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by kwk1 8y ago
I think the point of confusion was: > I traveled around Xianjian in 2010. instead of Xinjiang.
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by kwk1 8y ago
Yes, I use Zotero (a reference manager) which uses WebDav for file sync to a Nextcloud server. You can also use davfs to mount a Nextcloud share.
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by kwk1 8y ago
You probably meant `:wq!`.
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by kwk1 9y ago
> The interface is a little awkward and the icons quite obscure, but other than that it's really good! One of the many improvements in this version was a complete overhaul of all the workbenches' icons to be aligned to the Tang
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by kwk1 9y ago
There's also some effort in the FreeCAD forums to adapt SolveSpace's assembly functionality for FreeCAD.
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by kwk1 9y ago
It'll almost surely take less time, part of the reason 0.17 took so long was because the Part Design Workbench had compatibility-breaking changes with a whole new workflow. It's probably overly optimistic but some of us are pushin
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by kwk1 9y ago
> FreeCAD has enormous potential. I absolutely agree. I'm especially interested to see the future of integrations with computational fluid dynamics & finite element analysis (OpenFOAM for the former, Calculix & Elmer for the
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by kwk1 9y ago
> I am currently trying to get FreeDyn, a multibody dynamics simulation program to work with it [1]. I have used the FEM workbench to do simple FEAs too. It's an amazingly open platform with a lot of potential. That would be really
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by kwk1 9y ago
> EDIT: if there is a donation page for FreeCAD, I am willing to pitch in. There isn't a single donation page. One of the main developers, Yorik van Havre, has a Patreon [1], and there's a Liberapay [2]. I also just decided to
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by kwk1 9y ago
Indeed, now that the Part Design overhaul is complete, Assembly improvements will be one of the main targets for the 0.18 dev cycle.
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by kwk1 9y ago
There was a potential Google Summer of Code project to work on this last year[1], but it doesn't look like there were any mentors or applicants this year. 1. https://freecadweb.org/wiki/IPython_notebook_integration
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by kwk1 9y ago
> There solution was “please send us the solidworks file”. So... I gave up. Ack, that sounds rough--there can definitely be some pain on the bleeding edge (of open-source CAD.) As far as cloud-based, do you just mean in terms of having t
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by kwk1 9y ago
Hopefully it's a little more pleasant for you this time around. Besides ~6800 commits of improvements in 0.17, we also upgraded our geometry/topology kernel OpenCASCADE from 6.8.0 -> 7.2.0 and this has resulted in a lot of impr
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FreeCAD 0.17 “Roland” released(github.com)
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by kwk1 9y ago
I've previously (~1 mo. ago) applied for a position at Canonical but never heard back, and the application receipt confirmation email stated "... if you are a match for any roles at Canonical, we will reach back out to you directl
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by kwk1 9y ago
Most of the mass in plants comes from the air, and most of the mass of soil loss is from erosion and runoff, so this wouldn't avert loss, just reconnect mass flows for the process for natural soil generation, while not altering the pro
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by kwk1 9y ago
Like the other people who have commented, my intuition says the extreme amounts of thermal energy stored in the earth combined with its colossal mass means it won't make any difference any time soon. I was curious, though, so I did the
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by kwk1 9y ago
The development is moving along at a good rate [1] so if you haven't tried it lately, give 0.16 or even 0.17-dev a shot if you're brave enough to try compiling [2][3][4], there have been 4500+ commits since 0.16 with a lot of impr
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by kwk1 9y ago
This was a Google Summer of Code project that didn't get an applicant/accepted this year: https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/IPython_notebook_integration
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by kwk1 9y ago
Wow, you know all those people? And the whole of them, down to the individual, are irredeemable (global warming deniers)?
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by kwk1 10y ago
Yup, all that's true--but just because I mentioned a laptop doesn't mean I'm necessarily talking about an in-network, out-of-network situation.
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by kwk1 10y ago
FreeIPA ( https://www.freeipa.org/page/Main_Page ) is an LDAP+Kerberos+other stuff implementation which is available in the Ubuntu repositories and is probably a good target for this. If it was easier to set up, I think
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by kwk1 10y ago
Right, you're just describing traditional pumped storage. I suppose I should clarify because I didn't actually say what the advantage was, just the ways that the two designs are similar, but different. In short, the advantage is t
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by kwk1 10y ago
In traditional pumped storage, you use the pressure of water pumped up some elevation to generate electricity by spinning a turbine as it falls back down. In this instance, you use the pressure of the bottom of the ocean and pump the water