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by starky 11y ago
This is understandable, since each control point affects the curve globally it is very difficult to get all the points in the correct position at once, particularly when the curve becomes higher order. Using NURBS is much more intuitive as
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by starky 11y ago
Amazon and Microsoft both have relatively large development offices in Vancouver (Amazon's was supposed to be 1000 people). I don't believe these are staging offices either, like Facebook's is. I work on hardware, so I don&#x
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by starky 11y ago
I've never liked LyX, it removes the benefit of not worrying about formatting that LaTeX is made for, while still being significantly harder to use than Word. It fills an awkward space between WYSIWYG and markup without the benefits of
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by starky 11y ago
Despite all the interesting cameras that have been made recently, they all rely on one piece of technology that is pretty archaic, the lens. Today's lenses are definitely limiting the image quality available on small sensors, and they
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by starky 11y ago
In what way is the Surface Pro 3 (which is really the only currently available competition) boring? I'd say it is the most innovative product in the tablet space in the last 4 years. Really they are trying to catch up to the only real
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by starky 11y ago
Yup, it is amazing how quickly a few $10k tools, $3k tooling modifications, and sample shipping costs quickly adds up. I laugh at most hardware Kickstarters because what they are trying to do is impossible with the funding levels you are go
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by starky 11y ago
Doing tooling in China and then shipping the molds to NA is the common way to do injection moulding in NA. After that injection moulding is so automated that the labour cost to run a machine isn't that high. That said, I've yet to
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by starky 11y ago
One of the requirements for Bernoulli's Principle to be valid is that the flow cannot be in a boundary layer. This alone explains why you cannot use it to fully explain lift since you are analyzing flow near a surface.
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by starky 11y ago
Pretty much everyone I know that goes out to a club regularly wears earplugs. People are unlikely to even notice if you are wearing a pair of musicians earplugs.
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by starky 12y ago
I've lived in Vancouver since 2007 and have rented 3 places within the city and 2 in the suburbs (Richmond and Maple Ridge). I was only turned down from getting the place I wanted once, and that was purely because I called back an hour
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by starky 12y ago
I simply opened the file up in an image editor and played around with the eyedropper. It seems pretty clear that the two main colours are white with some blue tint, and a yellow. When the exposure was fixed, the colours weren't even cl
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by starky 12y ago
If a phone got up to the temperatures where the materials were weakened in any significant way they would be burning the operator and have never passed regulatory testing.
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by starky 12y ago
I'd second this. I've been there a couple times and it is quite the experience. I only visited one electronics factory, and the rest were other types of factories that make mechanical components (injection molding, die casting, sh
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by starky 12y ago
A lot of what you are suggesting is quite feasible today. I work for a company that does its PCBA's and final assembly here in North America. PCBA assembly is so automated that there is actually not much benefit to making them overseas
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by starky 12y ago
I would be interested in seeing if there was any difference in rates of girls that played with Lego growing up and whether or not they went into engineering. I remember sitting with my class of 120 on the first day with my Mechanical Engine
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by starky 12y ago
Same here, I work in the tech industry doing mechanical design. While I would no longer call the company I work for a startup (we were arguably still one when I started) I still find a lot of the conversation around them interesting. I&#x27
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by starky 12y ago
Not really a detailed explanation but when I was there a few months ago the guy I was with said that a lot of them were sitting around unfinished because they didn't have any buyers. A lot of them are so called luxury buildings where I
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by starky 13y ago
Really? I could never stand LyX. Texmaker is my LaTeX editor of choice.
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by starky 13y ago
There are already companies out there producing modified versions of his designs which technically break the license. See the version from Head n Hifi http://www.headnhifi.com/O2-ODAC-fully-modded I think if we were going t
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by starky 13y ago
The limitation on making better batteries is research, having a NA factory isn't going to help that. As per increasing the rate and reducing the cost, I don't have a good answer for that, Li-Ion battery production is already incre
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by starky 13y ago
Your comment implies that micrometers and thous aren't an order of magnitude different. Regardless of which one you are talking about small tilts are not going to make a big difference. As long as everything is lined up properly within
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by starky 13y ago
I'm probably somewhat the person you are complaining about here. The current desktop 3D printers are pretty useless for anything functional (but fine for initial aesthetic models). All these people have grand ideas of being able to pri
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by starky 13y ago
I would say that some of the spacial reasoning ability is innate to a person, and will determine how easy it is for the person to learn to solve physical problems. Past this, a lot of the ability comes from having seen similar concepts befo
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by starky 13y ago
The main problem with getting the type of experience you are suggesting in mechanical engineering is that it would be very expensive to do, and there is just too broad of a range of topics to cover practically. My school definitely focused
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by starky 13y ago
The big issue with using access control and security cameras for tracking people is that they are some of the worst possible ways to track someone. As you discovered, it really comes down to a bunch of tedious scrubbing through video trying
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by starky 13y ago
I'm pretty sure I said this exact same thing when my boss finally figured out that this issue was causing a script we use to fail on the BOMs I was trying to release. It took an embarrassing amount of time for a few engineers to figure
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by starky 13y ago
I shake my head every time I see these because as someone that works as a product designer I know what isn't even feasible to do. These artists create work that has no basis in the real world, and add positively ignorant statements abo
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by starky 13y ago
This is the main reason why I can't use any other browser anymore. Opera actually had a similar tab bar built in for quite some time, but it unfortunately didn't have the tree view. They seem to have removed this feature in Opera
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by starky 13y ago
If you are willing to go with in-ear headphones then a good deep seating pair of passive noise isolating headphones will kick the pants off any active noise cancelling pair. In terms of pure isolation, Etymotic makes some of the best out th
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by starky 13y ago
>(the other funny thing about the pro group is we all had sennheiser or beyerdynamic or grado headphones at our desks, and mostly stuff like Martin Logan/Paradigm/PSB/NHT/Magnepan or (for me, since I was a poor colleg

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