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drran··on GraphSCAD – A User Friendly Nodal Editor for OpenSCAD (2018)
See Arch[0] module for FreeCAD.

[0]: https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Arch_Workbench

drran··on Nuclear waste is a solved problem
Easier, but not safer. Pure carbon (mixed with something inert, to prevent burning) doesn't need armed guard for the next 500 years at least.

IMHO, the easiest and cheapest way to store carbon is to grow algae to make hydrocarbons (oils), separate them mechanically, then spread them over a soil as fertilizer, or pump them underground, or burn part of the algae to make a kind of charcoal (to prevent biodegradation).

drran··on Nuclear waste is a solved problem
We can convert CO2 into coal and then store it underground, just like nuclear waste.
drran··on Drones Raining from the Sky in Zhengzhou
GPS is military technology designed that for that.
drran··on Six more zeros are to be removed from Venezuelan currency
> It's perfectly fine if universal "you owe me"s cannot be held back indefinitely

Loans are adjusted for inflation already.

drran··on The Science of the Benefits of Religion
Atheists are not communists, but communists are atheists: they're believing that God does not exist, so they can take his role.
drran··on AI cannot be the inventor of a patent, appeals court rules
In case of 3D printers, patents worked as expected. 3 different methods were invented, patented (opened to public with protection for 20 years), then patent are expired, and general public was able to fruit developed technology and advance it further.

Just compare this to commercial secret practice.

drran··on AI cannot be the inventor of a patent, appeals court rules
You can make your own medicine at home in many countries, but safety testing takes years and costs hundreds of millions. After years of testing, when the result is good and the inventor is lucky, the inventor will have just a few years of protection to recoup costs.

How you can improve that without patents?

drran··on The Science of the Benefits of Religion
Communists (atheists) done a lot more harm than any religion, and they hate gay marriage too. Anything powerful can be used to do a good thing and a bad thing. Any institution can be used to do an evil thing, neglect, or be corrupt, e.g. police (police can be abused to protect corrupt regimes), courts or event justice as whole (slaves were legal in many countries), church, etc.
drran··on EU Is Warned Green Label for Gas Would Be ‘Disastrous’ Mistake
How many Chornobyl`s we need to save wild nature?
drran··on EU Is Warned Green Label for Gas Would Be ‘Disastrous’ Mistake
Not electricity, but water. We should ban water for raining from the sky to save lives.
drran··on EU Is Warned Green Label for Gas Would Be ‘Disastrous’ Mistake
IMHO, Russia wants to make their Nord Stream 2 gas pipe "green" to circumvent sanctions. Gazprom must be worth €1 trillion at any cost.
drran··on Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line
Red Hat sells GPL'ed software for billions. Oracle tried to do the same. Amazon created a whole ecosystem (AWS) around GPL'ed code. Even M$ embraces GPL.

Can you name the problem, please?

drran··on Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line
As user, permissive license means "no source for you", because vendor is not obligated to share source with end user by permissive license. For end user, there is no difference between permissive and proprietary licenses.

The GPL license is the only license which protects end-user rights to see and modify source code of the software they use.

drran··on Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity
Daily average profits for free service are 0.
drran··on Bestline: Light self-contained readline alternative
Why I need to use readline on a system without libc, e.g. a heavily optimized container?
drran··on What I Learnt Becoming a Tech Lead
> someone who just has a lot of domain knowledge

... is called product owner.

drran··on What I Learnt Becoming a Tech Lead
Team lead is known as "project manager". Tech lead is just the most experienced person on the project.
drran··on Chafa 1.8: Terminal graphics with a side of everything
`notcurses-demo` works badly in `wezterm`. `mapscii.me` works fine. Nice terminal, but a bit hard to configure, because of Lua.
drran··on Renting 'is unaffordable to minimum wage workers in every state,' study finds
What happened with HACKER news?
drran··on Renting 'is unaffordable to minimum wage workers in every state,' study finds

  x=[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  min(x) < avg(x)
  true
OMG!!!
drran··on The Crime of Curiosity
LOL, virus escaped from "Vector" BSL4 lab in Novosibirsk, Russia, 16.09.2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w7SAeNcXA8 .

They were not played at home. They were not amateurs. But, as you can see at 1:04 (see soldier in background), first responders just cracked bio-laboratories and stole equipment after blast, because they are "checking building for fire" (поетажная проверка на загорание).

drran··on The Crime of Curiosity
> I think the keyword that, in my mind, justifies the censorship here is "on most major tech platforms". Nobody is banning the discussion of these ideas in academic journals or HN

I was banned on HN after questioning of QM and BB theories. 240 downvotes in one day, then ban.

drran··on Backpage founders get mistrial because US overplayed child sex trafficking claim
> It certainly won't stop prostitution.

Why «certainly»? Why goal to «stop», not to «reduce by 99%»?

drran··on Minimum wage would be $26 an hour if it had grown in line with productivity
Remote worker is part of remote economic system, so yes.
drran··on Minimum wage would be $26 an hour if it had grown in line with productivity
Yep, their OVERALL productivity, as part of the system, has dropped by 25%. Isn't that obvious? They are not spherical workers in vacuum, they are part of economic system. If you open a store in the middle of a desert, your overall productivity will be zero, regardless of your productivity in the store, because no buyers, no roads, no police, no electricity, no water, etc.
drran··on Minimum wage would be $26 an hour if it had grown in line with productivity
What stopping you from paying much more to these poor workers?
drran··on RIP Jekyll (The Genesis of the Jamstack)
I switched from jekyll to elder.js.
drran··on RIP Jekyll (The Genesis of the Jamstack)
Pandoc + Makefile is enough.

https://github.com/ivanstojic/pandoc-ssg/blob/master/Makefil...

drran··on Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?
I like Motorola Droid4 keyboard. I'm still keeping them around, because of keyboard and HDMI. They still work.
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