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The Pixel 3XL and others had it right - fingerprint sensor on the back (natural spot for your pointer finger), still allowing for the whole front of the device to be the screen.

Back of the envelope on storage capacity: - Looks like about 200x200 px grid - 200x200 = 40,000 total possible bits - Assume only 75% of these are available for data due to QR stru…

Great comparison. Diffuse and delayed consequences that would require a "painful" change of habits now to prevent. In a way cigarettes are an easier problem to solve because the co…

PEP-8016 [1] has the details of the steering council mechanism (5 person elected council, describes their powers), and PEP-8100 [2] has the results of the election and now shows vo…

I believe the original comment was referring to being misled / confused about the decentralized social network Mastodon ( https://joinmastodon.org/ ), not being misled as to the si…

Super interesting idea. One of the cons could be that having your employees not personally invested in the outcome of your venture could make them less likely to be "fully committe…

> you need lidar and a fully mapped road To play devil's advocate - somehow I drove myself to work today, and the hardware I'm running is just two moderate resolution limited field…

Similar to those gravity power modules: a company called Ares ( https://www.aresnorthamerica.com/ ) is trying to use much smaller concrete 'cars' on rails to store energy. Not sure…

Did you look at Resin OS at all (resin.io)? No affiliation. Ship a container to your Pi that you can develop on your laptop and then have built for the ARM architecture on Resin's …

Unbelievable. Thanks. The top decile actually consume over 75% of the alcohol (by number of drinks, probably less by dollars)

Do you have any data on this? There are certainly heavy consumers but my (not data backed) feeling was that there's a fat tail - if there are thousands of high consumption binge dr…

As a 10 year engineer in the medical device industry I've slowly come to believe the root cause is not greed for more profit, but actually runaway altruism. All across healthcare, …

It costs $45 (+ Pi Zero W + Camera + SD card = approx. $90 total) and could be left somewhere analyzing video frames and communicating results.

The one new looking item is the VisionBonnet (with a low power Intel Movidius chip [1]). I've been pounding away on a low power / low cost NN vision device and now in the last two …

What are the strengths and weaknesses of each? I've been using keras but planning on diving into a real deal framework next. Tensorflow is appealing for the momentum it has in the …

Been meaning to try this, good write up. An alternative between keeping all data in-memory and going full relational database that's worked well for me is Python + H5PY. Write a si…

Love the idea of applying statistical techniques typically used in field x to data from field y. I'm always seeing places to apply manufacturing process control statistics like con…

This missing element of that analysis is that in the smartphone era you almost never type out a phone number. You were texted it and click on it, see it on the web and click on it,…

Don't underestimate the self fulfilling prophecy effect. Quite possible that the massive influx into the field right now will move the needle.

What are your thoughts on conda instead of virtualenv?

Right, but it doesn't make sense for it to be on a retail floor then. All the machines should be in a big Amazon style warehouse to share supplies, service support, programmers, et…

Except that anything large enough or detailed enough to be worth printing takes many hours to run. Not a great "stop by and get something printed" use case. I think the best type o…

Doppler shift. One of the simplest and most deeply useful physics principles. Things you learned in high school that are actually useful way down the road. Basic trigonometry (Sohc…