dan

Wow. I don't mind paying for stuff if it's good. But seriously $5/month seems pretty expensive, and you only get 300 searches. $25 for unlimited searches, which seems like an insane amount of money.

In the interests of avoiding pointless semantic arguments, you can probably safely assume that in any discussion of the relative merits of materials, the word “more” precedes any adjective describing said material’s properties. For example: PLA is more brittle than PETG.

[a] bendy part is as useful as a snapped part in every application that requires strength

I don’t agree. There are many application where a bending failure mode is much more desirable than snapping. OP’s situation, for example. Pretty sure they’d much rather they were alerted to a problem because their lights were pointing in the wrong direction than smashed on the floor.

The extra temperature resistance of PETG compared to PLA might not be a big number on paper, but it makes it suitable for many things PLA isn’t. Things for use in a car, for example, are common to see problems when printed in PLA (you can find tons of pictures of PLA phone holders melted in the sun). PETG isn’t immune but will almost always fare better in any situation where there might be heat. For example, an LED light fitting, like OP's situation.

Anyway. Do we really have to fanboy materials?

You’re going to need to cite some sources for these fairly wild claims.

You can notice it as well, since the browser is very subpar when compared to Chromium

This is the most egregious lie of the bunch. Firefox is extremely close in terms of features, performance, usability, HTML/JS/CSS support, developer tools, etc. It’s privacy tools are, if anything, significantly better. And once Manifest v2 extensions stop being supported by Chrome (which is coming next year) it’ll have significantly better adblocker support.

That story is so common. They destroyed Secret Santa that way. User-run thing that got some traction so they built redditgifts around it, then decided redditgifts wasn’t sufficiently profitable so canned it and took the user-run part down with it.

I use Firefox over Brave simply because I have much more trust that Mozilla won’t suddenly turn into dicks.

(Also because Firefox is awesome now, and because competition in the browser world is a good thing, but it’s mainly the probably-not-being-dicks thing)

It’s not quite that clear cut I’m afraid. PLA is stiffer which can be desirable but also makes it quite brittle. That means while it has a higher tensile strength, it has a lower impact strength - and it fails more unexpectedly and catastrophically than PETG, which is much more likely to deflect and bend rather than snap. That plus PLA’s susceptibility to warping or bending in even fairly moderate heat generally makes it less practical for real-world practical things that are going to deal with a bit of abuse.

PLA is much better than PETG for models or anything requiring dimensional accuracy over strength, though.

Well that’s a glimpse into a horrifying hellscape.

Good. Aspartame tastes fucking awful. I’d rather have food that’s less sweet than sweeteners.

I can only imagine we’re going to see it replaced with something altogether more exploitative.

The admin that posted that has been working on blockchain/crypto/NFT stuff for the last year… I can only imagine they have some awful plan relating to that.

100% agree. I still have a 40” 1080p dumb tv because I can’t find one that I trust to not do something annoying/invasive.

I nearly bought the same one my friend has (Samsung something) as it seemed pretty inoffensive, until he told me it had started showing ads on the menu screens a few months after he bought it.

Haha yep. I can't imagine anyone's seriously using that code, and actually there's a lot to be said for specifying the fields in your queries rather then just getting everything (cos things can change), but not having select * is just ridiculously hostile to new users just trying to get a feel for the data.

But that's very Salesforce. They've redesigned SQL so it's "better".

Imagine that attitude applied to an entire platform. It's not bad, per se - it's pretty consistent, stable and mature. But it's certainly spiky and difficult to use compared to other ecosystems.

Indeed. It's okay though, the same behaviour can be trivially achieved with this simple function:

String table = 'table_name';
String query_string = 'SELECT ';
List<String> table_list = new List<String>();
table_list.add(table);

Set<String> table_rows = schema.describeSObjects(table_list)[0].fields.getMap().keyset();
for(String row : table_rows){
    query_string += row + ',';
}
query_string = query_string.removeEnd(','); //remove trailing comma
query_string += ' FROM ' + table;

Database.query(query_string);

Which I'm sure you'll agree is much more enterprise.