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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…

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. Y…

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, t…

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 peop…

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 exampl…

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…

Is your question why privacy is important, or are you thinking of something else?

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 o…

Do any of the dyslexia fonts help?

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 …

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 …

I'd argue that this is much more dangerous than terrorism. Most things are. The main danger of terrorism is that we injure ourselves.

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 t…

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…

Right, or even more accurately "Local, Seasonal Diets Are The Best, Says Man Selling Local, Seasonal Food"

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 lea…

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 us…

While more expensive than Zenni, Warby Parker will ship you empty frames for size testing, so you can be confident of the fit.

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.

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…

"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

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 th…

Research is promising: https://research.nvidia.com/publication/near-eye-light-field...

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 …

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 peo…