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Nice! I'm surprised how snappy this browser editor is, especially once I start doing really tiny, like 0.3mm large maze fills and other tricky stuff. I do a lot of generative art (…

Is it that they are copying existing stuff, or that success is biased to the attempts at something that has a lot of existing examples to plagiarise? I would propose that plenty of…

I used svg2polylines to load the SVG into line segments, interpolating any splines into something easier to use for a plotter. Feel free to take a look at the core/project/import.r…

I am inordinately amused by the fact that Microsoft's Github has suspended access by Microsoft's Azure (and anyone else) to their Microsoft code-base because of a TOS violation. Re…

I wrote a pen-plotter GUI and gcode sender in Rust. By hand. Like an animal. I am the only user. Sometimes it's the process that matters, and exercising your brain is important too…

/me looks at the `build.rs` file in my Rust's project's `Cargo.toml` and laughs nervously... (For non Rustaceans: "Placing a file named build.rs in the root of a package will cause…

It would absolutely have been valid to ask that question of the inventor of the tractor too. It's even more relevant to ask of the CEO/CTO/COO/etc. of the companies that are sellin…

If a headline asks a question, the answer is always "NO". Ahhh crap.

While I am sure there are stylistic reasons for using that color, there is another common reason why you see blue-green colors in paint, especially in older industrial environments…

To clarify my thinking on this, I don't expect that we are going to end up in an air OR land war with the USA anytime soon (and honestly hope we won't). I do expect that Trump, for…

Canada shouldn't buy the F35. The Saab is a less capable plane, for sure, but it doesn't leave Canada (and it's defense) dependent on the US at a time when the president is openly …

I am somewhat confused by this post. If the AI assistant is doing such a bad job that it lights up the linting tool, and further, is incapable of processing the lint output to fix …

This paper runs very parallel to Dunning-Kruger, and it's surprising that nobody here has commented on it (although the paper itself DOES reference Dunning-Kruger). It's a bit sad,…

That 68k/yr wage only sounds good if you're still thinking in circa year 2000 dollars. Nobody is making the mortgage on a house on 68k/year, and they're not starting a happy family…

BBC is reporting that the Army has confirmed that it was a UH-60, not a VH-60, ie: not a VIP transport: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cy7kxx74yxlt?post=asset%3A62b9... Although it'…

Executive whose dominance is dependent on a moat (cost of training large models), points out the importance of that moat... Of _course_ he wants to discourage competitors, but that…

The problem with LLMs as a replacement for StackOverflow (and any other peer reviewed Q/A site) is that the LLM has, shocker, no peer review. Combined with the fact that the user h…

As a comparison, here's the "Why RON" for the native RON/Rust format: Note the following advantages of RON over JSON: * trailing commas allowed * single- and multi-line comments * …

This study doesn't propose anything that can actually move the needle for food security. It requires animal based feedstock for the Pythons, which kills the efficiency claims becau…

New car reliability measured in warranty returns per vehicle is much WORSE over the last few years than 15 years ago. Turning your nose up at the 15 year old Toyota is probably mak…

If you're on a 737-max-anything, then worry a _tiny_ bit, otherwise, no. All their other planes have excellent safety records. For comparison, Russia had a 2.29 fatal accidents/mil…

> A switch on a wall with an arduino in it where you flip it and DNS is updated to point there & a message is displayed to the users. If you want a Klugey non-production IoT soluti…

We upgrade our distros pretty much fearlessly, all the time. While I have had breakage from Kernel upgrades, they've been very rare (and generally related to third party closed dri…

Not sure I trust these guys to do long term support, even after they promise it: https://killedbygoogle.com/ Hell, I don't even trust that they'll still own/maintain _Android_ in 7…

I never mentioned reinforcement learning, and my DK statement was completely around using flawed fonts for graphic design, etc. My partner _is_ a professional graphic designer, and…