kryptonianCodeMonkey

If the pattern fits for all cases, you've found the pattern (or one of multiple if there's more than one solution). I figured it out and I'm certain of it.

You're comment helped me solve it.

"Oops!" turns on trash compactor

Didn't he already do that before? Am I imagining that?

Oh good. I don't think we need to add a 137 year old Hitler to the current political situation. It's bad enough as it is. I assume your Nans haven't Holocausted anyone. ...right?

Both Hitler and Nana?

Didn't your nana?

Frankly it seems more like a mild inconvenience then actual prevention. I don't really care how smart a software gets, it can't predict and prevent all possible configurations of prints that could possibly be used to create functioning guns without being so overly restrictive that even perfectly innocent prints would get flagged constantly in which case they simple won't sell to normal users.

It would be a constant game of whack a mole with new creative designs, using multiple printers or with non-printed parts in the design. But no hardware or software that a smart enough engineer has their hands on is impervious to mods either, especially if they're motivated like someone seeking to produce firearms would be.

It's an overreaching law that will likely solve little to nothing, but might make 3d printers in general a bit more annoying to work with. "Sorry, you can't make your dice tower because they're a 16 percent change that it could be capable of firing an RPG out of the dragon's mouth. Please make your design at least 12 percent less gun-ish and try again."

I don't really see how ceasing to exist is justice, nor how the fact that your nana and Hitler had the same ending is a comfort. But to each their own, I guess.

opiate of the masses

Right. And I wish I could experience some opium sometimes for a bit of peace with the world. But I'm immune.

Sometimes I wish I could be a believer in religion so that I might have solace that evil people will at least face divine justice in death even if they received no Earthly justice in life. Alas, the depressing truth is that evil coasts through life without facing justice all the time, and the good just as often fall victim to the machinations, crimes, and sadism of the evil and never find any justice, retribution or closure after it. It's one of the reasons that I don't believe unfortunately.

It REALLY annoys me when they talk about the DOW or whatever other stock market indicator is at "record highs". Like, that has actually been the default state for as long as the DOW has existed. Look at a graph of its price back to the 80s, and see it has exponentially grown basically the entire time.

Over the last 20 years, on average, it has gone up 10 percent each year. You can see where anomalies take it higher or lower than the trend, like the accelerated growth and then drop of the dot com bubble, the sub prime loan bubble, and the covid dip and post covid tech bubble. They stand out as deviations on the graph that makes it not exactly follow the trend. But it has thus far always returned to normal where it TENDS to be going up about 10 percent a year.

It's not interesting that it is going up or that it reaches a new record price. It does that all the time. And it's really not brag worthy that the rate of growth may be higher now, either, because we are all too aware that that is largely due to the AI bubble that will pop hard. The fact that he is claiming credit for it is hilarious though. When that bubble pops, it won't be his fault though, obviously.