beardicus

This is irrelevant to my comment. You claimed they're not hiding pricing and I'm simply saying it was a little hard to find ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i went looking for pricing info and it's the last item in the last menu on the website... it's not exactly up front. i was looking for a "pricing" top-level menu item first, which is pretty standard nowadays.

yes, famously no society has ever managed to have children without widespread private car ownership.

lots of "freedom"-loving pushback on this law here. sorry y'all, we live in a society and your actions affect others. you choosing to endanger my life on the road does not make me more free.

i think these speeders should just lose their license to drive forever, so maybe choose to view this law as a compassionate compromise.

most of the time folks are fermenting ginger beer, it's just to carbonate it. ginger beer isn't usually fermented to produce alcohol like a normal beer.

since there is so much sugar available in ginger beer, fermenting/carbonating it in sealed glass bottles will result in bottle bombs.

skip the fermentation completely: 2 liter plastic soda bottles are great for force-carbonating with a co2 tank. if you really don't like plastic you could find a 1 gallon stainless steel keg and carbonate (and serve) from that.

looks and runs like a mac app on macOS as far as i can tell. seems pretty normal on XFCE as well. not sure what you're finding to be "completely alien".

Seems weird to find irony there, unless you think people and websites are the same thing.

I'm from Rome (East of Syracuse) and I don't really have any good canal stories. I actually live near Rochester now and we go on bike rides on the canal trail pretty frequently. It's quite flat and a little boring but pretty. There are lots of YouTube travel vlogs of folks biking the whole canal. You can camp at the locks, just watch out for the mosquitos!

Ok, I think maybe Utica or Amsterdam is up next.

nobody seems to have this concern when we provide room and board in prisons.

why didn't you read the article before repeating these FUD-like questions? this is a report from a US investment bank based on global averages.

oh, and here's an article that links 'gorton normal' to many keyboard fonts including the apollo DSKY keyboard: https://newsletter.shifthappens.site/archive/a-tale-of-three...

more information on these machines and their typefaces, including pictures of the machines and brochures and catalogs: http://gorton-machine.org

> If these cooking robots are just glorified assembly lines that require uniform inputs, they should be taxed to the point they do not displace a human.

A human line cook is also part of a "glorified assembly line that requires uniform inputs". This does not preclude the use of real/fresh ingredients, and also of course requires the employ of a human prep team to turn lumpy items into uniform ingredients.

very strange that "joy" is not a tangible benefit to you.

yes, your example is still about risk mitigation, but it's also a not-so-effective slippery slope argument likely motivated by a contrarian anti-masking stance. the reason there is no social pressure to helmet at all times is that we generally agree as a society that the inconvenience is not worth the minimal risk reduction.

this risk calculation is messy of course, as we all have different tolerances for inconvenience and risk, and we also have different responses to individual vs. collective risks.

> That's interesting as a programming exercise, but

why is this a "but"? does the existence of HPGL negate the work being presented here somehow? modern plotters seem to have less capable control languages such as whatever the axidraw does, or G-code for most of the open source controllers. I guess folks assume you'll just be programmatically generating or converting to the output format anyways.

inkscape can output HPGL directly. there's also chiplotle which is a python library. i've tried to gather up all the other HPGL-related software i could find here: https://github.com/beardicus/awesome-plotters#hpgl

somewhat fair. i'm not in the market for commercial plotters so i guess i can avoid that purchase decision. regardless, i'm happy to see them running meetups and stuff for plotter folks, and i'm interested in where they take the product/software over the next few years.

thanks for this link. i guess i totally missed this five years ago when it was published... fun talk.

my main concern with the cricut and silhouette machines is i probably don't want to use the manufacturer's shitted up software, and the open source replacements are hacks that might be janky and could probably be squashed at any time (i'm not actually sure the status of replacement software for each of these machines, because i always get them confused and haven't paid much attention)

generally, though, i do enjoy taking advantage of scaled-up (cheap) commercial products. but i also value supporting an open, small business (EMSL, and now Bantam Tools) that is active in the communities using its products.

lol. congrats on working a sermon into a post about red lobster but... this is exceedingly poor argumentation if your goal is to actually convince anybody.

it's spot-on if you just want to feel good about yourself though. you start off with a whopper of a false dichotomy and strawman, and don't improve from there.

> The term "conspiracy theory" was invented by the CIA

ooh, a recursive conspiracy theory. neat!

very nice work and documentation. i did a little "plotter photo booth" with a homemade pen plotter many years ago and it was a ton of fun. folks love to see things moving off-screen!

i miss the days when running this sort of thing was not an obvious energy (and fan noise) tradeoff. i was big into the distributed.net [1] client in the late 90s, running it on my powermac. when i got to college in '98 seti@home had taken over everybody's screensavers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed.net

this is a very VC-brained comment to make on a peer-to-peer open source project. let's instead ask if there are any single points of failure to the protocol and service, and if so, are those sustainable regarding developer time, effort, and compensation?