Rhinoceros 3D is a Nurbs modelling software that uses dimensions and is used heavily in the architecture/arch-viz industry. But I agree, its shocking that every mainstream 3D modelling software has no concern for dimensional accuracy.
Yes, you can model accurately in these programs but you really have to understand how construction documents are put together. You aren't going to be able to quickly take dimensions from a drawing and convert it into an accurate 3D model with any of the big 3D model packages out there. When I was an architect, I stayed far away from 3DS max, Maya, Blender, etc because modelling in them felt like drawing with crayons. Its the difference between using pencils, rulers, and compass on a drafting board and using paint and brush on a canvas. And that is what's surprisingly lacking in the market, the accurate measured generic 3D modelling program.
If you haven't heard of orthotropics, it sounds a bit pseuodoscience-ey, but it attempts to solve the crooked teeth issue by enlargening the jaw rather than through braces. Thus far, I have to say that I think there's some truth to exerting a little pressure to my maxilla/mandible, and if anything I can breathe much better, which for me is a bigger win than getting straighter teeth.
Visual programming was pretty popular in the architecture industry last I remember. Mograph is also another area where I've seen people use it a lot, (its hard to hand model and animate thousands of objects), It's also great for developing shaders and textures that depend on different colors and noise values.
Programmers might dislike visual programming because you give up a lot of control, but artists have a far easier time using them than writing "const int x = foo", etc since they have to basically learn a whole new language/subject matter.
On that note, I think anything that isn't particularly algorithm heavy and visual could enable a different class of people (like designers and artists) to access the utility of programming logic without having to learn a whole new language and paradigm of thinking. Who knows, maybe in the future, front-end ui work might be done by designers using a "photoshop-for-interfaces" software rather than programmers writing react components.
I don't know how any of this stuff works, I'm not a scientist, but the dots seemed to connect based on everything I believe about our physiology, which is admittedly a little "alternative". I don't think you can do exercises and turn into brad pitt, but I'd be willing to bet that there are mechanisms and signals that our body needs in order to self correct misalignments and/or regenerate that our modern lifestyles don't provide due to our indoor sedentary lifestyles.
I discovered the importance of fresh air last year because I have downstairs room in my apartment with no operable windows. I wondered why I always felt tired when I worked from there. Anectodal, but it turns out it was just a matter of air quality. Now I keep my windows open as much as possible. It was above 32 degrees recently and so I opened my windows and keep them open. I now prefer to be cold with fresh air than warm with bad air. This is really an unfortunate consequence of modern building systems, that all buildings are more or less isolated ecosystems circulating HVAC air.
I use a "dumb" iphone SE as well, heavy screen time restrictions and very limited apps. Its great because I get to keep Uber and Venmo and Maps so I still have full functionality if I need it.
I disagree though when you say the problem isn't the phone and to improve self-discipline. If you have a cocaine addiction, and bag of cocaine in your pocket, the problem isn't your self-discipline. It's that you have a bag of cocaine in your pocket.
I don’t think the problem at a psychological level is getting people to recycle correctly (although we should get as many people to recycle). People/businesses will generally do what’s easiest/cheapest to do. The problem is making biodegradable containers more attractive than the ones that are not. Currently, I believe, this is impossible since we don’t really have the capabilities to manufacture anything like it(formable, heat resistant, durable, flexible, transparent, cheap). There are people experimenting, but we’re pretty far away from a solution.
I really think that the only solution that will work at a psychological level is to get companies to pay fully for their environmental impact. Unfortunately, This can’t happen unless all companies around the world play by these rules, and even then we’re talking about corporations that twist to avoid taxes.
Having said that, why can’t we just ban plastics/non-biodegradable materials like its cancer? We survived millennia without it? I’m sure we can figure something out.
So just to be clear, I didn't know people were not like me, but writing this I realized it explains a lot.
I rarely forget a face, and routinely remember random people on the subway. I don't say anything but I'm almost always the person who remembers the other person first, and it almost offends me that someone doesn't recognize/remember seeing me when I remember them. I can usually tell who people are based only on gait and body proportions. I recognized a girl once just from her hair color, and it wasn't something noticeable, just a very muted blonde almost brown/gray hair, but I only knew one person with her height and hair type.
