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It compares to programs like Fusion360, Solid works and others.

This. The FLIF format still has a nice TODO list which containt: native browser support..

An alternative to underground is 'at the back'.

For example you can have a car free shopping street where cars can only park at the back sides of the shops.

Once a producer told me that they mastered at 16bit 44.1kHz and then pressed records and CDs from those masters.

Ofcourse the records sold better because they sound much better...

Yes

What is kind of funny is that people here like to pay more for 'organic' food because they think it's more healthy. But what comes from the greenhouse is so lab-grown it's more healthy than anything. Those labs also don't like to use pesticides because it's unhealthy for the workers and plants as well. They use insects to control pests.

The only problem with greenhouse food is that it tastes like nothing. A tomato grown on soil has much more taste than grown on water.

What helped me is to focus on the end user. Those are the people that you are working for!

Once I realised that I quit my job and started working for a company with real end users...

I love to have a reflective screen in my phone and as monitor.

For those devices energy consumption is just low priority.

Color and refresh-rate is where most reflective screens fail. So if you take on E ink I think that's where you should shine.

Well it starts in a second and then you just have everything available you ever dreamt of.

But seriously: don't let the price fool you. This is production ready software.

There is also a lot of professional support available like training by certified trainers.

While it has a learning curve I think the UI is one of the best I ever used.

And I am not sure about your statement that everything is wrong and backwards. I think it's the result of thinking how to do things right so the user can be productive.

Also: Ton has a very strong voice in the project. I don't think it's all undirected community work.

The standard map has zero degrees in the center.

Yeah, we can never land a rocket, self driving cars will never happen, 4MB of RAM is enough for everyone...

If you don't step you will never know how to walk.

The companies who are working with the Ocean Cleanup Project are one of the best marine companies in the world. They are not naive about what an ocean is.

Ofcourse this is also a learning project. So a lot of money is invested just to learn more. But I don't think you should call it a scam.

The reason they only collect at the surface is that it's less likely they will scoop up ocean life. This will make the first steps easier.

For Linux users: the 64bit Windows version runs fine in Wine.

To me this sounds like complete lack of training.

At most airports when they ask questions they don't care about the answer because they are trained to observe you while you answer.

Ray casting = where does a ray intersect an object

Ray tracing = ray casting from the camera and where an object intersects trace rays (with ray casting) to light sources and reflective materials (Turner Whitted).

Path tracing = ray tracing but when you hit an object start ray casting from that point as bounce and gather all energy so you can send it back to the camera (James Kajiya ?).

So to me path tracing is just a method (extension) of ray tracing.

True. That's also why the USA is now a third world country.

And I really feel sorry for the author. But my comment was more about the boots story.

I don't think this applies anymore.

Cheap is getting better and better. And the rich just buy new because they like to go with the trend spending hundreds of dollars on boots.

Most people I know (Netherlands) who are not wealthy have mental issues or don't know how to manage money.

Edit: I don't want to sound like I think the author belongs to those 2 groups. There are many more reasons why someone is poor.

I never had Facebook but still got my friends, family and places to go to.

As an outsider I find the fuzz around Facebook amazing.

So what Facebook does only care about money. Are they supposed not to?

If you don't like Facebook just leave and don't be so dramatic about it.

I don't think the Swiss are going to use it in their own country.

To me the article sounds like: we think it has potential and are going to see if we can make money out of it.

Edit: it can also be very interesting to see if it is cheaper and more confortable than 'low speed' trains. Maybe in the future we use the hyperloops at 80km/h.

Specifications are different than constraints. Agile and constraints can go hand in hand imho.

Some 2000 years ago this was already the case.

1 Timothy 6:10: "...the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil."

His main theme is: build for humans (can apply to anything, software also).

But today we are all about status. We think what we possess is who we are. This is a lie created by marketing. But it's very hard to change this in our cultures.

We now see movements like the tiny house movement, minimalists, healthy food movement and so on.

Imho those are all anty riactions to the marketing we are now hearing for years.

So even if Christopher is right about how to build it can be very hard to change the way we think (about building).

That's a good question because at the moment Carbon printers are the fastest and (most important) produce production ready materials.

I think a major point your wife and others don't understand is that being vaccinated doesn't mean you can't get a disease. But most diseases will be less deadly and harmfull

So the statistics most anti-vaxxers look up are about disease count while you should look at how many died.

And about mercury: sometimes traces can be found but are way too low to be harmfull. There is a much higher dose of mercury in some fish so that's why pregnant mothers and small kids should not eat those.

Mozilla should enable safe browser settings by default.

For example: third party cookies are never needed on 99% of the sites you visit.

Yes this could be the case: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal

Edit: by the way, I don't think humans should speed up climate change... but there also will be a lot of changes we can't control.

Yes I also think a lot of things will happen, because of the climate change, that we never experienced before.

We know a lot of world wide events happened in history, so it also unlikely we never will experience huge events in the (near) future.

And grid for repositioning blocks

Have they ever not been? I think through history China always have been a superpower (with some short exceptions).

Edit: this might have been the longest time China was not a superpower: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_of_humiliation

But I doubt that this core idea is what the original MVC idea had in mind.

I believe the original idea was that the MV and C are separated but coupled. So all views that bind to a model will update at the same time when a controller calls a change in the model.

On the web this concept is strange. I think this is why there are so many different MVC concepts.