He has major operations in China. This is insane civil war inciting nonsense

Actual bondo is ancient though. No one uses it in auto body. It is one of the reasons I say consumer stuff is junk. The fillers from a pro paint jobber are orders of magnitude better. They hold shape better and they are far smoother. In the cheese grader phase they are far more consistent and they hold better feathering without lifting at the edges. The old junk is rougher and really only made for burying under a few coats of a high build epoxy then a 2k urethane, then a primer sealer. The better stuff can be finished smooth with just a single well applied 2k urethane primer that gets knocked down and color applied on top without a sealer in most cases. The old bondo is three times the work for half the cost of the can of filler, but three times the cost of primer. And it loads up sandpaper faster too. I won’t touch anything from the brand. It is a toxic venture capital zombie american company.

US intelligence has said Xi has ordered the PLA to be capable of invasion by 2027, although military experts have noted that a number of variables – including ongoing corruption issues in the PLA and the unpredictability of US support for Taiwan under Trump – could push that in either direction.

Regardless, the PLA is now undergoing one of the biggest military buildups since the second world war. Xi has overhauled the command structure, boosted missile and nuclear stocks, and strengthened paramilitary arms including the coastguard and the paramilitary fleet of fishing boats known as the maritime militia. The different groups are cooperating more than ever on joint operations.

Satellite images show the barges were escorted by at least two civilian ships from a nearby civilian dock, and that several other boats – including some marked as fishing vessels on their tracking ID – were sailing laps behind them, appearing to practise running interference.

At least three more barges are under construction or in early testing. The barge design suggests they have been built to work with the roll-on, roll-off ferries that China has been repurposing or building to bring tanks and another heavy armoured vehicles across the Taiwan Strait.

Intel announced they are relying on TSMC even more heavily and without letup in a recent investors call. This is WW3 building up. We have an atrocious auto industry that is incapable of integrated engineering, Boeing is a shitfest, and Intel that makes iterative downgrade products that are several generations behind its own products and nowhere near AMD.

When China invades Taiwan, North Korea will invade the South at the same time. That takes out all leading edge silicon hardware instantly. We’ll have tanks that go dead when they stop and play an ad, planes that drop doors instead of munitions, and antique new computers.

I don’t know hot mud but in auto body work, bondo like fillers are catalytic with the hardener added. Those are workable in minutes. Like it is a major skill knowing exactly when filler is at the cheese grader phase of hardness and shaping it super quickly at exactly the right moment with the right blocks, sandpaper, and rasps to build most of the shape. There is only around 1-2 minutes of work time in this phase before the stuff is rock hard. If anyone lets the stuff fully harden, it will take hours to make major shaping changes and level a surface. A skilled person can do a half dozen layers of filler in an hour if they know how to work the cheese grader phase well.

I can then prime that surface, guide coat and block it, clean it, apply color, and then clear within a few hours more. I almost always only did panel work, and I specialized in bumper covers and trim, (I rarely did horizontal surfaces like hoods and roofs). It was common for me to work on 6-12 cars every day.

So it seems silly that nothing exists that would similarly allow quick refinishing. Auto body filler is formulated for the thermal properties of steel so that is not an option. Surely something exists. In my professional experience, all consumer stores in the USA are atrocious for not stocking modern products of any kind. They are usually stuck in ruts of the same ancient junk they have carried for decades.

Went looking for logic gate emojis but apparently that is not a thing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAND_gate#Logic

I mean all of Lemmy in general. I don’t own 3d printing and I do not support the idea of mod ownership of communities that users post within. If most of Lemmy users and mods are onboard with broad scope consolidated communities, I will play my part in that consolidation.

I believe you will find that most mods are narcissistic to various degrees. These will fiercely oppose consolidation and this will cause a massive divide that leads to major problems unless someone with the unspoken hierarchical rank is able to lead in such a way that can defeat the polarization. I am not that figure. Simply by stating bluntly that “consolidation is the path to progress” places me at the farthest polar opposition to all narcissists on this issue. Many of these narcissists are quite popular, far more than myself.

Like I say, I am just the janitor, a servant of the community, and that includes all of Lemmy. If a majority are onboard with consolidation and taking action, I will do what is needed.

It would not go over well if I were to do such a thing on my own. I’m not broadly popular or liked by many. I need to be myself here in a less filtered and openly human messy kind of way, but in terms of the unspoken reputation driven hierarchy of a place like this, I have a low rank for performative popularity. The same is true with me in a business. I’m no people manager, but I am very good at telling you (like the owner) about meta data and business moves to make that no one else has brought up or considered. I’m not afraid to be wrong, but given all the variables I’m aware of, I’m often encompassing a larger scope than most; I enjoy the details. These ideas come peripheral to my genuine curiosity and not some sense of authority or arrogant superiority. I’m actually very insecure and nearly hyper aware of my limitations in understanding.

