janekm

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by janekm 5y ago
Kind of hilarious how they submitted what looks like a passive coil for FCC certification ;)
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by janekm 5y ago
I think it would be fun for someone to write a short story / novel around a rogue AI emerging within the ecosystem created by "ownerless contracts and program execution" and "programmable free markets". Imagine a pr
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by janekm 5y ago
I recently came across this neat button pusher IoT gadget (used it to control the boiler in our rented accommodation): https://www.switch-bot.com/products/switchbot-bot A less intrusive and safer alternative for those
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by janekm 5y ago
Yes, modules are typically available either on tape&reel or on trays (also easy to pick). Also the Raspberry Pi pico is an example of a PCB that can be either a final dev board or a module and comes on a Reel: https://makerb
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by janekm 5y ago
The critical aspect of these declarative frameworks to me (similar to React) is that they automatically update the presentation of the UI based on changes to the state of the application. From what I recall Delphi did not do this for the mo
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by janekm 5y ago
The path of discovery of new software development paradigms is far from linear but over the long term the improvements are impressive and ongoing. One of my favorite recent examples is declarative (Flutter, SwiftUI) vs imperative UI. The ga
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by janekm 5y ago
I'm a bit of a fan of the Brewdog AF line... Especially the more hoppy IPAs have plenty of flavour unlike the typical watery AF beers.
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by janekm 5y ago
Small-scale / illegal mines are a big issue in China and India, so I suppose it can be commingled into that chain: https://e360.yale.edu/features/china-wrestles-with-the-toxic...
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by janekm 5y ago
This is starting to change in the UK as the proportion of customers ordering online keeps increasing, for example Tesco have started setting up "Dotcom centres": https://www.tescoplc.com/news/2013/tesco-o
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by janekm 5y ago
It would probably make more sense to add an ESP32 rather than a BCM4335 like on the RPi since that chip is intended to run with a full host OS and needs a large binary driver blob (yes the ESP32 also has a binary blob). Either way it's
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by janekm 5y ago
It's very competitive for applications that can make good use of the programmable IO feature. Other chips with similar capabilities are substantially more expensive. It's also clearly going to have a great developer community buil
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by janekm 5y ago
It mentions using the heart rate sensor. I can imagine it went a little like this: A: "People clenching their fists keeps messing up the heart rate readings!" B: "I wonder if..."
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by janekm 5y ago
If you're using bitcoin for international money transfers you're using exchanges on either end of the transaction to convert to bitcoin and back. You may as well use an International money transfer service like Transferwise (which
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by janekm 5y ago
From a quick glance through the repo, this is attempting to be an open source alternative to a hosted Vision API like Google Cloud Vision API. There's not a lot of "there" there yet, an http API layer on top of Tensorflow and
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by janekm 5y ago
To me that version is much more reflective of the actual potential of this method than "GTA Düsseldorf dash cam". When watching the images produced with that one I get the sense that the sense of realism is enhanced by the dashcam
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by janekm 5y ago
This is actually something that both Twitch and Youtube can do fairly well. Several science Youtubers put on lectures for school students studying from home, it's a nice format. Of course that's video... but at least with the YouT
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by janekm 5y ago
What would be the benefit over podcasts / video recordings of lectures?
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by janekm 5y ago
Indeed, how dare they! https://www.ft.com/content/fa1e0d22-71f2-401f-9971-fa2731357... ("Vaccine makers say IP waiver could hand technology to China and Russia")
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by janekm 5y ago
Simple, the Indian vaccine factories already have licenses to produce these vaccines but are struggling to scale up production: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-55571793 (in part because they can't get
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by janekm 5y ago
That's the easy part (literally possible in a home laboratory: https://youtu.be/2hf9yN-oBV4 ), the encapsulant and microfluidics for getting the mRNA into it seems to be the hard part.
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by janekm 5y ago
The biggest hurdle to getting more vaccine manufacturing capacity online is probably the hysteria around "China might steal our vaccine technology!!!!". There is no other country with the experience of rapidly scaling up manufact
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by janekm 5y ago
That was my poorly made point, indeed... It can be more sensible from a financial freedom point of view to rent at 30% of take-home pay than mortgage at 60%.
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by janekm 5y ago
Having to pay >60% of monthly salary on a mortgage for the next 25 years isn't exactly my definition of financial freedom. If the market crashes you have no freedom to move for opportunities elsewhere. Here in London, rent is <5
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by janekm 6y ago
The main argument of the article seems to be that some runners get more benefit from new shoe technology than others (which may be true, and may or may not be mitigated by other companies developing different variants). However it makes me
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by janekm 6y ago
I did, and also had both an antigen and antibody test since both negative... but I’m prepared to believe my symptoms may have been psychosomatic.
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by janekm 6y ago
Nothing I’ve come across, though I feel one could make the case that many of the ideas live on in some shape (Web APIs, serverless/lambda, Etherium Solidity, Service oriented architectures...).
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by janekm 6y ago
What you are describing used to be called "mobile information agents" in the late 90s ;) Sandboxing technology wasn't really quite ready for that at the time time... (not sure if it really is now, though arguably WASM is clos
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by janekm 6y ago
Just as an aside, it's not necessarily the case that all your family would get infected if one of you does... in studies the proportion of family members who get infected is between 10-50%: https://jamanetwork.com/journ
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by janekm 6y ago
I experimented with building something like that (at the time) as a potential graphical BBS interface with low bandwidth requirements. Basically combination of sprite editor / "level editor" to create graphical screens as a g
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by janekm 6y ago
You can now, not sure if that was available at the time (in the volume sensible for a green room): https://www.mms.com/en-us/shop/single-color Amusingly the UK version does not offer brown ones.

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