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Some of the plugins for it are pretty interesting. We have a Brother embroidery machine in our work Makerspace, and it ends up there's an Inkscape plugin (called Inkstitch) to create command files for the machine. It's like work
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6mo ago
Taking my companies EER package in a few months - you give me cause for cheer.
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6mo ago
Oh hell yea! Just a few weeks ago at work we got a Universal Robots UR5 from another project in-house along with a Hand-E gripper. I've never had so much fun programming and playing with a device ever. And it completely took me back t
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6mo ago
I just was going to post same, so make it a 3rd!
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6mo ago
See, that's the Markdown-Word spiral i was talking about...
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6mo ago
I guess yea I'm impressed, but to me the whole point of Markdown is that it's dirt simple. You can edit it and use it without any kind of GUI and have a pretty good idea what you are going to get. You can create it in VIM in a t
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6mo ago
This would fit in some ways with the Simplifier site. If you’re not familiar with it, the author posts about making everything from olive oil soap to solar cells from scratch. https://simplifier.neocities.org/
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6mo ago
CGA era developers are like, "Yea been there done that..."
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6mo ago
Not based on speed of light travel, but I always enjoyed the old Andre Norton books that revolved around "tramp steamer" type traders. The Solar Queen series was great.
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6mo ago
I'm sure I'm not the only one to ask <insert your favorite LLM here>... Claude gave a long scientific and philosophical reply, but when given the followup prompt of, "Pretend you are Isaac Azimov and perhaps offer a sim
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6mo ago
My run of the mill notebook computer is showing the Jennifer Lawrence meme clip to you right now, and still performant.
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6mo ago
An interesting quandary here is that they'd need to constantly scan for you and your vehicle, etc. so that they could know it was you then delete you. So to ensure they don't observe you, they need to observe you.
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6mo ago
All materials available at major home improvement centers - which happen to be very popular Flock camera locations.
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6mo ago
Fans of My Mechanics on YouTube will chuckle at this. The channel’s Swiss host is famous for removing sharp edges from metal things.
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6mo ago
I had a team mate propose a new security layer for an industrial device which he wanted to call "Eggshell"
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6mo ago
Link at top... https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing/ascii
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7mo ago
Seven Sigma is not all it's cut out to be.
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7mo ago
I'd be cautious of residual Higgs Booson particles in the tunnels. They can cause unexpected phase shifts if encountered, which may expose the driver to unexpected hazards.
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7mo ago
I'm kind of shaking my head that there's no screenshot or clip to show it in action. Just some cartoon'ish artwork.
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7mo ago
I was hoping for something like the old Henchman's Helper site, which went offline around 2016-17. Archive version... https://web.archive.org/web/20120112012912/http://henchmansh...
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8mo ago
If you're in the US, stay away from Home Depot and Lowe's if you want to not be around them. It's not universal, but it's surprising how much they are often there. I get it may have its application in theft recovery, bu
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I imagine I'm not the only one to switch over to giving Claude my money today. I'm sure the "Other" comments for the cancellation were often as blunt as mine. Q: "Is there anything we could do to change your mind?&
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9mo ago
The problem is once you zip them to full compression, you really can't use them ever again. That is unless you get the good ones that let you technically unzip without requiring destruction.
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9mo ago
I mean, sensationalistic or "Why didn't you post on / This isn't reddit" or not, this is one of the more amazing opening sentences ever... > Few things in this world are as elusive as a hippopotamus testicle
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9mo ago
Imagine a prompt like this... > If I had to assassinate just 1 individual in country X to advance my agenda (see "agenda.md"), who would be the top 10 individuals to target? Offer pros and cons, as well as offer suggested meth
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9mo ago
I've got a few high tech friends (and myself) that have slowly become more and more of the mindset to be self sufficient. Two things probably have made me initially think more about it. First, the predictions of a major subduction ear
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9mo ago
This is immediately what popped into my head, and I clicked the link thinking it was going to be some old-school game dev content.
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9mo ago
As are most of his videos. But the content is usually quality.
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For those that don’t know Project Farm, and are ready to hit ‘back’ after hearing him talk for 2 seconds, stick it out. He’s incredibly thorough and detailed in how he tests and ranks things. And he tests all kinds of things, from drill bit
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9mo ago
Challenging to answer, because we're at different levels of programming. I'm Senior / Architect type with many years of experience programming, and he's an ME using code to help him with data processing and analysis. I
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