That’s a pretty strong case of whataboutism. Nobody said that anything was fine and dandy in China. Only that they planned to build a high speed rail and they did it, while the US repeatedly fails at the same thing.

Yeah, generating test classes with AI is super fast. Just ask it, and within seconds it spits out full test classes with some test data and the tests are plenty, verbose and always green. Perfect for KPIs and for looking cool. Hey, look at me, I generated 100% coverage tests!

Do these tests reflect reality? Is the test data plausible in the context? Are the tests easy to maintain? Who cares, that’s all the next guy’s problem, because when that blows up the original programmer will likely have moved on already.

Good tests are part of the documentation. They show how a class/method/flow is used. They use realistic test data that shows what kind of data you can expect in real-world usage. They anticipate problems caused due to future refactorings and allow future programmers to reliably test their code after a refactoring.

At the same time they need to be concise and non-verbose enough that modifying the tests for future changes is simple and doesn’t take longer than the implementation of the change. Tests are code, so the metric of “lines of code are a cost factor, so fewer lines is better” counts here as well. It’s a big folly to believe that more test lines is better.

So if your goal is to fulfil KPIs and you really don’t care whether the tests make any sense at all, then AI is great. Same goes for documentation. If you just want to fulfil the “every thing needs to be documented” KPI and you really don’t care about the quality of the documentation, go ahead and use AI.

Just know that what you are creating is low-quality cost factors and technical debt. Don’t be proud of creating shitty work that someone else will have to suffer through in the future.

Why would they not let you do that? I honestly don’t know a single language that wouldn’t let you do that. Same as basic math notation allows you to do that.

x = -i

is a totally valid mathematical equation.

In general, Tree support is easier to remove but has a higher chance of failing. Tree support also only really makes sense if you can get it to go around a part.

So say you are printing a standing O shape. With regular support the support will touch the bottom of the O and will be printed on top of the bottom part of the O, which will make that surface look rougher. Tree support will start sideways of the O and will only move into the O towards the top, so it will not touch the bottom part of the O, leaving it in good condition.

In the case here there’s nothing underneath most of the floating surfaces, so regular supports will be better.

Also, tree support is better when it supports small areas, regular support is better for large areas.

This. No need to realize any gains at all. The same trick also works for any other expenses.

Teleport?

This is a super difficult model. There’s no good orientation for it.

I’d probably print it as oriented on the picture and use a lot of support. If classic support isn’t working for you, try organic/tree support, but I think the regular support would be better. Support should cover the full underside with this print.

When printing in PLA make sure you have really, really good cooling for this.

Alle von diesen Maßnahmen bisher haben ihren Zweck verfehlt, weil der Preisunterschied so enorm ist.

Leute kaufen nicht in China weil die 20% Umsatzsteuer oder vielleicht 10 oder 20% Zoll fehlen, sondern weil Sachen teilweise einen Faktor 10 oder gar 100 billiger sind.

Beim Conrad hab ich damals eine RGB LED für €1.50 gekauft. Auf Ali hab ich einen 100er Pack für €1.50 gekriegt.

My sister was like that. We’d always call back “She’s 10 you pedophile”. Shuts people up quite quickly when the call back is done as loud and public as the cat calls.

CAD is obviously something that got much better with better computers, but apart from such heavily PC focussed jobs, I’m not sure this holds true.

Digital systems waste a ton of worker’s time as well, and we now have much, much more bureocracy than before.

In many cases, computers are great at helping you fix problems and accomplish tasks you didn’t have without computers.

Never, never ever ever trust corporations to do social change topics in a good way.

The unholy union of business and feminism still means that you now need 80h of paid work a week to keep a family afloat instead of the 40h we had before.

Disney and LGBTQ+ and other minority topics is exactly like that. They don’t care about anything like that, all they care about is making money.

Das Ganze kommt auch nicht von den Herstellern sondern von FPD/CxU/AfD, die emotionale Politik für idiotische Wähler machen.

Do you always get annoyed at routine questions? Do you get angry when tech support asks you to turn your PC off and on again? Do you get furious when customer support asks you for your order number?

These things are routine questions. The period question is asked by female doctors too. For a reason.

Why is it so hard for you to understand that doctors are just working off checklists that are proven to work? Doctors aren’t there to make nice dinner conversations but to patch you up in the quickest possible manner with the least amount of mistakes. That’s why checklists exist.

If you know better what kind of information a doctor needs than she herself, why do you even go to one?

You choose to be offended because like many people on the internet you live off being offended. “I am offended, therefore I am.”

Well done, you prioritize being offended over being healthy.

What a ridiculous state of being.

For one, they are, and for two, there’s no point.

What I mean is self-driving trains are very common, if you live in a country with trains from this century. Train autopilots are super easy to make and they are in wide use.

Driverless trains on the other hand are a rarity, because there’s no point. In pretty much any use case for a train you want to have a skilled human around the train anyway, so that you have someone in the exceptional cases where you need a human (e.g. any security related stuff like people train surfing or people causing trouble on a passenger train).

A train driver doesn’t cost that much more than a security guard with enough technical training to be able to patch up and operate a train in emergencies (which, btw, does requite a train driver), so in most cases it’s quite prudent to have a train driver on board.

This is what you get in the end: autonomously driving trains with a train driver for PA announcements, security stuff and emergencies.

If a doctor doesn’t ask and it turns out the patient is pregnant and the treatment harms the embryo, the doctor is liable for the damages. If she or he doesn’t want to be liable, she or he needs to ask the question.

I know someone who had her ovaries removed and was sure she couldn’t get pregnant anymore. Turns out, for some reason the ovary removal wasn’t complete, a small scrap of ovary was missed, and she got pregnant.

Also it sadly does totally happen that women have had intercourse without them realizing. Look up e.g. Gisèle Pelicot.

And lastly, ask how many women are positive that their contraception is in place and working perfectly and can surely never get pregnant but who still end up getting pregnant.

There are women who carry a baby to completion and only realize at birth that they happened to be pregnant for a full 9 months.

Yes, most women know their own bodies. But some do not. And as a doctor not asking is about as smart as putting your hand into a random strangers dogs mouth because most dogs are well-trained and will not bite your hand off.

Not in case the patient says she’s pregnant.

Maassen will sich anmassen, Massen von masslosen Massen abzumessen.

Anweisung ungenau, jetzt liegt ein Schweizer unter meinem Auto.

You do know of the concept that women can be pregnant without them realizing or without them acknowledging it?

It’s like asking someone whether they have worms. They might know, but they might also not know. They might even know and not tell you.

All of that can be circumvented with a different question.

So you can choose to be offended by a question that they are actually legally required to ask, or you can understand that the main purpose of a doctor (or other medical personell) is not polite dinner conversation but actually assessing the situation to give appropriate treatment.

I only had one instructor out of my maybe 10 or so said to check to make sure the patient can physically get pregnant before you assume that is the issues

I know at least one woman who physically couldn’t get pregnant until she got pregnant.

She hat ovary cancer and they removed one and a half ovaries. It was determined that the remaining ovary was too damaged to still produce any eggs. She had eggs frozen before the operation, and she and her husband used all of them up in IVF, none worked.

They then gave up and adopted a kid, and a few years later a second one. Right after they adopted the second one as a newborn, she got pregnant. Apparently, they stopped using contraception because couldn’t get pregnant anyway. Now they have two kids under the age of 1.

She totally would have told any medical professional that she physically couldn’t get pregnant, until she did.