.

It’ll fix up environments, bump versions, fix compiler issues and outdated code, give you a better user interface (or create one to begin with). I usually point to this when people question if AI has productivity benefits, because it’s a massive time saver for me. I have spent hours in the past trying to chase down some obscure platform-specific GCC error on Stack Overflow.

Ideally pay it forward and PR the things you fixed.

Normally you’d shoot at 180 degree shutter angle (exposure time is half the frame time). This produces a “cinematic” blur that doesn’t look choppy, especially when projected at the same rate. So if you’re shooting 24 fps video, try shooting at 1/48. This is slow compared to most handheld still photography, which is why you start to need ND filters on cine cameras, especially if you also want to shoot wide open.

Stutter is particularly noticeable for fast panning landscapes where there’s uniform motion across the entire frame. Very obvious if there are “gaps” in the blur because your brain will want to interpolate. If there are static/foreground objects, you probably won’t notice.

It's also fair game to critique these photos from an artistic perspective. Some are clearly intentionally staged and I argue that the messaging is a little clumsy. Sure, it's hard to avoid if you've filled your space with expensive design objects. Another comparison is cooking blogs where the photographers add visual clutter that looks good on instagram, but is impractical and unrelated to the food being cooked. The space itself is very nice, though you've got to be absolutely anal about keeping clutter down.

> A refused green card application might be the end of being ever in usa.

Do you have evidence for your other claim? The main thing you need to prove for a non immigrant visa or VWP is that you won't overstay or have intent to immigrate at the time of application and upon entry. Otherwise it's up to the consular officer like usual. You would need to declare the refusal/denial of course.

What will get you denied is "inadmissibility" if you don't submit a waiver. If you're inadmissible that usually means some serious violation and you've got other problems.

As far as I know, people have been successful in re-applying for EB green cards after being rejected when they've assembled a better packet.

Nothing new there, but under the new rules the former is no longer an option and you'd need to leave immediately. On the plus side consular processing tends to be cheaper and often faster (AOS and all the approvals vs the consular processing fee and a plane ticket).

That would depend how much "safety" is built into the control system.

The simplest solution I've seen is taping up the edges of the enclosure where you find gaps, to prevent heat escaping.

If it's only PID-ing the bed, the ambient temperature shouldn't matter. Less work to do for the bed heater. On the nozzle, it's similar. A 40 C increase in ambient temperature isn't much compared to the 150 C+ that the control system is maintaining. Since the active parts of the printer must be capable of running at the target chamber temperature, there should be no risk unless you exceed it. The question is really, is the printer designed to operate continuously with a chamber of X C?

However... the risk would be that if it's too well insulated there isn't a good way for the system to cool quickly if it needs to, or if it somehow messes with what the control system is tuned for. On the older printers you could re-calibrate the PID loops to your specific hardware and environment. The newer 32-bit firmware seems to not require user tuning at all. Similarly with full enclosures, you might worry about the power supply or other electronics which aren't meant to be run at high ambient (maybe fine though).

You could also look at a separate solution like enclosing the printer in well-insulated chamber, and aiming to keep that outer space above ambient. That would be a good option if you're expecting a big thermal gradient to your workspace, like an unheated garage in winter.

But lots of questions really. Do you want to run at a high chamber temp? Are you running in a cold environment and having problems? Trying to save power? These are different scenarios.

I think rotation is a bit extra though. The frustration with the dupont/0.1" headers is that they're not polarized. As soon as you add a key (or a literal magnetic polarity here), that problem goes away.

There are possibly ways to handle orientation in software. If you did a 4-pin and include VCC, the pinout on the pi is hi-lo-tx-rx, so you could look for hi-lo-hi-hi and wait for some period to identify any logic transitions on the tx pin. There should always be a period where that pattern is correct, because either the output is idle (high) or it's sending a bit sequence which will also involve a high somewhere. If you ever see the "2nd" pin high, you know it's not ground. Then your serial transceiver needs some way of setting up rx/tx or tx/rx (either you remap the pins, software serial, or use an analog multiplexer).

The Mk3 is also easy, and can be had for cheap now, but it doesn't have auto Z-adjust which is really nice. It's also noticeably slower compared to the latest models.

The downside is they're very expensive, relative to other earplugs and mine no longer seal as well as they used to so I'd need to get a new pair. They're still better than nothing. I started using earbuds around the same time, from using cans, and I wonder if I've very slightly widened my ear's opening.

I also use an eye mask if I'm somewhere that doesn't have good curtains or blinds. Really works very well, but I recommend one that wraps around and doesn't have an elastic band to dig into your ears (Matador makes a good one).

And yes, they're magnetically polarized according to the datasheet. To answer the sibling comment, they're through-hole soldered but frustratingly are 2.7mm not 2.54 so you'd be squeezing a little into an existing header (ignoring clearance on the side anyway). I'm not sure why the 7-pin is obsolete, they make up to 5-way active.

Or Adafruit? https://www.adafruit.com/product/5468

Those magnet couplings are nice. EDAC make a non-Aliexpress version, about $25 a pair.

To split the difference, I now try to hand code as much as I can from the beginning, leave TODO comments for the agent to mop up and I'll ask it to complete the issue with reference to the current diff. It reduces the surface for agents to make stupid assumptions. If I can get it done fast on my own, win for me, if the agent finds issues or there's logic that needs checking, also a win. This way you stay sharp, but you have access to an oracle if you get stuck and it costs you fewer tokens.

https://www.practical-diffusion.org/lectures/

There is more math-heavy https://diffusion.csail.mit.edu/2026/index.html

As a consumer, 24-32 GB VRAM is affordable ($1-2 k) and that's the frontier I'm most interested in. It's very "two papers down the line". Those models are also feasible to fine-tune, unlike the O(100+B) behemoths. The 4000 Pro Blackwell has very good TDP compared to people insisting on using 300-600W gaming cards. If I was freelancing, I would definitely consider getting a 6000 for work.