What is the serving size?
Without knowing that, it’s impossible to make a judgment about how “high” the protein is.

I print these containers for my basement hydroponic plants.
My wife has also stolen several to use as traditional soil planters.

Attempt at serious answer (warning: may be slightly offensive)

Wow, you are a fucking moron. But, there is an interesting question buried in there, you just managed to ask it in a monumentally stupid way. So, let’s pick this apart a bit. Assuming Trump gets re-elected and speed-runs the US into global irrelevancy, what happens to the various standards and standards bodies? tl;dr: Not much.

• FIPS - This will be the most effected. If companies no longer need to care about working with the US Government (USG), no one is going to bother with FIPS. FIPS is really only a list of cryptographic standards which are considered “secure enough” for USG use. The standards won’t actually change and the USG may still continue to update FIPS, people would just stop noticing.
• UNICODE - Right so UNICODE is a code page maintained by the Unicode Consortium. Maybe with the US being less dominant, we see the inclusion of more stuff; but, it’s just a way to define printable characters. It works incredibly well and there’s no reason such would be abandoned. Also, there are already plenty of other code pages, Unicode is just popular because it covers so much. Maybe the headquarters for the consortium ends up elsewhere.
• ANSI - Isn’t a standard, it’s a US Government Body. So, assuming it stops being good at it’s job, other countries/organizations would likely stop listening to it’s ideas. The ANSI standards which exist will continue to exist, if ANSI continues to exist, it’ll probably keep publishing standards but only the US would care about them.
• ISO - Again, this isn’t a standard, it’s a Non-Governmental Organization, headquartered in Switzerland. Also, ISO is not an acronym, it’s borrowed from Greek. And ya, this one would almost certainly keep chugging along. Probably a bit more Euro-centric than they are now, but mostly unchanged.

For this reason, and a lot of other reasons, I am in favor of liberterianism because then, it would not be a government ran by octogenarians deciding standards for communication,

It’s ok, I was young and stupid once too. The fact is that, while many telecommunications standards started off in the US, and some even in the USG, most of them have long since been handed off to industry groups. The Internet Engineering Task Force is responsible for most of the standards we follow today. They were spun off from the USG in 1993 and are mostly a consensus driven organization with input from all over the world. In a less US centric world, the makeup of the body might change some. But, I suspect things would keep humming along much as they have for the last few decades.

Will we live in a post-standard world?

This depends on the level of fracturing of networks. Over time, there has been a move towards standardization because it makes sense. Sure, companies resist and all of them try to own the standard, but there has been a lot of pushback against that and often from outside the US. For example, the EU’s law to require common charging ports. In many ways, the EU is now doing more for standardization than the US.

Worse, cryptography. Well, for ‘serious shit’, people roll their own crypto because…

Tell me you know fuck all about security without saying you know fuck all about security. There is a well accepted maxim, called “Schneier’s law” based on this classic essay. It’s often shortened to “Don’t roll your own crypto”. And this goes back to that FIPS standard mentioned earlier. FIPS is useful mostly because it keeps various bits of the USG from picking bad crypto. The algorithms listed in FIPS are all bog-standard stuff, from things like the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) process. The primitives and standards are the primitives and standards because they fucking work and have been heavily tested and shown to be secure over a lot of years of really smart people trying to break them. Ironically, it was that same sort of open testing that resulted in the NSA being caught trying to create a crypto backdoor.
So no, for ‘serious shit’ no one rolls their own crypto, because that would be fucking dumb.

But what about primitives? For every suite, for every protocol, people use the same primitives, which are standardized.

And ya, they would continue to be, as said above, they have been demonstrated over and over again to work. If they are found not to work, people stop using them (se:e SHA1, MD5, DES). Its funny that, for someone who is “in favor of liberterianism” you seem to be very poorly informed of examples where private groups and industry are actually doing a very good job of things without government oversight.

Overall, you seem to have a very poor understanding of how these standards get created in the modern world. Yes, the US was behind a lot of them. But, as they have been handed over to private (and often international) organizations, they have moved further and further away from US Government control. Now, that isn’t to say that US Based companies don’t have a lot of clout in those organizations. Let’s face it, we are all at the mercy of Microsoft and Google way too often. But, even if those companies fall to irrelevance, the organizations they are part of will likely continue to do what they already do. It’s possible that we’d see a faster balkanization of the internet, something we already see a bit of. Countries like China, Iran or Russia may do more to wall their people off from US/EU influence, if they don’t have an economic interest in some communications. Though, it’s just as likely that trade will continue to keep those barriers to the flow of information as open as possible.

