At that point decent emergency healthcare in remote locations like the upper Andes, remote mining camps, container ships, and antarctic research stations becomes possible. Parachute the robot surgeon in to the site, set up the mobile operating theater, and carve away. For that matter, it would make sense to send one along on lunar and deep space missions, both as surgeons and general fetch-and-steps.

This is wrong and literally dangerous.

Firstly a lot of people don't really understand the whole idea of a hybrid marketplace where it is a legit brand but also hosts ones selling dangerous crap. Especially most people don't realise that it's somehow fine for Amazon to sell stuff which is illegal. Amazon is hosting it, providing the storefront, processing the sale and payment. To most people that's selling.

And even if you do know, it's really hard to identify what's merely cheep cheese and actively dangerous. I'm confident with electrical stuff, being an engineer, I know what creepage is and so on, but this is so far beyond what most people know. Even generally competent people have a hard job spotting this from things outside their area of expertise. i doubt I could spot a dangerous ladder.

Tell me you dont care about your members without telling me you dont care about your members

They trust me, the dumb fucks.

He's ALREADY told people explicitly he doesn't care.

I had a friend who knew both Spanish and French. She decided to take up Portuguese because it was similar to both. At one point she got so confused she couldn't use any of the three!

There has been a wild amount of fabrication in published papers coming to light over the past decade

Some yeah.

because funding dries up when the outcome isn't what the people controlling the funds wanted.

You have no fucking clue what you're talking about.

So FreeCAD can also do programming. I did like OpenSCAD, especially minkowski sum. Downside though is it works on meshes not curves.

Since buying the original XBox I've personally picked it every generation. But perhaps not for the reasons MS would prefer. I've always bought consoles as both gaming device and multimedia player. XBMC, all the way to Kodi on my series X. PS always lagged in that regard.

I don't buy a lot of games. Less than one a year, and none since 2024. I'm the owner of what MS might call stranded hardware.

And now the Apple TV is so good I haven't turned on my XBox on in months.

So I get it. Guys like me freeloaded cheap hardware thanks to the game buyers, but we don't contribute to the revenue streams.

It's not about CMYK though - that's an even smaller gamut than RGB.

That depends on the RGB colourspace surely? But also...

For a photo editing program, you need a color space that is as large or larger than human vision.

Well you only need a gamut as large as the best device you are intending to display the image on.

Yeah like I said a small number of people really into photos need this.

Editing photos directly in RGB is the equivalent of a video production company (back in analog days) creating and editing videos exclusively on VHS tape. There's information loss every time you make a generation copy.

No, you don't generation loss in the same way. You may get loss entering the colourspace, IF any pixels saturate in either direction (i.e. are not representable in the new gamut), but you won't get any loss within the colourspace from the colourspace itself simply by doing stuff there. You might get quantization loss, of course, so you may well want more bits to avoid those accumulating.

But also my point stands: almost no one knows about that stuff, and based on the quality of stuff I see around and about a lot of professional stuff barely exceeds what you can do in MS Paint.

A lot, if not most, gold trades never involve metals physically changing hands, any more than stock trades involve you handing over paper certificates. Generally if you're a large buyer you purchase the gold from an exchange and it sits in their vault where the neighborhood meth head can't get to it.

A lot of Linux devs apparently think people want to work with native RGB pixels.

I think a small number of photo weenies think a lot of people are smashing it with advanced photo editing.

My personal observation is that this is not the case. The amount of professional (as in someone paid for it) signage and stuff that is utterly shit is frankly shocking. I'm talking about fucking weird contrast/colour correction, actual stretches (so round things aren't round), mucked up resolution so you can literally see nice chunky pixels, mismatched colours and so on and so forth.

Frankly I think that outside a rarefied segment of the very high end most people are not doing anything remotely advanced. I doubt they'd know CMYK if it ran up and bit them on the leg.

I don't have much by the way of current points of comparison, since I've only used FreeCAD recently. It's horribly easy to kind of mess up a model in a way it's hard to unpick. But I remember the beep of death from Pro/E and similar shenanigans from SolidWorks a number of years ago. I have noticed Rhino can do some really cool stuff but at the expense of not being parametric.

FreeCAD as of today feels way way easier to script properly than the big boys did back in the day. Plus runs on Linux (which is a huge advantage for me). I'm not trying to build a nuclear submarine or anything anyway.

It's not free. Someone has to pay for it. If you're saying the government will build it and then give the electricity away for free, where do you think the government got the money to build it?

So basically like roads then. Providing a free-at-point-of-use thing to make the country work.

This is as bad as Europeans crowing about "free" healthcare or higher education. It's not free.

It's free at point of use. Everyone except complete and utter morons know what that means especially as the NHS budget is the #1 most popular news item.

If the US and Europe were doing even half as much as China is to reduce emissions, the world would be in a much, much better place.

France already did, remember?

It's Germany that's the laggard here.

Then there is the example of the UK when Thatcher ruled. Most all public stuff sold off and the country has been fucked since. They did briefly lower the taxes though.

Kind of ironic from the "running out of other people#s money" person.

Oh who am I kidding. That seems to be the core tenet of conservatism: loudly yell about how the other guys are doing whatever it is you're actually doing.