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by starky 8y ago
Have you ever tried to handle a label with rubber gloves on? It is damn near impossible.
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by starky 8y ago
China is interesting from this respect, there are so many people, and it is in the government's best interest to keep the citizens employed and happy and therefore there is a lot of "useless" jobs like the one you mention. Th
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by starky 8y ago
I started using Acronis to backup everything I don't want to lose about a year ago. A couple months ago, one of my hard drives failed (which I've never had happen before). Instead of trying to limp my files from the half-working h
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by starky 8y ago
I am also familiar with quite a few of the companies on that list, despite the company I work for being a long way from Apple scale. It was particularly fascinating to see some companies that we have rejected for being terrible, and other t
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by starky 8y ago
I expect better from Scientific American, yes technology these days stands on the shoulders of many smaller innovations, but it is the sum of all these small components and the software that makes a tech product innovative. Also, the articl
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by starky 8y ago
Why do you figure it is different compared to your DSLR? The 5Dmk3 should have a pretty sophisticated metering for manual mode (standalone light metering has been obsolete for decades). Were you trying to manually focus lenses on your DSLR?
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by starky 8y ago
Why feel guilty about it at all? Up here in Canada we have had pin validated transactions for a long time now, and the terminals have had tip prompts at least since we switched to chip and pin. It is just a reflex now when ordering at a cou
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by starky 8y ago
Yeah, it is always disappointing that there aren't more startups around doing hardware. I think a large portion of that is that hardware is quite expensive to develop and requires a lot of space. From the YC perspective it doesn't
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by starky 8y ago
The reasons I say it is complex is because depending on the sensor technology, resolution, image pipeline, etc. there are many different ways you could compare image quality. If you compare extremely different sensors, like a 1/3"
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by starky 8y ago
I wouldn't quite agree with your statement about there being no substitute for pixel size. The trade-offs between pixel size, dynamic range, and noise, when making fair comparisons is complex. Not to mention that today it seems that ev
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by starky 8y ago
Depending on how large and complex the mold is, the price does go up a lot. However, for a 2-up mold for something the size of a game controller, with a 0.5mil shot life, with maybe a slider or two, you are looking at $8-10k at many of the
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by starky 8y ago
How complicated/large is the part? $10-$20k is a pretty expensive mold these days even for production tools (from China). If you only need 2000 or so for a simple part to start, and are willing to pay 2-3X the part price, Protolabs is
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by starky 8y ago
Who wrote that horrible document? How exactly does someone determine whether "All or virtually all" is applicable in their situation without specific values. Sure there are examples, but they are not exhaustive. In Canada the defi
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by starky 8y ago
For the most part the purpose of getting patents is to protect yourself from litigation from other companies. So when they try to sue you go back to them and say, "We might be infringing on this, but we believe you are infringing on ou
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by starky 8y ago
It is because these companies are too lazy to change their systems to separate telephone banking and their online banking.
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by starky 8y ago
This is one area of manufacturing that I am sorely lacking on knowledge in. However, isn't value added calculated on the COGS? That is, they take all the inputs, and then add labour, raw materials, property, etc. to get the total cost?
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by starky 9y ago
Yeah, Hong Kong is the place I go to get away from the insanity of mainland China when I'm on business trips over there (and even then China has toned down a lot in the past 5 years). For a westerner Hong Kong is a very comfortable cit
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by starky 9y ago
I came to this conclusion in 2014 when I was trying to buy a smallish laptop for travelling and couldn't find anything below $1000 worth buying. I ended up going with a Surface Pro 3 because despite being more than I wanted to spend, i
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by starky 9y ago
It is so refreshing to come out of a club early in the morning, pull the earplugs out, have the rush of cold air enter your eardrums and there be no ringing. On the plus side, I find it way easier to understand people talking to me in the c
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by starky 9y ago
I attended a program that had a program that was built around Team Based Learning (TBL) and projects. The program was very well designed around ensuring that you kept up with the course, and put the topics into practice in realistic situati
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by starky 9y ago
One of the more interesting courses I took in my undergrad was a course on CAD/CAM. The CAD portion of the course focused on the mathematics behind 3D CAD systems, and the different ways that 2D curves and 3D surfaces can be defines pa
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by starky 9y ago
I've always been surprised by how decent the internet is in Shenzhen most of the time, but I have still had a lot of blocking on some trips. I barely used my VPN on my last trip because nothing I used was blocked. This hasn't been
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by starky 9y ago
I just don't think the company had the leadership or vision to move outside of their core competency. It should have been obvious that today you aren't going to get very far with a hardware product that is easily copied and diffic
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by starky 9y ago
Not too sure about the Panasonic, but the AR0330 is an ancient sensor, being about 6-7 years old now. Not the type of image sensor I'd be wanting to buy these days.
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by starky 9y ago
Regardless of what chemistry they are using, a lithium cell should be capable of producing more than enough power for a cellphone at any residual capacity before it becomes useless. You aren't discharging at more than 0.5C on a portabl
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by starky 9y ago
That this is happening when the cell is still at 87% capacity is really the problem here. How do you justify degrading your system's performance when the cell is still soundly in the healthy region?
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by starky 9y ago
I did a brief stint as a research assistant at a battery manufacturer which is why I was so horrified by your comment. Essentially, from the moment you manufacture a lithium-ion cell, the materials inside start reacting and losing capacity.
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by starky 9y ago
It is pretty simple to figure out the capacity by monitoring cell voltage and discharge current over time. Monitoring the impedance would be an additional bit of data that would correlate to the health of the materials in the cell, but is n
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by starky 9y ago
>but I've been diligent with making sure I get a full battery cycle Do you mean that you ensure that the battery fully discharges down to zero every time? Because if so, that is one of the worst things an average consumer can do to
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by starky 9y ago
It is in English on the back of the immigration form. There is really no excuse for not knowing about it. As mentioned in the article, you don't need to worry about it if you stay in a proper hotel, only if you are staying at someone&#

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