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by starky 7y ago
The interesting thing to me is that despite having 5M domains in their blocklist, they only have 8.2% of requests blocked. My dashboard currently says 36% of requests are blocked while having 125k blocked domains.
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by starky 7y ago
Exactly my question when I learned through this post that Hipmunk is owned by Concur. The Concur flight search is the worst I've ever used. It feels like you have a better chance at winning the lottery than Concur's search actuall
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by starky 7y ago
It is interesting to see the parallels with my work with solid modeling in CAD. I'm constantly harping on the people I work with to think about what they are working on and structure it in a way that can be edited later (as well as sta
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by starky 7y ago
That isn't a problem at all, a charging circuit will be designed to only take as much power as the device can receive.
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by starky 7y ago
Amazon Prime price is still $79CAD as it has been since I signed up and I definitely get my money's worth. I actually didn't even realize it came with Prime Video when I signed up. Additionally, I make use of Amazon Photos unlimit
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by starky 7y ago
While charging circuits are much smarter now, and the difference might be minimal, you want lower charging currents to minimize the amount of damage that is done to the materials in the battery. It is universal that higher charge rates caus
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by starky 7y ago
Yup, I got rid of Netflix because they often didn't have what I wanted to watch, and only have Amazon Prime Video because I don't pay any extra for it with my Prime subscriptions. Not to mention that not every streaming service is
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by starky 7y ago
Ugh, this drives me absolutely mad. My work has some very defined timelines because I have 3rd parties making stuff for me. Yet the conversation about schedule is exactly the same every project like they don't believe me that an inject
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by starky 7y ago
From the perspective of mechanical design (but definitely extends to things like art and I would assume coding), I don't really agree, but it is a learned skill. In essence, being creative is a loop between coming up with ideas, and th
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by starky 7y ago
Is there a reason why a DSLR was chosen over something like a machine vision camera even 10 years ago? Talking about grids and scaling makes it seem like something that would be right in that product space.
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by starky 7y ago
Agreed, I know that personally I would like a camera that offered me both paradigms depending on the scenario. Not having used or looked into it much at all, something like the Hasselblad X1D seems to tread that line between dial control an
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by starky 7y ago
Maybe because this is something very close to my wheelhouse, but this article seems to be overly wordy for something obvious. Smartphones are simply more convenient than a standalone camera can ever be. Add on top of that the incredible com
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by starky 7y ago
Depth of field is proportional to the aperture/focal length^2 For a given field of view your focal length must change for different sensor sizes so effectively you see a shallower depth of field. While computational imaging is doing am
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by starky 7y ago
A quick look makes it seem like the website is mostly just a stripped down version of Yummly, what sets it apart?
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by starky 7y ago
This is something that really bothers me about the current market in North America (not sure if this applies to the rest of the world but I assume it does), there is no such thing as a basic well made product anymore. You either get cheap c
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by starky 7y ago
I bought a Kitchenaid last year and was quite disappointed at some of the "value engineering" they have done to them that is visible to the customer. The paddle attachment was no longer coated, they removed the handle from the bow
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by starky 7y ago
I just don't see how someone can possibly charge that much for a keyboard that would be significantly cheaper to make yourself even as a one off. It isn't like there is anything particularly special about the keyboard in the link,
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by starky 7y ago
But when the images are processed separately, your required actual recorded resolution could go up quickly as your overlap between imagers needs to ensure that a face to be identified is contained within a single imager, or at least a large
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by starky 7y ago
Well, they are having to align some number of sensors ensuring sufficient overlap to ensure that they can process the images together. This means they either are warping, aligning, and combining the image into one frame to do processing (co
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by starky 7y ago
It is impressive that the article actually addressed the issue of the cathode expansion, as that was my first worry about using iron, but not one that most people would be aware of. I'd be interested to hear about the cycle life of the
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by starky 7y ago
Totally different type of cells. LCO and NMC batteries which this would theoretically replace are energy cells with a specific energy of around 200Wh/kg. These are used when total energy matters, but you don't need high charge&#x2
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by starky 7y ago
What do you mean here? Lithium is a tiny portion of a li-ion cell, about 1g in an 3600mAh 18650 cell. There is significantly more of Nickel, Manganese, and Cobalt in an NMC cell for example.
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by starky 7y ago
The problem is people having a prejudice one way or another due to how the person looks. I know personally, being based in North America, the few times I've seen resumes my initial thought is, "Oh, they must be new to the country
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by starky 7y ago
That depends on your risk profile. Are you going to freak out if your portfolio loses 30% of its value in a year? Then maybe move to a more balanced portfolio. If you are happy to wait and let things turn around again, then stay the course.
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by starky 7y ago
It isn't about the iPhone though, but rather it is used as a generic example of the type of product built in China that is exported internationally. Being involved in that sector, there have been cracks forming ever since the first rou
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by starky 7y ago
When people go to China for the first time I always recommend that they go walk through a Walmart there precisely for the reason that it is a friendly and familiar place, but also highlights just how different the food culture is in that co
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by starky 7y ago
Honestly, I don't understand how the US doesn't get any of the good chocolate bars: Coffee Crisp, Crispy Crunch, Eat More, Wunderbar, Smarties (not the chalky candies, those are Rockets), and Aero.
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by starky 7y ago
Not insurmountable? That is over 1/4 of the population of Indonesia, the 4th most populous country in the world.
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by starky 7y ago
I misinterpreted the test, since I assumed they were all real words and only selected the ones I at least could figure out the likely definition for. That said, I'm still feeling pretty good about my results, only missing a few real wo
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by starky 7y ago
>There's nothing inherently Chinese about opening a factory quickly. I'd say there is one, the available population to work. India is really the only country that could come close just based on pure population and I don't

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