| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | SylvainLS  | | Posted: | Jan 22, 2023 14:13 | | Subject: | Re: Wich part is this? | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
| In Catalog, Darth_Smithy writes:
| | In Catalog, FantasyBricks writes:
| | Do you have the actual part? If so, does it say "Lego" on the studs?
Otherwise, it does not look like Lego to me -- unless it is a new or uncatalogued
part.
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Or neatly Dremelled
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I don’t know any LEGO part that could be modified to look that way.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jan 22, 2023 14:11 | | Subject: | Re: Orange spaceman | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | General | |
| In General, rtzx9r writes:
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| | But orange you glad you found five?  Thanks folks, I'll be here all night.
Don't forget to tip your server!
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I’d like to “book” a few orders for those orange spacemen. Ba da tish
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Is it “everyone is a comedian” day?
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jan 22, 2023 11:40 | | Subject: | Re: Down the rabbit hole? | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| In Off Topic, yorbrick writes:
| | In Off Topic, zzed writes:
| | For a consumer, what % of income is appropriate to spend on LEGO before it is
considered a..."problem"? Or is it calculated based on square feet overtaken
by LEGO in the home? Asking for a friend.
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It depends what other outgoings you have.
20% is a huge amount to be spending on lego if you are spending 95% on essentials.
Whereas 20% is not much if you are only spending 10% on essentials.
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Isn’t LEGO part of the essentials?
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jan 21, 2023 16:56 | | Subject: | Re: Excluded countries for wanted list | | Viewed: | 14 times | | Topic: | General | |
| In General, prikkel_ writes:
| | When i check the setting to only show shop in the european union, the easy buy
for my wanted list keeps showing stores outside of it.
Why is this?
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Because EasyBuy doesn’t care about filters.
Use the Buy page ( https://www.bricklink.com/v2/wanted/buy.page ) and Auto-select,
it obeys the filters just above the list of shops ((3) on the first image here:
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2445 ).
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jan 21, 2023 16:54 | | Subject: | Re: Part Editor | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
| In Related Software, FreakySnuke writes:
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The solution(s) outlined in this thread don't seem to work anymore for this
latest update bug - at least for me. I've completed wiped every possible
folder related to Stud.io 2.0 and Part Designer but upon reinstalling both programs
it still throws the same error.
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1. You could (actually should) have answered in said thread 
2. You need to install December’s version of Studio (and refuse to update)
if you want to use PartDesigner before the devs fix the problem with the new
version.
(Explanations / links are in the thread, 3rd page.)
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jan 21, 2023 15:07 | | Subject: | Re: 42145 Airbus H175 Rescue Helicopter | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| In Help, SJMarty writes:
| | Hello,
I'm building the 42145 Airbus H175 Rescue Helicopter. On step 142, the instructions
show inserting a red pin with axle through two narrow beams, through a wide beam,
and in step 143, placing a pinion on the axle end and another pinion on the axle
beneath it. After installing both pinions, the longer axle is almost impossible
to turn due to the friction from the red pin with the axle end holding the pinion
above it. Before continuing, I want to make sure this is correct as it doesn't
seem right.
Thank you!
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Hi, I haven’t built the set or looked further in the instructions but it looks
like a classic brake, to prevent the axle from rotating freely.
Is it part of the landing gear’s up-down mechanism?
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jan 21, 2023 13:16 | | Subject: | Re: So I had a chat with "Chat GPT"... | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| In Off Topic, cycbuild1136 writes:
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Open source culture is foreign to artists and scientists.
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I don’t really agree with that, or that depends on whom you label “scientists.”
Open source is the fundament of science: you share what you do, how you do it,
with what you do it.
Grafted on that is the people who pay the scientists and want something in return
or want to know how/to whom to distribute the money. And those people are therefore
interested in technology and applications, not science, and there you get patents
and secrets.
As for artists, well all the artists train by looking at and reproducing others’
arts (works for paintings or books). Then they find & do their own things and
add their creativity… or not, when they found the “cash recipe” and rehash the
same work / story over and over.
Those AIs do exactly as the latter: they are trained on what exists, find the
recipe (in a totally obscure way for us) and produce similar things over and
over.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jan 21, 2023 11:41 | | Subject: | Re: So I had a chat with "Chat GPT"... | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| In Off Topic, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | For anyone new on this topic and don't know what Chat GPT is: Chat GPT is
a AI-based program that people use for generating dialogues.
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Thank you for wording it this way 
Those AIs are indeed not answering questions, they are generating
text (or images) as a continuation of what precedes, mimicking answers, mimicking
a dialogue.
They are like your phone’s keyboard app’s (or Google’s search bar’s) completion
on steroids. They don’t know anything and they even less understand
anything.
As such, they are reproducing what’s more probable to happen, that is, the average.
(And therefore they need to be “curated” because 80% of everything is crap.)
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I'm flabbergasted by Chat GPT. What seemed unlikely 30 years ago (for example
in science fiction films) is now just everyday reality.
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Well, in movies / books, the AIs know things and think. There’s
no thinking or even knowledge here.
(One could argue there’s knowledge in the sense that the AI “knows” how to make
sentences… but it’s not organized knowledge, it’s fine-tuned reflexes.)
| | I am personally convinced that it will not be long before we can no longer differentiate
between real people and robots.
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Well, Eliza already fooled enough people almost 60 years ago.
| | It also raises the question to what extent you
can still trust written communication in the future.
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And pictures and sounds and movies.
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