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by exasperaited 10mo ago
Have you read the WML 1.x spec? Let alone WML 2.x which never really happened. It had much more interesting scope than Gemini does. Gemini is not a good or sensible design. It's reactionary more than it is informed.
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
We will be able to say that AGI has arrived when the AI hands it back and says "no".
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
Yeah — don't attribute to resistance what can adequately be explained by idiocy.
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
You mean the layers that were, in fact, just side effects of scanning the (non-authoritative) short form certificate?
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
Oh dear.
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
WML/WAP got a bad rap I think, largely because of the way it was developed and imposed/introduced. But it was not insane, and it represented a clarity of thought that then went missing for decades. Several things that were in WML
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
This is a curious sort of hazy modern mirror image of the world of Sinclair computers, that embedded their BASIC parsing in the keyboard driver — that is to say, it essentially wasn't possible to type a syntactically incorrect BASIC pr
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
> It's a fact that guns curb certain kinds of crime. It's not.
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
OK. There isn't any arguing with anyone who doesn't have a problem with the idea that someone else's right not to be murdered is less important than their unlimited gun ownership rights, which is the only conclusion I can dra
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
Othering gun fetishists. By the time the opportunity arises to actually do anything about it, a whole load of "conservatives" will be furiously denying that they ever were. In some cases to tribunals and commissions. Nobody should
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
I don't underestimate 90s computing; I remember it? It sounds like you only remember the very tail end of it. And I am, to be clear, talking about the RP2350's hypothetical successor , which is where I think Eben Upton will see h
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
Right. O'Leary is an antihero at best and a villain at worst.
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
"thankfully"
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
> the most gun crimes occur in Democrat-run gun-grabber areas The most full stop, yes. But that's not surprising, is it? Since densely populated places disproportionately vote blue. But not the most per capita: https://w
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
> Why not compare America against all countries instead of just Western ones? Oh indeed, but what I am referring to is the "knife crime in London" comparator that right-wing gun groups use. Knife crime in London is not as bad a
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
Polarization is the point . It is time to reclaim the idea that gun ownership is at best an unfortunate necessity and gun fandom is creepy shit.
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
> immigration policy has given rise to rape gangs in England […] Should these peaceful people not have guns to defend themselves from these barbarians? I don't think you understand the nature of the "rape gang" problem —-
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
America has dramatically worse rates of knife crime than the western countries it likes to point at though. Doesn't that undermine your argument?
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
You don't need to ban them, though. Isn't that the actual lesson at the end of _Bowling For Columbine_? That Canada has a huge number of guns and isn't so fucked up? What you need to do is undermine the culture of machismo an
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
Or they don't get burned but they do get shipped across the ocean to be processed, and then shipped back… that's the commercial way
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
Seems possible. A bit of a google suggests that the process in that case would involve glycerin to replace the water content. So it could be that.
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
Ficus produces natural latex. The entire plant or leaf isn't latex! What is left from this process in the fake leaf is a mixture of latex sap and processed lignin, I think. It's certainly not only latex.
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
Indeed. Also very nearly always true with "fake" skeleton leaves used for crafting. A small percentage (usually enlarged designs of particular shapes) are made with sophisticated latex presses, but most are chemically-stripped and
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
Well this is true, but it is STL files that people send around everywhere and publish in the 3D printing world, especially. People will reasonably choose not to publish their original designs but can only publish STL because of OpenSCAD, Bl
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
It's me being picky about the meaning of the word "aided". CAD is software to help people make complex things without having to do complex geometry/trig/general maths. OpenSCAD doesn't really "aid" yo
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
I am pleased MeshCAM exists, I am pretty sure I will end up using it! But I think we agree that mesh formats don't make good engineering interchange outside additive manufacturing. Personally I think they often make a bad format even
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
I didn’t like Dune3D; its interface is clumsy even if the 3D constraints thing is interesting. (Which is not to say that I am not pleased to see more open source CAD packages taking different approaches. Dune3D is interesting, Blobfish&#x27
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
I am not disqualifying it because it’s code-CAD. (I think it’s a bad language design but that is a total aside) CadQuery, Build123D, Featurescript etc. all have something OpenSCAD does not have: they all have facilities to operate on genera
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
The main thing it cannot ever offer is the ability to further process its own generated geometry. It has no concept of edges, vertices or faces in 3D so you cannot do operations on them, which means no generalised operations like fillets or
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
I use a mac trackpad too. In “Gesture” mode now. That mode works OK on touchscreens, in the sense that any app with tiny buttons to click does. I have tried using a tablet with a pen but it is a heavily modal UI so it feels a little bit lik

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