The major change could really be in language. Without the US propping it up, English may lose it’s standing as the lingua franca of the world. As it stands right now, it’s not uncommon for two people, neither of which speaks English as their native language, to end up conversing in English as that is the language the two of them share. If a new superpower rises, perhaps the lingua franca shifts and the majority of sites on the internet shift with it. Though, that’s likely to be a multi-generational change. And it could be a good thing. English is a terrible language, it’s less a language and more three languages dressed up in a trench coat pretending to be one.

So yes, there would likely be changes over time. But, it’s likely more around the edges than some wholesale abandoning of standards. And who knows, maybe we’ll end up with people learning to write well researched and thought out questions on the internet, and not whatever drivel you just shat out. Na, that’s too much to hope for.

“This could have to do with the fact that many people do not want to be old, so they postpone the onset of old age,” said Wettstein

Pretty much this. I used to think that 50 was old. Now that I’m approaching it and know people past that age, I’m not sure I like that definition any more. I also don’t “feel” old internally. Sure, my body isn’t what it used to be. But, I am still active and haven’t found myself limited in activities yet. Maybe that’s coming. But, I’m also trying not to wreck the time I have left by being too stupid with my body. And I think that’s where it’s less about “being old” than it is being “used up”. Sure, I did my share of stupid shit in my youth, we’re all young and dumb at some point. With a bit of luck, we all get older. Hopefully, you take a few precautions and get lucky during that stupid stuff and you don’t have a broken down body when you are older.

There is also a matter of experience and perspective. The more shit you live through, the more you are able to put life experiences in perspective. It’s not only an age thing, being older usually means having lived through more things, but some folks get a lifetime of experience packed in a very short time due to bad circumstances. But, you start to recognize how little you can actually change or control in the world and start to accept the things you can’t change. And maybe that’s what “being old” is. You no longer have the vigor of youth nor the willingness to take on all the world’s problems. You’re more interested in just carving out a small patch of the world for yourself to live in as comfortably as you can. Sure, you may want a better world, and may even be roused to go do something about it from time to time. But you no longer believe that you can fix the world and really just want to warm your feet.

I was thinking that, too, but prior to the Sun becoming a white dwarf, the Sun is predicted to expand and swallow Earth (and Venus and Mercury), so the Sun’s mass will increase.

A quick look has the mass of Mercury, Venus and Earth at close to 2 times the mass of Earth by itself. The Sun is around 330,000 times the mass of Earth. Soaking up all the inner planets means a change of less than 1/10th of 1% to the mass of the Sun. It’s not going to have an appreciable effect on it’s gravitational pull. The Sun already holds the vast majority of the mass of the solar system. With Jupiter holding most of the rest.

Contrary to the headline, I suspect the only way the solar system will be destroyed by a white dwarf will be if one ends up whipping through our solar system. That would make for a very bad day.

Building a 3D printer is easy. Getting the details right to build a great 3D printer is hard, as this is where most companies fail. Why?

Because 3d printers are becoming cheap commodities. Those little details cost money and most manufacturers aren’t willing to take the profit hit to do anything more than the bare minimum. It’s only ever going to get worse at the lower end of the cost spectrum and while higher end printers may get somewhat cheaper, most people won’t be able to afford that level of care. The majority of consumer level devices will continue to be just good enough to not get returned but always lacking in fit and finish.

Assuming this is the printer. It looks like it has both wired and wireless networking. Does it work over wired ethernet or does that fail as well?

Ya, my printer leaves a lot to be desired and I had a heck of a time getting even one to print cleanly. So, I didn’t want to have one fail and ruin the batch. I did print the last two I needed together, over night. Was running out of time and just went for it.
Each one was about 4.5 hours printing and 10-20 minutes of cleanup. These required a lot of supports. I did 24 in total.
But, they were a hit at the party, so it was worth it.

Ya, I’ve actually done that in the past. I printed and gave out a print in place bearing fidget toy. This model was a bit ambitious but it coming out pretty well. I also did Among Us ghost key-chains for Halloween one year. Turns out that my 3d printer is mostly just a toy maker for my kids.

For me, completely disabling retraction helped out a ton. It went from a stringy mess to mostly clean prints. Other than that, slow speeds and finding the right temperature for my printer/filament got my prints pretty nice.

I think the issue is that the “code to shape” way of designing things is just different than the CAD way of doing things. I’m the opposite of the OP in that several of the designs I have created from scratch, I have done using OpenSCAD specifically because that is the way my brain works,. I can use OpenSCAD and just math my way to most of the shapes I want (I love me some parabolic curves). There is also a fairly robust community of people sharing libraries for it, so I can leverage those to do complex stuff, without having to figure it out myself. I also find CAD programs confusing, though that’s likely down to a lack of experience. I have FreeCAD installed and some day I might actually learn to use it, but math and code is so comfy.

