Writer, teacher, data driven humanist. Tech geek, model builder, mini-painter, reader. He/Him.
You forgot "defines a code of conduct and social responsibility so I don't have to resign from the FSF again."
Meh, if that happens I'll just replace the cheap commodity printer... I'm not fixing anything, except the cats.
Yes, it's an accident - the power button is just a touch sensitive spot on the printer - but they do like to play witn paper, so this would invariably lead to more shenanigans.
I just spit out my coffee reading that, and I wasn't drinking coffee at the time...
Which is why I don't mind if they break it - it would let me justify getting a decent laser jet printer.
W. T. F.
I will repeat my earlier statement: I hate printers.
I appreciate the info, but I wasn't looking for a solution - I just wanted to vent a little...
Turning my printer on v. turning it off
I have an older Canon MG6320 ink jet printer with a touch interface.
Lately, my cats have decided sitting on the printer (one at a time) is a good idea. I'm fine with this -- it keeps them off the desk, and they're not going to break the printer. Even if they do, well, then I get to justify getting a new printer to my partner.
Anyway, when they get on the printer, invariably they step on the power "button", which means I have to hit the power button to undo what they did:
I've taken to unplugging it when I don't need it.
I hate printers.
Meh.
I'll agree, docstrings are better for documenting a function than just a comment.
However, the author seems to jump through hoops in the next example to break one function into four, just to avoid some single line comments. Unless those code blocks make sense as functions (they're used/duplicated elsewhere), you're just making work for yourself. Why not turn it into 12 functions? One for each line of code?
I'm reminded of the admonition that there are only two hard problems* in computer science -- cache invalidation, and naming things. The more functions you have, the more things you have to name.
The rest of it -- name your magic numbers, use tuple unpacking, comment "why" instead of "what" -- is good practice. I'm just not a fan of making functions just to avoid writing a comment.
* And off by one errors.
US: Contact your Rep about H.R. 9495, the Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act
From the American Humanist Association: contact your Congresscritter - tell them to oppose H.R. 9495, the Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act.
Like a eucharist lunchable
Don't give the Catholic church another idea how to get kids in the door.
the idea that these webs of laws or these models of “how things should work” mean anything tho the people with power are complete nonsense.
Kinda ironic that you are discussing the nonsense of "how things should work" on a federated service where you control the intermediaries you work with and through, which is, IMO, the way things should work.
I've seen music books for recorders on ZLib - maybe there is stuff for ocarina as well.
I tried KMail and Organizer for a few weeks, but they kept losing connection with Gmail. My calendar would get out of sync, and they only way to fix it was to reset the connection and redo all the appointments.
I'm sure it was user error, since I couldn't figure it out after spending a couple hours on it, so I just dropped back to webmail and not leaving the mail tab open all day.
I like Antenna Pod for this - my BT connections let me use the Forward 30 Seconds feature when m driving or running. Since most ads are 30 seconds long, I can cruise through them easily.
Me too - I'll use Konsole if I need to have the results up all the time, but Yakuake is my main terminal.
My first reaction would be to acknowledge them as a fellow geek, but that's because most of the people who live near me would hurt themselves trying to open Notepad. Anyone who knows enough to start hacking my config files would be a welcome guest in my house.
Then I'd kill them with a hammer. :-)
Happy Blasphemy Day!
September 30 is International Blasphemy Rights Day, established in 2009 by the Center for Inquiry to reassert our commitment to defending the right to question and criticize the claims of religion. CFI’s Secular Rescue program provides assistance to those courageous writers, speakers, and activi ...
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by the juice of sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains.
The stains become a warning.
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion
I do the same thing, using a home-grown Git sync solution to keep my vault synced between my desktop, laptop, and Android phone. Free, and easy to setup on the computers, needed some additional SW on the Android side to get the sync to work.
EFF: Stop the Protecting Kids on Social Media Act
The Protecting Kids on Social Media Act would lead to a second-class online experience for young people, mandated privacy-invasive age verification for all users, and in all likelihood, the creation of digital IDs for all U.S. citizens and residents. The bill will make it illegal for anyone under 13...
