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  • In the mood for engineering / competence porn. What are your favourite novels / series?

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  • They can be. Anathem was a bit more of a slog that sped up.

    I found cryptonomicon to be slow at first (but not like Anathem) but it sped up quickly.

    It goes back and forth between “modern” early 00’s? And WW2.

    Stephenson is the kind of author you start a book and after a bit you’re like… ok… I don’t think this is for me… wait… what? And then you’re hooked.

    Anathem is one of the worst that was like that. Snow Crash would be the polar opposite and one of the rare ones that just jumps straight into the world building.

    Unrelated: I just finished Wind and Truth. So weird to think somebody got me hooked on Sanderson about 2 years ago and I’ve burned through all his books (except for Reckoners and the Alcatraz books). The first because I haven’t tried one but seems a bit more youth oriented and the latter because it is more youth oriented than my usual tastes.

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  • You will. The Great Silence was very poignant. But yeah, there’s a great variety of stories.

    I’m just starting The Apt series (guess I’m doing Tchaikovsky in reverse) end will finally get to the children of time series when I can get it via my library or I might just bite the bullet and buy the audiobook.

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  • Air sick low lander. How could you miss Tchaikovsky…

    But seriously, he’s a great author. And Chiang is great too. I don’t think I’ve read any of his short stories and come away disappointed. I mean one of them became the basis for the movie Arrival.

    They don’t always end on a happy note (most are hopeful) but they’re true to the story they tell.

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  • Just hit me. More modern time… historical fiction at the start and blends into more sci-fi as the series goes on.

    Neil Stephenson: Crypto series

    Cryptonomicon Reamde Fall: or dodge in hell

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  • Different perspectives from not alien but not human (unless otherwise specified not hard sci-fi)

    • Klara and the Sun (story of an android coming to awareness of themselves, to their purpose as a friend for a child, to attachment and love as well as dealing with the inevitable changes and loss as the child grows up)

    • Several short stories by Ted ChiangExhalation, The Lifecycle of Software Objects (technically hard sci-fi), The Great Silence

    Kind of human

    • Murderbot Diaries (Autonomous killing machine/human cyborg going rogue that is learning what it is to be human, and just wants to watch serials and be left alone)

    • Ancillary Justice (Ships with remote/linked instances in control of human bodies and what happens when one of those “remotes” is all that’s left of that consciousness. Navigating the line of human/machine/etc.). Not political per-se but resonates with various political perspectives on autonomy/society vs individualism/ etc.

    • Dogs of War. Bio weapons part animal human hybrids and wars, morality, doing what your meant to do and made to do vs becoming aware of your actions and what is right/wrong.

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  • Yeah. Three body problem is a well done translation of a Chinese authors work and so I suspect there’s some things that just culturally come across easily. Nothing makes that more obvious than the sequels where it feels like it wasn’t as painstakingly done to try to convey such things like the first.

    I will say I really enjoyed the paper ménagerie by Ken Liu (the aforementioned translator) and it was a unique look from a different cultural perspective.

    Back on topic to sci-fi. Do you prefer singular protagonist in a limited scale of time (person/crew) fighting against some local challenge (Martian/Expanse) or larger sweeping epics spanning centuries and a lot of perspectives (Dune, Foundation)?

    More human/realistic perspectives (Martian) or are you open to Alien/Non-human perspectives (ex. protomolecule perception about the gates reopening)

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  • I checked the good reads list of top rated hard science and saw a few items I can recommend.

    • Altered Carbon. A fun and intense read. Future hard science. If people’s consciousness could be transmitted/used for interstellar travel kind of thing then the scenarios listed here adhere to their own crazy rules.

    • Three Body Problem. First book is amazing. The sequels are good enough but the translations are a little rougher but the story carries through.

    • Enders Game. Tactical and hard science aspects to it. Gets more metaphysical later in the series.

    • Contact. Absolute gem that I re-read a few years back.

