At least according to Wikipedia, small amounts of carbon (< 2.14%) in the final alloy are an important component in controlling the ductility, which agrees with what I thought I remembered from materials classes (although I am not a materials scientist). Obviously not using the Bessemer process drastically reduces the amount of carbon necessary, but trace carbon is important.

Hmm I hope it lives up to the hype. I wonder what this new display tech is.

It’s possible that there’s a reason it requires lossless audio, in that it requires uncompressed signal to work. For instance, if the ML model is trained on uncompressed data, it may need audio which has never been compressed.

Just a comment – for InDesign-type work, I find something like Inkscape (or Scribus) easier to work with than LaTeX. I usually only use LaTeX for things where the layout needs to be pretty but not customized. Its possible to use it for design, but not a good use of time.

Man, I tried to learn FreeCAD, but coming from the Inventor/Solidworks paradigm it was hard.

Yeah I remember that conspiracy theory. Iirc, the claim was basically that any company which had any relationship with any US institution must be a honeypot. It was pretty out there, and as far as I’m aware it was very much debunked.

I’m pretty sure that the Google libraries F-droid are things like the push notification service, which afaik almost anything with notifications uses, even signal.

I’ve never actually compiled from source, but AFAIK they are open source. Its been convenient to use for me, just make very sure you don’t lose your password!

…and neovim. For a more IDE-like environment there’s also LunarVim.

That looks just enough not like comic sans to actually be pretty good.

If you’re OK with using inkscape and GIMP, if the background color is different than the chicken, you could apply a color filter to simplify the image to “chicken” and “not chicken” (basically, reduce the number of total colors to 16 or less), then use inkscape Trace Bitmap in Colors mode.

Tracing a bitmap to an SVG is really only practical if it’s a line drawing or if it has less than 16 (preferably less than 8) colors, because each color becomes a different vector object. Its really not intended for full on photos, unfortunately.

I can deal with an ugly font, but thats straight-up unreadable.

The LunarVim install process can be kinda a pain to start, but I find it fills a wierd spot between neovim and vsodium – I still use nvim for making quick edits to files (especially in compiled languages) but still use vscode for really big multifile projects. LunarVim just takes too long to boot to be a drop-in neovim replacement, and the file explorer is too unintuitive to use for many files simultaneously, even as a longtime vim user. I like LunarVim, but I think it has its own usability niche, and I dont find myself using it as much as I’d like.

Quite frankly, base neovim is still pretty functional for me, but the complexity of installing extensions just encourages me to use it as a text editor rather than an IDE, which is largely fine by me.

Pro tip: use zotero. Its an open-source bibliography program, you can export the entire bibliography at once in whatever format you want.

Gotta love Biscayia…some say it was the inspiration for Atlantis when it slid into the sea (which was soup at the time, giving us “bisque”). 😂