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Honestly, at this point it's an accurate reflection of the reality of tech.

The instrument cluser looks awesome, especially the G force instrument!

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The G-force meter is just to put "something" there because it looks better than having only two gauges. Much like how high-end watches have three mini dials showing mostly useless things, just for the way it looks.

What’s awesome about it? It’s not too bad (at least it’s not lit like a Christmas tree), but I’m not sure it’s an awesome UI. Looks like an extremely boring conventional one.

That G-force thing is a gimmick. You already know the ballpark without even looking, and unlike speed I’m not sure what’s the use case for precise readings.


>What’s awesome about it?

The fact that it's extremely boring and conventional?

>That G-force thing is a gimmick. You already know the ballpark without even looking, and unlike speed I’m not sure what’s the use case for precise readings.

In this car? A gimmick, could maybe help someone who's trying to learn to drive a bit smoother. In a track car? Useful cornering data


An XY scatter plot of g forces on its own isn’t very useful, this is why multichannel analysis tools like i2 exist so you can look at things like lateral g vs yaw rate or steering angle.

Boring and conventional would be having physical controls on the wheel for volume, next/prev, ok/cancel etc.

So a complete lack of anything actually useful.


> The fact that it's extremely boring and conventional?

I’d say it’s normal, not awesome. Just not being the new normal (aka enshittified) is not sufficient to qualify.


Reminds me of old airplane or spacecraft instruments and i like those. Also the XY layout is pretty elegant.

Lovely blend of analogue and digital elements.

I am not into cars and I will certainly not pay for a luxury car anytime soon, so not the most relevant opinion. Still, when I buy a car again, I'd love to have this interior design. The exterior on the other hand, I don't know what they tried to achieve here.

Designers seem to struggle with exterior electronic car design in general. Are they trying too hard to be iconic?


It's nice and I like the admission that the driver is the most important human who ever lived, so the touchscreen is angled towards him ;)

Not sure about the cupholder position. I wonder if the G-force is customizable (e.g, all the screens are?) or if it's fixed. If it's fixed, I'd almost prefer it to be the one analog instrument, perhaps taken from an acrobatic plane.


I'm using the 'Hacker News / 1k short' goggle all the time.

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but there is! I've jailbroken my Kindle Scribe and installed coreader and feed it my Calibre library and its awesome. Oh and i kept it in airplane mode from the first day, which is important so it doesnt self update and break the jailbreak.

Kindles don't need to be jailbroken to transfer books via calibre (or a file manager or a terminal).

s/coreader/KOReader/g

Voice input or autocorrect?


a lack of concentration ;)

Very cool idea, congrats on the launch!


> Which CAD program?

Doesn't matter. CAD models/objects are represented by a sequence of operations on a primitive or sketch. Unlike meshes, that describe the manifested resulting shape of objects in 3D programs like Blender.

So it's about the fact, that their model outputs that hierarchy of operations. The history of development, not just the result.


How does it not matter? Every CAD program is not going to have exactly the same interface and commands. I doubt for example this will for example generate and OpenSCAD text file.


It could be used as pseudo-code for LLMs to produce specific CAD commands?


It will still be application dependent.

Code to compute fillets and blends gets incredibly complex when multiple surfaces are involved. And when surfaces are barely intersecting, or almost coincident, all bets are off what the command will do - very much depends on the geometry kernel and the tolerances it uses whether it decides the surfaces even intersect. And if it decides they don't intersect, all downstream commands will fail. Handling tolerances is one of the hardest aspects of CAD. (It's no coincidence that most open source CAD applications always demo with the same relatively basic types of models - they just can't do truly complex CAD.)

So a simple set of operations - cube, sphere, intersect - sure that will work anywhere and will be portable across applications and makes a nice simple demo. But once you start doing any serious CAD modeling the result is kernel dependent. That's why portable CAD formats like STEP do not preserve the commands used to generate the results. And why native CAD application formats do preserve the command history but are not portable across applications.


ideally, fillets are the last operations in the sequence. could the sequence of operations follow a topological ordering that makes it kernel independent?


It could be anything which is why the question was asked what it actually outputs. I had a skim through the page and code but couldn't see what the output was.


