An STL file describes an object/shape. This needs to be translated into actual print instructions such as move to X/Y position, squirt plastic, move again, etc. This is what a slicer does: It “translates” from a shape to actual print instructions. I’m not sure, but I’ve always assumed that it’s called slicing because it takes the 3D object and creates many vertical slices with print instructions.

I don’t know about your printer specifically, but I guess it takes Gcode (which is what you get as output from a slicer) like most other printers? I suggest you grab PrusaSlicer as it’s very flexible and supports a lot of different printer defaults. Load your STL in there, slice it, transfer the result to your printer, and you should in theory be good to go.

Tip: Start with something small.

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it. Got back into torrenting in 2023 due streaming being less and less attractive

Omelette, unfolded, served on a slice of bread with some proper butter.

Yup. And the official training books are still a great resource for learning everything from the basics to more advanced stuff.

I bought an updated set a couple of years ago, and they still hold up.

If it means continuing an/my OK career where I can work from home, I’d probably keep working to a limited extent because:

1. I need to keep busy

2. The extra money is always nice

If it involves showing up somewhere I hate, then probably not.

HR

Upvotes/downvotes shouldn’t reflect how much you agree with the content. It should be a metric for whether it adds something of value to the fediverse.

Otherwise, default sort would just be an echo chamber.

Not really. I just have a very specific childhood memory of sitting in the backseat of my aunts car with my cousins, listening to it. Years later we happened to find the casette at their place.

Not only that song, but I remember it from I was a kid, long before hampsterdance existed.

The original is from Disney’s version of Robin Hood, you know that version with the fox and the other animals. And I am pretty sure that the one that was sped up and used for hampsterdance is the intro song to the Norwegian version of the audiobook, recorded by Øystein Sunde in 1974.

I have most things that I want, so… peace and quiet, I guess

Go away, Mariah

The first hit is free

Working on my personal projects in a terminal.

Nor does it mention Mike and the Mechanics

Do you want to piss off a balrog? Because that’s how you piss off a balrog.

That’s why he fought Gandalf: Magic breaks physics.

It’s important to distinguish between interaction and constraints. Electromagnetic radiation is a connection, in a sense, but it is not functioning as a constrain, I. E. it does not mechanically link the two bodies. While they do have an effect on each other, their interaction with spacetime is still separated.

Hubble flow is only disrupted if two bodies in a system have a spatial constraint. Radiation does not provide such a constraint. Gravity can, under some circumstances, but it is not considered a rigid constraint in most cases.

General relativity is weird, I know.

Yet another example of immigrants coming here and disrupting the lives of honest white mass murderers. How dare they.

EDIT: Not white, it seems.

One problem with your thought experiment is that it is by its definition not generating infinite energy.

The way I understand it is that a remote body will tug on a mithril wire which turns a generator as it unspools. Alright, fair enough for a thought experiment on it’s own, but without any reciprocating action, infinite energy would require an infinitely large spool to unwind.

Another problem is that the laws of cosmic expansion affects the wire itself. There would be no tugging force between the two bodies. Connecting the two bodies imposes a constraint on them, disrupting the Hubble flow.

Simply put, yes. In the same way subdomains are independent of eachother (for example balls.microsoft.com vs balls.apple.com), communities in different instances are independent of each other, even if they share the same name. That’s because a communitys full designation is, for example !asklemmy@lemmy.world

As for the multiple mod accounts on different instances, this is often because the mod-log and reports often don’t federate properly, so it is common for mods to sign up an identical account on the instance of a community they moderate.

When it comes to creating identical communities, first thing you need to ask yourself if you should. Sure, if an identical community exists on a different instance, but it’s dead, it shouldn’t be a problem.
However, when there’s already an active community, it’s better to join and contribute to that one, as fragmentation isn’t really helping anyone in particular or the fediverse in general.