wjsteele (Bill)

@PrintingGeek @joeltelling You must be a f*n idiot. Unlike you, I copied nothing. I see the blue sweater, I see the logo, I see the X icon, it's all f*n visible. I have no intention of watching your temu copy as that'd give you more exposure than you deserve, you twat. By the way, my house is concrete. FO

I’ve spent the last week with a multi-material budget friendly flagship that everyone’s been eyeing. There’s a lot of talk about "pro-level" features, but I wanted to see how the hardware actually handles high-speed flow and filament swaps in a real-world enclosure. Is this the compact powerhouse we’ve been waiting for, or are there hidden trade-offs in the assembly?

@gonecozycrafts Weld-On has been the go to for Acrylic bonding for decades. Why not try it?

Does anyone know the best way of fusing acrylic for keychains? Basically I have two pieces of acrylic one with a uv print on it. I’ve tried lasercutting really slowly, Dichloromethane or 3m 468MP tape but they all doesn’t seem to work good enough

@8Tankytank8 @HowAboutNowNow @Southcom @PeteHegseth Well, not anymore, at least.

@HowAboutNowNow @Southcom @PeteHegseth They arent narco anything

On March 19, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a low-profile vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the low-profile vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Three narco-terrorists survived the strike. Following the engagement, USSOUTHCOM immediately notified U.S. Coast Guard to activate the Search and Rescue system for the survivors. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear

@Killraven2001 @PhilipJohnston So, what's good for the goose is not good for the gander? How does that logic make any sense? Blue Origin submitted their opposition to the SpaceX app first... SpaceX is simply responding to it. I fail to follow your lack of logic here.

It's not a response, it's a shit attempt at lawyering. SpaceX has no standing in this matter. Blue Origin's application to the FCC is between the 2 of them; SpaceX is not a party. There is no place in "the record" for 3rd party comments. Public comments aren't probative, they are just opinions, not evidence.

This has to be one of the funniest responses to an FCC filing of all time 🤣🤣🤣

@Sovol3d Um, yes. I literally have 3 warehouses full of them! I gave over 80 away last year alone.

@DiedSuddenly_ Wow... I don't know what drugs you're on, but they're very effective... and your hallucination is incredible!

The investigators at Died Suddenly have received a very concerning piece of intel that we wanted to share with our followers regarding the war in Iran. Over the course of the last 4 years, this same source has given us intel that we have shared that has never once been wrong. Please feel free to pray about this and use discernment in what we are about to share: America has only one week of missiles left to defend allies in Middle East. Nukes, invasion, and war with Russia all on the table. Joe Kent resigned for one simple reason: He knows the Iran war is going poorly, was started purely by Israel lying and manipulating Trump, and he refuses to lie about those facts publicly. I have spoken to several national security sources and this is the summary of what they have told me. 1) America is one week from exhausting our supply of interceptor missiles, without which we have NO EFFECTIVE MEANS of stopping incoming missiles and drones to Israel, Jordan, Qatar, UAE, and Saudi Arabia. Iran knows this and has intentionally kept back their biggest, most advanced, and deadly cruise missiles. Attempts by the U.S. to destroy those missile sites have failed and a good portion remain operational and ready to launch. If America cannot protect our allies in the region, they will sue for peace without us. And without protection, Israel will suffer massive casualties. The stockpile is dangerously low from the Trump administration using missiles to defend Israel since the Oct 7 attacks, and the war in Ukraine. 2) The current Supreme Leader of Iran, Mojtaba Khamenei, survived the decapitation strike and follow on attempts, and has now successfully fled to Russia, where the U.S. is weighing committing another act of war, with Putin, by trying to kill him in Moscow. AI videos or not, Iran will never surrender if they find out they successfully killed or gravely injured the “Great Satan’s” puppet master. 3) America has no good options to end this war, which needed to be finished quickly due to tyranny of variables stacked against the U.S. such as terrain, distance, lack of ground forces, and durability of the Iranian government. Options now being considered are nuclear, and futuristic weapons, like the ones which were deployed in Venezuela, that struck fear into the minds of all our adversaries, the same adversaries now watching in shock and laughter as America falters in this half cocked, expedition against one of the strongest nations in the Middle East. 4) China is weighing an invasion of Taiwan by July of this year, because of the very real distraction and depletion of U.S. military stock piles, troops, and resources, for the Iran conflict. 5) U.S. casualties have easily reached 500, with many injured and dead that have not yet been admitted by the Pentagon. America has lost 4 fixed wing aircraft, more than we’ve lost in 20 years of war combined. The aircraft were not shot down “accidentally” as previously thought. They were downed by sympathizers in the Kuwaiti Air Force. The pilot indeed went rogue, and other fractures in the shaky Middle East alliance are plausible as this war drags on. Russia and China have been capturing data from the combat operations, and providing satellite and intelligence support to Iran, and as part of this, have cracked the signal communication for America’s B-2 bombers, meaning, one of our primary deployment means for nuclear weapons, previously stealth and untraceable in radar, can now be tracked in flight and shot down, a major blow to nuclear deterrence and MAD threat against other super powers. This war may have effectively “evened the playing field” for China. America’s only options are bad, and Kent knew this when he resigned. Best thing we can do is literally and figuratively “put down the shovel” and stop digging our hole deeper. Cease all combat operations before this escalates into a new world war, and more Americans and allies are killed.

