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by crote 9mo ago
Factually incorrect, because there is no "new Dutch government" yet. At the moment those plans are just an agreement between three parties who are hoping to form a minority government. They first need to convince enough other
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by crote 9mo ago
Sure, but if experimental physics don't matter, wouldn't it be a far better idea to develop all those kinds of technology without actually building the expensive collider itself?
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by crote 9mo ago
You could use the same argument to justify spending $1B on searching for the Loch Ness Monster. The problem is, you can only spend money once. If you're spending $1B on the FCC you aren't spending that same $1B on all kinds of o
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by crote 9mo ago
I'm definitely one of those strictly-programming people. Sure, I can probably hack together a sorta-kinda technically-usable UI, but I know I'm awful at it. In my professional life I quite early on realized any attempt on my s
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by crote 9mo ago
It's the same with KiCad! Version 5 was kinda-sorta usable - but buggy and painful. In practice everyone would tell you to just download the nightly build of version 6 instead, as the UX improvements were massive . It became a genuine
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by crote 9mo ago
Some complexity is of course an inherent part of the domain, and you can never truly get around it. At best you can stick to sensible defaults for the basic user and initially hide the most complicated parts until they are needed. On the
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by crote 9mo ago
> the former isn't interested in the help or has a very specific vision for the project and doesn't allow any input that isn't in line with that I've come to call this "fenceware": technically open source
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by crote 9mo ago
While this is definitely true, for a long time FreeCAD hasn't exactly made it a high priority to properly work around that. For example, the Topological Naming Problem (as I understand it) is made quite bad due to OpenCASCADE design -
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by crote 9mo ago
Same reason a browser uses a separate library for image decoding, or font rendering. A CAD kernel is a very complicated piece of heavily specialized math. The UI itself is there to let the user construct the input data for the CAD kernel an
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by crote 9mo ago
For the same reason Maya & friends offer heavily discounted (or even free) educational licenses: people tend to stick with what they initially learned. That approach works great when someone's first experience is in a traditional
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by crote 9mo ago
It's a self-reinforcing loop. Once a FLOSS tool becomes good enough , it'll start to attract professional users, who are willing to invest in it, which makes it even better. And it is quite hard for commercial players to compete
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by crote 9mo ago
What else does the economy consist of these days? It's pretty much already in a recession if you exclude the big AI companies. Besides, basically every company had been desperately shoving AI into all their products. Throwing all of th
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by crote 9mo ago
When one of the main arguments people use to stick to C++ is that it "runs everywhere", it actually is . After all, what use is there for a C++ where the vast majority of the library ecosystem only works with the handful of major
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by crote 9mo ago
It is insane how much upper-middle-class people commit tax fraud, without even thinking twice about it. I've heard at least half a dozen stories of kids' computers being bought by daddy's consultancy business, avoiding both
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by crote 9mo ago
The problem is that it is still an American company, which is subject to American laws, which these days are fairly arbitrary and subject to change as often as the direction of the wind. To a European it is not much different these days fro
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by crote 9mo ago
Will AI survive the smartphone era? Who's going to spend serious money on a prorietary walled-garden AI gadget when they already have a general-purpose mostly-open computing device in their pocket? Sure, the glasses, badges, rings, and
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by crote 9mo ago
Yes, but it would be shown as a false "block occupied" signal. Which could also have plenty of other causes, such as broken cabling or defective track circuit equipment, and as the Weyauwega disaster taught us it wouldn't det
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by crote 9mo ago
Rare, but not unheard of. See for example the Hatfield disaster in 2000, or the 2021 Ghotki rail crash. Most railways regularly inspect their tracks to detect issues before they turn into a disaster. The big question here will be: why wasn&
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by crote 9mo ago
A large number of roads in my country developed potholes a few weeks ago. I bet it was the FSB sabotaging our infrastructure, and not the extreme frost and snow causing damage! Russia is already doing enough damage and causing enough fear a
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by crote 9mo ago
Copper theft has been a recurring problem in multiple European countries for well over a decade. Railway outages caused by damaged cabling increased as the copper price rose, and decreased as police cracked down on scrap dealers accepting
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by crote 9mo ago
Next to the weld, if we're being pedantic. The weld itself is stronger than regular rail, but the welding process weakens the rail right next to it.
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by crote 9mo ago
The rail fractured into pieces during the derailment. You can see some of those pieces lying around in the photographs. As the article notes: the initial break left marks on the wheels of several previous trains. The final gap is big enough
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by crote 9mo ago
> America has checks and balances, and they have failed. America pretended to have checks and balances. Everyone just turned a blind eye to the massive holes in them and pretended things were going to be fiiiiine.
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by crote 9mo ago
> what legal powers does the city/state have to expel ICE agents? What makes you believe ICE is going to follow a judge's orders? They are already routinely violating it when it comes to deporting people. Or, if you want to be
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by crote 9mo ago
Isn't it obvious? You were taught a lie. All the blathering about "freedom", "democracy", and "constitutional rights" is just propaganda you've been spoon-fed since you were a child. The USA has spent
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by crote 9mo ago
> Please give the guy a break. At least he's trying to advance the state of the art. The problem is that as an outsider it really looks like someone is trying to herd a bunch of monkeys into writing Shakespeare, or trying to advan
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by crote 9mo ago
The big difference is that compilation is deterministic: compile the same program twice and it'll generate the same output twice. It also doesn't involve any "creativity": a compiler is mostly translating a high-level co
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by crote 9mo ago
Isn't that why the big tech companies switched to acquiring up-and-coming scaleups?
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by crote 9mo ago
Easy: the GOP doesn't care about future competitiveness. They are currently getting lobbied by oil executives, who are trying to maximize short-term profit while they still can. The wider industry doesn't have the long-term visi
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by crote 9mo ago
I couldn't care less when it runs, as long as it's done when I want to unload it. The diswasher will by full after dinner, so I close it and press "start". It has to be done at the latest by next dinner. Does it run im

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