arctan

Re:Tell HN: HP printers force you into agreement on Saturday December 10, 2022 @08:45PM (#33939131)

There's a tool called PRET - the Printer Exploitation Toolkit -- "the tool that made dumpster diving obsolete" -- that some of you might find fun and useful. You can use it to test which print protocols (ps, pjl, pcl) the printer uses, and then send files to print directly using one of them. It has a bunch of other interesting functionality too.

https://www.github.com/RUB-NDS/PRET

Re:Tell HN: HP printers force you into agreement on Saturday December 10, 2022 @08:42PM (#33939105)

Where are all the printer firmware hackers at?

Re:They made a material that doesn't exist on Earth on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @04:39PM (#33538278)

I assume it's because there's only so much of that heat that the globs could radiate into space as (infrared) light.

Maybe someone familiar with the intimate details of blackbody radiation could chime in here?

Re:They made a material that doesn't exist on Earth on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @03:06AM (#33528638)

That was the previous idea, but this work changes that. It implies that the cooling rates of meteors is actually much faster than previously guessed.

Re:They made a material that doesn't exist on Earth on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @03:04AM (#33528630)

This is exciting stuff for MatSci people. There are likely other interesting materials that could be made using this process, including the other alloys found in iron bearing meteorites. I expect that the process can be modified and extended.

Re:New research shows hydrogen-reduced iron has superior properties on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @11:29AM (#33178422)

FWIW, iron reduced in hydrogen is known to have a very high magnetic permeability, surpassed only by one of the Metglas alloys.

Re:AutoCAD is f-ing terrible. Let's talk about it on Friday September 16, 2022 @11:40PM (#32874559)

Okay, three questions, if you'll humor me: What LISP resources particular to AutoCAD would you recommend, what are your favorite scripts, and for context what do you do / use AutoCAD for?

Re:AutoCAD is f-ing terrible. Let's talk about it on Friday September 16, 2022 @11:33PM (#32874530)

Update: I found a solution to a particular problem, representing twisted pairs with bends in a cable without the hassle of sloppy line thickness settings, or making sure every bounding area is perfectly joined and closed for hatch fill: to do it in Solidworks instead ('fit spline' FTW!) and export to dwg... lol

AutoCAD is f-ing terrible. Let's talk about it

Posted by arctan on Thursday September 15, 2022 @07:16PM
from the self-post dept.

I've used AutoCAD for ten years, and I fucking hate it. When it's good, it's just marginally not too shitty. When it's bad, it's terrible. While I have become fairly experienced with using it, the quirks, inconsistencies and limitations often make it exasperating to deal with, and occasionally make it nightmarish. This puts me in the awkward position of doing something I've come more often...

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