jeffbarr
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Comment · 22 days ago
I have found that a combination of the two approaches works best for me. In some cases it is easiest and most practical to combine (union) shapes to get to what you want, and in others it easiest to subtract (difference or intersect).
Comment · 22 days ago
I have been using OpenSCAD to create cool geometric designs for 3D printing on fabric, with great results. The functional model is likely unfamiliar to most developers, but I have found that I can be efficient and productive with it.
Check out my repos of OpenSCAD objects at https://github.com/jeffbarr/OpenSCADObjects and Truchet Tilings at https://github.com/jeffbarr/TruchetTilings .
My code kind of looks like the C that I wrote in the 1980s, with lots of braces and careful indenting -- not sure if that is a bug or a feature.
As another commenter noted, use the latest nightly build for best results.
Comment · 2 months ago
Actually, it is public -- https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/leadership-principles-aws-new... .
Comment · 1 year ago
I also saw that concert.
Oh yeah, we were in the same row!
Comment · 1 year ago
The original object size limit for S3 was 5 GB, as noted in my 2006 blog post:
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon_s3/
I do not know if this has anything to do with the cliff that you saw.
Comment · 2 years ago
Wow, that brings back memories.
In 1979 I was 19 years old and had just started studying CS in community college. Through a lucky break I got a job at a consulting company and my first assignment was to write a 6502 macro assembler from scratch, in 6502 assembly language. At that point I had written less than 100 lines of 6502 code on my Apple ][, but I was fairly good with 8080 and IBM-370 assembly.
My mentor / manager outlined the basic model for the assembler and I wrote the entire thing myself, quickly getting it to the point where it could self-assemble, and adding features from there. I was making about $7 / hour when I started. However, I wrote a FORTRAN simulation of the hashing algorithm that I was asked to use, shared it with my manager, and got a raise to $8-something an hour.
I had macros, a very fancy listing format that showed all of the hex codes generated by the macros in neat rows, and a lot more. The entire thing fit on two tracks of the 8" floppy disks that we were using -- definitely less than 8000 bytes.
Comment · 3 years ago
OMG...