And the movement they make doesn’t benefit from flippers.

Humans can shift their body forward and kick their legs which flippers can amplify.

If I recall correctly it’s important to be running ECC memory right?

Otherwise corrupter bites/data can cause file system issues or loss.

, et al

These entanglements change us

That’s a great summary. I’ve really enjoyed all of his books.

I can’t wait for December 6th when Wind and Truth releases.

I’m finishing a reread of the Stormlight Archive now.

And the powers, as in all the Cosmere, has limits which balances it out.

No endless pushes, flying, etc. every world has some resources or constraint so you’re not left with a “Superman” kind of scenario.

For a pure magic example

The Mistborn era 1 (books 1-3) are fantasty magic.

Mistborn era 2 (books 4-7) occur hundreds of years later in that worlds “industrial/steam” age. Still, with magic.

So, for example, some allomancers can push or pull on metals. In Era 1 that’s used for combat but also for rapid movement. An allomancer can fall from a wall, throw a coin and “push” off of it causing them to bounce forward and upwards. As they’re starting to reach the azimuth they “pull” the coin, catch it and repeat.

They also in combat throw and then “push” coins or metal fragments like shrapnel.

In Era 2. A sheriff (who’s an allomancer) leaps across a gully, aims and shoots a bullet into a wooden crate and then “pushes” on it to cross it.

Another time during a shootout one “pushes” gunfire away so it deflects around him. Not guaranteed to get all of the bullets but useful in situations like that.

There are other uses and other allomantic abilities but the entire shift of the format was just done phenomenally.

Can’t recommend the Mistborn series enough

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I find skirts useful to make sure I’ve got consistent flow before it starts printing the object.

This way there isn’t oozing or a delay from a previous retraction. A good purge, as you say, to get primed and ready to go.

And as an extra aside be careful not to put pressure on the edge where it’s apt to fracture and break.

Looks kind of like this. They suggest replacing the uchannel with clamping braces instead

https://youtu.be/t7Pmd_Vx5FA

Feral but leashed. And the leashes came off I guess.

So… public shopping post Covid? So many people act “feral” now.

I wish this amalgamation of various shoppers was pure fiction and not almost the norm now.

What do you mean my snarling uncontrolled dog can’t urinate in the cart at the checkout line? And where’s that cashier? Why do I have to wait? Don’t they know I have to get back before Olsteen’s special service comes on? These kids are so lazy… why doesn’t anybody do their jobs anymore!?!

Pushed cigarettes on kids

I thought I’d add that it looks like it’s overextruded. So much that the filament is being “pushed” out and curling back around the nozzle.

It could be the e steps, flow rate, etc but it could also be that your Z offset needs to be adjusted back away a smidge.

That could be part of the inconsistent print since the tool head movement over one section of the bed vs another may be affected by the layer below based on how the filament curled there.

If you want to do a deep dive into adjusting/calibrating the Ender I did write up a bit here (although that post does relate to Klipper and I mention settings/adjustments for Klipper it starts purely with the physical printer itself and builds on it)

https://lemmy.world/comment/7904011

Here’s more if you’d like to read about it.

https://www.copyright.gov/engage/visual-artists/

I remember when the DMCA was introduced and all the various issues arising from what and isn’t copyrightable when it comes to digital vs physical copies, etc.

Again I’d like to recommend Leonard French (Lawful Masse) on YouTube and Twitch for a copyright lawyers breakdown of these kinds of issues.

And therein lies the rub. When it comes to copyright every infringement case has to be adjudicated by a judge (assuming they have filed a copyright)

I can definitely recommend Leonard French’s (a copyright lawyer) channel Lawful Masses on YouTube and Twitch for a more in-depth breakdown of copyright cases. How it works, the rights that copyright holders have, etc.

I’m not Anti AI. I have fun making stuff with it.

But the copyright laws as they are don’t apply. And if they did it would open a can of worms legally.

The recipe can’t be copyrighted. The cake produced can’t be copyrighted. But the packaging or style of a cake with your brand could be trademarked which is a different legal ball of wax entirely

It’s a good analogy but one thing to consider is that the artist is the copyright holder.

The company that directed it only has the copyright either by explicit contract transferring rights or because it’s a work for hire where the employee’s copyright work is “automatically” transferred to their employer.

Some interesting case law on that from Disney artists, comic book authors, etc

https://copyright.gov/circs/circ30.pdf

It has to be fixed in a tangible medium.

In this case they’re not “fixing” their words and the final art is the created expression. Yet in this case their created expression wasn’t created by them but the program.

In this case their combination is the palette and paint but the program “interpreted” and so fixed it.

For example you can’t copyright a simple and common saying. Nor something factual like a phone book. Likewise you can’t copyright recipes. There has to be a “creative” component by a human. And courts have ruled that AI generated content doesn’t meet that threshold.

That’s not to say that creating the right prompt isn’t an “art” (as in skill and technique) and there is a lot of work in getting them to work right. Likewise there’s a lot of work in compiling recipes, organizing them, etc. but even then only the “design” part of the arrangement of the facts, and excluding the factual content, can be copyrighted.