janekm

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by janekm 6y ago
You're not paying for the raw components... given the incredibly niche audience for this product and the development effort involved it's really cheap (and it looks like they are even hand soldered).
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by janekm 6y ago
Also amazingly on page 158 shows the same ergonomic typing position still recommended (and generally disregarded) today!
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by janekm 6y ago
I had no idea from the dapr website that it's a Microsoft project... that's an interesting approach. They're not even listed among the companies supposedly using dapr! I'm not saying it's nefarious, it's kind o
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by janekm 6y ago
I honestly also think it is worth mentioning introductions as an essential part. I somewhat disagree that it is outside the scope of a scheme of documentation. An introduction to both the system goals and overall architecture provide essent
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by janekm 6y ago
Well, I don't necessarily mean just creativity in that sense but also where you have a problem to solve and during a walk or shower you get that flash of inspiration, a way to solve it that comes from your brain making unexpected conne
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by janekm 6y ago
Weirdly I'm observing the same behaviour as parent in Safari in macOS, and it really is baffling as the basic google.com website used to be pretty well & sensibly optimised.
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by janekm 6y ago
Does that not assume equal probability of finding bugs? Seems to me that both teams would find the same easily identified bugs (say '=' instead of '==' or revealed by compiler warnings).
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by janekm 6y ago
Unless you're a "code monkey" being a software engineer involves using creativity, which in my experience requires giving your brain enough "downtime" as well as a broad range of inputs. Reading a broad range of bo
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by janekm 6y ago
Have another look at that internals picture (which is a render so take it with a grain of salt), they appear to be using an extremely unconventional arrangement of a rigid cone driven by two linear motors mounted at 45 degree angles to the
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by janekm 6y ago
Radio receivers (and the LNA component of such) are incredibly sensitive... that's what allows all the radio systems we use daily to work at all. If a signal is strong enough to have a physiological effect on the human body it is many
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by janekm 6y ago
Driving between two vans suggests that it's not back-scatter though... "Just" low energy x-ray probably?
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by janekm 6y ago
I hadn't looked at the RMT peripheral before... Based on what you describe and from a quick skim of the documentation this also seems perfect for a simple logic analyzer!
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by janekm 6y ago
A curious critique of Apple's product line given the strategy of the competition: https://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/samsung-phones (I would argue it's very simple: "Get the iPhone 12 in the size and colou
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by janekm 6y ago
Or, well, how about putting all your ram on the package as Apple says they are doing with the M1?
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by janekm 6y ago
It's not doing the same rendering on iOS as on the desktop. The desktop version allows the body to be seen through the arm while the mobile version doesn't (looks really like a variant of a cube map on mobile).
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by janekm 6y ago
Your co-workers have a reasonable expectation of privacy regarding their home life and family members. Given that many had to start WfH with short notice meaning they couldn't relocate to circumstances enabling a dedicated home office
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by janekm 6y ago
The British PM just had to tell a major media journalist to unmute during the press conference introducing the new quasi-lockdown, so I think we can safely say that Mute button and status is no longer a power-user feature ;)
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by janekm 6y ago
Citation please? According to here a typical offshore wind turbine will pay back its life cycle energy cost in 0.57 years: https://www.wind-energy-the-facts.org/energy-balance-analysi... (0.55 for on-shore) Here is another
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by janekm 6y ago
Getting Nespresso into Michelin-starred restaurants is one of the most masterful pieces of product marketing ever, and I would love to know how they achieved it. Nobody who ever tasted really good coffee would think Nespresso compares... Bu
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by janekm 6y ago
Rituals around food preparation / consumption abound throughout human history and society (prayer before meal, Japanese tea ceremony, breaking bread, etc). It makes me wonder whether the rituals described in the article in some sense m
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by janekm 6y ago
Nespresso didn't really invent the concept of coffee (or tea) rituals though ;) Tea tastes amazing after following a Japanese tea ceremony or Chinese tea ritual. Coffee tastes amazing after going through the ritual of weighing the bean
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by janekm 6y ago
Weirdly for me the "size of the fovea" is much smaller with the windowed view than fullscreen (seems to be the same proportion of the overall image), which doesn't seem to make sense. Perhaps another optical illusion is in ef
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by janekm 6y ago
Collecting and distributing the results of life-or-death diagnostic tests is specifically one case where you don't want end users to "mess around with" the data though... (making sure the right test results get associated wit
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by janekm 6y ago
It’s not the style of coffee I prefer but it will do in a pinch! I’m one of those obnoxious snobs who get freshly roasted coffee delivered weekly and grind each morning, so I’m admittedly not the easiest to please ;)
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by janekm 6y ago
For anyone who doesn’t know what Pret is, they’re a British sandwich & coffee chain (coffee that’s a tad above McDonald’s quality). The article should have been marked as an ad; Pret have recently been running promotions to entice custo
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by janekm 6y ago
It is available, even as in-ear style "hearing aid", for <$10 from the usual factories. I gather it's a little problematic selling them in the US due to medical device regulations...
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by janekm 6y ago
I can understand how it may seem that way when a plastic takeaway box costs $0.1, why should this cost any more... The article's cost assumption is just based on the cost of the raw plastic material, which is hilarious (3D printer time
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by janekm 6y ago
The $1 figure in the headline is clickbait as it’s only the cost of components for the PCB. Add the PCB + mechanical components + battery + plastic enclosure + assembly + testing + factory margin + overhead and it would be a miracle to come
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by janekm 6y ago
Talk to a Chinese factory on what’s the lowest price they’ll sell you the hearing aids for that they already make at near-cost prices. The article is literally a “my first soldering project” combining an OTS microphone amp module with an R
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by janekm 6y ago
Might be interesting to look at how the industrial machines do it: https://www.cticutting.com/tools/ I believe the hobby machines just use rotary cutters but the industrial space is more interesting: - vibratory blade

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