The recent consolidation in the #3DPrinting market has been interesting from its lofty promise back around 2015 or so.
I can recall many pilot programs at many manufacturers that I saw personally.
#Manufacturing is a tough nut (perhaps, the toughest nut) to crack in terms of displacing entrenched, proven processes like #CNC machining and casting.
Newer entrants like #DesktopMetal and #Markforged, complete with some very innovative metal printing technologies, never really did take off near as I can tell from my view of industry.
Question for my #swift and #ios dev friends: with AppCode gone, are there any other good alternatives to Xcode? It’s just nuts to me how bad it still is (I’ve been using it since 3.0 so I’ve been around…). While AppCode wasn’t ever great for UI, it was a massive improvement the rest of the time.
I guess you could use an editor that has LSP support but meh… don’t really like VS Code but maybe it’s slightly less bad than Xcode?
I have a large-ish mono repo with Rust and C++ code along with the Swift code that I have to manage simultaneously - so, the loss of #AppCode was also a double-whammy on that front.
@ianthetechie Plugins did - like the Rust extension for CLion... I think.
Yeah... I had to kinda do a CLion-AppCode two-step dance, but there was some Rust/C++ functionality overlap on the AppCode... so, it was not necessary all of the time.
Still, it was nice (or, would have been nice) to work on the codebase with the same brand of IDEs at least.
Indeed. Would have been nice for all of that collapsed into one IDE. Really nice.
@brennansv My comment, to be clear, is orthogonal to tunnels.
Tunnels are great.
What is opposite of great is that proven, efficient and safe forms of #transit must now compete with this "Vegas Loop" absurdity - a "transportation system" that trades all three items in my comment for a low upfront cost.
Some of these "Vegas Loop" stops (like the one mentioned in the article) had a monorail station already there!
Just look at the failed (not literally, but certainly effectively) Manufacturing USA initiative - a constellation of research institutes first launched in 2012 to counter the Made In #China 2025 program.
To its credit, the #Obama Administration foresaw the Chinese economic threat to the West before most in Washington, but the actions taken were structurally ineffective.
Other "tangential failures" like acquiescing #A123 Systems (LFP battery foundational knowledge) and, in the case of the #German government, #Kuka, to #China-state controlled entities advanced the Made In China 2025 program by a decade or more virtually overnight.
Kuka's loss to China also substantially advanced the #Comac#C919 aircraft program - an open secret in many quarters of the Western #aerospace industry that the US and German governments do not want to admit.
After the effective failures of Manufacturing USA, which was originally intended to primarily life up small/medium #manufacturing business to fill more advanced verticals and roles through partnerships and R&D subsidies... the #ChipsAct returned to (likely more safe, politically) "trickle down" thinking.
That is, #IndustrialPolicy based on crudely throwing money at big companies.
I owe some interested people an article about my personal experiences at one Manufacturing USA institute - the former #DMDII lab in #Chicago (now called #MxD): https://www.mxdusa.org
My article will be, well, less-than-glowing to say the least.
I am finishing that up, but these threads help me solidify my thoughts.
What’s your favorite instance of a celebrity blocking you on Twitter?
Mine: When Marc Andreessen announced a fund for black founders and I pointed out he'd invested double the size of the fund in a single white founder's frying pan startup...
@Daojoan#Musk briefly blocked me, as a matter of fact.
(Marc blocked me too, in response to his “It’s Time to Build” essay IIRC.)
This was back around 2016 when #Tesla first really launched its #FSDBeta wrongdoings. Musk was far less followed back then (and Twitter was far less “noisy”).
I think Musk was later forced (by court order?) to unblock a lot of people because he was routinely sharing investor information on his Twitter account - so he unblocked me at some point.
@phxrailfood I added a few Toots and images after my initial one that I believe should answer your questions. 😀
But, yes, the surface parking lot you mentioned is proposed to be converted into green space - which is very welcome.
That is great you were able to car-free on your visit!
I would really like to see the People Mover be expanded to north all the way up to New Center and east and west to Corktown and Lafayette Park/East Canfield, respectively.