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811.
by eropple 4y ago
I was afraid of that. I can re-box them to look nice, but that would be yet another project...
812.
by eropple 4y ago
Respectfully, I don't think you can blame the US for electing Tories who are swerving towards the cliff. Boris Johnson wasn't our doing. Brexit wasn't our doing. Neither was the cavalcade of morons to follow. We do plenty of
813.
by eropple 4y ago
I've got room for the big boxes. Does anyone sell reasonably affordable ones these days?
814.
by eropple 4y ago
They still do this, fwiw. I have a TARVA dresser in my spare room which came unfinished. I used...probably too-expensive (for what it is) gel stain and lacquer on it and it came out pretty nice for a couple evenings' work.
815.
by eropple 4y ago
Getting good straight timber from black walnut (or most walnuts) is absolutely doable (as evidenced by...us doing it for centuries!). At the same time it's more difficult than you're giving it credit for, though--"its preferr
816.
by eropple 4y ago
Walnut isn't difficult to source because it grows slowly, though it doesn't grow fast ; a walnut tree can grow upwards of a foot a year given good conditions. The problem is that most varieties of walnut are scraggly and actually
817.
by eropple 4y ago
Douglas firs grow between one and two feet a year and have for as long as people have been writing it down (in English, anyway). We've definitely gotten better at breeding fast softwoods, but we've done so through smarter silvac
818.
by eropple 4y ago
The idea that any industrialized country has "uncontrolled immigration" is itself not reflective of reality.
819.
by eropple 4y ago
> Or the initial buyer can sell the smart doorbell to a customer that does have the patience to deal with local recording. I think this would require a drastically different consumer mindset. Because I don't think there is a mar
820.
by eropple 4y ago
A hard drive under constant write load is unlikely to last a decade. And replacing them in some of these devices isn't trivial (even if the physical connector is straightforward, how many of them understand receiving a new drive that n
821.
by eropple 4y ago
I dunno, my 2070 Super was usable with DLSS and my 4070 Ti (I'd have gotten a 3080 instead, but I have use of the new NVENC stuff) plays Cyberpunk 2077 at 4K60 with everything maxed out. It looks amazing.
822.
by eropple 4y ago
While it definitely has missing features, I've found that their free tier works pretty well for most stuff that I run into for 3D printers or in my wood shop. I have about 80 models in my F360 account right now and I've never paid
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by eropple 4y ago
> I'm not sure I understand. Is your idea that instead of per-person accounts, you would create new accounts for subsequent copies, and then the family would work out who logs in as what user? Yep - that is the intended behavior a
824.
by eropple 4y ago
OK, so you were using non-free-tier features, and they were pulled when you were no longer in the non-free trial? That's a different thing. F360 locks teams and some features (stress/strength modeling, for example) behind a paywal
825.
by eropple 4y ago
Yup. Even as a power user there's only so much time in the day. I ran a UniFi network locally for a while, because I was generally frustrated with the state of things. I still have the USG at the top of my network but everything south
826.
by eropple 4y ago
Transparency in terms and branding is a really good idea, but it's probably insufficient. In this scheme, devices marked "A" will effectively be restricted to people with the time to manage local infrastructure--recording cam
827.
by eropple 4y ago
> To put bluntly, anybody who buys hardware that is inexorably linked to some cloud-crap should be ashamed of themselves and deserve the loss of money as a learning experience. This isn't "blunt", this is just cruel. No
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by eropple 4y ago
FWIW, "reload the free version with a new account every 30 days" does not match my experience with Fusion 360. Can you explain more? Don't get me wrong, I am not a big fan of it, but it does (mostly) work.
829.
by eropple 4y ago
> I can't even buy multiple copies of a co-op game on the family Steam account that the family can use to play together. If you're using Steam Big Picture, you can leave multiple accounts logged in to every device and buy gam
830.
by eropple 4y ago
Maximize profits over what time horizon ?
831.
by eropple 4y ago
This can also (and, frankly, less weasel-wordishly) be framed as "directing capital based on the desires of the stakeholders involved." High-dividend ETFs have "purity tests", they just involve things you don't feel
832.
by eropple 4y ago
I asked this to ChatGPT. Its answer? "Red apple". ...well played.
833.
by eropple 4y ago
Assumptions? Don't worry; we've got those too! if I had a nickel for all the times I've seen somebody pick 1 for "0, 1, is N" input cases? ;)
834.
by eropple 4y ago
At which point I will have gotten many years out of it and will stick an Apple TV on it like the rest of my TVs. Meh?
835.
by eropple 4y ago
> what ground do we have to criticize Meta’s business decision here We are people in the world. The reality that our public square--which includes the ways in which we play--is being controlled by businesses who do not answer to us and
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by eropple 4y ago
A hack is in the eye of the beholder, and many hacks are load-bearing and totally fine for the entire timespan for which the thing they're stashed within is expected to be useful. I agree with you that all mathematical models have thei
837.
by eropple 4y ago
I mean, historically mathematics have had areas full of "HACK:" comments, too--ones retroactively applied to the whole of Newtonian physics, even, but it's still useful enough that we keep it around!
838.
by eropple 4y ago
A more generous interpretation would be the assumption that primary keys are (as they frequently are) synthetic data, and perhaps not the most commonly queried field aside from direct get-that-resource queries.
839.
by eropple 4y ago
The hypothetical specter of government incompetence is greater than the actual harm being done here-and-now?
840.
by eropple 4y ago
Keybase is still running. The web hosting is being shut down.

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