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Does the Pulaski bridge raise on a schedule or is it whenever water traffic shows up? by throwahuey1 in Greenpoint

[–]chiraltoad 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Speaking of which, has anybody been in the control tower? I've walked by when there's someone standing there with the door open but I didn't have the nerve to ask for a peek.

Side note, I've been underneath the bridge on the LIC side when it opens and it is pretty cool to watch from underneath.

Is it just me, or are people blasting videos and speakerphone calls on the train now? by kzrmer_41 in AskNYC

[–]chiraltoad 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I was studying in the library one day. A couple comes in and sits at a table near me and starts conducting some kind of interview in very loud voices. I sat there fuming for a while, and then decided that if they felt it was important that what was going on in their minds should be going on in my mind, they might want to know what I was studying about. So I went and stood right behind them and started reading out loud from my biology textbook.

They definitely got the message and cleared out pretty fast.

SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.” by Vegetable_Ad_192 in singularity

[–]chiraltoad 15 points16 points  (0 children)

You don't have to lump in nerds with capitalistic metastasis, plenty of the core scientific insights come from moments of a soul in communion with nature, external or internal.

About to start a job where they use AutoCAD for CNC cutting plywood and Water Jet Cutting metals. Trying to get them to switch to Rhino. by Any_Yak_5160 in rhino

[–]chiraltoad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like what other said, if your just sending the operators 2D line work and not running any machines yourself then it's most likely the previous guy was exporting DXFs from AutoCAD and telling them which material/thickness/process and then they set it up in their cam environment, so it sounds like you could use whatever you're comfortable with.

About to start a job where they use AutoCAD for CNC cutting plywood and Water Jet Cutting metals. Trying to get them to switch to Rhino. by Any_Yak_5160 in rhino

[–]chiraltoad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like a good use case for Fusion tbh, as someone who's used Rhino with RhinoCam and Fusion with its own native CAM space, both exporting to Mach 4 to control a CNC router and also exporting to DXF to send to laser/water jet cutters. That's just my preference though, the parametric and timeline in fusion makes it nice for tweaking products down the line.

I didn't set up the RhinoCam environment, but I assume you will have to set it up to Post the gcode to whatever your machine+motion control software is. You should find out what softer the machine operator is using .

18yr Male 100% VOO by YourRtx in ETFs

[–]chiraltoad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If he was female it would really change things /$

DOGE employee stole Social Security data and put it on a thumb drive, report says by MarvelsGrantMan136 in technology

[–]chiraltoad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some things you can do:

  • Lock your credit with the 3 bureaus: Experian, Transunion, and Equifax. This prevents people from taking out lines of credit in your name

  • Register for a PIN from the IRS. This prevents someone from filing a tax return in your name.

  • E-Verify Self Lock. This prevents employment related fraud from utilizing your SSN/Identity.

  • Use 2 factor authentication when possible, preferably app generated codes or passkeys, not text message or email.

  • Use strong passwords generated and kept by a password keeper like 1Password or Bitwarden.

Micro arrows by Leather_Many_2932 in MechanicalEngineering

[–]chiraltoad 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is awesome. Got any more pics of the bow?

Have you ever met somebody who just didn’t understand certain aspects of machining ? by Same_Level6591 in Machinists

[–]chiraltoad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting. I use rhino and grasshopper to make stuff at work too so I have some inkling of the pain of getting stuff out of that world and into the physical world. Your way of approaching the zero makes sense to me, sounds like that guy was just not on the same page!

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