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A cautionary warning about AI I'm starting to use is, "make sure you aren't taking a forklift to the gym". Getting heavy objects of the ground is vastly easier with mechanical assi…

Is there a link to the maintainer discussion?

I'm curious how you are using 3-D printing for an electric motor. Most of the key components, steel laminations, copper windings, magnets, commutator and brushes (if you are going …

I actually did this a lot when I was designing electric motors. One detail the original article didn't note, is the 39th root of 92 is very close to the 6th root of 2, off by half …

Ugh, yes. The inheritance tree is just a line, of 4 or more segments. interface -> abstract -> base -> TheOnlyImplementationInstantiated Repeat for a couple more chains, and one li…

The classic example of this is ultramarine blue in the Renaissance. Typically cost three times its weight in gold. Painters often had to have their patrons supply the ultramarine i…

I wonder what the direction of causation is. Perhaps the issue is not the cool, thoughtful, and kind are pushed out of the forums, but they are successful in engaging people on a p…

A good movie, and the only movie I've seen in 3D that benefited from 3D. You can see how the painters used the shape of the walls in their painting.

Put it in a freezer grade zip-lock bag. Works fine with buttons to turn pages. Not as sure about touch screens.

A while back as I was meandering through my history readings, I noticed that most of the philosophers, sages, and artists of ancient Athens weren't from Athens. I didn't actually f…

I sculpt in stone as a hobby. I'd heard that quote, or variations of it, before I started, and just regarded it as a clever quip artists make. Not really a reflection of the proces…

Well, he notes in the linked talk that "use strict;" and "use warnings;" will be the default in Perl 6. The fact that your goal is to Huffman encode the language design doesn't mea…

To your last question, convenience. Being able to carry around in a single 10 oz device an entire library is quite handy for those of us who don't know what we want to read. Or ant…

And interestingly, Apple isn't selling synchronization. They are selling products that use it, but only mention in passing the synchronization. Synchronization isn't a product, it …