robinsoh

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by robinsoh 4y ago
> I wrote a tool to decode and convert the proprietary formats used by the E Ink corporation for these: https://github.com/fread-ink/inkwave Just curious, I previously saw claims on HN that E-Ink is a very brutal cr
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> I rather mean the firmware of the e-ink driver board, which is a trade secret. I don't know, maybe it is not even firmware in an MCU, but they have a dedicated driver chip and it just has the look-up-tables. Anyway, the secret sau
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> why they can't just release the firmware source so people can improve it Isn't kindle firmware published open source? What is in this stuff that they provide? https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer&
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by robinsoh 4y ago
I can't address your feelings since that's something you're generating internally. What is clear to me is you're not willing (or more likely in my opinion, able) to provide any data or evidence for your claim.
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> Not sure which but they do have quite a few. That's equivalent to me making a claim like "Microsoft is blocking progress in operating systems" and then said here's the evidence: https://patents.justia.com
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> Why does my 12 year old kindle-keyboard refresh so much faster and better than any eink hobby display that I can buy? Do you think there is any hope of this changing? I have no idea what you mean by "refresh so much faster and bet
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> They are either impossibly incompetent or there is something about the technology that makes mass availability in different form factors not viable and our laymen understanding doesn't see it. You are correct, it is the equivalent
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> We will have to just wait until the patent runs out I'm genuinely curious. Which patent is that?
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by robinsoh 4y ago
Perhaps it is a difference in 'climate' between working in a science based industry where we often get challenged on our data versus software development industry. Maybe I've spent too long in academia where 'citation ne
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> It's the condescending tone you display in every of your response, exactly like this one. It is unfortunate that you continue to persist in not providing data but instead redirecting the energy of the conversation into allegations
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> It's fine to be dubious of a claim, and it's fine to ask politely for sources or rationales. Just be nice. I was not aware that "citation needed" is considered impolite. It is something I use at work a lot when inte
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> Not really. That particular person’s entire business depends on eink being a high margin business product. That claim doesn't seem to be very reasonable to me. Why would Visionect want eink to be a "high margin business produ
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> Awhile back the Founder of Visionect refuted this idea that patents are holding things back on hacker news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25067824 Thank you for providing the link. I agree in general with that o
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> Did I hurt you personally for you to be so toxic with me ? Chill. I'm sorry you feel that way, however challenging your incredible claims and asking that you provide some evidence before we believe you is not the same "be so
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by robinsoh 4y ago
Yes, that's a Dasung Paperlite. That's a regular E-Ink screen from the same manufacturer, not as you wrote "Some companies in China, that ignore the patents, manage to produce 20 fps 23" eink screen. ". That's
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> One can dream.. Of faster than light travel? :-) They're limited by the physics of electrophoresis.
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> But the company it's self is . and it would be lovely if he could share what leads him to believe that.
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> Surely if it’s much cheaper volumes also go up massively… No, that's not true. If you're making a black and white screen, and you sell it at the same price as a color screen, nobody will buy it. Volumes won't change if y
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> The volumes are different because the technology is locked by a company that doesn't innovate nor mass produce their tech. Citation needed. I'd love to see some evidence backing up your incredibly confident claim. > Some c
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> Seems like we're still a long way off from reasonably priced large e-ink displays -- very curious to see any progress in this space "reasonably priced"? It will always be more expensive than LCD/OLED because the vol
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> It physically must “rotate” something to the right color. I’m no e-ink expert, but there may always be some level of “shimmer”. You're thinking of gyricon where the balls rotate. That's different. The bulk of the industry now
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by robinsoh 4y ago
It appears to me that Australia is using its "defense" budget to fund offensive actions against weaker neighbors like Timor in order to steal billions of dollars worth of petro-resources. That's not a "minor" thing.
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> if you're refusing to consider that to be erotica then what does the word even mean to you? I'm not sure why you're on a tangent that is unrelated to what I was talking about. I was referring to the claim that what a cul
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> That people were more civilized or more “noble” or more free in the Past. Could you cite where I said or even remotely implied that broad a statement?
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> I mean that E-ink business practices are the biggest (the hugest even) obstacle to a wide ePaper adoption. They pretty much own all of the most important patent and you only see progress in the products in the consumer market when they
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> it’s fair to give Christianity itself credit for converting Rome to a 7 day week How so? Constantinus was the one who committed to the change and the day names were after the Roman Gods. Even today, we're using Viking names, like
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by robinsoh 4y ago
What do you mean?
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> Australia plans to defend itself in case one of the Chinas attacks. I'm not sure I find that very plausible. Especially when I find out about stuff like this where Australia has been extracting resources from its smaller powerless
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> I think the 7-day week is more of a statement about how effective the Judeo-Christian culture has imposed a modern week on the rest of the world. The 7-day week originated in Sumerian Babylon culture from 2100 BC and has to do with qua
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by robinsoh 4y ago
I find the per-capita military spending very interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_... 1 USA 3806.4 2020 Estimate[3] 2 Israel 2507.6 2020 Precise 3 UAE 2020.4 2020 Esti

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