K‮ly‬e @khird@qoto.org

@RL_Dane it doesn't require taking apart, but there are some potentiometers on the board which control current to the motors and I'm tired of how frequently they require adjustment. If they aren't set correctly, you get the leaning tower of Printrbot as the horizontal reference datum gets a small offset layer-to-layer which accumulates over time.

At this point I just don't use it more than a couple times a year. When I factor in the lost time from it going out of alignment, there's usually another means of fabrication which is more efficient. At least with a different machine there'll be different hiccups to work around and it'll be interesting to play with for a bit. So if you feel similarly and want to swap, I'm game. Failing that I think my plan is to exit the 3D printing game and switch over to a smallish laser cutter.

@RL_Dane want to swap for my Printrbot Simple? I too am tired of futzing with my printer and seek new challenges

@peterdrake

Per [`man zshbuiltins`](https://linux.die.net/man/1/zshbuiltins), the builtin shell command `r` is equivalent to `fc -e -`, which, to my reading of the same manpage, selects the most recent command and executes it without editing.

@biomedmax on QOTO, yes.

1. In the web interface, go to Preferences > Follows and Subscriptions > Domain Subscribes > Add new domain subscription
2. Make a new subscription with the domain set to the instance you're interested in, e.g. "mastodon.social", and the target timeline to "Add new list"
3. In Tusky, go to Account Preferences > Tabs > Add Tab > List > "mastodon.social" or whatever instance you selected in Step 2.

I don't think this is generally applicable because my recollection is that domain subscribes are a nonstandard feature; QOTO offers them but most instances don't.

@stux any idea how nicely their extension model plays with federation? That sounds like what happened with XMPP: inter-instance communication is quite painful if the two instances implement different sets of extensions. And matters won't improve when you talk to other Fediverse software that doesn't even know about the Bonfire ecosystem or how it negotiates mutually-supported extensions.

@Acer If you're a contractor with one business, and he's a contractor with another, you could say he's your "counterpart" at the other one.

@Placholdr

If aₙ is a perfect square, some integer sₙ exists such that sₙ² = aₙ.

Can sₙ be even? If so, you could write it as 2s'ₙ for some integer s'ₙ. What happens when you try to solve (2s'ₙ)² = aₙ since aₙ is always odd?

Can sₙ be odd? If so, you could write it as 2s'ₙ + 1 for some integer s'ₙ. What happens when you try to solve (2s'ₙ + 1)² = aₙ since aₙ is of the form 100 * aₙ₋₁ + 11?

@peterdrake

I am feeling a little crepuscular/
When I wake in the morning and I step outside/
And the light's just creeping into the sky/

@realcaseyrollins May I ask what it is you don't like/respect about him? He used to be one of the conservative authors I would read for variety's sake, to try and stop myself from getting trapped in an ideological echo chamber. Obviously I disagreed with his views a lot of the time, but I generally thought his stuff was worth reading before he left the platform.

Here's a trick for #volvo #windshieldwiper blades. Volvo, in its wisdom, decided to invent a new nonstandard attachment style, which means that cheap blades you get at retail can't be mounted. However, you can make it work in a pinch if you don't feel like paying fifty dollars for new high-end ones.

1. Buy some cheap truss-style wiper blades and remove the rubber piece from the metal frame holding it. It's easiest to pull it out starting at the barbed end. Discard the flexible metal strips embedded in the groove on each side.
2. If the groove doesn't go all the way to both ends, get a sharp knife and carefully extend it. Be sure not to cut all the way through!
3. Cut the rubber edge completely away from the metal beam on the original Volvo blades. The top lip is actually an extension of the rubber edge, so this will come away too, leaving a thin gap along the length of the beam.
4. Squeeze the beam in the middle to disengage the clips holding the plastic mount to the metal rails, and remove the plastic mount. With the mount removed, you can now move the rails independently to make the gap between them wider.
5. Thread the new rubber blade into the gap such that the metal rails fit into the grooves from which you removed the flexible strips earlier. Make sure the blade goes firmly all the way into each end cap, then work inwards to seat the rubber onto the metal.
6. Snap the mount back onto the metal rails. There is a small plastic stub which fits into a corresponding notch in each rail to make sure the mount is positioned correctly, and a clip at each corner to hold it on. Make sure all are engaged correctly.

@users 31 May: Kyle gets back after a weekend out of town and sees a bunch of new advertising accounts from the past few days.

BEGONE SPAMMERS

@RezaHoss Does this work with ligatures? Most times when I see text extracted from a #LaTeX PDF, the extraction process doesn't correctly decompose them into their component letters, so for example you see `*xed` instead of `fixed` on account of the `fi` ligature.

@valleyforge sightlines? Cranes support the load from above, so you can pretty safely assume there's no obstruction over the working end of the machine. But if you're lifting a load onto a high horizontal surface, or even holding in place a load above a horizontal surface, you'd see only its underside from below.

@lucifargundam

@kreyren
> Gripen or typhoons are significantly less combat-capable

by what metric? The Saab has a five-to four advantage in max speed, and about two-to-one in thrust-to-weight ratio and wing loading (= better manoeuvrability). The Lockheed has a fifty percent greater range and about eight percent more munition capacity by weight. Obviously range is really important if you want to defend an airspace as large as Canada's, but no point in Finland is more than about 300km from the Russian border, so it's well within both craft's ranges.

@kreyren might make more logistical sense to go with the Gripen or Typhoon if Sweden joins as expected. Canada recently did a competition with the Super Hornet, Rafale, Gripen, Typhoon, and Lightning II. Lockheed beat out Saab at the end, but the understanding is that it mainly came down to Canada needing close integration with the US. Finland probably places more weight on working with the Swedes and British, thanks to their recent security agreement, where Canada placed it on working with the Americans.

@valleyforge Mergesort is also an excellent example of recursion.

@sojournTime