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longtimelistnr

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Industrial designer in Philadelphia
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longtimelistnr··on Lawsuit filed against rent-setting software RealPage
Wouldn’t it matter if that 10% was in a concentrated area? As in whole neighborhoods?
longtimelistnr··on Boeing 787s must be rebooted every 51 days to prevent 'misleading data' (2020)
Well no it doesn’t but it does however assure the public that all certified teachers have a duty to care for your children in a safe environment. In which teachers are also duty bound to report anything illegal or potentially harmful as they are liable in court if something does end up happening
longtimelistnr··on Intel plans thousands of job cuts in face of PC slowdown
Isnt this only a concern if you plan to retire in the next 5 ish years? Even 5 years seems a while to correct itself unless there’s a larger market implosion. The last 5 years has seen the tail end of a recession and a pandemic
longtimelistnr··on How Wes Anderson Turned The New Yorker Into “The French Dispatch”
I do find this interesting too. As if this affinity comes from wanting to understand the cultural circumstances around one’s birth. I wonder if that can be extended to nostalgia for the era of one’s parents childhood as well?
longtimelistnr··on Penpot, Open Source Figma alternative, raises $8M in funding
As a designer not in web development, I cannot even begin to wrap my head around that. Because at what point is just developing the thing directly or merging layers or using a more suitable app the solution?
longtimelistnr··on uBlock Origin Lite: Description
The reason is that it is not a direct source of course because the authors cannot be validated. Never met a college professor that said don’t use Wikipedia (if anything it was encouraged) as long as you’re pulling from the citations. I had plenty of high school teachers talk about how awful it is though and I think it was because they just didn’t understand it
longtimelistnr··on Why Figma Is Special
Interesting you mention Miro because this is the first time I’ve heard them come up in the figma discussion.

Personally I think Miro can give them a run for their money and create a competitor on top of their existing product (if they choose too). Because the Miro collaboration is identical to figma with the only difference being Miro isn’t targeting product design. Their web app is just as smooth as figma and I could totally see them building out their offering to compete.

longtimelistnr··on The Ethereum merge is done
Laughable to suggest that everyone is wrong (except you of course) and that not worshipping crypto makes you an “average developer”
longtimelistnr··on One kitchen, hundreds of internet restaurants
No shot you can recreate anything close to McDonald’s fries without a fryer and that alone is worth it. Even say fries and a milkshake. No premade milkshake and fries will touch a real fryer and ice cream machine
longtimelistnr··on IKEA Symfonisk Gen2 Amp Modification Guide – A Much Cheaper Sonos Amp
Instead of modding it into a new amp like this post does they likely just spliced the speaker wires right into the speakers. The upside is it was easy the downside is you can’t just plug and play after the fact.
longtimelistnr··on In Supreme Court brief, Yale and peers defend use of race in admissions
Sure but this isn’t racism, it’s compensating for inequalities that are not fixable by “trying harder” or any individuals personal responsibility.
longtimelistnr··on Apple workers vote to join union, a first for the tech giant in US
How does this explain the gap between wage increases and inflation then? Why does everything cost more but we get paid less (relatively)?
longtimelistnr··on Amazon builds property empire, quietly buying land across the US
There’s not a fucking chance that’s legal
longtimelistnr··on Oneplus GPL violation for Android 12 Kernel
I really am not sure most anybody would want to deal with that. Beyond the hassle I’m not sure many people would know what to do
longtimelistnr··on DALL-E Mini – Generate images from a text prompt
Yes there is a few different model variations is what I’ve heard
longtimelistnr··on Arduino raises $32M Series B round
Wow!!! I had no idea about this story. Terribly toxic environment created by Benzi. Could you imagine working all that time on a successful thesis and your main advisor has been plotting against you the whole time?? And how he wasn’t even excited for the thesis presentation. How did that guy even get into teaching?
longtimelistnr··on Show HN: Light Therapy Knee Wrap Capstone Project
Yes! I’ll share some resources when I get home. Specific wavelengths of red and infrared light can penetrate the skin and accelerate recovery with respect to dosage and area targeted.

To consult on this project for example, we spoke to one of our our school’s athletic trainers who showed us a light therapy device the school already owns.

longtimelistnr··on Show HN: Light Therapy Knee Wrap Capstone Project
Hello HN

I’m an industrial design student who recently completed a senior capstone project (the largest and final project of our program).

