Adding a long strand of Filament in z direction is what the Author of this article tried. By injecting molten filament into a long channel in the infill.
What i meant that the z-direction does not need to be MORE stable than the other directions.
Adding a long strand of filament in the z-direction in the infill (close to the geometric center of the print) might make the print more resistant to stretching but not necessarily bending.
Carbon rods don't bend but filament does. The wing would break apart at the seams event if it had channels of filament along side its z-axis. It would still be more stable, but not as much as one might think.
Walls give a print most of its strength by a huge margin. And interlocking the walls in z-direction would have a proprietorially larger impact.
I doubt that filling a long thin channel will ever work. The heat + pressure will always collapse the thin infill walls.
In general infills does not provide much strength to a part, it is way better to have stronger walls.
And z-direction does not need to be more stable than the other directions so there is no need for long continuous strands anyway.
Maybe it would work better with smaller, less tall, slots at the inside of the walls.
Lets say 2-3 layer heights tall, continuously filled slots, which are then interleaved with each other. More like bricks less like columns. The outer wall layers would provide stability to prevent collapse. And over spill or bulging would occur towards the inside of the part.
I think, the cost of running and training models is going to fall due to Moore's law and friends.
That also meas that the worth of today's computers declines rapidly and all the money invested in compute power with it.
Compute is basically what the AI VC money is spend on. That money will be gone in a few years due to the hardware being worthless.
On the other side running a model (locally) will become cheaper and cheaper to the point that Ai stuff becomes a everyday commodity running on cheapo devices everywhere.
Then there are optimizations too. Which lowers the cost.
So it's not going away and it's not going to be expensive for the consumer in the long run.
My 5 year old rtx 2027 runs models those output would have been state of the art a couple of years ago.
In a few years something running on the level of today's top models might run under your desk if that progress goes on at this pace.
For your V2: a Can-Bus connector would be great. Should really be standard for toolheads nowadays. Makes cable management so much easyer. And the board does not need the driver for the extruder, the heater contoll and sensors anymore.
So maybe a version which is optimized for Can-Bus toolheads?
And more driver slots, 4 is not sufficient if you want a self leveling bed.
I definitely don't want to be randomly interrupted by Ai garbage.
Those horrible automatic translations are bad enough.
And it seems the slop can't be completely disabled. I guess sooner or later it will spew out"usefull recommendations" and end up being just another vehicle for ads.
It will be shit like "did you know that the singer of band {xyz} likes this brand of {snake oil}?" or
"the song you are listening to reminds me of {insert crypto scam}".
It seems soon antoher browser plug-in is required to get rid of yet antoher annoying anti-feature.
FiDA is a planned initiative that forces first party financial services like banks to provide other services like insurances or investment companies and maybe third parties with their customers data.
From what i understand it is required that this works via a unified API across all of Europe.
Data transfer explicitly requires the customers consent.
My guess is that this would be useful if you change the bank or some insurance to allow easy switchovers and of course tax avoidance and money laundering might be harder.
IMHO insurance companies should not have access to any of their customers banking data (they want to of course, to do price gauging and price discrimination).
And obviously there is no reason why any of those vile datahogs like Google, Facebook, Apple and so on, should have even the slightest access to this.
Its not too hard to detect ads in video streams, even old school analog VCR's could do that.
Watching TV shows without adds was one of the selling points of those back in the day.
Some more modern digital ones had near real time features where they would play with a delay of a lets say half an hour and used that time to remove the ads.
If you have stream from Youtube containing ads you can trivially skip ahead.
And Youtube could do nothing about it because random skipping is one of the base features of every video player ever.
I can totally understand that bikers like to hear the engine and exhaust of their bike but physics and the design of motorcycles is not very accommodating to that.
My bike has the manufacturers default 94db idle exhaust.
It is 94db because anything louder than that is not allowed on certain nice Austrian roads, so the manufacturer set it to 94.
While driving i hear the wind noise on the helmet, the airbox, the drive train and a bit of the engine. I usually wear ear protection.
To be clear 94db is a lot and it is way more if you pull on the gas and i don't have one of those stupid valve controlled exhausts.
I am always astonished how freaking loud that thing is, when i hear it's exhaust echoing over open fields or while going through a tunnel at full tilt.
It just comes down to physics, the exhaust points not at the biker, so the noise is directed into the environment.
There is no engine bay covering the engine and gearbox so that is comparatively loud, also chaindrives are rather noisy as well.
For the exhaust to compete it must be incredibly loud, which of course is obnoxious.
Some modern (sports) cars play engine sounds via the stereo system, maybe someone can build something similar for bikers.
In Europe new motorcycles must have ABS on both wheels since 2017.
Its a good thing.
While it is possible to stop in less distance without ABS, in real live emergency situations ABS usually is of great help due to the no skill required, additional control.
For example if you take the sudden car running in front of you from a side road.
