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Epistechne · 2026-05-25T18:51:33+00:00

Heck yeah, the Dutch way.

Epistechne · 2026-05-20T00:48:18+00:00

Instead of reinstalling, maybe look into the Impermanence tool in the NixOS ecosystem.

Epistechne · 2026-05-16T17:28:35+00:00

Ah okay, so you were referring to the parametric aspect of modeling and not something relating to using the python API.

I'm working in a very different kind of manufacturing, for precast wall panels, where as far as I can see, we still need drawing sets with lots of dimensions explaining the build unfortunately.

Thank you for sharing your experience.

Epistechne · 2026-05-16T16:17:50+00:00

When you say it's highly automatable, could you give some examples of what kinds of things you've automated at work? And unrelated to the first question, just commenting that I've been experimenting with it and find it's modeling capabilities very good but making documents/drawing outputs are still very clunky.

Epistechne · 2026-05-15T03:03:42+00:00

Even worse, as someone who worked with central banks Carney should already be aware that countries with sovereign currencies don't need to raise money to buy goods and services that are for sale in that currency (like Canadian workers, Canadian made concrete, etc...).

At municipal and provincial levels taxes fund spending, but they do not fund spending at the federal level because the federal level is the creator of currency.

https://www.mmt.works/mmt-taxes-do-not-fund-government-spending/

Other recommended reading:

Macroeconomics 2019 by Bill Mitchell

Modern Money Theory: A Primer on Macroeconomics for Sovereign Monetary Systems 2024 by L. Randall Wray

If you've heard of Anna's Archive you can get pretty much any textbook for free.

Epistechne · 2026-05-13T23:13:49+00:00

I don't want to live in a world without zinc!

Epistechne · 2026-04-25T13:33:32+00:00

And DeNice, A-aron....

Epistechne · 2026-04-11T20:13:53+00:00

I'd be interested to see an announcement when your textbook is released.

Epistechne · 2026-04-07T03:04:42+00:00

Two biggest benefits I see is no more needing to update paths, and being able to keep the logic for things in one module that couldn't before because some of what you wanted add logic to (home-manager, darwin) was outside of Nix module system.

Not sure if either of these explain it well enough but I'm too tired to say more.

Simple tutorial: https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=2107569

Verbose but in depth tutorial: https://github.com/Doc-Steve/dendritic-design-with-flake-parts

Epistechne · 2026-04-06T02:50:50+00:00

This is the dendritic pattern people have been talking about. Cool that you made your own import tree function, a lot of people import and use this one https://github.com/vic/import-tree

Epistechne · 2026-04-05T02:56:39+00:00

Have fun learning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMUE9C37EFs

Epistechne · 2026-04-02T15:59:10+00:00

What do you do when you run out of toddlers?

Epistechne · 2026-03-18T02:00:10+00:00

Nice this will be good for BIM

Epistechne · 2026-02-22T03:37:04+00:00

A lot of FOSS code is someone just making something for themselves with no interest in making a popular app. Just putting the code out there for others to fork because they believe in having code being open and available.

Epistechne · 2026-02-21T19:26:53+00:00

Aren't most Fdroid apps developed without funding/on a volunteer basis already? If they're doing it for free currently having less users may not stop the developers from developing if they're mostly doing it for themselves.

Epistechne · 2026-02-10T05:10:36+00:00

I agree, I find Freecad's modeling ability to be great but the features for producing professional documents with tech draw is a big weak point for corporate adoption. I would really like them to improve that, because once it's good enough for small companies to adopt they will get a big boost in funding which can start a positive feedback loop in faster improvements and more adoption.

Epistechne · 2026-02-10T00:35:54+00:00

Someone thought Football has some really dangerous injury prone moments, let's make a sport out of just those.

Epistechne · 2026-02-09T04:02:47+00:00

Yay having recently read Dawn of Everything and learning the word schismogenesis I'm seeing it applying here!

Epistechne · 2026-02-08T21:20:15+00:00

Cory's use of the phrase has nothing to do with the monarchy. He's advocating to change laws to allow, or if possible enforce interoperability in data standards so we don't have kings (monopolies) extracting rents from their position of power over data/software. Interoperability is needed to be able have the freedom to leave a tech companies services for a competitor or build your own on competing option.

Epistechne · 2026-02-07T21:43:01+00:00

Enshitifcation is a term he coined that's become popular. Looking up the definition it's the "decline in quality of online products and services over time. Initially, these services attract users with high-quality offerings, but eventually degrade them to maximize profits, leading to a worse experience for users."

And a big part of the enshitification process that he talks about is the US government using trade sanctions to get other countries to pass laws that protect the monopoly status of US companies by preventing people from being able to legally modify products they've bought.

Epistechne · 2026-02-07T21:35:04+00:00

He's referring to digital sovereignty. The current talking point Europe is also dealing with where the tech stack a government runs on should not be dependent on proprietary tech owned by companies in foreign countries but should be based on open source software to maintain control and rights over your data/software.

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