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The stepup to CNC will allow aluminium and brass parts, but depth will be a challenge. Making anything deeper than a few cm on a desktop CNC is possible but has limitations.

The part needs to be washed, and then stuck in a UV bath to do a final curing.

Having said that, you get higher precision parts and can print in optically transparent materials.

For us, most of our MCPs have non-undoable actions disabled. This is to stop agents writing a tool that recursively doing something silly.

The print head is in a fixed location, as is the camera. The paper is moved under the print head. BUT! the clever bit is having the printhead driven by the rotatry encoder attached to the moveable platform

This means that the head is always in focus, and perfectly lit, plus you can experiment with speed trivially.

This is a change that has accelerated in the last 25 years, and we do all need to do something about it. I suspect the first step is making housing mor affordable, which means building more homes. (both "private" and social, [council housing] we can't just cater to one part of the market.)

> Worth noting that the British and American definitions of middle class are quite different.

hooooboy yes.

You and I might not _like_ jan the 6th, but it was part of the process, it started out as a rally for their candidate, and then dissolved into a riot.

The consequences for the rioters, and the pardoning of them subsequently signalled where the country was going. (Biden trying very hard to not ever be seen as partisan, at the expense of justice, and Trump asserting that loyalty to him is the only currency that matters.)

Not all rallies are for the good of the country, or move the country forward. But they are part of the process, legitimate or not.

The civil rights protest were widely seen as illegitimate, and they were brutally put down. It was only through persistence and a wide base of political action from peaceful marches right up to armed resistance, did laws change.

Some of them think its safe, others think the risk is overblown, and a lot just don't want to deal with their kid having a shit fit.

In the UK, unless you are adopting a kid with needs, you will not get any parenting training. so you're on your own on how to deal with children. TV was safe when I was a kid, and younger parents who grew up with digital TV also had safe watching, why would youtube kids be any different?

With my kids (and yes this is a boast, I'm middle class, this is how we assert dominance) I was lucky enough to be able to enforce time limits of TV/netflix etc. They also aren't allowed youtube on their own, so never got onto the conversion ladder from crap to exploitative crap.

crucially they don't have tablets/phones whilst bored. TV is a treat, so boredom requires them to sit there and fucking day dream like the rest of us.

This _is_ the part of the political process.

For example in the USA jan6th was part of the democratic process there. Not a good part, but its still part of it.

I mean yes, but that's exactly down to country "personality" and conventions which I was hinting at. France values the right to protest almost above the right to shrug. However its not like the french police are going to be nice to you because you're protesting, french police are _bastards_.

If you wander around with a gun in france, and you're not hunting, the police _will_ shoot you, and more importantly, in the spirit of Liberté, égalité, fraternité, they'll shoot you even if you're white.

I mean yes, but then france is on the 5th republic now, so unlike the USA where they just sit and take it, they riot until something happens.

1) its france, Rioting is a national sport

2) even by french standards, this is getting out of hand

3) peaceful protest is being facilitated, the problem is, not everyone is peaceful and there isn't enough police to arrest everyone.

If you are american you have to remember that france _likes_ to protest, not in a cutesy way where you all line up and make a message out of people. No they blockade roads, factories, shopping centres and generally bring cities to a grinding halt. Spontaneously. Put it this way, the No kings protest had they been run by the french would have been visible from space.

Sometimes workers take company execs hostage (see good year 2014 and air france 2015, where execs had to literally run away)

Or more generally the yellow vest movement had rolling blockades that fucked with everything.

I joined the VFX industry in 2007(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Compass_(film)), where a film like the golden compass required a large number of people to just make the fur look realistic (there were groomers who's job was to literally style hair.)

The huge increase in CPU power, and latterly GPU power meant that a few number of people could do a lot more. (software RnD was also crucial to this)

to hammer that home, the BBC version https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Dark_Materials_(TV_series) had way more furry animals, much more extensive digital sets, and with a combined run time of > 480 minutes vs 110. It was also done much cheaper.

TLDR its not just AI thats doing this. although it will be more and more now. as world models really kick into gear.

No I don't like it, but what am I to do?

If he's telling the truth, then I would do the same.

If he's lying, then it might work, I would also probably do the same.

The interesting thing here is that two publications allowed the journalist to call Kushner "corrupt". This means that the lawyers would have seen compelling evidence that would mean one of two things:

1) Kushner wouldn't take them to court, because he would have to settle out of court in an expensive way

2) Kushner, if he were to take court action, would not win civil case.

This leads me to think that there is more than a shred of evidence, but an awful lot of evidence that he didn't declare what he was supposed to (at best) and at worse laundered foreign cash for his own purposes

K8s requires some sort of tool to have any hope of storing secrets in a way that isn't trivallly findable from the rest of the cluster.

But, perhaps I am being too harsh, its not like there are secrets primitives in linux that are easily deployable to namespaces/cgroups.

