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It’s fascinating how many big failures like this happen before I’ve heard of the product. I spend a lot of time reading the news (NYTimes, SFChronicle, Twitter, HN, etc.), so I don’t think I’m somehow clueless. The first I heard of CNN+ was
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Daemon is also how it's spelled in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. I always wondered if there was some connection to its use in computing. She uses that spelling of the word to imply that the "monster" is not evil. I can&#x
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One of the things I really like about Vancouver's architecture, which I assume is a result of zoning, is that while there are tall apartment buildings for density, they aren't all bunched close together creating narrow dark cold s
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I don’t know what might have come before it, but Xspringies [0] was my first exposure to something like this. Must have been late 80’s early 90’s. [0] https://github.com/dharmatech/agave#springies
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Doing some quick image searches for teardowns, it seems that different models have been done both ways. Some with spherical bearings and some with intersecting cylinders. It makes some sense that either way works, as you're only ever r
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Onshape also has a free tier [0] and is popular amongst hobbyists and education. [0] https://www.onshape.com/en/products/free
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He had a caboose and maybe one other train car. Both had to be trucked over the rolling coastal hills to get parked on a short piece of track just barely longer than the cars.
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I’m not sure what the status of Neil Young’s train layout is, but I worked with him on his Pono project and got to see the layout and the full scale real train cars which were next to the building with the layout. As far as I know he sold t
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by s1mon 5y ago
Watching some of the videos on your YouTube page [0] gives a much better impression and clarity of what you're trying to do. Particularly this one [1]. The workflow and ease of creating so many features with so few keyboard/mouse
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Even in beta, how you present your work is as important or possibly more important than the "work" itself. (It's actually a significant part of the work.) I've been involved with beta programs for other CAD tools and con
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This is very interesting to me. However if it’s truly for “artists”, linking to a GitHub page isn’t going to reach that demographic. You need a proper product web site with an explanation of the features and benefits using images and videos
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Strava is extremely frustrating. I've been a paid user for 10+ years. They do add features from time to time, but it's amazing how slowly it happens. There's a forum on their web site for user feedback and suggestions, but it
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If you just "grab one before it goes to assembly line" this will likely have a huge impact on the assembly line. Factories put a lot of effort into managing inventory of material. Lead times on parts can often be in the months if
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by s1mon 5y ago
I'm not exactly sure how it would change the gameplay, but I wonder what it would be like if the starting point wasn't always in a corner? Also - not a fan of the timer.
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Yes, twice the screen, but also double the thickness, at least for the LCD and some supporting components. Figure on at least a few mm extra (LCD+touchscreen+case). I don't know of any material which can fold 180 degrees over and over,
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Folding LCDs have been a solution in search of a problem for years. Maybe they looked cool in some ID rendering or model, but I’ve never understood why anyone would want one other than the novelty factor. And as has already been pointed out
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by s1mon 5y ago
Ok, so I only skimmed this, but did it clearly get beyond a correlation into causation?
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Yes, those existed at some level, but once GPS was built in, it became “free” and easy to get location. Assisted GPS (using cell position and downloaded ephemeris) also meant you didn’t need a couple minutes for a dedicated GPS to go from a
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by s1mon 5y ago
I was surprised that the post didn't mention anything about the main reason we were told that mobile phones needed GPS - for emergency location services. Sure this has also enabled unwanted and illicit surveillance, but it's also
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From what I've heard, Peloton is spending way more than the retail price of the bikes to make them. There's certainly plenty of successful businesses that have some sort of loss-leader and then make up for it with follow-on produc
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by s1mon 5y ago
A friend once quipped that each O’Reilly book you read was worth a 10k bump in salary.
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I don't doubt that Google has changed their policy, but is there any official confirmation of this somewhere? I tried a bunch of searches but couldn't confirm. Also, does anyone know how this might affect the use of an external GP
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This is fun and all, but I'm not sure why one would go to the effort to simulate so much of the CRT experience, but not force the window to be the right aspect ratio?
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Rubular: a Ruby regular expression editor ( https://rubular.com/r/mP6IRzteSm ) is another option which is pretty minimal but useful.
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Thanks again to Pomax for one of my favorite references on Béziers. This has been posted to HN 19+ times, here are some of the more useful threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14191577 https://news.ycomb
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It really depends on the state laws [0]. It also really depends on the traffic patterns. In places like California where there are 7+ lane wide roads, the left lane is not so special (unless it's a HOV lane). If you've only got tw
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If you think this is weird, wait until you see the convoluted/clever things that some Jewish people do to work around the sabbath. https://www.npr.org/2019/05/13/721551785/a-fishing-line-enci... ht
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LAB is one of the better ways to to start with perceptually uniform spacing of the colors. Also if the path through the color space avoids A and B being near 0, then the gray dead zone problem that this talks about goes away. There are mult
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The synchronization of multiple zones is definitely non-trivial. Many years ago I had a few Apple Airport Expresses which had audio out. In theory you could use Airplay with these to do much the same thing as Sonos for a lot cheaper. In a o
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In 1994, the New York Times published a story with one of its more vivid titles which has stuck in my head ever since: "Porn, the Low-Slung Engine of Progress" [0]. It makes the point that at many key moments of technological deve

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