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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Freecad is pretty good, but unfortunately there’s no foss cad software that’s better. If you don’t care about foss, I would recommend onshape if you’re fine with the “public by default” thing, else fusion360.

    For art, blender is great. Plasticity seems neat too, it’s a more traditional software licensing model (pay per version I think, not cheap not insanely expensive)








  • I think that plenty of people who voted for Trump would be fine voting for a woman president as long as she’s strongly advocating change

    These people just know that things aren’t great, they don’t know whose fault it was or what policies caused it. So they vote for the person who says they’ll change the most.

    The largest deciding factor stated by people after voting was the economy. People remembered that there was a lot of inflation under Biden, and didn’t want to keep similar policies. Of course, we know that Trump’s first term had a pretty large influence on the state of the economy under Biden, and Biden’s policies probably didn’t hurt the economy. But the average voter is not that informed.



  • look at EV prices in china for a more accurate depiction of the battery progress that is being made

    apparently the government EV subsidy for outright purchases ended in 2022, but they’re good enough at the manufacturing now that EVs are still exceptionally cheap. 70-80% of world lithium-ion production also takes place in China, so it makes sense.

    There’s a lot of reasons that I don’t like the Chinese government, but they have been doing a whole lot better than the rest of the world with investment into the future of technology from what I’ve seen. The number of top-rated CS and EE schools in China is doing a whole lot on its own.




  • The thing is that the frameworks for running things on competitors’ GPUs are actually fine (rocm and oneapi), the GPUs are price competitive or better as well. It’s just that CUDA/NVidia is the standard, and no one wants to learn a new language just to make something that most people aren’t going to be able to use. Very few people want to put in the effort to make something work across platforms.

    There are some nice frameworks for general purpose GPU computing but it seems like they all have limitations of one type or another.