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Really promising analysis and best of luck with the work. A sincere thank you.

I've got ALS (MND). Completely agree UX is the problem, gazing at a keyboard on a screen designed to stop multiple keys clogging (QWERTY) feels wrong. Some ideas - gesture based ey…

The math for cheap amazon microscopes is often based on the ratio of a digital image. So use a 60" monitor rather than 30" you have an extra 2x magnification. But not better resolu…

Not sure it is a good saying. Brett Devereaux covers it in detail in his "fremen mirage" articles which I find a good read. https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mir…

Did this in a shortlived startup 20 yrs ago. Other cofounder was the ideas guy. Pitch was to roll up granular, factual project achievements up into reporting data , and cascade obj…

Agree with this. The Lib Dems had an existential crisis at that time (2010) as Labour and the Conservatives were both fighting for the centre ground and it seemed that would become…

> I wrote a little while back about narrative control as being the thing which divides the ruling classes from the consumer classes Could you post a link? Can't find it and am just…

Management is about sensemaking. Management provides the last answer (if one is needed) for 'Why are we doing this?'. It carries accountability for calling 'when to stop', and in t…

It's always ok to leave a company - if they can't survive without you, you are doing them a disservice. But it's an interesting question - I've been intrigued throughout my career …

Also Managing the Professional Service Firm By David Maister Helps understand how consulting type firms as a whole work

Question - I've managed (bottom-up, servant-leadership, small smart teams) a few very very smart people who may or not have had ADHD, or been partially on a spectrum or ... I truly…

Thanks, we are pretty low budget. Image circles are in the 1/3", 2/3" range and we are looking at patterns with say 5 to 50 um pitch on a flat planar object, monochromatic, we cont…

The back to back infinity-focussed objective set up works nicely with 2 sets of cheap infinity microscope objectives 2x or 4x back to back in a thorlabs tube. Paired lenses cancel …

Agreed, and I would add pre-web well authored Microsoft help files/ hypertext were often really valuable and could be very well done. Also you could build them after the software w…

Was working with the x264 crowd fun or exasperating or ...? Video-encoding is such a polymath topic (compression, perception, optimisation) and that code was so smart. I clearly re…

Weirdly, IMHO, one of the great advantages of the early BBC website infrastructure was directly because they had no state or need for customisation or dynamic pages. Some BBC Techs…

Hi, apart from Hayek (and maybe Ursula Le Guin, and A Hamilton), has anyone got any good pointers on theories for when you favour local over global knowledge or vice versa. Either …

Thanks. So for the manufacturing class, do you mean things like creaform or similar tools from hexagon and atos and the like, or are there some specific niches for 'slower but much…

Question - if you had a really accurate fiducial (say 1/1000 or 1/10000 of a pixel absolute accuracy, sub micrometre) that could be fixed on/ near the model - is that interesting a…

Dumb question - if I want to do simple image processing on a pi4 (2d ffts, small kernels, summing 2d arrays in one dimension, finding Maxima), and I care about performance, is this…

Agreed. It might (or might not) be lovely if personalities and culture and power and ways of learning didn't come into things, and everything was truly meritocratic/anarchist/optim…

Hikvision are an interesting company with performant products. You can view CCTV as having had 3 stages. Stage 1 - the model is like a TV studio - closed circuit TV, analog cables,…

Another take on conviviality is from its root - 'to live with'. Hannah Arendt (and I'm sure many others) argues that 'living with' other people, well, in a polity, where you inevit…

Agreed both being very impressed by Illich, but it not being workable. I dimly recall The Alphabetisation of the Popular Mind arguing that possibly you shouldn't teach language. Ma…

Support for the Ozzie comment - Groove was an interesting thing - strong, user friendly, permissions model built on groups as the user perceived them (as opposed to the corporate L…