First staining and then applying a lacquer is a great idea. Will the lacquer not fill the cuts and make them less visible? Or does it keep a depth effect?
Anything in particular to look for in the lacquer? I’d prefer a natural look to fit with the raw wood in the rest of the piece. However, it sits on a glass bowl so I suppose glossy could have its charm on that too.
Good idea! Also like the_v said, it could help to contrast the shapes in the cut.
I thought of using a limited tint so it would blend with the other untreated wood nearby, but a darker color could make the shapes stronger. It also tends to make the wood’s internal structure stand out more.
It won’t be on the soil, it will become the lid. The terrarium will be sealed for water so the bottom will become a paraffin wax which should keep the moisture out. The top will gradually collect dust though and the thin lid ideally shouldn’t bend too much.
Tung oil could be nice.
I’m afraid varnish will fill the voids too much and make the tiny cuts fade.
Yeah, I can hear it that way too. Thanks for sharing your interpretation.
I guess I’m not so triggered because it looks like the movement is towards change from the current system rather than violently overthrowing it. I hear it as “the current capitalism is bad”, somewhere she calls it industrial capitalism. “People can’t afford a house over their heads” sounds to me like a goal to make that happen. Perhaps she has a different view on what afford means than I do because it indeed doesn’t need to mean possess.
In today’s sensationalist tendencies I half expect people to make quite extreme statements to express even the smallest desire for change.
If I looked at the video and interpreted in the most positive way, I did not hear that.
I understood taxation should be distributed differently in her view, the resulting funds should be distributed differently, and that people should be able own a house and have food. She clearly wants shared housing (but that was a side track and it could be fractional ownership I suppose but you could hear a different thing too).
She also seems to hold the opinion that capital is overvalued in the current system and work is undervalued. I guess that’s hard to say, a person without any tools will not be able to build a truck so I reason machines are quite an important part of the mix. But maybe the logical contribution of capital should be disconnected from its societal value. We could tax capital a bit more and work a bit less, for instance.
I’m no professor in economics or anything and she’s only one of them, so perhaps the current situation is perfect, but I do feel wealth distribution is a bit skewed today.
I believe the parent post is nicely sketching out what a “best” move is. I have seen no better approach myself. At the same time I see what you see. The best approach isn’t all that great. If you’re lucky and find the right people it could work. There’s a lot of luck involved there.
That’s why I do think there should be some regulations indicating what is tolerated. It seems to me parent poster may agree (and thus also woth your take).
Since GDPR you can tell the school you don’t want pictures on platforms you disagree with. You may miss out on seeing the photo’s, you might come across as crazy, but you can (and you should). We were given a choice at the cost of extra paperwork and some limitations.
Even without the addiction problem of these platforms we should nurture and find a good society around us. It’s a valid take to try and find likeminded people.
I don’t think that’s the end of it. Given the state we’re in, the network effect, and the fragile ego of developing kids, I suppose we need a stronger push.
AI enforced age verification or logins which allow you to be followed anywhere is not the solution in my current opinion, it’s a different problem. The problems are the addictive and steering nature of the platforms which seems to be hard to describe in a clear way legally.
I wonder how “these platforms” should be defined and what minimum set of limitations would give us and the children the necessary breathing space.
I’ll reply to this random one with that statement. There’s no winning move as a parent.
Problem is being locked out. If your kid is the only one not on social media and all other kids are, your kid will be socially left out.
All kids are on a chat platform you don’t support. What do you? Disallow it and give them a social handicap that might scar them, or allow it and take the risk?
The same goes for allowing images on other platforms. Since GDPR schools seem to care. Yet if it’s a recording that will be put on social media you can explain your 4 year old why they weren’t allowed to participate… It sucks.
I don’t know what the right way forward is. I don’t think this is it. Something is needed though. We should at least signal what we find acceptable as a society. Bog stupid rules which are trivial to circumvent might be good enough, or perhaps some add campaigns like we did with smoking (hehe, if it’s for something we support then adds are good?).
Regardless, the current situation clearly doesn’t work. It would be great if we could find and promote the least invasive solutions.
It’s a general purpose programming language, assuming Common Lisp.
There are many variants though and you’ll find some for very specific situations too. The beauty is that it can easily break out of the comfort zone it was made for, so elisp (from the Emacs editor) allows you to do all sorts of other stuff such as browsing the web or handling your mails.