@IndubitablyTho @davepl1968 @CanadianCoffey Can't get them out of Ukraine??? What do you mean... they're plenty of them going to Russia... seems they have a way to get them there that is pretty effective!

@davepl1968 @CanadianCoffey They already cancelled their plans to use a Ukrainian rocket... Couldn't get them out of Ukraine it seems. Now, they're realigning the plan to be just a launch platform, with a bring your own rocket strategy, it seems. It will fail. Boondoggles are like that.

If you’re in comments melting down because Canada is developing a launch pad made in Canada, by Canadians, for Canada, to reduce reliance on Elon Musk.. You’re a cunt. Have a nice day.

@josefprusa Hey, I like that slide!

Since it's Friday, I'd like to share some thoughts. Ideal for a weekend meditation or a (friendly) discussion. I just got back from my keynote in New York at Additive Manufacturing Strategies, and we need to talk about how we've taken our foot off the gas when it comes to Western innovation. It was something we used to take pride in. But for years, everyone got obsessed with a race to the bottom on price without looking at the actual cost. 🧵👇

@GlennMeder @elonmusk @_kaitodev @garrytan @karpathy Reading these comments, I'm shocked to see so many people still thinking about greed in situations of total abundance. "We'll all be rich" or "we'll all be equally poor"... in the case were there is such abundance... the entire concept of wealth means having things goes away.

Stop framing this like this is good for humanity. Every 1% of the human workforce robots take over is a $300 billion opportunity for the company that owns the robots. More than this, universal basic income will not make us rich, it will come with tremendous strings attached. This is how humanity becomes enslaved.

5 minutes ago, @karpathy just dropped karpathy/jobs! he scraped every job in the US economy (342 occupations from BLS), scored each one's AI exposure 0-10 using an LLM, and visualized it as a treemap. if your whole job happens on a screen you're cooked. average score across all jobs is 5.3/10. software devs: 8-9. roofers: 0-1. medical transcriptionists: 10/10 💀 karpathy.ai/jobs

@JalenPerx @juicyfruityy2 @elonmusk @_kaitodev @garrytan @karpathy Some people have dreamt of being plumbers all their lives, so yes. Just because you don't want to do it doesn't mean that someone else doesn't want to. I couldn't stand being a cook or a singer, but there are people who strive for it all their lives.

