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This.

Nobody’s going to forget the name of the browser they use every single day. But if it’s some niche tool that I have to look up every time I use it once every few years, that’s more difficult.

But the acronym totally destroys the understandability of the program name and instead is understood as “an unpleasant or stupid person” (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/gimp).

If you look at similar commercial software you get names like MS Paint, Photoshop or Lightroom.

They should have stuck with “GNU Image”, “GNU Photo” or maybe “GNU PhotoEdit”.

At least over here, Cineplexx is a really big movie theatre corporation. That makes it easy to understand what Plex is about.

Exactly!

The biggest advantage of ARM for Apple is that Appple can make their own ARM chips. They’ve been trying to in-house the whole supply chain for a long time.

The same is not true for pretty much any other manufacturer including Microsoft and Valve.

I wasn’t going to, and after I saw it it totally makes sense that it’s possible, it just never occurred to me.

I guess this could be used like static variables inside functions in c. So scope-limited global variables. Not a good design choice in most cases.

Pretty much all languages do that. It’s a very basic language feature inherited from basic maths notation. Same as x - y subtracts y from x in pretty much any language that supports operators.

Totally, yes. I guess there’s a ton of non-programmers and total beginners in this community.

But sometimes there are some crazy good programmers here as well.

What’s really weird though is that I got two downvotes a bit further up for claiming that unary minus is a standard language feature.

It never occurred to me that you could assign fields to a function. I mean, it totally makes sense considering that functions are objects in Python. It just never occurred to me that this is a thing one can do. Crazy.

Thanks, I totally missed your sarcasm :)

There’s a couple people in this threat who seem to actually think that x = -i is some weird magic instead of a standard feature that’s present in every major programming language.

Works fine in any language I ever used.

I’m honestly quite surprised that this very basic language feature is even a matter of discussion here.

Nope, it is not.

x = 5
i = 2
x -= i // x => 3

while

x = 5
i = 2
x = -i // x => -2

x=-i is the unary minus operator which negates the value right of it. It doesn’t matter if that value is a literal (-3), a variable (-i) or a function (-f()).

x-=i is short for x = x-i, and here it’s a binary subtraction, so x is set to the result of i subtracted from x.

Find me a language where it doesn’t work like that, and we’ll continue the discussion.

Unary minus operator is standard in every single language that I used so far, including C/C++, Java, Python, Kotlin, Lua, JS/TS, Groovy, PHP, Visual Basic, Excel, Mathematica, Haskell, Bash.

Here’s more info btw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unary_operation

Why would they not let you do that? I honestly don’t know a single language that wouldn’t let you do that. Same as basic math notation allows you to do that.

x = -i

is a totally valid mathematical equation.

For the downvoters: Find me a single language that supports operators but doesn’t have an unary minus operator

In general, Tree support is easier to remove but has a higher chance of failing. Tree support also only really makes sense if you can get it to go around a part.

So say you are printing a standing O shape. With regular support the support will touch the bottom of the O and will be printed on top of the bottom part of the O, which will make that surface look rougher. Tree support will start sideways of the O and will only move into the O towards the top, so it will not touch the bottom part of the O, leaving it in good condition.

In the case here there’s nothing underneath most of the floating surfaces, so regular supports will be better.

Also, tree support is better when it supports small areas, regular support is better for large areas.

This. No need to realize any gains at all. The same trick also works for any other expenses.

This is a super difficult model. There’s no good orientation for it.

I’d probably print it as oriented on the picture and use a lot of support. If classic support isn’t working for you, try organic/tree support, but I think the regular support would be better. Support should cover the full underside with this print.

When printing in PLA make sure you have really, really good cooling for this.

My sister was like that. We’d always call back “She’s 10 you pedophile”. Shuts people up quite quickly when the call back is done as loud and public as the cat calls.

CAD is obviously something that got much better with better computers, but apart from such heavily PC focussed jobs, I’m not sure this holds true.

Digital systems waste a ton of worker’s time as well, and we now have much, much more bureocracy than before.

In many cases, computers are great at helping you fix problems and accomplish tasks you didn’t have without computers.