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From the top since you seem to have forgot;
This is a really cool project and really speaks to the changing nature of warfare. And, once again, highlights the real reason so much money has gone into FDM processes.
If warfare is not “the real reason so much money has gone into fdm” why did you say it was?
You’ve missed my point. Obviously governments fund manufacturing stuff, including 3d printing. Obviously governments also fund research into better war technology, like with boing and everyone else. You’ve proved the point of that several times over.
What I’m asking for is evidence that 3d printing was funded specifically with war in mind, especially from 20 years ago (as compared to five years ago with the advent of the ukraine/russia war).
When I first asked about this, I didn’t think it would be such a hassle, and I had actually hoped to see a neat article about the history of 3d printing and how it’s been specifically developed as a way to make better weapons for over twenty years. What I got was scorn, mocking, and questioning of my basic mental capacity because I … Couldn’t do the research myself?
Correlation is not causation. The government funds boatloads of shit that doesn’t work out, in the hopes that it becomes eventually useful. The covid19 vaccine was under development since the early 2000s because of swine flu. Is it right for me to say that government expected the swine flu to be used for war purposes because they funded research into it, or would you ask for more details about how the swine flu vaccine was specifically war-related research before beleiving my wild claims?
Or just plug your ears because… I don’t even know why. You do you.
If you ever received any pushback on this theory, this is why. Asking for evidence is not “plugging my ears”. Incredible claims require incredible evidence, and you have provided nothing beyond a single link to the NSF, which is literally a government agency made for funding research into making literally everything. That’s not funding additive manufacturing for war purposes. That’s funding for all of the manufacturing methods because it’s just good fucking sense as a government to keep your technological edge.
You also included all (or many) of the wofld governments, not just the USA in your claim. Your half ass source doesn’t even include any government other than the USA.
Forgive me for not immediately trusting that the world governments are all funding additive manufactueing specifically to make war more efficient when you can’t even try to source anything beyond just the USA nsf.
Additive manufacturing (of which FDM is one of the most accessible techniques) has been a MASSIVE funding source amongst world governments over the past 20+ years.
I’d love your sources for this.
highlights the real reason so much money has gone into FDM processes.
That’s really a stretch. Fdm printing was held back for decades because of patents. If militaries/governments actually knew what it was worth they would’ve worked to fix that a lot quicker.
More likely is that fdm printing became so popular because of how easy it is to make a cheap printer and how useful a tool it is for, frankly, most anything. Weapons are only a small slice of what a good printer can actually do.
Of note, the reaction to having 3d printers capable of making weapon parts has resulted in legislation to limit 3d printer access, not to expand it.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/05/ghost_gun_legislation_3d_printing/
It really is always crazy to see the different perspectives. I’ve actually unsubscribed from a channel for the bad quality youtube put on all their 1080p videos. I’m also still eagerly awaiting the slomo guys bluray release of their greatest hits.
Well, that, and vhs is one of those things that is fun to play with. It’s never going to be perfect, and that’s enough to keep people like me coming back to see what new improvements I can make to my vhs setup this time.
New blurays are 30-50 each. New DVDs are 5 or less, each. Libraries usually have bigger dvd collections than bluray collections. People use what they can afford, not what is best.
I’ll give you ‘satire’. But I don’t really agree with ‘critiques’. The lesson i got from the movie was “stupid people can’t really have empathy, so they just need to shut up and let actual smart people do the important work”, and also eugenics.
If it was critiquing the modern corporate structure, it would have included actual critiques of the modern corporate structure, rather than a single poor idiot in charge of a big company who should have just let the smart guy fix it all for him. In short, comapnies as they are would’ve worked if only the smart people were in charge of them.
The other part is that they depicted the corporations as completely innocent idiots too; “the computer said the money went away so I had to fire people and now they’re all rioting in the streets!” As if the company wasn’t at fault for all of that.
It’s not completely out yet. That was likely AWS being down.
Also, the new quantum protected message encryption headers are about 2kb. If that’s causing issues with your internet, you may want to consider looking at new internet.
It costs money for them to attempt to sort between honest/upfront advertising and the scummy kind.
Yeah. The companies you mentioned are rare novelties because they chose to advertise very little. That means the thing that is normal is when a company advertises. Ergo, having a good reputation usually requires marketing.
Good insights, and not just software developers, really. We don’t like ads, sensationalism, or anything reeking of bullshit
Its a big list of major assumptions by someone who never bothered to verify if they’re even true. He’s mad he had to work with a heavily marketed product that his boss liked, and wrote this about it. Check out this quote from the article;
And the really fun part is that “astroturfing” a thread about your product on Hacker News or Reddit is just about impossible. If you go to the places where developers hang out and try to promote your product, you will be shot down faster than Mark Zuckerberg at a privacy conference.
Dude. Reddit is practically more bot than person at this point, and its impossible to know by how much, because of how good they are at fooling everyone. https://www.clrn.org/how-much-of-reddit-is-bots/
The Dollar Shave Club, go pro
I specifically know who these guys are because of their massive youtube advertising campaigns.
Krispy Kreme, tesla
Please. Walk outside. Or watch cable for a bit. Just because you don’t personally see them doesn’t mean they don’t also have budgets for advertising as well. Tesla in particular straight up gave up on the strategy of word of mouth once their product stopped being known as quality, or at least, higher tech than anybody else.
https://teslanorth.com/2024/03/29/tesla-advertising-spend-6-5-million-2023/
https://ingenuitydisplay.com/what-is-krispy-kreme-s-advertising-budget.html
trader joes, costco
Exceptions to the rule, like Stardew valley, which prove the rule. They are famous as not having a marketing budget because not having a marketing budget is weird and unheard of.
You can’t really have a “reputation” in this day and age without marketing. The fact that things like Stardew valley exist really only prove the point.
Find a car that fits your needs and then pull the fuse powering the sim card before it leaves the lot. If it breaks, put the fuse back and don’t buy it.
My 2019 corolla lost the right speaker and mic access when I did that. I fixed the right speaker by crossing some wires, and the mic hasn’t really been needed enough for me to dig deeper to fix it.
Oof. Top three, but at the same time, half as much as the top paying site does.
I’m with you on this, and English is my first language. This feels like a foreign-to-australia sort of issue rather than a foreign-to-english one.
Those are super neat. I saw a video about how that was sidelined when they made the insulation regulations in the 1900s, which was a real bummer.
One of the things to consider, beyond the dry climate requirements mentioned already, is that you can’t use it as a drop in replacement for fiberglass insulation. You have to plan the building around it because it requires a lot more space, relatively speaking.
*edit In the USA. Can’t speak for australia, which is what you linked to.