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by gehsty 8y ago
They use physics grad students to build the wiring assemblies for the detectors?! And they work?
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by gehsty 8y ago
I think they make a point of this fairly regularly, double blind machine learning (apologies if this is the wrong phrase..) and also on device facial recognicitan - ie. not on apples servers (as in Google’s / facebooks case). I think i
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by gehsty 8y ago
“Low pay long hours uncertain future are positives for me” I think you mean you’ll accept them to work somewhere you want to work, if the exact same job came up but with higher pay, a guarantee that you’d only work 35hrs a week and a clear
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by gehsty 8y ago
Apple / Google / Amazon don’t seem to struggle? Microsoft / IBM and now Intel defintely did. I think it has more to do with the leadership of the company than the size of the company.
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by gehsty 8y ago
I don't think you can describe modern car manufacturing as sitting on its ass.... and I don't think you can describe Tesla as revolutionizing the manufacturing process... I think Tesla has revolutionized the automotive industry by
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by gehsty 8y ago
Turbine sizes have tripled in the last 10 years and the supply chain has matured so now there are multiple huge companies capable of building these things as cheaply as possible...
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by gehsty 8y ago
The subsidy has been awarded at a fixed rate for the next 20 years, this subsidy is described as being a record low (not necessarily correct), so the title just about correct.
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by gehsty 8y ago
The price given is the subsidy, not the cost of construction. I’ve worked on multiple European offshore wind farms and no new gas facilitiy was constructed.... The switching on these things is insane, I think in the UK the nationa grid can
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by gehsty 8y ago
The price is on the subsidy awarded not on the actual price the energy is sold at. The subsidies in the UK are dropping to these levels.. And for some European projects there are zero subsidy (though these are contracted in a different way
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by gehsty 8y ago
Seems like it is more of a problem with how the company is ran than a positive of using AMP.
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by gehsty 8y ago
But then your assuming that the person will have a headset, or worse have the call come through the speakers connected to the computer. I imagine that currently 99% of phone calls are answered by the person picking up their phone, breaking
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by gehsty 8y ago
Why do you think this is a better? Modularity comes at a cost. Size & weight will all be compromised in order to make this device. Having devices for specific use cases - phones and laptops for example, allow the device to be optimised
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by gehsty 8y ago
I think this is probably quite similar for a lot of the companies on the list regardless of sector, ie should Apples figure include Foxconn employees? Oil companies / energy companies are more like investment companies who invest large
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by gehsty 8y ago
I think their selling point is the whole package - iPhone + apps + iCloud (photos mainly) that will be supported in person in store. Though Android is free of such a tightly integrated package of hardware software, services, and supportmayb
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by gehsty 8y ago
Gotta go down as one of the best acquisitions, it is clearly a foothold for Apple that allows them to release products no one else can... Custom silicon chips are the basis for nearly all of their differentiating products - FaceID / Ai
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by gehsty 8y ago
I guess that’s probably when they started working on it as well /s....
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by gehsty 8y ago
I highly doubt this. I mean on a long enough timeline it’s only a matter of time until we are cyborgs with high speed internet access backed into our brains....but I cannot see any thing like Dex ever taking off. The user interaction is jus
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by gehsty 8y ago
That’s what I’m saying, it would be like the audible store - no way to buy books but you can listen to them....
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by gehsty 8y ago
Haha! 50% of the time I’m right 100% of the time! If they are blocking the app and there is absolutely no way for people to purchase and play games then I think apple are in the wrong.
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by gehsty 8y ago
I am not really suprised by this, buying games and then play them outside of the appstore is not exactly in the spirit of the apples guidelines. This is clearly different from a remote desktop app. I'm 100% sure this would be allowed b
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by gehsty 8y ago
iMac, unibody macbook, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch. All Ive designs which define their category. Please provide someone who meets your criteria as a designer and make the distinction between design and styling as it is lost on me.
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by gehsty 8y ago
Having read a lot of the comments on this posting a lot people are judging Ive on how the apple pencil charges, and how the mouse charge. Neither of which are ideal, but hey ho but you have to accept that not everything you do is perfect. I
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by gehsty 8y ago
I think this is a case of Apple applying the logic that 95% (more likely 99.99%) of users are better off not having to make the decision of what version of their os they should they install. Compared to other companies Apple does an amazing
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by gehsty 8y ago
I guess we just see things differently, you think that we need nuclear power to meet demand, I think we will be able to meet that demand with renewables + interconnected grids. I appreciate that nuclear waste is not what it once was, but I
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by gehsty 8y ago
It depends, when talking about interconnecting cables between countries, yes the majority are DC, both to minimise transmission losses and also to tie together grids working at different frequencies.... In terms of km installed I think it w
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by gehsty 8y ago
Agreed on the absurd downvotes! I think nuclear is quite bad, we've got to transport / process / store nuclear waste for thousands of years. We should probably do anything we can to avoid producing this stuff. I grew up near
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by gehsty 8y ago
You need a mix, for now that will include solar, coal, nuclear and wind. I think in the long run this will change to renewable sources + interconnected grids (it’s always sunny / windy / geothermal / waves) somewhere. I’m gen
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by gehsty 8y ago
I work installing these cables and never heard this discussed, maybe at the voltages / transmission subsea cables work at (220kV, 1000s of amps) makes this effect negligible?
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by gehsty 8y ago
Can you please define doesn’t scale well? I work in this industry, wind farms have gone from <50MW, to 200-300MW to 1.2GW in the last 10yrs, with 1.8-2.4GW in the very near pipeline, all whilst going from huge subsidies to the latest auc
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by gehsty 8y ago
Can’t tell if trolling or not. The cables have water barriers so the conductors + insulation remain quite dry.

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