I have incredibly powerful imagery. I woke up once after realizing in my dream after breaking a window that the glass shattered with incredible physical accuracy, both material properties, and physics. It's in dreams that I notice certain things, like how did I know water/smoke/fire/cloth reacts like that? how did I know light bounces in that way? how did I know that subway tracks looked precisely like that? Like I never took the time to study any of it, but the real world accuracy and a high level of detail is there. I can visually take objects and rotate them in my head, I think someone mentioned this and I can confirm. And I always found it suspicious people couldn't rotate something they see in a 2D picture in their head (or at least they would say something that implies they have no idea what it looks like from another angle).
Having said that, I think there are parts of my brain that is so stunted I sometimes wonder how the hell I got to where I am. I feel like I have several streams of information coming into my head, and I have to process them asynchronously. I zone out all the time because I'm having a "Doug" moment (if anyone remembers the cartoon), where I'm vividly daydreaming. The images are so strong, it seems to black out what I'm really seeing (but not really, its more like getting extreme tunnel vision and being hyper focused on your imagination). Traumatic memories are terrible. I see and pretty much re-live bad experiences over and over again. I can sit still, not move physically and play movies in my head for hours. To be fair though, I'm probably closer to the other extreme, and to me the benefits outweigh the cons.
Oh man I'm the same way, If I have a minds eye, it's strong. I've also been terrible with language, like I have difficulty speaking in real-time. I'm much better now but I actually used to wonder how people can talk the way they do.
To be fair, what Magic Leap is doing is a few orders of magnitude more complex and innovative than what Juicero was attempting to do.
As in, its an industry that doesn't quite exist yet, there are problems that were never thought would be problems in the first place, and the whole concept of programming things for real time three dimensional overlay on a device that's light enough to fit on your head is kind of a bigger challenge than squeezing a smoothie out of a large ketchup package.
But I would like to see where and how the money is being spent.
I looks like there's a lot of good code in there, and a lot of hard work so good job thus far. What I want to know is why is it so narrowly focused, as in all it can do is residential homes specifically, residential homes. Wouldn't it be better if it were a generic modeller/CAD program?
What you’re wrong about is the notion that markets dictate itself. Actually pretty much the entirety of America and possibly most of the rest of the developed world is wrong on this notion because the country and the rest of the world is so rooted in capitalism. It’s like crying about the fact that we are polluting the world with single use plastics and saying that we are powerless to do anything about it because individuals will always optimize for personal gain. The reality is we as people are people and every single one of us has the ability and capacity to choose to not use single use plastics. We aren’t dumb robots that absolutely have to follow this code of maximizing for personal gain. People as individuals, or organizations, or really groups of people of any size are capable of doing anything because at the base level, every single person has the capacity to make one decision over another, because we are people not robots. If we chose to keep the earth clean, we could keep the earth clean. It’s not impossible, and people need to stop believing that the only force is this blobby uncontrollable multicellular creature of human mass that creates cities, destroys natural landscapes, and kills rhinos. It’s at this level of learned helplessness where you (and I’m not crticizing only you, but pretty much the rest of the world) is wrong. If baby boomers collectively chose to help the next generation they absolutely could have done more to help the next generation. They just never believed anything could be done so they never really tried.
A different way to think about this is if you pulled an inelastic chain tight to the earth, and closed the loop you would have the starting condition. Then, standing where you are you cut the chain, grabbed an extra yard of the chain and spliced it to the touching ends of the starting chain lying on the ground, laying that extra yard folded perpendicular to the starting chain wrapped around the earth. That extra chain added is now sticking out half a yard from the starting chain. When you think about it that way, and I ask you “would that extra yard make a difference?”, where does your intuition lead you? With that visual, I would say, that is a ton of slack, I could loop it around my body. I think this is really more about how you frame the question than some flaw in intuition, although I’m not trying to say humans have flaws with our intuition.
No one who commented this far has read the article. Somehow this doesn’t surprise me, people only think of themselves.
The thesis is that to counter the effects of unemployment on mental health, you only need one days worth of work. As in, work is a psychological remedy for people who have not been able to contribute to society and have no place on the pecking order.
