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by floxy 2y ago
Another good resource for learning how to draw realistically is the book: "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain". The premise is that your brain wants to take shortcuts and group/chunk things together on what they should l
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by floxy 2y ago
Also of potential interest is Kempe's Universailty Theroem which states you can draw any (polynomial) shape with a set of mechanical linkages. Like one that will sign your name. https://academic.oup.com/plms/artic
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by floxy 2y ago
Wouldn't you also need a two parameters for the arc starting position and stopping position for each circle, and then a few more to identify the areas that need to be filled, along with the color?
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by floxy 2y ago
Wasn't it just last week that the Financial Times had to walk back the breathless $1.4 billion story about Tesla accounting fraud? https://www.ft.com/content/d2711678-af23-4b71-852b-1ef2e932e... This is like a tex
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by floxy 2y ago
I would thinks a newsworthy-only story would end after "Tesla did not respond to Fortune’s request for comment." And I'd think a better wording for "...reported on the suspiciously high number of EV rebate claims in the
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by floxy 2y ago
Are we supposed to believe this not specifically designed to get engagement from the Elon-hate trend? Are the same media outlets going to be promoting apologetic stories when/if in 6 months the verdict comes back that everything was o
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by floxy 2y ago
Does Tesla do business differently in Canada than the U.S.? I thought purchasing in the U.S. was done through an app, and everything was one-price, no negotiation? Pick the options you want, and the car is delivered to your door at someti
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by floxy 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esayi49OAk4
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by floxy 2y ago
>If we would indeed be inside a black hole wouldn't we be able to observe new energy and matter entering? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_energy
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by floxy 2y ago
> where is the singularity? Maybe black holes don't have a singularity: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00841
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by floxy 2y ago
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/blue-states-dont-build-red-sta...
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by floxy 2y ago
Doesn't seem like an overly reliable source of information. The 2025 Ioniq 5 has been made in Georgia since October of 2024: https://www.ajc.com/politics/hyundais-georgia-ev-factory-ope...
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by floxy 2y ago
Does anyone know if these hydrocarbons are in "useful" concentrations, or "detectable" concentrations (ppb).
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by floxy 2y ago
https://www.fcnl.org/updates/2023-02/2002-iraq-aumf-what-it-...
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by floxy 2y ago
> __DATE__ and __TIME__ macros in C So how do those work in these Debian reproducible builds? Do they outlaw those directives? Or do they set those based on something other than the current date and time? Or something else?
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by floxy 2y ago
I wonder what it would be like to verify the authenticity of an artifact like that. I mean, assuming it didn't melt everyone in the vicinity first, of course.
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by floxy 2y ago
Looks like 52% of the time: https://www.mitre.org/news-insights/news-release/parts-annou...
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by floxy 2y ago
Why wouldn't alcoholics and the elderly be early adopters of self-driving vehicles. Or what can we do to encourage them to be early adopters? You get a DUI, and you are forced to pay for FSD? Get a reduce rate on booze taxes if you
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by floxy 2y ago
>congestion I'd think congestion would go up as AVs become more popular, with average occupancy rates per vehicle going down. Since some of the time the vehicle will be driving without any passengers inside. Especially with person
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by floxy 2y ago
Robotaxis might also make the human piloted accident rate go down, if enough inebriated people take AVs instead of driving.
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by floxy 2y ago
OT, but does anyone know what the shape of the curve for the number of automobile crashes per human driver? Is it uniform distribution, where everyone is more or less likely to get into, say, 1.2 fender-benders per lifetime? Or there is a
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by floxy 2y ago
Is there a good way to look up how many people are in the U.S. on H-1B visas from Canada?
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by floxy 2y ago
Maybe the part where he slanders Chuck Moore disciples? >main problem has been people who have been forthing at the mouth :-)
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by floxy 2y ago
>removing the voting system would massively increase mod workload Is this one legitimate area that LLMs could help out with? Weeding out the most obvious spam and scams?
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by floxy 2y ago
Washington State currently has a flat $225 in electric vehicle fees. https://dol.wa.gov/vehicles-and-boats/vehicles/vehicle-regis... ...currently broken out as two separate "Electric Car" fees at $100 an
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by floxy 2y ago
I'm now pretty skeptical of books published after about 2021 or so. Maybe some certification body will spring up to help verify authorship?
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by floxy 2y ago
Do you think that the Hyundai/Kia engineers know the cause of the ICCU failures and are just hoping to not have to replace every one? Or is it still an unknown root cause to the issue?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectroscopy#Atoms
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_Canada
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by floxy 2y ago
US EV sales are up 28% so far in 2025. Will be interesting to see the upcoming quarterly results at the end of March, and for the rest of the year as well. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/03/despite-everyth

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