Dimand

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[–] Dimand@aussie.zone 2 points 6 days ago

Blender has a decent cam processor add-on. Solve space and openSCAD are other very good parametric CAD programs.

[–] Dimand@aussie.zone 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Solve space and openSCAD are both great options. I have been learning solve space lately and it is great. I couldn't learn freecad, something about the UI and workflow was just too unintuitive for me.

I was burnt by fusion 360. Had some of "my" designs locked in the cloud when they spent 2 weeks and a dozen emails trying to "fix" my educator access. The fix they really wanted was my credit card details. I refuse to use or teach anyone to use that ecosystem now.

[–] Dimand@aussie.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

Not defending the lack of updates in any way. But you can fix this if you login with a browser and enable all languages in your account settings.

[–] Dimand@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's crazy. I'm expecting a bunch of forced academic redundancies in April/May. I don't expect her to last a full term, but she will take a lot of others out on the way.

[–] Dimand@aussie.zone 6 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Currently at the Australian National University.

This is too real.

[–] Dimand@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

I assumed these are small fpv drones? They have kind of broken the traditional warfare dynamics and are more like ground force+ without the traditional air to air susceptibility.

[–] Dimand@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago

"We have film footage where we can see a wave hitting the lock and the anchor drops,"

A wave, at sea? Chance in a million.

[–] Dimand@aussie.zone 46 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Depends if you care about names or about physics. Radio, Infrared Gamma etc are just names we give to various parts of the continuous electromagnetic spectrum. The edges of these definitions are not super well defined. Changing from RF to microwave could be defined at say about 3 GHz, but there is not some clear physical difference between a 2.9 GHz photon and a 3.1 GHz photon other than the frequency change.

The lower limit to the frequency is I guess the inverse of the theoretical age of the universe/2. Something can't currently be oscillating slower than that.

There are some theories on plank length, quantisation limits, etc that might set some theoretical upper limit of photon frequency. But we don't appear to be anywhere close to observing such things. We have seen some rather crazy short wavelength particles that we haven't fully understood.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh-My-God_particle

[–] Dimand@aussie.zone 13 points 3 months ago

Wikipedia is amazing, and I have donated to them a number of times. But something just rubs me the wrong way about their current donation drive and anything I read about how much their higher ups are getting paid makes no sense to me. Why are the salaries so high? Where is the clear breakdown of server cost and infrastructure?

[–] Dimand@aussie.zone 1 points 3 months ago

I feel like this needs to be a PSA pinned to this community. Far too often it would say 2 comments and I would see nothing untill I did this.