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by s1mon 2y ago
Or you could just use Onshape. There's a free plan. It runs in the cloud in a browser on desktop so it's on MacOS, Windows, Linux, and there are mobile apps for iOS, iPadOS, and Android. The versioning system is very much based on
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by s1mon 2y ago
I searched the article for "occupancy" and nothing. These ultrasonic tones are most likely ultrasonic occupancy sensors used for lighting and/or security. Typically they're 25kHz or 40 kHz (i.e. out of normal human heari
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by s1mon 2y ago
And Instagram had 800 million in 2017 (the last year with data on Wikipedia). Other searches and sites have numbers well over a billion users. I don't see how Cara is at all a threat or significant at the moment.
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by s1mon 2y ago
It may depend on what TV shows you watch. It's been on Grey's Anatomy, the Good Doctor and House MD. I thought it was on Chicago Med once or twice too.
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MKBHD discusses repair/reliability with John Ternus of Apple Engineering(twitter.com)
1 points by s1mon 2y ago|1 comments
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by s1mon 2y ago
Hopefully this turns into a longer form MKBHD video, but it's really cool to see some of the testing that iPhones (and other Apple products) go through. Some really good thoughts on the overall environmental tradeoffs of repairability
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by s1mon 2y ago
Yep. For a long time I assumed my next car would be a Tesla. Seeing how he's destroying Twitter, gutting teams at Tesla, sharing his paranoid delusions, his crazy politics and his beliefs in conspiracy theories - I just can't see
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by s1mon 2y ago
That's highly unlikely, given the gender of the writer. As someone who spent too much time in junior high playing with Apple II+ computers, I have a lot of respect for the level of fanaticism that went into this disassembly work.
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by s1mon 2y ago
Onshape and Solidworks (and Shapr3D, and Nx amongst others) use the Parasolid kernel. Without Parasolid, Onshape wouldn't have happened so quickly. It also helped that it was founded by many of the core team behind Solidworks. Parasoli
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by s1mon 2y ago
It's exciting to see a new entry into this space, especially one that is trying to create a new kernel. Unfortunately, it seems unlikely to be successful. The top kernels in the industry have been in development for decades by armies o
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by s1mon 2y ago
Specifically, I was trying to get help from ChatGPT to give a simple formula for the location of the P3 control point of a degree 3 (or higher) Bézier curve in order to maintain G3 continuity (given the derivatives at the end of the adjacen
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by s1mon 2y ago
I have tried to use Wolfram Alpha inside of ChatGPT, but that didn't get me very far. It seems like I would need to understand a lot more math to be able to do anything useful with Wolfram Alpha, and perhaps it would be better to run i
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by s1mon 2y ago
This problem strikes me as relatively simple. What about more complex math problems? Are there good benchmarks for that? I would dearly love to have an AI tool that I could trust to help with math. What is the state of the art? My math skil
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by s1mon 3y ago
There are a small number of people/sites who I have given money/subscribed to on the internet. Substack has never been something I wanted to help with. Anything with dark patterns to get you to subscribe completely turns me off. I
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by s1mon 3y ago
Wells Fargo has something they call a "digital branch" which, despite the name, is a brick and mortar location, just with fewer services. Like, you can't get change, and they don't have real tellers. They have a few ATMs
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by s1mon 3y ago
They give you a key card. Without some prior knowledge, try to figure out where to use the key card. Putting it near the B-pillar is not the first or second things I tried. In retrospect given the RF nature of how NFC works, it makes sense
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by s1mon 3y ago
At one point I really thought that our next car would be a Tesla. So when Hertz had a Model 3 available after our Hyundai from Enterprise was stolen (yep Kiaboyz hack time), we tried it out. We had similar UX issues. It's crazy. I&#x27
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by s1mon 3y ago
It's surprising that there are so many file types that seem relatively common which are missing from this list. There are no raw image file formats. There's nothing for CAD - either source files or neutral files. There's no M
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by s1mon 3y ago
This article is in the NYPost. Not exactly known for their careful accurate news gathering. It quotes a couple of Reddit posts without even tracking down the people behind the posts for clarification. It's basically clickbait.
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by s1mon 3y ago
Bingo. It's about as obvious as the people who are surprised when their car gets broken into and then they tell you that their backpack was visible.
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by s1mon 3y ago
Threads would be much better if it had the algorithm of TikTok. Basic things like I scroll through Threads on my iPhone (while logged into my account) and then I do the same on my iPad and it shows me the same posts. WTF?!? Keeping track of
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by s1mon 3y ago
I don't remember this game from back then, but I do remember playing adventure games on the TRS-80 with my aunt being a very formative experience. The TRS-80 was also one of my early introductions to computer programming. I wish I had
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by s1mon 3y ago
Given that GPS gets confused and thinks you're on surface roads when you're on the highway and vice versa, I don't see how this will always work. In dense urban areas there are often multiple layers of roadways going the same
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by s1mon 3y ago
They do own Mint, but they are killing it and trying to get customers to switch to Credit Karma. Intuit bought Mint but never really put much development effort into it beyond the bare minimum. Like too many financial tracking things which
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by s1mon 3y ago
I was willing to die on this hill for a while, but as others have said, that time has unfortunately passed by. The same with top vs bottom replies. Another reason to let go of plain text is that it seems like sometimes short plain text emai
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by s1mon 3y ago
I spent a bunch of time manually just using GPT4 with fairly simple prompts and giving it the same feedback that the game gives. There's an archive of puzzles which I used to try to train it with, and sometimes it would be very success
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by s1mon 3y ago
Blue LEDs were a lot more expensive when they were first introduced than red, green, amber, etc. Putting blue LEDs on products was seen as premium or trendy, but by this point, they’re not as special, but they are still more expensive than
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by s1mon 3y ago
I can’t help but wonder if we were able to feed a lot of whale communications into LLMs with this new found layer of information if we would be able to translate someday.
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by s1mon 3y ago
Not in my experience. I’ve used WhatsApp while in China on one business trip because other things were blocked/less reliable, but so many people I know or interact with don’t even know what WhatsApp is. Voice call, text, email, Faceboo
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by s1mon 3y ago
I've been designing injection molded plastic parts for various products for 30+ years. I'm not a materials scientist, but from what I've seen with plastics, there will be experts who will be able to date plastic archeology to

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