I just gave this a try, and I would honestly love to have a traditional cad software that is so intuitive and easy to use. (Except for the stuff with the rotation, that was a little hiccup for me)
I could just get into it, drag, drop rotate and make some stuff - it's actually _fun_ to use!
Does anyone know of a cad program which uses a similar approach? I'd love to be able to build smooth models with such a software...
The issue already seems to be there[0], but honestly I immediately resorted to using the arrows to move the pieces around and from there on out it didn't disturb me anymore.
I'm really glad you're putting such an emphasis on beginner friendliness though, that's really cool!
> Architect here: nothing beats SketchUp on intuitiveness
Try latest SolveSpace.[0]
> Autocad is the Emacs for CAD - you can even script it with Lisp. It's not intuitive at all, but once you master it, is unbeatable.
LeoCAD is CAD for kids in the first place. And this HN thread is mostly about CADs which are kids-friendly — usable just with its GUI elemnts & mouse/keyboard shortcuts (SolveSpace also one of such), without any needs in scripting at all.
I highly recommend messing around with yabasic[0] a bit,
runs on windows and (probably) most unix-likes, and even offers graphics capabilities right out of the box!
I feel like this would've been a great batteries-included environment to start in, back when I started programming.
Then again, shows like One Punch Man work because you know all of those tropes, and doesn't seem to work nearly half as well if you don't know what they're referring to.
(I've tried showing it to someone with rather little prior exposition to traditional shonen and the person found it rather boring. A sample size of one, I know that says almost nothing)
If you haven't watched it yet, give Hunter x Hunter a try - sure you'll see lots of re-occurring tropes, but it's a bit of a breath of fresh air, promised.
Maybe I'm a bit more old and grumpy than you - for me OPM was great for most of the first season, but quickly deteriorated into spending half the time (exaggerated) ooh-ing and aaw-ing over "the S rank heroes power" and all that. Loved Mob Psycho 100 from the same creator, though.
I did try Hunter x Hunter last year - I gave up precisely because I felt like I've seen everything 100 times already.
I guess I should just take the uncle commentor's advice and stop trying to watch this class of shows if they aren't rewarding.
OTOH I really did enjoy Yakusoku no Neverland and Decadance in the past year, so I guess there's always something.
Seconded that Mob Psycho 100 is an improvement over One Punch Man when it comes to subversiveness, character development, and general storytelling. Extremely relevant to this thread in that it shows how the skillful subversion of tropes can keep the interest of someone who's otherwise numb to those tropes.
Why would you not just set the location of the backup and swapfiles to a fixed place in your system?
Try this:
set backupdir=~/.vim/backups,.
set directory=~/.vim/swapfiles,.
It will only write in the current directory, if ~/.vim/backups does not exist, and the dot is just there for portability, so nothing breaks when using my vimrc on a new system.
Edit:
Upon actually reading your blog-post, I understand at least one reason - my options may not change the behaviour of a file not being written to the correct inode, so you have a point for some build systems.
I actually learned rather much reading this, thank you for sharing!
You should end your swapfile directory setting with two slashes, i.e.:
set directory=~/.vim/swapfiles//,.
From the help text for "directory":
> For Unix and Win32, if a directory ends in two path separators "//", the swap file name will be built from the complete path to the file with all path separators replaced by percent '%' signs (including the colon following the drive letter on Win32). This will ensure file name uniqueness in the preserve directory.
Infiniminer is something that comes to mind - which was the base used for Minecraft, I think.
While we're in the Realm of voxel-based games, there's Minetest, which is open Source and written in C++ and extendable by Lua.
Iirc, braid was also developed solely by one person, although he did commision the art.
But in general, the "big game made by a single person" is a bit of a myth. Sure, it does exist, but many of those people have either had help from others, or were actually working in a small team.
You remember correctly - it's from the second book, "The restaurant at the end of the universe", and the animal in question had been genetically altered to strive for its own consumption, and enjoy the whole process of it.
It's quite a terrifying thought, to be honest - maybe because the animal in question is very much conscious and intelligent.
I'm never quite sure whether or not Douglas Adams wrote it for comedic effect or to provoke some deeper discussion.
Hehe^^
Try:
,p
or:
,n
in ed and you'll print the whole file to the screen - although you'll be at the end of the file with everything that didn't fit on screen cut off.
I guess there's a reason why it's not around on modern systems anymore^^
Maybe it's just your use case - but I've just switched someone over to Linux and it seems to be suiting them much better than Windows - granted they're running older hardware, but we would've had to throw that laptop away otherwise, as Windows 10 is absolute garbage when installed on an HDD.
The person in question was really quite attached to their Laptop and after a failed HDD, we just took another one we had lying around, tried to save Windows (but to no avail), and finally decided to put LinuxLite [1] on it.
People who mostly utilize a browser in their day-to-day computer usage don't have any advantage in using Windows whatsoever.
I haven't yet used Linux for that long, (only around two years as may daily driver) but I can't imagine ever going back to Windows, except for very few select games, which aren't yet supported natively or via Proton/Wine.
And I keep hearing about the touchpad driver issue, but I really can't find a single difference between my Windows and Linux boxes, maybe I'm not sensitive enough, or have much lower standards in that regard, I really can't tell.
Sure, Windows Office and some Adobe software isn't there yet when used via Wine, I'll give you that. I personally do just fine with Blender, Gimp and Inkscape on the graphics front. I can't speak for the usability of the Libre-office suite, but it's done the job for the few times I had to use it.
I could just get into it, drag, drop rotate and make some stuff - it's actually _fun_ to use!
Does anyone know of a cad program which uses a similar approach? I'd love to be able to build smooth models with such a software...