I regularly drive both left-hand and right-hand drive cars and this still happens to me...

hey, I'm prepared to recognize their humanity in this instance

have you see "Squigonometry: The Study of Imperfect Circles" (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-13783-9)? I bought a copy just for the existential terror that some of the p-norm trig function identities induce...

(actually, they very much do. everyone likes the vehicle.)

Eh, aren't farmers good at fixing complex optomechanical systems when they break?

(but yes I think there was a reason they couldn't give away those particular lasers fast enough, to the point that I ended up in the emails)

Weird how that works - there's a lot more to laser than average power? Who woulda thought...

The other advantages of the small RF source I went with are primarily that it isn't 2.5m long, and it doesn't have a 60kV power supply in close proximity to fragile water cooled parts.

they switched to much more reasonable but $$$ sources, of course. And I decided that I really didn't need that much laser (and a killer HV power supply) around, since my only project that needs 10.6um only wants 10W or so, but really cares about good power control...

And a super orpheum 3! I'll look at the paramount C tomorrow...

This project was made much much easier with two new features we're shipping in Rhino 9 - totally revamped curve rebuilding/refitting and a much more flexible patch command! Super happy with my colleagues' work!