I don’t own either atm.

I’m not at a place where I can give pets the full attention they deserve. I do love both.

A well cared for dog is going to not smell awful, same as a well cared cat. On the other hand, there is a smell all the same.

Btw, a poorly cared for cat is going to reek something fierce. They might take care of themselves better, but if they don’t have what they need, (a clean living environment, including the litter box,) they’re going to have problems.

There’s the smell of dogs, then there’s the smell of infrequently bathed dogs.

Cats and dogs are very much the same in that non-owners usually can walk into an owner’s house and know there’s a cat or dog there. It’s, not necessarily a bad smell, buts there.

The same way that I can tell if a specific coworker was hoteling in the office. She gets her perfume from Claire’s (yes, the same strawberry-bliss or whatever it’s called from middle school…).

Infrequently bathed dogs, however is another story.

It’s really unfortunate tethe internet is forever

The basic concept is easy, the implementation details are not.

Coding a slicer to stagger layer lines is definitely tedious, and frustrating. But in that case, the patent doesn’t patent brick-layering techniques. It patents a specific technique of achieving that.

But when they’re supposed to judge “non-obviousness” it’s a bit more than just “is it simple”. the question is, would somebody else see it as obvious (if they had never looked at your work,). staggered layers are obvious. Anyone with any amount of experience in structural engineering would be like “Well, yeah”.

Now this is where the non-obvious gets fun. If any one whose reasonably knowledgeable in the system would follow the same technique you used. there has to be something “special” about it. And since the patent itself is based on significant past work; the argument could be made that anyone following that past work would arrive at the same techniques should be okay. (Except they’re patent trolls and patent law lobbyists for said trolls have fucked everything over.)

there’s a second caveat here that’s worth mentioning. you can lose your patents if you don’t exploit them. as far as I know there’s no slicer- paid or otherwise- using their patent.

aren’t patents supposed to be “non obvious”?

And this is why you’re useless in meetings.

You need to turn the camera down so we can see the cat, too.

but… if I don’t make a mess, how are you going to stress clean?

See. I’m helping you destress.

depending on where in the layer it failed, this could cause more problems. It’ll try to print the layer from the start it may get messing (especially if you’re missing perimeters, or printing over partial-layer perimters.)

The other issue is that homing may be slightly off; that would depend on the printer. (most are okay, but you might find a visible layer shift in the seam,)

this is what i was thinking.

most slicers will let you just move the model down in negative z, saving the need to cut or alter the model. (it then slices only the mesh that’s on or above the plate.)

If I fits, I sitt-y. I’m just a kitty, this is nifty. Thank’s Ned, I’ll sing you a ditty!

Yes.

Pinball?

Please tell me Pinball gets 2am zoomies

And if Pinball doesn’t… don’t tell me… the imagery is amusing.

I like to think way back when, wolves and people bonded over bacon.

And it was literally the bromance of the epoch.

I’m curious as to just how large the lenses on that camera was. Also curious as to if Silas would allow scritches or not.

Silas deserves some scritches. And belly rubs.

I feel like the obvious solution here is to be outside with Rizzo.

I say that mostly because that means there’s a small chance I could meet him!

Yes but the muse is not amused.

either this is the start of an anime, and the sidekick is waiting for you to wake up…

… or you gunna die.

given it’s halloween…

When they boop your snoot… it really is a treat.

lol. Sorry.

FWIW, when i was like… 6 or 7… I was visiting my uncle and found his complete collection of Star Trek on VHS. My dad and bro were off at a soccer tournament, mom, aunt and my uncle were all down stairs talking about boring adult stuff and I just started plopping the tapes in. he walks in on me when I was on Trouble With Tribbles; and says, “OH this is my favorite, Rewind it while I go make some popcorn.”…

And then we started binging Star Trek together. (and yes, this might be part of why I’m an incorrigible nerd.) he had through the then-current TNG season.

just remember, tribbles breed so quickly, they’re born pregnant. This makes them troublesome; but the trick is to keep their food supply heavily restricted.