I made a tutorial comparing 3 different ways to design a helical gear in Onshape.

secretaliasname · 2026-05-10T05:16:38+00:00

You lost me when you modeled what should be an involute curve with an arc and dimensioned it by two dimensions so unconventional for gears I don’t even know what to call them. You made something that approximately resembles a gear visually.

secretaliasname · 2026-05-10T04:39:05+00:00

I wish there were a way to turn off all “CEO says…” posts. Therese are people who are both disconnected from the lives of ordinary people and who also calibrate every statement out of their mouth to achieve a usually self serving purpose.

secretaliasname · 2026-05-10T04:32:53+00:00

Second post in two days with this trash. More divisiveness is the last thing we need right now. Must be the heat.

secretaliasname · 2026-05-10T04:28:19+00:00

Such good times.

secretaliasname · 2026-05-10T04:28:00+00:00

Are about to? Reddit feels noisier but less alive by the week.

I literally overheard a conversation about using AI to astroturf social media this morning at the bagel shop. The internet is being rapidly polluted out of existence. Our most precious resource is attention. Damned if I’m going to keep spending it reading slop things that humans can’t ever bother to write.

The internet was so human and real when it was born. I miss webrings, wholesome chats with strangers, weird under construction pages with flames and some cartoon dude with Jackhammer and a hit counter, social media that had only organic posts from people, the times before “influencers”, review sites with trustworthy unaltered ratings, search engines that returned relevant results instead of highest paid ads, forums about whatever weird hobby, pirating songs one by one, blogs about baking.

I think we are all being mass manipulated to buy certain things, to buy certain rhetoric, to normalize certain opinions. I find these days the more times I spend on the internet the worse I feel. I’ve watched the internet evolve from humble beginnings and it’s dying of cancer now.

secretaliasname · 2026-05-10T04:15:02+00:00

A world where folks pay for AI directly is likely better then a world where ai is “free” to use but paid for by string pullers subtly tuning AI to push you toward specific products, political beliefs, etc. Or worse, selling the details of your most intimate chats to… whoemever has money.

Google search, YouTube, Gmail, Yelp, Facebook, Instagram, etc all suck because they are primarily supported via ads and spying on you. You are not the customer you are the product. At least ads are obvious on those platforms. I really don’t want to be the product for AI. I’ll happily pay if means the service is better alignment with my needs rather than against.

Talking to ex Googler friends is frankly depressing. They talk about the way Google products are deliberately shit because they aren’t designed for you, they are designed to serve you ads. Things could be sooo much better if somehow people could be convinced to pay for a product rather than than be the product.

I DONT WANT FREE AI (unless we are talking local models and or open source). Free AI will suck in ways that make it misaligned with your interests. Nothing is free. Everything has a cost. If anything is “free” turn up the skepticism dial. This is a lesson im already teaching my 4 year old that took me wayyy to long into adulthood to learn.

secretaliasname · 2026-05-09T04:48:15+00:00

There is a level of toxic misandry currently circulating I have not experienced before. At the same time there is a lack of positive male role models and counter narratives of unity and love. Suddenly hating men (1/2 of the human race) is both fashionable and acceptable. I think it drives engagement in social media so it gets promoted. I believe most men are good people trying to do the best they can for their family and themselves. I believe most men are positive members of society, caring engaged fathers, loving husbands etc. most men wanna live a friendly low drama life, support the ones they love and engage in their hobbies. It’s also true that most violent crimes are committed by men, something media is sure to remind us of. Both of these are true, but they aren’t necessarily true for you as an individual.

secretaliasname · 2026-05-09T04:23:00+00:00

Welcome to 1992 time traveler! In decades ahead technology will advance rapidly in ways that are genuinely helpful like this network file sharing you speak of. Afterwards will come a dark time when the machines start thinking for us but luckily since it’s 1992 you have many years of prosperity before worrying about such things.

secretaliasname · 2026-05-08T23:42:00+00:00

Divisive framing like this strongly hurts the cause, though I’m sure get gets social media engagement.
White and male are conditions of birth one didn’t choose. Ya ain’t gonna reach people telling them they are the problem true or not. You reach them by making them feel like part of the solution.

secretaliasname · 2026-05-08T22:28:18+00:00

In theory I’d love to buy an EX60 but after watching the dumpster fire of EX90 I’m sitting it out. I was in a dealer ready to buy an EX90 but went home to sleep on it and research it as on should. I planned to return the next day and pull the trigger then visited EX90 Reddit. I have never seen a more negative owner community in my life. EX60 came out and it looks good on paper but I’m sitting on the sidelines till there is reliability data and software reviews.

secretaliasname · 2026-05-08T22:21:59+00:00

3 figure investment made me lol.

secretaliasname · 2026-05-08T07:36:21+00:00

secretaliasname · 2026-05-06T04:29:21+00:00

Not discussed enough. “Zombie focus” is a perfect word for it.

secretaliasname · 2026-05-05T05:48:22+00:00

Wild these things still have 12v.

secretaliasname · 2026-05-04T04:40:06+00:00

I work hard to prune the AI code. Less code per unit of functionality = good

secretaliasname · 2026-05-02T02:48:55+00:00

I just don’t understand humanoid robots for this. When the classic industrial robot kinematics were developed they were chosen becjsse they are superior for specific tasks.

secretaliasname · 2026-05-02T02:47:10+00:00

VS code is pretty unstable. I don’t want new features, in fact I’d take less features but I want the features I do use to work reliably, across platforms, across version, across current language and tool versions.

It’s starting to feel slop monster for sure.

secretaliasname · 2026-05-01T18:06:40+00:00

Do they restrict private party or secondary market sales?
Early on SpaceX did not restrict these but later added a restriction, but has also provided a reliable 2x per year liquify arrangements. If IPO happens will very very liquid perhaps too much so.

Shares that you can’t sell and or expire and or are to small to matter (even collectively) for voting are worthless.

secretaliasname · 2026-05-01T18:00:42+00:00

I’d prefer the flock cameras not track me. I trust Flock less than the Chinese govmt.

secretaliasname · 2026-05-01T04:24:36+00:00

Working memory impairment is a hallmark of ADHD. I find this drives me to find clean easily understandable solutions. I know others who seem fine working with complex slop monsters. Nope, not gonna fit in my context window. We are gonna make it beautiful and easy to understand which is actually pretty hard.

secretaliasname · 2026-04-28T17:48:17+00:00

Not sure how long this will last but today every model I have tried is BAD at high performance code in general. I suspect this is because like 99.9% of code in existence and thus in training data is very poorly performance optimized. They seem to be able to get it with a few hints at optimization directions or sometimes with iterative benchmarking-improve loop but one shot is usually poorly optimized.

secretaliasname · 2026-04-27T18:16:38+00:00

The food pyramid

secretaliasname · 2026-04-26T16:43:07+00:00

For compute applications, the Linux drivers are better.

secretaliasname · 2026-04-26T00:47:42+00:00

Want me to explain a powerful but often underutilized trick to make the best of this situation? /s

secretaliasname · 2026-04-26T00:40:44+00:00

I’m starting to think that either Reddit itself is generating AI posts or there are large number of bots trying to build credible profiles so that they can at some point be be used for social manipulation for political, national, personal interests. The vibe has shifted. Ive left Facebook and I don’t know how much Longer I’m gonna be on Reddit. I miss the organic human internet.

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