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This will be my first New Year in the Boston area (since about 42 years ago). It is also the first one that I've celebrated by myself in about 30 years. I've been moping about in my apartment trying to keep myself busy, but not feeling much drive to do anything. It's been like this since July when m...

Please Jeffbert, don't leave us because of one uncouth person! The bulk of us appreciate you!

I'd say that robots using deadly force in a self defense situation (of humans, NOT itself - except if they are also protecting a human at the time) would be acceptable. IE: the robot could kill or disable human attackers if it was protecting human friendlies at the time.

According to Wikipedia "Amana's Radarange, introduced in 1967, was the first compact microwave oven made for home use." So units made for industrial or restaurant use might have been made earlier. I'm not sure about 1946, though the magnetron tube was invented a few years before that.

IIRC the Ender 5 series are core XY designs where the print nozzle moves in the X&Y directions and the build plate in the Z direction. The Ender 3 series copy the Prusia design where the build plate moves in the Y direction, and the print nozzle in the X & Z directions. Technically, the Core...

About 8-10 years ago I built my first 3D printer from scratch. It's design was based on various designs found in the online Rep-Rap project. At the time many 3D printer companies were naming themselves, or their products with the word 'robot' in the name, such as Makerbot or Printerbot. So I named b...

That looks like the same time machine as in 'memory day'.

I always wondered about the 'joke' with police cars drawn as dogs. I thought that was an American joke, not something the Japanese would have thought of.

The last one may have actually happened.

So long as the interface is compatible (ie: SATA), then no problems. The cache is an internal buffer in the hdd that is faster to read and write than the disk itself. If your computer can't keep up with the fastest speed possible on the interface (ie: doesn't support the faster, but backward compati...