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futurebird, 27 days ago (edited 27 days ago) to random

The bald eagle could have easily gone extinct. But we did all sorts of "woke" things protecting it legally, ran conservation and study programs, banned DDT (that was good for other reasons too) and in 2007 they were removed from the endangered species list.

Likewise pine forests could be dead from acid rain.

The ozone could have a huge hole.

We CAN take care of nature when we want to. And the successes have been worth it.

I feel like we forget this, you know?

antonyjohnston, 28 days ago to random

Hard to argue with any of this. I love working in games, but the points about share-price-chasing and refusal to make small profitable games because they won’t make “enough” profit are things I’ve been banging on about for years.

https://jacobin.com/2024/05/video-games-union-zenimax-exploitation

mastodonmigration, 30 days ago (edited 30 days ago) to random

So now SpaceX, with no working spacesuit, and years behind on it's multi-billion dollar moon lander, is lobbying NASA to go to the Hubble Space Telescope.

"A successful private mission could improve Hubble's ability to point at celestial objects and, by boosting its orbit, extend its life by years... however, an accident could leave the multibillion-dollar telescope broken — or, even more tragically, tethered to the dead bodies of the astronauts sent to repair it."

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/16/1250250249/spacex-repair-hubble-space-telescope-nasa-foia

hotdogsladies, 29 days ago to random

Please don’t ask me to pick sides between cops and golfers.

It’s like asking where I’d prefer to have shingles.

snazzyq, 30 days ago to random

Apple’s attention to detail is INSANE. You can’t watch this and not smile.

FreeCAD, 1 month ago to random

WIP Wednesday 15 May 2024
This week in FreeCAD development:

Toponaming: bgsbww spent some time adding missing bits of toponaming code to core, Part Design, and Sketcher.

Measure tools got some really useful updates. hlorus made some improvements to the new unified measurement facility and added measurement values to labels in the project tree. Meanwhile wwmayer rewrote parts of the new Quick Measure
https://blog.freecad.org/2024/05/15/wip-wednesday-15-may-2024/
#DevelopmentUpdates

jjimenezshaw, 1 month ago to programming

"If the authors of computer programming books wrote arithmetic textbooks..."

A colleague used this image to describe the documentation of a library. Meaning that the documentation was the example with the rabbits, but they have to use the library as the second part of the image.
#programming

FreeCAD, 1 month ago to random

Upcoming feature freeze and UI freeze for FreeCAD 1.0
During the planned online developers meeting today, we agreed on the following plan towards FreeCAD 1.0.

The development branch will enter feature freeze on June 3, at the PR merge meeting. Here is what it means to contributors:

Are you working on patches that add new features or improvements? Are you shooting for inclusion of y
https://blog.freecad.org/2024/05/15/upcoming-feature-freeze-and-ui-freeze-for-freecad-1-0/
#Roadmap

ZevEisenberg, 1 month ago to random

User: please render fifty million polygons with complex shading and texturing
Computer: no problem

User: here’s 4.2 MB of JSON
Computer: oh no

FreeCAD, 1 month ago to announcement

Forged In FreeCAD: 4Axis for CNC Ring Engraving
We’ve featured a few projects under the “Forged In FreeCAD” title but what caught our eye with this one is that FreeCAD was used to not only create an innovative solution, but also was used to then help operate the created machine.

Project creator Jordan Poles had a burgeoning interest in lathes and wanted to make an engraved brass ring. T
https://blog.freecad.org/2024/05/14/forged-in-freecad-4axis-for-cnc-ring-engraving/
#Announcement

Glastomichelle, 1 month ago to random

To say I am blown away is an understatement, What a night! Glastonbury Tor and the Aurora...incredible.

charliemchapman, 1 month ago to random

Pour one out for the ad director shooting the WWDC opening video of a thousand developers being squeezed by a car crusher into the new "Xcode AI" right now

flophousepodcast, 1 month ago to random

Quit trying your lame fakeouts, movies!

video/mp4

thomasfuchs, 1 month ago to random

Fuck you, Stack Overflow https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

OpenSCAD, 1 month ago to books

One of the current book bundles at HumbleBundle contains 3 books by John Horvath and Rich Cameron featuring #OpenSCAD for visualization and examples (among 15 in total with various topics on electronics and robots).

If you are looking for books about Geometry, Calculus and/or Trigonometry head over to https://www.humblebundle.com/books/electronics-and-design-for-entrepreneurs-make-books and check out the preview chapters.

Links to the associated github repos at https://openscad.org/documentation-books.html

#Books #Math #Geometry #Trigonometry

The book cover of Make: Calculus.
The book cover of Make: Geometry.

FreeCAD, 1 month ago to announcement

WIP Wednesday 8 May 2024
This week in FreeCAD development:

Toponaming: bgbsww added some missing code (there will be more to add, it seems) and started performance testing. So far, things don't look bad at all performance-wise.

Sketcher:

PaddleStroke: added arc length to the Dimension tool and fixed the placing of the on-view parameter inputs.

maxwxyz updated the Sketcher toolbar to list and group a
https://blog.freecad.org/2024/05/08/wip-wednesday-8-may-2024/
#Announcement

ismh, 1 month ago to random

The “can you do work on an iPad” debate is so simple.

Some folks can and others can’t. Some people want to push the iPad harder than others, while some folks want to use what they’re familiar with.

I promise we can all just use the computer we want and be okay.

AmishSuperModel, 1 month ago to random

She told me she laughed her ass off.

I spun her around to check and told her she might need to keep laughing.

And that’s how the fight started .

lowqualityfacts, 1 month ago to random

Do you get concerned whenever produce gets recalled over an E. coli risk? Vote Republican. They'll remove those pesky safety regulations so you can walk into the grocery store confident that everything is contaminated with E. coli.

MisterMaker, 1 month ago to random

nice update on @FreeCAD topo fix.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYNkZ-ry5yA

BootsChantilly, 1 month ago to random

I lol-ed.

rysiek, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

May the Forth be with you!

wonderofscience, 1 month ago to random

Spectacular timelapse capturing an entire night from sunset to sunrise over the ALMA Observatory on the Chajnantor Plateau in the Chilean Atacama Desert.

Video Credit: ESO/C. Malin (christophmalin.com)

Timelapse capturing the transition from day to night over a high-altitude desert landscape, from clear blue skies, to sunset hues, then a star-filled night sky with the Milky Way prominently visible, and concluding with the early morning light at dawn.

FreeCAD, 1 month ago to random

WIP Wednesday 1 May 2024
This week in FreeCAD development:

Toponaming: most work porting RT's patches is now done except just one piece of code that was mysteriously overlooked. Both CalligaroV, chennes, and bgbsww contributed to the TNP effort last week. bgbsww also started looking into performance regressions due to toponaming changes and found surprisingly few issues.

Draft: Roy-043 reverted some
https://blog.freecad.org/2024/05/01/wip-wednesday-1-may-2024/
#DevelopmentUpdates

AkaSci, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

The venerable Voyager 1 spacecraft is experiencing another glitch. Instead of sending science and engg. data, it is sending a 0101 bit pattern.

The problem has been narrowed down to the flight data system (FDS), which is not communicating properly with the telecom unit (TMU). A reboot did not help.

Stay tuned as NASA engrs work out a fix for this 1970's era computer, which has performed magnificently during its long 46-year journey to the planets and to outer space.
https://blogs.nasa.gov/sunspot/
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