Yeah, the transparent PLA I have is more crystal than transparent. It lets light shine through, so handy for encasing a status LED, but at any reasonable thickness it’s too cloudy / obscured to make out details through.
But I have seen success printing truly transparent panels and things using PETG / PCTG.
When I got my 3D printer, the first spool of filament I bought was transparent / crystal. No regrets.
Lol, that’s literally just what that saying means. What other interpretation did OP have?
If that was all he said, I would have no issue with that. But no, he spent 10,000 words padding that sentiment out with as much tripe and snake as he could.
Lmfao, so now Lemmy thinks that the stock market is an arbiter of value and truth?
I’m sure you really thought that one through. You seem incapable of understanding nuance or thinking through your points, so maybe sit a few conversations out and reflect on the fact that you immediately defaulted to thinking of me as a moustache twirling villain.
Look up the definition of the word cynical. It means, more or less, asserting that no one is motivated by sincere integrity. Accusing some specific people of lacking integrity, while holding up others as good examples of integrity that everyone should aspire to, is the opposite of cynicism.
Yeah, I know the definition of the word, and I meant what I said. Stop trying to think I said something else because you disagree.
He is incredibly cynical.
He thinks everyone in the tech industry is a moustache twirling villain and always ascribes malice where incompetence would do. Like I said, he’s who you listen to when you want to hear someone go on an unhinged rant about everyone being evil, not someone with an accurate view of human nature or motivations.
He doesn’t address very much the idea that DeepSeek “distilled” their model from OpenAI’s model and others specifically because that is just a rumor with very minimal evidence for it.
There is very minimal evidence for literally EVERYTHING he writes about in this article. The whole talk of them working around the GPU restrictions also has incredibly minimal evidence and is just a rumour.
Once again, his motivation is not informing you, it’s dunking in the tech industry. It’s literally his entire persona and career.
The “rumors” you say he discusses about novel ways the Chinese researchers found to outperform OpenAI are based on an extremely detailed look at their paper and their code, as interpreted by experts.
No, they’re not. He just portrays it that way because that makes the tech industry sound bad. We flat out do not know how they trained Deepseek’s model.
Once again, I don’t care that he’s mean to any tech titan, I care that he’s misinforming people because it’s the easiest path to dunking on an industry that he has a preexisting vendetta against.
Wanting a better world, and holding up a light to the current one to show the differences between what could be and what is, is not at all what “cynical” means. “Cynical” is the opposite of what you mean. “Pessimistic” or “negative” is definitely more apt, yes.
No, I said cynical and I meant cynical.
I don’t care that he criticizes the tech industry, I care that he feels the innate need to portray everyone in it as moustache twirling villains, rather than normal people caught up in the same capitalist systems and pressures as everyone else.
Even here, he spends all the article focusing on rumours about Chinese researchers making novel ways to outperform OpenAI and the like, and just makes a dismissive joke about the accusations that they effectively trained their model using OpenAI’s model. Regardless of whether or not you agree with the morality of ignoring copyright to copy a copier, it’s an incredibly important point because that is not a replicable strategy for actually creating new models. But rather than address that in any way, he dismisses it in a paragraph to spend another couple thousand words trying to dunk on the western tech industry in the snarkiest tone possible.
Lol, Ed Zirtron is very paralleled.
He’s pessimistic and cynical to the point of being conspiratorial and delusional.
He’s someone to listen to when you want to hear someone go on an unhinged rant about the tech industry, not someone you listen to when you want to actually understand how it works.
I mean look at this trash article, he spends 5000 words saying effectively nothing. Things he could have explained by just linking to pre-existing, better written articles, instead, he rehashes everything in a snarky tone while skipping over some of the most important points (like training through distillation).
By what historical measure are you basing that?
Do you care to rank our prime ministers in order and see where he falls on that list?
Because heres a hint: if you’re a leftist, then every single one of our prime ministers, ever, has not been good enough.
In which case, you might want to reflect on whether there’s any overlap between the circles of good enough and electable.
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You can use command + shift + full stop to toggle hidden files and folders, if I recall correctly.
Yeah, but thats a fundamental problem from a UX standpoint. If you’re a software developer who needs to work with those files and folders, you can easily run into issues where you don’t even realize that there are files there that are causing problems (or that you changing or deleting might cause problems with).
There’s no way of globally enabling hidden files and folders, there’s a terminal command that does it for vanilla finder windows, but none for the finder file picker windows that apps use.
Unclear if it’s hardware or MacOS, but despite having the graphical horsepower to push enough pixels, Macs are limited to two external monitors unless you buy the multi thousand dollar Max processor.
It doesn’t support high quality Bluetooth audio codecs like AptX.
It doesn’t natively support Google cast or Miracast.
It doesn’t support sub pixel text rendering so text looks like trash on 1080p LCD monitors.
Im sorry but if your arguments is that “AI is doomed because current LLMs are only good at fuzzy, probabilistic, outcomes”, then you do not understand current AI or computer science or why computer scientists are impressed by modern AI.
Discrete concrete logic is what computers have always been good at. That is easy. What has been difficult, is finding a way for computers to address fuzzy, pattern matching, probabilistic problems. The fact that Neural Networks are good at those is precisely what has Computer Scientists excited about AI.
You sound like my grandparents complaining about techno musicians sampling music instead of playing it themselves.
Good art can be created with any medium. You view AI as replacing art, future musicians will understand it and use it to create art.
So a moral issue is suddenly not a moral issue if you make the choice that u/someguy3 considers to be right?
The hospital staff still had a moral issue to consider.
The hospital staff wanted to raise money themselves to hire a prostitute for him, so yes, there very clearly was a moral question for them to consider, even if in the end they didn’t go through with it personally.
No I explicitly called out their walled garden in my comment when I complained about them not putting effort into third party compatibility.
Their software engineers not writing a little extra code that can be copied and pasted onto every chip for literally nothing, results in millions of physical devices having to be mined out of the earth, melted and refined into raw materials, engineered and machined into parts and components, assembled into physical devices and tested for quality control, then shipped out to consumers.
Don’t fucking start acting like the effort it takes for them to maintain software compatibility is a big fucking burden compared to what they make the rest of society do.
Plug in a random USB C hub off Amazon that works with windows, Linux, android, raspberry pis, and windows laptops from 13 years ago and watch it not work on any Apple device because they do not and have never put any effort into compatibility.
Go outside, give your head a shake, and stop simping for trillion dollar corporations.
Depends on the type of plastic. PLA is what I have and it’s the most commonly used materially, and it will definitely degrade in UV light.
ASA is the most common, seriously UV resistant plastic, but it is inherently opaque (and printing it releases styrene which is toxic and requires special ventilation).
PETG is relatively easy to print, can be printed even more transparently than PLA, and has some UV reistance, so would probably be your best bet.
It will still eventually yellow or structurally degrade over time from sunlight though. I also suspect some of that phone case yellowing might not be UV exposure but absorbing oil from your skin.