finalarbiter

I think that’s actually how it works on the backend (someonr please correct me if I’m wrong!) but it’s a bit more convenient since I don’t have to plug in to a computer.

You can remove undeletable apps using Canta and Shizuku

Purchasing card. It’s a special credit card that companies give to employees to make purchases when they cannot issue a purchase order or it is otherwise more convenient to use a credit card for a transaction.

Not necessarily, there are plenty of people who argue in bad faith or refuse to accept logic in the first place. Failing to ‘win’ against someone like that doesn’t indicate that my position is wrong since they weren’t open to an actual debate in the first place.

If my opponent is debating in good faith and presents an argument that I cannot counter, then yes, I am generally willing to adjust my view.

Plastic and elastic deformation are both terms used to refer to the behavior of a material under stress (such as compression, tension, or torsion).

For an ELI5 since I don’t feel like cracking open a material science textbook or really getting more nuanced than this for a basic explanation, elastic deformation is generally reversible without permanent changes to the structure of the material, while plastic deformation imparts a permanent change.

All materials have elastic and plastic deformation modes that can be identified based on their characteristic stress-strain curve. Generally, the linear portion of the curve at lower stresses is the elastic region, and the plastic region begins where the curve becomes nonlinear.

For example, a wooden beam in a house will bend under normal load. As people move out of the room that beam is in, it will straighten back out- that is elastic deformation. Put too many people or some very heavy furniture in the room, though, and the beam will become permanently bent or even break altogether- that is a plastic deformation.

Some solid books on this topic are Shigley’s Mechanical Engineering Design and Roark’s Formulas for Stress and Strain

The colloquial use of elastic and plastic to describe certain groups of materials is based off the behaviors of these modes of deformation. E.g. elastics are stretchy and return to their original shape. If you really want to get into semantics, there are only four types of materials: metals, polymers, ceramics, and composites. Everything else is one of those 4 things.

You’re good, I didn’t take it as an attack. I totally understand where you’re coming from, I used to manage a fleet of 12 ender 3 printers with varying degrees of modifications from the previous lab manager and hated every minute of it.

I’m not familiar with Creality’s R&D program and cannot really speak to their efforts in that department. They could very well not be pursuing much R&D in addition to cutting QC and having nonexistent customer support, but I didn’t want to make claims in an area I’m uninformed.

Costs can be cut in a variety of ways and each manufacturer has different approaches that affect their end product differently. The main areas that are affected by cost-cutting measures first would typically be quality control (QC), research & development (R&D), and customer support.

In contrast to Creality, some budget manufacturers skimp on R&D instead of QC. They do this by taking existing designs developed by the open-source community (e.g. RepRap, Voron, etc.) and finding cheaper ways to produce them, rather than designing new machines in-house. For example, the Sovol SV08 is pretty obviously a Voron v2 with some custom parts to make it visually distinct.

Creality machines are inexpensive for a reason- they use cheap components and have next to no quality control. As far as I’m aware, that’s no better now than it was when they were peddling the first Ender 3s. It’s entirely possible that your friend got lucky and you didn’t in the quality lottery, it’s just the way it goes sometimes.

Older Creality designs were great if you wanted a machine to tinker with. I would never recommend that brand for people who want a printer that just works, though.

I bought a CR6-SE from Creality several years ago for similar reasons to you. It had all the upgrades one would typically do to an Ender 3 and was supposed to be basically bulletproof. I don’t think I ever got a successful print from it, and it’s been relegated to paperweight duty until I finally get around to taking it apart for components.

He’s mentioned in some videos that he lives in the Chicago area. It usually comes up when talking about electrical work in his home, since building code in Chicagoland generally requires all electrical runs in conduit.

If an insult is all it takes to change one’s position on human rights and equality, they likely only held those beliefs because they were politically expedient rather than actually believing in those principles. That’s not a true ally.

For a particularly recent example, I think Maphra’s cover of Doomed by Bring Me The Horizon is fantastic.

(Assuming you are in the US since you used miles and $)

Availability, even of used vehicles, appears to be pretty limited in the sub-10k range.

It’s important to note that EV range estimates in the US are often based on the EPA estimate for new vehicles, so the cells on older models will likely have degraded and thus the range will be lower than stated. Frequently charging above 80-90% and discharging below 10-20% are also bad for the longevity of the cells, so whatever you get should have enough cushion in the range to avoid that if possible.

I’d look at listings on craigslist and facebook marketplace. Aggregator sites like Car Gurus will also be useful here.

• Car Gurus (EV, price <10k)
• Edmunds (EV, price <10k, range >75mi)
• AutoTrader (EV, price <10k, range >100mi

Ive probably got more of a right to get and reserve it than you do.

Holy shit the entitlement is insane. Do you hear yourself? You’ve already purchased two and plan to get more while other people weren’t able to get any. The reservation system is for people in that situation, not your greedy ass to get a third unit.

Should call them the goodlands

Fuck off scalper

Why didn’t Valve implement this for the release? All of their hardware releases have been popular, and with the pent-up demand after the gabecube and steam frame delay, the sheer amount of people trying to buy the controller shouldn’t have been surprising.

I’m pretty limited as to who my insurance covers, so I can’t go to any of the independent pharmacies near me. I’ve been going to the kroger and it’s great, they’ve never once had an issue with my insurance and typically order refills / reach out to my dr for a new script before I even realize I’m low.

You’re not missing much, it’s a pretty pathetic paragraph suggesting that we should lick billionaire boots because Amazon delivery is fast.

Here’s what I got with some element zapping in ublock:

Billionaires Rock

Kyle Smith

We ought to build statues of them, not chase them from state to state.

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Lmao no.