To us, it's a life skill. To a non-technical person, it's black magic.
Some folks had to be taught on how folder structures work because they grew up with the appliance we called a "phone" as opposed to a real computer that also happened to be known as a "phone".
I can assure you that plenty of people who were using computers before smartphones, and who have used them every day at work for decades, also do not grasp what we could consider the very basics of file management.
I think.. the way to understand it is: levels. After all, files as the abstractions work with are not exactly there in the form of files in a cabinet. In a sense, even names are made made up fiction, BUT.. a helpful one.
> To us, it's a life skill. To a non-technical person, it's black magic.
I’m sorry, but “this text is black on black background; the actual letters are still there” isn’t “black magic” unless someone is being deliberately obtuse.
So I don't know your specialty, but I'm going to make a wild guess and assume that it isn't stage magic.
State magicians have a whole range of different ways to make something seem like it's levitating, or to apparently get a signed playing card inside a fruit that they get someone in the audience to cut open to reveal.
To a magician, these things are cute, not mysterious.
To the general public… a significant percentage have problems with paged results and scroll bars. Including my dad, who developed military IFF simulation software before he retired, and then spent several years of retirement using Google before realising it gave more than three results at a time.
Would he, with experience working with the military, have made this soecific mistake about redaction? Perhaps, perhaps not, but the level of ignorance was well within his range. (I'm not better, it's just my ignorance is e.g. setting fire to resistors).
Your analogy fails because the purpose of stage magic is concealing what’s going on. That’s not what happened here. Someone just made a really stupid mistake that even non-technical folks can accidentally discover.
There are undoubtedly some people who would be fooled by this, but you don’t have to be technical in order to not be one of them.
Until we are able to fix the environment and culture, we're stuck with medications like this. The good news is that glp1 medicine can be used to break addictive behaviors, so it is the very tool that can help change our environment by reducing demand for junk food.
I let the library do the heavy lifting(BOLS2) these days. I want to contribute to it but hadn't mastered the many features of the library just yet.
Some of the features I used:
* Attachment & align. I can attach things to faces and I can align things to edges as needed.I wasn't super clear on how it work in the class, but I found that doing a simple exercise of aligning objects around the face of a cube increase my knowledge how it all work and my confidence.
* Chamfer. I am aware of some sort of fillet feature or rounding features but I mostly stick to chamfering my design for now.
* Teardrop shape. Mostly because I need it due to the constraint in FDM 3D printing.
* Some simple shorthand like right, left, up, down for when I don't want to use translate([x,y,z]).
* Constants and directions such as FRONT, BACK, LEFT, RIGHT, and so on, which can be applied to basic shapes.
* Diff. It works differently than openscad's standard
difference and as far as I can tell very powerful if you understand how it goes together. I have difficulty in the past in figuring out how to use it, but once it does work, it's very cool. I planned to do an exercise so that I can better understand how it all works.
BOLS2 as far as I can tell is a very deep library so there's lot to learn. I would love to start contributing to it.
Anyway, a lot of OpenSCAD's flaws could be attributed to a lack of library development. I handrolled my own library to use in different projects before I realized that BOLS2 did everything that I could do but better.
Yep. I am no stranger to using Fusion 360 and OnShape. Not really an expert, however.
Now, in the course of using it, I have issues with these tools as well. A lot of it is just getting used to the interface and the overwhelming complexity. They are not intuitive at all to use. Messing up required debugging why I am in a particular state. It's hard to figure out where the things I need are located. I am fairly certain that I would be real good at it if I stick at it long enough, but I invested more time and energy into OpenSCAD.
I am uncertain as to what you mean by constraint based modeling. I know I used it in these programs, but I don't really need these features nor do I need to do a lot of math in OpenSCAD that I would have need to use without a library. Maybe BOLS2 does do a lot of constraint modeling for me, but the documentation never talked about that with me. All I know is that I don't need to do as much math as I used to.
Rather, my complaint about OpenSCAD is legibility of objects and barebone UI features. Sometime, I don't know which is the front or back of the object, or maybe I want to know certain parameters of the objects unless you do the work beforehand. I want to know something like object.x and object.y for example, or the final compounded object width. Being able to pass information from one object to another is useful but that is lacking in some aspect of the language.
Just being able to label things in OpenSCAD would be tremendously useful for me.
Now, you can program in OpenSCAD with python, which seems to be a gamechanger. However, I have no idea on how it would interact with BOLS2, so I am kind reluctant to try it, but it would make objects in OpenSCAD much more legible to use.
The functional nature of openscad felt like a straitjacket at time but it did force me to get very familiar with recursion and all sort of ways on how to manipulate arrays. So I credited OpenSCAD for stretching my capability as a programmer. I still don't like recursion.
That said, despite the challenge of learning how to use BOLS2 for OpenSCAD, I am loving it especially when I finally grasped how a part of the library work.
The way I learned CAD is the same way I approach programming projects. I tackle simple, bite size projects, which then increase in complexity until I have the skills necessary to tackle big complicated projects.
I found that standard CAD to be no simpler than OpenSCAD. Really, the biggest disadvantages that OpenSCAD have is usability and a library which is fixed by using BOLS2.
BOLS2 has the same problem as standard CAD, it is overwhelmingly big. In some cases, I didn't know features were already in BOLS2 so I don't have to reinvent the wheel writing my own inferior library.
