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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Net York trying to get subtractive manufacturing CNC mills to obey this is going to be a trick.

    The controller just runs Gcode for positioning and speeds. They’d need to preprocess the gcode through an AI database to check if the path builds a gun part shape then allow machining or block it.

    Inevitably somebody will just replace the controller with a home grown system.

    And a CNC mill can still run manual cuts a single passes that may not appear to look like a part, when done separately

    This is old clueless men trying to make laws about technology they don’t understand.






  • I understand totally. Another aspect of my job is training, documentation, and support. Often we have people stuck on an issue and ask for help, many times the software is asking for a selection to proceed. The customer says the software is broken. A screen share shows the highlighted prompt “select an object on screen to continue”. And they can’t proceed because they didn’t read the prompt, and haven’t selected anything.

    Same with steps, they say the get different results than the training document. It’s " did you do step 4?" With a response of “uhh no”. OK then, if you don’t do step 4 then all the steps after will give a different outcomes.



  • Yeah people often shit on the arts without realizing many jobs are art. Movies, movie posters, industrial design, signs, and so on.

    The stuff I do for work is mainly engineering type work and includes CAD but mainly in regard to processes and automation.

    But I have come to realize that going to an arts highschool helped a lot because art is all about steps, stages, timing, planning (whether that is prepping a multiframe silkscreen print, or the mixing of clay through to firing and glazing stages of pottery.)