morbidcactus

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[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

CANDU also has a lot of different possible fuel cycles, from Wikipedia, these are some of the possible options
Possible CANDU Fuel Cycles

We also already have the ability to produce heavy water for them.

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Thank you, I'll have a look after work!

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That's actually amazing, can you choose the bots you're filling the raid/party slots with? I've got wicked nostalgia for wotlk and my partner was interested in wow when classic came out but they've had bad experiences with pug raids in other games (heck, even issues with guilds). Would you mind posting a link to some of the guides you used?

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You get a bag of haribo golden bears with the kit, manual has callouts after completing a section to treat them as a reward for completing a milestone, intro page talking about it

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Building my v2.4 was spread out across multiple days, I didn't rush anything. A lot of that time was spent making sure everything was square, tramming the gantry, cabling took a while. There's a lot of small fiddly stuff, bearings that you'll not want to damage, things you don't want to accidentally pinch so while you could probably bang out a kit pretty quick once you've had some experience, I'd still really want to take my time with it, put time and care into the assembly and it'll pay off with quality and reliability.

And to be fair to the total time I spent, I spent time trying to understand how things all worked together while assembling it, active assembly time was only a fraction of it.

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you're going the route of a stealthmax, the v2 version has a servo controlled vent, original version it's manual. All filaments give off material you don't want to breath, nevermore has good info on this in the micro repo. Personally, I'd always aim for enclosed no matter what, the most I have in my garage is a box fan w/ decent furnace filters taped to it (works for wildfire smoke), I'd be venting outside if I had to setup inside the house.

I only ever had filtered recirc and exhaust on my enclosures, I'd rather keep it slightly negative to ambient air to try keeping the atmosphere inside the printer.

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

While the tn issue is better, personally found I a lot better to not use external geometry at all and instead build my references wrt the base plane. At worst I have to change a sketch attachment, that and doing chamfers absolutely last has saved a ton of grief on some recent models. I hand sketch first, how I learned cad in the first place, that workflow seems to mesh well with it.

Still the odd crash here or there but I'm accepting of it.

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 weeks ago

Linux has that for vulkan shaders but like, you still get compiling shaders when loading in bl4 even after that.

I don't recall satisfactory having that issue and it's ue5 afaik, hits a solid fps too even with global illumination on.

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

For the price? Yeah absolutely. I got mine really discounted and it holds up, my partner has an oled which looks great and I like the larger screen, but not sure if $300 more is worth it for everyone. You can get a solid case & screen protector, battery bank and upgrade the ssd for nearly that.

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's nice to have just in case but seriously, I find my 350x350 way oversized for what I print on the regular. The best use I have for that size is printed panels, but the z height us mostly useless for 99% of what I do.

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Total anecdote, I had similar washboarding with my mk3s, I did a bed levelling mod that replaced some of the standoffs with silicone tubing spacers and that helped a lot. It was always in the same spot and it would mostly show up on prints that covered large areas and toward the edges of the bed.

I do echo others though that I do think extrusion multiplier and first layer offset do play a role with it, petg doesn't like the same amount of squish that you can get away with using abs (not to say it doesn't happen, just doesn't look as rough, it doesn't cause a failed print for me and I don't mind a quick cleanup with a deburring tool depending what it's for).

Does it show up if you flip the sheet just as a thought? I recall having a bit more of an issue with one side of my satin sheet for example. Last thought, could be worth giving things a long heat soak before doing meshing and homing, make sure everything is more or less stable expansion wise.

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

The New Colossus has you covered there.

 

Experts say that Hudson's Bay had been in decline long before then, some tracing its issues back to its 2008 acquisition by the American investment firm NRDC Equity Partners, and saying that the company's new ownership prioritized its real estate over a cohesive retail strategy.

Emphasis mine.

 

I was joking about a Trudeau/Brazeau charity match against Trump/Musk the other day.

 

Figured I'd contribute with resources I've used and found really solid, not everything is made in Canada but all are Canadian businesses with fantastic customer service.

Filament

  • Matter3D Langford BC based manufacturer, they make some solid quality filament and promote themselves as engineering grade material. Their abs has low odor, petg prints really well, haven't tried their nylon yet but I have a few spools to work with. Their prices are extremely reasonable and they have regular sales, my go to supplier

Parts, kits, etc.

