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by knolan 5y ago
Thank you, you articulated that better than I could. I've used a wide range of CAD software over the years, and they're often a clunky mess. OpenSCAD is something I'd like to explore but if I could achieve much the same outco
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by knolan 5y ago
You can view the source of each node in Blender, but that’s not the point. Writing a script is not fundamentally different form connecting nodes in geometry nodes and entering attributes. What I’m asking is how do the output and performance
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by knolan 5y ago
How does this compare to the new Geometry Nodes in Blender? The flexibility of what people are producing in Blender 3.0 is staggering.
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by knolan 5y ago
I’m reminded of the aircraft in The 6th Day movie. https://youtu.be/7nqo_3kyw8M
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by knolan 5y ago
My Specialized Turbo Vado e-bike. I can get to work comfortably and get some exercise and not be constrained by the limited bus schedule or be stuck in car traffic burning expensive fuel and generating pollution. Also our Urban Arrow cargo
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by knolan 5y ago
Paint is not infrastructure. I regularly cycle to work clocking up about 200km a week. Entitlement, aggression and abuse by motorists has a major impact on the numbers of people cycling. Segregated cycle routes are essential.
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by knolan 5y ago
You don’t need compressible flow to generate lift. Any basic inviscid (Euler) 2D incompressible solver can be used to calculate lift. For drag you need to resolve the boundary layer and solve Navier Stokes.
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by knolan 5y ago
It was cleaved off AT&T as part of Lucent and then merged with Alcatel. Part of the problem there was that it was never clear if Lucent merged with Alcatel or if Alcatel acquired Lucent. The whole company was pretty dysfunctional but no
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by knolan 5y ago
True, it was all some people did… and some continue to do after our site was shut down. They know nothing else.
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by knolan 5y ago
There were considerably more when you look at the various European sites and other staff.
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by knolan 5y ago
I worked in Bell Labs from 2012 to 2018, unfortunately then it was a shadow of its former self. The MBAs had taken over. While there Weldon tried to pivot the place from being ‘like twitter’ to an incubator to a like a startup. He got an Ap
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by knolan 5y ago
Huygens optics is a great YouTube channel with lots of homemade lithography and optics stuff. https://www.huygensoptics.com/
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by knolan 5y ago
I presume you’re referencing this? https://twitter.com/foone/status/1302820468819288066?s=21
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by knolan 5y ago
I’ve watched several of these now. What’s incredible is how they expose the entitlement of those illegally parking and how quickly they lie and exaggerate rather that admit fault. It’s exactly how it unfolds here when some driver nearly kil
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by knolan 5y ago
That’s a nine year old tablet. It’s far from useless just because it runs iOS 10. My partner’s mother has an old iPad mini from the same year and it’s perfect for FaceTime calls. It’s basically an iPad 2 SoC. I wouldn’t do any personal bank
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by knolan 5y ago
We’ve a massive problem here in Western Europe (UK and Ireland) with people parking on the footpath (sidewalk). They’ll put all four wheels up blocking the passage all pedestrians rather than use their driveway or a legal space. Unfortunate
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by knolan 5y ago
Similar experience when applying for a job at a major UK university back in 2009. My Dell laptop with Ubuntu crashed when trying to present my slides. There was an old iMac at the back of the room taunting me. I ended up working there throu
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by knolan 5y ago
It’s hard. In the case of final year students they just need to do enough to get by. This usually means finding something in the project description that they can actually do or are motivated to do. Sometimes you need to have a talk about w
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by knolan 5y ago
Most perpetual motion machine inventors think like engineers with some understanding of Newtonian mechanics. So practical stuff like gears and pulleys and magnets. Thinking at the scale of a black hole isn’t usually their area.
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by knolan 5y ago
We’re not talking merely scavenging energy here. We’re taking about a perpetual motion machine that gives more out than you put in. I feed it 1 W and I get maybe 1.000000001 W out. Maybe it’s big and cumbersome but the principle, if like al
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by knolan 5y ago
You can fumble as much as you like. It doesn’t matter how crazy your vast ostentatious space palace is or how inefficient it is, you have infinite energy. You therefore have infinite compute. You won’t even need to think.
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by knolan 5y ago
Solid advice, not just for PhD students. This is also invaluable for helping final year/capstone students navigate their supervisor interactions. There’s nothing better than a student you wind up and they go off and solve a bunch of pr
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by knolan 5y ago
I’m always amazed how little ambition proponents of perpetual motion machines have. They always talk about not having to pay their energy bill or charge their smartphone ever again. Here in Ireland we had Steorn[0] which resulted in much am
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by knolan 5y ago
He’s not accusing god of anything, he’s pointing out that what one primitive civilisation saw as a sign from some supernatural being was a cosmic event with local consequences for another civilisation. He also shows how those beliefs, which
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by knolan 5y ago
From what I’ve seen it’s endemic in here in Ireland and also next door in the UK. It’s particularity crazy here because our cities and towns are tiny.
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by knolan 5y ago
Here in Ireland lots just ride with an action camera in the hope that the police might take some action. They usually ignore you or threaten you.
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by knolan 5y ago
I cycle to work on an ebike. About 25 km each way. One of the major issues is the lack of proper infrastructure and awful attitude by drivers, in particular service drivers. Advertisement company vans are a prime example. There are rolling
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by knolan 5y ago
I haven’t noticed this at all.
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by knolan 5y ago
It’s mostly because LaTeX is deemed mature for its audience and features like these, while flashy, are not going to see much use day to day. Most academics want to take plots they make in Matlab or whatever and put them into the template su
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by knolan 5y ago
I played with the new models in a store today for the first time and I was surprised that even in a couple of minutes that it wasn't noticeable. Probably iPhone induced notch blindness. What was noticeable was how nice the new body sha

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