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by ddkto 5mo ago
The best part is that copilot commented on the PR saying that this doesn’t actually change the behaviour, creates inconsistency in the codebase and suggested reverting the change! (This comment seems to have been ignored…) > The configur
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by ddkto 11mo ago
The example usda data has a prim named `…_fbx` which suggests that maybe the original author uploaded an FBX file, and skechfab converted it to USD. If sketchfab is converting the file format, it’s not so surprising that they get into the i
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by ddkto 11mo ago
My first language was also Logo, which I learned first in English at home, then in French at school. I wonder how many languages Logo was translated into? Examples is French: https://www.tortue-logo.fr/fr/tortue-logo&#x
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by ddkto 1y ago
The academic / business divide is a great example of the correct model depending on what you want to do. The academic side wants to understand, the business side wants to take action. For example, the Viable System Model[1] can capture
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by ddkto 1y ago
It’s hard to believe this is the first time I’ve seen Grasshopper on HN! Just this morning, a colleague showed me a web app for building option exploration that he had vibe coded on Replit that wrapped around existing core logic in a Grassh
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by ddkto 1y ago
This is basically what the OP is doing - just think of this of the cursor rule as a summary (aka a compression) of the session. I did something similar for a small vibe-coded app. After a few back and forths to develop the first working ver
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by ddkto 2y ago
Yes, but Bilbo does adopt him to make him his heir
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by ddkto 2y ago
Some more details: https://cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2025/02/geoparquet-2.0-going...
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by ddkto 2y ago
I also once got distracted by Spirographs. We got a Spirograph kit for our kids one Christmas, so I spent some time during the holidays writing a python package to draw them. Nothing fancy, just uses python’s built-in turtle graphics. http
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by ddkto 3y ago
The short answer is no, it is much more than that! The long answer involves several hundreds of years of history…
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by ddkto 3y ago
> Maple syrup is a minor luxury, easily substituted by other things like jam or honey. Speaking as a Canadian, I suppose this is maybe technically true from an economic standpoint, but…we don’t even accept table syrup as a substitute, mu
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by ddkto 3y ago
Yeah, the flip side of there being 'less skilled' developers who operate at a higher level of abstraction is that it is easier to train more of them. In absolute numbers, there are probably more people today who understand the fun
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by ddkto 3y ago
Yes, absolutely - skills move from mainstream to niche, but are still required! For example, a much smaller proportion of the population knows how to farm today than 100 years ago, but it's still important :) (And sometimes these mains
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by ddkto 3y ago
> Not that we shouldn't use modern tools, but having a generation of developers unable to do anything outside their chosen layer of abstraction is a sad state of affairs. Funnily enough my day job is writing software for structural
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by ddkto 3y ago
Simon Wardley would like a word…in his model this is the natural order of things. As technology matures and standardized and a new generation of tools is built on top of new abstractions, and the details of that tech no longer need to be un
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by ddkto 3y ago
It appears that the two controls are physically linked, but have a 'fuse' mechanism. When the two pilots apply lower forces to their controls, the forces are transferred between the controls and they 'fight' each other t
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by ddkto 3y ago
Circular economics: The Phoenix bridge: Improving circularity of 3D-concrete-printed unreinforced masonry structures - https://block.arch.ethz.ch/brg/publications/1310 (Edit : link format)
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by ddkto 3y ago
> the project owner is always, in the end, responsible for the success of a project This is very relevant to large government construction projects in the public-private partnership model (aka Alternative Financing and Procurement). Thes
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by ddkto 3y ago
Professional business people are familiar with different business models, and when to apply them. For instance, hourly billing makes a lot of sense if the scope is vague - the client carries the scope risk. Fixed price is amazing when the c
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by ddkto 3y ago
Property taxes are usually set as a fixed amount to be collected, and the tax % is back calculated. In practice, this means that the only thing that matters is the value of a property relative to the rest of the city.
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by ddkto 3y ago
exactly - Google is acting like a VC, not a company. A VC isn't too worried if a large percentage of their investments go under, so long a few make it big. It's like Google has the worst of both worlds: the upper management has th
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by ddkto 3y ago
It is interesting to consider this from a Stage-Gate vs Lean Startup perspective. These two product development processes can be seen as antithetical, but if you read the original sources (Winning at New Products and The Lean Startup), you
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by ddkto 3y ago
As a Quebecer, all I can say is, join the club! For everyone shocked by this, it is much less extensive and onerous than the Quebec languages laws. Very roughly speaking, similar rules apply to all companies operating in Quebec with 25 or m
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by ddkto 4y ago
but when the video window pops up again, it's a different size than it was before. I usually have the video window expanded to half a screen (the other half is for taking notes). If I share the other monitor, the sequence is: 1. share
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Archetypes for a Retail Central Bank Digital Currency(bankofcanada.ca)
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by ddkto 4y ago
Seismic magnitude and intensity are two different measures. Magnitude measures the amount of energy released by the ground movement. It is a property of the earthquake and is independent of where the measurements are taken. When someone say
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by ddkto 4y ago
Kill it with Fire, by Marianne Bellotti is an excellent resource on this question. She addresses the team dynamics, corporate politics and technical side of modernizing legacy systems. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/book
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by ddkto 4y ago
Yes - I work at Arup ( https://www.arup.com/ ), a large engineering design and consultancy firm. The founder (Ove Arup) and original 7 partners “sold” their shares to a trust in the 60s or 70s (for something like 1 GBP, so th
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by ddkto 4y ago
I suppose the technically correct term would be reinforced concrete bike
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by ddkto 5y ago
“The Japanese Building Code (BSLJ) explicitly requires that buildings withstand moderate earthquakes with almost no damage, while collapse prevention and life-safety is required for severe earthquakes. It is expected that a typical building

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