You can do PPS at 300C and it has nearly as high of a working temperature. From a factory in China I've bought filament from before, you can order it (with a minimum order of like 60kg, mind you) for like $15/kg.

PPS is a fun one. Maximum service temperature of 220-240C, yet melts at 280C and you can print it at 300C (doesn't require a super-high-temperature printer). You can literally cast some pewter alloys directly in it in a hot oven. :) Also does not dissolve in any known substance below 200C.

ED: Sorry, didn't read enough into your post. But the TL/DR is: know what stresses and temperatures your part will be exposed to, and make sure the part can actually withstand them. And if you can't do it directly with plastic, then either use something like Virtual Foundry Filamet + sintering, or print a mould and cast it.

What they mean by "carbon fibre 12" is probably CF-filled PA12, a nylon. PA12 CF has a maximum working temperature up to 170C, vs. (for the two most common filaments) ~80C for PETG and ~60C for PLA.

The thing is, everyone who has been printing for more than a couple days should be familiar with all of this. It's honestly shocking that they'd use a material that doesn't tolerate the heat in question. Did they not know how hot it was going to be? Was there a chain of miscommunication, where the person who did the print wasn't told how hot it was going to be by the person who requested the part? Or was the printer just a moron?

While this is being used as an anti-3d-printing story, I think the real problem is just that 3d printing makes manufacturing so much easier, that a lot less is being done by engineers and more by amateurs who often aren't as diligent at studying what a problem actually needs and work more by guesswork.

I thought "end to end" meant "one tushy to another".

Citing facts is trilling!

More socialism for the rich oligarchs.
Musk finally has a sucker to buy his robots.

About 40 countries have enacted sugary drink taxes and they have been shown to reduce consumption.

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They're not suing the grocery chains.
They are suing the companies that make the trash food.
Just like the companies that made cigarettes were held liable for the damage they caused.

I botched up the link, here is the correct one: EAD

Yes, it's quite surprising. What we know from the EAD :
- The risk is related to solar storms (so more accurately atmospheric neutrons).
- Most of the airplanes will undergo a software rollback to a previous version.
- Some of the airplanes will need a hardware retrofit... but this is just because the software upload cannot be performed as easily on the affected equipment.

So where does this lead us to ? An error in the EDAC/ECC code protecting the memory from neutrons-induced bit flips ? From a hardware perspective it is the most likely explanation, but it would be suprising to have such a bug introduced in a software update since this would be quite a low-level function which would be unlikely to be updated. A bug in the error handling code when such an error happens ? This could be more likely, since error handling structures can be shared between several components. Especially if the error in question is very rare (e.g. double error in the same word) and is not correctly tested during regression testing.

Nevertheless it is not just not another random US list, it is the entity list, which has very serious implications for export control.

Eastern Europe was screaming about how dangerous this was, but they weren't listened to.

One of the most insane things is how after Russia's surprisingly poor military performance in the Georgian war, the Merkel government was disturbed not that Russia invaded Georgia, but at the level of disarray in the Russian army, and sought a deliberate policy of improving the Russian military. They perceived Russia as a bulkwark against e.g. Islamic extremism, and as a potential strategic partner. They supported for example Rheinmetal building a modern training facility in Russia and sent trainers to work with the Russian military.

With Georgia I could understand (though adamantly disagreed) how some dismissed it as a "local conflict" because it could be spun as "Georgia attacking an innocent separatist state and Russia just keeping their alliances". But after 2014 there was no viable spin that could disguise Russia's imperial project. Yet so many kept sticking their fingers in their years going, "LA LA LA, I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" and pretending like we could keep living as we were before. It was delusional and maddening.

The EU has three times Russia's population and an order of magnitude larger of an economy. In any normal world, Russia should be terrified of angering Europe, not the other way around. But our petty differences, our shortsightedness, our adamant refusal to believe deterrence is needed, much less to pay to actually deter or even understand what that means... we set ourselves up for this.

And I say this to in no way excuse the US's behavior. The US was doing the same thing as us (distance just rendered Russia less of a US trading partner) and every single president wanted to do a "reset" of relations with Russia, which Russia repeatedly used to weaken western defenses in Europe. And it's one thing for the US to say to Europe "You need to pay more for defense" (which is unarguable), even to set realistic deadlines for getting defense spending up, but it's an entirely different thing to just come in and abandon an ally right in the middle of their deepest security crisis since World War II. It's hard to describe to Americans how betrayed most Europeans feel at America right now. The US organized and built the world order it desired (even the formation of the EU was strongly promoted by the US), and then just ripped it out from under our feet when it we're under attack.

A friend once described Europe in the past decades as having been "a kept woman" to America. And indeed, life can be comfortable as a kept woman, and both sides can benefit. America built bases all over Europe to project global power; got access to European militaries for their endeavours, got reliable European military supply chains, etc and yet remained firmly in control of NATO policy; maintained itself as the world's reserve currency; were in a position that Europe could never stop them from doing things Europeans disliked (for example, from invading Iraq); and on and on - while Europe decided that letting the US dominate was worth being able to focus on ourselves. But a kept woman has no real freedom, no real security, and your entire life can come crashing down if you cross them or they no longer want you.

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And yet, your imaginary friend still isn't real. ;)

They clearly didn't even use a proper image generator - that's clearly the old crappy ChatGPT-builtin image generator. It's not like it's a useful figure with a few errors - the entire thing is sheer nonsense - the more you look at it, the worse it gets. And this is Figure 1 in a *paper in Nature*. Just insane.

This problem will decrease with time (here are two infographics from Gemini 3 I made just by pasting in an entire very long thread on Bluesky and asking for infographics, with only a few minor bits of touchup). Gemini successfully condensed a really huge amount of information into infographics, and the only sorts of "errors" were things like, I didn't like the title, a character or two was slightly misshapen, etc. It's to the point that you could paste in entire papers and datasets and get actually useful graphics out, in a nearly-finished or even completely-finished state. But no matter how good the models get, you'll always *have* to look at what you generate to see if it's (A) right, and (B) actually what you wanted.