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by phkahler 5y ago
The more awesome Blender gets, the more jealous I am that it's not designed for CAD. You may be interested in this: https://blenderartists.org/t/geometry-sketcher-constraint-so... Someone implemented sketching in
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by phkahler 5y ago
Well that really raises the question of what did he die from? If not from the heart, how do they proceed with the research? Gotta do the next one on a person whose not already nearly gone. That seems like a highly sensitive line, no doubt i
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by phkahler 5y ago
>> I also think that we need a language agnostic markup language to represent the BREP. I agree with that, but some serious decisions have to be made or it will end up a mess like STEP.
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by phkahler 5y ago
ruststep takes a similar approach to STEPcode but is written in Rust and produces Rust code. I wonder why nobody has a repo of the various STEP specs run through stepcode to produce usable C++ read/writer. I think working on Open CASCA
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by phkahler 5y ago
You left out that the donor was not supposed to be a donor at all. I'd also argue that the doctor using his own probably has serious NPD, and if there is a genetic component to that, this is the last thing we need.
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by phkahler 5y ago
>> This looks super exciting, particularly the idea of building a new Open-source B-Rep CAD Kernel. Yes, I think he's being rather naive about that. Starting with flat surfaces and straight lines is really ignoring the hard probl
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by phkahler 5y ago
And if that's not random enough you should be able to fix it by applying a non-multiplicative function (shifts and booleans for example) to the output values. Feeding one random sequence into a different form of pseudo-random mapping h
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by phkahler 5y ago
> The co-founders are arguing about 30k's worth of shares. The company is in one of those situations where it is likely to either fail in the near future or get much more valuable. Like Ford in 2008 at $2, or AMD under $2 prior to
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by phkahler 5y ago
>> There is a lot of REALLY good software coming out for Desktop Linux recently. Wayland, Pipewire, Wireguard, etc! etc indeed: OBS Studio VLC Ardour, LMMS, MuseScore LibreOffice (Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Base) GnuCash, Scribus, D
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by phkahler 5y ago
>> anyone who has used AccurateRip can probably testify that CD ripping errors and manufacturing errors are surprisingly common. CDs have significant error correction codes so if it sounds right it IS right. Having said that, I have o
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by phkahler 5y ago
>> > A global solution, by necessity, has to ignore local conditions. >> That's just flat wrong. A global solution can solve global concerns and also allow for local conditions. So lets rephrase that. A global solution t
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by phkahler 5y ago
>> And when people say "won't fit in anything else", do explore your options before! RAM storage can be very, very, very big and the cost for using it is minuscule compared to what it used to be! That's why the &qu
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by phkahler 5y ago
Can a Z80 be dropped into an 8080A socket? I'm thinking there were hardware differences.
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by phkahler 5y ago
If we exclude addressing mode then I think there are less than 26 instructions. Our mnemonic format was one letter (verb/op), one for source (a,b,c,d,e,h,l,w,x,y) and one for destination. I dont recall the letter for immediate, probabl
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by phkahler 5y ago
I learned on an 8080 system (Interact) that also had MS basic. Almost every one of 256 op-codes is used on the 8080. That's not to say there were that many instructions. For example register-to-register move might be considered one ins
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by phkahler 5y ago
It costs him karma.
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by phkahler 5y ago
>> So completely useless fact but "Bagel" comes via Yiddish "beigel" Around 2005 one of my coworkers from Germany would bring a large box with assorted beers for us when he came to the US. He would always fill it w
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by phkahler 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex#:~:text=Soundex%20is%2... . Soundex is a rough phonetic "spelling" used for such things. It's also something I never see mentioned.
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by phkahler 5y ago
>> You implied the Russian military could beat the US military. How? If it goes nuclear both sides will defeat each other. Neither is known to have any viable defense against nuclear missiles. It seems really odd to have to make that
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by phkahler 5y ago
Here's a thought. Just think of yourself in a much broader context - life on earth. In the same way one of your cells comes and goes while your body seems to be continuously present, so too you are one tiny part of the tree of life. Yo
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by phkahler 5y ago
>> But if the repo was GPL then their contributions would automatically be GPL also Because the GPL requires all (conveyed) derivative works to be GPL licensed. If they intended it to be anything else they would be in violation of the
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by phkahler 5y ago
>> Why I can see losses of Ukrainian army, while you cannot? Because we look in different places. TikTok and FB posts are isolated incidents and don't offer meaningful statistics. I'm sure if I want to see dead Ukrainians I
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by phkahler 5y ago
>> But they’re even more of a shit show. How so?
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by phkahler 5y ago
>> You mean like a NAS? Sort of, but I think there is a lot more that can be done than just NAS.
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by phkahler 5y ago
>> The other side of this is that in the US as a senior engineer making $400k+ every year completely risk free with good work life balance and good benefits is relatiely easy. Please don't say "in the US" as that's
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by phkahler 5y ago
>> The correct business response is to petition management to staff more accordingly so that no table has to be de-prioritized (going by the book on customer service)... Also other measures can be taken, like stocking napkin dispenser
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by phkahler 5y ago
How are they going to fly 25 missions with 24 engines? It's not just one engine per launch either.
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by phkahler 5y ago
If only they used the profits to build a great economy with more to offer. They have no shortage capable and even brilliant people, but they've got a management problem at the national level.
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by phkahler 5y ago
Many people don't realize that the "quality" of poop has a lot to do with what you eat. When you have a proper diet this cleaning ritual gets greatly simplified.
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by phkahler 5y ago
>> Azure/Office365 was genius, its going to keep them in the black for many years to come. I'm sure that was planned similar to OneDrive, which is an utter piece of shit. I got a laptop at work with some hundreds of GB of st

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