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by doc_holliday 10y ago
Awesome stuff. I do wish they'd release a module without the bayer filter for monochrome imaging. Granted it is maybe quite a bit of work to rewrite parts of the ISP to suit a relatively niche market of monochrome sensor...
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by doc_holliday 10y ago
Being Scottish isn't important to me on a national identy level. However saying you are Scottish when abroad as opposed to British tends to result in a much warmer reception.
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by doc_holliday 10y ago
As a Scot, it is sometimes much easier to identify as being Scottish in many parts of the world. People tend to be slightly warmer to you when they find out you are from Scotland and not just Britain. I guess years of colonialism still make
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by doc_holliday 10y ago
"As wages and population increases" But that is not true for parts of the UK. Wages in general in the UK in real terms have gone nowhere or down, yet pretty much everywhere in real terms property value has gone up.
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by doc_holliday 10y ago
"especially considering making a return on any sort of savings today isn't really a thing" You can still get around 4% dividends or 7% capital appreciation from some stock funds. Which give or take is no better or worse than
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by doc_holliday 10y ago
But what you are saying would imply that property prices in lower demand areas went down as property prices in higher demand areas went up. That didn't happen. Instead even lower demand areas everywhere in the UK have gone up in real m
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by doc_holliday 10y ago
It's a great article to see in the mainstream press and something that needs to be discussed. When it comes to UK housing most people tend to blame immigration / lack of building. Which certainly haven't made the situation an
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by doc_holliday 11y ago
I would doubt an ASIC would be worth it, giving the number of organisations needing this CODEC would be relatively low. An ASIC run is expensive and even more expensive if there is subsequent error in the design. FPGA makes sense for this a
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by doc_holliday 11y ago
In the real world you wouldn't always buy / sell at the price you hit, someone could front run or by the time your sell hits the market there could be lack of buyers and the price will have tanked. So this makes it seem easy, when
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by doc_holliday 11y ago
Yes, I said something to a similar effect in my other comment. My problem with it is there are a lot of people that get shafted as things change and really get hit hard by it, and the government are to blame for that. Other cities in Europe
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by doc_holliday 11y ago
Yes places change and become world cities. However the problem is the people that made it interesting gave the culture, night-life and art can no longer live there or have a reasonable existance. You kind of at that point end up with really
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by doc_holliday 11y ago
Per calendar month. It is used very often in rental adverts.
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by doc_holliday 11y ago
Whilst London is quite apart from the rest of the UK. It isn't the only place in the UK with disproprtionately high rents. Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, anywhere with a bouyant jobs market you pay over the odds for compared t
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by doc_holliday 11y ago
I can see London begining to hollow out at some point like it has before. Slums will begin to rise again (if some areas aren't already close to being that already). Vast wealth will be left in pockets and as all the mid earners leave t
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by doc_holliday 11y ago
I think this has been mentioned a couple of times when it has come up, but it would be nice to be able to add / remove local taxes e.g stamp duty here in the UK.
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by doc_holliday 11y ago
Now it depends by what you mean by that. Many people's idea of financial security is very different, some see it in ability to live comfortably with materialism, others see it as not having to worry about the next meal and your shelter
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by doc_holliday 11y ago
I dunno, I don't think it is an unreasonable aim of society that if you are supplying your labour to someone (why shouldn't this include McD's?), that you are able to at least live a reasonable life. By that I mean secure acc
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by doc_holliday 11y ago
Excellent post. I feel Dickens summed it up well. "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result
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by doc_holliday 11y ago
It's good for the economy in the short term because it brings demand forward (whether this is then repaid in more productivity in the future is the problem!) Terrible for individuals though, brings untold misery.
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by doc_holliday 11y ago
It is a combination. Policies from the government over the last couple of decades have combined with people's greed, and well we are where we are today. Individuals are of course to blame too, but it is hard to pin point who got the ba
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by doc_holliday 12y ago
It would certainly raise a lot of questions as to what it means to be human and what is fulfillment. I know a fair few people that are just lost as to what to do when they do not have work. It seems bizarre to me in a way how many people ar
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by doc_holliday 12y ago
I am curious as to what you mean by that? An image by definition would always be represented as a 2D array. Unless you are using hologrophy or a projection field... which still in essence require a 2D array of representing the light field,
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by doc_holliday 12y ago
Well, all bubbles burst and things always change. Give it another financial crisis, housing crash or big change in UK housing policy (unlikely to happen before a crash) and London might calm down again. During the 80s, people couldn't
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by doc_holliday 12y ago
Exactly, capital over the past couple of decades has been unfairly undertaxed vs labour which has been overtaxed to some degrees in places. If we don't alter this course we, I fear will end up at early 1900s distribution of ownership w
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by doc_holliday 12y ago
I am not saying split England into different countries, but split regions into federal districts. That has nothing to do with separation of England, does the USA send states to the world cup? I don't know what you are saying there.
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by doc_holliday 12y ago
This is a lot of why I voted no. Scotland isn't unique in it's struggle in the UK against London concentrated power, it just in happens to have a get out clause from historical geography and politics. This does not mean we should
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by doc_holliday 12y ago
I think English regions should be split up too, and their is great desire for that. England is made up of many quite distinct regions, the problem is much of the power is concentrated in London and subsequently a lot of investment and money
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by doc_holliday 12y ago
Politically it is very interesting and a result that in a lot of ways can bring about real change too (however, I do have obvious scepticism). The tide is now with change as for the Union to continue change must happen. A lot of the high ye
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by doc_holliday 12y ago
University of Aberdeen alumni here, do they still use the awful portal for timetables? I got half way through writing an Android app for parsing it and displaying it in a clearer way last year.
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by doc_holliday 12y ago
Basically > 90% of my year at school in the UK went on to university. A lot of these people IMO were never really of the inquisitive mind or drive that I thought would be the type to go to university. However for one reason or another it

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