GameGod

If it makes you feel better, Consumer Reports still operates like it's the year 1990 and is completely detached from the world of media today. There are YouTube content producers who make far better content than Consumer Reports does, in every category. Sites like RTings and YouTubers like Project Farm or Vacuum Wars completely obliterate Consumer Reports in terms of quality, freshness, and usefulness.

Look at the way cars are even rated on Consumer Reports. They post "samples of the data" from their surveys, and you get examples like somebody having an ancient phone and not being able to Bluetooth pair it to their car ending up lowering the reliability rating of the car. It makes no sense.

Articles like the one linked are what you get when you have a clueless, outdated organization with management who have their head in the sand, feeding some SEO suggestions from ChatGPT to their writers. It's just layers of badness and poor decisionmaking.

Solvespace is like a time traveler from the golden age of software where everything was a 1 MB self-contained EXE.

I'm a huge Solvespace fan so you had me at fillets and chamfers! Thanks for posting this.

Played around with Dune 3D and so far some cool stuff compared to Solvespace is:

• Chamfers and fillets (seem to work well so far)
• Groups can be reordered! This is huge for workflow and managing bigger designs.
• There's a cool shortcut search menu if you hit spacebar.
• According to the README, it solves some stuff symbolically, which should be good for performance (hopefully it'll have fewer weird cases than Solvespace where the solver has trouble)

The UI needs some work, and there's some basic functionality like STL export that I could only find from the spacebar search menu, but this is an amazing start and I hope this project grows. I need to design a simple widget for 3D printing in the next couple of weeks and I will definitely be trying this for that.

Every time I look at this, the value proposition makes no sense to me. The DIY V1 and V2 only have instructions for adding a single HDMI input port (??), and the V3 and V4 are like $350 CAD, which is way more expensive than buying a used KVM on eBay. What am I missing?

I don't want to dox myself so I'd rather not say, but it was some time ago and I'm no longer leading that project. I do still do development in the same field though!

Your post couldn't be more true. Decades ago I was sold on MythTV, this PVR software but it only ran on Linux and you had to compile it yourself. So I gave Linux and MythTV a shot. As it turned out, both MythTV and early desktop Linux were a buggy, frustrating mess. X broke all the time. Incomprehensible, ungoogleable compile errors all the time.

I spent so much time troubleshooting MythTV and compilation problems that I ended up learning Linux inside and out and the C programming language to be able understand the compile errors. I went on to lead a major open source project and have had a long career as a programmer, using all the knowledge I gained that started with fighting MythTV.

It's a misnomer for sure, but that's why it's a funny label.

How can it cost 3x as much as an F-35?

Here's what the official government news releases say:

$19 billion for 88 F-35s = $216 million each - source

$2.5 billion for 11 Reapers = $227 million each source

... so I don't think you're right.

Edit: This CBC article quotes an unnamed "senior defence official" as saying the first four F-35s we purchased cost $85 million per plane, whereas the numbers quoted in the press releases above are the all-in costs including all the "sustainment set-up and services" such as ground control centers, training, etc. So without being an expert on this stuff, I do think the numbers in the press releases are a better apples-to-apples comparison.

Edit 2: but yeah, your point still stands.... Is a Reaper worth as much as an F-35? Beats me....

The transport trucks that will go 1000km don't.

This guy's the worst at putting together a pursuasive argument. Almost all the problems he wrote wil have solutions we engineer in the future. Dismissing electric cars, the very real and imminent problem they have of CO2 emissions, based on cherry picking current problems they have in different countries is disingenuous and short sighted. eg. California's CO2 emissions problems at night cannot be generalized to other places.

And the punchline of this article is an apples-to-oranges comparison - you can't harp on transport trucks and then argue the solution is walking and biking.

Lithium batteries (or their successor) will get cheaper, lighter, and more energy dense because there's a massive market opportunity for that now. This article completely ignores our ability to advance technology to solve problems, lol.

Can't put nuclear fuel in a car lol

I paid $30 for early access to Tribes Ascend and then like 2 weeks later they were like "actually it's going to be F2P lol!"