You will instinctively pull the brakes hard on a road with unknown slipperiness.
Maybe the car then stops in the last second or is really fast so there is space, then you need control to ride around the car.
You really don't want your rear wheel locking up and the bike going sideways or doing a stoppie on your front wheel which completely removes any way of obstacle avoidance.
The same is true if over breaking in a curve, if you can handle the bike standing up you can brake astonishingly hard in curves.
I would not recommend it though it feels really weird being slippery in a curve.
On rainy days i do even like traction control. It saved my ass a few times where i accelerated out of a curve a bit to enthusiastically on wet foliage.
Setting this up used to be a pita, but due to docker its super easy.
This has a couple of benefits.
Like fixed, predicable costs.
You can whatever you want without thinking about weird API points which costs a random amount of money.
You can serve whatever traffic you want and a cheap v-server gets you an astonishingly long way.
There are no 3rd-party privacy issues you can just embed your maps without annoying cookie banners.
Its all about long term habits, basic knowledge about nutrition and the 80/20 rule.
Hardcore diets and then falling back to the old habits are absolutely not the way to do it.
There are things like diet fatigue, the mentioned Yo-Yo effect you don't want to deal with.
Your "diet" should be generally healthy and long term sustainable.
It just does not work to replace one way of malnutrition with another one.
So here are the things i (BMI 22, bodyfat < 19% for now 20+ years, at age over 40) would recommend:
One is strength based exercise.
Find 1-3 days in your week where you can dependably (!) spend an hour or two to go to the gym.
It is better to go once every week reliably, than to go 3 times one week and then skipping the next.
Get a full body training plan consisting of multi joint exercises.
For example don't waste your time on biceps if you can do rows which trains your biceps and back at the same time.
You must do strength training order to gain muscle mass.
Muscles have a large influence on your hormones, which helps to suppress hunger and keeps you fit in general.
The hunger suppression is important if you lose weight.
It works this way: if you lose weight, you will usually lose muscle mass alongside fat. Losing muscles creates a huge hunger signal compared to fat.
Doing strength training keeps you from losing muscle (or even building it) so your hunger is lower while you lose weight.
And you don't want to end up skinny fat with issues like back pain (which i ended up with at age 20 without ever being overweight).
Don't overdo it. But be consistent, do the smallest amount necessary but every single week no exception.
Don't do cardio (at least not cardio only).
Cardio is fine if you do it for sporting reasons but since you seem to be overweight, i assume this is not the case ;)
So cardio would just waste your time because it burns surprisingly small amounts of calories while increasing hunger by a lot.
It also does not build muscles as much so why bother?
The most important part is to get your nutrition in check.
Basically do the following:
Close to every meal should, by volume, roughly consist of
1/4 protein, like chicken or other lean meat, or plant based alternatives
1/4 carbs, like rice, potatoes whatever (pasta has tons of calories so be careful here)
2/4 vegetables like carrots, broccoli... whatever just mix it up.
It is a ton of vegetables, which is good because it keeps your stomach full and is healthy in every conceivable way.
Do not skip fats, but skip pure sugars especially in liquid form like soda.
Don't do cheat days where you mindlessly eat thousands of calories, this messes with your psyche for no reason.
But eating out, or some junk food is fine from time to time you are not a robot.
Inform yourself about the calorie content of your meals and try to control the amount.
There are many ways to exert control, which are highly individual.
Some have no problem skipping breakfast, some make their meals smaller, some do keto or track calories.
Whatever floats your boat you have to find out. Remember it has to be sustainable.
Personally i try to get a good amount of protein into my meals and i keep an eye out for calories without counting.
Every single morning:
Use the toilet, step on a scale, check your weight.
It varies a bit from day to day but the average helps you track. You might want to use an app but its not really necessary.
This is your main way to keep track. Gain weight? Try to eat a bit less next week.
Keep in mind that you are in it for the long run.
There is no need to lose tons of weight in the short term. It is fine to be slow which is way more sustainable anyway.
You want to be fit for the rest of your life so you have to keep at it for the rest of your life.
I am sure most people in the European parliament don't know or care what a red state is. It's one of those American things that is opaque to Europeans.
I guess they tried to find stuff to tax which does not hurt the bigger European populace.
The US biggest export is oil and they certainly want that to be cheap so no tariffs there.
And they are incapable of putting tarifst on online services and digital products.
What i meant that the z-direction does not need to be MORE stable than the other directions.
Adding a long strand of filament in the z-direction in the infill (close to the geometric center of the print) might make the print more resistant to stretching but not necessarily bending.
Carbon rods don't bend but filament does. The wing would break apart at the seams event if it had channels of filament along side its z-axis. It would still be more stable, but not as much as one might think.
Walls give a print most of its strength by a huge margin. And interlocking the walls in z-direction would have a proprietorially larger impact.