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by martyvis 7y ago
Compass operation is clearly dependant on the hardware and your physical surroundings. My phone compass ( LG V30+) works well in a suburban street or open bushland, showing high sensitivity. Inside my steel framed house or 5 metres from a 4
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by martyvis 7y ago
Sundar repeatedly stated in this Google I/O 2019 presentation how they were condensing and bringing AI and ML techniques onboard to phones to provide better responsiveness and lower the security issues of taking private data into their
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by martyvis 7y ago
Being not aware of this type of thing anywhere else ( except maybe those overloaded street corner phone poles you see in Asia) it would seem either this was extremely early and advanced and in a very affluent, high density city that could j
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by martyvis 7y ago
Until I read the article and saw the transmitters were on balloons I figured it was the elevation of the tower (476 metres)
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by martyvis 7y ago
There were words like "bate" and "earliness" that I figured could have worked and would be legal but considered they could have been made up. Still happy with 79% - 0% as native English ( well Aussie)
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by martyvis 7y ago
It works well with the two words "segue" and "awry" as native 50+ year old Aussie English speaker that I only connected the spelling and pronunciation in the last 10 years or so.
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by martyvis 7y ago
In most companies the level is demonstrated by the investment in the employee's career. I would imagine janitors :- * Get the lowest salary * Are often outsourced with lowest priced bidder winning * Don't get on programs like bonu
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by martyvis 7y ago
His Ph.D response was a retort to people questioning his qualifications to conduct lectures. Almost every real Ph.D certainly deserved them, recognising their knowledge or research in their field. However many of those with Ph.Ds were not t
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by martyvis 7y ago
>. To erase obsolete information, for example, the user moves the mouse to point first at whatever is to be thrown away, and then at an icon in the shape of a tiny trash can; at the press of a button on the mouse, the information vanishe
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by martyvis 7y ago
Why would it take 5 years before they are production ready? It would seem if you are showing a product ready to test on real roads, you'd have to be much closer to shipping than that would indicate.
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by martyvis 7y ago
My new HP laptop has an RJ45 Ethernet socket where the key side is spring and hinged. It's basically to allow the laptop to be slimmer. I'm a network engineer so often have a need to connect to random patch cables. Half of the plu
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by martyvis 7y ago
Cut a corner at an oblique angle and it makes the perfect implement.
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by martyvis 7y ago
Page 36 - "2c a byte". Very thankful for my $80M phone!!
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We have the Kathmandu brand down under
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by martyvis 7y ago
I have a LG V30+ that has USB-C and a head phone jack. It has glass front/back with a continuous metal edge band ( except for the antenna insulators). It has a IP68 waterproof rating. ( It's basically the same hardware as Pixel 2X
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by martyvis 8y ago
Why do you need to print boarding passes? All of the domestic airlines in Australia either have mobile apps or SMS you a link that displays a QR code that can be scanned at the terminal gates.
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by martyvis 8y ago
Check out the course Learning Data Visualization with D3.js on Lynda.com at http://www.lynda.com/D3-js-tutorials/Learning-Data-Visualiza... .
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by martyvis 8y ago
And Juan, the man behind the blancolirio channel, has to be the best citizen reporter out there. He sought many of the real facts and avoided the mainstream media trap of looking for blame purely to sensationalize the issue. He seems to hav
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by martyvis 8y ago
They actually have a robot called Octograbber or Roomba. I'm not sure why it wasn't deployed.
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by martyvis 8y ago
I am probably similarly placed - but I am also going to be able to afford to renew things. I'm wondering whether the 99% will be incentivised enough though.
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by martyvis 8y ago
Interesting insight into some of the mechanisms that go on. We had 4 hens that got on pretty well for the most part. We also had a few ducks housed in the same pen. They also got on fairly well. I wonder how different species interactions i
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by martyvis 8y ago
This series of six talks by Graeme Clark the inventor of the cochlear implant gives a good insight into the struggles and hopes of this type of research https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/boyerlectures&#
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by martyvis 8y ago
David Cutler developed VMS at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). Digital Research was a different company - it developed CP/M.
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by martyvis 8y ago
How is this particular item a "spare" pencil? > Spare pencil for the Castell 9000 perfect pencil Surely any time you buy a new pencil it is a spare or replacement for the pencil you already have?
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by martyvis 8y ago
I love articles like this. I have no idea why my tastes in music are so eclectic. (Well it might be something to do with a European Dad that never really understood rock'n'roll whose uncle was a church organist and a Mum who was
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by martyvis 8y ago
Maybe. But I wonder if all the photos how many would be considered legendary? I mean, I suspect if you viewed the vast majority outside of the context of "Taken by A. Warhol". The article of course does acknowledge at least some t
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by martyvis 8y ago
> "I would claim that nobody pays attention or verifies that there are no unexpected attendees before starting a meeting, specially for longer ones." I know for our work Skype for Business meetings we interrogate unidentified g
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by martyvis 8y ago
> Some things stop existing if you zoom in too far, there is no "forest" or "love" or "chess" any more all the way "down there". Profound.
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by martyvis 8y ago
Maybe we'll all need to have flying cars in 30 years ...
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by martyvis 8y ago
I still remember when I started playing around with computers, 40 years ago in a Tandy store on TRS-80, you were told something like "it doesn't matter what you do on the computer, you can't hurt it or damage anything".

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