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For those of us who can’t afford a Vision Pro try the Reality Composer app for iOS. You can create a scene and place 3D models on walls or the floor and then navigate in AR. It’s u…

We don’t have smart appliances but I’ve recently switched to an electricity plan with a really cheap night rate for charging my EV (1 cent per km!). We often fill and then schedule…

I’m not a libertarian. I’m not opposed to helmets and I and my family wear helmets while cycling. I fully support vaccines. Mandatory helmet laws have the consequence of reducing t…

On the contrary I fully support vaccines and I wear a helmet while cycling. The mandatory helmet law in Australia backfired pretty badly by reducing the numbers of people cycling. …

Like enforcing mandatory bicycle helmets in Australia, this law is either massively misguided or serves another purpose. While politicians are often stupid, they can’t think we’re …

We used PoE hats for a bunch of Raspberry Pis once. It’s definitely a great idea.

I love that Blender can be a powerful scientific tool. Unlike a lot of software build for research, Blender is fast and user friendly, even if it has a learning curve. The addition…

I found 4D Golf a great game to explore higher dimensional space.

It works really well with the AR viewer on mobile Safari.

There is the Journal of Open Source Software perhaps: https://joss.theoj.org/

The Dutch model is frequently cited by campaigners here as how things should be done. Unfortunately, as you point out, our government doesn’t really care. Investment is a patchwork…

I feel like a bit of a failure when it comes to transport. I tried for many years to cycle to work in Dublin covering 25km on an ebike, but gave up after several nasty incidents th…

Where I grew up in rural Ireland there was a haulage company based down a narrow single track road. You’d take your life in your hands going down that road at the best of times, ne…

Meanwhile here in Ireland the culture is going the opposite direction. There is a clear lack of roads policing here and a recent report has confirmed this[1] with many Gardai simpl…

Just for reference I’m running 4.5 with the Vulcan backend and sculpting a 6.3 million vertex object completely smoothly and Blender is using 4 GB of RAM and 2.5 GB of video RAM. G…

How does it compare to blender 4.5 with Vulcan enabled?

Open a new blender file and select Sculpt and you start with a high poly sphere. The default cube is not suitable for sculpting unless you subdivide it several times. You can creat…

Meanwhile in Europe we’re starting to get affordable retro styled hot (well warm) hatches like the Renault 5.

The Tree of Life was one of the only films I’ve ever considered walking out of, I hated every moment of it. I’m delighted to hear you were spellbound by it.

This reminded me. There was an episode of Modern Family made entirely on Apple devices.

It’s a really basic engineering problem that was studied extensively in many studies and we teach it at undergraduate. When I made the point that there is no scientific novelty her…

Ugh you’re a tiresome culture war poster. I’ve no Interest in you or your hobby horse.

Yes indeed. I’ve seen similar there too.

You’re arguing about highly specific cases while the vast majority of institutions get on with the job of educating large numbers of students and doing what research they can.

Your anti intellectual bias is showing. There are problems in all domains. I’ve seen plenty of arrogant fools in industry too. They’re using an industry tool to do well trodden ind…