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For Architects, Designers and Musicians, flow-based programming is a big deal: Rhino/Grasshopper, Touchdesigner or Ableton Max for Live are all great examples.

More people should pay attention.

Even if you know how to code in a general-purpose language, you won't beat the speed of these tools (for small to medium-sized programs, anyway).

then maybe more 'municipal software'

Government Software.

I don't even want to know what the GDPR-implications of this are..

It's sad to see how disconnected the national railway systems are in eastern europe. Basically, 5h always fills the national borders but no further in Hungary, Romania, Poland etc

E.g., train connections from Czech Republic to southern Germany are missing all together.

This is what a aquisition in Open Source land looks like.. :D

I think, the long-run is much more important than whatever the specific feature set it rn. (Also, actually talking to people might be more of a feature than a bug, after all?)

This time is different: This is not backed by the govt or german telecom but by the richest German alive (> 50B net worth). I think (hope), the chances are much higher that he's in for the long run with an appropriate amount of ressources.

Democratic Government Backbones

GRBL the CNC firware for Arduninos:

https://github.com/grbl/grbl/

It feels like it has more comments than code. The comments are written in a very nice, understandable language that even activley teaches about concepts that are only adjacent to the code at hand.

E.g. https://github.com/grbl/grbl/blob/master/grbl/stepper.c#L142 or https://github.com/grbl/grbl/blob/master/grbl/stepper.c#L233

30 years out it will be probably viewed as 'absurd' that anybody would ever operate a democracy on proprietary software.

Yes, I can see why this is great for the big CAD vendors. Not so great for CAD vendors which still need to get big..

It probably also becomes clear now why Russian systems use a different product.. :D

Am I the only one to find it crazy that basically all of engineering is using the same proprietary constraint solver that only one company knows how to build?

Sounds like a big Achilles heel to civilization in some ways.. :D

I mean, even with search engines, there is more competition..

Couldn't one build a SDF-native CAM tool? That should be even a better fit than B-reps, no?

>> Starting with flat surfaces and straight lines is really ignoring the hard problems and...

is this flat surfaces only?

Looks to me like curves are passed to the lowest level: https://github.com/hannobraun/Fornjot/blob/main/src/kernel/g...

The problem with this design is that it makes it a lot easier to have a big lever (eg. using a bolt cutter) on the frame. That's why folding locks are effective: Not because of their raw strength but because of their awkwardness that makes finding a lever harder.

The real solution would be a police that takes bike theft seriously.

"building a new open source one from scratch would be Herculean effort."

how are you tackling this?

that sounds very exciting! I also think that a physics / game engine environment would make CAD a lot more accessible. Right now, these two world are very distinct from each other..

same itch here.

Here are two quite remarkable statements from a MIT lecture on CAD (https://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/6/fa19/6.807/courseMaterial... ):

"[there are] ASIC and Parasolid, others are not really as good"

and "[CAD] Research disconnected from reality [compared to CG research]"

One might expect a whole range of CAD kernels floating around, since these kernels are such a fundamental part of civilization in some way. Doesn't seem to be the case, tho..

LMU alumn here

Working on software that improves democracy is somting that is urgently needed and that you can only really do with that kind of financial independence.

hence, nobody is working on it.

maybe just add small webpages into your index, dont bother yo execute JS and dont download any images.

The content quality will be higher and it's a lot cheaper.

It seems really useful. But the fact that this is useful feels like a code smell in the web platform.

It would be cool to go back to HTML=schematics and CSS=styling.

Maybe CSS needs to become more capable tool to place divs more easily?

TrussFab takes care of the structural aspect: https://hpi.de/baudisch/projects/trussfab.html

Not sure, whether legislating a particular standard might backfire in the long-term?

I imagine that there was a time when it made sense to force everybody to have a VGA port..

The headline in a domestic newspaper reads "There are some product placements that influencers do not need to label as ads"

https://www.zeit.de/digital/internet/2021-09/bundesgerichtsh...

:D

it's all about framing

Dell got you covered: get a pleseant humming noise when your GPU is busy: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ATxR9FyBrVw

If any life on earth was extraterrestrial, I would bet on fungi. It somehow works too well.

If there would be the conversion in two direction, this would be super helpful to for code comments incl. a graphic editor inside the IDE.

TL;DR "We were surprised by the demand for free cash."