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by kumarvvr 5y ago
A doppler shift thingamajig might work in a lab, but not in the real world. I guess, such a calculation could have been one of the inputs to the system. I do get your point that an ML system for such a thing is an overkill. I guess there ar
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
This is interesting. With enough computing power, and that is already dead cheap, the potential to spy is enormous. As much as I am a fan of Bitcoin, is it not possible to create an alternative currency, where the value of the currency is p
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
Race is both biological and social. Biologically, forget about bone density etc. Skin color, facial features, face shape, etc are discernable directly. Race as a social construct is the idea (originally rooted in imperialism and colonialism
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
This makes sense, but I guess personal disposition makes a difference.
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
I don't know how to answer to these points, especially in tech debates. "Why don't you put your phone in flight mode?" "Why don't you turn off the internet" "Why don't you just turn off your PC a
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
PTSD from notifications hit hard. I thought a phone was addictive, but at-least you could put it in your pocket / bag / car and keep a distance. A watch is like that tightly hugging tail-wagging dog. "Look at me, look at me,
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
Doesn't glucose level sensing require contact with blood?
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
In the given form factor, what sensors could be added, without dropping existing ones? I guess, one way would be to introduce special categories of watches, such as medical ones, that drop gps and others for oxygen / ECG or new sensors
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
Looks like a bare minimum update. I honestly don't know what else can be added to it.
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Apple Watch Series 7(apple.com)
139 points by kumarvvr 5y ago|284 comments
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
>Lately Apple has been pushing quite a lot of BS in marketing Apple has been doing it forever. Right from the start. It is this marketing prowess that has made it what it is.
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
> we’ve seen a number of big tech companies developing their own chips Fortunately, only a handful of companies have the resources to do that. Unfortunately for Intel, those handful of companies are the biggest and only customers for lar
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
When it is purely about ASP.NET, getting rid of the old style Startup class is ok for me. The code is more compact, concise and less verbose. Most of the code in the startup is not touched in any meaningful sense after the initial setup.
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
More importantly, if the default is to depend heavily on conventions, MS should have had a big glaring button / warning / notification in the Introduction page, which summarizes all the conventions used. Would have saved many begi
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
This looks like a scheme to siphon off money. No one in the military would be that stupid.
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
>True low level control is kind of a pain, but the OS libraries are not particularly pleasant or high level enough either Wait. In that case, library developers or OSS projects can fill the gap. What am I missing here? QT comes to mind.
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
> VS feels like a big, bloated IDE where you have to memorise the location of 4e6 different GUI positions This one sentence convinces me that you have not used VSCode in any meaningful way. I ditched GUI items for getting stuff done long
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
Exactly my point. Everyone gets a customized flavour. Everyone can use it as its meant to be, a great tool platform that has a great community of plugins and support.
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
I am a developer for almost 15 years now. My primary operating system is windows. I have used Linux but only sparingly. I have used many IDEs. I have never ever felt the need to use vim. Is it fair to say, because VSCode does not have a &
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
If you take into account the total fuel spent, per item, Amazon delivery would have less. Fuel spent per item is more or less the same upto the nearest warehouse, whether that is Amazons or walmart. Fuel spent per item from walmart to home
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
When you say tiny fraction, do you take into account the total carbon emissions for the life of the car? Direct emissions are in single digits, but what about decades of maintenance that requires oil changes, parts production, transmission
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
Yeah. I am amazed when I see doctors seeing an xray cat or mri images and look at some haze somewhere and diagnoize the issue. Imagine that thing being removed or enhanced by some algorithm. Also, why the heck would medical images want to b
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
Is producing hydrogen a sustainable process, as in, the cycle does not spit out waste products that are un usable? Of course, this is assuming that the power to produce Hydrogen is from renewable sources.
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
Capacity utilization factors on land are 0.26 to 0.52. They are around 0.5 on offshore installations. https://css.umich.edu/factsheets/wind-energy-factsheet
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
I guess one solution is smart devices and processess that can be optimized to load whwn there is peak power. Some industrial processess, such as smelting, crushing, etc can be incentivized to do that. At domestic levels, its more difficult
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
Recently read in an article about turbine scaling, that an 18% increase in blade length translates into 45% increase in power output. Scaling is extremely lucrative. And break even for these turbines is aroun 5 to 8 years, with active life
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
A lot of software development paradigms seem to have developed from requirements of Enterprise Software. Sure, you'd have a Caramack here and there, but if left to their own devices, most software would end up being spaghetti code. Esp
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
The Bhagavid Gita is not a religious book. It's a philosophical treatise. It is a book that is to be analyzed, contemplated and debated. It clarifies on the way of the world, the duties of a human being, on how to decide what is right
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
Canada needs a UPI https://www.npci.org.in/what-we-do/upi/product-overview
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
I would have happily taken that blame, if not for the oil companies decades long and bad faith activities against climate change. Their lobbying, funding dubious studies, tactics of FUD, outright lying, etc. Those must have consequences. Wh

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