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by s1mon 4y ago
They don’t work well for product development. I’ve worked in consumer and medical product development for 30+ years. I’ve worked as a consultant or contractor or directly for companies from startups to Fortune 50. So many small companies or
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by s1mon 4y ago
Plasticity is 3D CAD based on Parasolid, the same Kernel as NX, Solidworks, Onshape, etc. but it's focused on rapid direct editing for artists. It has many unique capabilities for NURBS based modeling.
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Plasticity 1.0 is Here – CAD for Artists(youtube.com)
5 points by s1mon 4y ago|1 comments
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It’s not exactly the same thing, but brainstorming questions reminds me of brainstorming problems or failure modes. That makes me think of fishbone diagrams, which are used to try to root cause failures by structuring the main contexts of p
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by s1mon 4y ago
It makes me crazy too. It reminds my of Hugin[0], which is a library for panorama stitching of photos. Somehow it's too close to that in my brain and neither really makes sense or sounds good. [0] https://hugin.sourceforge.i
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by s1mon 4y ago
I was a bit baffled my Elon Musk's (apparent) signature on this letter, as I thought he still had a connection to Open.ai. Then I did some basic research and realized that this is likely just jealously and frustration from his failed t
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by s1mon 4y ago
I know a large commercial entity will never do this, but I'd love to see a Sci-Hub plugin connected with the Wolfram plugin and whatever other plugins help to understand various realms of study. Imagine being able to ask ChatGPT to dig
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by s1mon 4y ago
There are also big changes at smaller numbers: ~8, ~30. Before you hit around 10 people, you all fit at a comfortable table and can have reasonable meeting where there's a chance for everyone to talk. It's also a reasonable number
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by s1mon 4y ago
During the height of the pandemic, my girlfriend and I bought clippers, nail nippers and cuticle nippers from Suwada. These are self-described as "luxury nail care", with prices to match. They are definitely the nicest nail tools
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by s1mon 4y ago
It really depends on where you live or where you commonly use your phone. In the US at least, there are huge areas all over that have little or no cell coverage. In the SF Bay Area, home of Silicon Valley, we have plenty of spots where peop
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by s1mon 4y ago
Every time I see something about Anki, I think it's about toy robots. https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/5/21050378/anki-vector-saved... https://www.digitaldreamlabs.com
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Synthesis.io creates training videos in 85 languages with 120 avatars using AI(synthesia.io)
4 points by s1mon 4y ago|0 comments
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The notice explicitly covers photography. > In Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony, a defendant accused of making > unauthorized copies of a photograph argued that the expansion of copyright > protection to photographs by Congr
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"When I started Kapwing in 2017, it was cool to be a tech entrepreneur. People looked up to techies." There are always some people who have hated whatever new people have moved into the SF Bay Area and taken over things since befo
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by s1mon 4y ago
I worked at a company which had a VSP in the largest location. Effectively a lot of the best people left. It doesn’t seem like a great strategy. Unfortunately it was partially done that way due to the local employment laws.
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by s1mon 4y ago
A previous employer paid for it, now I pay for it out of pocket. The convenience of scheduling routine things or setting up a video visit with a provider is more than worth it. There are many things where you might have considered going to
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by s1mon 4y ago
Yep. I opened the comments for this same reason. After you've spent a lot of time with DAWs looking at waveforms, there's a very strong connection between how something looks and how it sounds. This is very much missing that. Perh
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Nokia reveals new logo to remind you it doesn’t make phones anymore(theverge.com)
3 points by s1mon 4y ago|0 comments
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by s1mon 4y ago
Nokia has done and continues to do much more than mobile phones. What happened with the phones was unfortunate, but perhaps predictable considering how successful they were, but how short sighted they were. They started with lumber and rubb
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‘This is Nokia’ – Nokia launches new logo and branding(nokia.com)
3 points by s1mon 4y ago|3 comments
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by s1mon 4y ago
As much as it was the slowest turd of a PC ever, I do have a soft spot for it since it was my first "real" computer. It would need to be running Crossfire on a cartridge. I'm also sad to not see a ZX81. And a TRS Model III bu
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by s1mon 4y ago
This is the same reason I do not want a smart TV. I have one (a Sony), but thankfully it must have lost contact with our WiFi network at some point and I never notice that it does anything other than act as a monitor for our Apple TV. It us
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by s1mon 4y ago
I once wrote a font editor on my IBM PCjr (one of the slowest PCs ever). The fun part was learning just enough machine language so the editor could load the font into a certain part of the RAM, protect the area and "terminate and stay
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by s1mon 4y ago
This chart is fascinating but seems somewhat devoid of the reality of marketshare, price, regulations (safety, taxes), etc. Tracking a particular set of car models and talking about how they have evolved over time is only relevant if the ma
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by s1mon 4y ago
Nick Kallen has been working on an BREP based CAD tool with the sort of ease of modeling that things like Blender has. Originally it was based on C3D, but he switched halfway through to Parasolid.[0] It’s amazing the amount of features he h
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by s1mon 4y ago
I found this youtube channel[0] has some pretty good walkthroughs (quite literally) of using various iOS apps to scan architectural spaces. The short answer is that the LIDAR and iOS APIs are remarkably powerful, but not 100% accurate. Ther
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by s1mon 4y ago
Interesting idea, but if what you're looking for isn't in the top 6 videos, how do you find it? You can click on the 6th video and it will scroll to the next 5, but that's super slow and painful. The regular YouTube search ha
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by s1mon 4y ago
I would highly recommend enabling click and drag to "paint" notes. As it is right now, if I want 16 closed hats, I have to move, click, 16 times. I'd rather drag to paint based on whatever state of the note I start on. The mu
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by s1mon 4y ago
Once something is on the internet, intentionally or not, it is public and uncontrollable, laws be damned. If you don’t want your blog post or your half-naked selfie to be scraped, don’t create it in the first place. This has been a fundamen
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This is interesting. During my last job search I talked to colleagues who had positions at Oculus and Tesla. Both of them talked about things being set up for either management or IC, but not both. I prefer to do some of both. Just manageme

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