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Why, because you actually have to build something, not code that millions of people can download an app.

Here in Austin TX, there is a company, ICON that is trying to mass 3D print homes. It is not going so good. They are slower than framing, drywall & mason crews. Also final finish is ugly in my opinion.

Re:Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter? on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @03:01AM (#33417912)
Bluesky, Dorsey’s new platform.
Re:Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter? on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @02:59AM (#33417905)
Bluesky
Robert Laszlo Kiss on YouTube is very good. You gotta know the basics of perspective (single point, two point ans three point perspective) to advance in drawing / painting. Everything is a box in perspective. Then you fill in the details from there.
Re:Ask HN: What are the best unknown books you have read? on Monday January 20, 2020 @02:47PM (#22101574)
Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants. by John D. Clark

"And even when it was successfully completed, the peroxide would still decompose slowly; not enough to start a runaway chain reaction, but enough to build up an oxygen pressure in a sealed tank, and make packaging impossible. And it is a nerve-wracking experience to put your ear against a propellant tank and hear it go "glub" —long pause — "glub" and so on. After such an experience many people, myself (particularly) included, tended to look dubiously at peroxide and to pass it by on the other side."

Re:Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List? on Friday July 13, 2018 @06:03AM (#17521691)
The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin. I can't believe it took me so long to read one of the most important books written.
Re:Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List? on Friday July 13, 2018 @06:00AM (#17521683)
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.

It is one of the books that is referenced all of the time over the span of my life. Realized I never thought to actually read it for myself...I recommend checking it off the list.

Re:Breastfeeding: it's bad for business on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @05:24AM (#17505551)
Necrotizing fasciitis
Re:Breastfeeding: it's bad for business on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @05:24AM (#17505546)
Formula can and does kill many premature babies every day it is called Necrotizing fasciitis, look it up and learn!
Re:Directed ads show up of things I have only spoken about on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @12:59AM (#14450509)
Is there a legal aspect to this?

Directed ads show up of things I have only spoken about

My iPhone or some app must be listening to my conversations and pulling out the subject of the conversation and putting that subject in ads on my web pages etc I'm reading. I have had this happen a few times in the last few weeks. I'll have a conversation with someone, they mention something which I know I have never searched for and the next time I go to a site that has ads, there is the...

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