So, how to tackle it? Same thing as any learning projects. I just tackle it in bite size chunk.
And they should be catching a lot of flak for it because it's not really long term strategic planning, it's overhyping a technology and running roughshod over society promoting misuses and AI slops.
Although I'm the first to agree with this, it is actually commendable in the sense that it breaks with the quarterly profits approach.
Like meta with the metaverse thing, I hate it with a passion, but pouring billions yearly with little return just to support your vision is at least a break with tradition...
It's both. You don't want to tax capital and income. VAT and sale tax are a bad idea too, especially since they're regressive.
So, what do you tax? You tax land and land-like things, non-reproducible privileges(like patents and copyright), pollution and other negative externality.
Now, there's an argument to be made that we couldn't possibly be able to fund governments on the back of these taxes. Fair enough, but it should mean we minimize those taxes until the economy grows enough to fund government services.
An ideal LVT would tax the full economic rent of the land, but that's unlikely to happen. We don't want to overshoot 100% because that would cause land abandonment.
So in theory, LVT could collect more tax than the state needs to fund services. If that happen, it would be distributed as a Citizen's Dividend.
I am skeptical that we wouldn't be able to find a productive use for government spending, but that's a discussion for citizens of a Georgist state to have.
Also, Georgist policies would discourage the existence billionaires and other people with extreme wealth simply because a lot of their wealth came out of economic rent.
I never understood this Georgist argument. The richest people in the world today require very little land. Remote working is easily possible and plenty of companies use it, even if managers don't always like it. This feels like a medieval perspective.
Georgists aren't frozen in time, nor had they ever been limited to just taxing "land". We consider any economic "land" fair game. We even discussed network effects that allow companies like instagram retain a monopoly.
In any case, California are where some of the most powerful tech monopoly are located, and not coincidentally it's also where some of the most expensive land there is.
Just my opinion as a Georgist amongst many, I would categorize copyright and patents as non-reproducible privilege rather than economic land though non-reproducible privilege also describes private ownership of land. It's very clear that it's artificial, as ideas do not suffer from the exclusivity problem that comes with owning physical land. What IP has in common with owning land is the extraction of economic rent.
Economic land is anything that's fixed, finite, and not man-made, such as land, the electromagnetic spectrum, and orbitals.
Services like amazon and instagram are something of a puzzle to Georgists, but it's at least clear that Amazon and instagram benefits from labor and effort of the platform users. Without people selling on Amazon, there's no amazon. Without users, there's no reasons to be on instagram. To be perfectly clear, platform companies obviously put in labor to build their services, but the network effect isn't entirely of their own making.
Look at the green blue and red bars on the what happened summaries. Almost everyone here agrees with each other (mostly green) even on the most controversial issues, which what happened let's you sort by.
I can't wait for what happened IN THE WORLD!!!
that green bar is not a coincidence in a codified echo chamber.
Almost no one is allowed to disagree with the consensus here and then only in a particular way. Some dissent is outright banned.
Like for example, try suggesting any of the following ideas: Trump is misunderstood, feminism is bad for women, mrna shots aren't vaccines, vc increases pain, suffering and failure, etc.
No discussion like that, among countless other ideas will get your account immediately shadow banned.
So it appears that there's consensus about what "truth" is, as proven now by what happened's green and red bars, but in reality contrarians are forced to lurk.
And what I just said only touches the surface of the many significant issues with this community.
Go deeper and you find some sinister tactics being used to control the narrative.
Good luck seeing this post. I know it was a waste of time to write it.
If you look at the site in question closer, it states that the "green, blue, and red bars" mean "constructive, technical, and flame war".
If I had to guess, you likely have some heavy premises that blind you from engaging with the content of a post. I'm not going to pretend there isn't some truth in your premises, however I would imagine there would be "many significant issues with [any] community" if we all operated this carelessly.
Land prices are subject to speculative bubbles as well. The only way to get rid of speculation in the real estate market is to drive the price of land down to zero by taxing it.
You also need a lot of money to purchase land, so this effectively allows banks to make a lot of money on overly inflated price of land.
Land by itself doesn't generate wealth, only improvements on top of it does. Only problem is that we tax improvement along with the land, leading to the perverse incentive that building anything increases your tax burden. We call them property tax.
We're getting into the weeds, but the goal is usually to own your home free and clear by the time you retire, reducing your income needs from retirement to death by not having a non discretionary housing payment. The wealth in most homes cannot be tapped until sold, death, or stripping the equity (HELOC or reverse mortgage) and hoping you die with zero.
You can sort of think of a house as an I bond you can live in [1], and the return is the equity gains (historically). You need lots of money to buy land because demand outstrips supply, there is a shortage of ~4M housing units in the US, and the pipeline for building new housing was permanently impaired after the 2008 global financial crisis. We will never build as fast as we used to as we go into structural demographic labor shortages in the US; the value of existing real estate is ancient embodied construction productivity and material costs, similar to how oil is ancient sunlight.
Drive down the price of land to zero via taxation and you cannot use that home to reduce your income need from retirement. It will force them to sell the property to make way for further development, since the cost of land is no longer so high that you need to borrow money from the bank to purchase land, only to pay the ongoing taxes.
Some folks had to be taught on how folder structures work because they grew up with the appliance we called a "phone" as opposed to a real computer that also happened to be known as a "phone".
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