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by tpmx 3y ago
Seems like e.g. (most of) the sensor drivers are binary blobs. Some examples: Ambarella S3L: https://github.com/OpenIPC/firmware/tree/master/general/pack... Some HiSilicon chipset: https:/&#x2
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by tpmx 3y ago
The paper: The proton channel OTOP1 is a sensor for the taste of ammonium chloride https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41637-4 (web layout) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41637
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by tpmx 3y ago
It's fittingly called the "Bitmap to Component Converter": https://forum.kicad.info/t/reproducing-a-pcb-from-scanned-im...
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by tpmx 3y ago
No, not really. They have similar enough silicon, they "just" need some software to make it work.
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by tpmx 3y ago
What the US needs is a great price comparison service. That is how we get by in Sweden before and after Amazon. Google Shopping is not it. Such a price comparison service needs a large team manually curating categories and most of all: the
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by tpmx 3y ago
I guess I'm happy to live in a country where Amazon showed up too late (Sweden). Their offering for non-Chinese brands seems like a joke in comparison to the online retail landscape here. It's good for cheap noname (weirdname?) Ch
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by tpmx 3y ago
Why doesn't Amazon care?
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by tpmx 3y ago
I guess that essentially means larger restrooms in 'First class' in the US on new 737s/A320s? will require new single-aisle airplanes to be designed with handicapped-accessible bathrooms
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by tpmx 3y ago
Thanks! Looks like this very specific area needs some open source love though. I'll look into if I think I can contribute here.
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by tpmx 3y ago
Some background for new readers: The 23andMe founder (and current CEO) Anne Wojcicki is the sister of Susan Wojcicki, until recently a long time Youtube CEO. Anne is also the ex-wife of Google/Alphabet founder Sergey Brin. Google/
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by tpmx 3y ago
Sort of related question: Is there a neat way of turning a scan/1-bit bitmap of a PCB design (from e.g. an old magazine or book) into a set of Gerber files that you can have manufactured cheaply?
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by tpmx 3y ago
tl;dr: since we tend to dream about current worries: yes.
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by tpmx 3y ago
Yeah, that kind of service would have been awesome.
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by tpmx 3y ago
Of course it's using WKWebView.
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by tpmx 3y ago
That's a great sign your company actually sucks and you should quit. Probably likely: It wasn't actually a high-margin company.
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by tpmx 3y ago
I suppose many of us are lucky to work in high-margin software businesses. I spent 15 years often travelling for work (typically very distributed companies) before the pandemic. Four separate companies. Everything paid on my personal CC. I
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by tpmx 3y ago
That enhancement needs to be off by default. Maybe use an icon of a wizard's hat with along with some stars as the UI to enable it in the camera app?
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by tpmx 3y ago
Chart comparing the efficiency of different technologies: https://www.nrel.gov/pv/interactive-cell-efficiency.html
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by tpmx 3y ago
The chart in the article does a nice job at illustrating that prices are roughly speaking back to essentially pre-pandemic levels after giant spikes. This seems healthy to me.
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Shellac(en.wikipedia.org)
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by tpmx 3y ago
Borland did not die because they ignored the Mac, they died because they tried to transform from being a sub $100 consumer/mass-market product company to an enterprise offering and failed at doing so. The Mac wasn't a factor. They
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by tpmx 3y ago
Photo from that lecture at Lund University, Sweden: https://twitter.com/lantisfjantis/status/1709146065985777767 This year's Nobel laureate in physics lectures us after (!!) being notified of her win!!
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by tpmx 3y ago
It kind of was a piece of shit with that little RAM (128k). That was rectified with the Fat Mac (512k) 8 months later in september of 1984. It was still quite expensive compared to the PC clones that were common by late 1984 though. There
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by tpmx 3y ago
NTK?
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by tpmx 3y ago
Is this the one? https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-7B-v0.1 I tried it out in that inline free preview - it didn't impress.
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by tpmx 3y ago
I agree about the MagPi; it's close. I think it would work great as eh, toilet reading material though. Lots of small stories/projects.
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by tpmx 3y ago
The German Heise publishing house continues to publish the Byte/PCW-sort-of-like magazine "c't". Useful for keeping any German language skills alive if you're into that. Judging from the latest cover it's at a
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by tpmx 3y ago
Living in Europe (but not in the UK), I have similar nostalgic feelings for the UK magazine Personal Computer World (PCW). The library in the tiny town (5k people) where I grew up somehow had a subscription for PCW in the 80s and 90s. Every
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by tpmx 3y ago
I updated the reply.
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by tpmx 3y ago
That seems like talk about the future. There can be only one bottleneck at a time.

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