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chamsom commented on Apple to celebrate 50 years of thinking different apple.com/newsroom/2026/0... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

chamsom · 2 days ago

In a way, they're celebrating the art of thinking slower, more deliberately. This is almost counter to the velocity-driven and metric-pulled nature of the average technology company.

It's pretty typical to see the effort to reach "the next big thing" constitute flooding your organization with inputs.

chamsom commented on Blender: Beyond Mouse and Keyboard code.blender.org/2025/07/... · Posted by u/dagmx

makeitdouble · 7 months ago

> The initial platform where this idea will be tested is the Apple iPad Pro with Apple Pencil, followed by Android and other graphic tablets in the future.

Asus has been releasing year after year two performance beast, with a very portable form factor, multi-touch support and top of the line mobile CPUs and GPUs: the X13 and Z13

https://rog.asus.com/laptops/rog-flow-series/?items=20392

Considering the Surface Pro line also gets the newest Rizen AI chips with up to 32Gb of RAM, having them as second class citizen is kinda sad.

PS: blender already runs fine as-is on these machines. But getting a new touch paradigm would be extremely nice, and would be a better test best than a new platform IMHO.

chamsom · 7 months ago

Agree here, they already have a good test bed of devices and the X13 is a bold attempt. (only limitation is the Snapdragon version).

I got a Lenovo Yoga precisely because it has a good drawing experience and the Lunar Lake Intel SoCs that have GPU acceleration in Blender.

chamsom commented on Blender: Beyond Mouse and Keyboard code.blender.org/2025/07/... · Posted by u/dagmx

arjonagelhout · 7 months ago

I'm building my own polygon modeling app for iOS as a side-project [0], so I feel a bit conflicted.

Getting fully featured Blender on the iPad will be amazing for things like Grease Pencil (drawing in 3D) or texture painting, but on the other hand my side-project just became a little bit less relevant.

I'll have to take a look at whether I can make some contributions to Blender.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/shapereality-3d-modeling/id674...

chamsom · 7 months ago

have you seen the guy doing Feather 3D for iPad? there's a lot of demand for 3D on touch screens, but hard to find the how.

chamsom commented on Microplastics shed by food packaging are contaminating our food, study finds cnn.com/2025/06/24/health... · Posted by u/gortok

taeric · 9 months ago

I hate to doubt studies, but with advice like: "Invest in a zippered fabric bag and ask the dry cleaner to return your clothes in that instead of those thin sheets of plastic." I am doubtful. I assert that the number one source of microplastics in a house will be clothing. Your "lint trap" in a dryer? Largely microplastics.

Dust in your house? Again, largely made up of fabric fibers. Which are increasingly plastics. Especially so if you have a carpeted house.

I'm not fully against some of these ideas and studies. And I am all for reducing our exposure to microplastics, where we can. But folks largely ignore the microplastic lining in cans, thinking they are avoiding that plastic bottle. We seem to have done a great job of avoiding large plastics in the fear of microplastics. Meanwhile, folks have very little intuition on where the microplastics come from.

chamsom · 9 months ago

Fabric fibers get into the bloodstream through inhalation, based on recent studies I've seen (feel free to challenge if this isn't settled science).

This seems to make that cheap polyester shirt infinitely more of a risk origin than some cereal with microplastics.

chamsom commented on Fujifilm X half: Is it the perfect family camera? arslan.io/2025/06/14/fuji... · Posted by u/farslan

chamsom · 9 months ago

According to this essay, the options for his kids are a $50 toy "camera" and an $850 niche camera possibly targeted at people who usually own the $2,000 line of the same brand. Surely there's something in between?

I can't help but wonder if this is a purchase for himself.

chamsom commented on US Government UAP Footage aaro.mil/UAP-Cases/Offici... · Posted by u/master-hax

ljf · a year ago

Interesting Gimble is in there - much of what is 'interesting' about this video has been debunked by Mick West: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_West

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le7Fqbsrrm8

chamsom · a year ago

"Debunk" lacks scientific significance as the object remains anomalous and unidentified. It infers that this footage is of a "known" object, and any further intellectual inquiry should be suspended.

I think this paper is far more useful to discuss:

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2306/2306.08773.pdf

chamsom commented on Will Figma become an awkward middle ground? dive.club/ideas/will-figm... · Posted by u/ridd_design

GenerWork · 2 years ago

Figma is a tool and nothing more, despite some people to turn it into the end all be all of user experience. It will eventually be replaced with something, just as it replaced Sketch, and just like Sketch replaced Illustrator. I also noticed that the author barely touches on the people who make the interfaces (product designers). If the author gets their wish, businesses won't hesitate to axe their UX teams to save some costs.

Disclaimer: I'm a product designer who is very skeptical of the enthusiasm around AI as I can see a future where product will instead rely on AI instead of designers to create interfaces.

chamsom · 2 years ago

Getting designers willing to setup their workstation to hand code a React app with dozens of dependencies and be constrained by the DOM is not going to go very well. And then doing it all over again with several other web libraries/languages. This is not even design, it's a developer role who just happens to paint UI with code.

chamsom commented on Another AI company wrote us and here’s our response warandpeas.com/2024/07/09... · Posted by u/askl

voidfunc · 2 years ago

Most artists, like most programmers are working in a commercial capacity. I see no reason why "their passion" should overrule profit-seeking.

Do art for the sake of art on your own time. But expecting companies to not embrace AI to do their jobs is foolish just like it's foolish to think corporate programmers will be a thing at some point in the future.

chamsom · 2 years ago

Created work even in a commercial capacity is protected IP. having AI train on those models for a publicly consumed LLM may not even be in the best interests of profit.

Law hasn't even evolved either. What if in the future people bring special tradecraft to companies that they don't want leaking elsewhere? who knows. the door is still open.

chamsom commented on Half of Workers Around the World Are Struggling with Burnout bcg.com/press/11june2024-... · Posted by u/achenet

chamsom · 2 years ago

Curious about tech burn out as well on top of the job market. A lot of software that was once lauded are now poorly received by the public, so you either recognize the reality of your corporate work or persist in delusion.

chamsom commented on Massachusetts 911 Call Outage mass.gov/news/massachuset... · Posted by u/chamsom

chamsom · 2 years ago

“A preliminary investigation conducted by the State 911 Department and Comtech determined that the outage was the result of a firewall, a safety feature that provides protection against cyberattacks and hacking. The firewall prevented calls from getting to the 911 dispatch centers, also known as Public Safety Answer Points (PSAPs).”