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by throw46365 2y ago
I certainly found code-CAD to be a useful bridge from abstract coder thinking to more concrete 3D thinking. It's liberating, and obviously it's potentially enormously valuable for parametric customisation. But now I feel the sketc
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by throw46365 2y ago
Mm. It strikes me that it might be more difficult to visualise changes. e.g. in FreeCAD land: FreeCAD uses a "zip-and-manifest" file format so there are ways to unpack that and manage it in git, but one of the challenges is gettin
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by throw46365 2y ago
Yeah I've only dabbled with it myself. Again it was part of this process of me orienting myself towards "thinking in 3D" and I'm really grateful to much more 3D-literate developers than me that we have so many choices. C
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by throw46365 2y ago
Interesting. Though I wasn't really thinking about phase sync when I was talking about time and cross-border electricity (indeed, hadn't occurred to me!) Just scheduling, switching, co-ordination etc. It is likely to me that other
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by throw46365 2y ago
Bowler Studio was entirely new to me, so thanks for mentioning it. One random mention: Nick Lockwood's ShapeScript, which is another code-CAD thing based around a mesh CSG environment (and pretty unusually runs on iOS) https:/&#x
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by throw46365 2y ago
Yeah. I've always been of the opinion that, having got myself from OpenSCAD to GUI CAD, I will jump from FreeCAD to onShape/Fusion360 if I feel I have to -- or do my CAD work on a Windows machine with Alibre. I feel fairly at home
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by throw46365 2y ago
> I've just never been able to get the hang of mouse controls, even in Fusion 360 I can relate to this -- I would consider myself 3D-clumsy. But learning the various navigation tools in FreeCAD (numbered views, the navigation cube,
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by throw46365 2y ago
FreeCAD isn't perfect obviously (but neither IMO is the situation with any 'gratis' tier of commercial CAD). You pays your no money and you takes your complicated choice. Rules for FreeCAD fillet and chamfers: - In OpenCascad
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by throw46365 2y ago
> OpenSCAD isn't perfect, but it's so plainly obvious that code-based CAD is a better idea to me that it sort of bothers me that it's not the default. OpenSCAD was invaluable to me for getting started with CAD. I always co
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by throw46365 2y ago
Or better, Build123D, which is CadQuery-compatible but does not use the frankly rather overcooked fluent API approach.
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by throw46365 2y ago
We should probably care that at least some of their systems share our definition of time. International agreements have start times (and a couple of seconds could matter). Physical things (any future international power supply for example)
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And in many countries it is currently radically worse -- like 200%-300% increases -- because of the number of dogs that were taken on as pets in the Covid lockdown era that are now poorly-socialised three and four year olds. In the UK the
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by throw46365 2y ago
It’s not, as I understand it, something that the European Parliament has even debated yet. Nobody in the Parliament has proposed or voted on it, unless I have misunderstood. This measure is still being developed by the European Council, whi
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Crossing threads a bit: I don’t think I would put the LDS in the homeschooling bracket in the UK. From what I have always understood, Mormons have tended to be integrationists here; the opposite of extreme. The minority faiths that engage i
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by throw46365 2y ago
> I bristle a little bit at the characterization of "antivax, sovereign citizen, fear of radio frequencies, or extreme religion" as intellectual abuse. Oh, bristle away! I accept I am being contentious. But I grew up with sever
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by throw46365 2y ago
Yes, I went to a good school with Mormons. There’s not much toxic individualism and narcissism in British state schools. Our education culture is a bit more inclusive and outward-looking. Homeschooling is unusual here simply because peopl
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by throw46365 2y ago
I don’t think I mind it in explicitly artistic contexts so much, putting aside the fact that all the GPTs I have seen write in a banal, unimaginative, equivocating way that is exactly the opposite of what you want from creative dialogue. I
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by throw46365 2y ago
> But one thing I've learned is that most homeschool parents are even worse than public school and the risk of permanently harming your child through neglect is dreadfully real. Right. Here in the UK it is an unusual thing but I thi
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by throw46365 2y ago
Sorry about the “You realise”. I decided to edit that out in the time while you were replying. Gone 3AM here and that tone was unreasonably grumpy; sorry again.
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Images — photos, paintings, designs — are not primary human expression. Words are fundamental, dense, often objectively chosen, and the most primary way of communicating thoughts. Asking someone to read your thoughts that you didn’t actuall
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by throw46365 2y ago
Cows are actually omnivores. It’s not just insect collateral damage: cows will chase and eat small birds, eat eggs of ground-laying birds, and will eat mice and rats in their feed if they happen on one that is immobile. It’s not particularl
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by throw46365 2y ago
Mmm, and every now and then, a bull terrier or german shepherd or mastiff or pointer or rottweiler or great dane or somesuch turns and kills a child, or even an adult. Usually a child of a dog person . At the risk of upsetting them. (And t
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by throw46365 2y ago
> The tools still feel ahead of the medium. Or maybe it's that we instinctively feel that writing should still be linear writing, if reading is still going to be linear reading. Personally I think the "photoshop for text"
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Right. And if you live in some regularly redeveloped bit of a town that grew in the Georgian era you can end up with clusters of houses that have almost no discernible pattern left over; I live in such a house. The naming around here is ast
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This is not really dumb, or naïve. It's just not something you had any reason to encounter, and maybe you were off sick if it was mentioned in biology/science lessons. Now consider it this way: the first time you experienced firef
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Well, always if there's a street that was put down facing like that. Commonplace in new towns laid down over very large areas. In the UK, oh wow, you will encounter some weird numbering issues. I live on the corner of a street in a ver
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by throw46365 2y ago
This is neat -- I'm reading the code and learning stuff. And automating things like this is undeniably fun. But since the pink layer is derived from the wall layer, I am not sure how much of an advantage this presents in a practical se
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I also think net human artistic and creative output is up and we just don't realise it -- therefore we do not think clearly of the damage generative AI will do to how we feel about the value of our lives.
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> Before then every little village needed to have musicians around for their celebrations and parties, knowing how to play music was respected as a proper profession then unlike now. This isn't really right, I suspect. What is more
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But the errors are fundamental, and the successes actually subjective as a result. That is, it appears to get things right, really a lot, but the conclusions people draw about why it gets things right are undermined by the nature of the

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