Absolutely. It’s better with WFH as I have started to just browse the polygon mammal site or do laundry when this happens, but I used to really struggle in the office, feeling like I need to look busy.

https://hellgatenyc.com/trial-cuny-protests/

Cursed

Weirdly I was doing the same to various other texts “stop arming Israel” etc and they didn’t stop until I sent the single word “stop”

Thank you all for the sources! I had only seen it from wwiiimpressions.com but a) they’re chuds (predictably) and b) they’re sold out. But I got a great pair of boots from them once upon a time.

Yeah, I know some of that exists; it never showed up in my world. We never modeled buildings with enough detail to make it really useful. Occasionally someone would get excited about Tekla and we’d spend some time trying to do shop drawing reviews in 3D and then go back to PDF. What I meant was that it isn’t yet a standard thing that is understood by any technician in the industry, it’s proprietary software that is subject to change with every release.

That’s real cute. Some of the WWII denim stuff is really dumb and cute. the navy had a shawl collar denim work jacket! so silly!

Prints have a design language to them which allows you to express fully constrained geometric designs on a napkin if you need to. Dimensions, radii, diameters, angles, datums, positions, projections, sections, GD&T. None of this is obvious in a 3D model. You don’t know what the driving dimensions are, what can be inferred from other dimensions, if it is a coincidence or a requirement that two features line up, etc.

This is so critical. In architecture and structural engineering, you can add to this that you don’t actually know a lot of the real dimensions - you’re laying out the important ones from the structural grid or from survey points, and whatever is left doesn’t matter.

Even markup, at least in a design environment, can be done in 3D (or at least on a computer), but the communication of constraints, that is, what dimensions are important and which are irrelevant or unknowable has not yet been developed in 3D models, and I suspect it will be some time before any useful language for that purpose stabilizes.

I am a pale bald man and thus require protection from the elements. I also have always loved hats, and I was definitely a fedora kid.

Personally, I prefer smaller hats and caps for the city, especially if I’m riding a bike. I wear cycling caps, bucket hats, factory caps, berets, etc.

I like proper hats, but have found that both the fedora or teardrop crown and the cattleman crown have too much stigma. Instead I generally wear a telescope crown, that is similar to a pork pie. I currently only have one such hat, a really big palm leaf straw, and it feels pretty audacious to wear in the city. I used to have a smaller one, with only a 2” brim, and that felt quite at home. I also used to have some felt hats in the same shape, but they needed too much care and are expensive to replace, so I have not.

Ugh you’re right I clearly don’t read enough r/AITA

This guy either does not know binary or has a weird idea of what constitutes a child

Maoist girlfriend probably already owns a film studio

Heard on the street: Guy: Dude, why’d you break up with your girlfriend? She is both hot and rich! Dude: her politics are incoherent! She is a Maoist but loves Hamas!

Yeah if the URL is an image it will display it. Markdown is fun.

When you put an image (not an emote) in a post:

You put the alt text in the square brackets that precede the image url, like this:

![a covered bridge](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/2b58baa3-293a-4a03-9736-43cc8d8d79f7.jpeg)

Username checks out, vihart enjoyer

A friend of mine used generative AI trained on his own work as a way to identify themes he wasn’t aware he was using. It was pretty cool

Yeah, that was mentioned by OP and when I wrote that I thought to myself “well there is one inherent negative”. I think if it were better understood what this costs society, and if not for capitalism, we could use it sparingly.

If you can’t breathe as slowly as instructed, breathe a little faster; whatever it takes to keep it smooth. Then slow down as you improve. I find when I’m anxious I can’t breathe smoothly, and sometimes breathing exercise works and I get back to a smooth, slow breath. Other times I just can’t relax long enough to calm down. Be easy on yourself and take small steps.

These are incredible.

I think you’re right that the problems with AI are really problems with how we think of intellectual property under capitalism. Why would we begrudge a robot making cool stuff, if not for the livelihoods of working class artists depending on keeping the price of cool stuff at a sustainable level?