I read this out to my girlfriend (as well as a few other responses of yours in this thread) and had to ask for clarification on a lot of the terminology (roots, tack, gore - ha, neat!). She designs and sews all of their products herself, and helps some women with fitting but she isn't a bra fitter. We both found your comments very interesting. Thank you!
So a physics simulation would need to include the shape and density distribution of the breasts. Hypothetically, it would then be able to simulate dozens of bras with reference sizes and how this would look (i.e. an image output). At this point an expert system trained on images of good vs bad fit could probably visually recognize common problems and return a few of the best bras. This is probably oversimplifying, and it's already too complicated to actually be done, so I think it's not the right approach.
Do you see any aspect of bra fitting which _would_ benefit from technology? i.e. some kind of specialized fitting tool
They have found the bra part of it to be especially difficult because of how hard the sizing is. There are bust and band measurements as used in these sorts of calculators, but at the end of the day the breasts themselves just have different shapes. I'm surprised that these sorts of calculators don't take that into account by having the user first pick their specific "archetype", e.g. from a set of images. I wonder if that's what abrathatfits.org is doing by getting measurements in different positions to better capture the shape. Still, I wonder if this could be accomplished more simply.
Anyways this can be tough for a startup given the higher return rates and more hesitation when buying bras. They've found success in offering flexibly fitting bralettes made of stretchy materials (e.g. micromodal). This sort of sidesteps the fitting issue because the fit doesn't need to be as exact. The downside is that for some women a bralette doesn't provide enough support (no wire, no padding).
Sway isn't written in Rust, all C as far as I know. It's really great though! Highly recommend it if you're looking for a minimalistic and very practical window manager.
MySQL 8.0 actually added support for functional indexes, but I found out the hard way that they don't work the same way as indexing generated columns. For me the biggest issue were the caveats around using the indexed column in conditions, which resulted in the index not being used in surprising situations. Anyways, I had to revert to generated columns which was a shame because it was a feature I had looked forward to using.
I personally like that Lex asks things like that. He has a pretty unique style which sometimes gets you some philosophical questions, but he also doesn't take things too seriously, so I think even a humorous response would do the trick.
I found Jim's responses to be at times rude or dismissive and thought that was a bit disrespectful.
I think you must have missed it because the author mentions several times that it is more important to evaluate the individual.
Here:
> First and foremost, I think this requires a recognition that none of the findings I presented in this article, nor any findings that will ever come out-- justifies individual discrimination. We should treat all people as unique individuals first and foremost.
Here:
> I am a strong believer that individual differences are more important than sex differences.
And here, on the topic of male-female classification based on whole brain data:
> In fact, some recent studies using the most sophisticated techniques have consistently found greater than 90% accuracy rates looking at whole brain data. While this level of prediction is definitely not perfect-- and by no means do those findings justify individual stereotyping or discrimination-- that's really high accuracy as far science goes.
Can someone provide more insight into what this refers to? There are definitely less formal or technical sounding word variants in German, and of course duzen/siezen to add another level of formality, so I'm not sure what this could refer to.
I like this idea a lot! It would also be neat to just distribute the material from certain core subjects like history across several other courses. So in history you're learning about the Ottoman Empire and in home ec preparing börek. Or WW2 in history and cryptography in computers class.
I have two keyboards from KBParadise from 2016 with the Matias QC switches. I really like them both, but they've had intermittent (but sometimes very severe) key chatter issues. It's really too bad because they are great keyboards and switches.
Anyways I heard it was a fairly common problem around the time I bought them, but has since been fixed. Anyone have a more recent experience?
They are hiring for several technical and non-technical positions, e.g. Software Eng both Full Stack and Robotics, Mech Eng, Electrical Eng, Accountant, Talent Aquisition, etc.
If I lived over there I'd definitely consider it. Such a cool area of work!
I previously tried configuration management using various techniques. First the plain home git repo, then rcm [1], then briefly stow.
What I found, is that while these systems all worked reasonably well, I ended up writing out several manual steps in README files (e.g. install packages xyz, create user/group, create directory, enable systemd unit, replace {some_template_var} in fileX before copying, etc).
Ansible seemed like a reasonable solution so I switched to that and it's worked out very well for me.
Pros:
- all steps can be encoded as config (config-only updates can still be run using tags)
- a fresh install can be ready to use in minutes
Cons:
- overhead encoding copy operations
- slower then alternatives if just updating config (e.g. stow or rcm)
So a physics simulation would need to include the shape and density distribution of the breasts. Hypothetically, it would then be able to simulate dozens of bras with reference sizes and how this would look (i.e. an image output). At this point an expert system trained on images of good vs bad fit could probably visually recognize common problems and return a few of the best bras. This is probably oversimplifying, and it's already too complicated to actually be done, so I think it's not the right approach.
Do you see any aspect of bra fitting which _would_ benefit from technology? i.e. some kind of specialized fitting tool