alanbernstein

If you squint hard enough, you might see the music/art directly in the structure of their civilizations

Plot armor refers to important characters being invulnerable. What you're describing is just plot (or "internal logic" that underlays the plot). You might think of it as "contrived plot" but that's generally how scifi works.

A guide doesn't answer arbitrary questions, though

I don't disagree. But the existing tech solution - scrubbing through YouTube tutorial videos until I cobble together the bits of knowledge I need - is also quite overengineered, isn't it?

Obviously I'd prefer to ask specific questions to my expert human friend sitting at the next desk over, but sadly they don't exist.

I just hope there is a future where this tech exists without such big downsides.

Right, maybe the next step is that Blender comes with a local-gui-tutorial-llm packaged with it?

Valid points, but this sounds extremely useful for learning complicated GUI applications like 3d modeling or media editing apps.

3d printers are also CNC. My impression is that people often use the term to mean CNC mill. Much like "drone" implies "quadcopter" despite the existence of other very different types of "drone".

What would you say the letters NS stand for? Perhaps "Not Standforanything"?

What does the NS prefix mean?

Thanks!

Another suggestion: more feedback when two pieces click together - I'm currently dragging it around to check if they're connected. For example, they could lose the outline that separates them, or change outline color to be the same.

If you appreciate when keyboard interaction gets added to a GUI, then you might think of a graphical language as the opposite, as it essentially removes keyboard interaction from what is normally a text-based system.

Neat. Doesn't work well in android Firefox for me.

Not that I disagree, but I think this is how many people feel about AI output in fields they care about.

It's also a funny historical mirror to an earlier phase of math proof culture: in a previous era, cryptic result dumps were quite common.