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by janekm 9y ago
Generics in UK supermarkets is <$0.5 a box...
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by janekm 9y ago
The problem may be the copying. If what the cheap brands do is copying the expensive brands while trying to subtly change it to avoid getting sued (trade dress/copyright/design patent), the changes are likely to make the design wo
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by janekm 9y ago
He’s written quite a bit more than one book (over 25). Sales are >250 million according to his website. His books are practically their own genre in the UK, if second hand shops are anything to go by.
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by janekm 9y ago
I understood “evil twin” as “twin who happens to be evil”. The example they showed was Spock’s evil twin which would match your interpretation, though.
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by janekm 9y ago
That would make sense if one were talking about time spent on furthering one’s goals, or enjoying life’s pleasures. But in many cases I think we are talking about an hour before sleep spent “idly” browsing social networks for one more “info
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by janekm 9y ago
But what makes you think that any of that money would be any more easily available to small businesses than now? We’re talking about money owned by Apple and similar multinationals here (and banks no doubt), and of course by the Trump organ
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by janekm 9y ago
I did used to be a semi-pro portrait photographer so no doubt the differences jump out to me more than to the average person. One thing that should be quite easy to see is that the Pixel is losing a lot of detail in skin tones, both throug
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by janekm 9y ago
In some ways, it’s been like that for a few years now. Modern mobile phone camera systems will take multiple individual pictures, align them for any movement, average out temporal noise if there was no motion, create an HDR image from multi
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by janekm 9y ago
The big improvements are somewhat lost in the overall, average score. If you look at some of the specific advancements it’s clear that some really impressive enhancements have been achieved. And if you look at a two or three year horizon, t
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by janekm 9y ago
Actually there is an example in the article, comparing pixel-level detail from the last 4 iPhones in a low-light scenario (“old man” picture). The improvement with the 8 is impressive to say the least.
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by janekm 9y ago
what about if they prefer the taste of the bottled water? San Pellegrino, since you mentioned it, certainly has a very distinctive taste profile, but even for other brands there will be a taste (which of course partially is affected by the
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by janekm 9y ago
The point is that any insurance company asked to provide a policy for table saws would mandate this technology for any saws it covers. Same way we got UL (underwriters laboratories!) listed electrical equipment.
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by janekm 9y ago
While that was an interesting article I didn't see it making any claims of having bypassed the sandbox, but "just" the DRM to allow install of pirated apps. The heavy sandboxing of every app on iOS is fundamentally different
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by janekm 9y ago
Thanks a lot for the very insightful reply. I'm learning a lot about Erlang from the responses, and a lot of respect for the community as well. Not bad for an on reflection somewhat inflammatory comment :)
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by janekm 9y ago
It's done to escape from iFrame jail attempts. Rogue site loads bank site in iFrame, end user types in their password...
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by janekm 9y ago
It may well be a misconception on my part - I assumed that as such message passing is such a core feature of using Erlang for distributed systems one should be able to treat it as a low-cost operation.
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by janekm 9y ago
That's a good point. The article is certainly a good summary of what's needed to make Erlang/Elixir scale and a reminder that there are no "magic bullets".
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by janekm 9y ago
I read it a little differently. The whole article is about how Erlang/Elixir fails at its core reason for existence (fast message passing between distributed processes) and all the complicated work-arounds they had to implement to avoi
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by janekm 9y ago
Analog computing makes a lot of sense in the context of genetic algorithms and "deep learning" and I wouldn't be surprised if there's already some ASICs under design using those principles. One big challenge is that the
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by janekm 9y ago
Especially since an ICANN dispute resolution against the registry seems a bit like uncharted waters...
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by janekm 9y ago
$600 is less than the cost of lawyer time for a worthwhile response, so they may well collect more than we would like to think...
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by janekm 9y ago
But the highest decile is >74 drinks / week so 2 per day really is moderate in comparison... that article is quite the eye-opener!
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by janekm 9y ago
It's back in force, KFC in China has Matcha ice cream now ;) (obviously back via Japan, of course...)
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by janekm 9y ago
Well, the article did say that the owner of the company saw this type of "paper" in Korea and decided to set up a similar factory in Japan...
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by janekm 9y ago
It does for me, using safari.
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by janekm 9y ago
QR Codes do work rather well actually in different contexts, they are very robust. Upside down, from across the room, weird lighting... Also, in the Chinese context, everybody knows what to do with it and what to expect to happen if they sc
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by janekm 9y ago
There are very promising "ultrawideband" solutions (allowing distance to be determined from time of flight of a message rather than signal strength) but the use cases are limited as there is no existing infrastructure. The best t
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by janekm 9y ago
Actually, interestingly, QR codes can be better for some payment scenarios than NFC. I live in China and I can go to my local corner shop, pick up a bottle from the fridge, and even if there's a queue at the register I can scan the co
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by janekm 9y ago
Making bigger rocks from smooth sand to crush into pointy sand would only make sense once we've run out of bigger rocks.
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by janekm 9y ago
It won't help for the screen... Those are made by Sharp and would be exceedingly hard to get hold of in Shenzhen.

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