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by tda 8mo ago
I sometimes help out at a hobby vineyard of 0.7 hectare; weeding in the row is a lot of manual labour. Your platform seems like a good fit. I like tinkering and robotics, what kind of price point are you aiming for?
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by tda 8mo ago
And for weeding?
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by tda 8mo ago
I fondly remember finding and exploiting a buggy slot machine on the night the Euro got introduced. A classmate (I never played slot machines) made some money but didn't understand what was going on. I observed and it became apparent (
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by tda 8mo ago
The real problem is that BREP CAD kernels are hard. A few of proprietary kernels dominate the scene: Parasolid powers NX, SolidWorks, Fusion, and Onshape, while ACIS (owned by Dassault) is used by Inventor and BricsCAD. Catia uses Dassault&
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by tda 8mo ago
I recently gave CadQuery (a Python wrapper around OpenCASCADE) and its Jupyter and VSCode integrations another try. Two years ago installation was a mess across conda, Docker, and pyenv, and the API itself felt like a dense, bespoke DSL you
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by tda 8mo ago
Yes my router has open ports, but it does not do any port forwarding. So I can 'directly' connect any device behind my router without my router needing to know any specifics of which device that is. And I don't need to do any
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by tda 8mo ago
Nothing special, an edgerouter that allows installing tailscale
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by tda 8mo ago
I just set this up the other day, and I got my ping to drop from 16 to 10ms, and my bandwidth tripled, when connecting from a remote natted site to a matter desktop my house. Together with Moonlight/Sunshine I can now play Windows game
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by tda 9mo ago
The sharpest (and scariest) analysis I've encountered is this: the administration governs as though no government will ever follow. The blanket pardons for January 6th insurrectionists, the revocation of Secret Service protection for p
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by tda 9mo ago
Instead you should prompt it to come up with suggestions, look for inconsistencies etc. Then you get a list, and you pick the ones you find promising. Then you ask Claude to explain what why and how of the idea. And only then you let it imp
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by tda 10mo ago
The friction to try it out is already really low, I like that! But it could be even lower if instead of an image the interactive version is served right on the landing page. Great project!
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by tda 10mo ago
I use Firefox as my daily browser. If i have a website that fails to work, I might try chrome maybe once every two months. And then it usually also doesn't work. So for all browsing I do on the internet, Firefox works like a charm
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by tda 10mo ago
The reasoning is these trucks make no practical or economic sense in Europe. They are not allowed to be sold, because they are dangerous to bystanders, are polluting and oversized. Only through some loophole quite a few have been imported,
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by tda 11mo ago
If you haven't been to a school recently where >99% of kids all direct >99% percent of their attention during breaks I can see where you are coming from. But I was at a highschool with a lax phone policy (allowed in breaks etc),
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by tda 1y ago
Alternatively, you can get a plug-in battery with solar input and AC outlet for pretty cheap. In normal times, the battery is only connected to an AC socket, and tries to balance out my daily usage (includes a power usage monitoring device
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by tda 1y ago
But nearly all plastic recycling companies in the Netherlands have gone bankrupt recently. Unfortunately it is usually best to just burn the plastic for energy. For the case of PET bottles, recycling is possible if: - products are made from
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by tda 1y ago
Plastic can't be recycled at all, that is a complete myth. The only thing one can practically do is down cycle it, and even that costs more than virgin plastic so is uneconomical. Of course theoretically perfectly clean and pure singly
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by tda 1y ago
And to prevent corrosion, cans are often lined with BPA containing plastic. Paper packaging is lined with PFAS...
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by tda 1y ago
I finished it with a code size of 118, 19.82 cycles per voxel. Don't feel like making an account, but how does that compare?
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by tda 1y ago
> I wish there were some OSS type license for Parasolid. It could be treated like the Linux kernel. > Whatever replaces Parasolid and friends, should be treated like the Linux kernel. So much this! But the undertaking is so daunting,
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by tda 1y ago
Did you check the sea levels back then? It is estimated to be 100m higher than now. And you know around half of the earths population live on land that would be sea in that case? So yes the earth can survive higher CO2 levels and higher sea
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by tda 1y ago
Isn't Israel a defacto theocracy too?
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by tda 1y ago
Interesting observation. I find myself using ChatGPT to find the proper words for something. I describe my problem or algorithm in a naive way, and usually ChapGPT will present some naive python solution. But when pressed ChatGPT will tell
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by tda 1y ago
No they are not popular in the Netherlands. Easily 90% of cargo bikes are two wheeled, because tricycles are really only for novice/disabled cyclists. Going above say 20km/h is just plain dangerous with a tricycle, definitely not
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by tda 1y ago
And Siemens does it still, even though they translate words to English. Using Tia Portal, one "downloads" a program from the host to the PLC.
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by tda 1y ago
I have transitioned to news.ycombinator.com/active now, works for me now
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by tda 2y ago
Indeed swapping the images was easy and intuitive, I should have added that. The "ugly language" was a bit unexpected, as in general the support for Dutch is surprisingly good. Maybe the combination of the prompt and the translati
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by tda 2y ago
I love it that I can just try it without signing up or anything, a rarity these days! I asked it to generate slides on a topic I know something about, and in my native language. On the one hand, the result is pretty mediocre, but on the oth
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by tda 2y ago
Great idea, I checked a few. Searching for a value in an array didn't work, and then the hash table visualisation makes no sense to me at all. So overal feeling kind of meh about this
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by tda 2y ago
Also check out the follow up: https://nickmcd.me/2023/12/12/meandering-rivers-in-particle-...

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