Giving the unemployed more work did little to improve their mental health much further. This article was not about your poor ass having too much work. And for some its even a status symbol to be so important that you are busy all the time.
Things like this is what prevents capable inventors from taking the necessary risk to develop a truly innovative product. My wish is for there to be better legal protection for entrepreneurs bringing new products to the market, in order to encourage innovation and long difficult r+d work.
My heart sinks every time I hear a story of copycats profiting off of the work of someone or some company that sank tons of hours and dollars into developing a unique product - going up down left right backwards forwards upside down right side up headfirst ass backwards - just to find a solution, and then to have all that effort once you’ve found the answer, be pulled from right under your feet because someone can do it better now that the answer has been discovered (because you put the hours to discover it). That’s just ducking awful. I remember seeing [this](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2...) about a simple product and it made me so furious. The reality is it’s happening everywhere.
China and Chinese culture of designer knockoffs and blatant copycatting needs to start playing fair and follow the same laws as everyone else if they expect to deal respectably in international markets.
I’m wondering if with things like even the font being the same, wether or not the act of copycatting even registers as an offense to the people who do this.
And to make it clear my stance isn’t against Chinese people, some of my favorite people in this world are Chinese, it’s against a government that condones and does little, or turns a blind eye when a company is doing the equivalent of removing padding from a boxing glove. If we can’t resolve something like this through verbal communication and legal action what other options do we have?
This makes a lot of sense. High nit monitors, are extremely hot. (they’re basically light bulbs), and the hotter they get the shorter they last. In that case it makes a lot of sense to maximize airflow and heat dissipation, not just one or the other. And from a design standpoint it does so in a very thin space which is important because equivalently bright monitors are about a half a foot thick if not an entire foot thick. I’d imagine the effects are still helpful for a hot computer as well. People are really under appreciative about the design and engineering work that went into building the latest Mac Pro, the monitor (and even the stand), but I realize I’m probably in a very small minority of people.
During high school, I played a lot of morrowind and thought it was cool to learn how to pick locks. I had already known how to break combination locks, and I already taught myself to open traditional pin and tumbler locks. I saw a number lock with 4 digits and I couldn't help myself. Considering they were just numbers I thought to myself, this is a guaranteed crack. So every day before and after class, I would take a minute to mechanically go through about 50 numbers. Testing numbers is surprisingly quick.
It only took me like 3-4 weeks of testing a few numbers before and after class and I had it open.
The loot? A pair of used gym socks, shoes, and one of those math homework books you write in.
I use a Dasung Paperlike Pro to do work on occasionally. I love it. It was expensive but personally it was worth every penny. Nothing beats coding outdoors with natural light. Pretty much the only thing its good for is reading/writing, but that has its own benefits.
I had to customize colors in vim as well, since you lose all the colors when you use eink, but that's only a marginal drawback.
I have the first gen, which is nowhere near as fast as LCD. But looking at their videos it looks like they got the framerate to work at a much faster speed than mine which was leagues of improvement over a kindle. However, I'm confident that there will still be some lag between input and what you see.
They wrote their own software so that the display isn't doing a hard refresh every time the display changes, the downside is there is some ghosting, which is what the hard refresh on kindles will remove.
I use keyboard shortcuts extensively to the point where I rarely use a mouse so I can work with the low framerate of the first gen. It even forced me to get better with using keyboard shortcuts and now I have little to no problems with it.
Yeah I get you, the human eye works logarithmically so we can see in very dark spaces, but that means the light necessary to see a computer screen is a fraction of what comes from daylight. People were not meant to breath hvac air inside an unaturally lit cubicle. Fresh air, natural light, and proper sleep cycles(up with the sun, down with the sun) I feel are my secret sources of power.
Well if it’s on a publicly available blockchain, the difference is that the information on how much money is in circulation, how much is being created, is all open to the public and verifiable. The information on how much banks are holding onto in fractional reserves should therefore be available and make cooking the books more difficult and allowing audits to be more accurate and hopefully regulations could exist to keep banks better in check.
I think one problem is that people don't realize they could not only survive, but live healthy, satiated, and even build muscle on a vegetarian diet(without protein shakes etc, just regular grocery foods). I feel like if more people realized this, they would consider eating meat more often. I personally love that I rarely have to worry about maggots in my garbage bin because there would be nothing that would be interested for them to be eating.