@juicyfruityy2 @elonmusk @_kaitodev @garrytan @karpathy Do you think a plumber wakes up everyday thinking his purpose is to be a plumber? lol

@elonmusk @_kaitodev @garrytan @karpathy The trick is going to be how we are going to transition to it without putting people out of work first? People will take advantage of it prior to no one needing to take advantage of it, even though that is short sighted, it'll still happen. What do we do now to head it off prior?

@_kaitodev @garrytan @karpathy All jobs will be optional. There will be universal high income.

@PebMet1 Unfortunately Artemis will discard all those amazing engines. Starship will reuse 100% of it's engines once development is complete. Also, the cost of just one RS-25 is more than five times the cost of all the Raptor engines used on the Starship and it's booster!

Starship is on Raptor 3 and still no where close to mission ready. Since 1981, a total of 46 RS-25s were used for the 135 Shuttle launches and what is coming up on the 2nd Artemis flight. Starship threw away more than that in only 2 flights.

May the Pi be with you! 3.14

@WeShallPai @USPS I have one that has been in Cincinnati 3 different times... shipped from Cincinnati, went to Indy, came back, went to Atlanta, came back and is currently in NJ. It needs to come back here to make it to me! Who knows when it'll actually make it here. Been two weeks so far.

Whoa @USPS great ping pong rally there! This was shipped from Houston itself... is 14 days a record for same city delivery?

@CowHorace @RyanMcbeth @RickSanchezTV @HLC_actual All ICBMs are hypersonic at some point... however, they have no hypersonics as in the modern definition.

@RyanMcbeth @RickSanchezTV @HLC_actual We need him to talk about the threat of Iranian hypersonics.

Patriot intercept rate against Iranian missiles is “WELL BELOW 4–5%” — Professor Theodore A. Postol says the public is being lied to about the real numbers. Why? Physics. My guest explains why most Patriot warheads fail to strike incoming Iranian ballistic missiles. Thorough breakdown of the Sanchez Effect.

@kepitreal42 @RGVaerialphotos @Starlink It's not a 300mph separation... it's a 1mph separation! Anything over 100mph... which would be any airplane essentially. 300 is the upper limit, not the lower limit.

300mph price separation is completely reasonable based on plane body types dictating speeds and expected usage. Planes that cruise under 300 are not likely to be carrying paid passengers and not for long travels either. You are using it for business, period. That's premium cost. Your plane has all the connectivity it needs to fly or it wouldn't be flying. Over 300 is going to be a jet that is strictly luxury, if not a passenger jet. 250/monty is not unreasonable for a complete luxury, and or business expense. If 250/month is too much, your business plan is a little off.

Been using Starlink for our livestreams over Starbase with no issues until lately. Our service went down multiple times during this past weeks flyover and received this message shortly after. @starlink we ask that you consider a more affordable 200mph plan for smaller aircraft. Aviation 300MPH at $250/month is a bit out of many aviators budgets.

@YGK3D Top layers can be handled by allowing the purge to act as a color primer... and at the right time, transition to the top to finish up the small color area enough to blend it. Repeated small areas allow a larger area to be covered. Simply swap the color mid purge.

38 colors in an FDM 3D print 🌈 Full Spectrum explained in 60s ⏰

@CanuckCreator @elianarose66 Well... if you got to eat chocolate prints everyday, isn't that the same thing?

@elianarose66 and here i was thinkin David was going to enjoy semi-retired life lol this is awesome, congratz!

I'm so stoked about this. Dave has been my (unofficial) mentor for the past 6 years and I can't believe I will get to work with him daily going forward. It's going to be a huge year!

@paulbz I remember when we joined... I did it for work at the time. Really couldn't understand fully what Twitter was all about. Now look at me... I still don't! 🤣

I've been on twitter/x now for nearly 20 years 👴 A dozen python scripts and $100 in X API credits later, I've cleaned up my account (tweets, followers, following, etc) and as a result my feed is SO much better Thinking about hosting this somewhere so others can use it