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by janekm 8y ago
It may have been about money, or because Apple no longer felt comfortable sharing all of their customers' location data with Google anytime they used the built-in maps app. I don't believe the option of displaying ads was ever con
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YouTube on iOS has the same scrubber. Which is great once you discover it... oh well.
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Most likely they would place it in a shielding bag to cover both issues.
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A lot of "fast fashion" (e.g. Zara et al) is actually made in Portugal to better react to trends. A lot of medium- to high-end shoe brands are made in Italy. A lot of traditional brands (Like Aigle) still produce most of their st
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Thinking it through: The vast majority of goods imported from China are sold to US consumers by American companies, employing Americans. A 25% increase in cost of goods sold for these companies requires severe cost cutting, leading to the l
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27% of IC packaging (turning the raw die into something that can be soldered to a PCB) happens in China with most of the remainder in other south-east Asian countries. https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business&#x2
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I think the article could have benefited from some info on the efforts the Shenzhen government has been making on addressing the concerns raised, including setting up the Hong Kong University Hospital in Shenzhen branch and the giant "
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That's a very good point. When we first started listening for alien signals, we assumed that of course aliens would have TV and radio. In the few decades since then we have mostly switched to digital TV which has much more efficient (l
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I would actually say that non-React-style code would benefit even more. Suppose the user clicked a different sort tab on a table, and the code is busily removing and re-inserting elements in the dom, which the browser attempts to layout and
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Indeed. Amongst other issues this scheme appears to encourage making a large volume of moderately-useful changes to a lot of repositories, rather than a smaller number of difficult but essential changes.
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Typical uses for FPGAs in robotics include basic processing on the high bandwidth bitstreams from cameras or laser scanners into a format / representation more easily handled by the main CPU (building a depth map from the raw laser sca
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That's a detail the parent clearly skipped for tldr. On the kind of large (expensive) FPGA you might use for that kind of image you will find what are called deserialisers and serialisers which are hardware blocks that can take a seria
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The notable part is that it appears to confirm that Apple is testing self-driving cars.
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Thanks for the heads-up. That actually makes me wonder whether it'd be worth resurrecting the hardware in some form, by building something compatible.
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Very relaxing read. But did anyone figure out what "Liard, lovat, perse." means?
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They should be voted out of office immediately! Oh, wait...
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I don't quite understand what you mean... is it that the logical complexity of the fly brain is lower than the hardware complexity so it should be possible to replicate the "algorithm" to fly without simulating the hardware o
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I think it's fair to say that this map of the fly brain will be extremely useful in validating models of neurons. One slight challenge may be that we are certainly not close to being able to build a physical robot fly that resembles a
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by janekm 8y ago
I'd feel remiss not to mention a project I'm working on that is currently running its Kickstarter campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/460355237/smartibot-the... It's a pretty comprehensiv
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My gut feeling is 0603 might still work but probably not reliable, 0402 tends to get stuck to everything by static attraction so very doubtful in acrylic.
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If it's not sterile, it's just a regular mosquito, of which they already have plenty in Australia...
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Thanks for the explanation, I think I had only come across the Coach brand after they expanded aggressively internationally which I presume came after the "cheapening" of the brand, which is no doubt a big part of their turn-aroun
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Actually I was thinking machines like the Creality3D ones (like the Ender 3S, I just bought one recently) which while far from perfect perform miracles at their (<$200) price point, in large part due to having a stiff frame with few reso
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It's not just Japan though. In the US, apparently, 97% of federal convictions are the result of guilty pleas, and there is evidence that in many cases the plea is entered due to the defendant dealing they don't have the resources
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by janekm 8y ago
Discovering T-slot was a revelation for me, lego for "grown-ups" basically. There's a good reason why the majority of decent 3D printers are built from it.
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What happened to Coach? I seem to have missed that news, and from what I saw in NYC they are currently moving into extremely expensive real estate so I thought they were doing rather well?
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Only if the training data you got is representative of all future use cases. Good luck with that.
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Download Fusion 360 (probably the easiest of the serious programs and free for hobbyists), and start playing around, try making some enclosures for your PCBs copying features from existing objects around you.
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We're not talking about an economic loss, we are talking about a potential subsidy to a sector of the economy to build massive numbers of carbon capture facilities. I'd prefer a $1 trillion carbon-mitigation subsidy over a $1 tri
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by janekm 8y ago
Agreed. At first I thought it was a bug, and was rather taken aback when I realised it was intentional. Of course, as I have an aversion to click-baity emails, I have barely visited FB since...

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