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Some of us use software that is windows only eg any non-software engineering discipline.

If you use wintel, unless you need bleeding edge, buy 3 year old Dell Precision refurb on eBay for a third of that.

I think there is room for both approaches. Like it or not, photoshop/adobe is the defacto standard everything else is measured from. A compatibility layer like Inkscape does for il…

In the US, phds and professional degrees are more or less geared toward students who are comfortable enough financially to stomach the opportunity cost of 6-10+ years of additional…

I agree with you, however in the US the “last mile” is often the “last 50 miles” when goal is outdoor recreation.

Parent was complaining about the lack of a built in sketch constraint solver in build123d, which is table stake feature of any "real" GUI CAD suite. build123d has some constraint o…

The reality is build123d is a fairly thin layer over the OCCT kernel with some pythonic affordances. I'm not sure OCCT has a robust constraint solver, so there is little developmen…

Maybe I grew up with Windows so the older uis don’t phase me, but I find these sort of complaints rich considering differences between gtk, qt, etc in Linux userland. The average W…

> Aluminum Anodizing & CNC Machining There are a ton of CNC machining (AL and otherwise) and anodizing shops in the Bay Area.

I understand people don't like this kind of OCR stuff for privacy reasons, but selecting text from images is probably the most useful feature added to iOS in the last ~5 years for …

Modelling isn't the slow part. If one is copying a drawing and have exact dimensions its pretty straightforward in most software even if the software is bloated.

I don’t disagree. Parties are often oversold and I may be overstating the under attendance problem.

IMO, please continue buying records, but don’t buy tickets to shows you can’t attend. I can’t speak for live music, but in SF there is/was an issue of club nights selling out, but …

GTAV had a 60GB install size over a decade ago.

I've used a Dell Precision 5530 professionally and got a 5570 refurb this year from ebay for ~$800. The fit and finish of the Precision 5000 series is great as far as I'm concerned…

SV already wrecked HW engineering by paying far more for SW than market rate HW such that anyone with financial ambition made the switch long ago.

The hard part with 3d part creation isn’t the graphical interface or language, it’s actually describing and translating part requirements to a manufacturable design, weighing mater…

In MCAD, “parametric” does not mean a high level part or feature is driven by editable parameters or procedurally generated features. Parametric refers to the underlying storage fo…

The problem with FreeCAD and every other free/open source MCAD project of note is the Open Cascade kernel they are built on. While Open Cascade is fairly mature, it has dealbreaker…

> the fact that it costs money is absurd Bart from SFO to downtown SF is about $11 due to a surcharge and the combined fare AirTrain + subway is also about $11.50. LIRR is a bit mo…

I don't get the gripe. AirTrain gets you to A,E,J,Z, and LIRR, all of which get you to "Manhattan" or a significant number of intermediate destinations in about an hour. LGA is far…

Fine, the dips 2018-2019 could very well be noise and we don't dont know if that trend would have borne out after 2020. However, the ACT and SAT composites gradually declined follo…

The SAT and ACT plots indicate an accelerating downward trend beginning in 2018 though, later exacerbated by COVID.

> Maybe gaming Only if you limit scope desktop gaming, sure. 75% of gaming market share is on mobile and consoles.

Yea the open cascade kernel underpinning freecad (and python libraries like build123d and cadquery) has a number of rough edges. Many can be avoided, but that unfortunately require…