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Re:Apple's Dimensional Drawings on Monday September 14, 2026 @10:49AM (#49697864)
Most CAD programs take little advantage of multicore or GPU, if any. It's all about single threaded CPU performance.
Re:Apple's Dimensional Drawings on Monday September 14, 2026 @10:47AM (#49697834)
Autodesk AutoCAD is available for Mac. Autodesk Fusion is also available for Mac.

I for one would love to see Autodesk add more Mac and Linux support across their lineup. Especially Inventor and its associated add-ons.

Re:iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max on Thursday September 10, 2026 @09:03AM (#49643063)
I would like to see dual Thunderbolt ports on the iPad Pro. I wonder if Thunderbolt chips would even fit in a phone.
Re:Building an Open-Source Robot Vacuum – Meet Oomwoo on Thursday July 02, 2026 @11:33AM (#48763153)
I own three robot vacuums from two different manufacturers that are nearly identical. Exact same charger station that seems to match what Oomwoo uses. My point is that Oomwoo seems to use at least some common parts already.
Re:WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @01:38AM (#48471880)
The iPad Pro is an amazing device for musicians.
Re:Car Seats as Contraception on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @09:48AM (#47587363)
The paper specifically does not apply in your scenario.
Re:Car Seats as Contraception on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @09:44AM (#47587318)
Some newer vehicles will automatically disable the front passenger airbag if there is nothing in the seat or if there is weight in the seat but less weight than a typical adult.

Pickup trucks without a backseat have long had the ability to manually disable the passenger airbag.

Re:Car Seats as Contraception on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @09:31AM (#47587106)
A Honda Odyssey can fit three car seats across in the middle row. A Jeep Wrangler 4 door can fit three car seats across in the back seat.
Re:Cecot – 60 Minutes on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @10:45AM (#46366219)
On my recent trip we also visited Honduras. It was an amazing experience.
Re:Bring Bathroom Doors Back to Hotels on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @07:48PM (#46064105)
The worst aspect of the TWA Hotel at JFK Airport was the sliding bathroom door. Almost everything else about the place was really great but the bathroom door wae 1/2" from the face of the wall and bounced off the end of the slider track.
Re:US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban on Thursday April 17, 2025 @07:51AM (#43715441)
Better preparation most likely. He had a staff of about 1,000 already hired before being sworn in. Some of them had probably been working on this stuff since 2020.
Indeed. Good point
maybe they did save specific foods for infants.
With all of the features and plug-ins being crammed into Teams, it may become TeamsOS before long
I thought this was going to be about a DIY USB-C cable.
Re:The first release candidate of FreeCAD 1.0 is out on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @09:31PM (#41516802)
There is now a USD$10/month subscription for Solidworks. The software includes an astounding amount of bloat but it does work.
As I understand it, the topsoil in parts of Texas is only a foot deep or less and then it's solid bedrock. This is why most homes do not have basements.
Indeed, few things are guaranteed.
This is almost correct.

>A society with prosperity but lacking athletic, artistic and intellectual pursuits will devolve into a crowd of purposeless humans living for the pleasures of the moment.

I would change this to

>A society with prosperity but lacking family and reproductive pursuits will devolve into a crowd of purposeless humans living for the pleasures of the moment.

Re:Google dropping continuous scroll in search results on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @06:25AM (#40798376)
Putting a big fat thumb on the scale during election seasons.
Plastics and related materials leeching into food and water is one of the theories for continent-wide decrease of testosterone in male mammals in North America
Re:Why I'm Leaving New York City [video] on Sunday April 21, 2024 @07:19AM (#40104763)
Your friends can check for themselves.

https://crimegrade.org/crime-by-zip-code/

Not every Lyme infection has a corresponding bullseye, or it will be in a location that you can't see easily.

Therr are also other tick borne illnesses that can be quite dangerous.

Seems like a cover for publishing false evidence of crimes that will be used to justify military invasions.
Re:Miles Davis and the recording of Kind of Blue on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @08:10AM (#39602850)
It would have been quite expensive to try for a second or third take. You're paying for the room, for the tape, and for at least one engineer and probably another guy, and except for the tape, it's all per hour.

They had likely played together enough that they planned to just do one take unless there was a hiccup.

I'm reminded of this study.

"Nanoparticles from tattoos circulate inside the body"

https://phys.org/news/2017-09-nanoparticles-tattoos-circulat...

https://archive.ph/CcpHF

Re:Satya Nadella uses an IBM AS/400 in 1993 on Friday February 16, 2024 @08:49AM (#39396955)
AS/400 is an awesome system.

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