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Comment Re:embarrassing what qualifies as a programmer (Score 1, Insightful) 58

It is not, it's what is lived with in a codebase, C has nothing to do with it. Also, there is nothing about an approach mandated by one language that cannot be implemented in C, Rust creators have not made anything that kernel developers cannot otherwise do.

C has everything to do with it. C requires that programmers be infallible. They're not. They never have been. They never will be.

Rust's designers understand that programmers are human and will always make mistakes so the language allows and even requires building safe zero-cost abstractions that allow the compiler to check for huge swathes of common mistakes. Rust isn't the first language to do that, by any means, but it's the first language that (a) does it consistently and thoroughly (C++ fails this test), (b) is efficient enough for low-level system and kernel coding (managed-runtime languages fail this test) and (c) has achieved sufficiently-broad adoption (many niche languages fail this test).

Comment Re: Pinball machines are still made (Score 1) 42

"All the time? Low overhang speeds + fan with overhang. Not tricky."

If you have printed parts with horizontal holes which were not relieved on top, and you printed them in PETG, then you either had sag, or poor layer adhesion due to insufficient temperature. That's a huge percentage of why people still print in PLA. (Another big part is that it's so much cheaper than PHA.)

Comment Re:Pinball machines are still made (Score 0) 42

I've never experienced any sort of "sagging" with PETG, and honestly don't even know what you mean by that

You've never printed anything with a horizontal hole?

To get PLA to be "tough" (impact resistant) on the order of PETG you have to load it up with PU microplastics, which makes it worse for the environment than PETG so you lose that advantage.

So what? Your average colored PLA has additives in it anyway.

And it gets rid of its stiffness

It reduces it, it doesn't eliminate it. Try actually printing some PLA+.

Comment Re:Thanks to Trump (Score 1) 124

I'm no highly respected scholar on the middle east like you clearly are but a nuclear-armed terrorist-state doesn't tickle my happy places.

OK, but enough about the US and Israel. Iran is not and never has been a nuclear power. The US nuked Japan twice just because it would be a shame not to use both bombs.

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