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by exasperaited 10mo ago
Yes, VarSets are definitely better (more granular dependency recalculations). The little-known Configuration Tables aspect of Spreadsheets is absolutely worth using, though, and has no equivalent in the VarSets scheme at this point. Once
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
I think I understand this — I mean, OpenSCAD was my brief gateway to parametric CAD, and then I got to FreeCAD via brief stepping stones of CadQuery and other packages. But OpenSCAD isn't really parametric CAD . It's a programmin
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
OpenSCAD isn't a CAD tool, IMO. It does nothing at all to aid your design. It barely even helps describe it in any abstract way. It is a useful tool for programmatically describing either very simple or heavily geometric objects. For
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
Neat-ish. I don't really see why that code is better, more logical, more readable or more robust than the equivalent quite trivial parametrics in more or less any GUI CAD program, and I think the geek discourse is really harmed by peop
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
The Pico series is, IMO, the truest implementation of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s broader goal to make physical computing accessible to education. I am so glad that this is now such a major focus for both the foundation and the trading co
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
Right. I think if it’s a presentation about the object then there could be plenty of applications for this. I will definitely be trying it.
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
Sooner or later, the age of your machine will affect browser compatibility. It doesn't even take many things to do this — the knock-on support of a bug in a driver that no-one wants to fix, a package that you like that prevents you fro
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
Argh word creep. It has been published as an open specification . Whether it is a standard isn't for them to declare.
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
> Major VC firm investing in slop farm And this would be an entirely clickbait-free, fact-based summary of what they are doing. It's not far off fraud as a service. This activity could get people prosecuted in EU countries and the U
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
A16Z is basically funding toxic fungi growing on the face of society at this point. So much of what they do seems to be a bet that people will want to pay money to do antisocial things and avoid the consequences.
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
AI-powered solipsistic reassurance?
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
> In many cases he helped build the bandwagons you're implying he simply jumped onto. The fact that I cannot tell if you mean this satirically or not (though I want to believe you do!) is alarming to me.
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
EAITD: Everything AI Touches Dies
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
I mean I suppose in all fairness we should carve out a huge exception for tech and medical stories. Perhaps it is my/our geek bias that we habitually do, and we are therefore excusing some of this without intending to? It is worth pond
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
Like this administration cares about little things like how many states there are. L'état, c'est Trump.
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
==> We are going to build infrastructure with teams of people who won't stay longer than two years. Nobody has thought about this long enough to realise this might be a problem.
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
Oh, thanks for this link. Looks great and it may suit me well. I need to settle in and learn Python but I am experiencing tremendously severe dysregulation at the moment, and my normal quick deep learning is simply not happening.
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
If you are avoiding subscriptions, are you doing credit buckets? Up front X months in advance and a reminder to top up? I find either of these more ethical but it is worth noting that any non-expiring, roll-over credit scheme is going to ki
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
Right. Scooter Libby portrayed as a “Hill staffer”.
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
Fake sources (outside the gossip and celebrity columns and a couple of cheap tabloids in any given country) is essentially a non-issue even now. “non-credible” anonymous sources: that’s in the eye of the beholder, I guess. It is in any gove
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
This is indeed a delightful film. I tend to forget that Nicollette Sheridan was the titular character. It’s unusual (but perhaps explains some of Reiner’s interest, I wonder) that this film has an identifiable, personified McGuffin.
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
I know a few people who would love a device that gave them only the things they need and none of the rest. A great keyboard, enough room for writing. I use an iPad with a keyboard when I need this kind of “writing room” thing, but I know so
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
Instantly in love with the 80s ad design cues in the website design. Disappointing that the 3D design files are Fusion, though; this is fully within FreeCAD’s scope.
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
I dunno. I still really like Lighthouse (for Laravel). It's about the only thing about my job I still do like. The difference is that it is schema-first, so you are describing your API at a level that largely replaces backend-for-front
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
I once had to threaten to resign from a job (in the EU, pre-Data Protection Act) over the data handling of evidence of one of the things in your comment. I think this has been something people have had an instinct about forever, and the onl
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
> I know you absolutely hate being told you're holding them wrong... but you're holding them wrong. Wow, was that a shark just then?
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
It is an aside, but: I am not sure I encountered any professional photographers saying that in 2005 , FWIW; only non-serious photographers were still prattling on about e.g. the mystical and conveniently malleable "theoretical"
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
Why would they not? You still wouldn't necessarily want a life insurance company to know stuff they haven't formally asked to know, you still have health information that could be used to blackmail you or whose reveal would be hum
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
That's probably, what, 200,000 refreshes? From what I gather, at book-reading speeds, newer e-ink displays may never wear out in a human lifetime. But at usable computer display speeds I rather suspect many of these panels have a lifet
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by exasperaited 10mo ago
How long will the display last like this?

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