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by frontiersummit 5y ago
The Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) from NHTSA codes every fatal motor vehicle accident in the United States, including collisions with pedestrians. It's a magnificent data set used widely in the insurance industry, but also
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by frontiersummit 5y ago
I imagine that in the next decade, the USA (and California in particular) will learn that there exists a tipping point where a homelessness crisis turns into proper slums/favelas/shanty-towns. The middle-income and developing worl
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by frontiersummit 5y ago
I've always maintained that Assertive = Aggressive + On my Team You are assertive if the community around you thinks you are justified in asking for your way, and aggressive if they feel you are unjustified. We perceive our allies as a
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by frontiersummit 5y ago
User of 3D CAD here. The reason this is so hard is that a part's geometry will be governed by a different set of parameters, depending on its function, and the software will not know the function of the part, unless is was written by a
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by frontiersummit 5y ago
This hits the nail on the head. All of the CAD kernels basically date from the 1980s. The mathematics involved in extending them is not widely taught, and while this knowledge still lives in books, it is not finding its way into minds.
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by frontiersummit 5y ago
I've used Windchill extensively and I've set up a Vault instance (the Autodesk equivalent). I completely agree with what you are saying. At most companies, there is a "Emperor's Clothes" scenario where even the expe
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by frontiersummit 5y ago
This is only slightly worse than Slovakia's official online Cadastral (property ownership) map, which still requires using Internet Explorer and downloading an ActiveX Plugin. https://mapa.katasterportal.sk/kapor2/
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by frontiersummit 5y ago
You might want to consider that autonews.com is the url of Automotive News, a widely-read trade publication from Crain Communications. (I get access to it as I work for a Tier-1 automotive supplier). IANAL, but you probably will get in hot
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by frontiersummit 5y ago
I've spent much of my career in the auto industry (Tier 1 supplier), and I couldn't agree more. I'm even a "car guy," but I could care less about exotic cars, which most of what appears on autonews.io.
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by frontiersummit 5y ago
The obvious elephant in the room is how can someone afford food and rent while working on $1 or whatever. If I was a hiring manager I would assume one of 3 things: 1) He is independently wealthy, 2) He lives in a van, or 3) he really expect
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by frontiersummit 6y ago
Google and Bing searches for "creo" give the PTC product as their first result. IANAL, but PTC could make the case that you are diluting their brand name by using it for your software, or worse, trying the phish their customers.
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by frontiersummit 6y ago
You may wish to rethink the name, as you are likely infringing on PTC's trademark. PTC Creo (Formerly known as Pro/Engineer) is high-end CAD software, competing against Catia and NX.
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by frontiersummit 6y ago
Agreed. A recent study indicates that living on the Western end of a timezone decreases sleep by 19 minutes on average, with an accompanying host of negative health effects. Permanent DST is the equivalent of shifting everyone one entire t
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by frontiersummit 6y ago
ABS is not a low quality material. It is a tough polymer which maintains its toughness over a wide range of environmental conditions. That is why it is widely used in applications like automotive interior and exterior panels. It's prob
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by frontiersummit 6y ago
During the 2009 Swine Flu epidemic, I designed ancillary equipment for a bioreactor used for making an experimental vaccine. If any supplier or subcontractor was dragging their feet, all we had to say was "this is for a machine which m
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by frontiersummit 6y ago
This is likely being done for business reasons rather than technical reasons. It would prevent the use of any "legacy glass" which a lot of medium-format shooters have been collecting over the decades. One would have to buy an ent