When did tourism become so huge? I honestly don’t remember people talking about their trips and vacations much growing up, but I felt a sharp rise with the rise of social media. I knew of very few people who routinely went on crazy vacations and talked about it, now it seems like they are everywhere. Is it because of social status and the selfie zombie? I even had a girl refuse to talk to me because I didn’t go on these elaborate vacation trips. (I’m sorry but I grew up on handmedowns and not having enough food was a thing. I’m not going to spend a few thousand on a field trip when my parents back home are doing everything they can to save a few dollars).
I remember going to national parks growing up and they were never that crowded. I feel like it’s all changed. And now instead of people who go to these places to actually see and experience the place, they go there for all the wrong reasons.
If you are struggling with social exclusion, and for no good reason, there is a manipulator in the ranks and for whatever reason the people in the group have no capacity to think for themselves. There are billions of people on this earth, many of whom have developed brains. Make your friends with those people, not the ones without the ability to formulate their own opinion.
YouTube was tricky for me too. Because so many tutorials are on youtube it’s hard to ban it. And you watch one it’s no longer blocked at least on that tab. Get “distract free tube” or something like that on chrome/Firefox. It gets rid of the side bar, trending, suggestions etc. basically everything but the video.
It doesn’t solve the deeper problem but it turns a time suck website into a productive one.
I didn't even know there were concentration camps in China. Thanks for sharing. If companies are going to shut out this sort of work in favor of free speech then we're headed for a dystopia.
It seems childish, but if you ever witnessed a bully use a small thing like chat color as a form of discrimination, you would realize even little decisions like this have huge implications on social development. We might not know what the original intent for chat color is but the reality is, believe it or not, wether you want to admit it or not, something as simple as the color of a chat bubble reaches way farther than anyone probably is willing to admit and likely will make a noticeable difference in the future grades and income and social standing of a child.
In particular, because chats with green are functionally different from imessage chats, it gives bullies an easy out for social exclusion.
The wise decision is to leave people like this and not befriend them, but children don't know that, and few parents do either. And lastly, there is evidence that show bullies succeed more at life at the expense of those they bully [1]. It gives ammunition to the people who are willing to use something as simple as color to discriminate in communication channels. The small weasly design decision, which might have been to bring more revenue to apple, empowers the kind of people who have no sense of empathy or live life selfishly disregardingly destroying the people and the world they live in.
If you're going to go through the effort of redesigning a faster layout, why not fix everything from the ground up? Why design a layout with key stagger still a property when we all know that it was a relic of technological limitations that are not nor will ever be present in any future keyboards?
I think for sure the rise of app and web economies have been the defining characteristic of this decade. They have had an unexpected monopoly on our attentions. From memes, to changes in consumer behavior, to social uprisings, to mass shootings, to instagram influencers, to determining elections, it would take a lot to convince me that there was not a single greater force that influenced us more in the past ten years than the side-effects of what came out of a few internet companies. Its almost hard to imagine what life was like before things like twitter, uber, spotify, youtube, and to think that they were either only a few years old or barely taking their first steps at the beginning of the decade is mind-blowing.
In hindsight, a lot of people might claim they saw it coming, but a lot of the things I see today are things I would have never predicted the "future" to be like, and were never things I ever heard anyone predict prior to the events happening. Seriously, all these amazon boxes everywhere? ... how many people saw that coming? For sure none of the real estate developers who poured millions into building all those shopping malls now lifeless like the coral reef on a warm 2019 summer day.
As for whats to come in the 2020's? clearly - flying cars, jet-packs, laser guns, self cleaning rooms, holograms, shiny pants, and robot servants. /s
RIP. Syd Mead was an inspiration for so many artists. I love the clean lines and crisp simplicity of the shapes he uses. It reminds me of design work by Dieter Rams, but for the entertainment industry.
- US reelects Trump in 2020. Climbing gyms, lately increasing in popularity also become popular in Mexico.
- global warming causes endangerment and extinction of many species, but traditional oriental medicines extinct the rhinos.
- China, due for a recession now, does not go into a recession despite the real estate/housing bubble because Xi and his government continue to find more ways to manipulate their economy. Consequently, the Shen Yun poster factory expands into money printing.
