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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
The screen was a transflective LCD display from Pixel Qi. Pixel Qi was always one of those companies I thought should have succeeded but didn't. This a decent walk through of their timeline in tech history: https://gooderead
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
> They only mildly upvote technology that helps their extremely privileged life. Your bias is heavily US centric. HN is not SF or SV. Plenty of users in Serbia, Nigeria, Argentina, Brazil, Vietnam, in war thorn Ukraine. Arguably the aver
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
Maybe it's semantics, but I understand it was discovered while at Pfizer and further developed post-redundancy. IANAL but it definitely feels like a grey area?
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>track objects in real time Drone maybe but you underestimate the speed of a rocket. Also computation power adds payload weight or makes your system dependent on a server side comms link. I am not sure what the solution is but restrictin
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
> The drug is based on a molecule he discovered while working at Pfizer. Is Pharma different than Engineering in terms of IP? If my former employer has evidence that what I am working on in a new gig was discovered while on company time
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
> The application processes are wildly untransparent, run by local bureaucrats under multiple layers of abstraction. I was surprised to find a few years back that the big consultancy companies actually have teams dedicate to advising com
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
I had assumed most of Europe is getting their gas from Norway, Algeria, and Qatar. Do you have any numbers on US LNG sales?
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
I'm gonna be a old man shouting at the clouds. But co-living spaces work because they are generally small projects and have very driven and charismatic people leading those projects. The moment something like that grows or scales to a
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
> It’s unfounded. Maybe not impossible, but it seems FAR more likely that it was eco-terrorism Russia coordinating attacks on NATO territory is FAR more likely (read certain) considering recent activity: May 2024 - EU Intelligence warns
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
"Vandalism", "Malicious acts", "coordinated attacks", this is the language being used by European media. Traditional media is doing EU citizens a disservice. This is state sponsored terrorism and we need to sta
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
Even without cameras I am pretty sure (from my past reading on ADAS systems) that you can infer driver attention from steering wheel angle position. If you analyze patterns in wheel angle and rate of change of angle over time, I would suspe
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
I would expect this to affect airlines services, e.g. for check-in and boarding. I would be very surprised if this outtage affects ATC systems.
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
Very cool, the site's entire 'materials' archives is really interesting as a layman in Materials Science. [0] This kind of reminded of the sense of wonder of reading through Encarta entries in the late 90's and how I ass
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
My absolutely non-scientific gut feeling is that if billionaires were not as influential and carried as much weight as they do in media, that we would be able to assess them as mentally disturbed in no way different to Plyushkin's diso
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
Thanks, and thank you for the links. Very interesting to see movement in this direction.
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But you meam they are doing consumer PV+battery installations, or actual battery systems for utility companies?
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
> The large scale introduction of Battery Storage is going to be a game changer for renewables Who are the major players in industry grade solutions for this? Tesla? BYD? Hitachi? Siemens?
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
This part resonated: ".. When you let go of something you are holding too tightly, even though it's hurting you. When you let go of it, then you are able to pick up something else that is hopefully better for you." Despite al
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
Not sure why you are getting downvoted. Urban design is a much more effective approach to saving lives (a large fraction of speeding deaths are pedestrians) with the bonus of giving large areas of the city back to pedestrians. "Traffic
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
This is very high on my bucket list. As a European what is the political situation to visit Baikonur? Is it just leased ground as a military base but Kazakhstan is sovereign? Or is it similar to an embassy ground and you are technically ste
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
> I have never eaten a farmed fish and I do not intend to, ever. The probably is accurately knowing in order to make an informed choice. Naively I assumed certain species were likely to be farmed. But nowadays the advancements in aquacul
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
I would add one more category. Beyond the in-office and the N-days-a-week-hybrid, you have within _actual_ remote roles: - Country remote (mostly for taxation/regulatory) - Time zone remote (remote first companies but constraint to wit
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
Great walk through, thanks for sharing!
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I really like the figures in this and the previous entry: https://www.viksnewsletter.com/p/how-automotive-radar-uses-c... If the author is here I would be curious to know your process and tools to generate the graphs a
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
The atrocities carried by Indonesians to Indonesians slip through your comments. The religious persecution of non-muslims in Papua and Bali, and the literal genocide in East Timour. Reminder that the "pacification campaigns" genoc
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
Is there formal methods 'tooling' similar to TLA+ that is more targeted to State Machine design and perhaps State Machine Replication?
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> Certainly looks like that motion sensor is turning the light on in the night uselessly. Interesting read John but since no one brought it up you should be careful to assume the sensor is at fault. Hypothetically the timestamps in the e
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How does something like this avoid false positives? A pretty common example in my circle is parents taking pictures of baby rashes/pimples/blisters etc to send to family doctor or doctor friends. It sounds like a situation where e
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
Seems to be the case for so many assistive technologies. It is even more frustrating considering how high impact some of these technologies are. Do you have any insights on how this space could grow other than State Funding or Insurance pol
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
In China it is pay to play. My previous company was very successful in the Chinese market. But to get pass regulatory hurdles in order to be allowed to sell there, they first had to sell off a fraction of the company to CIC Nothing about it

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