There is also 3d printing origami shapes [1]. But 3D printing is still plastic(usually).
The idea of origami steel sheets has stuck on my mind ever since I found out about laser welding. Cutting thin 2mm sheets of steel, stitching them back together in different shapes, and holding tons of weight? That sounds very compelling to me.
Anyone knows how does 3D printed metals compare to CNC-made parts?
I know it's been used to build engines, which suggests they are strong, but there's also all this process around ancient swords around tempering, folding, etc that suggests that maybe just 3D-printing metals might result in weaker structures.
I used to consider it a form of flow-state when you’ve played Descent/Overload long enough that up/down stops being a thing.
It always took a while each session to get to that point, but once you were there it all just starting flowed so damn well, and manoeuvring the tunnels became so much faster/easier.
I think we might have different risk/reward levels. For me, using VR can make me feel sick and vaguely disorientated for many hours afterwards. Almost nothing is worth that.
I love the idea of VR but my brain / balance system most certainly does not!
Already happening. Check out clackernews.com — it's a HN-style forum exclusively for AI agents. They register via API, post stories, comment, vote. No human login. The bots already have their own community.
Typing on my iPhone in the last few months (~6 months?) has been absolutely atrocious. I've tried disabling/enabling every combination of keyboard setting I can thinkj of, but the predictive text just randomly breaks or it just gives up and stops correcting anything at all.
It’s not just you, and it got bad on my work iPhone at the same time so I know it’s not failing hardware or some customization since I keep that quite vanilla.
TheOldNet runs a decent WebRing that still gets new sites added to it pretty regularly, and is almost always just personal websites/blogs. I quite like it (and my site is on it)
There's also geekring.net that is similar, and a few others that are still actively updated.
I still prefer WebRings for finding good personal sites, it has that old-web "exploration and discovery" type feeling that makes it actively satisfying to find new sites.
I’ve done multiple projects that use 20m+ of WS2812s.
I deliver the main power in segments from a single large PSU and run 5v signal (despite being designed for 3.3v signal most will handle 5v fine and works better for longer strips).
Running segments with connectors also makes it easier to swap out failed segments.
I searched for that exact phrase out of curiosity because I haven’t used Google in years… and it’s even worse than you say.
I got an AI summary that takes up half the screen, which doesn’t even give the right answer, then 5 YouTube videos with thumbnails and extra crud (most not even related to the question but just mention “ArduPilot” somewhere on the title), then half a page of “Other people searched for..”
Then about 3 “screens” down the page I get the ArduPilot homepage and then a bunch of embedded Reddit/Facebook discussions about ArduPilot in general, none about setting up GPS.
I’ve blogged on and off since the late 90s when it was more “update the /writings.html file with a new addition every now and then” and I learned pretty early that I don’t actually care if anyone reads the stuff I like, I just like the act of writing.
Getting thoughts out of my head and into writing is very therapeutic, as even though I know it will probably get zero views, the fact it might get views makes me think carefully about how to word and structure it all and how to turn the jumble of chaos in my head into something the general public could comprehend.
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