Nothing stops you from storing a history of mesh operations. This is exactly what modifiers (including geometry nodes) do in Blender today.


When i was in uni, the course teaching Prolog and Lisp was called "Artificial Intelligence for Engineers".


Same!

Man, where was a post like this when I was struggling trying to learn Prolog, modelling something with knights and knaves...


I’ve always heard the first wave of AI was all lisp. Why is that? Just cause it had superpowers over the other languages of the day?

I can see why someone would think prolog could bring an AI wave. Even after messing around with it for a few hours, I feel like there are things I could build in prolog that I couldn’t build in typescript.


Is this your website OP?


This looks awesome!

I would buy it instantly, if it would be a scientific calculator, ideally with RPN.

Oh and i would have used a LCD with amber on black.


They really made a sci-fi themed webdesign for this. Can't say that i don't like it.


The in-house web design team (if there is one) must've had the time of their lives.


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I was under the impression that the DoD was not a big fan of Claude.. Codex perhaps?


> DoD

I still can't wrap my head around the fact that the guy who made his campaing on ending wars the first thing he does after being elected changes the name from DoD to DoW and starts new wars.


>> changes the name from DoD to DoW

But he didn't. That requires congressional action. The DoW is just a "secondary" name attached via executive order. Contracts still say DOD. The only reason people are saying "DoW" it is to appease certain forceful personalities.


Yes, surprising in a "I can't believe this is happening" way, not in a "this was unexpected" way. He made his campaign on ending everything. Diving headfirst into the first conflict he could with 0 understanding is the most expected thing that could've happened.


Americans consistently vote for less war and they consistently get more war. If they voted for more war I’m pretty sure they would still get more war. I think blaming the American public for these wars is a deflection from the actual mechanisms that instigate them. We are more governed by blackmail than we are by voters.

I do wish there was even more resistance though, war has been effectively pitched as costless or even as a boon. Perhaps if this war bites there will be more resistance to future wars. At the very least the Iran war being such a disaster may have saved us from a more costly war with China - which the US was and in some ways still is gearing up for.


> I think blaming the American public for these wars is a deflection

Where did I do that? There's no one to vote for that doesn't wage war.

But to say voting for Trump was voting for less war is plain ridiculous. You'd have to ignore his entire career. He is famously fickle, is not shy about lying, and abandons friends at the soonest opportunity. A rational person hearing him say "I will end the Ukraine war on day 1" would understand he's saying whatever he thinks sounds good.


I consider the marginal voter to be rather dim, credulous, and uninformed irrational actors.

Politics in a universal suffrage democracy is the art of idiot whispering and Trump is a master of this art. I do believe that most of his voters genuinely thought they were voting for less war.


I still can't wrap my head around the fact that the guy was well known for being a liar and a charlatan and yet he was apparently the only politician Americans took implicitly at their word.

Like you'd think Americans would have learned after "read my lips, no new taxes" even if they somehow memory-holed Trump's entire first administration. But I guess not.


It is ridiculously hard to understand. I don't get it either. There's something about not just knowing they're a liar but constantly being told that? Trump benefits a great deal from friendly mass media.


Most mass media is conservative owned. It follows that they'll be friendly to conservative politicians.


Yes, i don't know why, but i can literally smell that its generated, but it doesn't matter.

Is there actually a term for every discussion about something code related turning into a debate about LLMs, just increasing the signal to noise ratio on the topic at hand?

I'll throw 'second order AI slop' into the ring.


I feel like this is a symptom of AI psychosis


It has that ai je ne sais quoi


> Is there actually a term for every discussion about something code related turning into a debate about LLMs

Having standards? I'm an American taxpayer, this slop is being published on my dime.


Sounds like incredible progress if a middle schooler can do what took a team of professionals (or one focused adult nerd) less than two decades ago


A bunch of middle/high schoolers could probably build something that looks like a bridge.

I don't know if I'd want to drive on it.


Do I actually have to tell you that a metaphor comparing between a govt website about aliens and physical infrastructure doesn’t hold?


You'd hope so, but no, the website is ugly and immediately reeks of LLM boilerplate.

I miss the days when 18F made bespoke sites from scratch.


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