You're missing the point completely, not just of this exchange, but of the entire thread. It's not about the relationship between businesses and customers. It's about an entrenched system which parasitically drains the…
> But i gotta say, living off grid is fundamentally solipsist. Abandoning society rather than attempting to live well within society will always be a dead end. They haven't abandoned society. They are trying to improve…
Business owners don't have a choice. They must use CC processors or else lose their business. That's the point. You're shoehorning a philosophical definition of freewill in a context where it doesn't make sense.
If merchants didn't accept them, they would go out of business. How is that not obvious? Technically there a choice. In reality, you have no choice, and no recourse, and you can't outcompete these companies either. The…
> significant costs to provide 3% of transactions is an incomprehensibly large amount of cash. The systems that exist to transact cash have been in place for decades already. Major countries have already developed their…
Credit card companies are essentially charging a rake on the consumer economy. They provide a valuable service, but skimming every transaction and funneling it into a handful of private companies is a net detriment for…
It's not too readable. It would benefit from a columnated layout. The fold is also too long. It should be an introductory block. Overall, the "rhythm" is a bit off. The user should know what they're seeing even before…
It's no different from learning vim. Just stick with it until the shortcuts become cognitively automatic. It also helps to learn upfront the idiosyncratic terms and concepts like buffers, windows, frames, yanking,…
Emacs is incredibly powerful with ai agents. Because everything is a function, and emacs is introspectable down to its atoms - agents can write, review, execute, and evaluate the results in a closed loop. The evaluation…
You're right. I want to say that openai is a viable alternative, but they're even less trustworthy. It might be time for me to start looking into Chinese models or purchasing hardware for local llms, even if the cost…
Cancelled. Anthropic can get bent if it wants to market itself as the ethical AI choice and at the same time lies in bed with those openly pushing for a surveillance state.
I've started experimenting with claude to run end-to-end tests for an emacs package I'm developing. It's incredible. The way it works: 1. You start emacs in daemon (server) mode. 2. You prompt claude to instantiate an…
Same here - with minor changes (mostly rebinding shortcuts), my extensively customized config works in terminal also.
Isn't this just a Bambu marketing point? I have a Prusa MK4S and a Centauri Carbon - they both print without any fuss and can be operated without any deep technical understanding.
Spreadsheets are better in theory but varsets work so much better in practice.
I'm not sure what went wrong exactly, but a common issue people run into with lofts is caused by the fact that FreeCAD tries to match vertices to vertices. If you use the split edge tool on your square to create 8 edges…
From the home page: Question: How do you make the illustrations? Answer: I get asked this more than anything else but honestly, I don't have a good answer. I make them by hand, in Figma. There's no secret - it's as…
The entire website is incredible. I'm amazed all the illustrations were done in Figma.
I can't tell for sure without knowing exactly what's happening, but one reason is that if you create a sketch from the Sketcher workbench, it will not be added to the active body. If you create the sketch from the Part…
As an opposing viewpoint, I also use FC extensively for designing moderately complex parts (fully parametrically constrained assemblies, dozens of parts per assembly, mechanical components involving motion). I've also…
FreeCAD is still in active development and there was a major release (1.0) recently. There will be a feature freeze soon where the devs will focus primarily on stability and eliminating bugs. That said, I use FC as my…
Sorry about the bad experience. If you decide to give it another try, it's worth spending a few hours on some intro tutorials first. I recommend MangoJelly on youtube. FC is not a program you can just open and start…
Some of the basics aren't immediately obvious or even hinted at very well for new users, but the "problems" that come up are consistent with its own editing model. > complaining that the sketch doesn't belong to any…
Productive FreeCAD user chiming in here. I understand the frustration. It has a moderate learning curve, but the editing model forms an intuitive picture once you learn the basics and start using it. Also second the…
I recommend starting with vanilla Emacs and just adding things as you find the need for them. Emacs comes with a lot of things OOTB. After a decade, my only essential package addon-ons are magit and yasnippet. I have…
You're missing the point completely, not just of this exchange, but of the entire thread. It's not about the relationship between businesses and customers. It's about an entrenched system which parasitically drains the…
> But i gotta say, living off grid is fundamentally solipsist. Abandoning society rather than attempting to live well within society will always be a dead end. They haven't abandoned society. They are trying to improve…
Business owners don't have a choice. They must use CC processors or else lose their business. That's the point. You're shoehorning a philosophical definition of freewill in a context where it doesn't make sense.
