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by ndr42 11mo ago
Just wanted to point out that I started without any cad experience with Freecad this august. I watched/worked through the first third of the mango jelly tutorials on youtube. Since then I designed and 3d printed a lot of projects [1].
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by ndr42 11mo ago
The title reminds me of the 5th installment of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams: "Further investigation quickly established what it was that had happened. A meteorite had knocked a large hole in the ship. The
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by ndr42 11mo ago
From the article: Micro-stressors such as running late [...] represent the unavoidable pain that comes with being human. Is running late really unavoidable? I think there are proven strategies to avoid it. (My wife and one of my sons on the
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by ndr42 1y ago
What was your reason to use the product (to what end) and what has changed now that you now have no reason to continue to use it? What has Adobe to do with it? I get that some have fears that Affinity is getting unusable for them in the fut
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by ndr42 1y ago
"There were absolutely successful products that came before" I think it's just a question of definition. The Apple pencil was introduced in 2016, since then about 500.000.000 iPads have been sold. If you compare that with the
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by ndr42 1y ago
To get the attention it works very well. It stands out and will be remembered.
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by ndr42 1y ago
Sorry, but I had to link to this video as you said "effectively": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQgIwwKmjdo
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Four radioactive wasp nests found on South Carolina nuclear facility(arstechnica.com)
8 points by ndr42 1y ago|3 comments
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All childhood vaccines in question after first meeting of RFK Jr.s vaccine panel(arstechnica.com)
17 points by ndr42 1y ago|3 comments
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by ndr42 1y ago
>> A company sets prices based on what will make it the most money. > No company does this. Prices are set based upon demand. I read an interview a long long time ago (with Jobs, Schiller or Cook - I don't remember) where they
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by ndr42 1y ago
Do you really think Las Vegas is cash strapped so that they can't afford it? [1] As a city that has a huge amount of tourism they have ways to do more. I do not understand why the parent commentator should have to donate his time or ca
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by ndr42 1y ago
"one in eight Americans thinking women are too emotional to be in politics" [1]. Well, I don't know, maybe men should not holding high political offices /s [1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full&#
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by ndr42 1y ago
I observe the opposite: the more important something is the more afraid I am to approach it. I procrastinate because it is important.
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by ndr42 1y ago
To ask it to organize the download folder seems great - more examples: https://www.macstories.net/stories/sky-for-mac-preview/
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by ndr42 1y ago
The difference is that the intake of oxygen is through diffusion (passive, along the concentration gradient) and the transport of Na+/Cl- uses ATP (active transport against the concentration gradient). (The gills have the largest surfa
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by ndr42 1y ago
Clip studio paint uses AI for coloring, better filling with gaps etc.
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by ndr42 1y ago
Acting fast would be nice but I think the dismantling of science/education in the US is far from done - it will continue for some years
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by ndr42 1y ago
If I understand correctly you are proposing to cut the teaching staff in the typical schools in the US to 10%, this 10% are there to place the students in front of the ai that makes the kids smarter?
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by ndr42 1y ago
In your first comment I thought you were talking about teaching. Now It seems your main point is about diagnostics. I don’t dispute that both are intertwinned, but my reply to you was about „you can replace 90% of teachers“ with ai. One of
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by ndr42 1y ago
3 observations: 1) Parents that walk their kids through the homework have more stress not better performing students 2) individualized learning programs exist since the 70s, they were not a substitute - you have to explain something to some
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by ndr42 1y ago
What I find strange: my students (german school system, 11th grade) let chatGPT do the creative work (like inventing a character for a play). That was what I liked in school the most.
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by ndr42 1y ago
In Germany it's the state-run education system that has no measuring system for teachers yet (the federal states have to implement it but seen to be afraid to do so). So one of the biggest violators is the state itself.
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Meta is making users who opted out of AI training opt out again, watchdog says(arstechnica.com)
9 points by ndr42 1y ago|0 comments
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VPNSecure cancels lifetime subscriptions after changing owners(arstechnica.com)
10 points by ndr42 1y ago|4 comments
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Unknown Realm: The Siege Perilous – The story of a long-awaited game(c64universe.com)
1 points by ndr42 1y ago|0 comments
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by ndr42 1y ago
We had bad smell with just drying all reachable areas and leaving open the door, cleaning everything that is easy disassembled (tubes, water outlet area of the pump) from tine to time. 2 months ago we discovered the boil wash. With some det
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by ndr42 1y ago
I remember that apple, google, ms had some anti-poaching agreements in place, while not directly related it seems that that is also pattern of cartels to have informal agreements that hinders competition.
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by ndr42 1y ago
If you would like to prohibit e.g. gambling mechanisms in games or social media you need a legal framework and then you investigate and fine the firms that don't adhere to the rules. This works very well in the EU as seen by the exampl
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by ndr42 1y ago
I'd suggest not making it so black and white ("school does nothing", "total failure"), there is room for a bit of nuance.
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by ndr42 1y ago
I've read the same comment from you as a response to three different comments. I will just answer here: "There is substantial evidence to suggest that education influences intelligence.[3]" (From Wikipedia) [3] Baltes, P., &

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