Let your Congress-critters know this is not the right thing to do.
My EndeavourOS (and the prior Manjaro distro) had all of them installed.
All. Of. Them.
I am so tired of having to scroll through hundreds of Noto fonts to get to the later ones, but I'm afraid, if I uninstall one, something will break on reboot.
I use these too, and Fira Code and Hack for coding.
Define "buggy". I've still got a problem where occasionally when I mouse over the dock, it redraws the icons, but I'm living with that until it hurts enough for me to figure out why.
Q: Why do some musical artists bypass STL?
I've a friend who lives in San Francisco who is in a moderately successful band. They recently concluded a tour through the midwest, where they played Indianapolis, Louisville, Nashville, and Chicago, among other cities. No STL dates at all.
Les Claypool's Frog Brigade is on tour as well, and skipped STL but did play in Peoria, Louisville, and KC this spring.
Last year, the closest Nightwish came was Chicago.
I get Songkick notifications for other bands -- mostly metal and eclectic -- and more often than not, they are playing everywhere but STL. After living for 20+ years in Seattle, I miss having bands come and play even the small clubs.
To avoid sounding petulant, there have been some tours I looked forward to that came to Pop's in Sauget, but I'm sure there are other bands people here like that have bypassed STL venues as well.
So: Anyone have any ideas why STL gets passed over in favor of Nashville and Louisville?
Cleaning build plate (was How hot is too hot for FDM printing?)
I recently had two print failures on my Ender 3 Neo. In both, it looked like the part came free from the heated build plate after about an hour or so of printing. Both had good starts in the first 15 minutes or so. I had a successful print finish two days ago.
It has been hot and humid here today, and my printer is in a non-AC shed not connected to the house.
I'm wondering if I should wait to kick off the next print until this evening when it should be cooler. Do I need to clean the build plate? I've not done that at all, other than make sure these isn't any filament left on the plate when it finishes.
UPDATE: It's apparent the problem isn't the heat, but the fact that I haven't cleaned the build plate since... well, ever. Adjusting the title to reflect that.
Problems with Sunlu PLA+ Matte filament on Ender 3 Neo
I took advantage of a recent offer to stock up on filament for my Ender 3 Neo. I purchased six 1Kg spools of Sunlu PLA+ Matte in grey and white colors. I loaded one of the white spools into the printer and did a small test print -- no problems, looks good, everything seemed fine.
So I decided to fire up a longer print, 8+ hours of an ocarina I downloaded from Printables and sliced using Cura Ultimaker. However, I have yet to have a successful print. Three different times, the filament has gotten bound up on the spool, so much so that the feed mechanism just gives up and the print stops. I've cancelled two of these prints after 2-3 hours when the filament got stuck on the spool.
Has anyone else seen this? Is there a fix, short of pulling it all off the spool? I've never had to, but can you even respool the filament without causing more problems? I can't babysit the printer for 8-10 hours, and would like to kick off some overnight jobs again one day...
Reporter bias in local newspaper?
Arrowleaf sponsored a Digity Fair Tuesday afternoon at Shawnee Community College Anna Center to provide resources for those who are homeless or at risk of being homeless.
A story on a local organization reaching out to help the unhoused in my current area. The director of the organization is quoted using the term "unhoused", but the reporter (or their editor) decided to use the more charged term "homeless" in the by-line and the article.
The space will be utilized as a typical visitor center with gallery, resource area, educational activities, meeting room, gift shop and archival storage for the preservation of R. Buckminster Fuller documents and artifacts.
R. Buckminster Fuller, creator of the buckyball, was a professor at SIU in Carbondale in the 1960's. At that time, he built and lived in a large buckyball home, which has been restored and will soon be a museum to the man and his legacy.
When LaCaje Hill was appointed to fill the vacant seat on the Carbondale City Council on Tuesday evening, the council once again made history.
A small town in southern Illinois reaches racial parity in their city council makeup, with a black mayor and equal number of black and white members. Oh, and they also have an openly trans council member as well...
This from a part of the state where some people still fly Confederate battle flags.