I just want a printer that doesn’t require you to upload your gcode to their cloud server before getting permission from them to print.

I just played Return to castle Wolfenstein again. Too bad the public servers are 100% bots all the time. I know it’s old but I expected at least one or two other players.

A lawsuit would be the cost of doing business. They’ll raise prices by $10 to make up the loss. For reference, Sony sold 87.4 million PS3’s at a $500 each. That’s $43 Billion dollars. Sony had to pay a grand total of $3.75 million to settle the suit. That’s 0.007% of sales.

It’s not the walled garden that I object to. I had been planning on Bambu until now. It’s the mandatory online mode where you won’t be able to print without being online and getting their authorization. They used to have a lan only mode.

What would you recommend?

I was planning on Bambu because of perfect prints without any tuning, heated bed, enclosure, and multi material.

Anything under $2k.

This is what people are doing without any post processing :

There are no noticeable layer lines. It’s almost resin quality.

Rossman pointed out that they said they’re going to stop you from printing if you don’t upgrade the firmware. Maybe a timeout built in?

I’ve been considering a Bambu until today. From what I learned today, there is no Lan only option. It now must connect to their servers to let you print. They also said they will disable your ability to print if you don’t upgrade the firmware.

As Rossman points out, they said they’ll stop you from printing if you don’t upgrade your firmware.

It’s insane.

Pla is transparent to UV-C. (The cancer causing UV). So your sunglasses trick your eyes into dilating and allowing more UV in.

Pla plastic typical in 3d printing lets 95% of UV-C light through. So it looks dark to your eyes but is transparent in the UV spectrum.

https://www.mdpi.com/2504-477X/7/10/410#:~:text=The optical resistance of PLA,of ultraviolet light is transmitted.

Also a pupil dilated has an area of 12 mm^2. A contracted pupil has an area of 3 mm^2.

So it’s 4x more uv light coming in than if you didn’t wear them.

These sunglasses are far more dangerous than not wearing sunglasses.

Yes, it will be 50% (looks like half mesh) darker to visible light so your pupils will dilate and allow even more UV light in than if you didn’t wear them. What isn’t mesh lets UV straight in. Whereas sunglasses block 100%.

I’d call those Cataract Glasses instead of sunglasses.

It’s not Stratasys. They did the original patented work in 1996.

This is someone who in 2020, copied the Stratasys patent, submitted it as their own new work, and were granted it!

It’s lower performance in the one situation of iterating on an 8bit ASCII string for programs written 30 years ago but faster in more common uses. Multibyte doesn’t matter when everything is 64 bit. A 64 bit length counter is long enough for everything but the most edgy of edge cases. You take a performance hit if you aren’t aligned.

Can you tell where the end of this string is: “ABCDEFGH”? What about now: “ABCD\0EFGH”?

No because unicode and binary formats means a string can contain anything.

You answered your own question. Strings with length are better than null terminated. It is a mistake in the original C language library and probably a hack because the pdp11 used asciz format.

Where the benchy?

I mow the lawn myself but I outsourced the design and manufacturing of my mower. Same with string trimmer and leaf blower. I also buy my gasoline instead of making it myself.

So the language is not as low level as it was before.

But it’s the hardware that has changed not C. As I said, with his argument Assembly isn’t a low level programming language either.

Besides, early risc cpus from the 80’s had out of order write back so this isn’t new. By the 90’s all risc were ooe. The first was the ibm 360 from the 1960’s.

I’d say C is still in the same place on the abstraction ladder it’s always been, but the floor is deeper nowadays (and the top probably higher as well).

I agree!

The author is confusing two completely different things and comes to a wrong conclusion.

He states that C isn’t low level because CPU are much more complex today. But those aren’t related. His argument would be no different if he claimed assembly isn’t a low level language.

That the CPU speculatively executes instructions and maintains many levels of cache doesn’t change that C is low level. Even if you wrote a program in OP codes you can’t change that.

There was a single paragraph to support his argument that was optimizing compilers can create machine code wildly different than what might be expected.

Then he goes off on a complete tangent of how C isn’t good for parallel processing which has nothing to do with his thesis.

There are better and cheaper options this year so you didn’t miss anything. There’s the Atari Game Station Pro that emulates many old systems including Atari for $75 and the Atari 2600+ for $130 that directly replicates the 2600 but with HDMI.

Thanks! I thought you got a hold of that remake done in Unreal Engine.