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by throw46365 2y ago
> that is really a gross generalization It's really not though, and on multiple levels. At the shit-tier level, the majority of people building applications on this technology are projecting abilities onto it that even they can&#x
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by throw46365 2y ago
Graphic and print designers do not just use Photoshop; it’s not the right tool for that job. The bulk of that work happens outside Photoshop in Illustrator or InDesign. Affinity has matching applications (minus Lightroom and Bridge as I sai
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by throw46365 2y ago
Part of this, I think, is the bleed-in of cloud services even to work stored entirely offline: their AI-enhanced tools send content out to the cloud. For example you likely cannot implement content-aware fill in the cloud without sending th
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by throw46365 2y ago
InDesign is also an anchor product. Affinity Publisher is actually great and catching up on some of the niche tools InDesign offers, but I think it remains true that you can’t really flip some designers until you sell them on a new book&#x2
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by throw46365 2y ago
I’ve used Affinity Photo for nine years now, and my feeling is that the ways it is not like Photoshop likely would barely impact most Photoshop users. Some of the ways it is not like Photoshop are evidence of it being better-designed. I kno
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by throw46365 2y ago
This is why when you see a house on rightmove that has heavy plastic tarpaulin over a considerable patch of the garden, you ask questions... Bit of an issue in some of the areas I've been looking. It is possible to kill it -- it'
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by throw46365 2y ago
Someone in that thread talks about the numbers of devices potentially affected versus the few complaints. I’m not sure “potentially millions” is right; I suspect individual HP models (of which there are many) maybe sell in the tens or at mo
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by throw46365 2y ago
Interesting. What you're describing is like how the Visual Studio Code Remote system works, but broader and untethered from an editor environment. I will have to experiment with it.
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by throw46365 2y ago
The fact that St Michael's Mount is on this line is enough to show that it is nonsense. It's an unbelievably lovely place and it was a site for pilgrims, but its ecclesiastical connection to St Michael is relatively weedy; a brief
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by throw46365 2y ago
> We arent dealing with a technology that is 99.9% right in our most common use cases, so that we need to engineer some incredibly complex problem to expose the flaw. Rather, in most cases there is some obvious flaw. It's a system t
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by throw46365 2y ago
> Such is the strength of corporate tech propaganda that a whole mass of people will instead insist that we have never worn clothes either. This is the line of reasoning I find most dispiriting. I still believe tech people cling to this
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by throw46365 2y ago
Paradoxically, British beef producers and their marketing board doubled down and made a virtue of Britishness, which seemed brave at the time, but was based on confidence -- and building confidence -- in the inspection and control regimes.
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by throw46365 2y ago
Good stuff. One of the words I had to solve was a plural ending in S. Wordle-type games don’t use these words, generally, and I have played so many of those that I found this oddly jarring, perhaps because your grid is 5x5.
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by throw46365 2y ago
Yes -- the weekly releases have been really promising. The TNP mitigation is not yet bug-free but I think next week's weekly will have fixes for a few bits. The most striking thing is that there's experimental support for multiple
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by throw46365 2y ago
Edison was really enormously promising, but it sort of only existed as a reactionary product in that whole ed-tech/maker bubble that blew up and then shrank a few years back.
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by throw46365 2y ago
There's an article about this stuff in The MagPi this month [0] -- and about a Stable Diffusion model trained only on truly Public Domain images. I don't think the Foundation are asleep on the idea people will want to do this, but
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by throw46365 2y ago
It’s in that ballpark, it would seem. This is the right sort of AI for Raspberry Pi to be positioning themselves with: it’s edge-oriented, sustainable through the hype cycle, more interesting for a device that is aimed at DIY robotics and p
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by throw46365 2y ago
Not really what the Pi is about, though. It’s a physical computing board.
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by throw46365 2y ago
Scroll back far enough on the X timelines of a few AI evangelists/specialists/advisers: oop, there they are. NFTs, Ethereum, altcoins.
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by throw46365 2y ago
> And then the RPi foundation knifed everbody in the shortage by shunting all the RPis to commercial companies like FormLabs. The Foundation did no such thing because it doesn’t manufacture the boards and it’s not their decision. The T
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by throw46365 2y ago
TIL!
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by throw46365 2y ago
I have found there is another OpenCascade-based JS CAD -- RepliCAD -- which is significantly more developed. https://replicad.xyz And it's even embeddable, which is super-cool: https://sample-app.replicad.xyz
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by throw46365 2y ago
The Python console spits out usable but verbose code as you work, and I guess the macro recorder interfaces with that -- then you can tidy it up. But it's not as elegant an abstraction.
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by throw46365 2y ago
Yes -- me too! Such a neat idea.
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by throw46365 2y ago
> I'm thankful I had maturity to simply say "yes, they're in the deer family, native to Canada and Northern Europe". Good for you! Though I think we geeks are more inclined to understand when others have their "S
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by throw46365 2y ago
> and I think it really does need the ability to explore the space via GUI and be able to snap to points/planes and have selection filters, etc. I don't think the kernel OpenSCAD uses is capable of this; it's triangle mesh
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by throw46365 2y ago
Build123D and CadQuery are actually compatible at the library level, I think? Certainly at the editor/viewer level. In principle I think this means Build123D could even be given a FreeCAD workbench, but then there is no properly-suppor
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by throw46365 2y ago
It's definitely flatter. But I feel that the modelling techniques you need for successfully using these tools are no less rigorous than the design techniques you need to make 3D CAD work. They are just different. I grappled with this i
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by throw46365 2y ago
Right -- my trig is weak. Joan Horvath's "Make: Trigonometry", which teaches with OpenSCAD, is on my reading list [0] bRep environments liberate you from trig to some extent because you can build on arbitrary faces and edges,
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by throw46365 2y ago
Well, you can still use OpenSCAD of course (there's a workbench for it). There's also a (deprecated) CadQuery 1.x workbench; a Build123D workbench would be great for sure.

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