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wacikion Text2CAD Generating Sequential CAD Designs from Text Prompts

Those grannies are already making teapots, it's called pottery.

this is beautiful, thanks for sharing.

> As you note, most of them are generally true though

Not really, it's so mixed that I wouldnt advise a neurodivergent person to follow them, how would you know which one is good?

I don't think the author is sympathetic to autistic people:

"If you engage in less socially acceptable self-stimulatory behaviors that involve clenched muscles, quick jerky movements, rocking, or vocalizations, strangers will likely be afraid to talk to you, and even people you already know may be embarrassed to be with you in public."

You shouldn't be with people that are embarrassed to be with you, as those behaviors are usually not controllable, this is terrible.

wacikion Social Initiation

Some good advice, but a lot of stuff is just weird or robotic and it has some surprisingly judgmental comments.

The gender page is just strange, most of those sounds so american or old fashioned.

edit: sources are mostly old, there are no sources from less than 10 years which is bad if you're trying to describe current social behaviors, the average source on the gender page is from 2002...

wacikion MicroPython on Flipper Zero

> The RF transceiver is also cool to capture RF remotes (garage doors, overhead fans, etc.) and replay them.

Do you mean the non IR kind?

wacikion Judge stops FTC from enforcing ban on non-compete agreements

> No US prisoner is forced to work in any meaningful sense of the word "forced".

"Refusal to work can be met with solitary confinement and physical beatings"

https://web.archive.org/web/20240224172720/https://www.washi...

wacikion Judge stops FTC from enforcing ban on non-compete agreements

I don't know if you're being good faith, prisoners are forced to work

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_farm

wacikion Judge stops FTC from enforcing ban on non-compete agreements

what are you talking about? Getting enslaved because you "broke the law" is as old as slavery

wacikion How immigration remade the U.S. labor force

> all modern computing

not true

> the internet

www was invented at CERN by tim berner-lee though?

wacikion How immigration remade the U.S. labor force

> If an immigrant didn't start the company a legacy American like Mark Cuban or Gates would have.

Or somebody in another country?

wacikion Why has nuclear power been a flop? (2021)

too expensive and never built on time, only countries where it's cheap are dictatorships where you can hide problems

wacikion Room inspections at Resorts World confuse, annoy DEF CON attendees

> No, that’s not how hotels work. Do not disturb is a courtesy afforded to you. Every hotel checks room regularly as a matter of compliance. You don’t notice because these people are professional. The truth is you are not a guest but a customer.

In the US? There are several countries where that would be illegal.

wacikion Lewis Lapham has died

It seems it's out of print:

"Lapham's Quarterly was placed on an indefinite hiatus on November 3, 2023, citing "a combination of financial challenges". The most recent issue, titled "Energy", was released digitally."

wacikion Crocotile3D low poly modelling tool

There is "ReSprytile", updated for 4.1 (not tested).

wacikion Children's daily sugar consumption halved just a year after tax, study finds

You're not replying to OP

> There are a lot of externalities from having an unhealthy populace, this fee can help to counter that.

wacikion I Received an AI Email

are LLMs even capable of humor? The attempts I've seen are not very funny

wacikion Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts

> (Note that I'm saying this as a Biden voter who really wishes that Trump weren't poised to take office.)

I don't understand people going on an obviously one sided political rant and then going "don't hit me I vote for the good guys trust me !", it's not subtle.

wacikion Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts

> So under the Government’s approach, members of the public would be forced to guess whether they could even offer thank-you gift cards, their garbage collectors, professors, or school board members, for example.

That seems bizarre to me, an apple or a low value meal ticket are not "something of value" unless you read things literally for no reason.

"of value": valuable, having a great value

wacikion Please don't mention AI again

it also can't reliably add two numbers to each other.

> help us figure out why the world spent trillions on nvidia equity and how to unwind this pending disaster..

There are many documented examples of the market being irrational.

wacikion I am sick of LeetCode-style interviews

> The problem is that losers cannot pass the test, but winners can.

Citation needed

wacikion Parable of the Sofa

> this is why humanity seems to have made major leaps in science and technology during and after military conflicts

Did it? I can't really find numbers on that.