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One selling point is ordering from places that don't offer deliveries, like McDonald's or Burger King. Essentially pay someone else to order and collect for you. That can backfire, as with the article here... McDonald's is no
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The automated system should say "weight, that can't be right". Works fairly reliably in supermarkets, especially if you allow a bigger margin of uncertainty on sku weight. Or verify the volume/shape - or both, like vol
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There is a gallery and catalog of Pretext books: https://pretextbook.org/catalog.html
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There are a few factors I can think of. I'm currently a postdoc and completed my PhD in 2016, so I was applying in 2011/2012 ish. This is a long answer, but it's an interesting question. First, this is not indicative of other
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Accreditation is weird. I lived with some engineers at university and they had a huge range of interesting courses they could choose. In physics we had mostly core modules and a smattering of electives. I asked whether they could take the c
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Take a look at Particle. They sell dev boards, but also have excellent documentation on how to scale (at least they used to, I'm not sure where it's gone now - have a look in the datasheet section) - obviously they want to get you
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It's apparently a partnership with a big industrial automation company [1]. Perhaps they filed the patent? It sounds like the sort of thing a big corp would try. There is another group doing this, but seem to be unrelated [2]. If there
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I would echo the recommendation, but add that you really also need a good GPU. All the steps are highly parallelisable and take significantly longer on a CPU only. Agisoft has a relatively simple interface, but there's a lot of complex
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by joshvm 6y ago
It's not that microwaves are intrinsically harmful, it's the intensity of the beam. For example microwave ovens operate around 2.4Ghz, same as Bluetooth/WiFi. I'm not sure what power delivery operates at. If you get hit
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The prophylaxis medication is typically a broad spectrum antibiotic like doxycycline. There are other more expensive options which you take for a shorter period afterwards vs doxy which you have to take every day plus a month after. However
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Well rule of thumb or no, this is basically how much universities add on to grant applications. The highest postdoc salary in the UK (prior to permanent positions) is roughly £40k on the national spine scale. But if you put in funding for a
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It's also in Ultralytics' repo which is very frequently updated. https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov3
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From amazon > This much anticipated and thoroughly revised third edition of Eloquent JavaScript dives deep into the JavaScript language to show you how to write beautiful, effective code. It has been updated to reflect the current state
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A core point of relativity is reference frames. From your perspective light in a vacuum always travels at c. The problem is that by special relativity, an observer moving at some speed relative to you will also see light traveling at c. T
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Well the flip side is that being a programmer can get you access to a lot of interesting fields, especially fields which don't have an abundance of technically savvy people. These also tend to be fields that have strong humanitarian im
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There are two effects here. One is special relativistic time dilation, and you can derive these effects with very little mathematics (high school is enough). The Wikipedia page has a simple proof, but it's important to realise that thi
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It doesn't work for YouTube, at least on the mobile app. It's a bit hit or miss, for example it doesn't get rid of ads in Duolinguo, but it does stop the 30 second ones. On desktop you're better off using a plugin (I run
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This is true, I interpreted that to mean with the Earth, rather than against. But as you say, the direction isn't actually specified.
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There is a huge volume of literature for astrophotography - I think most random hits you'd get on Google will be OK (the vast majority will be digital oriented). For example: http://www.astropix.com/html/i_astrop&#
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Unopened I agree with, but bad? The quality of most people's homemade baked goods is dependent on skill and equipment, not the age of their flour. There is a risk of weevils over time perhaps, but that can ruin fresh flour too. I'
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I think it's more nuanced than that. America in particular has incredibly high education costs and a mercantile payback system. This is coupled with companies making ludicrous demands on qualifications so people feel they need to have
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by joshvm 7y ago
Yeah this is an interesting problem for exploring stuff like recursive/non-recursive code, the overhead of conditional statements when you have to run thousands of them, etc. I've seen some examples online where people claim a few
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Presumably you could set the fill radius to a maximum corresponding to the largest detection distance possible (for the monsters you have in-game or even in-level)? There's no point filling an entire level if monsters only react when t
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Emulation works well if you have firmware and an emulator. For example, the Ardupilot autopilot software has both hardware-in-the-loop and software-in-the-loop packages which use the actual firmware. It runs off an STM32 emulator (I think)
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One thing that is rarely discussed (I think?) is how to test things which don't have a correct answer. It's not just "refactor until you can test" it's output that may be subjective. For example, suppose you write s
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This is pretty much the only good game on long haul flights, nowadays. It's the caveman version. You definitely don't get an undo, but you can cheat to get to higher levels as the passwords are only five characters long (and are d
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Yes! I was amazed when I took it out of a packing box a couple of years ago and it still works just fine. I think Spotify doesn't work any more, but we use it as a old fashioned internet radio in the kitchen. The sound quality is surpr
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FYI the basic design is actually within the preview on Google Books (page 47). https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Noma_Guide_to_Fer... I recommend adding a wire rack so your container doesn't sit dire
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Instrumentation is field-specific. It really depends how bespoke your requirements are. Some places buy stuff off the shelf, others fabricate in-house. In astronomy it's called instrumentation. Astro has relatively sane nomenclature. Y
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The WH-1000MX3 has a variety of noise cancelling modes (including off). You can set it in the app or you can have it automatically adjust the profile based on where it thinks you are. The profiles are things like transit, walking, etc. Whil

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