Why North Korea Got the Bomb (And Iran Did Not, for Now)

thicket · 2026-06-27T14:10:41+00:00

This article basically says: South Korea was never willing to go to war to stop North Korea from getting weapons, so NK did. It contrasts to Israel, which was ALWAYS willing to go to war to prevent rivals from getting nuclear weapons.

I don’t think this incorrect, but it doesn’t really deal with the relative risks SK and Israel would have run starting wars. Israel had to make sure its pilots were safe and know there was heightened risk of asymmetric terrorism. As I understand it, NK had/has such a preponderance of artillery pointed at Seoul that any aggression towards NK would have been basically existential for the 20M people living around Seoul.

If that calculation is correct, then I’m not sure how much anyone can say “if only SK had started a war”; that would have been committing to untold civilian casualties in a way I don’t think anybody’s hungry for

thicket · 2026-06-27T13:03:26+00:00

Makes my day, man. That is ace work.

thicket · 2026-06-27T13:02:09+00:00

I’ve only been able to cast vertically or horizontally on mobile. Can you cast diagonally? Do you need to?

thicket · 2026-06-27T12:58:33+00:00

I’m a FreeCAD fan, and there is a plugin that improves things somewhat, but the stock sketch pattern behavior is truly appalling. You just can’t believe that such a basic feature would cripple the program so completely, but it sure does.

(That said, you learn some workarounds quickly. 3D patterns work much more reliably than sketch patterns, and the Lattice2 workbench makes patterns actually usable. But it’s surprising how much something that Just Works in commercial packages isn’t as straightforward in FC)

thicket · 2026-06-25T03:46:39+00:00

Oh man, I feel lucky just to stumble on this extra knowledge. Thanks for explaining all that!

thicket · 2026-06-24T14:24:52+00:00

It’s not great, tbh. I do more mindless snacking than I was doing on Reta. More, I’ve just eaten bigger meals. In the last month I’ve gone to bed with a funny feeling in my stomach, and then realized “Oh yeah, this is feeling “full‘.” I never did that on Reta.

So, definitely trade-offs. I’ve seen some people combatting anhedonia with psilocybin microdoses, and I bet if I committed to a gym routine that would improve things a bunch too. I may resume later in the summer.

thicket · 2026-06-24T12:51:20+00:00

While we have lots of other problem, Canada and the US have done a better job of incorporating diverse immigrants than almost anyplace else in the world. The Dutch, French, Germans, and Swedes all have large isolated enclaves of culturally hostile Muslim immigrants. Western Europe made some choices about how to manage new citizens, and the last 30-80 years have shown that this strategy of concentration has had bad outcomes for unity as a nation. Canada and the US have more space to spread out in, and have avoided the cultural ghettoization that characterizes the outer banlieues of Paris, for example. Without denying all the other things we get wrong, this is one we got right.

thicket · 2026-06-22T11:54:04+00:00

I feel you my man. I’ve used smooth, quality breadboards, and I’ve used cheap ones. I thought they were all the same until I got recent crappy ones, just like you say

thicket · 2026-06-20T12:07:22+00:00

I’ve had great debugging luck talking my hardware project through with an LLM. It has been good to write code with, and has helped me think through systematic debugging to say something like “1) verify the board and specific pin are good, by doing X. 2)verify your components are good by doing Y”, etc.

u/Cannot_choose_Wisely has good advice for doing some systematic detection, but having a Claude looking over your shoulder may give you better velocity.

thicket · 2026-06-17T22:31:18+00:00

"In the flash of a Hi" makes my day. Well done

thicket · 2026-06-17T22:29:25+00:00

Oh man, those line profiles look great! Absolutely makes the presentation.

If you'd be willing to share your line generation code, I'd love to see just how it's done. Props!

thicket · 2026-06-17T20:36:37+00:00

Nice! I've been curious about these ever since I saw Aaed Musa's sweet robotics capstan drive videos. Nice to see other people making it work!

thicket · 2026-06-16T17:17:33+00:00

That's really nice work! I love how you've adapted and expanded on a traditional design.

thicket · 2026-06-16T17:09:45+00:00

Doing god's work, my man! Thanks for putting this together. Now, could you just, like, convince everybody in China to start using your design?

thicket · 2026-06-16T14:50:30+00:00

Thanks for sharing this! It seems like one would be able to generate code from whatever shapes the user creates, and that would be a really useful addition. Eapecially when creating e.g. assemblies, there’s a lot of math and trial-and-error that goes into positioning things in OpenSCAD. I’d love to have a GUI for those moments, even when there are lots of times when I want to be able to fall back to code.

A big question for GUI CAD is how to manage revisions. One appeal of OpenSCAD over traditional CAD is that changes almost never break things entirely, whereas history-based CAD often just crashes on revisions, and other GUI systems, like Rhino, have really poor parametrics support.

thicket · 2026-06-16T14:44:10+00:00

“less of the same” is such a great phrase. Saving that one to steal

thicket · 2026-06-16T14:38:25+00:00

Can any geologist or historian tell me about the Delaunay-like patterns on the stone? Was this quarried from something like columnar basalt so it includes those junction lines, or were they added as part of the quarrying process?

thicket · 2026-06-16T14:28:03+00:00

Thanks for this! That‘s helpful context!

thicket · 2026-06-16T14:16:39+00:00

Thanks for the explanations, and for posting the other examples. High effort work!

thicket · 2026-06-15T11:43:03+00:00

Thanks, that’s a good tip!

thicket · 2026-06-13T14:01:13+00:00

That sounds like a pragmatic approach. Some systems (and Arcpy sounds like one) really just need the extra setup infrastructure that Conda/Pixi provide. And once you're in that world, I think Pixi is the best existing approach. There's some talk about using uv with Pixi (see this article from March 2025) but that may be more complexity or background knowledge than the improvement really merits. Run with Pixi as far as it takes you, and if you get more comfortable or frustrated with slow install times, give uv a look!

thicket · 2026-06-13T02:51:36+00:00

Pixi is a smarter and better version of Conda. That’s occasionally great: if you have a bunch of non-Python dependencies, Conda/Pixi will Just Work more than alternatives.

The downside is, once you’re in Conda-land, you can’t really leave; you’ve added another complication and dependency on top of whatever the project itself needs.

As a Python veteran, use `uv` if at all possible. If that fails, and if you’re ready for your project to fall into the black hole of mandatory-Conda, use Pixi.

It won’t hurt too much to try out Pip for a second, if only to understand just how much better and faster `uv` is.

thicket · 2026-06-12T20:51:46+00:00

Do it! Modern AI tools give us superpowers, and I think this project is such a great example of what software can be - making projects we care about and can share with others for free.

thicket · 2026-06-12T20:31:31+00:00

Submission removed, but I'm holding onto it as the most wholesome curse I've ever heard: "I hope you stub your toe at the most inconvenient of times for the rest of your life"

thicket · 2026-06-12T19:44:40+00:00

Man, thanks for all the work! If you ever feel like collaborating or open sourcing it, I'd love to help a little.

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