Nanite

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by Nanite 4y ago
"Fab" seems a bit of an overstatement. What he is describing is similar in capabilities to what any average university lab with a device fabrication facility is capable of.
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by Nanite 4y ago
Which, at least for the Oslo area, offers more reliable predictions than Apple's weather app (which is always weather.com, afaik) Having said that, and having the Norwegian Meteorological Institute down the road from where I live, thei
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Lightyear zero first solar powered production vehicle(lightyear.one)
3 points by Nanite 4y ago|1 comments
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by Nanite 4y ago
Can confirm, but not sure about better QA of the branded ones. Company issued macbook came with a "Satechi" hub, which died within 6 months, while two other noname AliExpress ones have worked with no issue for 2 years now
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by Nanite 4y ago
Examples lying around in my house: Bathroom scale: lovely it powers up when you tap it, but eats up 2 button cells a year for a few dozen uses a year Kitchen scales, bit more use, at least once a day but again 2 button cells a year electron
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‘Brutal’ selling in speculative tech stocks knocks Tiger hedge funds(ft.com)
1 points by Nanite 5y ago|0 comments
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D-Wave to go public after $1.2B merger deal with SPAC(theregister.com)
9 points by Nanite 5y ago|1 comments
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by Nanite 6y ago
The “China Export” logo is a blatant but subtle imitation of the actual CE logo. Quite frankly insidious... https://support.ce-check.eu/hc/en-us/articles/360008642600-H...
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by Nanite 7y ago
Search for : NDIR CO2 sensor module. The ones without auto-calibration go for under $20 in China.
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by Nanite 8y ago
Evidence to the contrary: http://www.vdlbuscoach.com/News/News-Library/2018/Europa-s-g... I use these on a regular basis, for urban environments, electric busses combined with overhead superchargers at the en
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by Nanite 8y ago
I once had the pleasure to use a high speed travelator in Paris going at 8mph, I recall they used several acceleration stages in series before getting on the main section. Also reminded me of the ones portrayed in Asimov's novels. Too
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by Nanite 8y ago
I just viewed the stl-files, It's about 300x300x170mm
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by Nanite 8y ago
They went on an founded a startup called Tribogenics, raised a total of about $20M over the years (among others from Nikon and Founders Fund), They worked on developing lower cost portable XRF scanners, but apparently went out of business e
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by Nanite 8y ago
Unfortunately for e-scooters and other novel vehicles, the government agency in the Netherlands that handles vehicle certification (RDW) is notoriously bureaucratic. By default any new type of vehicle is forbidden to use on public roads unt
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by Nanite 8y ago
The main issue with using a synchrotron or Free Electron Laser EUV source might not be so much about the technology, but more about the mindset of the clients (Samsung, TSMC, Global Foundries, Intel). Up until now lithography has been somet
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by Nanite 8y ago
I have both Raspberry Pi's and a few of the cheap "clones". So some takeaways: The good: they're definitely cheaper, I paid about a third of the raspberry Pi 2 price for a comparable Orange Pi. Other models seem to have
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by Nanite 8y ago
Apparently a movie has been in development hell for about 10 years now, can vaguely remember Colin Farrell being attached to it.
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by Nanite 8y ago
If you don't want your macbook to burn a hole in your lap, potentially. I'm sure most recent processors will be able to do playback, just not optimized, and at high cpu load.
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by Nanite 8y ago
Recently spent a few weeks in Nairobi, drivers accepting the ride and then spending 10+ minutes parked a few hundred meters down the road seem quite common. Could be misaligned incentives, the cancelation fee is typically half that of a rid
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by Nanite 8y ago
That and dark silicon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_silicon Running a modern CPU with an acceptable TDP, means only so much of the transistors can be utilized simultaneously .
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by Nanite 9y ago
True, and besides having lost money, their investors also continue to lose credibility, considering the poor if not complete lack of due diligence on their part, as long as this fiasco is in the spotlights.
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by Nanite 9y ago
And not to forget this tragic story, the suicide of one of Theranos's chief scientists: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/10/22/british-he...
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by Nanite 9y ago
When I tried KiCAD several years ago, I was drawn in by the extensive feature list only to find that it suffered from the same issues as Blender, another mayor open source project, it was mainly feature driven, and the UX was horrible. Enou
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Dyson announces cordless future, stops developing plug-in vacuums(theguardian.com)
1 points by Nanite 9y ago|0 comments
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by Nanite 9y ago
Is it? The"loud pipes save lives" argument seems to be mostly a myth (I can't find any credible research backing it at least).
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Where Did Your Pay Raise Go? It May Have Become a Bonus(nytimes.com)
1 points by Nanite 9y ago|0 comments
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A practical guide to microchip implants(arstechnica.com)
11 points by Nanite 9y ago|0 comments
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by Nanite 9y ago
looking at https://david-smith.org/iosversionstats/ and apparently still ±50% of currently active iPhones seem to be a 6(S)(+). Which is a LOT more than I expected. I don't see how Apple is going to ignore this on
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The Cost of Making the iPhone X(statista.com)
1 points by Nanite 9y ago|0 comments
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by Nanite 9y ago
Google Glass's application and marketing was hijacked when Sergey Brinn was shown the prototypes and decided to go for the consumer market. It was originally intended as an enterprise product, with somewhat similar envisioned applicati

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