"They just work" is a surprisingly important start. FreeCAD improved a lot with it's latest release, but it still has many flaky gaps. Caps / apices are especially hard.
Higher order continuity native to the blend would be a requirement for many, too, and the algorithms only get harder and trickier to verify correct.
I intend to open source it once fillets work real good. That will take a while, but I've made pretty good progress since I started 10 weeks ago.
Medium term goal is to release a GUI application that can be used to import STEP files and just do very high quality fillets in. Would be very useful for many hobbyists, I think.
I just bought my ppu digitizer two days ago! Very excited to get that working.
There are a couple reasons you would go this route or classic nesrgb, and I was very tempted (I might still do a nesrgb on my other nes, if ppu digitizer goes well).
Primary one is lumacode is a digital signal that requires interpretation before it can be input into a tv. You can use the creator's rgb2hdmi which requires a raspberry Pi, or you can use a scaler like retrotink or ossc (pro). An RGB connection is standalone in many setups, and also works with scalers. If you want to interface with a CRT, lumacode doesn't immediately support that.
Additionally, ppudigitizer doesn't (directly) support multiple palletes. You are stuck with whatever your lumacode interpreter provides (though you could in theory change this yourself).
Religions house many people fearful of what is happening in their lives, the lives of their loved ones. They want explanations for why their expectations and needs are not met. Is it surprising that the powerful would leverage that fear?
Funny how the Hebrew and Greek words for fear have so many other meanings, and yet the church has taught but one for so long when considering the "fear of God".
Seems to contradict "perfect love casts out all fear". Perhaps we would all be better off if we understood "wisdom begins with the awe of God" as the preferred intention.
> It's not a great move to assume that conservatives are dumb, racist, and unsophisticated.
I don't love labels, but I don't think "conservatives" are simply any of those things.
This isn't an original thought, but I think they are mostly afraid of losing their community if they change their mind.
Fear of disconnection is innate and biological. When my trump supporting friends say "I believe it" to somebody suggesting that the Capitol Hill rioters were antifa pretending to be trump supporters, their lack of interest in challenging their own beliefs stems from the risk incurred with disagreeing with their friends and loved ones.
This effect is so strong that our brains give hits of dopamine whenever our beliefs are confirmed. We are not weird to change our minds.
So no. "Conservatives" aren't dumb. Just like the rest of us, they biologically afraid of social disconnection. And all that shouting across the isle makes it harder for them to see "progressives" accepting them.
I'd argue he never experienced anything that terrible. I can totally relate to wondering whether even another hour was doable, and no, being alive just for the sake of being alive in those moments is not worth it. I guess I've always been hopeful even in the worst of times that things will get better (they always do) and that's the only thing that makes those stretches workable.
David Wallace wells isn't your best source. His work has been criticized for misrepresenting the science by many reputable climate scientists, many of which are easy to find online. It is clear in his response to being called too alarmist that he chooses to stretch the truth.
Whether or not his tactic is ethical is worth debate perhaps, but whether his picture is reflective of what climate scientists believe is an answered question (its not). The situation is bad, but we need not become defeatist, lest we give up entirely.
I am not associated with any of the following, but there are organizations attempting to build devices that will bring colder, nutrient rich waters to the surface to cause phytoplankton blooms (or use the same nutrients for seaweed farming):
Optimism is really, really hard. It requires you to risk looking foolish. Our emotional needs to feel connected work against us staking a position too far away from the norm.
But few great things have been accomplished without the risk of looking foolish, at least at the outset.