You fail your nickname.

Which, of course, is AWESOME.

A human who knows something will reject an obviously wrong answer, but since the LLM knows literally nothing and the AI companies won't pay for it to check even its own work (which won't solve the problem but will REDUCE the major fails) it will just happily shit out a catastrophe.

Yes, they are. They aren't printing every single part of the gun, but yeah, they are printing guns. And I say that as someone who plans to print one eventually, though probably not while I live in California. You can make your own rifled barrels with EDM, too, so you actually can manufacture every part of the firearm yourself.

Yeah, that's also done with a sensor. It's done with current sensing. And it's not a hard stop, it's a soft stop. So, exactly what I said it was. Note I didn't mention a switch or hall sensor.

Then they can kill the steppers. That's not better.

Agreed that the Mach-E is a terrible name. But how did they screw up such a guaranteed out-of-the-park home run with an electric Mustang? I mean the whole image of the Mustang is a sporty performance vehicle for the young and stupidly lead-footed. Mustangs are classically known for acceleration and EVs are wickedly good at that. I mean, if Ford were to create a 1965-styled electric Mustang, I shudder to think how many boomers would buy them. They were the dream car of an entire generation.

Ford, are you listening?

Absolutely not. Ouija has nothing in it which doesn't come from the players. LLM is based on its training data and random numbers. The two could not be more different.

Same here. I had a Cyrix 6x86 and a couple of different K6s including a K6/3+ before I went to Slot 1 and then Slot A, and it's been all AMD since...

Ford wasn't counting on people switching from gas F-150s to the Lightning. They were counting on the F-150 name helping to sell their new product. This has essentially been effective, in that they sold about as many of those as they reasonably could have hoped to have done. People who bought them generally seem very happy with them, though not very many people were ever going to be in the market for that vehicle.

With that said, Ford should have parlayed that success into a lighter, cheaper EV pickup. Call it the F-100 Lightning. I'd guess they haven't been able to execute on the supply parts of the picture, and that's the real reason it hasn't happened. It took Tesla a while to get into the swing of having battery supply at a good cost. Ford simply isn't there yet, so they are using protectionism to delay the progress of the entire market in an effort to to catch up.

The best solution is replacement of their electronics and thus freedom from their entire software stack. There are mods for a number of printers for doing this. I for one have a FlashForge Adventurer 5M and while it is hackable and they haven't done anything stupid to users yet, they do have horribly inadequate RAM (128MB!) so there's a project to replace all the electronics with a Pi and a common control board.

On occasion there have been commercial replacement boards for some printers. Biqu has made some for a couple of Bambu models.

I like manual transmissions because I tend to drive older cars. I could buy a newer car, I have a job and money in the bank, but then I would have less money in the bank in case of an emergency. When you have a problem with an automatic transmission, it tends to be expensive. Most of the time when you have a problem with a manual transmission, it's not even in the transmission. It's a bushing or a mount or the clutch.

Traditional automatic transmissions CAN be good, but most of them suck. CVTs CAN be good, but most of them are fragile. So manuals it is.

I'd rather own an EV, but it's not practical for me yet. That is, a used Leaf or i-MIEV literally cannot get me to work and back with their typical battery life, a better used EV would be out of my self-imposed budget, and I don't have a place to charge off-street anyway.

If I had to commute every day I might look at freeing up space in my driveway so that I could do that, right now there is an RV parked there, and it's quite expensive to store it someplace good. I had it in a place only $50/mo, but it was RIGHT on the water, I'm not trying to convert it into a pile of rust. I am only in office one day a week, and that currently costs me about $7/gal * 1 gallon * 2 directions = $14/week in fuel, or around $60/mo. $720/year is very doable. I also live in Northern California, in a county which has no spare capacity, so given my price per kWh there's not a lot of savings in an EV anyway.

Until something changes substantially, it makes a lot more sense for me to keep driving my current vehicle. Even if the engine asplode I could just get another one dropped in for a couple grand, there's TONS of them around.

But this is nothing more than giving you a more complicated control to use to attempt to modulate the same linear output. Two inputs are better than one? Doubtful, it makes more sense to learn to operate the one input, or to improve the shaping of the one input to make it easier to do the same job with the single input.

It was economically a near-failure, and it was a commercial product, so that's how you measure its level of success.

They were late bringing it to market, so the performance was underwhelming, which is why it failed in the market. Few people will buy an underdog without a clear price advantage.

The K6 had that clear price advantage, and it and its variants were successful in the market. They sold a lot of units. It was very common to find them in laptops because they were cheap and relatively power efficient, especially once the K6/2+ came out.

That would be nice, but odds are it runs an unmaintained version of Windows, and there is no upgrade path — neither the drivers nor the software have been updated for a newer version. I've been spending a lot of time in hospitals and dentists' offices lately and virtually everything runs on Windows.

I was using a third party client for ICQ long after anyone was bothering to use ICQ. I only stopped since nobody was contacting me that way, not because it became impossible to use ICQ with third party clients.

Literally all consumer level 3d printers can damage themselves to the point that they will need maintenance before they will work again and are protected only by firmware. End stops are soft, not hard, they do not require physical intervention to reset and if the firmware ignores them then you will strip belts or cogs at best.