fantastic. very interactive and artistic. fun game almost.

"all LLMs" - OP only tested OpenAI LLMs. Try Gemini.

Premise of article is wrong. Kids do get excited about the same things as adults; novel and intriguing things within reach. These things just aren't exciting any more to adults. That's the only difference. An adult that's never been on a train, but never could, or was never allowed, will find it exciting too.

I'm still excited about flying on a plane even though I've done it dozens of times.

The planes are okay... But the airports... omg they suck so hard.

Trains and train stations on the other hand, even though I use them so regularly, are still super nice. I wouldn't say "exciting" but very nice.

That's why I'm so angry that the French government and railway company keep making trains and stations more and more like airports and airplanes.

I love airports. The people watching there is just phenomenal. I always get to my flight like 4 hours ahead of time just to sit in the busy concourse and watch the people. They're fascinating.

It's interesting to compare a European perspective with an American one.

In the US, the train stations I've seen range from unremarkable to downright filthy. The one station I found interesting was New York Penn Station, which I would favorably rate as on par with an average airport.

European airports have gone massively downhill in the last decade.

Try getting a sit down meal with table service anywhere. Nope, you’re queuing for a shit, dry/soggy brötchen.

The lounges aren’t even worth it anymore either.

I worked with several imaging and computer vision people at the rijksmuseum, including authors of this project. This team is actually extremely competent and professional. Usually surprising for governmental institutions, but this one is ace.

Decent analogy. I wonder how many techies have ever used a belt sander. Or have one. I think very, very few.

I have not used a belt sander! I prefer to start with a planer, then use an orbital sander! Generally work from 60 grit up to 220 depending on the surface. Popping the grain and covering the whole surface in pencil marks in between each!

For anyone seriously interested in how to get a great finishing with sanding here’s the guide I follow:

https://www.blacktailstudio.com/blog/how-to-sand-wood-proper...

Thanks for posting it! Good point about adding the right lighting rig, haven't thought about.

I use a planer a lot but I'm still struggling with making multiple passes down a wide piece of wood. I often end up with grooves. I've gotten better over time but I'm still not happy with the results.

If it’s a particularly wide piece of wood you could try a router planning jig. I think these are used with slabs

Otherwise you could try and get access to a CNC or a large industrial belt sander

Your assumption is quite wrong.

https://www.zainrizvi.io/blog/why-software-engineers-like-wo...

What does this suppose to prove? The OP said "very few" not none. Of course there will be a few anecdotes of overlap.

A better way would be to compare the size of Stack Exchange boards at https://stackexchange.com/sites . It's not perfect but it's as good as it can get. Stack Overflow has 26 million users. Woodworking has 17 thousand. A fraction.

Further still, not every woodworker will use a belt sander. It's used for a specific purpose (large flat surfaces) and it's not a beginner's tool. So the fraction gets smaller. I'd say the assumption stands.

You and him are incorrigible. Him for the naive assumption and stereotype that “techies” don’t do any manual trades or crafts, you for looking at the count of activity on stack fucking overflow for woodworking.

That's not the assumption I got from the OP's comment. What I got was - and I agree - that the intersection between the members of the technical field (specifically those responsible for apps UI) and the members of the woodworking field who also use an advanced, single-purpose tool is tiny. The assumption will be the same if you replace the belt sander with a guitar amplifier, a lawn aerator, or a pressure canner and woodworking with their respective hobbies.

If you have better data that shows an overlap between those in the technical field and those that do woodworking with highly specialized tools, I'm all ears; I'm willing to be convinced otherwise.

In the meantime, here's another anecdote for you - I do woodworking (and gardening and constructions) and I don't own a belt sander.

Woodworking is a popular hobby where it's possible.

But the tech market is centered in cities where owing a garage with tools in your 20s isn't possible.

decent starter guide for 28 nodes scale. Would be cute to do a follow up around how to do health checks. Eg catching your transceivers from overheating, etc.

This post is outdated. The 2021 update sucked. They quickly fixed these issues.

I just peeked at the display in a fully updated Tesla. There is no visible defog button.

Not sure what the data source is, but I crossed referenced with local news of pedestrian traffic deaths, and they aren't showing up on the map.

If you make a ring as simple like this, just sandcast it. I also think the imperfections in these one-off rings are highly desirable, and emphasise the fact that it's unique.

Imperfections as signs of uniqueness is a beautiful perspective

On MacOS, any app that access data in an odd location will pop up asking for permission first anyway.

A popup that looks like “Some app would like permission for your Documents folder” with OK already selected in blue.