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NewsUsing WebAssembly from .NET with Wasmtime Pin
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NewsMozilla removes Avast and AVG extensions from add-on portal over snooping claims Pin
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NewsCarpentry Compiler helps woodworkers design objects that they can actually make Pin
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Dan Neely6-Dec-19 3:20
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
And take a close look at their pictured examples[^]:
• The rear legs of the chair will break as soon as someone sits on it.
• The floor rails of the computer desk will survive just long enough for you to finish connecting all the cables, then they'll break, and the desk will tip over backward.
• The same goes for the drawing table -- those legs with the grain going the wrong way won't last five minutes, with someone leaning on it.


Look at how they rendered the woodgrain in the boards for the bookcase in those cutting instructions (or anywhere else they were cutting 2x2 or 2x4's in their slide deck). They're wrong by 90*; whoever did their graphics just always did vertical wood grain.

Everywhere they had something that looked like it should be cut from a 2x4/etc instead of plywood or a slab the source board they show is the right shape for a 2x4/etc, so I think they just fubarred the graphics.
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NewsYuck: 88% use smartphones on the toilet, and 44% put those phones in their mouths Pin
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NewsHackerOne breach lets outside hacker read customers’ private bug reports Pin
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NewsAmazon cloud boss targets Microsoft’s core business, eyes $3.7 trillion enterprise IT market Pin
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