Through individual research and consultation with professors and doctors employed at my school (Thomas Jefferson University), we developed a focus on light therapy. Our product evolved through the semesters to its final version, a readily deployable, hygienic light therapy device for assisting athletic trainers in treating knee trauma.

Our school was bought a few years ago by Thomas Jefferson University and the result has been an increased focus on the medical collaboration utilizing internal connections.

To the scientific plausibility of such a device: I can link to research we used specifically though there is plenty out there. The majority of this project was completed under the assumption that certain wavelengths of light can speed up recovery of tendons and muscles.

Our specific implementation targets the knee due to frequency of injury and the specificity helped guide the project along. Using medical grade silicone as a sort of shell, they sandwich a plastic substructure which supports the flex circuits containing an LED array. These LEDs are a combination of red and infrared each of a specific wavelength range. Powered through a removable battery pack which is also a controller. Sadly the focus is on industrial design so developing a gui and prototyping that further was a very low priority though I’d hope to sometime flesh out more in the future.

Ask any questions as i have loads of information not in the final presentation and can offer some context for those unfamiliar with the topic.

Thanks for viewing!!!

longtimelistnr··on Uber and Lyft’s new road: Fewer drivers, thrifty riders and jittery investors
I don’t think you’re wrong but it’s certainly extremely pessimistic to believe this is impossible.
longtimelistnr··on Ask HN: Are there general-purpose tactile computers?
I’d put it on cost and market needs. A membrane keyboard can be one-shot injection molded and that same membrane can then fit into many different keyboard designs. Touch screens are an instance where I’m not too certain they’re the cheaper option, however I think the cost reduction comes in software updates being free. An OP-1 isn’t an essential piece of kit even for professionals and you’ll find that same category of hardware exists for computers too.

Honestly most professionals probably don’t need that level of quality. I’d even go as far in saying if you need tools that reliable and expensive then likely they would almost never be for personal use. It comes down to consumers needing to understand the quality of the products they buy should only match their use expectations. Over-engineering an object is a waste of resources, and processes like injection molding aren’t nearly as bad for the environment as the public may think as long as the objects are useable to someone.

longtimelistnr··on How the Apple of the Midwest fell apart
They did have retail stores, which as a person younger than the average on here is something that differentiates Gateway from say Compaq or eMachines in my mind
longtimelistnr··on I Spent $1000 Making an NFT Project and Unfortunately Learned Some Things
The minting site doesn’t really sound all that satirical or in jest. This was the project that got absolutely shit on in the twitter quote tweets if I recall correctly
longtimelistnr··on Microsoft 3D Movie Maker Source Code
Follow/check @foone on twitter that’ll be the easiest way as they are responsible for this happening and will probably work really hard to get it running as fast as possible. They’ve been tweeting about this forever but all the sudden last month their tweet thread picked up steam and a month later it’s open source
longtimelistnr··on Why Jony Ive left Apple to the ‘accountants’
Yes it is true designers take all those factors into account. However in this situation likely products were developed fully and then stripped feature by feature in requested revisions from non design departments. That’s what I’ve read typically happens in corporate design environments when the rest of the company shifts focus to general cost cuts.
longtimelistnr··on Why Jony Ive left Apple to the ‘accountants’
For you they don’t but for many if not most they do. To most consumers the products aesthetics is the only deciding factor between competing products
longtimelistnr··on The Economics of Seinfeld (2010)
I think to some degree Larry David is more selfish than you’re describing and I’d argue he cares more about himself being embarrassed rather than disappointing fans of the show
longtimelistnr··on Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers
It’s not a weird criticism. May not be unrealistic to be a co-op, fine that’s difficult. But don’t lie and say there’s no profit incentive to be had when there clearly is if owners of the platform are separate from individual users
longtimelistnr··on Apple’s Product Development Process
If that’s the best information the book offers it sounds incredibly boring. No “secret” information is here and is much less detailed than many other product development literature or media out there. Of note is the designers reporting directly to executives but that’s not unique just rare.
longtimelistnr··on $44.52 is the average price of an 1/8th of cannabis in the US
Sadly in Pennsylvania the medical market has steadily dropped the price of a gram to ~$6 average but the consumer price has not reflected this
longtimelistnr··on $44.52 is the average price of an 1/8th of cannabis in the US
It’s a hard equivalency to make because weed gets cheaper in larger quantities. Wine does too but not on the consumer side (unless for some reason you buy cases of the same bottle all at once)
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