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I think you may have missed the only portion of their argument that wasn't cherry picking:

"10-15 years ago you did not need AC. Today every summer you're in danger of a heatstroke if you don't have it."

I would count this as a decently statistical argument, anecdotal as it is, because it's an economic observation, that if true, signals that the market is lagging behind some environmental change.

Also, PDX did record 117F, by far the highest record in recorded history, by like 10F.

I'm just gonna leave this here:

https://youtu.be/CS9ptA3Ya9E

It's a dark comedy sketch that has an answer to your question.

Yeah, Ubuntu seems to be happily trudging down the path of evil, right behind Microsoft. They, of course, don't have the massive marketing budget or UX polish to match though, so it's not going to go nearly as well.

It's funny, I've been using Linux pretty much my entire adult life, and out of the issues you've pointed out, the only ones I've experienced have been with Windows; always reminds me to do a full wipe, not a dual boot.

As a designer himself, he probably tries to approach design examinations from many different perspectives (we do this at work with new designs: if I was an 70 year old woman, what would I see here?) to find edge cases where the design doesn't work.

"Stop aiding and abetting the scientific process at once!

-The Court "

> You don't shoot in any direction where missing the target is a problem.

Hoping that the class included that nugget of wisdom. That being said, being wildly inaccurate with a hunting rifle isn't usually a problem, especially if the sights are calibrated correctly. A handgun however, is pretty dangerous when you don't know how to aim it.

> that obviously takes less space

Not necessarily =)

I've gotten 2 days of constant use, and it's hardly dropped voltage at all, will likely last 6. The eink screen uses no electricity between screen updates, and the stock firmware turns all peripherals off when not in use.

I had the same ship date as you, and got mine yesterday. Lot of fun to play with. My case was a bit nasty, seemed the injection mold was just a touch off, but I printed my own case so not a big deal.

I actually agree with this sentiment, using non-keyboard utf8 characters in code is just asking for massive problems down the line. A fun party trick perhaps, but such a bad idea for anything that isn't a hobby Project.

> Noone is saying it's better in absolute terms...

I think it actually may be though. In terms of digital electronics, this IS the original hardware... But with added multiplayer. So unless the feature of multiplayer is a downgrade, then it is better in absolute terms.

> * manually classifying 10,000 images or documents *

Ah, the 50's era sweatshop mentality! Most excellent. I would fire a person who wasted days doing such a stupid operation. Take 10 minutes, do some research, find a better way. Spend some company money to get it done today. If you can't figure a good way, start asking up the chain.

I'd invite you to watch the show Alone, where many survival experts have had to give up in the first day or two because they opted not to bring a fire steel and don't want to freeze.

You're right that it's possible, but how long it takes, and whether or not you can do it, are dependent on skill and environment. Wrong kind of wood? Screwed. Been raining for a day? Screwed. Sometimes this can be overcome, but you have to know what you're doing, and it can still take hours to generate enough heat to dry the wood until it's possible to friction combust it. Try it sometime, just bring a lighter with you.

> He would still demand rework after doing it his way .

I've dealt with this before by documenting everything they told me to do differently, with date and time.

Always fun doing code review in a group, having the lead point out a number of problems they have with the code, especially actual bugs, and pulling up the changelog which includes notes from the one criticizing your code, telling you to make those design choices. I've collapsed whole meetings this way, with people walking out and going straight to HR with requests to transfer teams. Really helps to remove the poison from the group.

> yeah, spaces in filenames. A well-known yet insidious problem.

It'll be fixed as soon as they finish their Backslash Conversion Project!

All of this really puts Lee's evangelizing of Private Internet Access into a new light, doesn't it?

Dictators gonna dictate.

I really found my chakras to be stimulated by the wordy venting as well. That's a very good point!

If you can't do anything, you also can't do anything bad!

Thank you SO much for this! Was really the chuckle I needed today.

Fun fact: spelt is my favorite grain!

> I am all for anything helping soldiers do their job more effectively and modernizing their tech.

As someone who's spent time on the ground, both humping packs, and doing more sophisticated work, I can tell you a couple of things about what soldiers value. The lower down the food chain you are, the more you value simplicity, reliability, and ease of use.

If you're a ground pounder, you don't want expensive, fragile gadgets that require lots of maintenance and extra battery packs, things that distract you or dull your senses. I had to carry a large expensive camera system for a time, and it was not only a PITA, but it constantly was down from sand in the bearings, battery packs not charging right because the contacts were dirty or corroded. And even when it was working right, the setup and teardown times made it almost unusable. The wear and tear on it was insane, it was constantly out if calibration.

That being said, the higher up the decision making process you go, the more useful tools like that are. If you're a combat controller or working out of a base, some tech like that can be really handy. But don't try to load Joe Average down with that mess, cause he'll break your toys, then yell at you that all he needed in order to make a combat plan was a stick and some sand.

The rest of your anecdote was really interesting, thanks for sharing!

You could always write a program that fuzzed urls at random then downloaded whatever's at that address with curl!

"desktop OS" is not what I said, it's what you inferred. Linux is the base for every Android device, and most servers run some flavor of it, most routers run it, most widely used system for embedded OS, the list goes on. I meant precisely what I said.

> Why would a software maker invest the time and effort in catering to a negligible slice of the desktop OS market?

Why indeed? I disagree with "negligible" here, but for any sort of advanced and automated workflow, Linux is the best choice.

This is true. However, there are very few roles which use ALL of these tools. They are almost completely different applications that just share a base rendering window; they lie in completely separate domains. With that in mind, yes, FreeCAD doesn't have those features, but they exist in other open source applications.

I think what you are really comparing at this point is FreeCAD, the application, to Autodesk, the brand.

Haha yes, I think this is the problem; it's part of the tradeoff between open and closed source, IMO.

I disagree about the 3% of features. With plugins and the massive amount of extensibility possible in FreeCAD, I think it actually has most of the functionality of AutoCAD, let's say 80%, and a good number of features that AutoCAD is missing. However, discoverability of these features is abysmal (which is why most people think that they don't exist), and it can be VERY hard to use, depending on what you're trying to do.

I definitely couldn't replace Solidworks or Fusion360 with FreeCAD in terms of speed of use, especially if I was sitting down with all 3 for the first time.

I wouldn't call it an abomination. Bloated, yes, full of little quirks, true, but I can sit down, design a CAD model with multiple components, simulate it's motion and stress points, fix any interferences, lay out the parts in a technical drawing, 3d print half of it, and CNC mill the rest, all in the space of 2 hours. In fact I just did that this morning, from 5 AM starting a design, to 7 AM, now, when I just finished pulling parts out of the mill.

It's ridiculously powerful, and the cost is about 1 cup of coffee per day. I'm running it on an $800 laptop that's a year old, and it's snappy. My biggest complaint is lack of Linux support, which is abominable since Linux is the most widely used OS on the planet, but what can you do?

I agree with this thought. They've done a whole lot less boundary pushing than SpaceX.

The rationale for getting into the game seemed more like, "Well, this space thing seems like an emerging market, and we can't be a true monopoly unless we have a tentacle in it, too."