Do give the settings a once over. I had some really weird printing problems when Cura got set to a 2.8mm filament setting. And I really have no idea how it got changed. Prints got much better when I found and fixed that.

Overall this looks like under-extrusion, I’d try a few things:

1. Check the flow rate in your slicer. Make sure it didn’t get bumped down by accident.
2. Check the filament diameter in the slicer. This getting set wrong can cause all kinds of headaches.
3. Slow down the print. The extuder may not be able to push plastic fast enough to keep up with what you are trying to do.
4. Raise the tool temperature. The plastic may not be melted enough to flow well.
5. Check for a clogged nozzle. Try doing a cold pull to clear the nozzle. Google “cold pull” for good instructions on how to do one.
6. Watch for the extruder slipping while printing. If the extruder has worn, it’s teeth may not be engaging the filament well and not pushing it as expected.
7. Try different filament. Maybe you have a bad batch and it’s just giving you problems.
8. Replace the nozzle. They do wear out and start causing funny problems.

Put really cool LED tape on that I would love to have the source for

This stuff is available from Amazon and probably cheaper on Aliexpress. I have a roll of white LEDs with a sticky backing, which is a lot like the stuff used in the video. I also recently ordered this stuff which is a UVA LED with a sticky backing. My plan being to try and pair it with glow in the dark PLA to get a nice glow effect.

Have you tried running XYZ Printing, et. al. as an administrator? Right-click on the icon and “Run as Administrator”. The applications may be having trouble accessing the COM port.

Neat, but it seems like a “good enough” solution shows up near the end of the video right next to the new solution: cardboard spools. But hey, the more options the better, so good on them for offering this.

This will be interesting to see play out. My bet is that it’s a dead end. Until he is actually convicted of a crime, it’s just allegations, nothing more. The concept of “innocent until proven guilty” is still valid, even for the scummiest of people. And really, we want that. The last thing we need is people being prevented from running for office, because they said some bad stuff. It needs to be proven that the bad stuff they said rises to the level of criminality. Then we remove them from the ballot.

History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
What we are seeing is very similar to what it must have been like for folks seeing machines take over and greatly simplify labor intensive tasks during the Industrial Revolution. Textile mills moved from hundreds of laborers making cloth on hand driven looms to machines churning out fabrics at a blistering pace. The short term effect was a major problem for those laborers who were displaced with a long term effect of creating a more efficient economy, with cheaper products for everyone and most people benefiting from a higher standard of living.

This sort of disruption happened again as computers took off. The Digital Revolution displaced many office workers. Many manual processes were replaced with digital sensors, switches and machines. For example, it was no longer necessary to have huge floors in an office building where typists manually copied documents. Again, a large number of workers suffered a major short term impact, but the long term outcome has been a net positive for society.

And things got disrupted again with the rise of the internet. Having lived through this one personally, the echoes of it are quite clear. The Internet disrupted a lot of existing systems. The rise of internet commerce was the death knell of brick and mortar businesses. The Internet was going to replace everything from banking to schooling. And ya, it caused a lot of job loss at all the stores it drove out of business. And it did drive stores out of business and continues to do so.

I suspect that, in 50 years or so, we’ll look back at this time as the beginning of the “AI Revolution”, and see it as an overall net positive. That isn’t to say that there won’t be people negatively impacted by the change. Writers and artists are very obvious casualties. Many other workers will find their jobs affected by AI as well. However, it’s also worth noting that we are nowhere near strong, general purpose AI. And what AI is likely to become, for now, is a tool to increase the productivity of professionals. It will mean that fewer people are needed to perform a task. But, there will still be a need for people to oversee the and direct the AI. The Industrial Revolution wasn’t the end of the world, neither was the Digital Revolution or the Internet Revolution. The AI Revolution won’t be the end of the world either.

Ya, if you’re willing to setup a house of cards and you count worst case scenario for the streaming setup, they’re close. Though you still find yourself stuck with whatever service the cable company was willing to give you. At the same time, if you put a bit of effort into the streaming side, the math gets worse again. My internet is $25/month. I have the T-Mobile Home Internet and caught their $25 for life deal. Cell phone is a wash, as I had T-Mo for many years and wouldn’t touch AT&T again with a stolen dick. As for VPN, you only need one if you’re regularly pirating, I don’t do that. Really, there’s nothing to recommend going back to cable. It’s just a bad deal all around.

Seems like MS is trying to run afoul of anti-trust laws, again.