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They probably have a “low hanging fruit” agent that makes pitches to them during weekly update meetings based on potential ROI

Just in time for the US election season to ramp up. Everyone seems focused on products but what about when the ads are for pushing ideas and ideals?

You read articles regularly about how X authority is provided cloud LLM history and uses it as evidence to prosecute a defendant.

Yet you think professional criminals are too stupid to launder their activities through an unscrupulous yet legal intermediary?

FreeCAD is great if someone mainly wants to print functional, usable parts. That’s totally valid and honestly even more powerful than Blender for that use case. Autodesk Fusion (prev. Fusion 360) is also a popular option.

I use blender because I also like to do a lot of 3d printed art, and as you mentioned, that sculpt tooling is one of many fantastic tools for that purpose.

Also LLMs know a lot about Blender, making it very easy to describe what I want to do, and then get a walk through of how to do it with Blender.

If you’re getting a 404 from OP’s link, the URL was updated on their site:

https://www.blender.org/download/releases/5-2/

Hopefully a mod sees this.

Done. I was feeling bad for saying how often I used blender without paying a cent not 20 seconds earlier in this very thread. Then I saw your message.

The fact that Apple Pay is an option made it take only another 20 seconds for me to throw some money at a great project.

I use blender constantly to make things for 3d printing and I haven’t spent a cent on it or any plugins I use for it.

So for anyone on the fence about picking up blender and reading this comment above, no it doesn’t require hundreds of dollars of plugins to be useful. Not for every use case.

Seems related to the four risk management strategies:

- Avoidance

- Mitigation

- Transference

- Acceptance

Supported by the empirical evidence of cube farms, post COVID in the early “return to office” days, when office etiquette was completely forgotten and people were listening to all their meetings on speaker, but we were still having all our meetings at our desks.

I would constantly hear people around the cube farm stumbling through sentences because they could hear themselves through a neighbors computer with a slight delay.

I must have taken the article too literally. Thanks for taking the time to help me understand.

It’s also hard to tell what’s a joke these days surrounding a lot of AI “best practices” and what’s a legitimate idea worth exploring.

Oh, it’s macOS only. The site didn’t say anything about it, or maybe I’m just blind. I had to look at the repo to see.

So going allllll the way back up to my original message where I asked for more resources to read… yeah I think you might be onto something.

It's elephants all the way down.

English in the Future

Directors at Daimler Benz and Chrysler have announced an agreement to adopt English as the preferred language for communications, rather than German, which was another possibility.

As part of the negotiations, directors at Chrysler conceded that English spelling has some room for improvement and have accepted a five-year phase-in plan. In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Also, the hard "c" will be replased with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but komputers have one less letter.

There will be growing kompany enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replased by "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20 persent shorter.

In the third year, DaimlerKhrysler akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reash the stage where more komplikated shanges are possible.

DaimlerKhrysler will enkourage the removal of double letters, whish have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"'s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps sush as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" by "v".

During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be droped from vords kontaining "o", and similar shanges vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis, and employes vil find it ezi to kommunikat viz eash ozer.

Ov kors al supliers vil be expekted to us zis for all busines komunikation via DaimlerKhrysler.

Ze drem vil finali kum tru.

(an old joke)

I appreciate you seeing through my confusion and giving me a concrete response.

“My voice is my passport. Verify me.”

And then who watches the watchmen? Chains of authority can always be questioned. I think GP is suggesting that the package management platforms themselves provide the verification if they want to stay in the business of being the de facto source.

But if an attacker gets your fake birthday and uses that to successfully reset credentials on another site that uses the same fake birthday?

At some point it becomes your birthday of record as far as the internet is concerned. Doesn’t matter what the actual record says.

Oh, interesting.

So am I understanding correctly then that the tools that come with monthly subscriptions are inherently limited and unable to expand to what the article describes in the outermost loops?

The article describes API calls using code. How does one use these loops in Claude Code (assuming you mean CLI not cloud) or Antigravity (assuming you mean agy not the IDE)?

Anyone have suggestions on implementing loops with a basic $20/mo subscription to claude or gemini? Any blog posts recommended?

Douglas Adams basically predicted Wikipedia on smartphones, and I suspect we are only a few years away from babelfish ear buds.

They’re using the broadest definition possible, where tax dollars are generally meant to provide public service.

But at that point you’re just in an argument over which public services are most important to whom.

So then implying that tax dollars should be used instead of donations is wrong.

The whole thing relies on donations to keep it afloat, which is really what tax dollars are for.

Hmm. I don’t believe that’s accurate.

No need to be defensive. If you were unaware of the irony before my comment, then my point was that there may be more still for the education system to offer.

This isn't directed at you specifically. I am making a broader connection to the need for higher education even when people feel it has no immediately obvious value. Sometimes the things learned in school are more subtle than what's on the syllabus.

"we seen during"

This was an intentionally ironic use of poor grammar in a statement against organized education, right? Hopefully?

unwise to use Windows

full stop

Trainspotting was like this for me.

Great business opportunity there. Make a free service that sends AI generated birthday notes to people. All the user has to provide is the other persons birthday.

People cannot be relied upon to provide accurate birthdays but nobody would suffer the social faux pas of an incorrect birthday congrats note. Nor would they send it to a spam catching email, but rather are guaranteed to send it to a regularly checked address. They know the persons birthday after all.

You can then sell high quality birthday information correlated to contact information to ad agencies.

Fuck this current internet. So dystopian.

Well they can’t use that to track users of Linux.

I was a big fan of Microsoft ten to fifteen years ago. I’ve since transitioned my whole family off Microsoft products now over to Linux, Apple, and proton. Edit: and Brave.

I really thought their corporate culture would’ve changed after the late 90’s but I guess this is a good lesson for founders. The culture you build into your company will likely outlast your tenure.