tfinniga

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by tfinniga 6y ago
While Fusion 360 does have many non-NURBS procedural surfaces, they definitely also have NURBS. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to import an IGES or step file. Using a solids kernel with procedural surfaces can help many cases, as you
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by tfinniga 6y ago
I think a big part of why this happens is that a lot of the fundamental math of CAD doesn't have good answers - everything is heuristics and approximations to within a tolerance. You can get a simple NURBS kernel up and running in mayb
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by tfinniga 6y ago
I'd heard people say that the architecture of a city is usually frozen in the time when it had the most money. If you look at the skyscrapers and other buildings from Zaha Hadid, they're not Art Deco. UAE and other countries whic
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by tfinniga 9y ago
Last year there were 29,000 categories that could be targeted. If an ad sales rep wanted to close a deal, how difficult would it be to add one more for recent burn victims, or people who recently bought a specific product? From the links t
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by tfinniga 9y ago
Facebook is amassing a huge amount of valuable information on every member. I disagree that the threat of outrage is sufficient to stop the information being used badly. For example, there is outrage against Equifax, but their cache of inf
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by tfinniga 9y ago
Right, like the example from Target. It is possible that facebook has access to a stream of Target purchases or credit card purchase information. I'd be 0% surprised if there was a data sharing agreement with credit rating companies.
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by tfinniga 9y ago
Is your question why privacy is important, or are you thinking of something else?
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by tfinniga 9y ago
In the UK, some Amazon deliveries were sent via 'Amazon Logistics', which was usually someone in a little car full of packages. I think it's been going on for at least the last 3 or 4 years?
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by tfinniga 9y ago
Do any of the dyslexia fonts help?
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by tfinniga 9y ago
Another issue of letting sellers glom on to the main product SKU listing is that the reviews are all over the map, and there's no way for a customer to tell which review came from which seller. I bought some tripod mounts for a VR rig
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by tfinniga 9y ago
The first impact of self-driving cars will be much worse traffic. While ride-sharing and public transit are helpful, they are nowhere near as good as self-driving cars. If you had a self-driving car you'd be able to set up a truly pro
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by tfinniga 9y ago
I'd argue that this is much more dangerous than terrorism. Most things are. The main danger of terrorism is that we injure ourselves.
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by tfinniga 9y ago
Why not both? MP3 is more widely supported than any lossless audio codec. Lossless compression enables the collector to keep an original. Not everyone is a collector though - for them, MP3 is probably fine, and if they need a different for
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by tfinniga 9y ago
I think it's a good exercise to do that kind of self-examination, to honestly evaluate situations which are morally ambiguous to various degrees, figure out where you stand and why, and plan what you would do when such a situation pres
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by tfinniga 10y ago
Right, or even more accurately "Local, Seasonal Diets Are The Best, Says Man Selling Local, Seasonal Food"
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by tfinniga 10y ago
A big part of the danger of this hack is that it compromises email. Email is a skeleton key for every other account you own. 2-factor auth can be a pain to use, but at the very least you should always use it to protect your email.
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by tfinniga 10y ago
AR is the future, and will be much bigger than VR, but it is also a much harder problem to solve. I know companies that are very interested in professional VR applications today using the Vive, but Hololens isn't practical yet. I thin
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by tfinniga 10y ago
While more expensive than Zenni, Warby Parker will ship you empty frames for size testing, so you can be confident of the fit.
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by tfinniga 10y ago
I haven't heard any arguments that they should receive a pardon, or any news of them being prosecuted. In the absence of that I'm just assuming that nothing will happen.
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by tfinniga 10y ago
I really liked this small article about exponential growth. Exponentials don't really exist in nature, there are pretty much always limits. http://radar.oreilly.com/2007/11/its-not-exponential-its-sig...
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by tfinniga 10y ago
"Give a man a game engine and he delivers a game. Teach a man to make a game engine and he never delivers anything." https://twitter.com/sandbaydev/status/403219167236857856
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by tfinniga 10y ago
Maybe starved is too strong a term. I think we're both trying to make the same point - a new medium can exist, but it doesn't mean that the old media go away. You might just use them less. The idea of a new medium replacing an
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by tfinniga 10y ago
Research is promising: https://research.nvidia.com/publication/near-eye-light-field...
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by tfinniga 10y ago
If the displays get a lot higher res, I could see myself using stacks of floating displays for apps instead of my current multimonitor display. Imagine being completely surrounded by digital paper that defies the laws of physics.
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by tfinniga 10y ago
I've tried Rec Room and I really like it. It's amazing how much fun it is to play with someone else. It still seems like early days for multiplayer. There's no way to see other people's facial expressions, and the avat
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by tfinniga 10y ago
I've heard a lot of good things about the Oculus, especially the touch controllers. My main experience demoing the dk2 around was that the first thing everyone did was try raising their hands in front of their face, and that motion sic
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by tfinniga 10y ago
A new medium never really replaces an old medium, it just starves all other media for time. So far VR is great for games, experiencing immersive environments (eg destinations), and some design/creation (eg tiltbrush). I think it will
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by tfinniga 10y ago
I think rather than assuming malice, assume either incompetence or different goals. The saying I've heard is that most people want elevators, but we've been selling them helicopters and blaming them when they crash. Someone who is
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by tfinniga 10y ago
More information here: https://www.levyjournalonline.com/police-beat.html Relevant section: In a separate crash on May 7 at 3:40 p.m. on U.S. 27 near the BP Station west of Williston, a 45-year-old Ohio man was killed when
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by tfinniga 10y ago
Sometimes they stay at exactly the same level forever.

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