So when I say these things, like about consolidating communities, I am presenting the idea from the same meta role I naturally take up in real life. I do not want to lead or be popular, I want to be curious even if it is unpopular, violates norms, or some find it offensive. I don’t want to hurt anyone directly or indirectly. I simply will not fall in line with cultural norms that have obvious (to me) contradictions. I am a rogue.

I will follow through and take the necessary actions, but only if there is a broad consensus and a coalition of the most active users supporting the change, along with someone taking the position of leader that has the social clout for others to fall in line with the coalition.

You must be logged in. I think it is incorporating the user’s block list but there may be other factors. I have not looked at the code used to implement the feature.

It is only 1-5 posts per day. That would not overwhelm a larger community like a maker space that included CAD, CNC, machining, woodworking, laser cutting, metal casting, optics, electronics, PCB etching and assembly, repair, hacking, upcycling, Arduino, and SBC hardware. All of these overlap in interests to various degrees. If they were a composite, the community would likely feel much more active and engaging where the user is more motivated to share their little projects and interests more actively, especially when their interests overlap spaces where the interest is not specifically in one niche. Plus you get cross pollination of methods and ideas.

My pocket was probably the safest place around when I was painting. My clothes were practically hard armor and I have had shorts that could stand on their own from all the primer, clear coat, and colors. Funny thing is that the type of spray guns I used most would typically leak a small amount over my fingers. I often had color and clear coat randomly over my fingernails. It wears off of most of the skin within half a day, but fingernails can last for weeks. Business cards, notebooks, and peripheral devices all got damaged and spilled on over time. So from that angle a small pocket device was ideal for me. I was already carrying a phone 24/7 anyways. The thing worked terrible in the sun though, and resistive touch was an inaccurate nuisance.

(Not my actual phone/wiki image)

I had a Sony Ericsson P800 ~2004. I ordered it from eBay from someone in Europe second hand IIRC.

No one around me had a smart phone back then. I got it to track my business contacts for auto body stuff like what used car lots I cold called when and who I talked to. There were a lot of people that argued about how their tiny dumb thin and flip phones were the greatest, but I got the last laugh.

The P800 was a resistive touch screen and overall was pretty terrible compared to now. It was clear to see the limitations of resistive touchscreen tech. It was easy for me to see that capacitive touch was going to change the world even before Apple jumped on that train early. Capacitive touch and Nvidia with AI are the two times I could have bet the farm and would have… if I owned a farm. It simply fit a need and a separate palm organizer and iPod seemed redundant.

I believe you will still end up at the same logic as Beehaw on this path. We do not need a micro niches first approach IMO. We don’t need c/pancakes. We need ultra liberally moderated and very strong c/food first and foremost. We don’t even really need c/3d printing even though I’m a mod there and it is one of the larger communities with regular daily user participation. It could easily be within a DIY, Hobbyist, or Projects community without dominating or detracting from the user base of the broader community. In fact it would probably benefit from the interchange.

I believe that we try far too hard to replicate reddit when Lemmy is its own thing. The more we embrace that, and build independence as a platform, the more Lemmy can grow of its own accord. We don’t need to be just the reddit alternative like some second class bottom feeder. We can be more if we chose to.

¬(A∧B) Grand Master Warlock of the Dev ¬(A∧B)

Thanks. It sounds like an interesting architecture to look into how the rest is abstracted within the CPU basics like ALU, timers, flags, and interrupts

Probably a silly question, but why isn’t this intermediate representation of LLVM created in hardware, or is it?

Thanks. What is this intermediate language you speak of? That sounds curious if it could be approached casually.

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How do languages in GCC map to hardware? Could I, for instance, write in Rust and compile for GCC-MSP430, or a 68k architecture?

The Graphene OS homepage has a Matrix chat page configured like this that automatically generates a guest user

The Alexandrite front end for Lemmy has a feature called “Vibe Check” that shows a user’s positive or negative score in each community they post within. It is a nice check for spotting trolls quickly, or even if a person “trolls” in one community but not others. If you scroll down their profile past around the first ~30 comments/posts (Alexandrite is infinite scrolling), it will score the vibe check on however many comments/posts are loaded which is usually 100 loaded when past this ~30 mark.