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by phkahler 7mo ago
>> To rotate, use Shift+Right mouse button. Or middle mouse button / click the scroll wheel.
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by phkahler 7mo ago
It uses GNU unifont, which is a bitmap font. There could be a bug causing the text to get stretched a little - we had that on Windows prior to this release.
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by phkahler 7mo ago
Only for the constraint solver. Dune uses OCCT for the solid model.
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by phkahler 7mo ago
Chamfers and Fillets are my next major undertaking. Don't expect them any time soon, but they've moved to the top of my list. They are extremely difficult to do in the general case - so we will not cover all cases. Several years a
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Open source CAD in the browser (Solvespace)(solvespace.com)
374 points by phkahler 7mo ago|128 comments
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by phkahler 7mo ago
For Linux users we have an optional qt front end. Someone is making appimage with it and there is a COPR repo with it. Default is still built with GTK. Notable because the floating window can be docked inside the main one.
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Solvespace v3.2 (CAD)(solvespace.com)
1 points by phkahler 7mo ago|1 comments
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by phkahler 7mo ago
>> It's amazing to see the amount of hate towards Israel here. I guess part of it it's just plain old Jew hate in new cover Hahaha. They're trying to influence European elections. You don't need to have any opinion
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by phkahler 7mo ago
>> My experience is that LLMs are generally as smart as the average human +90% of the time. A lack of perfect to me doesn't mean it isn't AGI. In my experience, they contain more information than any human but they are actua
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by phkahler 7mo ago
The main things Dune3D has over solvespace are 1 - the ability to include STEP files in assemblies, and 2 - the ability to put a chamfer or fillet on the top/bottom of an extrusion. I don't think it has the ability to select arbit
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by phkahler 7mo ago
The problem there is you can't prove anything would have come down the chimney if the preemption is successful, so people will still be unhappy.
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by phkahler 7mo ago
This is what they call "buy borrow die" or some such. Buy an asset, borrow against it, die to reset the basis. Your estate will still have to repay the loans, but... that one part I don't really understand. Do they just refin
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by phkahler 7mo ago
>> What does post-USA world mean? >> Who is the leader in culture, business, technology? The only other contender I can think of is China. >> And this is better? Who says you need a leader in each of those? Maybe it's
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by phkahler 7mo ago
>> Sensible type-annotated python code could be so much faster if it didn't have to assume everything could change at any time. Then it wouldn't be Python any more.
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by phkahler 7mo ago
>> This is called the shot exchange problem and is a very, very active area of work. And addressing that should also bring down the defense budget. Oh wait...
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by phkahler 7mo ago
Your used wrapping paper tubes are munitions.
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by phkahler 7mo ago
The pull quote "The attempt by these gamblers to pressure me to change my reporting so that they would win their bet did not and will not succeed. But I do worry that other journalists may not be as ethical if they are promised some of
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by phkahler 7mo ago
>> The engineering confidence this gives for actual planetary defense is massive. I've been waiting for this a long time. They initially reported significant changes to the orbit of the smaller rock around the larger one which wa
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by phkahler 7mo ago
>> I find that when refuting people, instead of outright debasing their position with a right/wrong dichotomy, it works better to illuminate the possibility there is a larger breadth to the viewpoint. In this way, both views can
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by phkahler 7mo ago
>> but you can't see harmonics happening to the string. But you absolutely can if you rest a finger on a node and pick it, producing primarily the harmonic. You can even see the lesser vibration at the nodes with your eyes.
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by phkahler 8mo ago
>> Apparently all 130k jobs came from the health care sector with everything else having no growth. I wonder what a further breakdown of the data might show. The older (leading) boomers are starting to die off, so there might be a dec
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by phkahler 8mo ago
>> If the government-approved numbers are this bad the real ones must be catastrophic. Sadly my first thought was not to trust this report. The article even notes further down: >> The US central bank would typically respond to a
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by phkahler 8mo ago
“Employees who are more likely to fall for corporate bullshit may help elevate the types of dysfunctional leaders who are more likely to use it, creating a sort of negative feedback loop. Technically that's a positive feedback loop, or
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by phkahler 8mo ago
So a Whitehouse insider is going to get a bunch of tarrif refund money?
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by phkahler 8mo ago
>> I’ve seen pages that are still top 3 for a particular competitive query years later, simply because they were one of the first to write about it. With so many copycats on the internet, first to publish seems like a fairly good indi
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by phkahler 8mo ago
Nor do they say what process it's fabricated with.
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by phkahler 8mo ago
Better if it can anticipate its response before you're done speaking. That would be subject to change depending what the speaker says, but it might be able to start immediately.
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by phkahler 8mo ago
>> And we 'tried until it didn't blow up immediately' is not a great sign. But everything that didn't blow up has been tested 11 times already. Things that did fail have had more than one design iteration tested. O
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by phkahler 8mo ago
Not even a close comparison. A regular plane does not make a decision to fire on a target.
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by phkahler 8mo ago
Solvespace has a fairly robust solution to this problem - for the cases that it handles. It does not create accessible edges for things like the intersection of surfaces, which won't be a big deal until we have a chamfer/fillet to

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