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NeatNit

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  • The Addams Family by Charles Addams

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  • Is there anything I'm missing here? There's no joke or twist or anything. Is it just world building? (Admittedly I haven't paid too much attention to your previous Addams Family posts so maybe this is just how they always are)

  • What’s the most tone-deaf advertisement or marketing campaign you’ve ever seen?

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  • Oh dammit, I need a new rug but I saw this commercial 2 weeks ago so they're definitely closed for good already. Guess I'll find another shop!

  • What do you know of something like this?

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  • Gimbals might be free-spinning or driven by motors, it depends on what they're used for, what their purpose is. Either way though, they usually don't move all that much, it's just shown in animation for demonstration purposes. (And in sci-fi because it's cool.)

    For example, there are camera gimbals which are designed to keep a mounted camera steady while the gimbal is held by a shaky human. In that case the gimbal only rotates as a counter-reaction to the rotation of the handheld part. If you have a steady hand, the gimbal would hardly move at all.

    I should note that camera gimbals don't look like those fancy rings, but mechanically they do the same thing.

    I can't tell you any more than that (frankly that's all I know), but since you seen interested you should take your time to read up on it and watch YouTube videos about it.

  • What do you know of something like this?

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  • Yes, and it's generally a bad thing.

  • What do you know of something like this?

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  • The same thing can happen with 4, 7, or 100 rings. If they are allowed to "flatten out" to a single plane, you get gimbal lock, no matter how many rings there are. However, more rings don't actually give more degrees of freedom. 4 rings are enough to provide all degrees of freedom plus guarantee that you never get gimbal lock, but only if you ensure that the innermost and outermost rings are perpendicular to each other at all times.

    As for the "meaning" behind it, sense of scale, or whatever you might be feeling, I have nothing to say. Gimbals can be built in all sizes.

  • What do you know of something like this?

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  • What you have animated in a gimbal. Gyroscopes are often mounted on gimbals to demonstrate how they resist changes to their axis of rotation. This is why many people associate gimbals with gyroscopes. I guess many people don't know the term gimbal, or have forgotten it.

    Anyway, as I said in a top-level comment, you should look up "gimbal lock" which is what happens when all the rings of the gimbal end up in the same plane.

  • What do you know of something like this?

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  • Look up "gimbal lock".

  • What software do you really wish had a different option that everything available now?

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  • Forgot to say: 1.1 has quite a lot of QoL improvements, so make sure you learn from a source made for 1.1 and not 1.0 or earlier.

  • What software do you really wish had a different option that everything available now?

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  • If it was good someone familiar with other CAD software would be able to switch to it without so many issues.

    I don't think this is true. Professional software is usually very hard to switch between. Be it CAD, video editing, 3D modeling, animation, programming, painting, freaking file sharing, or pretty much any other field of endeavor. Each program/tool/suite prescribes a certain workflow, and it almost never matches the workflow of another tool designed for the exact same purpose.

    For exactly the same reason, it's hard to switch between operating systems, especially if you're a power user who knows a lot about how things work in the OS you're used to. It's not a sign that either OS is better than the other, it's just how used the user is to a certain way of doing things.

    I think this is also why Adobe and Autodesk are still doing alright. A large part of their customer base are just people who would have too much friction switching to a different, better (imo) suite of tools, so staying with the tool they know is worth the cost.

    I don't know your situation, but from your comment I think I can recommend pushing through the re-learning period with FreeCAD. It's good.

  • Only me?

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  • What software do you really wish had a different option that everything available now?

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  • When's the last time you tried FreeCAD? I also used to think it's trash, but version 1.0 really changed that and now 1.1 is freaking amazing.

  • what will happen to all the datacenters when the bubble bursts?

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  • There was a dot-com bubble too. The internet was here to stay, but it was still a bubble. It's not an either-or situation.

  • Backend devs be like

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  • Oh, I see, you're essentially saying that the picture should have had the keyboard upside down to complete the joke. Gotcha.

    (FWIW I didn't downvote)

  • Backend devs be like

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  • Uhh but it's clearly not though?

  • Backend devs be like

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  • It's genuinely funny, I don't know what more you want. (I don't consider myself a frontend dev fwiw)

  • X rays

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  • I think a good doctor wouldn't even say it's safe. It's more accurate to say: the potential harm of a single x-ray is small/negligible, and the benefit of being able to correctly diagnose you and create an informed treatment plan is well worth that risk.

    Crossing the street isn't completely safe, but if you need to get to the other side, you take that risk because it's worth it. But you shouldn't cross the street willy nilly for no reason, that would be stupidly dangerous. It's kind of like that.

  • Has there ever been a show about a mixed-gender group of adult friends where there are no romantic entaglements within the group?

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  • They would have to think something awaits for them in the divine for resisting.

    https://youtu.be/jXO5axomU7Q (perhaps my favorite and most relatable Hank Green video in recent memory)

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    Suffering 🥲

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  • Can't believe I missed that. Thanks!

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    Suffering 🥲

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  • I don't work out and I don't see any difference whatsoever between the first two