    • Ancillary Justice. More future/hard science but worth mentioning in any list I’m willing to put Altered Carbon in. It has a viewpoint and it’s use of alternate societal perspectives (from a society that is uniform in so many ways to organic “ship” drones to questions about what is a person/identity) all wrapped in a great sci-fi story

    • The moon is a harsh mistress. A little dated and the way women/people are referenced shows it (much like foundation) but a solid one that is a little more hard science and may be more in line with what you’re thinking of.

    Going over this list I realize how hard it is to find true hard science (Martian) that doesn’t lean into the more future tech but consistent physical laws (Expanse) to way future nano tech or consciousness transfer (Altered Carbon, etc)

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  • Do you like protagonists that use their wits to beat a scenario or the hard science more?

    For example a fun read that’s, in my opinion, best experienced as an audiobook is the dungeon crawler carl. It’s definitely a good example of the first type. It’s not realistic. It’s literally real life made into a D&D game (LitRPG) it is just one scenario after another of Carl just finding ways to manipulate and play with the “rules” of the messed up game.

    If you’re more into the hard science than The Expanse as others have said. Or maybe even the Revelation Space series where it is future tech but relativistic time plays a part. Less of the “one person/group against all odds” but a good read nonetheless.

  • We overpaid you and need you to pay back $.23

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  • Oh that sounds like fun.

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  • Oh they could have. To be honest I’m not sure why they didn’t.

  • Thanks

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  • Engrish to Ngrrrrrsh

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  • Exactly. It’s not that it’s a small amount. It’s the “why”.

    What did I mess up and is it going to require a team of people to prove there isn’t some nefarious thing going on.

    Same reason you get mailed a 12 cent check that cost them more than 0.12. It makes the books make sense and if the check expires then the amount moving into the right account then also makes sense.

    So they can sign off on the numbers as being correct.

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  • Or any company. Accountants absolutely hate Pennies missing. Dollars are easier to stomach but Pennies makes them nervous that some miscalculation that signals a bigger issue is going on.

  • How do you make proper "I am interested in you." eye contact?

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  • How do you make proper "I am interested in you." eye contact?

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  • This is inappropriate on so many levels:

    • If there are eyes and you touch them it’s wrong.
    • If a person doesn’t have eyes touching where they are isn’t going to be a winning strategy either
    • If you touch a file in Linux called eyes and create it people will be very confused
    • If there’s already an existing file called eyes that’s disturbing. What? Why?

  • What could cause this botched surface?

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  • If it’s only overhangs then you may want to look at increasing the time between layers or increasing the part fan speed on overhangs.

    This way there’s time for the layer before to solidify enough before adding more heat and melted plastic above it.

    May not be it but it does have a kind of “overheated” look to it.

  • first timer here, Sovol3D S06 ACE arriving this week, open to suggestions :)

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  • No need to feel like an idiot, I’ve done it too. Even looked up how to do some obscure thing only to find a link I’ve read before and comes out I have a bookmark for it from a year or so ago.

    As for switching settings across objects I agree. I use these things when dialing in one setting across a range such as flow rate. Never for an entire print, though, since a failed print component is going to be dragged across others, etc.

    Or the change in temp, flow, retraction, etc may cause strings, or blobs, etc. to affect the others when it’s printing the layers. Unless you’re doing one object at a time which presumes they’re small enough, etc. And even then it failing could mean what remains of the entire object may be dragged across hitting others. It’s just not worth the hassle.

    It does show them thinking about processes which is a good mindset to have though.

    Experience is a good teacher in this hobby.

  • first timer here, Sovol3D S06 ACE arriving this week, open to suggestions :)

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  • Not per item “Profiles” but a lot of slicers let you do overrides.

    For example you can override with per object settings in OrcaSlicer (and I presume Bambu). In Cura you can add settings that even apply to a box region (such as increasing infill in a certain weak part of a print or using adaptive layer height just as the top of some Conical shape)

  • Nintendo breafast cereal with Mario and "Zelda"

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  • Like Captain crunch but more bland. Not bad but not great.

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