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by bsimpson 2y ago
Nintendo was playing cards.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Husqvarna can be either a motorsports marquee or mowers and chainsaws. Each descends from a gun company, hence the barrel-and-sights logo. Piaggio is both aerospace and motorbikes - each having descended from a common corporate ancestor. Ph
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I was in film school in the mid 00s, when RED was just starting to sell digital cameras to Hollywood studios. I remember a lot of my professors being concerned that we'd lose the archival properties of cinema - you can play back a 100
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Part of how I coped with spending years at a big co underleveled and unaware of the ramifications was realizing that when I took vacation, I disappeared for months at a time. "K, I'm gonna be gone for ___. See you when I get back
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by bsimpson 2y ago
It's nice to see Gruber writing about these things, because he has credibility amongst the Apple copium huffers. I feel like this is the kind of gripe that would be waved away as no big deal or "well actually…" if someone out
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by bsimpson 2y ago
that's how they were able to turn up an new "Department" in a week with no oversight. the D in USDS now stands for Department.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
My day-to-day computers have always been Macs. My use of Windows has been relegated to occasional specific devices, like a TabletPC sketchbook or a 3D workstation. I don't think I'd touched Windows in more than a dozen years whe
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I've used Google Voice as my primary number since 2010. It mostly works flawlessly. It's cool that you can use wifi calling when abroad and the POTS network domestically, all transparently from the POV of the person calling you.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I think I met the founders at TechCrunch Disrupt in about 2008 and their reaction to "what about licensing?" (the most obvious question for a streaming service) was essentially "lol." I'm not surprised they disappea
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by bsimpson 2y ago
It's obnoxious that you have to go through this to install software on a device that you own. > You can't easily change the region on your Apple ID, and you probably don't want to do that anyway. But you can create a secon
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I had a weird dream in the wee hours of the morning that all the headlines read "Jack Nicholson dead at 95, days after SNL appearance." I checked my phone out of curiosity, and Gene Hackman was at the top of Google News.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I'm realizing that there may be people here who are too young to remember how great the ad for this was: https://youtu.be/b5P3QDm61go?si=eCDEa-9KKjG0b7fQ
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by bsimpson 2y ago
You might be off by a generation. I was born in 86. My dad got the first Mac as he was graduating from college. I think I was 13 when the iMac G3 and the X Public Beta came out. Computers were well entrenched in my childhood, but it was the
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by bsimpson 2y ago
It's wild that there was a feeling when that computer came out of "this is the coolest computer design ever," and then the world moved past that. You can look at the iMac line and see that they moved to a more laptopy everyth
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Thanks for the clarification!
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Interesting idea, and I like the idea of people getting paid for making useful things. Also, I get a data security itch having a random piece of software from the internet scan every file on an HD, particularly on a work machine where some
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Which means if you actually edited those files, you might fill up your HD much more quickly than you expected. But if you have the same 500MB of node_modules in each of your dozen projects, this might actually durably save some space.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Honestly, I'm more interested in getting these projects made than in "what if"ing the future. I have a hard time imagining my needs exceeding what I expect to remain in the hobbyist sphere, and I have the ability to transfer
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I'm using Fusion 360. It seems to have the best community support. I work at a big company that likes to claim ownership of anything I create while I'm on contract. Fusion is free until you earn more than $1k from your making, bu
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I just started using CAD last week, but as I understand: - Plasticity is so expensive because it uses one of the major kernels (SIEMENS Parasolid). Most of the licensing fee actually goes to them. You can find the Show HN post with a much
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Same with posting questions - try to include all the things you searched for, so when it gets answered, the next person can find it.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
It shows the stoplight-style close widgets on the right in the first screenshot and the left on the later ones. Is that configurable? It looks like the apps in the example are designed to use the space all the way up to y=0, so I didn'
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I don't know if you're new to HN or if you made an alt account just for this, but… The underlying principle of HN is that discussions should engender curiosity. Talking point pissing matches and trying to dunk in replies permeate
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by bsimpson 2y ago
In this case, it is the exact same article. It's rather distinctive.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I'm from Nevada. I know lots of conservatives who aren't religious.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I continue to be astonished at how the Republican party transformed from libertarians into a personality cult overnight because some weirdo won an election. Lindsey Graham was on TV being all "never Trump" one week and then fully
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by bsimpson 2y ago
There's a piece of furniture in eyeing that's twice as much on Amazon as on AliExpress. I have two anxieties about Ali that are keeping me from making a decision though: - You're essentially trusting foreign eBay sellers to g
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by bsimpson 2y ago
That's too long for me to read, so apologies if the answer was too subtle for "Find in page…" > I’m not leaving under a “deferred resignation”. > … > Instead, I resigned from my position as a product designer, submit
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Radio Shack got bad. Even when they still had components, it's hard to justify driving to the store to spend $30 for an aux cord when Amazon will have it here tomorrow for $10. Notably, the whole sector seems to have collapsed in favo
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Feeling obligated to appease unseen internet freeloaders. If you do it because you want it for your stuff, cool. If you do it because you feel obliged to appease "the community" who takes for granted that you support them, that&#x

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