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2muchcoffeeman··on Generate parametric, manufacturable 3D models in seconds
Can you share prompts and the output? I’ve tried building fairly simple models and it doesn’t grasp that I am building a solid object.
2muchcoffeeman··on Generate parametric, manufacturable 3D models in seconds
What was your prompt and what did you design.

I’ve tried Gemini (paid) in the past with openscad and then designed the same object myself and I was 10 times faster

2muchcoffeeman··on Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass
I agree.

But the moto has always lacked any aspiration about how they should do good or make the world better. “Don’t be evil”. Who thinks they are being evil? No one.

2muchcoffeeman··on Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass
The author is not cynical enough.

Do you going around telling people how virtuous you are? No, good people just try and be good.

The slogan was a red flag right from the start.

2muchcoffeeman··on Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5
The best models are clearly all from US companies.

But I think what you’ll see is people making sure the model they use can just be plugged into their workflow.

I used to use Gemini-cli until they did a Google and cancelled it in favour of anti-gravity.

That was my fault. Fool me the 10th time shame on me.

So I picked more open source offerings that I can use with any model. Once the other models are good enough, I just need to jump ship.

2muchcoffeeman··on US Supreme Court Just Blew Up EU-US Data Transfers
You mean that one day all the Epstein files will change to no longer contain countless mentions of Trump?

How do you supposed this will happen? Through destruction of evidence or the invention of a Time Machine to warn his younger self?

2muchcoffeeman··on US Supreme Court Just Blew Up EU-US Data Transfers
False equivalency. Trump constantly says whatever he wants in plain contradiction to verifiable facts: The strait is open! We win the war! I’m not in the Epstein files!
2muchcoffeeman··on Renting a sewing machine from the library
I bought mine 10 years ago, maybe longer. Never had to do anything. Super useful when we need it.
2muchcoffeeman··on How to feed a dictator
What happens when the reader is wrong?
2muchcoffeeman··on Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
People keep bringing this up as though it’s a counter argument.

Yes, things will have to change. That’s the idea.

2muchcoffeeman··on Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants
Doesn’t China have SMRs?
2muchcoffeeman··on I hacked into the worst e-bike and fixed it [video]
>* Is it the YouTube algorithm's fault? Or viewer preferences? I think YouTube would be happy to recommend the videos to more people if more people watched them.*

I always got garbage even if it suggested things I wanted to watch too.

The best way is to disable suggestions completely and then just make a note of your favourite channels. That way you get a completely blank landing page and are forced to search out exactly what you want every time.

2muchcoffeeman··on What even is food authenticity? Why we guard carbonara, and flatten chicken rice
You can still choose not to buy the “authentic“ good can’t you?
2muchcoffeeman··on New drug 'functionally cures' many hepatitis B virus infections
Yes! Always run some numbers in your head. People will sometimes pick percentages or numbers in an attempt to bolster their arguments. Don’t buy it, work it out for yourself.
2muchcoffeeman··on Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
Those are just products who cares?

I think the GP is alluding to understanding the fundamental way a thing works.

2muchcoffeeman··on How LLMs work
I think you need to ask what you actually want to do with the AI.

If you want to be a researcher and come out with the next breakthrough, get ready to go back to school and learn some math.

If you just need to learn how to use it well and build things with it, then you probably just need to have a high level understanding.

Same as programming. I’d bet most programmers have no idea about the physics that makes computers work.

2muchcoffeeman··on MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production
I shouldn’t need an agent to configure it.

Is this the new “just compile it from source”?

2muchcoffeeman··on MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production
I used Linux for a long time. I still prefer it. But I can’t justify the extra work. Last time I tried to move back to Linux, I spent far too long admiring the machine. This was only 5 years ago.
2muchcoffeeman··on The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid
Wow. Bringing up murder and hitler when talking about piracy. Some parts of the internet are truly eternal.

None of this is new. None of your ideas are unique. Stop attempting to draw moral equivalency to theft or anything else.

Back in the glory days of piracy, profits from entertainment kept going up? You know why? Those pirates were almost certainly not going to pay in the first place. No one lost money. It was university students, high schoolers, plain old poor people that were pirating.

Making it hard to watch your movie didn’t raise revenue, we all just did something else. Because we had no money.

2muchcoffeeman··on The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid
I truly feel old when we are rehashing the same thing that happened when TPB, Limewire etc were taking off.

Down to the arguments being made why this is “theft”. I also can’t believe that the arguments by the general pop have shifted to support multi billion dollar companies and their narrative.

2muchcoffeeman··on Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
Microsoft has built some good hardware over the years. The problem with this is that it runs windows. The hardware is probably nice.
2muchcoffeeman··on MCP is dead?
Is this not just a tooling problem?
2muchcoffeeman··on Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test
Seriously considering that a rival hired a sniper to shoot your rocket is stupid.
2muchcoffeeman··on DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode
The truth is always in between the extremes.

I use AI a lot. But I’m specifically looking for ways it actually ads value.

2muchcoffeeman··on Cate v1.0 is out: The Infinite canvas workspace for developers
Maybe Repomix?
2muchcoffeeman··on Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia
Is this satire?
2muchcoffeeman··on Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says
This is the point. Welcome to America.
2muchcoffeeman··on Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks
Spending is just a proxy for AI use here. This is nothing new. I remember past CEOs saying “Ajax! Ajax! Ajax!”, “Big data! Big data! Why aren’t we using Big data!”

AI is just the next tool to over spend on in poor ways, realise it’s shit and spend a ton more money trying to roll it back.

The situations where is shines will continue to use it when the hype dies down.

2muchcoffeeman··on I moved my digital stack to Europe
Surely there would have been mumblings in certain sectors of the EU since the first Trump administration?

It’s just that they started to execute now?

2muchcoffeeman··on Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
Wow, that’s a lot of money on upgrades. I also got the MK3 and upgraded it once.

Full upgrade to the core one will be AUD$2k

I can keep my current printer alive for a long time. But it’s hard to justify the cost.

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