The multimaterial is going to be really interesting, combining TPU + PLA for example. Or TPU + PETG, who knows!

In addition to standard multi-color needs!

Prusa are clearly tools: you can fix it, modify it, and still have warranty apply. You can get after-sales parts, and service.

Bambu are appliances. They can work great out of the box, but appliances do not have upgrade paths. You do not upgrade a microwave, you throw it out and get a new one. Or maybe it's more like a fridge, you can limitedly repair some bits, but you cannot wholesale upgrade from V1 to V2.

Anyways bought the core one a few months ago, on kit, and did the whole assembly. The assembly was fun, and the resulting printer has been great. The print fails I had were all easily understandable, entirely due to adhesion issues to a dirty print plate.

I also ordered the indx and am looking forward to capabilities that are not possible with the AMS system. I'm more of an artist though, so I'm looking for interesting and cool ways to make things, not just 3D printing figurines or sculptures etc.

I have four Prusa printers for my business with thousands of hours of print time. The worst issue that I have had is a finicky filament sensor that I temporarily disabled until I could fix it.

I see it as buying printers design for industrial usage versus printers for hobby. Prusa is selling me a tool that just works every time.

I'm not sure if he still does it, but last time I checked he maintains a giant warehouse of these things in Prague that assemble themselves. That's the biggest advertisement for their industrialness that you can make - the printer literally manufactures itself in an industrial setting.

What value to a person does teaching "how to use it effectively" deliver?

How does that benefit their development, learning, society as a whole?

Before you start in with "it'll help them get a job", full stop - education as a public good isn't strictly vocational technician work. It's not a work training for companies.

For the same reason that we should teach people how to use a library, or a search engine, or an academic database. The tools for information retrieval are constantly evolving, and in a democratic society it's important that people learn how to educate themselves on a continuous basis throughout their lives. If you use AI properly, you can learn things that you wouldn't have had the time or skillset to learn otherwise.

I think "working product" is doing a lot of heavy lifting for you here.

I think anyone who has done serious product development wouldn't be so flippant and dismissive about the difficulties of even conveying WHAT to build, let along getting the right balance of quality, timeliness, and actual functionality.

The price hikes are going to be absolutely devastating.

Imagine oracle level price acuity along with 0 competition and utter dependence. This is the future the AI labs are drooling for. You will be charged based on the value it delivers. People will be start making trade offs on if hiring humans would be cheaper than AI, etc.

There's no way they're going to leave all that money on the table when there is all that investment to pay back.

Most of this stuff could be done in compliance with the laws but it’s just cheaper to do it somewhere else where you allowed to vent poison in the air rather than having to filter it out.

This place you speak of doesn't exist.

First, manufacturers don't really make non voc compliant auto paints. The market is too small. They may make 550 and 275 variants but most don't.

Second, even like Texas has voc regulations on paints and also requires filtering and enclosed spray booths and gun cleaners and ....

And like I said, nobody is selling non compliant coatings because the market is zero.

Are they only banned in the cities, or are they banned in the state, which -- even in California, should have rural areas far enough away from cities to be tenable?

It's an interesting conundrum though, because in many cases, the cities could not exist without the things that are being banned in the cities. It's a curious goal of populations to centralize, then ostracize all the things that enabled that centralization

Everywhere in California that isn't a giant population center is growing food for the rest of the country, or is a mountain where these things can't be built anyway.

They're probably "not banned" only in the "basically lying" sense that they per rule won't approve you in certain cities and if you do happen to be rural the process is hostile and expensive enough that it's not worth it for the value such a facility would generate. That's how that sort of stuff is in my state.

That's the thing, often when people say stuff like "its banned" what they really mean is:

- the cost of mitigating the human health risk is too high - competitors in low-environmental regulation places don't pay for those costs - ongoing verification is expensive

I mean, let's face it, "self-regulation" of industries isn't really working that great. And for things that are health hazards that are basically borne by someone else, why should a local government make it easy to cheat and lie about this stuff?

The people arguing against this seem to assume that their right to have a business, make a profit, whatever, is a self-evident Good Thing, and rarely provide any additional arguments beyond "but the jobs". If they were at the VERY LEAST saying "we can make X safe" then maybe it'd be interesting. But as it is, the argument is basically asking us to mortgage the health and safety.

You know what the V in VOC stands for right?

Hint: It doesn't stand for "there forever"

Nobody here wants to just let big business do whatever and turn the rivers weird colors again or go back to smog but it's very clear that the current regulatory system is not suitable and is hurting us.

It boggles the mind that someone could honestly (by which I mean dishonestly and malice are far simpler explanations) step into this conversation and be like "no, this is all fine and well, god forbid someone start spraying cars in a shop in the desert without jumping through all most of the same expensive hoops that make it not worth it down town (and would make it doubly not worth it out in the desert).

And it's not just autobody work. There's all manner of necessary economic activity that's being kept out or made artificially expensive in this manner.

The V in VOC stands for "evaporates at room temperature" which means that if you use it, people breathe it in.

I've used chatgpt-shell, but I have since turned my LLM usage to gptel inside org-mode buffers. Every day I use org-roam-dailies-goto-today to make a new file and turn on gptel (the use of org-roam-dailies is 100% optional). Then I do my interactions with gptel in here, using top level bullets and setting topics to limit context.

I have 10 months of chats, and now I can analyze them. I even had claude code write me up a program do that: https://github.com/ryanobjc/dailies-analyzer - the use of gptel-mode allows me to know which parts of the file are LLM output and which I typed in, via a header in the file.

Keeping your own data as plain text has huge benefits. Having all my chats persistent is good. It's all private. I could even store these chats into a file.gpg and emacs will auto encrypt-decrypt it. Gptel and the LLM only gets the text straight out of emacs, and knows nothing about the encryption.

I found this better than the 'shell' type packages, since they don't always keep context, and are ultimately less flexible than a file as an interaction buffer. I described how I have this set up here: https://gist.github.com/ryanobjc/39a082563a39ba0ef9ceda40409...

All of this setup is 100% portable across every LLM backend gptel supports, which is basically all of them, including local models. With local models I could have a fully private and offline AI experience, which quality based on how much model I can run.

> Keeping your own data as plain text has huge benefits. Having all my chats persistent is good. It's all private.

While agent-shell is much newer than chatgpt-shell, it likely has richer interaction by now (specially the compose interface). I'm veering off topic here... agent-shell now saves all interactions to project/.agent-shell/transcripts as Markdown files. We can totally do org too, but I just haven't gotten to it.

I mean... explain sora.

Revolutionizing cat memes

If I wanted to do that, I'd just move into engineering management and work with something less temperamental and predictable - humans.

I'd at least be more likely to get a boost in impact and ability to affect decision making, maybe.

At least I'd be the one interfacing with a human instead of a machine :P

> For everyone else, keeping checked-in auto-generated code is a continuous toil and maintenance burden. The Google go developers don't see it that way of course, because they are biased due to their google3 experience.

The golang/go repo itself has various checked-in generated repo