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avhon1··on A record-high share of 40-year-olds in the U.S. have never been married
Men Going Their Own Way? The internet ideology of people that have been redpilled to realize that society has been made toxic for men (by feminist women who use sex as a way to control men), and that men should reject rampant gynocentrism and avoid engaging with women, or even with society at large? That MGTOW?
avhon1··on Louis Rossmann: Autodesk turns lifetime licenses into subscriptions [video]
Looking through the features and issues, it looks like this is a 2D CAD program, like AutoCAD or LibreCAD, instead of a 3D parametric CAD program.
avhon1··on Louis Rossmann: Autodesk turns lifetime licenses into subscriptions [video]
If you're not making a business of it, Siemens Solid Edge Community Edition is pretty nice.

https://solidedge.siemens.com/en/solutions/users/hobbyists-a...

edit: also, Solvespace was mentioned upthread. It's pretty basic, but very nice and easy to use, and has good skill transfer to more featureful CAD programs.

https://solvespace.com/index.pl

avhon1··on Louis Rossmann: Autodesk turns lifetime licenses into subscriptions [video]
For those wondering, this page shows the current difference in features between the free "Fusion 360 for personal use" and the subscription-price Fusion 360.

https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/personal/compar...

avhon1··on Counting the Hard Way
...and also the number of integer factors of your base. 10 only has 1, 2, 5, and 10. Bases 8 and 6 have just as many. Bases 12 and 60 (used by the Sumerians and Babylonians) offer more convenient divisors.
avhon1··on LCD TVs won’t see any further development
...and 3840x2160 is roughly 4000x2000, thus "4K".

It's close enough for the marketing department, and now that's what it's understood to mean.

avhon1··on Reddit goes down fully as thousands of subreddits protest API changes
... but i.reddit.com was turned off just two months ago

https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/124whzg/changelog_n...

avhon1··on Ask HN: Advice on starting a YouTube channel?
or Scott Manley, who 5+ years ago was making videos about the video game Kerbal Space Program, and now makes space news videos that typically have 150,000 or more views.
avhon1··on Synthesis Tutor – Math tutor for children
Further down the page, they have a "Curriculum roadmap", which goes up to things like "College Algebra" and "Matrix Theory".
avhon1··on Asus Ally Emulates PS3, Nintendo Switch, Xbox 360 with Ease
In the Unites States, it's a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
avhon1··on First space images captured by balloon-borne telescope
This telescope will look at the same angle that a ground-based telescope would -- it's dictated by the object you want to look at.
avhon1··on Space Elevator
Sierra Nevada Corporation's Dream Chaser - a reusable lifting-body spaceplane, currently slated to fly to the ISS on top of the Vulcan rocket in December 2023
avhon1··on Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong
The USDA Food Pyramid was replaced in 2005 with MyPyramid. http://web.archive.org/web/20050830024356/http://mypyramid.g...

In 2011, the pyramid was done away with altogether and replaced with MyPlate, which remains the USDA's current nutritional guide graphic. https://www.myplate.gov/

avhon1··on U.S. Postal Service starts nationwide electric vehicle fleet, buying 9,250 EVs
...why is it so much more than the energy required to charge slowly? The battery might get a little warmer while charging, so that's some more waste heat, but the battery gains the same amount of stored energy either way.
avhon1··on Is the Living Computer Museum dead?
Current consumer LCDs, sure, but there's no realson a high-refresh-rate LCD couldn't emulate the flying spot of a CRT, and thus be compatible with light pens / guns.
avhon1··on The other Phillips head screwdriver
Pozidriv is very uncommon in the US.

Philips (00, 0, and 2) are by far the most common screw heads here for most people. (Pretty much every household will have these for changing batteries, assembling furniture, doing minor repairs...) Slotted screw heads used to be ubiquitous, and the screwdrivers still are, though mostly for use as pry bars. You'll see some socket-head hex-drive stuff, in a mix of metric and fractional inch drives (which can inform you on how US-centric the design and manufacture of the product was), and maybe some Torx (especially in electronics). I've only seen Robertson in drywall and decking screws at the hardware store, and I haven't yet seen them used in someone's home.

avhon1··on Haiku beta 4: a thing of beauty
Unfortunately, logging in to Google now requires JavaScript.
avhon1··on TinyWM – A tiny window manager in around 50 lines of C
Yes, that's sorta fundamental to how X works. Window managers aren't at all responsible for drawing the contents of the windows.
avhon1··on Making a Website Under 1kB
The purpose of the random subdomain is to ensure that the browser doesn't just show a cached version of the page.
avhon1··on Chez Scheme
DrRacket has had a REPL at least since 2013 (which was when I first used it).
avhon1··on Local simulation feature to be removed from all Autodesk Fusion 360 versions
brl-cad doesn't use the same paradigm as Fusion360, Inventor, Solidworks, etc. brl-cad uses Constructive Solid Geometry, similar to OpenSCAD, where you declare geometric shapes with certain dimensions to exist, and boolean them together into the final shape.

Most popular engineering CAD programs are parametric -- you lay out shapes in2D or 3D, and then specify their dimensions and relationships. Parametric modelling makes it much easier to create highly-interdependent geometry, and also to understand or explore the degrees of freedom your design does and does not have.

Also, modelling in brl-cad means typing into a command prompt [1], which makes it much more difficult to figure out what you can, or should, do with it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C0fZ2iofgs

avhon1··on Local simulation feature to be removed from all Autodesk Fusion 360 versions
Both Siemens Solid Edge and Dassault Solidworks are available in "community editions", which are fully-featured and may be used for non-commercial purposes.

https://solidedge.siemens.com/en/solutions/users/hobbyists-a...

https://www.solidworks.com/support/community-download

avhon1··on My favorite iPhone feature was removed, long live its subpar replacement
Was definitely a feature on Blackberry's BB10 OS
avhon1··on We're going to need a lot of solar panels
A perpetual motion machine. ("Free Energy" has long been a used as a synonym by those who believe it is imminently possible.)
avhon1··on New documents reveal scale of US Government’s cell phone location data tracking
In the case of apps that are available on both f-droid and on the play store, the difference is that the f-droid versions will be compiled without google play services. This can limit functionality (for example, receiving notifications while the phone is asleep), but does increase privacy somewhat.

Significantly, there is very little overlap in the apps available on f-droid and the apps available on the google play store. Most play store apps siphon data, and most f-droid apps don't.

avhon1··on Film grain synthesis in AV1 (2019)
StaxRip has a selection of AV1 encoders available, and Handbrake Nightly recently added one (I think svt-av1?).
avhon1··on Film grain synthesis in AV1 (2019)
It doesn't require perfect removal of the original film grain. A mishmash composed of remnants of the original grain combined with new synthetic grain can still look correct to our brains.
avhon1··on Supply chain issues are killing synth companies
steps 4+) get new electronics through FCC, UL, CE, etc. certification, which is slow and expensive, strongly motivating keeping the components the same
avhon1··on Plano man keeping Blockbuster alive
https://www.gnod.com/ ?
avhon1··on Knipex Plier-Wrench Review (2018)
Not that I disagree, but that's what the people obstructing copy+paste think.
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