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  • Doctors have put numbers around what is considered excessive drinking, but the rule of thumb is that if you think you might have a problem, you probably do. TBH, this is for you to decide and it’s an extremely serious question for you to think about on your own. (“Binge” drinking is defined as more than 4 or 5 drinks per night. Lulz wut? Rookie numbers. /s)

    Alcoholism is a progressive disease. When I stopped, I was doing a 12 pack on week days, and much more on the weekends. Whatever my actual “numbers” were, I always drank till I blacked out. My life was basically centered around drinking time without me realizing it.

    Probably the best thing to do first is see a doctor. Be open and honest about how much you drink and get a plan on how to stop. If you have crossed the threshold into physical alcohol dependency, quitting cold turkey can be dangerous. Get a medical assessment first, please.

    Alcohol dependency can take years to develop. Intense cravings and “the shakes” are a good warning sign that you have crossed that boundary, but that may not always be the case.

    While I am not a fan of twelve step recovery programs, they can work for some people. A a minimum, do some reading into A.A. and the 12 steps of recovery. At a minimum, those recovery steps may be a good barometer of how much of an alcoholic you are. (ie: are you in denial; how much of your life have you trashed because of booze; how many people have you hurt; etc, etc.) There are many recovery programs out there, so look around. The goal is to at least give you an idea of the ride you are in for if you are actually an alcoholic.






  • You could probably map resonance artifacts, but you have to isolate layers that were printed at the same speed and direction. However, the second you tighten a belt or screw, that pattern will change and I am not sure how consistent resonance patterns would be on a bed slinger. (The quantity and density of printed plastic may change the resonant characteristics of the entire printer. This may be less of an issue on a core xy.)

    Thinking waaay outside the box… In some cases, I have seen extruder gear marks on the filament create artifacts on a print. Every gear pattern should be unique, but measurable differences would probably be micron or sub-micron.

    Maybe you could map the surface of textured beds as I seriously doubt that those patterns would be consistent and more prone to randomness from the factory.

    There are a ton of conditions that could generate unique artifacts on a print, now that I think of it. Hell, even a printers PID tuning can leave visible and repeatable errors.


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    Without going into much detail about my experiences, it turns out this scenario stemmed from them being bipolar. Anecdotally, when they got diagnosed and treated, this behavior stopped and they were able to express frustration without going full manic. (I don’t fully understand bipolar’isms that well myself, btw.)

    It’s OK for someone to be frustrated. It’s OK for someone to get mad at you on occasion. It is not OK to be yelled at for hours over something absolutely trivial.

    Don’t jump to any conclusions if you are in a similar situation. The person may actually be abusive!






  • Well, yeah. If I was a betting man, and I sometimes am, I would speculate that Democrats are going to hold the presidency next and it’ll be just in time for the stock market to crash.

    All it will take is one investigation, one major implosion (hopefully NVIDIA, OpenAI, or both) or something else for the underpinning to come loose.

    Since Republicans are unlikely to launch any kind of criminal probe (or other kind of interfering action), they can most likely keep the bubble propped up for quite a while.

    TBH, what I am more scared of is if the bubble doesn’t pop soon. With OpenAI dumping money into consulting services and investors openly declaring that the end goal is to achieve vendor lock-in, it sets a ton of companies up for failure if they were dumb enough to make all of their core services dependent on OpenAI.

    Either companies keep paying OpenAI to keep their core offerings alive or they can’t, and go bankrupt if they can’t convert their infrastructure and services.

    The sooner that all of these shit OpenAI sub-service vendors die, the better. Venture capital will start drying up and OpenAI will lose their “path to profitability”. (It’s almost sounding like how meme coins support BTC… I digress.)

    Hell, I haven’t even touched on inflated company valuations and how AI LLM market growth is being fabricated, in part, by shoving AI integrations into every product imaginable.

    I’ll shut up now, but my point is that I am just applying the same shit I saw back in 2008 where the magic product was sub-prime mortgages coupled with hyper-risky market bets. Obviously, there are differences, but the core failure modes are the same.





  • The last sentence (after your quote ends) was meant to imply that that nobody, even me, is immune to this problem. Without a doubt, I am human and I have my own issues.

    Also, anytime I have encountered any issue like this on my own, it has always taken time to resolve as it can be super complicated. Right now, even though I have been sober for a few years, I am still dealing with many false assumptions and beliefs that stemmed from my years of alcoholism so believe me when I say that the mind of an addict is filled with some twisted realities.

    Unless you’ve become a being of total rational thought

    Admittedly, rational thought is a relatively new concept to me.


  • And I would normally agree with that approach especially if I had nothing to do with them ever again.

    In this situation and as it relates to family, letting this go unchecked is a missed opportunity for a person to learn how this behavior is super weird. To say I haven’t fallen victim to cognitive dissonance would be a lie. However, I learned how to avoid it and resolve conflicts in my own beliefs over time. (Given the nature of this problem, I don’t believe anyone could ever be truly immune to it either.)

    Still though, 99.9% of the time your advice is spot-on.




  • Pin pitch is pin size and/or spacing. With physical plugs, you start to hit limitations with how small the wires can get while still being durable enough to withstand plugging/unplugging hundreds of times.

    Drop losses. (I am keeping this at an ELI5 [more like ELI15, TBH] level and ignore some important stuff) Every electronic component generates heat from the power it uses. More power used usually means more heat. Heat requires physical space and lots of material to dissipate correctly. Depending on the materials used to “sink” (move; direct; channel) heat, you may need a significant amount of material to dissipate the heat correctly. So, you can use more efficient materials to reduce the amount of power that is converted to heat or improve how heat is transferred away from the component. (If you are starting to sense that there is a heat/power feedback loop here, it’s because there can be.) Since a bit of power is converted to heat, you can increase the power to your device to compensate but this, in turn, generates more heat that must be dissipated.

    In short, if your device runs on 9v and draws a ton of power, you need to calculate how much of that power is going to be wasted as heat. You can Google Ohms Law if you would like, but you can usually measure a “voltage drop” across any component. A resistor, which resists electrical current, will “drop” voltage in a circuit because some of the current (measured in amperage) is converted to heat.

    I kinda smashed a few things together related to efficiency and thermodynamics in a couple of paragraphs, but I think I coved the basics. (I cropped a ton of stuff about ohms law and why that is important, as well as how/where heat is important enough to worry about. Long story short: heat bad)