The main theme is survivorship bias: https://xkcd.com/1827/

There's nothing wrong with telling your story in a book. But telling it as a half truth is just as bad a lying.

The inkscape extension link is to a empty page: https://inkscape.org/~MarioVoigt/%E2%98%85imagetracerjs-for-...

"Vectorize" generator in Boxy SVG also uses imagetracerjs under the hood, you can check the online demo here: https://boxy-svg.com/#demo-tracing

I think Inkscape still uses Potrace internally, which is produces a bit better results.

Are there economists here?

If you could make (non radioactive) gold AND keep it secret, how much (oz?) could you produce a year without substantially affect gold's market value? Asking for a friend.

The world gold production is about 3500 tons/year. Order of magnitude, you should be able to add about 10% to that without causing the price to move any more than its normal yearly fluctuations.

[0] https://www.lbma.org.uk/alchemist/issue-100/gold-production-...

I’m honestly not sure that the market is looking at supply at all at this point and is focused mainly on gold as a hedge against assets that are part of structured economies (treasuries, the dollar, etc)

I would hypothesize that if you doubled the gold supply in the world you might only see a 1/3 decrease in price because of these dynamics - but I’m not an expert in that market.

That's very interesting, two comments:

- Automatic black box with autocomplete is a deal breaker for me. It'll drive me mad.

- I only use the mouse in the terminal if I have to (it disturbs and slows my flow!). So anything that helps me NOT using the mouse would be better. At the moment I think it's only text select/copy I use the mouse for. And resize the window. So a magic quick way to select text and copy from the keyboard would be very nice.

But I do realize I'm not the intended audience.

> The thing about witnessing a 7-year-old having their hot lunch tray yanked away and replaced with a cold sandwich

It's bizarre that this happens in America.

Well in the Netherlands all kids are basically expected to bring their own cold sandwiches every day, so that isn't seen as a punishment. Primary schools don't even have separate tables for meals, let alone canteens: kids just eat their cold sandwiches day after day (and still grow into the tallest people in the world).

> in the Netherlands all kids are basically expected to bring their own cold sandwiches every day

Nothing wrong with that. But there's a massive difference of everyone bringing their sandwiches vs. everyone getting a hot meal but little Johnny having his yanked away because his parents can't afford it.

That's simple. It's so simple that it uses the word simple 12 times in that simple short text. That must be very simple. Simple as that! I like simple stuff.

Would handling governmental data make you a high value target?

I highly recommend MangoJelly Solutions's tutorials.

Here's a playlist for FreeCAD 1.0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_yh_S31R9g&list=PLWuyJLVUNt...

But he has a bunch of other videos.

Seriously cool! A Linux build on the horizon?

I click "Download the App" and fuck all happens. How the hell did you fuck up that simple app?

That was intentional. The real download was the silence you felt inside.

There is never silence. Software buttons can do two things, a) what they say they do, or if not, b) trigger my rage response right away.