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by abe_m 1y ago
CAD companies are very protective of their file formats, and use that as leverage to "encourage" companies to stay in their eco system, and upgrade to the latest versions of their software. The main CAD program is often the center
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by abe_m 1y ago
Out of curiosity, what native resources are needed? It seems Solidworks mainly needs access to the file system, GPU, and perhaps networking. GPU and networking in the browser, and the file handling could be implemented over the network in
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by abe_m 1y ago
I think the corner cases are likely hard, but the fundamental mathematical representations of the 3D geometry haven't changed. If the licensing cost of Parasolid and ASICs is reasonable, there isn't really a commercial incentive
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by abe_m 1y ago
Where are you running those models? I'd like to try aider with alternate models, but they seem so much slower than Claude API.
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by abe_m 1y ago
In all the commercial mechanical CAD packages I've seen, the default libraries are pretty weak. Each organization needs to dig in to build out the standard parts libraries to cover the basics of fasteners, bearings, etc. I think the
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by abe_m 1y ago
Natural gas wells go dry eventually, and new sites need to be developed. Slowing down the consumption is still a win on reducing the environment disruption of both land filling, and running new facilities to get to new natural gas deposits
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by abe_m 1y ago
I find it funny the old "I'm so feminist" prose thinking they're empowering women, while their actually demeaning the work the wife did. One comment from Toby Koosman directly lumps the wife in with servants. Published
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by abe_m 1y ago
I think that was late enough that a lot of adults that were buying computers for home were buying them to run a particular application, not to get into the esoteric inner-workings of the computer. The type of people that essay were talking
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by abe_m 1y ago
But not in the context of the grid. Most (all that I'm aware of) commercial grid-scale wind turbines have an output inverter. That allows the turbine to rotate at optimal speed for wind conditions, while still outputting the required
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by abe_m 1y ago
I doubt that an LLM for CAD would be using the free-form generation that seems to lead to the 5-legged chair. I suspect it will be more of a tool calling layer that is building up the model based on the output of more deterministic tools.
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by abe_m 1y ago
But also, it isn't just generators, it is also the indeterminate loads. If you have nearby loads switching on and off that are similar sized to your local inverters, that is a complicated controls modelling problem. I'm pretty su
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by abe_m 1y ago
I'm sure the inverter manufacturers are working on something. At the start of solar and wind integration, it didn't matter. Large rotating generators were the main source on the grid, and provided stability. We're in a diff
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by abe_m 1y ago
At the time I'm writing this, there appears to be about equal (hydro + gas) = (solar + wind). It appears they are running a significant portion of the grid with high inertia generators. In a control system when you have an actuator th
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by abe_m 1y ago
I agree. I think a major hindrance to the current pro CAD systems is being stuck to the feature history tree, and rather low level features. Considerable amounts of requirements data is just added to a drawing free-form without semantic m
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by abe_m 1y ago
I think this is along the lines of the AI horseless carriage[1] topic that is also on the front page right now. You seem to be describing the current method as operated through an AI intermediary. I think the power in AI for CAD will be a
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by abe_m 2y ago
I wish that were an option here. Used 200W or so panels are asking over $100 ea. It is pretty easy to be over $30k for a new 10 kW grid-tie system.
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by abe_m 2y ago
What what your time vs degradation? I see quite a few solar panels in my area showing up on Facebook Marketplace and other online classifieds that seem to be about 10 years old being sold for a "bigger system". But I'm curi
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by abe_m 2y ago
Just keep right on with that black and white thinking. It will take you everywhere you need to go.
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by abe_m 2y ago
That attitude isn't going to build any trust in the system. You've made a number of errors in your presentation and internal biases: 1) You assume all people with questions have no medical training, which is untrue. 2) You assume
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by abe_m 2y ago
Step 1 would be for the medical establishment to acknowledge that there are risks and potential problems with vaccines. Jenny McCarthy is a symptom of the decline in trust of the medical establishment, not the cause. The medical establish
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by abe_m 2y ago
The "elites" (public health officials, FDA officials, vaccine makers, university researchers, media reporters) need to take a look in the mirror on this. For many years, the official line has been that vaccines are safe, effectiv
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by abe_m 2y ago
I think Ukraine is a bit unique in how they got the jets. Since they were given the jets during a war, there wasn't much negotiation involved, relative to a country trying to buy plane in peace-time. In normal peace-time procurement,
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by abe_m 2y ago
All the quota systems in Ontario have troubles moving farms generation to generation. You pretty much have to inherit a farm as the quota costs are pretty well impossible to surmount in addition to land and equipment costs, as well as work
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by abe_m 2y ago
I think a lot of that is due to eggs being under government supply management. It is very difficult to get a new egg farm going, and it is very difficult to consolidate egg farms. So we have more smaller farms surviving as a result.
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by abe_m 2y ago
The labour and land step up from tending chickens to growing grain is a very large step. If you are organized enough to grow grain, and you're near a farming area, you'd be farther ahead to try to buy right off the field grain at
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by abe_m 2y ago
I don't know about Revit, but Inventor and Solidworks are WIN32 API right to their very core. Basically everything in them is available on the COM interface as objects, which is awesome for writing extensions to the programs on Window
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by abe_m 2y ago
I'm pretty sure Fusion360 is built with QT tool kit for the GUI, and uses Python for the scripting engine. Of any of the modern professional paid 3D CAD programs, it seems to be the least tethered to Windows. It would be nice if they
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by abe_m 2y ago
Real big SUVs like Escalades are certainly for "status" and vanity for the most part. I'm no fan of driving pickup trucks personally. I'd rather drive a car. But that isn't where the market is. The best selling v
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by abe_m 2y ago
That's not entirely true. The most common 1500 or 150 sized "half-ton" trucks are included in CAFE and do affect the fleet fuel economy rules. It is the heavier 3500 or 350 and up "1 ton" trucks that are considere
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by abe_m 2y ago
For a given size, they are aero optimized. While a Honda Fit is more efficient than an Suburban for almost all people in almost all driving situations, few people want to buy a Fit relative to bigger SUVs. The car companies can only sell

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