Now was there autotune? dunno. its not like some people who've obviously been tuned. There are some people who are really that good. Michael bauble is one of them

Recording "live" can be hard. it requires a bigger studio, more equipment, better engineers and crucially, everyone to be there at the same time.

you can, if you have a click track, record everything separately, and then marry it up later. once you have the drums lined up, you can just replay the tracks you have without the click track.

this means that you can record separately, at different times, in different locations. or if its your bedroom, you can move stuff around to the microphone you have.

But if you record a track as parts, you can then edit it. You want it to sound good right? laptop power has increased significantly, so any plugin can be run in realtime on multiple tracks.

SOme music suits it, others doesn't.

I _love_ the sound of a live band who are playing well. I don't love the sound of a live band who aren't.

Its hard to play together well all the time, so click track gives you a better bang for buck.

again these are not exclusive, Even though I fucking hate it, I can drum live to a click track. I hate it because everytime I am slightly off I can fucking hear it like being hit over the head with a frying pan.

they are wanting people to pay for the hardened version.

Yes, there are more CVEs discovered every day, but, if you don't patch, the hacker doesn't have to try.

An example is the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Shangani where 5 guns defeated a force of 7000.

However when both sides had the same capabilities, attack became very costly.

The point is, depending on the type of drone, the sheer cost of fighting them off is prohibitive with current interceptor tech (ie anti air missles). In fairness they were designed to attack targets 10x their cost, and take years to build.

For the USA specifically, they have a bunch of bases within range of cheap drones. This means that you need radar/sensor controlled chain guns, or moveable nets to defend cheaply. Its almost time for barrage baloons.

Wildboars can be quite destructive, as are deers. the wolve was the natural preditor of those animals so the only thing that kept them in check was either hunting, disease or food availability.

In the UK deer over population is a problem for forestry as they eat saplings. So we spend a lot of cash hunting them (good food source, but not widely distributed in shops) Wolves stop that.

For the netherlands sspecifically, where there are deer they eat the trees that provide bank stability (ie willows) Less of a problem now but they also eat the pioneer species that were used to build polders.

Deer carry disease for cattle and sheep as well. although cows in holland are fairly hemmed in, ticks and fleas are less so.

Sheep are a cash animal, and wolves taking them cost money.

(Edit, this is an april fools, shit)

the official position is: https://www.gov.scot/publications/foi-202500453124/

Which given how much of the private land in scotland is owned for deer or grouse shooting, that seems logical.

In the UK we've not had wolves for >200 years. Which means techniques for dealing with them have been lost, and more importantly didn't evolve with land use change. hearders used to carry weapons, and guard dogs. some places had fainting goats.

I'm not sure how wolves would work in the netherlands, as the parts that I know are all way west of the ijssel. I don't imagine that wolves are fen/polder dwellers, but I might be wrong. Again looking at the norfolk/cambridge fens there are plenty of folklore tales https://www.norfolkfolkloresociety.co.uk/post/the-spectral-w...

A brief look at labour relations in both the US and UK suggests that sustained direct action is the only real way to force change. The hard part for us is that for the last 25 years we've all been told that unions supress wage, and that we are all expert negotiators. Unions would be the natural place to start, but they are but a former shell of what they were (for good or ill)

the enlightenment was driven by "we can do thing better" and "to know god, we must know the world". A lot of money for research came from the catholic church (including for Galileo who wasn't put in jail for heliocentric, he was put in jail for being a massive insufferable arrogant prick)

In england, a lot of research was carried out by bored vicars, on CoE dime. (well pennies)

So yes, profit can be a motivator, and it can be very effective, it needs to be tempered with humanity. We could go into who a lot of brands we see today that are old were founded by quackers, but we dont have time for that.

the TLDR is, yes profit is a motivator, but its often short termist.

For example, weavers were one of the most powerful professions (if thats a thing) in the middle ages. In england there are the wool churches(not entirely weavers....), in the low countries, the weavers guild fomented revolutions, and shaped the borders of countries.

But that came to a crashing halt over the space of 200 years. slowly at first, then all at once. the power loom, then cheap imports from india turned a cottage industry into dark satanic mills. Yes there are/were specialists that still hang on, but they are like football stars you can probably name all the people who make money, the rest are barely scraping by.

For us, in the programming world, we will not have a 200 year grace period. Yes, AI produces shit code, but thats not the point. its cheaper and there are vanishingly small places were "good" code matters anymore. AI could be used to help a large range of people, provide support, trusted advice.

However because of the people who are funding it, that will not be the case. it will be used to reduce wages. Just like offshoring, resulting in china being the worlds manufacturing hub, AI, and the current people funding it will aim to make the expensive worker redundant.

In short, I weep, because Altman, and the money behind him ans his ilk want me destitute. I have committed the crime of wanting to earn a wage, and thus I must be punished.