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You're right. I want to say that openai is a viable alternative, but they're even less trustworthy. It might be time for me to start looking into Chinese models or purchasing hardw…

Cancelled. Anthropic can get bent if it wants to market itself as the ethical AI choice and at the same time lies in bed with those openly pushing for a surveillance state.

I've started experimenting with claude to run end-to-end tests for an emacs package I'm developing. It's incredible . The way it works: 1. You start emacs in daemon (server) mode. …

Same here - with minor changes (mostly rebinding shortcuts), my extensively customized config works in terminal also.

Isn't this just a Bambu marketing point? I have a Prusa MK4S and a Centauri Carbon - they both print without any fuss and can be operated without any deep technical understanding.

Spreadsheets are better in theory but varsets work so much better in practice.

I'm not sure what went wrong exactly, but a common issue people run into with lofts is caused by the fact that FreeCAD tries to match vertices to vertices. If you use the split edg…

From the home page: Question: How do you make the illustrations? Answer: I get asked this more than anything else but honestly, I don't have a good answer. I make them by hand, in …

The entire website is incredible. I'm amazed all the illustrations were done in Figma.

I can't tell for sure without knowing exactly what's happening, but one reason is that if you create a sketch from the Sketcher workbench, it will not be added to the active body. …

As an opposing viewpoint, I also use FC extensively for designing moderately complex parts (fully parametrically constrained assemblies, dozens of parts per assembly, mechanical co…

FreeCAD is still in active development and there was a major release (1.0) recently. There will be a feature freeze soon where the devs will focus primarily on stability and elimin…

Sorry about the bad experience. If you decide to give it another try, it's worth spending a few hours on some intro tutorials first. I recommend MangoJelly on youtube. FC is not a …

Some of the basics aren't immediately obvious or even hinted at very well for new users, but the "problems" that come up are consistent with its own editing model. > complaining th…

Productive FreeCAD user chiming in here. I understand the frustration. It has a moderate learning curve, but the editing model forms an intuitive picture once you learn the basics …

I recommend starting with vanilla Emacs and just adding things as you find the need for them. Emacs comes with a lot of things OOTB. After a decade, my only essential package addon…

Okay, but that is a complete misrepresentation of Prusa machines. You can buy a Prusa today and it'll spit out prints like any other modern printer. And this has been the case for …

Are you confusing Prusa with older Enders? If you buy assembled, they just work like any other modern printer. In fact they're known for long-term reliability. If there's any detra…

Sounds like the classic Joe Rogan "I know a guy." rumor peddling.

It's not a lot of work, but it takes a little bit of existing Elisp knowledge. You can still evaluate plain SQL code in a buffer (sql-mode) and get most of the benefits I described…

I've started using Emacs as a database explorer. So, Emacs has a built-in interactive SQL mode (M-x sql-mysql / postgres / sqlite). This mode opens a SQL shell similar to what you …

Kernel version 6.8 broke suspend ($ systemctl suspend) for me. I run two machines with near identical setups. I upgrade my "preview" machine first before updating my primary machin…

Lisp languages seem well-suited for building games. The ability to evaluate code interactively without recompilation is a huge deal for feature building, incremental development, a…