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New comment by plumbees in "Build123d: A Python CAD programming library"

plumbees — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:46:39 +0000

I've been wanting to get into OpenScad. Wondering what you've identified as an issue. I dabbled a little and I think I remember wishing it was more object oriented to make it a bit easier to make reusable adjustable pieces and I had found a python library that does openscad conversions; Wondering what gripes it solves for you.

New comment by plumbees in "The case for becoming a manager"

plumbees — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:13:16 +0000

Also I do understand the whole, if you lead you will be respected bit; but counter act that with mega corps that will let your wage stagnate and being a leader might be detrimental to your work/life balance given how much is taken for what is given. (tldr: Unfair wages kill motivation and leadership)

New comment by plumbees in "The case for becoming a manager"

plumbees — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:09:21 +0000

> Park as far as you possibly can from the store and walk that thing for a solid 3 minutes both ways. Find one with a really noisy wheel. Make a whole production out of it. Leading by example is unbelievably effective if you lean into it just a little bit.

I might be a little base, how does parking as far from the store show 'leadership'?

What's complaining about a noise wheel going to accomplish other than being like a Karen? (noisy wheel might be non important to the day to day and literally just noise.)

I think I'm missing context as I can't get the grocery store scenario from another comment out of my head.

New comment by plumbees in "Seed Oils, Early-Onset Cancer and Human Metabolic Variability"

plumbees — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 12:59:33 +0000

Is this just pseudoscience?

New comment by plumbees in ""Your" vs. "My" in user interfaces"

plumbees — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:53:20 +0000

Every platform and application seems to do things differently. On Linux, I end up with a mix of dotfiles in my home directory, some apps putting things under ~/.local/..., and then tools like Miniconda insisting on a top-level folder. It feels inconsistent and messy. Windows isn’t much better—despite having an AppData folder, some programs still scatter their files in random places. \s I guess we'll just need to create a brand new standard, that will make things better. \s

New comment by plumbees in "GNU Artanis – A fast web application framework for Scheme"

plumbees — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 23:18:42 +0000

I can finally read a website without squinting despite having glasses on already. Yay!

New comment by plumbees in "Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?"

plumbees — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 18:30:45 +0000

Never done open source but always wanted to. Developers of open source could always ask for a fee to add features, and easy prs are easy prs. But for those more complicated things that don't interest the main owners, could they offer a PR service where if you pay the developers or the project a fee, they'll take the time to review the PR and tell you what to do for it to be accepted, or keep a 5$ review fee and return the rest if it's just not a feature that jives with the project's overarching goals. I don't see why that cannot be a piece of the market. It would still be open source but it would add incentive to say a project is worth doing.

Albeit I'm sure that most would likely not be willing to pay to have their code reviewed and accepted in a project; but on another hand, if I wanted to contribute to GNUCash and I didn't want to read the manual, or I found the manual hard to understand, it would be like paying for training. So it can in certain cases be win-win.

And if it is a feature that is wanted, then there's no worry about it being reviewed. Or having to pay because the value will be obvious to the creators who will take it on.

In other words: Pay the developer/maintainer to care about the feature you want.

Has this ever been attempted and successful?

New comment by plumbees in "A receipt printer cured my procrastination"

plumbees — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 17:51:24 +0000

The first two paragraphs made me realize I have ADHD. I had thought I didn't have it.

New comment by plumbees in "Old Timey Code and Old Timey Mono Fonts"

plumbees — Wed, 07 May 2025 15:27:32 +0000

Windows is not liking the font files :( Will wait for next release

New comment by plumbees in "Careless People"

plumbees — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 14:45:11 +0000

;) I know but it can be read both ways. Leaning into the ambiguity.

New comment by plumbees in "Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate"

plumbees — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 18:46:53 +0000

This is fun. Seems like you got several comments here trying to "improve" it's "usefulness". I like it as is, a piece of art on how corporate speak is unrealistically obtuse.

New comment by plumbees in "Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M"

plumbees — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 15:42:48 +0000

As a mandarin learner, I find that the Chinese one lacks cadence, which makes it very hard as a learner to comprehend. It's like a machine gun of words without the subtle slight pause between sets of words that I would normally lean on.