Put together a workflow for using AI to speed up product validation—research, branding, assets. Haven't tested it properly yet, writing it up so I don't forget.

The idea is I use AI generated assets to throw up a landing page and then see what actually performs well.

Are there other people doing the same thing or maybe even tools being built to do this all in one platform?

Give plasticity a shot - not FOSS but pretty decent CAD and works on linux

I know you are looking at this for education but I've actually ordered two to toss in my travel bag for when I visit factories to handle manufacturing bringup.

Great tool. Thank you.

This is amazing. I love that this exists. I'm surprised how negative some of the comments are.

I skipped to a random spot, and lasted about 5 seconds. Two drawings of dicks, 50% scribbles, and a couple frames of just the word PENIS. Yes, this is truly a noteworthy effort.

I’m as equally curious as you, just on the other side of the horseshoe.

Same here. If you skip to a random part of the movie, and move frame by frame, it becomes a game of "spot the penis". Just one or two can be "tolerated", but we're far from that here, so ... My opinion is that it does not really belong in HN

> My opinion is that it does not really belong in HN

It's a fascinating tech/social experiment. It belongs on HN because it was done and the outcome is what it is.

If you actually want to watch the Bee Movie then watch the original. I doubt generating a watchable alternative was behind anyone's motivation in this.

Because of a penis drawing? Are we in preschool? There have been those ever since caveman times.

I think the point is we're not in preschool, nor are we cave(wo)men, so we don't need the penis drawings.

A penis drawing isn't something that's needed, it's something that happens. Feel free to rail against them in a Kanute-like manner, but learning to cock an eyebrow and say "yeah, that figures" can be self-preserving.

For what it's worth I too prefer the plausible deniability of Georgia O'Keefe's outrageous lies. It's a more sensible chuckle.

No-one's railing against anything.

I was hoping to introduce my old “donging through the millennia” thesis work and ride that hobby horse around the room a little :(

Did the caveman Bee Movie have penises in it? Because then you’d have a really good point.

I'm sure this one had an absurdly short TTP (time to penis).

>I'm surprised how negative some of the comments are.

It's literally unwatchable - It's 85% scribbles and "jokes."

I can understand the negativity because this only appeals to specific sensibilities.

I admit that it’s low brow but it hits my fascination the exact right way. To me there is something special about so many people being organized around something so mundane.

Sorry but buying sequences sounds interesting, how would one go about doing this?

Vendors sell the sequences for a song, and they typically have certain events plotted out. You then just take the timeline in the sequence file you purchased, and map your props to parts of it

It's somewhat akin to taking a midi file and setting various instruments to the various channels in the file

Thanks for sharing! Sounds quite interesting.

This is so interesting, I used to use exclusively Samsung but bought a Motorola phone for travel and the experience was so good I got rid of my main Samsung and bought another Motorola.

Have you had this barrage of notifications on Motorola? My experience with Samsung was mostly good.

I love this, really well executed.

I would be interested in learning what happened during COVID that led to this, if you have the time to talk about that. No worries if not, of course.

They seem to have written the original article going off the articles author name and the name in their bio.

That is correct. I have also stated in my bio that I work for the Reg.

If I understand things correctly then my intuition for the answer to their mom's question would be gears wear out much less quickly than a clutch would if it were engaged all the time. Can anyone who knows more chime in?

Edit: ah wait no it's two multipliers isn't it, you're reducing overall power output when engaging the clutch?

Gears are multipliers. A clutch is basically two spinning plates - one on the gearbox/transmission, one on the engine.

When you press the clutch pedal in, it moves the plates apart so they don't touch. When you let the pedal out, the plates move together, slip and rub for a bit, and then grab.

While they are all the way apart or all the way grabbed, they don't wear. While you are in between, they are rubbing and wearing, and trying to get the engine/transmission to spin the same speed.

Thank you!