Watching the CNC lathe cut threads in the toolpost lever was a thing of beauty.
Readit NewsCurtHagenlocher commented on Bought a Broken CNC Lathe They Don't Want Me to Fix [video] youtube.com/watch?v=BuQZe... · Posted by u/vermontdevil
CurtHagenlocher commented on The Invitability of Rust sysid.github.io/rusts-str... · Posted by u/sysid
Invite to what?
It's clearly a typo for "inevitability".
CurtHagenlocher commented on 'Calvin and Hobbes' at 40 npr.org/2025/11/18/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/mooreds
You know, your comment reminds me of something my wife and I were talking about. We have been starting to let our child have a little more screen time and choose what he wants to watch (within the parameters we set).
Some shows and movies seem harmless, initially, but then we noticed in so many kids movies (e.g., Zootopia, Sing), they're always yelling at each other, expressing anger, frustration, and hostility towards one another.
Then we wonder why kids adopt those attitudes. It's simply because mimic what they see. And worse yet, when they see it in movie/show form, they think those attitudes are cool and relatable.
One thing I always notice after trips abroad is the extent to which American newscasters are practically yelling at their audience. This is a stark contrast to many European countries, where the tone is calmer and more measured.
CurtHagenlocher commented on Tech billionaire Peter Thiel's lectures about the antichrist theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/n1b0m
Anything that prevents Peter Thiel from doing what he wants must be evil.
Even if true, it would only be for one of the narrowest possible definitions of "crime". What can Flock do about mail fraud? About domestic violence? About wage theft? About falsified studies that lead to substances being misclassified as harmless? About price fixing? Does the majority of criminal activity even take place in "public" spaces?
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CurtHagenlocher commented on Never write your own date parsing library zachleat.com/web/adventur... · Posted by u/ulrischa
In 2009 I made a note that Excel's main date parsing function was over 1000 lines of code -- not including helpers.
CurtHagenlocher commented on Matterport walkthrough of the original Microsoft Building 3 my.matterport.com/show/?m... · Posted by u/uticus
> when you went looking for room 2352, you didn’t know what color wing it was in.
I worked in building 6 for a while. That was frustrating because the two halves of the building were mirror images. If I had to go to the other side of the building for a meeting, I got disoriented and thought I knew the way back to my office, but I kept getting it wrong. It's like the Upside Down.
Similarly, buildings 40 and 41 were (at least pre-remodel) roughly mirror images of each other. Roughly a week after moving from 41 to 40 -- long enough to start navigating based on "caveman memory" but not long enough to override a year's worth of previous memories -- I accidentally went into the women's restroom instead of the men's because they too were mirrored.
CurtHagenlocher commented on Matterport walkthrough of the original Microsoft Building 3 my.matterport.com/show/?m... · Posted by u/uticus
These were taken between 2014 and 2018, because I seem to recall that the "accent walls" were painted in fall of 2014 and the buildings were emptied for demolition in 2018.
CurtHagenlocher commented on AI in 2030: Part II exponentialview.co/p/ai-i... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
Why look, if I take my five data points and fit them to an exponential curve, it shows there will be exponential growth in the future.