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3y ago
Looks like a product launch of a phone with the new Sony IMX989 1" sensor. Some other phones have it to: Xiaomi 13 Pro Xiaomi 12S/Ultra Vivo X90 Pro+ Sharp Aquos R6 AKA Leitz Phone 1 Aquos R7 Xperia Pro-I According to: https:
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I haven't followed this specific launch in much detail, but part of why SpaceX has been so successful is they expect a certain amount of failure and don't pin the failure of the program on the failure of any one test. This allows
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4y ago
I'm going to the inverse of whatever these guys do and call it Frequency.
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4y ago
TRUMPF is indeed on the forefront of directed energy weapons, lovingly known as distance welding. https://twitter.com/BaainBw/status/1585525065428369408
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4y ago
nrf52 - $7 Display - $5 Accel - $3 Pulse ox - $12 Haptic driver - $1 Haptic motor - $1 spi flash - $2 Battery charger - $5 Battery LVC - $2 Battery - $3 Buttons - $3 Passives and such - $10 PCB - $25 Total - $79 Prices from octopart and som
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4y ago
Do you need to know the exact birth date or just the birth year?
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4y ago
In optics: Laser Focus World by Endeavour Media, the company also offers paid market studies. https://www.laserfocusworld.com Photonics Media, also have great webinars. https://www.photonics.com Photonics Focus, the
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4y ago
I don’t know what the future here holds, but I agree completely and this is why I think it was a poor choice long-term for Netflix to become a production company. Their model was wholesaling content, first via mail and later over the Intern
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Fun and somewhat related fact - this is one of the main advantages of hollow-core transmission fibers! As far as I know, currently only used to extend the range of HFT orgs...
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There has been a lot of technological progress, but the sector remains a niche one. Many new THz sources have been built and improved, including coherent sources like the QCLs mentioned. Microantennas may play a big role in the future, and
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4y ago
I’ve long wanted to do this, as a kid I added NFC (at the time, simply RFID) door locking to my 1989 jetta so I didn’t have to fumble for keys. It turns out I do live in the future. I don’t lock my house, so that’s one less key right away,
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4y ago
According to some quick duckduckgoogling for “aranet4 tear down” it could be this: https://senseair.com/products/power-counts/sunrise-hvac/
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4y ago
I wonder if he got COVID.
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4y ago
Yes, there are low current requirements, so typical uart to rs232 transceiver ICs include the electronics necessary to provide the higher voltage +- supplies.
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4y ago
It does and it doesn't: first, twitter often only lets you see the first few posts if you are not logged in; and second, it groups the posts together into something you can read without distracting interspersed comments, like the forum
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4y ago
Yes I also see it that way, and I see a lot of problems in a universal non-conditional payment to everyone, but now that I have heard of both approaches I wonder which one people are talking about when they mention UBI.
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I didn't read past the first argument because the author seems to completely misunderstand what UBI is. They plan to give everyone a fixed amount, where I am pretty sure UBI is only about replenishing income below a fixed amount. Am I
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Yes this is exactly why I switched from Samsung to Apple after they added ads to the Wallet app.
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I cancelled protonmail and the subscription ended right away instead of at the end of the paid period, so there’s that. Honestly it was just a bunch of little things that added up. I don’t remember any one thing that was specifically distas
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I think it might depend on the brand. This is the approach Rolex is taking, for example. They haven’t ramped production yet the brand is stronger than ever. The secondary market is able to set higher prices than dealers so that is where the
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It has been almost 20 years since I first heard that PayPal probably isn’t looking out for their clients! https://www.somethingawful.com/news/paypal-fiasco-summary/
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Something is rotten in the state of QED (2020)
(physicsdetective.com)
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“As one of the inventors of QED, I remember that we thought of QED in 1949 as a temporary and jerry-built structure, with mathematical inconsistencies and renormalized infinities swept under the rug. We did not expect it to last more than 1
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Hitachi tools are now Metabo HPT since Hitachi sold off that division. Snap-On might be the last true independent.
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I was under the impression that online retailers encouraged this practice, because the alternative is placing one order at a time until you find the right size.
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I'm not sure I would want to run a company without any gantt charts or deadlines. Management needs to know when a project becomes unmarketable or unsustainable so that project can be killed and resources moved to more viable projects.
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The National Film Board of Canada is one of that country's most culturally valuable assets.
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As with the other people that have replied to your comment, the term THz is now used to apply to the region of physics between problems that have been solved by RF solutions and problems that have been solved by optical solutions. The set o
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5y ago
It feels like the "Digg exodus" that affected Reddit about ten years ago: now that Reddit has become a site for endless consumption of memes, former Reddit users may be coming here.
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He did win, but the majority voted against him. He won the plurality of seats, giving him a minority government, but with 33% of the popular vote. Another party got fewer seats with 34%. Canada’s electoral system sometimes works like that.
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