Here's a pro tip for any maths students: the easiest way to find a local maximum of a function is to introduce a cat and see where it decides to sit.

#Math #Maths #CatsOfMastodon

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Next up, a 13.5-hour print.

Also: I don't appreciate OrcaSlicer telling me things are too close just because their footprints overlap. There's *plenty* of space inside the big one.

Three hours into a 16-hour print and all seems well. Much like a supervillain, I shall now leave it to itself while I go do other things (like sleep) and assume everything will go to plan.

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Let this be an EULA for me: I do not, and will never consent to letting Palantir anywhere near any information about me. Anyone caught violating this will be publically shamed at the very least.

I just discovered that Australia has a "National Public Toilet Map"

https://www.health.gov.au/resources/apps-and-tools/national-public-toilet-map-app

"It helps non-creative people be creative."

You have entirely missed the point of creativity.

Oh, skin, too. That thing regenerates very quickly and is the largest organ in the body. All my body water will have been exchanged several times over and that's where most of your body weight comes from. I think I'm probably at least 75% Australian made ingredients by mass (and probably by volume as well).

Random thought while perusing grocery store products: "I wonder what percentage of Australian ingredients I'm made from at this point."

I was born here which started me off almost entirely Australian ingredients, but I grew up in the US which made me mostly American ingredients. I've been living back here since 2011, which means I've mostly eaten Australian ingredients for a decade and a half. My bones are probably still mostly American, but my liver is probably almost entirely Australian now.

I've taken my amphetamines *and* had about 450ml of coffee and I got around 8-hours of sleep, so why am I still tired?

Remember, no matter what the repercussions are for disobeying fascists, the reprcussions for capitulating to them will always be worse.

Pro-tip: telling me that my well-founded concerns aren't worth being concerned about does not help in the slightest.

It's weird how often people fall for the obvious fallacy in "I've ignored these warnings/rules all my life and haven't died once."

Oh, great, now YouTube automatically hides the sidebar while watching a video and expanding it covers the left side of the video.

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#Accessibility

A drop down list for a whole number angle between 1 and 180 is *not* a good choice. Just let me type the number and check that it fits the range before accepting it. Same goes for year entries, trying to find 1982 out of a list of at least a hundred years is *way* more troublesome than just typing it. While a month drop-down is acceptable, a numerical text input is still a better option. How the hell are these UI designers being trained?

Well, that's not good. I have no idea when that happened, but I'm pretty sure it was recent. I guess I'm not doing any printing today. I should probably get a spare while I'm at it.

#3DPrinting

Look, ma, no wobble!

Rotated the other way, slowed the print *way* the hell down, and stuck a truly enormous brim on it.

Also, white filament. I don't think that's helped it, though.

Ignore the video stutter, not sure why it's doing that.

Ok, you bastard, if this doesn't work, I guess I'll have to make a drastic redesign.

Well, it just failed again, about a minute after this recording. You can see through the thin part of the base that a fairly significant portion had already detached. It got considerably further, though, so my adjustments were working, they just weren't enough. I'm going to slow it down a lot more and give it a wide, brim around the bottom. Hopefully the extra surface area will keep it stuck on long enough to finish. I might switch to a different filament, this one is very bright.