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by s1mon 3y ago
I don't love police surveillance, but where I live in San Francisco, some of the worst noise pollution is when one or more helicopters circle for an hour. Usually this is news and/or police dealing with some protest or traffic sit
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by s1mon 3y ago
More like an accordion that you found on the side of the road.
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by s1mon 3y ago
The biggest problem isn’t right turn on red. It’s the rising percentages of massive SUVs and jacked up trucks where the hood is so high they can’t see pedestrians and the bumpers are higher and instead of pedestrians flying over the hoods,
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by s1mon 3y ago
Interesting, but as others have commented, why? Is this something that you plan to turn into a product or is this just for fun? Compared with other tools this runs for much longer, which made me question if it was ever going to stop the dow
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by s1mon 3y ago
According to Cruise's X(Twitter) account [0], the suspension seems to be related to an incident in which a human driver hit-and-run propelled a pedestrian in front of a Cruise AV and the Cruise vehicle couldn't avoid hitting the p
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by s1mon 3y ago
Skimming through the site, the magic behind this is that the fan spins at a constant speed, but the pitch of the blades can be modulated at very low frequencies - positively and negatively. I had to look carefully at the .GIF on this page t
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by s1mon 3y ago
Prop 65 is a bit of a shitshow. There seemed to be good intentions, but it ends up being a license to sue (much like the ADA), not a state prohibition on certain chemicals. And if you warn consumers, then you're ok. So you see a lot of
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by s1mon 3y ago
Or there’s always just a spring on an inclined plane or stairs. AKA, a Slinky.
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by s1mon 3y ago
I use Discord all the time, but I have seen zero reason to get Nitro. Every time they try to upsell it to me the "features" are unnecessary. The marque feature either "50MB uploads" (Nitro Basic) or "500MB uploads&q
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by s1mon 3y ago
Onshape is professional 3D mechanical CAD in a browser. It’s not at all trivial. Figma is professional graphic/interaction design that’s definitely not trivial. Onshape was acquired by PTC (makers of Creo) and Figma is being acquired b
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by s1mon 3y ago
This. I want to see screenshots and demo videos. At least they don’t have the explainer videos with the tall characters dancing around with quotes about innovation and synergy, or the talking head interviews with C-level execs talking about
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by s1mon 3y ago
I know this is discouraged to complain about name clashes, but Lemur was also a serious brand in the music production space for over 20 years. First they developed hardware, then transitioned to apps, but now they are no more. For me, when
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The Labyrinth of Polyominoes(minos.tessera.li)
1 points by s1mon 3y ago|1 comments
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by s1mon 3y ago
Nat Alison (AKA Tesseralis) has published a new labor of love about geometry and math: "The site is my love letter to polyominoes--aka, tetris pieces, but with arbitrary numbers of squares. A compendium of the stuff I've found int
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by s1mon 3y ago
"Hallucination" makes it sound like ChatGPT drank some of the punch without realizing it was laced with LSD. "Bullshit" sounds more like what comes out of an overconfident ass who should or could know better with some be
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by s1mon 3y ago
[2015] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12448545 https://twitter.com/spolsky/status/641349916804026368?lang=e...
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by s1mon 3y ago
I think this may be useful, but part of me immediately thinks of this XKCD about standards: https://xkcd.com/927/
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by s1mon 3y ago
Came here to recommend this book too. There’s a lot of great advice in it. Here are some critical questions to ask yourself: 1. Do potential customers know they have a problem? 2. Do they already have a makeshift solution? 3. Do they have a
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by s1mon 3y ago
Underlining is an emphasis hack for mechanical typewriters or in handwriting. There's no reason to use it typographically in something which has all the layout possibilities of a modern computer or printer. https://practical
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by s1mon 3y ago
I'm not in the industry, but from talking to people that have been, VFX is one of those things that gets squeezed the most. It typically happens after principal photography is done, and the release date has been set in stone by the man
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by s1mon 3y ago
For a rabbit hole of sampling which involves Mellotron, Vako Orchestron, Optigan, New Order and Kraftwerk, I highly recommend this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_jrPon8bMg
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by s1mon 3y ago
I worked on mechanical engineering and ID for some 3D video glasses in the mid-2000s. One of the supposed use cases was watching movies on a plane. As part of the project we tried to test out that hypothesis by having users watch something
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by s1mon 3y ago
At least in the US, vapor recovery seems to be implemented differently by state. In California I notice fumes when pumping gas far less than in New York. There seems to be various types of nozzles and legislation (some with rubber boots an
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by s1mon 3y ago
They moved to Mission between 7th and 8th and realized that it was full of people with substance and mental issues. It's kinda like moving into a block with a lot of bars or nightclubs and then complaining about the noise at night. Jus
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by s1mon 3y ago
Magnet does a much better job than the very limited options that MacOS has built in. It has menu/key commands for half-screen, quarter-screen, third-screen, and sixth-screen as well as maximizing without taking over the menu bar. It al
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by s1mon 3y ago
Well, GPT is well known for being able to formulate very convincing bullshit.
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by s1mon 3y ago
Their Christmas ale is different every year. I coincidentally just went on the tour of the Anchor Brewery last weekend. They already had a preview of what this year's Christmas ale will be, but they only sample it there.
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by s1mon 3y ago
I started using ISDX in ‘96 soon after PTC acquired it and managed to port it and make it work with Pro/E. I’ve worked on a number of products which are still in production using it, but it’s been a while since I was using Pro/E (
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by s1mon 3y ago
Evans and Sutherland also developed CDRS (Conceptual Design and Rendering System) which was later bought by PTC and developed into ISDX. This is a 3D CAD tool for high quality surfacing used by industrial designers and surfacing experts to
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by s1mon 3y ago
While it doesn't support Linux, Backblaze is cloud storage and it's $70/yr for unlimited storage. To me, that's not a rip off for very secure off site back up. I backup my Mac locally to an external drive with Time Machi

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