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by s1mon 7y ago
I didn’t have the patience to read all the way through this article. Something about the writing really drove me crazy. I just want a basic explanation of what this is. This TechCrunch article gets to the point much more quickly. https:&#x
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by s1mon 7y ago
Related similar study: "Simple Respiratory Protection—Evaluation of the Filtration Performance of Cloth Masks and Common Fabric Materials Against 20–1000 nm Size Particles" talks about SARS and H1N1 sized threats. https:/&#x
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by s1mon 7y ago
This is a thought experiment at best. If we ignore the privacy concerns, there is the basic practical issue that location tracking is often wildly bad and would lead to tons of false positive and negative selection of people to test. Over t
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by s1mon 7y ago
I'm surprised that this article doesn't mention General Magic for context. It's really crazy how much of this was invented and reinvented but the infrastructure and performance just wasn't there during the 90's in a
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by s1mon 7y ago
“ While the illusion of motion works at 16 fps, it works better at higher frame rates. Thomas Edison, to whom we owe a lot of debt to for this whole operation (light bulbs, motion picture film, Direct Current, etc.) believed that the optima
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by s1mon 7y ago
Landlords in SF hate rent control. The allowable increases don’t even cover inflation as far as I can tell. Any place where landlords will pay tenants $$$$$ to move out (at best) or burn their place down and keep it empty until they can reb
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by s1mon 7y ago
A whole long article about a lens design, with zero images or diagrams of the lens. I know what they look like so I don’t need it, but I just don’t understand how or why someone would publish this without a picture of the subject of the a
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by s1mon 7y ago
Well as someone with a Mini Cooper with low-profile run-flat tires, I can tell you that SF potholes will destroy road cars. I’ve had two (expensive) tires ruined, and it started rattling like hell from all the shocks soon after we got it. M
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by s1mon 7y ago
I've often thought that if standards organizations were truly interested in encouraging the use of their standards, they would make them freely available and recover their operation costs some other way. Even worse than the standards o
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by s1mon 7y ago
Well, now SF will no longer be infested with so many scooters with branding saying coot or cool after "modification".
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by s1mon 7y ago
Kinda sorta. Yes the MS applications are more powerful, but the collaboration tools still are not as real-time as Google. My work was forced to switch from Google to MS, so I have years of experience with both. People often have to reopen f
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by s1mon 7y ago
Academy of Art is a real estate company with an education problem. They have countless illegally modified buildings around SF ( https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Academy-o... ), with a ton of d
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by s1mon 7y ago
These types of books are helpful and proof that it’s hard to innovate mechanisms. However the animated GIFs are not the clearest. I’m more of a fan of this guy’s Youtube channel with carefully modeled animated 3D CAD of tons of amazing mech
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by s1mon 8y ago
“The first of such conventions, or character encodings, was ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange).” The author may know better and is glossing over history, but when I see statements like this that are obviously incorre
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by s1mon 8y ago
If only an "18650" was always the same! Despite the name, they're never exactly 18.0mm diameter by 65mm long. Some have protection circuits built in, some don't. Some have solder tabs, some have wired connections (2-pin
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by s1mon 8y ago
This Wendover Productions video "Why China Is so Good at Building Railways" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JDoll8OEFE also explains a lot about how things have changed recently to make this migration even more p
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by s1mon 8y ago
Jaywalking is illegal pretty much everywhere in the US, but enforcement is very selective and regional.
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by s1mon 8y ago
Hmmm. The examples are underwhelming compared to commercial examples of these types of filters. iOS 12 added filters which are only available in Messages or the Clips app (not the camera app) that produce amazing results in realtime. Try th
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by s1mon 8y ago
In the SF Bay area, they are generally on par depending on what features or points of interest you want to find. Some locales are shockingly different. Shenzhen China is much much better on Apple (Google and Bing show roads in the river - c
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by s1mon 8y ago
That’s where I got the data. That article mentions higher costs, but the Harvard study they referenced links review stars to closures. Clearly costs are one of the main pressures on restaurants, but there are plenty of things that restauran
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by s1mon 8y ago
I've lived in SF for 25 years, and eat out often. While I never visited this particular restaurant, as others have noted, 3.5 stars on Yelp in SF's hyper-competitive market is telling. 3.5 is maybe enough to keep the cheap place y
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by s1mon 8y ago
It always pains me when people write about software without mentioning what platform it runs on. Even after clicking on the project page link in the article, you have to go to the downloads to find this information. As it turns out it'
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by s1mon 8y ago
Some flex circuits are black because they use a conductive coating to create ground planes without increasing the stiffness as much as another set of copper/adhesive/coverlay layers.
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by s1mon 8y ago
Class-A automotive surfacing (using Alias, ICEM, Catia, NX) is all done with higher degree Béziers. I use them all the time in SolidWorks for consumer and medical product design engineering. It’s certainly tricky to figure out how to manage
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by s1mon 8y ago
It would be great to be able to compare this with Béziers of arbitrary degree. Some people get frustrated with degree 3 Béziers, but you can do great things with degree 5, 6, 7, or even higher - and they're C^infinity internally. If y
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by s1mon 8y ago
You might want to add some basic instructions somewhere too. I had to dig through the source to figure out what some of the keyboard and tool tricks are. Perhaps they are standard in Illustrator or some other tool, but double clicking, shif
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by s1mon 8y ago
They’ve added a bunch of green areas, but there is hardly any notation of trails. Neither Google or Apple is great for trail maps in their default form, but at least Google has higher contrast trail markings with names that are occasionally
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by s1mon 8y ago
While I like the UX of Trello in general more, Smartsheet has a spreadsheet view and more.
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by s1mon 8y ago
This would be a more compelling article if it was talking about a product which doesn't feel like it's stuck in 2010. Basecamp?!?
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by s1mon 8y ago
I’ve worked in design and with/in startups for 25 years including 4 at IDEO. I’ve used techniques like the book explains, but before reading the book. The book is one of the better ones at introducing the right techniques (especially f

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