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Or develop thesense & skill of using it. It clearly has a fixed FOV that's being cropped based on what's on the display. Humans can learn this stuff, cameras with crude viewfinders…

And this is the first technology that directly strokes their ego

Users generally do not believe Instagram is reading their chats. Source: I have had this conversation many, many times.

This is what I'm looking for. This would replace Corel Draw for me. There is a plugin for blender that allows CAD style sketching. It may be a way forward.

I worked there. Everything goes into a slide.

Precisely. Things become clear when we think of benefits for people instead of monetary terms.

A huge number of us labor behind the scenes with no public acknowledgment or credit. For each idea brought to life we might hope for -at most- an epitaph carved in expired patent c…

I've been running GrapheneOS for a few months now, keeping my old Samsung on WiFi as a backup. It is such a breath of fresh air. It is so quiet and functional. It feels like it pri…

Respectfully, at this point, do we need Googlers to explain? Structurally: launch-dependent levels/career advancement. Design wise: massive over reliance on A/B testing. Philosophi…

In a VR headset the virtual screen distance is set by the distance of the microdisplay from the lens in the headset. It's not crazy to think you could move the microdisplay positio…

Here's some context for people who are curious about CA DMV data sales: https://www.thedrive.com/news/35457/why-is-the-california-dm...

I spoke to a McMaster web team member at a bar. They told me that the real reason there's usually no brand information is that they buy the same bolt (for example) from many differ…

I've purchased equipment from scrapped solar factories in the Bay Area. Tons of people lost jobs and not just technologists.

Meta made the decision to take control of what users see via the feed, and to show them mostly content which is NOT from friends. Content that "performs well". The testimony is dis…

This matches my experience. In addition I was advised/strongly encouraged to "go dark" on social media and refrain from ever discussing work at lunch, even with teammates. My badge…

Strange take. Pixelated camouflage is and was an attempt to make a scale invariant camouflage (works at near and far distances) by encoding patterns at multiple spatial frequencies…

The similarities to Google Books are interesting. Google created Books based on their own scans of books, which publishers considered piracy. The legal battle initiated by the Auth…

McMaster Carr now sells ethanol in large quantities.

My domain is mechanical engineering. In my discipline, the Parker O-Ring catalog or the Omega Sensors catalog are basically textbooks which teach you how to specify and select seal…

It's also been tried in the mechanical world ("Generative Design" in Autodesk's language) and it's still mostly in the "cool demo, bro" phase. The parts end up being expensive and …

Since they already reference Technology Connections in the article, and since this is a great essay but not new ideas, let's also call out other important voices - in particular Sh…

Have you tried searching with Explorer? Or opening the start menu or a folder? I'm currently 100% a Windows shop, and it's embarrassingly slow on my silly fast computer.

Even Apple doesn't do CAD on OSX. They run Siemens NX on Windows. But your statement isn't quite right. Fusion 360 runs fine in mac. I'm ex-Apple btw.

There's a piece of commercial software called Celemony Capstan. Might not be right for your application but it was designed explicitly for tape restoration.

Agree. Firefox is the only browser I "trust". It does the best job of respecting the user out of any available option. I am the user and I deserve respect. You are also users, and …