Devoted to my family. Throwing ideas out there that I find intriguing. Spent 41 years investigating the computer-aided design industry. (Photo taken in 1976.)
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Ralph Grabowski retweeted
Slop indeed 🌿 Awareness is important but such comparisons confuse more than help. Wish more headlines focused on facts. Thank You 🙏 for the honest share
Once in a while, I come across a true deep thinker.
Baldur Bjarnason is one such, "Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland" about the implications of software.
baldurbjarnason.com/essays/
"@AnthropicAI is trapped by capital.
Another way of saying it’s 'trapped by capital' is that it’s a victim of its own greed and vanity."
- Andrew Orlowski
It's interesting watching iFans circling this strange new tech, like circling the monolith in '2001' tentatively jabbing a finger.
TIP: Its interface is useful for speed, such as tapping a button directly (instead of moving over the mouse ), swiping through documents, and so on.
"These cyber exchange systems free-ride on Bitcoin’s reputation for censorship resistance, while running the same old model the banks have always done, albeit without the safeguards for everyday depositors."
- Izabella Kaminska
Cash in the bank:
* Guaranteed by deposit insurance
* Always available
* Useable in any store
* Fully fungable
Ralph Grabowski retweeted
Or permitting or getting construction docs approved. Or any form of interaction that involves anyone else
Ralph Grabowski retweeted
Exactly. Even in 3D printing, a controlled environment is everything. One unexpected variable and the print fails. Ask my failed prints. Now imagine that on a construction site with mud and rain.
"The startup aims to replace cumbersome, outdated AEC tools like @Autodesk’s AutoCAD and Revit."
dreamhq.com/
Ralph Grabowski retweeted
Same in additive. I can print a wall in a heated chamber all day long. On a muddy site in the wind and rain? Whole different story.
Actually, they're not.
Look at how long the tech industry has been coming up with construction site robotics, and construction sites not using robots.
Pre-fab walls and roofs are rare.
The failure points:
* Building outdoors
* In the elements
* On ground with unknown conditions.
The Web site shouldichargemycar.com/ tells me if it is cheaper to charge my Phev, or not -- based on the price of gas.
For me, charging is 80% cheaper than filling with gasoline.
