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Cake day: November 12th, 2024

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  • I tried visualising 4 dimensions once or twice, but it doesn’t really work out for me.
    So I have no way to get that 4th axis for the 4th ring.

    It’s extremely easy upto the 2 rings and I am also able to change the axes while moving them.
    The moment I add a 3rd ring, the difficulty seems to abruptly increase, making me take quite a while to imagine it and even the slightest diversion, making me forget the simulation.


    I just realised that in your explanation, you didn’t explicitly require orthogonal axes. Now it makes more sense to try the 4th ring. Perhaps I will try doing that when I am about to sleep, after doing the 3 rings for a while and see if I am able to do so.
    There is a way to cheat yourself out of this, by first making the animation and watching it on a screen and then internalising it. I will keep that for later, after knowing how well I can do without it.


    I also feel the need to say that while in my above description, I am able to do something similar to visualisation, that doesn’t really help me in drawing stuff. Even when I try using a 3D CAD program, that way of visualisation ends up making it harder for me to make it. Instead, I need to force myself to reduce the extra information of touch and feel and taste, to make it easier for me to model it and it takes further effort to make a 2D projection.














  • Well of course, there’s probably other Windows stuff they are also using, considering how much they aren’t even trying to ship for something like Ubuntu, which would be super easy otherwise.

    I can only imagine how big of a push Autodesk can easily put towards Linux. That would easily make the current rise to 5% be nothing in comparison. Maybe MS is paying them too, to keep them together.
    Of course it might also just be that MS makes it easier for them to setup a DRM (Digital Rights Management) as compared to Linux, not that it matters considering how much they have been pirated.


    Then there was this person who was not using Linux because of the CAD software he wanted to use and when I asked what exactly it was, he said, “KiCad”[1].


    1. it’s available in Arch and Debian official repositories ↩︎


  • Yeah, I didn’t understand why people were going around talking about toothpicks when there is a thingy specifically made for the job.
    To use a toothpick, I would need to go out and buy a pack, while I already have a dozen of them plugs lying around in my house. In fact I got 2 more pieces, complementary with the a handheld mixer, because it had a wall-mount fitment.