So you're pissed because they let you?

I've only met users, so the creator's thoughts are sort of irrelevant.

It's stuff like this that makes donating your time to open source the most rewarding thing in the world.

Grades are usually ranked certification systems. Grading gemstones, surface plates, instruments, whatever, aren't just a ranking system. They're a certification of belonging to a particular quality class. The ones from accredited educational institutions awarding certifications are certainly not meant to be just a blocky ordering of students in a class.

Steppers skip steps without damage.

Anyway, this software does not replace the firmware.

It's French. The French guy who created it calls it key-cad because, in French, it is indeed written that way:

https://youtu.be/V9y8H2JMRow?s...

If you're American it's not terribly surprising you've never heard it pronounced that way. You may have never heard croissant, champagne, or St. Louis pronounced or seen connaisseur spelled correctly either. The single syllable "ki" is even more subject to anglicisation, especially if even a few popularisers pronounce it that way.

KiCad seems to support both pronunciations. The creator has said he doesn't care which you use.

Everybody uses the public's tax money. You do, your employer does. That by itself isn't much of an argument.

Is there something specific you think CERN should open source that they haven't?

Musk already admitted he wanted control. Musk wants sole control of all his companies. He really does not believe in "public" companies, only extracting cash from shareholders for his projects. Look at tesla, he is back with major control after all the crap with his big payout. And I imagine his plan is to have even greater control after he rolls spacex into tesla. The man is an admitted control freak. Altman and musk both suck, but I view musk as the more dangerous at the moment. He is by far richer and more powerfully connected. He has the ear of Xi and Trump and probably Putin.

Fascism, command economics or capitalism... choices, choices. Apparently #3 is the anti-American one. Huh.

Tech people love to classify things, including companies, as hardware or software. The really successful companies recongize that neither works without the other, there are a lot of opportunities that come with making both, and customers value not having to chase down various suppliers when they have a problem.

RCS isn't a good standard. It was so crappy that Google essentially bought it, added the minimum necessary to turn it into an acceptable messaging platform and made their proprietary version (as opposed to the original GSM's proprietary version) their messaging platform. Er, their fourth (fifth?) messaging platform.

Why? If she's an experienced speaker I suspect the VP of strategic alliances for a multinational private equity holding company is used to talking to a very specific type of audience. We even have a phrase for that that comes from a similar type of speaker: "preaching to the choir."

The real hilarity is that someone from a humanities college thought she'd be a good pick.

That, by its very definition, is an area where AI should have very limited use

The definition of AI is essentially:

"to proceed on the basis of the conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it."

So no, by definition, the stuff those humanities students do is a prime target. We used to think that the creative humanities stuff was going to be really hard, maybe the ultimate goal for AI, but it turns out it's not.

They've created nothing new, just looked around an found markets they could cannibalize.

Ah, they've added competition. Terrible.

Many printers, including Bambu Labs', don't have endstop sensors. They run to the end and detect the stepper stall. They're direct driven by the stepper motors and don't have the power to "strip belts or cogs."

Hopefully. Nothing livens up driving like that surge of adrenaline you get in front of a long line of cars when you've stalled your cranky old beater and aren't sure it's going to start again. Something to provide the smell of a burnt clutch would be great too.