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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I know of an OpenSCAD alternative called CadQuery, but as the name suggests, it's still CAD focused. I wonder if scripting Blender itself would get you closer to what you're looking for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I find this article confusing. It's about "measures to reduce our economic vulnerability to American antagonism", but I can't see how improving the legal system or adding platform doors to the TTC are related to that. Perhaps the author is confusing economic resilience with economic stimulus?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I feel like she's trying hard to distance herself from Trudeau, but after years being right beside him, I doubt she can shake it that easily.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Note the article is from two months ago, on October 10, but it's still relevant. I was confused when I saw Chrystia Freeland quoted.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

You can only pardon someone who was convicted of a crime.

I don't believe that's true. See the pardon of Richard Nixon, who was never even impeached, let alone charged. I believe there's some debate on the validity of such a pardon, but none (including Nixon's pardon) have been challenged in court.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

The comic was released the day after the election, by an author who lives in the United States. I suspect the comic is explicitly about American politics.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 months ago (11 children)

everyone should know how to read/write/type the capital omega because of electrical resistance

https://xkcd.com/2501/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

I’m sure plenty of pedestrians have been killed by cyclists.

I did some quick searching and found 2019 data from Europe. In all of the EU that year, bicycles killed 19 pedestrians while cars killed 3200 pedestrians. Over 168 pedestrians killed by a car for each killed by a bicycle. I know there are plenty of irresponsible cyclists, and yet they are still a tiny fraction as dangerous as a driver.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Nostr, another federated social media protocol, kind of like ActivityPub (which we're using right now), but different.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (8 children)

It sure feels like we're at the peak of the Gartner hype cycle. If so, the bubble will pop, and we'll end up with AI used where it actually works, not shoved into everything. In the long run, that pop could be a small blip in overall development, like the dot-com bust was to the growth of the internet, but it's difficult to predict that while still in the middle of the hype cycle.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

The original blog post (linked in the article) refers to this as a DynaRec, i.e. a dynamic recompiler. So it's not exactly emulating, but nor is it the ahead-of-time recompilation that Rosetta 2 can do.

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