  • Spool3D Calgary AB based store, Canada wide through canpost for free over $140. I live in Ontario, but most of my purchases are from them, solid selection of material, parts and accessories. My voron was sourced with parts 90% from here, they also have solid filament, sell garolite sheets too for a build surface (trying to move away from using builtak, they're a solid product but I won't be buying American for the foreseeable future)
  • 3d lab tech another in Calgary, the other 10% of my voron came from here. Lots of kits and high quality parts, highly recommend, extremely responsive too and they constantly have new, interesting stuff.
  • Sparta 3D Brampton Ontario based, again, lots of kits and high quality parts, have quality filter carbon as well if you're looking for a good Canadian supplier of acid-free material. They have filament as well, haven't had an opportunity to use it yet however.
  • Makerparts they're moving so unfortunately site looks to be closed for now, BC based, they're all sorts of maker related stuff, not just printing. I bought a bear mod kit for my prusa from them, again, solid product and great to work with.
 

The intent, Carney said during an interview on Rosemary Barton Live, is to invest in Canada's economy "at a time when we absolutely have to build as a country."

The taxpayer dollars would "catalyze many multiples of private dollars" to build homes, energy infrastructure, AI systems and trade corridors — "all of which are fundamentally necessary if we are going to grow this economy, irrespective of how President Trump is feeling on one day or another," Carney said.

Carney also said a federal government led by him would balance its operational spending — such as government-run programs, federal transfers to provinces and territories and debt service charges — over the course of the next three years.

 

Sounds like it's focused on internal trade and global investment, I know 30 days isn't a long time, but maybe we can be better prepared, reducing our reliance on the yanks certainly seems to have public support so there's that.

 

Because mandatory minimums work to deter crime and totally haven't been struck down in the past or anything right?

20mg - 15 years, 40mg is life and Pierre's mentioned using the notwithstanding clause to pass stuff like this in the past.

 

Paper mentioned in article can be found here.

Annealing prints has been something I've wanting to do more of, probably with proper temperature control as my experience has has more waste than I'd like, mainly warping.

Paper claims some pretty dramatic improvements to interlayer strength, they're running filament through a bath before entering the extruder, not sure how accessible the entire thing would be in a hobbyist environment (using chloroform and specialised microwave equipment). Makes me wonder however if carbon fibre filaments would be able to be processed similarly, how well it'd perform with stuff like abs or nylon and if you could achieve that with consumer microwaves.

 

Quick question to the community, does anyone have some good tools to sculpt stls or step files?

Context, I'm working on some decorative keychains and have a vector image and text I want to add to the base object. I've used aolidworks for both in the past with alright results but I've switched over to freecad this year, haven't had a lot of luck adding in there, vector image is a tracing of a dog that I was provided, it's simplified but still has a lot of components.

I did look into blender but be honest I'm totally lost using it and have no clue what I'm doing coming from parametric modeling, I'm not an artist at all, my comfort zone is functional parts usually, but was approached by a friend. I did do some mockups in prusa/superslicer where I've added my image and text as negative volumes and merged into a single part. It works but it feels like a really hacky workaround (relevant XKCD) and would prefer to do it right. Any suggestions or resources would be appreciated!

If interested, here's the mockup that I've done a few test prints on, found I needed to change the line width of my vector a few times and made some features exaggerated so they'd come out more. I've (poorly) covered some identifying text on the back, left the rest as to get a feel for what I'm trying to do, did do some rough sanding on the below pictures. There's a pocket on the top edge that accepts a keyring, it's kinda chunky, about the size of a pog slammer or a thicker poker chip.

Rough Sanded Front of keychain with image of a Bernese Mountain DogBack of keychain with some details obscured

 

Just as an FYI because it's saved me grief in the past, both klipper and octoprint can be setup to exclude certain objects while printing. You need to setup your slicer to provide gcode that enables the feature, but it allows you to stop printing a bad object, can reduce wastage in the case where only one part has failed but the others are ok.

Prusa/Superslicer are what I have experience using it with, I used a preprocessing script to output compatable gcode but apparently there's a label objects option directly in both slicers, the klipper link below goes over enabling that feature.

AFAIK Octoprint needs a Plugin
Klipper has native support

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