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by ponderings 11mo ago
I remember running Sketchup for the first time. I had zero experience but in less than 20 minutes I was drawing large complicated machinery, tractors, buildings. They made a 3d drawing application without a learning curve O_O
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by ponderings 11mo ago
And this is why it should be taken away from them. They will make better hardware without it.
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by ponderings 11mo ago
sounds like a print button would be the killer feature.
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by ponderings 2y ago
I went to the toilet in a very understaffed kfc and it was so dirty that I will never eat there again. The kitchen cant possibly be any better than the restroom.
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by ponderings 2y ago
I think you can just buy them in japan. I've had this vision where we create a niche in a building for restroom placement by fork lift. For the low end ones the interior can be 3d printed melted down and recycled. They can be pressure
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by ponderings 2y ago
Please elaborate how is this is a scam? I think he has plenty of track record? https://www.youtube.com/@robbraxmantech
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by ponderings 2y ago
We have lots of smooth infrastructure that I never noticed until various foreign experts on the internet expressed how wonderful it is. There is an actual traffic light design I really like. It has a circle of small white leds that switch o
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BraX Privacy Focused Smartphones(braxtech.net)
1 points by ponderings 2y ago|2 comments
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by ponderings 2y ago
I've had some success converting people by telling them others had convinced them they were stupid. They usually have one or two things they are actually good at, like a domain they flee to. I simply point out how everything else is ex
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by ponderings 2y ago
Reads like Wikipedia. One thing I learn there is that every accusation should be excessively sourced. People who don't do that aren't necessarily lying but they shouldn't be trusted.
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by ponderings 2y ago
What people wish is still aiming quite low. These "privileged" netzen who were able to shoot web for free because they had other sources of income could also be accused of knowing things. We now have [for example] content creators
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by ponderings 3y ago
Eddy Current Separators https://www.recyclingtoday.com/article/magnetic-equipment-gu...
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by ponderings 3y ago
On the vic 20 and the Commodore 64 we had 4 function keys (f keys)[0] The order was a bit weird and the usability was not optimal. Without pressing shift you had F1 F3 F5 F7 If you designed a menu with just 4 options it would look something
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by ponderings 3y ago
I can pick up and place objects myself if only I could remember where I put them. You could take video data and have fuzzy identification of objects moving around, then throw away the video and keep track of the objects, the blue floppy thi
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by ponderings 3y ago
The interesting thing in the moment was not the formula necessarily but the idea to start with the interface. If you are dealing with such monstrosity of an application all battles are lost at the interface level. It has to work for everyon
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by ponderings 3y ago
I often think a full rewrite is needed. I woke up this morning with an odd thought. User interfaces are hard, they are not many but we have people who are really good at designing those, we also know how to user test them. Election programs
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by ponderings 3y ago
Twice I chat with someone who worked exclusively with customers no one else wants. One just grinds them down into a normal project, the other transparently charges what is reasonable for the unreasonable. $5000 for the first chat 24/7,
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by ponderings 3y ago
On the other hand, it wouldn't take much doing at~all to modify something that outputs json into something that outputs xml.
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by ponderings 3y ago
The limited supply is what makes the market not work. Whatever people think about migrants we can at least agree that everyone living in an area (town/city/country) all should have a roof over their head. The real problem seems th
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by ponderings 3y ago
When it is dark my eyes adjust and I'm able to see significantly better than others. One time, after 10 minutes or so I was able to see the entire park quite well while the significant other couldn't see anything at all, she was t
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by ponderings 3y ago
Imagine how impressive that would be if it's a really large company. The CEO wouldn't have to be very bright, as long as he gets to work with the issue it would be fkn revolutionary. Now imagine the LLM is the CEO. Running the com
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by ponderings 3y ago
That is the most convincing building I've ever seen.
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by ponderings 3y ago
I understand. This regrettably happens 0.04% of the time. The average time to resolve it is 5 work days. In 22% of the resolved cases it took one day, 3% took a month, 1.5% is never resolved and the last time that happened was 16 months ago
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by ponderings 3y ago
The customer merely thinks she is having a bad experience. The employee is the one having the bad experience. It's kinda fascinating how people pretend some help desk person hired 3 days ago created the company and should be held respo
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by ponderings 3y ago
I'm pretty sure we will continue to develop a different voice for appliances like we do when talking to kids or pets only this time it will be overly articulated orders with raised voice. This will indeed blend over into talking to sub
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by ponderings 3y ago
Someone told me chess players should design their own pieces and make them look just alien enough for the superior opponent to accept the match.
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by ponderings 3y ago
kids chose the level of risk, if you replace grass with rubber tiles they will jump of intentionally. The tiles will break your fall after all. Surely the grown ups have thought this through, I can trust them. Then imitation puts the proces
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by ponderings 3y ago
In the typewriter days I believe it was brother who made many different models that each had their own case but all had the same hardware inside. The cheaper models simply didn't have the keys. One could do a "smart" phone th
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by ponderings 3y ago
What should one do with power once one has it? After immaturity wears thin, what should one become? The most simple answers seem to make an effort to hold onto power, expansion of power seems a method but I think popularity might be a great
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by ponderings 3y ago
Sometimes scaling to the market size even means smaller.

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