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Rhino + Grasshopper is the gold standard for all the curvy geometry in anything resembling Zaha Hadid’s work. It is also parametric. There’s even a plug-in to use it inside Revit. …

I haven’t fully tested it, but just wanted to say nice job! It even looks decent on my handset, which isn’t trivial.

This no longer appears to be the case.

You’d think they’d have the green data center thing down already, but that ain’t going to happen when politicians still boast “clean coal” and moan on about wind farms. It takes re…

You are not alone. MBAs found APIs. Eternal September and all that.

I pinpoint the start of “safetyism” with the kidnapping, rape, and murder of Polly Klaas in Petaluma, California in 1993. Overnight, nobody let their kids outside unattended. It wa…

This post feels misleading or possibly just nostalgic. The books referenced still exist because the people creating the technology are still writing them. They're also creating vid…

PE? Private Equity is the slippery slope to Public Enshitification.

The guy in this video tracked down the vineyard from MacOS Sonoma, which is just a few miles away. https://youtu.be/nNuGetQ7f7s?si=5uAHFrwgnhuYapLT

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MAYA has extensive NURBS tools, which means it can import and export CAD data natively. While Blender does support basic NURBS geometry, it lacks tooling to fully support it. If th…

If this is the case, they’ll want to improve the NURBS support within Blender. You can get some amazing results with subd, but digital twins require accuracy and you get that with …

Here’s an article about The Sacramento Music Archive that’s also worth checking out. https://www.kqed.org/arts/13979518/sacramento-music-archive-... Go out and support your local l…

Wu-tang + run the jewels sounds like a hell of a show.

What's holding it back? Is there something to be done to make it less frustrating? What would make "The Hardware-Accelerated Web" a breeze to use for developers?

Reminds me of Relefin. https://brieflands.com/journals/ijhrba/articles/92893

That’s OK. Most got ReST wrong, too.

OpenAI is undergoing a significant strategic pivot toward developing world models.

You don’t need a union to quiet quit or throw a shoe.

It seems strange to talk of attribution without talking about the founders.

You can even spend time and money to acquire a patent and it still doesn’t guarantee profit. It’s called the Miura-ori even though it was patented decades earlier. In this case, th…

Don't get hug up on "invented". Ruth Asawa registered for (1956) and received US patent 185,504 on June 16, 1959 at the suggestion of her professor, Buckminster Fuller. https://the…

How about the Iran-Contra connections? The crack epidemic ravaging Baltimore in The Wire has everything to do with Jeffrey Epstein. Ever wonder how he bought that island of his? ht…