If merchants didn't accept them, they would go out of business. How is that not obvious? Technically there a choice. In reality, you have no choice, and no recourse, and you can't outcompete these companies either. The…
> significant costs to provide 3% of transactions is an incomprehensibly large amount of cash. The systems that exist to transact cash have been in place for decades already. Major countries have already developed their…
Credit card companies are essentially charging a rake on the consumer economy. They provide a valuable service, but skimming every transaction and funneling it into a handful of private companies is a net detriment for…
It's not too readable. It would benefit from a columnated layout. The fold is also too long. It should be an introductory block. Overall, the "rhythm" is a bit off. The user should know what they're seeing even before…
It's no different from learning vim. Just stick with it until the shortcuts become cognitively automatic. It also helps to learn upfront the idiosyncratic terms and concepts like buffers, windows, frames, yanking,…
Emacs is incredibly powerful with ai agents. Because everything is a function, and emacs is introspectable down to its atoms - agents can write, review, execute, and evaluate the results in a closed loop. The evaluation…
You're right. I want to say that openai is a viable alternative, but they're even less trustworthy. It might be time for me to start looking into Chinese models or purchasing hardware for local llms, even if the cost…
Cancelled. Anthropic can get bent if it wants to market itself as the ethical AI choice and at the same time lies in bed with those openly pushing for a surveillance state.
I've started experimenting with claude to run end-to-end tests for an emacs package I'm developing. It's incredible. The way it works: 1. You start emacs in daemon (server) mode. 2. You prompt claude to instantiate an…
Same here - with minor changes (mostly rebinding shortcuts), my extensively customized config works in terminal also.
Isn't this just a Bambu marketing point? I have a Prusa MK4S and a Centauri Carbon - they both print without any fuss and can be operated without any deep technical understanding.
Spreadsheets are better in theory but varsets work so much better in practice.
I'm not sure what went wrong exactly, but a common issue people run into with lofts is caused by the fact that FreeCAD tries to match vertices to vertices. If you use the split edge tool on your square to create 8 edges…
From the home page: Question: How do you make the illustrations? Answer: I get asked this more than anything else but honestly, I don't have a good answer. I make them by hand, in Figma. There's no secret - it's as…
The entire website is incredible. I'm amazed all the illustrations were done in Figma.
I can't tell for sure without knowing exactly what's happening, but one reason is that if you create a sketch from the Sketcher workbench, it will not be added to the active body. If you create the sketch from the Part…
As an opposing viewpoint, I also use FC extensively for designing moderately complex parts (fully parametrically constrained assemblies, dozens of parts per assembly, mechanical components involving motion). I've also…
FreeCAD is still in active development and there was a major release (1.0) recently. There will be a feature freeze soon where the devs will focus primarily on stability and eliminating bugs. That said, I use FC as my…
Sorry about the bad experience. If you decide to give it another try, it's worth spending a few hours on some intro tutorials first. I recommend MangoJelly on youtube. FC is not a program you can just open and start…
Some of the basics aren't immediately obvious or even hinted at very well for new users, but the "problems" that come up are consistent with its own editing model. > complaining that the sketch doesn't belong to any…
Productive FreeCAD user chiming in here. I understand the frustration. It has a moderate learning curve, but the editing model forms an intuitive picture once you learn the basics and start using it. Also second the…
I recommend starting with vanilla Emacs and just adding things as you find the need for them. Emacs comes with a lot of things OOTB. After a decade, my only essential package addon-ons are magit and yasnippet. I have…