davee5

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by davee5 7mo ago
This is precisely why it's the right design for an Apple car and probably the wrong design for a Ferrari. I knew someone who allegedly worked on the Special Project after a successful career at more familiar premium automotive brands.
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by davee5 9mo ago
My recollection, now quite fuzzy but deeply entrenched, is the key is to never touch the throttle. The LSO would yell at you but I noticed your speed slowly drifts down from drag until it's just inside the acceptable range at touchdow
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by davee5 1y ago
I'm quite struck by the title of this announcement. The box being drawn around "your world" shows how narrow the AI builder's window into reality tends to be. > a new way to connect your apps and tools to Claude. We&#
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by davee5 2y ago
Mannkitchen Pepper Cannon. I absolutely adore this device and have bought a few as friends for discerning cooks and mechanical gadget lovers. Build quality is utterly fantastic and the quality of the grind is excellent. Most importantly
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by davee5 2y ago
This made me laugh unreasonably hard.
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by davee5 2y ago
Quite welcome! Sadly I don't know of any resources that are really useful when you try to put things into practice. Most of the tutorials / blogs / forum posts I've seen are not really that constructive nor sufficiently
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by davee5 2y ago
Huh, well apologies for the assumption though I merely have the blog images to go off. When I look at the render that shows the top ortho and the one for the bottom cable geometry the highlights end fairly abruptly. The only curve that vi
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by davee5 2y ago
If you're in Shapr3D you should change all your radii and fillets to "G2" in stead of G1.* Currently all your corners (excepting the ones that use Apple's supplied bezier points) appear to be tangent but not curvature co
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by davee5 2y ago
My favorite watch at the moment is a replica Moonswatch on a decent NATO strap. I am always quite tickled that wearing a copy of a copy that gets any street cred / sense of history. Two degrees of separation, two orders of magnitude le
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by davee5 3y ago
I've been daily driving a 2013 MBP. After occasional memory upgrades, hard drive upgrades, and battery swaps this decade-young computer of Theseus runs great. But the real reason I'm not upgrading is because of software compatibi
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by davee5 3y ago
I definitely use his blog to be thoughtfully informed when it matters. As a 40ish startup guy myself I take on many roles, including helping set product and technology strategies. But I also need to work in the weeds most of the time and
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by davee5 3y ago
Beauty in the eye of the beholder and all, but the Swedish work is largely quite pretty and readable where the Estonian guidelines are an excellent of what designers do when they can get away with it or the client is too compliant / ea
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by davee5 3y ago
Just today I attended a 4th grade parents orientation at a Silicon Valley school where they noted they will be placing new emphasis on handwriting and cursive, specifically in order to build up legibility and hand stamina specifically for e
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by davee5 4y ago
Thanks for the kind words! I love the "helped" preface because it's exactly right, design is a team sport and I strongly believe in giving credit where due. Ben Chen ( https://www.benchendesign.com/ ) was the
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by davee5 4y ago
Yes, it is absolutely in a feedback loop. It's kind of bizarre to see up close. The consumer hardware duopoly of Apple and Samsung are the only ones who seem to actually drive manufacturing trends. There are also tons of devices bein
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by davee5 4y ago
Hi Eric, I'm a hardware startup guy myself (our paths have crossed) with the distinction that my own "very specific set of skills" has been honed at smartphone megacompanies and smartphone startups. OSOM, Essential, HTC, Sam
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by davee5 5y ago
Snarky answer says "why would you learn to improvise from a textbook?" Actual answer is: because after 10 years of having a mediocre classical piano teacher beat the love out of my must-syncopate-Beethoven-fingers I decided to lea
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by davee5 5y ago
I love this. When I first started taking guitar seriously, after years of kid piano lessons, I really struggled to "find" notes. I mostly play both by ear and by visual shape, not by intervals or reading staves. So while taking
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by davee5 5y ago
Instagram has slowly been deprioritizing content creation and promoting content consumption. This was clearest to me when they recently moved the Post button up to the top, out of the way, to make room for more consumption buttons within
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by davee5 6y ago
This is why at Apple the division making MacBooks is called "portables" and not "laptops." They're officially not supposed to go on your lap. Also the thermal limits of the human dermis are pretty well studied and d
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by davee5 6y ago
Was it actually? Because I'm hard up for a good Silk Road read. I slogged through Raoul McLaughlin's "The Roman Empire & the Silk Routes" because it's online reviews were glowing for silk road history told with
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by davee5 6y ago
"Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" is her signature book and for many (myself included) a spiritual experience to read. "The Writing Life" is the best book about the process of creating that I have ever read, and I often suggest
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by davee5 6y ago
Apple has been working on glasses at least since 2006 and perhaps earlier, far longer than this article indicates. Perhaps there's not continuity in these projects, but I suspect an R&D team or two has been working on this for ove
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by davee5 6y ago
I was part of this history, when I graduated in 2003 (marginal timing) I took a gig at Northrop in Sunnyvale. I grew up in Silicon Valley as the grandkid of folks who lived in orchards (long gone by the time I showed up) and between this n
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by davee5 6y ago
More to the point, I believe the ability to foster connections between a wide variety of topics & ways of knowing will open many doors. Singular focus is not the unique path to success, aggregating knowledge and wielding it coherentl
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by davee5 6y ago
Yes. The commodification of professional work is worth pointing out. I'm surprised by the percentage of people in this thread who think the SW industry is exceptional. It tells me a lot about the fictions people want to tell themselve
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by davee5 7y ago
Irving Finkel's lectures are marvelous. Watching his lecture on the decipherment of cuneiform is a delight, both in subject matter and in the delivery of a well worn and thoroughly polished presentation. (If only all professors were
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by davee5 7y ago
Once you are making your pancakes in a full mold, with no pan to speak of, you should revise your nomenclature: you are now making cake. (Deliciously light steamed eggy cake, sure, but not a pancake.) I've made similar souffle / j
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by davee5 7y ago
I started to compile a list of Human <> Digital I/O a while ago. This wasn't written up as a real article, more for my own notes, but I wanted to publish it for (a) sharing and (b) to be in the public domain so none of my e
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by davee5 7y ago
Oh no, this is dead serious. Even 2 minutes of listening to the recording makes that clear. Consider that an enormous and often unheralded component of successful design [thinking] projects is cultural: are you working around people who sha

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