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- Comment on if you had to choose one 21 hours ago:
- Comment on Apple crushes creativity and its reputation in new iPad ad 3 days ago:
I just watched it for the first time and… I thought that while the handwringing is excessive, the subtext that all these other emblems of human creativity have to be destroyed to become part of the iPad is unsettling, moreso because the visuals are so decadent in their detail. It makes it feel much more like replacing than supplementing. It’s probably worse that I think it was also unintentional. Big miss for me.
- Comment on I designed a 3D Printable e-reader case for Kobo's newest E-Readers 4 days ago:
Excellent, reader cases always seem to cost way more than they should, espeically with how fragile they are.
Although, you should know you’re supposed to move over to another room to pretend your workspace is cleaner than workspaces ever are, LOL. Then, what are we rocking for the keyboard?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
I mean, dial it back a few notches, and I feel this way unironically. Good show, if not great, definitely within the spirit of the comic, clapping back at certain “fans” was fine by me, and the Madisynn and Wong interactions were fun.
- Comment on Too soon? 5 days ago:
“While initially gleeful at the imminent damage to his competitors’ brand, Kool-Aid Man would soon be confronted with the irony inherent in his own vast advantage in consumer mind-share.”
- Comment on That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit 1 week ago:
Sounds like it wasn’t really your area, but good lord the N810/N900 were some of the most beautiful pieces of industrial design I’ve ever used. Maemo was delightful to use too, don’t get me wrong, and I loved tethering it to my featurephone and getting a decent mobile experience, as well as doing my first practical in-car navigation with the GPS and the mapping software that was available, but those things were an overlooked gem of hardware, like something straight out of Star Trek.
- Comment on Just horse girl things 1 week ago:
Another chance to post a Corb Lund song for you techno-loving tech dorks*? Yes, please.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mEJUEOq2G8
*-Though we can all agree Nashville radio country sucks. It really, truly does. Also, don’t ask me about how British and Irish folk music started dancing with African and then African-American musical forms in the 1700s and never stopped, and when combined with post-world war 2 countercultural neo-folk ethos and wider availability of higher education, resulted in a re-valuing of linguistically and psychologically complex lyrics within a subset of the “hillbilly music” genre, which then stewed for a decade or more in boomer rock-n-roll, all resulting in deeply satisfying mélanges of poetry and fiddles and banjos and electric guitars. Cuz, you know, I’m not a dork.
- Comment on Maddie Ziegler stars in new dark comedy, I directed and wrote! 1 week ago:
I liked that. Well done. Really good command of cringe,
spoiler
, with a skillful emotional pivot.
- Comment on I have amblyopia. Is this accurate? 1 week ago:
For film purposes though, it’s an excellent way to keep the image filling most of the screen and to communicate the subtle contextual implications of the character’s using binoculars rather than a telescope.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 1 week ago:
Leaned hard into anti-vax and sympathizing with the Canadian trucker protests, and made it a fairly prominent part of his videos. Not entirely surprising that he held some of the views, but he got high on his own LIBERTARIAN!!! supply and started thinking that if he thought it, his audience must want to hear it.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 1 week ago:
Ahh, the good ol’ days, before we knew how batshit AvE was.
- Comment on 2mm thick layers on a trophy cup 1 week ago:
The nozzle is 2.4mm.
- Comment on 2mm thick layers on a trophy cup 1 week ago:
The nozzle itself is 2.4mm. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7kMwPnydkk
- Comment on How do you build complex shapes? 1 week ago:
First, a little plug for !cad@lemmy.world because more traffic is welcome. The pinned post there is a fairly comprehensive list of viable 3D mechanical CAD suites. I’m a rank amateur with actual designing, but if you want someone to drone on at length about their business models and licensing terms, I’m your guy (short version: “Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, you’re cool, and fuck you.”)
Now then… I also came from TinkerCAD, and I actually think the grouping and alignment tools lifted from vector art programs are super intuitive, and they almost provide a sort of design history if you use them right, but there are so many things that can’t be done quickly in TinkerCAD, and Autodesk also nerfs it for reasons that are commercially sensible but not technically necessary.
Almost all parametric tools , and also most “grown up” (for lack of a better term) direct modeling tools can do the Boolean addition and subtraction that is at the heart of TinkerCAD’s “solids’n’holes” paradigm, often in a couple of different ways. For instance, to make your orange part there, I’d draw a 2D silhouette of the vertical view, then extrude (or “pad” or “pull”) to the height. Then I’d draw on that top surface, possibly with a reference plane set up first to avoid having the model too far up its own ass (i.e. the toponaming issue), making the shape that needs to be extracted. Then you can cut or extrude down into your solid. Most tools will know what you mean, but some might make you do use a distionct tool or manually do the boolean “difference”. You can then do the same with your hex grid, setting up a new sketch for that. Later, if (for instance) you wanted to have 12 holes or bigger holes, you’d just edit the one sketch. Your red part would be similar, but doing the back of it would involve extruding out from the new sketch. The power of sketch and extrude is, apart from the ease of implementing a parametric history, doing several things at one that would each have to be a manual hole in TinkerCAD.
