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AdrianTheFrog

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  • 3D design software for 3d printing?

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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)

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    New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion

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  • It says in the article

    15% of these subreddits contained content likely posted by bots or corporate trolls specifically designed to promote companies or organizations.

    The title is just misinfo I guess

  • China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals

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  • GPU stuff and ideally easier parallelism. The same binary could be executed on a GPU from any vendor, any CPU, anything that supports OpenCL, and could maybe even be extended to support FPGAs in the future.

  • Bernie Sanders floats AOC as potential 2028 presidential contender: ‘Very good politician’

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  • That's two data points influenced by countless other factors. Like the economy, which I mentioned.

  • China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals

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  • On the high performance compute / GPGPU side the AdaptiveCPP JIT compiler seems very good for cross-platform operation

  • Bernie Sanders floats AOC as potential 2028 presidential contender: ‘Very good politician’

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  • 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.

  • Bernie Sanders floats AOC as potential 2028 presidential contender: ‘Very good politician’

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  • No one cares about qualifications. They care about vibes and what their friends think.

  • The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started

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  • 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 Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started

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  • they're actively manufactured for consumers, and cheap and available enough to be relatively competitive with lithium ion on there

  • The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started

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  • i hope isdt releases a firmware update for the q6 nano for that if RC sodium ion packs become available.

    although afaik energy density per volume and weight isn't quite there yet

  • Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions

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  • It's the same as about:profiles

    Just an easy way to separate people's browsing histories, cookes, bookmarks, etc I guess. And you can have them sync independently as well. For if other people want to use the same computer

  • Framework supporting far-right racists?

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  • Well, I guess he has tried to make his views fairly plain on his blog. it's just a bit hard to find unless you're looking for it

  • Framework supporting far-right racists?

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  • i do want to point out how hard it is to even find out about the views of these people, if you just look up the names of the projects and aren't specifically looking for this information there's no way you'll find anything about it

    even looking up the name of David Heinemeier Hansson, the more vocally bad of these, i had to go to the 5th link to find anything even vaguely mentioning his views

  • sorry for the commercial

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  • Silksong was primarily developed by 3 people. For comparison, Baldur's Gate 3 was developed by around 300. There are probably more than 700 people making Battlefield 6.

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    Overly cool villains

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  • the main joke of the post is that the average screenwriter doesn't realize the standard audience will fall for the coolness factor over morals. It's also making fun of the formula being overused with these specific archetypes, the lack of morally complex heroes, etc.

    Although what another commenter said stood out to me more, the fact that a lot of lower quality media will make a character with obviously good aims who also does random evil stuff for no reason just so we still know he's supposed to be the bad guy. It's like they're trying to make a morally complex villain, but put in none of the effort and just create a nonsensical villain instead.

    So combining those ideas, I think the situation is that writers try to create a charismatic villain to fit with the norm and maybe add complexity to the experience. Except they don't give the villain an adequate reason to do evil things - They just come up with 1 common sense point for the villain to make and say "oh he took it too far and somehow murdering orphans is the natural result of that, don't question it". So in the end the audience sees a charismatic villain with a decent point who's only flaw is the random evil stuff they do for no reason. And it comes across as a lazy bad decision because that's what it is. People just aren't given a reason to dislike the villain when the evil stuff seems more like something the writer made them do than something that would actually occur.

    A higher effort example that doesn't mess this up is the new superman movie as another commenter said, the villain is also charismatic and also does comically evil things but the audience is actually given an understanding of him and how he thinks, which is convincing enough for people to accept that the villain really just is that evil.

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  • the pain of the Farseeir trilogy, or the pain of the stuff with Bee? idk what u mean

    i just read the first trilogy a month or so ago tho and it's peak, it's incredible how much she gets you to care about the characters

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  • this is kinda the vibe I got from the Star Wars prequels. like how tf does Anakin go to "well the sith could stop people from dying, and the jedis are kinda corrupt" to "let's kill random children!" in literally one scene with almost no convincing?? It seems like they think because he appreciates the sith's stated goal he'll do something obviously evil for them because "thinking that the people we want to be evil aren't evil == evil". The only way I can explain that bit away is if the sith guy did some sort of evil mind control thing in his moment of shock after accidentally hurting that jedi. IDK i know there are much more direct examples of what you're saying (like what hbomberguy was talking about in that rwby video) and this connection is kinda loose I just want to rant about that scene because I feel like I don't often hear people specifically talking about how little sense that bit makes...

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  • ollama is the usual one, they have install instructions on their GitHub i think, and a model repository, etc

    You can run something on your cpu if you don't care about speed, or on your gpu although you can't run any more intelligent model without a decent amount of vram

    For models to use, I recommend checking out the qwen distilled versions of deepseek r1