Really enjoyed the article! I'm someone who could never afford 40K as a kid, but since gettinga 3D printer have been fascinated by the potential for printing minis and toys for my own kids. I'd definitely be planning to print my kids minis if they show an interest in future, now I have some knowledge and experience, especially as I find the games workshop business model too predatory for my liking. I'd much rather buy smaller artists model designs and stick to only heading down official routes for rulebooks, codexes and lore.
I'm seeing a lot of people in comments dismiss FMD printers for minis, and thought I'd highlight the work of a youtuber called 'Once in a six side' who did a deep-dive into FDM mini pronting and got some really impressive results with even stock settings and basic PLA filament (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8fuNDTQJCY).
Once he really explored support placement, settings and ideal configurations his best prints rivalled resin in some cases once painted. Really cool to see as someone who isn't interested in messing with resin anytime soon.
Meh. The rest of the world also doesn't have big salaries for software devs. The US is the outlier.
It's not just the labor regulations holding Europe back, it's the lack of funding due to not having a unified European digital market.
Netflix Europe needs to have 20+ licensing deals. Selling across Europe at a large scale requires interactions with 20+ legal teams. Language and cultural barriers kill a lot of things.
How do US giants thrive in Europe, then?
Because they come in as giants from the US. They either ignore legal compliance until sued or pay peanuts for them to handle all the legal aspects.
Where have you been able to find ultralight springs available to consumers? I was looking into this last week and the 10-20g ones were only available straight from the factory in South Korea with shipping costing $200... I was happy to get them and swap them out, but that shipping pricetag was too much of a highway robbery.
> Claude models understand the Skill format and structure natively. You don't need special system prompts or a "writing skills" skill to get Claude to help create Skills. Simply ask Claude to create a Skill and it will generate properly structured SKILL.md content with appropriate frontmatter and body content.
I might be misremembering, but if I remember correctly, back in 2019 Windows' pre-installed calculator had an interesting issue with the Japanese era change in 2019 from Heisei to Reiwa, due to Emperor Akihito's abdication and the succession of his son Emperor Naruhito. I was not personally involved with this issue but I was aware of it as I was working on the Windows team at Microsoft at that time.
The announced plan was that Akihito would abdicate on April 30 and Naruhito would take the throne on May 1, so that Jan 1-Apr 30, 2019 would be Heisei 31 (平成31年) and May 1-Dec 31 would be Reiwa 1/Reiwa Gannen (令和元年).
The issue was with Windows Calculator's date calculation. If you ask it which day is 61 days after April 1, 2019, it correctly calculates June 1, 2019. The question, though, is what if you have your Windows settings set to show the Japanese era year - should it show "2019" in "June 1, 2019" as Heisei 31 or Reiwa 1?
If I remember right, the answer chosen was "it depends on when your computer's current clock time is!" In other words, if you ask Calculator while your PC's clock is set to April 2019 or earlier, it "wrongly" shows June 1, 2019 as in Heisei 31, but if your clock is set to May 2019 or later, June 1, 2019 is "correctly" shown as in Reiwa 1.
(I forget whether this problem was solved in the calculator app itself or whether it inherited the solution from Windows' date and time formatting code.)
The justification was that the change of era would only be finalized when Akihito actually abdicated. In modern times, Akihito's abdication was the first time that the era changed without the reigning emperor dying. Calculator acting as if it knew before May 1, 2019 that Reiwa would begin on that day would thus be in bad taste, because it would be the moral equivalent of Calculator predicting or wishing for Akihito's death on April 30 - never mind that it was already well known that Akihito would abdicate on that day instead.
A driver's license needs to be legible by foreigners when you travel abroad. The cops aren't going to bother looking up Kanji to figure out whether your license is valid, so the dates had better be printed in Gregorian.
Manager List eliminates the proposal gap by turning your discovery call into a live closing session. Present services, adjust pricing in real-time, and capture signatures before you hang up—no PDFs, no follow-up emails, no ghosting.
I wonder what the best way to do it would be. The stupid simple way might be to adjust SP before the call instruction, and that seems to me like something that would be relatively efficient (simple addition instruction, issued very early).
It doesn't really matter where I live. In any case, "worksforme" ia not a solution.
We are discussing a supposedly global standard, which should work and be better for everyone, including Russia, China, Iran, everyone.
You know, Western politicians usually have exactly the same desires as their authoritarian Eastern counterparts, they are just unable to express them publicly. But hey, ipv6 is a niche problem discussed only by geeks, they don't actually have to say anything publicly about it, they can just silently sabotage its implementation.
China obviously has a state security service, but it doesn't really matter, I used FSB as a generic term for a law enforcement agency which tells ISPs what to do.
Glad this exists but skeptical about enforcement, particularly for any data broker hosting outside of the US.
My phone number is on the national Do Not Call registry and that isn't stopping me from getting 1-2 calls a day from loan scam companies (and they are literally calling from a different phone number every time, so there's no real way to block them).
You do know that "it" can refer to two different things at different times, right? In this case the action, which had everything to do with the election, and the charges, which had nothing to do with it.
You'd be surprised what you can do with Claude Code. Pick any mature programming language, including niche ones like Ada and treat the project seriously. Write detailed agent files, features spec files, start from the bottom with CI/CD and set up a test suite, coding guidelines, static analysis. Be careful to create a consistent architecture and code base early.
You'll get a lot further and faster than you'd expect.
Things will probably plateau as you master the new tech, but it's possible you'll not write a ton of code manually along the way.
Oh, your general software development experience should help with debugging the weird corner cases.
I imagine it's really hard to do this with 0 software dev experience, for example. Yeah, you'll build some simple things but you'll need and entire tech education to put anything complex in prod.
The standard configuration of OneDrive also loves to "steal" files from your local machine. It will upload to the cloud, and then delete the local copy. Which is a great surprise the first time you are offline to discover that the files that were there are now inaccessible.
Cory Doctorow waxed lyrical for many years about the ability to 3d-print clothes and other Maslow-hierarchy needs. Even the most experimental of designs haven't approached that yet... and I think we'd now be scared of increased PFAS levels even if we could.
But not everyone was on dial-up. A lot were in dorms w/ (for the time) high speed connections or workplaces with it.
Remember at the time it wasn't clear that search was going to be the dominate pattern for how people found information on the web. It seems crazy now, but in the early days of the web, the space was small enough that a directory-style approach worked pretty well. It was Yahoo's directory that made it initially popular, not its search.
And so there was a fair bit of debate on which was better -- something like a directory + search (a la Yahoo!) vs just search.
It took a bit of time before search proved if it was done really well, you didn't need a directory.
I'm seeing a lot of people in comments dismiss FMD printers for minis, and thought I'd highlight the work of a youtuber called 'Once in a six side' who did a deep-dive into FDM mini pronting and got some really impressive results with even stock settings and basic PLA filament (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8fuNDTQJCY).
Once he really explored support placement, settings and ideal configurations his best prints rivalled resin in some cases once painted. Really cool to see as someone who isn't interested in messing with resin anytime soon.