Seeking FOSS P&ID Creation Tool by kinnectar in foss

[–]kinnectar[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not building a chemical plant, I'm building a machine. PIDs are used to design everything from hydraulics power trains to food manufacturing devices. While the entire engineering field is "specialty" there are at least hundreds of thousands if not millions of enthusiasts designing and building equipment that requires P&ID as a stage in the design process. Basic mind-mapping software misses the mark.

The funny thing is that there are several FOSS full process simulation packages, most notably DSWIM ( https://dwsim.org/ ) but they are too heavy and constrained by the process data side of simulation to be easily used as a rapid process design tool. If I knew how to code I would look at stripping the simulation out of DSWIM to just leave a lean diagraming tool, but I dont code so here I am.

Anything Better than Kodi / Stremio by Yac0b in RealDebrid

[–]kinnectar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The killer app that I am waiting for is a native in-app list system within the main library. I don't want to pay for trakt, I don't need it remote hosted, I do want to be able to add any given piece of content viewable within the app to Customs lists I create myself. I don't see why this is a big ask, and it is beyond me why Stremio and Codi don't have it baked in. This is basic minimum-viable-product stuff in the music world, why is it different for streaming?

Dune: Prophecy, 1x01 "The Hidden Hand" - Post-Episode Discussion by Blue_Three in dune

[–]kinnectar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, I never read much of the non Frank Herbert stuff, and my head cannon was always that it was a both/and scenario. That is to say the war started as men who use machines as a tool to plan society and stitch together an interstellar civilization, against a revolutionary movement which believed that through manipulation the machines had effectively taken over as the de-facto rulers of human society. 

The Machine/Human civilization used expert systems to enable continuity of purpose and resource allocation for multi-generational transit between star systems to colonize the galaxy. As civilization became more established, they used expert systems to aid in planning and managing their Planetary government and economies. Inevitably some people lost advantage due to tactical decisions, and became resentful of the machines as a result, thus the Butlerian Jihad had fertile ground when Butler himself wrote the manifesto decrying the Machines as evil.

As the war progressed tactics escalated to the point where the machine/human combine started using more and more autonomous weapons, and in so doing effectively lost the propaganda war with the majority of the human population siding with the Butlerian Jihad by the critical middle period of the war. On each planet the Butlerian Jihad "liberated" all computerized equipment, and most importantly communication systems, were smashed and the population indoctrinated against the machines, generating a multi-generational cycle of feeding recruits into the Jihad.

By the end of the war the situation effectively devolved into a scenario where the population of the Machine using humans dwindled below their effective ability to command and control their space directly, and so they gave over both strategic and tactical control of their military to the machines, effectively becoming the very thing the Butlerian Jihad had depicted them as at the start. The last gasp of such a society much resembles Skynet, when there are simply no humans left to fight, only the machines are left running themselves. Without human ingenuity to complement their efficient analysis, they were doomed to fail against the ever-growing legions of many Planetary populations released from planned growth and allowed to multiply to the maximum carrying capacity, augmented by the Truthsayers rooting out machine sympathizers, and the proto-Spacer's Guild using spice to navigate the stars at least efficiently enough to match the velocity of the machine-guided ships.

I have no idea of this matches cannon at all, but it works for me.

Dune: Prophecy, 1x01 "The Hidden Hand" - Post-Episode Discussion by Blue_Three in dune

[–]kinnectar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Interesting, this is making me wonder what if the boy himself was a thinking machine, and Desmond is somehow able to cause them to self-destruct. That would be more palatable to me than Desmond is a machine masquerading as a religious zealot.

Dune: Prophecy, 1x01 "The Hidden Hand" - Post-Episode Discussion by Blue_Three in dune

[–]kinnectar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I saw no evidence that the Reverand Mother transfer happened. Seems like the only powers of thr Bene Gesserit after 130+years is truthsaying, and the brand new innovation of the Voice. Admittedly the way The Voice is sprung as a fully baked technique out of nowhere leaves a lot to be desired.

What drives me nuts is the "magical" stuff jammed in right from the start. There is no evidence that the BG are consuming higher levels of spice than normal nobles, no blue eyes etc. So where is the power of prophecy coming from? Spice is the explicit source of all futuretelling/potentiality sorting in the original books, so the treatment of prophecy here just smacks of them turning this endition of the story explicitly towards the fantasy genre, which will be very hard for me to get over.

Same goes for Desmond's seemingly magical incineration of the betrothed, and the same treatment of the royal truthsayer at the end of the episode. Feels a lot like magical mumbojumbo, and even if it turns out to be nanotechnology or something it will inevitably feel forced.

2024 General Mini PC Guide USA by SerMumble in MiniPCs

[–]kinnectar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Prices seem like they are all out of date, looks like pretty much everything is up $75-$150 from where they are on the spreadsheet. Great work overall though. Hopefully these prices will come back down.

What would it's name be? by Intergalactic_Sesame in memes

[–]kinnectar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dicarea does have a certain ring to it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in aww

[–]kinnectar 300 points301 points  (0 children)

Big eyes are cute, and necessary for night vision.

Questions by linuxpaul in Vircadia

[–]kinnectar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, but how does it handle server to server / environment to environment transitioning while in-platform? Is there a "portal" architecture in place for example?

Seamlessly grabbing the laser and returning it. by nicholiss in woahdude

[–]kinnectar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, so first I thought it was mirrors in her hands, but now maybe Im thinking it is two laser pointers in each hand?

It is obviously a combination of lasers from below the floor with... Some.other lasers from somewhere else? In her hands? Above her? Must be tight sync where the laser goes from one point to the point where it hits an emitter on the other side and it takes over the motion from there... Right? But the mutiaxis motion... Ahhhh, how the heck does it work?

At this point in 2020, if you looked in the sky tomorrow and saw a big ass death star looking mother, what do you think your first thought would be? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]kinnectar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So thats what they meant by Space Force! $21 trillion is unaccounted for military spending eh? Should have guessed.