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Where does the King keep his armies? In his sleevies!

I mostly switched for the interface, it feels far more modern and easy to navigate compared to Cura and Prusa (while retaining all but the most bleeding edge features from each). Still not perfect, but I've found it to be leagues better at managing and swapping between multiple printers/ nozzles/ materials. It has native calibration tools for everything from temperature towers to flow rates and pressure advance. Plus it plays very nicely with Klipper. I haven't used it a bunch on account of not being wholly set up for it, but multi color printing is also super easy. It's kind of dumb, but I appreciate that updates actually update the app instead on installing a new instance (that I'll have to go uninstall later, looking at you Cura) so that my "send to print utility" button in Fusions always just works. Updates also seem more substantial with meaningful features (things like scarf joints to hide layer lines come to mind), you can very much feel the love that community has poured into it. It's open source software in all the best ways possible.

I was pretty sold after Teaching Tech's video last year, but a number of other channels (Lost in Tech comes to mind as well) have also done Orca slicer videos if you're looking for reasons to give it a try.

Orca is forked from Bambo's slicer which is in turn forked from prusa slicer.

Red states wondering where all the entwives went...

Enh, the tech space is very much innovate or die. So yeah, they could probably throw everything in maintenance mode and make a reduced headcount work, but if AWS goes stagnant it's entirely likely that Amazon goes the way of IBM and Motorol. Especially when someone (likely, Microsoft or Google) comes to take a slice of the AWS market share.

I don't know about a min length; setting a lenient lower bound means that any passwords in that space are going to be absolutely brute force-able (and because humans are lazy, there are almost certainly be passwords clustered around the minimum).

I very much agree with the rest though, it's unnerving when sites have a low max length. It almost feels like advertising that passwords aren't being hashed, and if that's the case there's a snowball's chance in hell that they're also salted. Really restrictive character sets also tell me that said site / company either has super old infra or doesn't know how to sanitize strings (or entirely likely both)...

Even further back if you think about the abominations of taxidermy that got passed off for merfolk and the like (Fiji mermaid)

I'm not sure if it counts as underground (it's been around for ages), but if you've never thought about how your shoelaces contribute to the overall fit and comfort of your shoe, I'd recommend giving Ian's shoelace site a visit.

Arizona has fairly consistent and predictable weather, decently reliable power grids (with access to cleaner energy sources like solar, hydro, and nuclear), and is pretty seismically stable. Plus Phoenix has been trying to set itself up as a bit of a tech hub for a while now so you have access to an existing market of skilled labor plus a supply to fresh talent from ASU (and the other universities).

Nope. Everyone's entitled to theirs opinions, but I downvoted them for being wrong (and because I thought their comment was kind of dumb).

It's no pinnacle of storytelling, but it reads exactly like a parent telling a casual mini-story about their kid to strangers on the internet. It's a recounting of someone else's words, but being a creep is a totally reasonable conclusion for a ten year old to reach and it's also not all that uncommon for parents to praise and reward children for being able to think for themselves or at the very least form a "good" opinion. Ergo, OP's comment does not read like they're trying to pass off a tall tale or spin out bullshit.

Now if the kid had allegedly said something like "the guy's emblematic of everything wrong with celebrity culture and philanthropy as entertainment is a scourge on society", we'd be having different conversation.

Yeah, probably. There is a village building/ upgrading component, but it doesn't have much of an impact on gameplay. It does get pretty tedious, especially if you're well versed in strategy. I mostly just figured I'd throw it out as a more casual one-shot to pick up on the cheap.