janekm

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by janekm 8y ago
There is a huge difference between walking down the hall and saying "hey, I need another one of those retorts but we need to increase the helium flow 20%. Please charge to account 0123.", vs having to find a reputable manufacturer
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by janekm 8y ago
Just what I want, an app that will show me ads instead of Facebook ;)
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by janekm 8y ago
If your AC is the type that vents out indoor air then this makes sense (though smaller AC units tend to just circulate the indoor air after cooling/dehydrating). Depending on the sensor technology in your CO2 meter, it could be sensiti
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by janekm 8y ago
Worse, in China they are sold OTC and are as popular as you suggest (aside from being the thing that is prescribed on nearly every doctors visit to a health center). Even though anti-viral medicines (for what little good those do...) are al
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by janekm 8y ago
The novel part is that the whole radar front end is also integrated, including the RF PAs. Literally just one chip for everything directly connected to the antennas.
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by janekm 8y ago
The concept is literally as old as apple pie baked by grandma rather than in a factory.
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by janekm 8y ago
Do you have some examples? I have not encountered either. I'm familiar with bing showcasing interesting photos, which is fun, but not at all comparable to an editorial team commissioning graphical illustration for their content.
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by janekm 8y ago
If you'd give around $300000 it can be done ;) Battery life could be an issue though. Also taking pictures with an e-ink screen won't be a very satisfying experience. Unfortunately I'm not convinced there's much more th
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by janekm 8y ago
Given that it supports older iPhones it won't be Bluetooth 5. Android has notoriously difficult to develop for Bluetooth LE support, due to the large number of combinations of drivers, low-level Bluetooth stacks (last time I looked int
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by janekm 8y ago
Which is worth the paper it's written on.
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by janekm 8y ago
They mean 15 7-segment LED Display modules (bubble LED displays).
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by janekm 8y ago
Actually as the article explains it's a little more interesting. Naively even in a thick window pane we would expect interference patterns from light reflected from the front and the back of the window pane. The article explains why we
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by janekm 8y ago
That book sounds really interesting. Shame about the crazy price (but I suppose they only expected a handful of readers...). Curiously, if you connect a microSD card to an Arduino, there's more compute power in the card than the Arduin
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by janekm 8y ago
This is pretty exciting. Fully non-blocking based on SwiftNIO and using Codable throughout (for Parsing and serializing content from HTTP messages, creating database models, and rendering views according to the release notes) are the headli
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by janekm 8y ago
Or they can make the ads less annoying. For the most part NPR podcasts are pretty good for having "not worth skipping" ads that are a few seconds long.
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by janekm 9y ago
Still today, surely? If you go to a normal pharmacy in Germany you will find a lot of "homeopathic" medicines as well as various herbal remedies with about the same quality of evidence as "traditional Chinese medicine".
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by janekm 9y ago
Well, to be fair that's the theoretical capacity. But if I'm being snarky, BYD considers employing American workers a feature (helps selling buses to the state), while Elon considers it a bug.
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by janekm 9y ago
Well, BYD has a factory with a capacity for 1500 electric buses per year opened in California last year: http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-10/07/c_136662718.htm So I imagine the majority of their buses so
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by janekm 9y ago
Indeed, it makes more sense at home rather than in a makerspace. But you'd be very unlikely to make the money back compared to sending it out to a professional shop. It could be perfect for interior designers and similar jobs where one
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by janekm 9y ago
Actually it's a little of both. You do have to guide it by hand according to the map it shows, however it will correct small deviations from the path allowing relatively accurate cuts. It has two huge downsides over a regular router: y
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by janekm 9y ago
It does so by using (very low power) motion sensors before turning on the camera.
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by janekm 9y ago
Also in the kitchen.
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by janekm 9y ago
The cheaper 8051s aren't on digikey (they are usually integrated into something like the custom MCU used for a pregnancy test or tooth brush), and $0.05 is very worth it if you are making 1000000.
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by janekm 9y ago
Actually I didn't realise they still made them... Nice to know. I remembered the Foveon sensors from when they were first introduced, but didn't see any reference to them still being made when I did a quick search to refresh my me
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by janekm 9y ago
Mobike in China are on about their 10th version of their bikes. The very latest one seems to be a massive improvement on their earlier ones so far, so it seems they are getting there. Most of their money has been coming from VCs so far...
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by janekm 9y ago
Such a sensor (used to) exist, Foveon X3. It is very interesting as it also uses the differential absorption of different wavelengths of light at different depths in silicon to distinguish colours: https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by janekm 9y ago
I live in a city with ubiquitous (non-E) shared bicycles (Shenzhen), and unfortunately maintenance does become your problem... You have to go from bike to bike performing basic maintenance tests (is the brake working? Is the chain non-rattl
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by janekm 9y ago
It’s likely infantilising to any serious security researcher, an incentive for “script kiddies”.
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by janekm 9y ago
People line dry everything in south-east Asia, in >90% RH. Though I suppose that’s usually out a window or on a balcony.
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by janekm 9y ago
Xiaomi want to become an ecosystem/lifestyle provider, kind of a blend of Apple and IKEA. The margin on each individual product aren’t high (especially the electronic ones), but it leads to selling higher margin products down the line

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