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by quantumet 4mo ago
They are, sometimes. Google built this one in Finland in 2011 at the site of an old paper mill, which was already set up to draw water from the Baltic Sea (which isn't as salty as the Atlantic is, but still not fresh water): https:&#x
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by quantumet 5y ago
> Then there's plenty examples where a direct English equivalent exists even if it's not a literal translation of the original: nachäffen (de) = na-apen (nl) = mimicking (en), but English lacks the animal connotation (Affe == a
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by quantumet 6y ago
My favorite "extremely compact C" style: if (*len * ("11124811248484"[*type < 14 ? *type:0]-'0') > 4) { ... } because naming lookup tables is clearly too verbose. Among other interesting decisions
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by quantumet 9y ago
To first order, long exposures are probably less power-hungry - much of the sensor power is burned in the image readout, and longer exposures mean you're reading images less often. When collecting light, an image sensor pixel isn&#x27
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by quantumet 9y ago
Mostly hardware. Shortest explanation: The sensor exposure time register has a maximum value. Next shortest: But it's actually in units of row readout time, on many sensors, which is also configurable, so the exposure time can be made
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by quantumet 10y ago
You can select a size for a given font by hovering over it to reveal the size slider and other options (desktop version at least), and then applying the size to all.
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by quantumet 11y ago
Once you have a list, there's a dropdown to filter by type of loan (defaults to 'All')
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Developing for Android: Introduction(medium.com)
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by quantumet 11y ago
For those looking for a less-concise, but more comprehensive reference, The Art of Electronics was just released in its 3rd edition! http://artofelectronics.net/ With a lot of relevant new content (references to Arduinos, e
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by quantumet 11y ago
Eh, I mildly disagree on web site review. Perhaps not GitHub's pull request/review model, but big projects like Android and Chromium do all their review on web interfaces.
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by quantumet 12y ago
As a minor correction, the N5 front camera is a LIMITED, not a LEGACY device. It doesn't quite do the per-frame synchronized controls required for FULL like the main back-facing camera, but otherwise offers manual control and high-spee
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by quantumet 12y ago
So does Android: http://developer.android.com/training/managing-audio/audio-f... http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2013/08/respecting-au...
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by quantumet 12y ago
Quite a lot; see for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_timeline_of_the_unive...
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by quantumet 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aura_(symptom) It's a grab bag of weird perceptual effects that can precede migrane attacks (and apparently epileptic seizures), and they can be very disconcerting if you don't kn
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by quantumet 13y ago
Photon shot noise ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_noise#Optics ) is as fundamental as diffraction - it's a property of light, not a property of the sensor. If your sensor counts a mean of 100 photons per pixel,
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by quantumet 13y ago
I think Claude Shannon's (of information theory fame) master's thesis beats out all others in the field of computer science. "A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits", 1938, proves that you can use electrical
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by quantumet 14y ago
The Poisson distribution is just one random number distribution; there are several others for situations where the events are correlated, or have other properties. Half the fun of probability is figuring out which distribution is the right
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by quantumet 14y ago
No, there's no real worry of that, barring some serious revolution in deconvolution. Existing techniques can only deal with blurs of certain kinds, and theory suggests that the standard blurs used for faces/etc are in fact not reversible at