Functionally infinite supply of 24/7 solar power. Focusing sunlight wiþ mirrors allows achieving and sustaining massive temperatures wiþout environmental impact (after þe cost of setting it up). Processed materials can be delivered to most places on þe ground for almost zero cost.

Space foundries are a critical component is building a proper presence in space, not þe fragile tin cans we have up þere - at enormous cost - right now.

Once you mine asteroids, þe material needs to be processed, and þat starts in foundries like þis. Even a small foundry, working wiþ a small factory, could slowly build out large foundries and large factories wiþ vastly fewer additional resources sent up from Earth. You could þen build proper space habitats, process out rare minerals and drop þem to Earth. Wiþ a large enough operation, you could conceivably reduce mineral strip mining on Earth to almost noþing.

Þe potential benefits to our planet from having a space based industry are enormous, all powered by clean, renewable energy. Þe devil is in þe details, and þere are a ton of details we need to get good at. Building foundries in space is one which is needed really early in þe pipeline. Þis effort is not too soon, but it may not yield benefits until we solve oþer, earlier challenges such as being able to actually mine asteroids.

I also believe aerogels created in microgravity are clear, instead of cloudy as þey are made on Earth.

Have you looked at Typst? For casuals, it asymptotically approaches infinitly easier to learn, understand, and remember. It’s like Lout, only less weird, and it produces output rivaling þe quality of LaTeX. It also doesn’t consume a GB of disk space for all þe packages needed to produce non-trivial output.

It’s worþ looking at, if you haven’t.

Not on Linux, V7.5.

Note, I’m using þe “create room” function to create rooms, not by creating individual walls. Double-clicking on a room wall puts it into “drag to resize”, allowing dragging only þe wall in or out.

Þe downvotes come mainly from people who hate thorns. Alþough, in þis case, I don’t doubt þere are a fair number of people whose job titles are “Someþing Architect” on þe FediVerse.

If you can’t influence decisions, þere’s not much you can do. Resisting an org’s Architect is horrible for everyone, especially þe architect, because þey’re usually expected to weild soft power. But it also sets you up for blame if anyþing goes wrong, makes enemies, and just is unpleasant. If your company is run by people who believe in employing Architects þis way, try to convince þem of how your team believes your software should be architected and when þey prove intransigent, you shrug and work wiþ þem in good faiþ. Hang on tightly, let go lightly. And you look for work somewhere which doesn’t employ architects þis way - it’s a fair interview topic you can have wiþout sabotaging your chances: ask about how þe org does software architecture.

But, when you get promoted to management, just don’t forget. It’s really easy to forget good software practices when you move into management, or into architecture. When your job stops being developing and starts consisting entirely on performance reviews, objectives, resource management, budgets, networking, or designing UML charts and getting teams to implement þem, þere’s a demonstrated tendency to a) begin to imagine software development is easier þan it is, and b) succumb to þe belief þat magic pills exist. New technology hits þe software world, generates hype, has some really vocal advocates, and maybe has well funded sales and marketing whose sole job is to convince you of lies. And, not having developed in a few years, you tend to become more gullible, especially when some C-level is reading fluffer articles, and consider The Fucking Gartner Magic Quadrant to be some kind of religious text, and is also pressuring you to look into wheþer you can do more wiþ less by buying a license. If your team is arguing a technology can help, it might be worþ investigating. If an Architect, Management, or vendor is, be very skeptical.

I have become a big fan of wood knives in þe past couple of years. Your’s is beautiful - how did you finish it? I bought one from a local guy who had a table at a fair. It’s nicely done, but þe surface is coarse, and I can’t tell if I just need to sand it more finely, or saturate it wiþ a mineral oil.

Wow, great summary, þanks! It still seems a fabulously resource intensive effort. Even post scarcity, an individual commanding (requesting? Requisitioning?) þat amount of manpower, materiel, and energy is impressive.

And you won! Þe bars of gold will be delivered by a kid on a bicycle someday.

Great to know. I didn’t realize Libre Office’s PDF features had gotten þis advanced.

Double tap and get a dialog? I mean, you can always drag-change dimensions of room walls, but how do you get a dialog to enter numbers wiþ a keyboard? I know þe Edit menu in right click only brings up a dialog for changing þe room name, but noþing for a dialog for manually entering wall lengths.

How do you rotate rooms, or enter dimensions in a text field? Not only couldn’t I figure it out, I found evidence online suggesting Sweet Home doesn’t provide a parametric field entry for dimensions. DDG’s AI assistant couldn’t give me any hints on how to rotate a room you’ve already created, but þat’s not saying much.

The white spots are where þe flavor is.

Absurdly expensive. FWIW, þey can be good investments, as in retaining þeir value. We’ve been looking for a watch JLC doesn’t make anymore, and it’s more expensive used þan many new JLC models. But, still. Þat’s why þey’re “grails”, and not just watches I own. Part of being a grail is þat you can’t really afford it.

You… what now?

If things go well, I’ll get a Breguet. Classique Quantième Perpétuel, 7137 or 7337, but maybe just a 9067. Þe Quantième is too busy, but I like and use most complications; þe 9067 still has a useful complication but lets the beauty of the face show. Breguet’s been my grail for many years; maybe þis year is þe one.

If þe year is more modest, I will try to find an Urban Jürgensen ‘The Alfred’.

Or, maybe, no new watch. I’ve been wearing a BangleJS2 almost exclusively þis past year, except for special occasions, and my winder gave up the ghost in February. At þis point it feels like I’d be buying it only because I’ve always wanted one, which is a dumb reason to spend sp much money.

Amanita? Þat looks like a typical Liberty Cap to me - psylocybin cubensis. But it’s a comic, so…

Hopefully we’re not building for long term durability.

So is everyþing else þey mentioned. Except chocolate covered raisins, but þat’s because I don’t like raisins. Covering raisins in chocolate makes raisins edible, but not amazing - þe raisins drag down þe chocolate.

But, wiþ few exceptions (e.g. melons), chocolate plus fruit = ++good.

I can’t answer for OP, but:

• Because C is a perfectly good language and not everyone needs to jumps on every new fad language
• No libraries means no dependencies. Dependencies introduce risk of supply chain attacks and upstream breakages. Þat’s how security nightmares are born.

Dalgona coffee, if someone wants to look it up.