If you’re a “regular sized adult” I honestly think you can get away with 30% adaptive cubic, and 5-6 walls and top/bottom layers.

That’s pushes it to 2.4kg filament and a +2 days print though with a regular 0.4mm nozzle and 0.3mm layer height.

If you go for something like lightning infill of 15% and 3 walls, you could probably make that print in something like 11h and only use 750g filament.

now i would really like to try a 256 mm³ cube

That’s a cube measuring ~6.5mm x 6.5mm x 6.5mm…I know the A1 is small, but that seems fairly unambitious.

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That’s a very US-centric view of car industry

Lightning infill is absolutely bonkers WRT material efficiency and print speed for large parts. It doesn’t offer the same level of strength as something like adaptive cubic though, but it’s faster and uses less material.

I rounded a bit (before I miscalculated), there’s 33.7kWh in a gallon and they use 0.35gal/h on average, so they actually use 11.8kWh just idling

I mean, it’s a bit disingenuous to use a GW example in relation to the article, when the largest currently in operation is 0.15GW

Isn’t the largest data center currently something like 100MW? So “only” 0.1GW…65.000 space heaters is still insane though.

There’s 33kWh worth of energy in a gallon of gasoline, and they use 0.3gal/hour when idling, so cars are pumping out 11kWh of heat just sitting there…that’s a surprisingly large amount of heat.

It’s been popular for making ceramics at home in microwaves for years

They’ll subsidize cheap locked down thin clients that can do jack shit by themselves except make an RDP connection to a VM.

Man I’m so happy I barely game anymore and my home server was rebuilt 2 years ago, hopefully it doesn’t crap out anytime soon 🤞

Is there any technical reason it cannot be done in a privacy respecting manner? It should be possible to collect a location and speed from a phone with absolutely no other data attached from the device and store this in a database. This would provide a database of anonymous traffic density in a state of flux. You cannot see which phone is which data point, where it is coming from or where it is going to.

The only real reason I can see this is not done is surveillance capitalism.

But why muddy the terminology, when there is already a clear distinction between the two major factions? where CAD isused to denote the traditionally engineering oriented, and 3D modeling is for the traditionally organic model design tool, do you need to mix the two? They each serve distinct specialized purposes and their definition are widely recognized within industry in general already.

Well, yeah a computer is obviously used but you’re using it in an extremely literal sense that people generally don’t use. Blender and similar are usually referred to as 3D modelling software. The key difference seems to be that 3D modeling software is not intended for precise real-world dimension but more organic shape manipulation and CAD software is meant for precise dimentioned designs made from extruded 2D sketches.

PLA is the filament used for printing the 3D printed parts

What kind of PLA is he using that’s only 17USD for 1.5kg?

I mean, pattern recognition in insanely large datasets is exactly what AI systems we have today are good at, which is also what the article talks about, and the issues and risks this poses in a war. yes, in a military context it enables tactical decisions to be made faster, and war kills people so not really a big eye opener there, however still horrible.

But this ability to analyze datasets that are basically too large for humans to efficiently condense to something meaningful is still valuable in many other aspect outside of military, killing and surveillance (although this is where it is used most extensively it seems)