When you get comfortable with the strange naming, lisps can become a safe and fun place to play. Many variants have all sorts of escape hatches when you’re getting yourself in trouble which makes a bunch of plot-twist requirements changes very feasible to tackle.
Anyhow, we use Common Lisp for some web services which see much reuse across apps.
Self-hosting a Git Forge is very feasible. Closest hosted alternative platform is GitLab but I don’t think it’s still EU since it was listed on NASDAQ. Being a remote company, they don’t list a headquarters. I don’t know where their servers are based.
I’m also very happy with this option. It does have a (brief) learning curve.
The camera is heated so that should not be the biggest problem. I don’t think they have the software to make it work.
I have not had obstacle detection work on the other modules aside from a person being nearby being detected. With that feature you will not see it working from close by, but it will destroy children’s toys, drive over poop, destroy its own antennas by driving under tables, drive against tractors, …
It could be capable one day but not with this software (team).
This company overpromises and underdelivers as if it’s a Chinese competition to do so.
Source: own the lawn mower and blower
Looks like a late Marcos Mini with a wide body kit. Which means that road is actually is single lane with just a tiny car on it.
Traction control on EVs is vastly superior but mostly has its effect on acceleration. Deceleration is often based on brakes (ABS). With sufficient regen electric cars I’ve driven often don’t apply traction control on regen correctly (might be different on current gen or perhaps I did not notice positives) but that should not be a feeling on a highway where wind dominates slowing down.
For constant speed driving I would look at tires, weight distribution and suspension geometry but not the drivetrain. I’ve also heard anecdotally that the Eniaq (same base setup) is not the most stable with all seasons on the snow. Perhaps they could get the car to behave very well on all other conditions with the low center of gravity, perhaps the factory all-seasons have limited snow capabilities.
Depending on climate I don’t think winter tires are always necessary. If there’s 5 days of snow a year, the winter tires will behave suboptimally for a large portion of the half-year they tend to be on the car. On the ID.4, especially if it feels like it’s losing traction, I’d look at better tires as it’s the obvious to replace and winter tires may be well worth the investment.
Source: enjoy snow driving with RWD cars a lot with summer tires and all seasons and only drive electric now; not a test pilot.
Really depends on what is considered nice about MacOS. Just had a new on-boarding with someone who really liked their Mac keybindings and it seems getting those dialed in is nicer (easier? better?) on KDE. I’d also generally gravitate towards Gnome for Mac users though.
As a piece of advice for OP: Accept the use of keybindings over the touchpad. Mac has done a great job and I have not seen a Linux laptop/distro combination that nails it. Search for the pain-points after switching and ask about it (kindly) on a community like this.
The Apertus model is free and open. It can be ran on US and EU servers. I doubt you want to self-host these but you could. The smaller Apertus model can be ran locally with less than 16GB of VRAM but you likely want to run the larger variant.
I suppose running an open model on US servers provides more security than running a closed model on US infrastructure. I don’t know who runs these in Europe as a service.
I use Signal, Matrix and recently Delta Chat. The latter with only very limited amount of messages. It seems to just work.
The UI is less complex than Element in my opinion but it lacks some extra features such as voice and video calls (which probably should be a separate thing). Onboarding was simple enough if you actually want to try, but hard enough for naysayers to say it will never catch on.
There is a distinction between an app and a site. An application has many partial state updates. Two updates is uncommon for an app. Way different for a website where people ideally land on the right page from a search engine. There is a place for an SPA but it’s not everything.
We tend to stick with an SPA even for things which are mainly reads because we’re more efficient in a single tech stack. Sadly we don’t have big tech budgets to do everything. In theory the JS SPA backend can simply run in the backend if there’s no need for an SPA. I had thought hydration and caching to have gotten way better by now but there’s still a good way to go.
FreeCAD’s Arch/BIM workbench
Draw in 2D to create 3D walls. Position windows, doors and others in 3D. Some features like the roof or stairs have their own modules.
You can always fall back to one of the other many workbenches should you need something not part of a typical home (weird stairs, a detailed cupboard, …).
I could not find documentation easily in the past but it likely exists. For a video introduction the FCBLounge channel (YouTube) provides great visual tutorials.
I’ve documented part of our home in this to ideate remodeling. It can be used for pipework but I did not try that yet.
TL;DR: Chains are better in tough conditions like mud and are easier to repair. Belts are great outside of these conditions.