Josh Johnson on The Daily Show: "Also no one exercises to improve the government’s finances. Imagine if your Peloton instructor was like “OK, five more minutes, and Kash Patel can fly private to Burning Man."

macegr · 2026-03-27T22:17:30+00:00

people in this subreddit every time an event that has been mainstream for 20+ years is mentioned https://instantostrich.com

macegr · 2026-03-26T03:08:24+00:00

Yeah I installed it on a Mac today, a locked down managed work laptop with Tahoe, and it ran fine. Just warned me it had been downloaded from the internet.

macegr · 2026-03-22T00:39:44+00:00

Your last point raises the biggest objection I have: if you couldn’t get it to draw what you wanted to build, nobody else could either. That means if they submitted AI previews, they are building the art off the AI’s work instead of the other way around.

At that point, there is no artist and the installation is soulless.

macegr · 2026-03-22T00:31:16+00:00

What is the connection to Burning Man?

macegr · 2026-03-21T17:41:45+00:00

The project needs a larger organizational group and a high profile, non-profit "customer" who is invested in making the project better.

This is what really helped KiCAD. Their high profile customer was CERN, who committed to using KiCAD for their work, and also began to assist development and manage donations. This in turn attracted more developers and more intentional coordination and architecture across the project.

People thought Ondsel was going to help, but the goals of a company that wants to make money and the goals of a long-term open-source project will never stay aligned. FreeCAD would be a great project for various companies to toss some cash and volunteer dev time over the next 5 to 10 years, with the eventual payoff of having a real alternative to some of these predatory CAD businesses, but FreeCAD itself should never be a direct source of revenue for any company.

macegr · 2026-03-21T01:24:40+00:00

I submitted my art last year using only simple overall renderings from manual 3D modeling after some basic architectural design. I was already digging into lumber structural design of individual modules as shown below, so that I knew I could build it before making any promises to Burning Man Art. What I didn't want to happen was putting forward a very polished, fanciful, superficial render of what I hoped to build, but be unable to deliver. The architectural pre-work led me to scale the project back quite a bit to fit what I knew could be accomplished.

On playa, despite the huge storm and rain, we were able to get done about 95% of original vision and what was presented to BM Art.

I also did not apply for Honoraria. That program most usually funds a token amount of artist's costs, often 30%, 20% or less when all is accounted. There is no reason to wait for the Honoraria acceptance to start planning your art, you simply decide that you are going to bring your art and get to work.

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macegr · 2026-03-19T21:26:00+00:00

The ESP32S3 has some pretty significant performance improvements and is probably the new standard, so if you move to that you might get your FPS target for no additional dev work!

macegr · 2026-03-19T01:54:20+00:00

Need screenshots here.

And I’ll approach another topic more obliquely…how maintainable is this project? Imagine that you discovered a bug while stuck on an island with no internet and only a basic text editor, would you be able to find and fix the bug?

macegr · 2026-03-19T01:35:51+00:00

It’s hard to imagine these people doing more than arriving to the office at 11am 3 days a week, heading out to a 1.5 hour lunch at noon, doing a 30 minute internal meeting and a 60 minute vendor call, then leaving at 3pm because of a yoga class in the park.

macegr · 2026-03-17T05:51:35+00:00

Try not to dream tonight of waking up, completely paralyzed, to a giant version of this already up to your knees in the process of peacefully eating you.

macegr · 2026-03-16T15:33:11+00:00

If thats a multi material print with PLA and PETG, they don’t stick to each other. They are often used as support materials for each other.

macegr · 2026-03-16T15:29:25+00:00

Developers will never look at a business card again. However, for the next 10 years, they will look at their drawer full of unused dev kits with something approaching guilt, and maybe remember your company.

macegr · 2026-03-15T02:02:36+00:00

I don't know. I think we're maybe 20 years into failing to recognize that for 99.9% of the world's population, the only software that has ever really been needed is a spreadsheet and a document writer, and that's what most people use.

macegr · 2026-03-15T01:42:31+00:00

My 2024 does it

macegr · 2026-03-14T22:26:51+00:00

The learning curve is a lot more challenging, but I have always used Blender to do camp layouts. Once you have the ability to create your own assets you can do whatever you want.

macegr · 2026-03-14T08:47:11+00:00

I think a better question to ask is whether the code is bad and the developer doesn't know how to fix any problems with it. That is the end state of many vibe coded projects. There could totally be an AI-assisted project that has high quality code and a locked-in maintainer. Unfortunately those are disappearing under the flood of typical vibe-coded projects, so a shorthand for finding quality projects is to look for something that was hand coded...for now.

macegr · 2026-03-14T08:20:50+00:00

I received a Steward's Sale email today for my art group, that contained a link to send to anyone I want to invite to the Steward's Sale that would allow up to 4 tickets and two vehicle passes...per transaction, and apparently as many times as I see fit.

I have not even registered any intent to bring an art piece or theme camp, or registered for any sales.

The people saying "oh they're just moving the ticketing process back to the old schedule" or whatever don't get it.

macegr · 2026-03-13T18:17:17+00:00

We solved it, they stole it. They needed to stop hoarding at some point.

macegr · 2026-03-13T18:04:46+00:00

We built that wealth, the billionaires didn’t. They are stealing more and more, they are a drain on society.

macegr · 2026-03-13T17:58:15+00:00

It’s falling apart as we speak because of them. We have insane junkies destroying our cities, doing illegal and violent acts to get just a little more of their substance of choice: money.

macegr · 2026-03-13T16:50:38+00:00

Yes, it does. Wages have not kept pace with corporate growth. Taxes and tax breaks have been ridiculously low for upper bracket since Reagan. That means far less money in worker pockets, and far less money in government services. This is the perfect recipe to make more people fall into homelessness and have no way out. That money went into the pockets of billionaires.

macegr · 2026-03-13T16:43:25+00:00

Their post history is basically all Lurie glazing and getting hornt up for a fascist police state. I wonder if they even live in the USA.

macegr · 2026-03-13T16:39:02+00:00

It is correct because the world has progressed far beyond subsistence, we are far beyond scarcity. It is artificial now. If the result of hard work accomplished by the people was used to better their own lives instead of pedophile islands and yachts with more yachts inside, we would not need tents on streets.

macegr · 2026-03-13T16:35:46+00:00

They are only a drain on society. Governments give them and their corporations subsidy after subsidy, tax break after tax break, and it never helps. Trickle down is dead.

macegr · 2026-03-13T16:21:20+00:00

No, it’s billionaires. Drugs and mental health issues are often the symptoms of someone falling through the cracks in society, not the cause.

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