Am I wrong in thinking that Grasshopper is procedural modeling and not parametric modeling?
Parametric modeing is used in software like Solid Works where you don’t have nodes but have parameters, a constraint system and construction history. Solid Works was developed in the 90s while Grasshopper came out in 2007. Another is example is Pro/Engineer from Parametric Technology Company (PTC) which came out in 1988. Patrik Schumacher, an architect coined the term parametricism in 2008. His employees created node graphs in Grasshopper while he just tweaked the parameters. I wonder if that’s why he came up with the term. Grasshopper has parameters but what makes it different from industrial design CAD is that you construct geometry with a series of nodes i.e. a procedure.
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FormFollowsFunc commented on Fifty and out: How Gen X became the biggest work losers the-independent.com/life-... · Posted by u/wyclif
The print industry was dead long before AI came about.
That may be true but the latest media to be hit by the internet is film and TV. YouTube and TikTok are eating their lunch and streaming isn't making up for it. The same happened to music with the rise of streaming but it occurred a little earlier. AI generally isn't the cause of their demise but I suppose the fear is that AI will just make things worse when it's more broadly adopted. The internet has mostly destroyed media jobs and the only people making money from it nowadays are the platform companies.
FormFollowsFunc commented on Want to book a Ryanair flight? Prepare for a face scan noyb.eu/en/want-book-ryan... · Posted by u/latexr
What is wrong with Ryanair exactly? Do they have too many customers and want to trim some out? All of these are just barriers to bookings and reasons to prefer other airlines.
It's true that they don't have competitors on certain routes, but they certainly do a large number of them.
They have always treated their customers like crap and in the past it hasn’t hurt their sales. Though recently they have had to sell tickets lower than they would have liked to boost sales. They would like to give the impression that they are always the cheapest option but it’s not always the case and customers are too lazy to shop around. Other airlines have copied their tactics so the alternative isn’t always that much better.
FormFollowsFunc commented on Ask HN: Do you believe we are in a particularly chaotic time period? · Posted by u/bloomingkales
Yes. It’s the end of zero interest rates after 23 years because the baby boomers are retiring and drawing down their savings and has caused a white collar recession. The world is de-globalising - trade wars between the US and China. Climate change is hitting us. Birth rates are declining in Europe and Asia which causes all sorts of problems.
FormFollowsFunc commented on Ask HN: What are the benefits of using Tailwind if you know CSS/SASS well? · Posted by u/mrholek
Would implementing the utility first approach of Tailwind in Sass be better i.e. a Sass interpretation of their @apply directive? Packing a bunch of class names into HTML doesn't seem like a great developer experience.
FormFollowsFunc commented on Ryanair – when every page is a dark pattern hallofshame.design/ryanai... · Posted by u/popcalc
I think it's related to the business culture in Ireland. Interacting with local businesses here, they don't seem to have any problems with ripping you off. Irish people don't complain enough. Also there's no enforcement of the law. Ryanair gets brought to account by the British CAA (civil aviation authority) now and again because of it's dodgy practices never by the Irish one. Government has told it's regulators to have a soft touch on businesses so that the country is attractive to foreign companies.
I wonder if imposter syndrome is due to the expanding work developers are expected to do while management and business types don’t get their hands dirty because they can use the excuse that they don’t know how to code.
FormFollowsFunc commented on Why is my dryer radioactive? physics.stackexchange.com... · Posted by u/jpitz
Thanks for all the great insights! But why was the Po-210 not dangerous in that vial of water?
It seems many people who got in touch with it got ill: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1767288/
According to another article the glass wall of the vial stops the radiation.
https://www.argonelectronics.com/blog/litvinenko-and-the-per...
FormFollowsFunc commented on Apple’s new headset meets reality bloomberg.com/news/featur... · Posted by u/sudheer_paturi
I do think there is a use case in work - I can imagine sitting down and doing CAD in a 'real 3D' environment once the resolution and responsiveness are high enough (probably still with a keyboard and mouse).
One thing that VR gives you that a monitor doesn’t is 1:1 scale. It’s so easy to get that wrong when working on a scaled down version of the model. Though you can just place people in your scene for reference.
FormFollowsFunc commented on Google will soon let Pixel phones double as dashcams 9to5google.com/2023/05/16... · Posted by u/thesuperbigfrog
Buy a white phone and don't put a case on it.
Or buy a white case. That’s what I did and it seemed to work, as a Sat Nav device at least. Not sure about recording video which will produce more heat.