Finally, there’s the simple matter of fillets and chamfers, which TinkerCAD doesn’t support as an independent function. Manually adding them gets tiresome real quick and is the “killer feature” that made me realize I needed to move on. Other tools like loft sealed the deal. TinkerCAD is capable of some really interesting parts, but not efficiently.
- Comment on 2mm thick layers on a trophy cup 1 week ago:
I’m guessing vase mode is your friend with a nozzle wider than your filament.
- Comment on Star dates – is one day equal to 0,07 SD in TNG? 1 week ago:
Because Stardates in the 24th Century are based on a complex mathematical formula, a precise correlation to Earth-based dating systems is not possible.
Hand successfully waved.
- Comment on Small 1:72 airplane kit built in a weekend 1 week ago:
This is a hobby that has eluded me, though not for want of seeing the appeal. Lovely little model.
- Comment on The BASIC programming language turns 60 1 week ago:
In a world with GORILLA.BAS and NIBBLES.BAS, I simply cannot reject the QBASIC faith with which I was raised.
- Comment on Is anyone using PixelFed? How is your experience so far? 1 week ago:
You mean the thing for hosting galleries because Lemmy can’t do that yet and Imgur won’t work on Mobile without an app? Yes.
As a social network? No, and even when I tried it wouldn’t let me switch my post’s visibility from unlisted to public, so I shrugged and used it as an image host as I’d originally intended.
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 2 weeks ago:
I love my Outback Wilderness, but I’d agree. It’s Utilitarian-Plus, but no one will confuse it with a luxury brand. Honestly, as the designated kid- and lumber- and dog-hauler, I wouldn’t want anything fancier anyway. The (largely unneeded for me) Wilderness package is already pushing it, but I do like it. :-)
- Comment on File Compression Is Awesome: A Practical Guide 2 weeks ago:
I have it on good authority that a middle-out algorithm is best.
- Comment on So that new game's fun huh 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them. 2 weeks ago:
LOL, the weather is really not so bad, and after living in a Montreal winter for several weeks, no thank you.
Politically, the biggest of the assholes want the rest of us to leave, which makes me want to stay more. These motherfuckers will not steal Willie Nelson and Townes Van Zandt and Molly Ivins and Anne Richards and Chopped & Screwed and Tejano and Tex-Mex and delicious motherfucking brisket from us.
I still believe there is a better Texas, though I concede there will never be a perfect Texas.
- Comment on Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them. 2 weeks ago:
Houston is beyond trans-Floridian levels of humidity, that’s true. DFW can be humid to people from dryer places, but it’s very much not Floridian and generally dry enough that, for instance, sweating works how it’s supposed to. El Paso is literally in a desert.
- Comment on Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them. 2 weeks ago:
The article even addresses this. Texas Monthly in general is a good gauge of the “44%” of Texas that isn’t crazy, or at least is crazy in the silly fun way.
Meanwhile, Texas is not a low-tax, low-service state, as is commonly held. It’s a high-tax, low-service state: we may have no income tax, but at least one study found that we have one of the ten highest total tax burdens in the nation, with property taxes making up most of the gap. The quality of state services, however, has not improved commensurate with the growth of state budgets.
- Comment on Star Trek Technobabble 2 weeks ago:
So, guys, if somebody in your life is into hip hop but not sci-fi, this is not going to help. Don’t ask me how I know…
- Comment on .sıɥʇ puǝɥǝɹdɯoɔ ʇ'uɐɔ puıɯ lɐıɹǝɥdsıɯǝɥ uǝɥʇɹou ǝɥʇ 2 weeks ago:
I gave you an antipodean upvote, buddy!
- Comment on Atari's Black Beauty 2 weeks ago:
I still have my 7800, but the RF Modulator is shot to hell and I only have Genesis controllers for it. I don’t dislike emulators, so I haven’t been motivated to do any mods.
Back in the day, my older brother had a Sears Telegames 4-switch and a ColecoVision.
- Comment on If people from the US love the imperial system so much, why are their musicians using metronomes instead of footonomes? 2 weeks ago:
Counterpoint: If people from Europe love the metric system so much, why are their musicians using eighth notes instead of tenth notes?
- Comment on Fisker now expects to go bankrupt within 30 days 2 weeks ago:
I love the real slice of life feeling you get reading through this stuff.