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Excrubulent , 2 months ago

Then post the parametrised step file so people can tinker themselves.

That said, if you did all this work and went through all these iterations to make a single ratchet that nobody else can copy then it sounds like you massively wasted your time. I would far prefer something with a tiny bit of assembly to a print-in-place gimmick that takes far more effort. The only way this makes any sense is if you're making a lot of them.

I guess keep it to yourself in that case.

Excrubulent , 2 months ago

WaTCh YoUr aTTItude

Lol, you got told your attitude was the problem and you just had to offload that onto me, didn't you?

Excrubulent , 2 months ago

I bought it in alpha when the language was that you would have every version of the game forever. I did migrate, but if I hadn't microsoft wouldn't give a damn. They certainly haven't given me access to all the new versions.

Excrubulent , 2 months ago

Yes, this. The only reason they even became a thing in the US is loopholes in regulation. They're completely impractical too, they have as much bed capacity as a Kei truck, sometimes less. People only think they "like" them because car companies marketed them as big strong men's cars.

I'm glad this is being talked about, I've noticed them everywhere and it's getting really concerning, especially as a parent with children who could hide under those massive hoods.

Excrubulent , 2 months ago

It's a result of believing misnfo. When prompts get better and we can start to properly indoctrinate these LLMs into ignoring certain types of information, they will be much more effective at hatred.

What they're learning now with the uncensored chatbots is that they need to do that next time. It's a technology that will progress.

Excrubulent , 2 months ago

This would've been funny as fuck to see happen. I cannot get the image out of my head of a silly duck flailing its wings trying to stay upright till it finally slides to a halt.

Excrubulent , 2 months ago

That is funny for the exact opposite reason I thought it would be. That duck is so chill about it.

Excrubulent , 2 months ago

If you want a genuinely radical take on education, Noam Chomsky says this in Understanding Power:

Well, that's pretty much what the schools are like, I think: they reward discipline and obedience, and they punish independence of mind. If you happen to be a little innovative, or maybe you forgot to come to school one day because you were reading a book or something, that's a tragedy, that's a crime―because you're not supposed to think, you're supposed to obey, and just proceed through the material in whatever way they require.

And in fact, most of the people who make it through the education system and get into the elite universities are able to do it because they've been willing to obey a lot of stupid orders for years and years―that's the way I did it, for example. Like, you're told by some stupid teacher, "Do this," which you know makes no sense whatsoever, but you do it, and if you do it you get to the next rung, and then you obey the next order, and finally you work your way through and they give you your letters: an awful lot of education is like that, from the very beginning. Some people go along with it because they figure, "Okay, I'll do any stupid thing that asshole says because I want to get ahead"; others do it because they've just internalized the values―but after a while, those two things tend to get sort of blurred. But you do it, or else you're out: you ask too many questions and you're going to get in trouble.

Now, there are also people who don't go along-and they're called "behavior problems," or "unmotivated," or things like that. Well, you don't want to be too glib about it―there are children with behavior problems but a lot of them are just independent-minded, or don't like to conform, or just want to go their own way. And they get into trouble right from the very beginning, and are typically weeded out. I mean, I've taught young kids too, and the fact is there are always some who just don't take your word for it. And the very unfortunate tendency is to try to beat them down, because they're a pain in the neck. But what they ought to be is encouraged. Yeah: why take my word for it? Who the heck am I? Figure it out for yourself. That's what real education would be about, in fact.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8940492-well-that-s-pretty-much-what-the-schools-are-like-i

Excrubulent , 2 months ago

Intelligence is domain specific. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Did you know the founders of NASA's JPL were sex majick cultists?

Excrubulent , 3 months ago

Turns out capitalists are way more concerned about leftists threatening to hurt their businesses than they are about reactionaries threatening to hurt actual people.

So glad they're the people in charge of our whole society.

Excrubulent , 6 months ago

I got stuck on googling how to make a fillet in freecad, to which the answer appeared to be, "yeah, nah, you sort of can't". Oh okay, this program is not for me.

Edit: if people want to help/criticise, I recall the problem was that I couldn't do it parametrically, which is the only way I like to model any engineering parts. So far the only thing that information has gotten me is a downvote. If freecad is as full featured as you say, then this should be easy to do. Feel free to tell me how.

EDIT 2: after the info I got, I looked into it more and discovered my problem was a bit different - I couldn't do a parametric offset line in a sketch, because I needed to make a particular pattern. I ended up doing it with OpenSCAD if I recall. I apologise for saying freecad couldn't do fillets, that would've been extremely basic. It was still a very painful experience just to figure out that it couldn't do what I needed.

Excrubulent , 6 months ago

I honestly forget, it was such a terrible experience I didn't give it any more time. I think that the problem was that I couldn't make it parametric.

Excrubulent , 6 months ago

I appreciate all the effort you went to, and I can do this as it turns out. Now that I've researched what problem I was having, it turns out the issue was that I couldn't do a parametric offset line in a sketch, which was crucial to what I was doing at the time, so I had to give up on it.

I was using 0.19 at the time, because that's what I've got installed.