for incredibly simple parts that i can describe using measurements, i've had a lot of fun pointing a high-power ai at openscad and letting it iterate through making the design for me

it's still tough to turn it into something i can then keep fiddling with in freecad though

put on "tron: ares" in the background to fully appreciate the model designing something that will be 3d-printed :)

I haven't tried it, but FreeCAD has scripting

https://wiki.freecad.org/Python_scripting_tutorial

Edit: Your website is quite confusing. Took me awhile...

ty for 'tearing through' ;)

I had to... rip it apart to figure out what it all meant! ;)

You can get even more vague and just generally describe the design of something, making sure it leaves exact measurements to parameters, and end up with something usable. ("Make me an openSCAD file for an pointed star with curved points and an inward taper. The number of points, thickness, and angle of taper should be configurable")

For a lot of stuff, you might have better luck getting it to generate something like cadquery

Did you try modelrift.com ? Its openscad + ai but way more convenient to preview results in realtime and iterate via annotated screenshots

vinyls have secret songs on them ;)

yea all of modern semiconductors were built on a guy going "wouldnt it be cool if i could write using metal instead of ink"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czochralski_method

i try to keep tabs on restaurants opening around me, and if one has something interesting, i text pretty much every friend i have if they want to check it out with me

only a few respond each time, and only about half the time one or two can make it out, but over time eventually all of them do

you fill the 3 liter bottle up to the top, and pour the contents into the 5 liter bottle

then you fill 3 liter bottle again, and pour the contents into the 5 liter bottle until the 5 liter one is full

empty the 5 liter bottle, and pour the 1 liter in the 3 liter bottle into the 5 liter bottle

fill the 3 liter bottle again and pour that into the 1 liter already in the 5 liter bottle to get 4 liters of water

Then you bring the fox back, take the hen across the river, ...

I'm so glad that style of inerview was dying out right when I graduated. And I love puzzles. But I don't need wannabe IQ tests for a job that expects me to work in legacy code and coordinae with other engineers.

> where does will come from?

your gut bacteria, navigating "you" towards novel nutrition to ingest and preprocess for them

commercial internet services would prefer that you forget the internet without them can in fact exist

i think the first thing they would program into it is "do not think of this being a simulation"

unless somehow knowledge of the simulation is part of the simulation?

then they would probably program thinking about the simulation into the simulation

like how does my virtualized environment know it's virtualized unless i explicitly set an environment variable somewhere; it just thinks it's 'root' unless it finds something (which may be a lie :) )

> If Coca Cola had a similar dispute that led to the flavor of Coke changing, you’d see even more posts like this from real people.

similar to https://x.com/JenMsft/status/1381640311357628420/photo/1 : corporations need to understand that people don't have conversations where they randomly recommend carbonated beverages to each other

Actually people recommend products they like to friends all the time. For example, here's you recommending a random windows feature[1].

[1] https://x.com/JarekLupinski/status/1303766512541589504

that was more of a signal to youtube creators to normalize their volume since windows doesnt let you do that anymore :(

What a strange thing to say. Not only do people frequently recommend carbonated beverages to each other, the upstream meme is even more off. People recommend operating systems to each other so much that there's an entire subculture known for that exact behavior.

No? I have recommended Freestyle sugar free soda as a way to replace heavy CocaCola consumption. Here in Mexico it's a big problem, and I helped me get out of the addiction. ( add Allulose to the soda to add the sweet)

currently working on a blog for my friends that they can update by sending it an email

i've been administering a couple personal servers by email as well; they each run a small LLM and read emails sent to them, with a strict allowlist they can handle quite a lot of basic tasks: i've locked myself out of ssh from this ip please unban it, please email me when security logs are strange, what is the current status of the services on your server, etc.

Cool idea