- Avian migratory patterns shift significantly due to global warming, except flightless birds which begin deevolution into dinosaurs.
- Boomer retirement causes US GDP growth decline. Zoomers are to blame for being unproductive.
- The education bubble bursts. Millenials degree now worth nothing.
Tech:
- Deep fakes used to create fake statements by Donald Trump. Trump denies fabricated statements, and proceeds to create his own.
- Boston Dynamic robots find gainful employment and enter the workforce, but not doing something people can already do because human labor is too cheap.
- Bitcoin never takes off, but the price climbs erratically whilst its most significant contribution to the world: crypto mining greenhouse gases, double.
- 5g is implemented by all major telecommunication companies promising new technological capabilities, but its primary use remains dopamine injections and advertisement.
- wasm causes a mass migration of desktop preferred applications to the web. Despite the existence of wasm, Reddit gets slower and buggier.
- Javascript continues domination of the web. Hipster developers now prefer declarative programming over functional. React Declarations now lets you write directly in HTML.
- Uber introduces Uber Flight - innovating both flying cars and driverless cars. Uber still not profitable.
- Adam Neuman starts a shared-restroom company in New York. Masayoshi Son can't get enough of We Sh*t.
- First VR(or AR) based esports that requires physical movements enter mainstream gaming. Pro gamers in korea now indistinguishable from kpop.
- VR hand controllers continue to evolve making current designs look like the N64 controller.
- VR/AR finds commercial use outside of the gaming industry, but VR gaming still leads the market with Cubicle Simulator.
- AI used heavily in cgi, computer graphics, and animation industries. Animators now work for more hours and less pay.
- Online dating becomes even easier, swiping becomes too 2010's. Loneliness increases even further.
- Elon gets first man on mars, Elon bores tunnels and builds a base on mars. Elon builds solar panels to power base on mars. Elon establishes neuralink to mars. Elon is in endgame now.
Medical:
- Zoomers suffer from unprecedented myopia epidemic, root cause discovered - heavy screen use to blame. Fix of more natural daylight is never taken nor implemented. Luxotica remains in control of the eyewear industry.
- Despite all medical and technological advancements, eating your vegetables, exercise, fresh air, natural daylight, and contact with friends remains the best way to stay healthy.
Cultural:
- Basketball rules change due to the prevalence of 3 pointers.
- Disney remakes a remake. Disney also remakes Pocahontas using cgi, which is just Avatar with native americans.
- New form of rapping created even more incomprehensible than mumble rap.
Its not about how dim it is. Daylight is orders of magnitude brighter than any lightbulb out there and has different levels of color wavelengths. Dimming a screeen actually does the opposite of what you would get reading eink outdoors, even in the shade. This is why TV's and projectors have such a hard time reaching the required brightness levels to be seen in broad daylight.
So taking the question to the obvious next step: is it possible the entity of an organization of people, corporations, clubs, churches, cults, have its own conciousness (feelings, goals, awareness of itself)? Does HackerNews have a conciousness?
This is sort of like if snapchat altered the faces of the people who look into its camera to make them more attractive to match what they look like in their own heads. The correct way is to not fuel delusions about the individual and get everyone to reach a consensus about the real world that we all live in. But if snapchat presented reality they probably wouldn't have a market either.
What did you spend your time doing though? Did you read a lot? Did you draw? Did you spend a lot of time working on things within arms reach? Or did you spend your time staring off into the far yonder? Isn't there a case to be made that sunlight is more of a signal used to help the eyes learn to focus and that by staring at something a foot away with low signal strength the eyes never got the feedback necessary to shape itself to the environment that it needs to work in?
Wood floats and so do ducks. So logically if the dord of the duck equals the dord of the girl then the girl must be a witch. `checks dords of both duck and girl`. "She's a witch!" -- excerpt from "A More Scientific Guide to Witch Hunts".
> But employer-based insurance is heavily subsidized by the federal government.
I don't know enough about how the health insurance beast works, but it would seem that if the federal government stopped giving an unfair advantage to organizations, then the unfair advantage would stop existing for these organizations that were given the unfair advantage and fairness would somewhat return for individual persons.
