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by martyvis 7y ago
I've done quite a few wireless surveys as a consultant in businesses, colleges, etc. I pretty much was never questioned when walking around, knocking on doors and going into offices with my laptop opened and saying that I was "sca
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by martyvis 7y ago
In Australia, car engine power is specified in kilowatts (kW), and torque in Newton-metres (Nm)
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by martyvis 7y ago
Or any hearing aid? That said, hearing aids in particular employ circuitry specific tuned to only amplifier the desired sound and frequency range intended to be heard, modern ones having profiles for normal speech, congregations, music, etc
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Speedy Cutover Service – electromechanical to electronic phone exchange (1984)(youtu.be)
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by martyvis 7y ago
You need to follow "old fruit pictures" (@pomological): https://twitter.com/pomological?s=09
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by martyvis 7y ago
If you have high res images available of the vicinity ( and constantly update them ) you can work out where you are.
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by martyvis 7y ago
As recently as maybe 20 years ago we learned a lot patient infection in hospital was caused by patient-to-doctor-to-patient transfer. Things like disposable gloves and hand cleaning stations at every bed were resisted by doctors initially a
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by martyvis 7y ago
I'm not convinced that the synchronisation is assured. While paper labels maybe subject to lack of staff or process discipline, electronic labels are going to suffer from power/battery issues, connection issues to the database, ph
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by martyvis 7y ago
There definitely are standard sizes, but there is enough variation between manufacturers and between wearers that comfort can't be achieved at the level all can agree on. My wife has difficulty in finding the right bra and I have diffi
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by martyvis 7y ago
Certainly here in eastern Australia at the moment, the lack of rain in this early summer is quite depressing. (The widespread bushfires and smoke is likely to be with us for the next few months)
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by martyvis 7y ago
Of course. But if you know you don't really own the battery, and the swapping capability is in the price it is a non-issue. We already have something similar here, in Australia, for swapping LPG/propane gas bottles. You can refill
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by martyvis 7y ago
News at 11: Professionals (and everyone else) uses the internet to plug gaps in their knowledge. (We used to make do with books, journals,schools, guilds, coffee shops)
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by martyvis 7y ago
Why? If the modus operandi is to swap batteries instead of charging then you are effectively leasing the batteries and just buying the charge on them.
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by martyvis 7y ago
It seems like they are dismissing the hyperconverged offerings from Simplivity, Nutanix, Azure Stack, etc which are definitely on premises offerings that would aim to do what they are setting out on
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by martyvis 7y ago
Unless they really want to have him for the laughs, they need to drop Steve Tuck from the tech podcast. Using "instruction set" in place of "instruction” and not immediately understanding the forward slash / backslash di
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by martyvis 7y ago
>selling Not for a long while.
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by martyvis 7y ago
All major cities seemed to end up with similar facilities at end of the 1970s to cope with the exponential reach of telecommunications at that point. In Australia, Melbourne has 320 Exhibition Street http://www.skyscrapercenter.c
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Black hole yeets star out of Milky Way(gizmodo.com.au)
2 points by martyvis 7y ago|1 comments
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by martyvis 7y ago
Why is the diagram "exaggerated"? If the physiology is not that obvious maybe the significance isn't either.
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by martyvis 7y ago
All that as well as the great GPS capability. I have the Fitbit Ionic and start the Walk exercise when bushwalking ( hiking). It produces very accurate track logs that I can use for mapping when I return. It does consume more battery but fa
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by martyvis 7y ago
We can send hundreds but we didn't. The problem with the current generation of robots is that they pretty much need to have to plan out a full fault tree for every planned experiment and mitigate potential issues with a lot of prepared
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by martyvis 7y ago
I came here to write this same comment as well. I think Elon has great insight how to very quickly build from conception to reality, pruning off undesirable paths before they consume resources. In that one interview with Tim, he explored v
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by martyvis 7y ago
We actually had these in our office at HP. https://youtu.be/TC4sNztp8dk They were quite well used by execs, but those of us at the bottom end probably only a couple of times for virtual team meetings. They were very expens
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A battery-free sensor for underwater exploration(news.mit.edu)
2 points by martyvis 7y ago|0 comments
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by martyvis 7y ago
Audio recording and reproduction always has to be an analog of the original vibrating air molecules ( unless you can somehow perpetuate that vibrating air by storing it in a jar or somesuch)
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by martyvis 7y ago
Sure, but the whole point of factory reset is when the paired phone app no longer talks to the bulb. ( You might have lost the phone or the account details). It just allows you to start with the assumption you are physically in control of t
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by martyvis 7y ago
Ironically, one of the ads in the OP from BBC was for Chanel!
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by martyvis 7y ago
It seems at least one first world country is sending recycling waste to developing countries for supposed processing http://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-22/malaysia-flooded-with-...
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by martyvis 7y ago
That black tie launch https://youtu.be/o3x00Pbs2K8
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by martyvis 7y ago
I also had it on my LG, because of my Local Guide status

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