I can print to my Bambu printer locally by using LAN only or an SD card, not sure why you think I need their cloud to print at all.

Also https://orca-slicer.com/ is not offline, some kind of a fork of it is offline.

Completely disagree. 100% disagree. If I need something that my printer from Bambu cannot do I will get another printer. For what I need it though it is great and keeps me from *wasting* time. My time is what is important to me more than money.

It would be good for the US and the world if I were wrong and you were right, but go see what the LLMs predict when you ask them. Gas in some places in some states is already at $7 or higher from time to time, I was really genuinely talking about national average. But you have to feed in all the context: remind it that the Straits were first closed on March 2nd and haven’t really opened up, and then ask it to consider comparable oil shocks.

I’m saying the US is more car dependent now than in the 70s. Roads infrastructure has been developed more fully, and public transit infrastructure has been damaged, looking across the country as a whole. Just take a look at a picture of an American city in the 70s compared to today: massive suburbs, freeways everywhere, giant parking lots, lack of sidewalks, retail pushed out.

SPR = strategic petroleum reserve. The yikes is everywhere.
https://x.com/JavierBlas/statu...
https://tradingeconomics.com/u...

The same can be said of every technology. The more "experienced" people are the most sceptical to any possibility of change. Those people inexperienced who have used something on the other hand see how significant of a change can be.

The question is, do those "experienced" (the makers in the trenches in your case) adapt and learn the tools using them to support their working positions, or do they ignore them, boo them, pretend they don't exist, and then get made redundant by someone else who comes along and uses a fancy tool to do better?

I'm not saying AI is good, I'm saying this is a general development of all new technology. Those workers would do well to lean those AI tools. It may become as indispensable as the ability to type in many fields.

The only people unemployable are those who are booing the thing they never bothered to learn. Every technological change in history has caused job losses someplace and job gains somewhere else. The question is, will these people have their jobs replaced by someone else who understands the tools and uses them to make these people obsolete, or should they learn those tools themselves to make them more valuable.

You fail your nickname.

There's a difference between interacting with a crowd and giving a speech. She's not there to promote a 2 way interaction, to teach people and engage in discourse. This isn't a political debate, it's a commencement speech.

When giving a predefined speech to someone who you don't have any stake in appealing to you give your speech and move on. Which is precisely what she did. Adapting means causing more problems as well as potentially running over an allotted slot affecting other proceedings.

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.

I don’t want to be immodest, but I live on a road where the average house price is way above £1m and literally no-one on this road has a summer and winter car. Nearby in the very poshest roads in Hampstead there are houses worth £10m or more, sometimes a lot more, and people still don’t do that. They may have a weekend fun car, eg a Lambo or a McLaren, they may have a fleet of cars for the household, but there’s no such thing as winter cars here. My kids were schoolfriends with the kids of at least four billionaires and countless other super-rich people, and went to their houses from time to time, so I am really pretty confident on this. It’s just not a thing.

So? Content is critical, everything is just plausible deniability. If you're concerned about someone knowing that you texted someone to the point where you're afraid even if they have no idea of the content of the message then get a burner phone.

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.

Jensen Huang to college grads: "Run. Don't walk" toward AI

https://www.axios.com/2026/05/...

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang told graduates at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh yesterday that demand for AI infrastructure is creating a "once-in-a-generation opportunity to reindustrialize America and restore the nation's capacity to build."

Why it matters: With many college grads fearing AI could obliterate their career dreams, Huang pointed to boundless opportunity as a "new industry is being born. A new era of science and discovery is beginning ... I cannot imagine a more exciting time to begin your life's work."

Nvidia, which makes AI chips, is the world's most valuable company. Huang told 5,800 recipients of undergraduate and graduate degrees that the AI buildout will require plumbers, electricians, ironworkers, and builders for chip factories, data centers and advanced manufacturing facilities.

"No generation has entered the world with more powerful tools â" or greater opportunities â" than you," he said. "We are all standing at the same starting line. This is your moment to help shape what comes next. So run. Don't walk."

"Every major technological revolution in history created fear alongside opportunity," Huang added. "When society engages technology openly, responsibly, and optimistically, we expand human potential far more than we diminish it."

Full speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Basically the ACK, but I'm also concerned with the kinetic threats from the control of robots by ASI. You must have seen some of the recent videos of the Chinese humanoid robots dancing? Also the bipedal robot that set the new record for the half-marathon?

Why? Drivers are drivers. Ultimately they are required to run with the kinds of privileges where bugs will allow memory access, arbitrary code execution, and privilege escalation. You can't move things to the userland without also breaking the functionality, and if you provide enough access to retain the functionality then bugs become just as severe.