Absolutely. It’s better with WFH as I have started to just browse the polygon mammal site or do laundry when this happens, but I used to really struggle in the office, feeling like I need to look busy.

https://hellgatenyc.com/trial-cuny-protests/

Weirdly I was doing the same to various other texts “stop arming Israel” etc and they didn’t stop until I sent the single word “stop”

Yeah, I know some of that exists; it never showed up in my world. We never modeled buildings with enough detail to make it really useful. Occasionally someone would get excited about Tekla and we’d spend some time trying to do shop drawing reviews in 3D and then go back to PDF. What I meant was that it isn’t yet a standard thing that is understood by any technician in the industry, it’s proprietary software that is subject to change with every release.

Prints have a design language to them which allows you to express fully constrained geometric designs on a napkin if you need to. Dimensions, radii, diameters, angles, datums, positions, projections, sections, GD&T. None of this is obvious in a 3D model. You don’t know what the driving dimensions are, what can be inferred from other dimensions, if it is a coincidence or a requirement that two features line up, etc.

This is so critical. In architecture and structural engineering, you can add to this that you don’t actually know a lot of the real dimensions - you’re laying out the important ones from the structural grid or from survey points, and whatever is left doesn’t matter.

Even markup, at least in a design environment, can be done in 3D (or at least on a computer), but the communication of constraints, that is, what dimensions are important and which are irrelevant or unknowable has not yet been developed in 3D models, and I suspect it will be some time before any useful language for that purpose stabilizes.

Ugh you’re right I clearly don’t read enough r/AITA

This guy either does not know binary or has a weird idea of what constitutes a child

A friend of mine used generative AI trained on his own work as a way to identify themes he wasn’t aware he was using. It was pretty cool

Yeah, that was mentioned by OP and when I wrote that I thought to myself “well there is one inherent negative”. I think if it were better understood what this costs society, and if not for capitalism, we could use it sparingly.

These are incredible.

I think you’re right that the problems with AI are really problems with how we think of intellectual property under capitalism. Why would we begrudge a robot making cool stuff, if not for the livelihoods of working class artists depending on keeping the price of cool stuff at a sustainable level?

Need a version of the “this is fine” gif but instead of fire it’s a household of enslaved people and instead of a dog it’s a Roman guy and/or Rome Guy

Per Dr Eleanor Janega, Rome guys are continuing the Roman tradition of pondering the last ‘cool’ empire. Romans pondered the Greeks, now Americans ponder Rome. I think a lot of the Rome/Greek pondering in America was about justifying slavery. Hence why there’s a Parthenon in Nashville. The Romans were a “democracy” with a slave underclass, so it’s actually cool and normal to do that.

Which is, I believe, the origin of the Latin ’ursa’ and Spanish ‘oso’

Username checks out (you can call me 5bicycles)

Yeah, making a habit of walking something like what you’re describing is not a great plan. Make noise at your city council meetings instead.

Yeah like all they had to do was wrap “democracy” in scare quotes

A right wing NYC councilmember bit a cop: https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/07/18/susan-zhuang-bensonhurst-hero-cop-bite/

Right? Is the vomit emoji an ancient anti Semitic trope?

Ah, I forgot we were talking about vintage furniture. Bad paint sucks but people have got to get over this obsession with looking at wood. Color is fun and not every piece of wood is imbued with sacred beauty.

I need a link. I must see this natural great looking wood for myself, though I know it to be pine and spruce from a pallet

Sorry, Edgcumb Pinchon?