timpieces

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by timpieces 7mo ago
Do you know of any free/open-source examples that solve this problem well? I'm not an expert, but these types of heuristics intuitively seem hard to model. The goal is to guess the user's design intent. There's often no
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by timpieces 7mo ago
Similar approach is to create a master sketch which is a sketch that defines the major dimensions of your design. You can then 'attach' bodies and planes (or LCSs) to different parts of the sketch. The approaches are similar but i
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by timpieces 11mo ago
Yes it's surprising to see so much cynicism for something that has a real possibility of making so many people so much more productive. My mental model of the average excel user is of someone who doesn't care about excel, but care
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by timpieces 11mo ago
Yes I feel that when to apply certain techniques is frequently under-discussed. But I can't blame people for err-ing on the side of 'do everything properly' - as this makes life more pleasant in teams. Although I think if y
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by timpieces 11mo ago
This is true of an idealized perfect free market with perfectly rational consumers, but not so much in the real world. The simple fact that profits on phones haven't been competed to zero is enough to show it's not a perfect free
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by timpieces 11mo ago
As a counterpoint, I bought a kobo (clara?) two years ago, and ended up hating it. It was a lot of minor things that added up. Spuriously turning on in my pocket/bag constantly and ruining progress (the power-on button was poorly place
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by timpieces 1y ago
Maybe it's just semantics, but it doesn't feel so wrong to me. The main nuance is that this statement needs to be true over time as the spec changes. Developers try to write maintainable code so that their code will still work&#x2