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I think it depends on the context - if you're designing the whole system from bar code to camera, I'm not sure that the color will help. But in that case you can assume close to pe…

Cameras only see one colour per pixel (i.e. Bayer colour filter array). Because our eyes are not so acute at resolving colour compared to luminescence this tradeoff works well. But…

There is a real, if small, chance that there could be a general election in the UK soon and potentially a more favourable labour government. If I were Assange I would do whatever I…

Yup it did - I was flying aerial surveying at the time. Bad timing. Actually I didn't notice anything in the end so was all good but when I saw the NOTAM I couldn't believe my bad …

No I don't, my calculations at this stage are as follows: Sail area - same as my 10 ton boat. Gets me to 7kts in a good strong wind. Boat they intend to install it on: 110000 tons!…

I understand that, in fact probably uniquely to people on this thread I've been on a rotor sail boat (not sailing though, in dock). They do work when the ratio of the sail area to …

My back of the napkin assumed all energy from the wind over the entire cross sectional area. Magnus effect or not, i'm just dealing in orders of magnitude and for the average wind …

I really want this to be a thing, but my rough calculations given the total cross section area of the sail and the average wind conditions on shipping routes come out to as close t…

I build camera gear for 172s and fly (as passenger, not pilot) probably 20-30 days per year, sometimes much more, and I get nervous at 40kts IAS is I guess around the full flaps st…

Very thought provoking. I'd like to add that this could be the case 'subconsciously' without him realizing or rationalizing it to himself.

My small 12 meter long boat has a sail area of 900sqft. When sailing perpendicular to the wind it captures pretty much all of that. The sail on that ship is 100' high, and looking …

Wow that was downvoted. I guess these people aren't aware of Nimoys extensive practical jokes with Shatner. But even so, why would anyone downvote this?

Yea flight avionics, sort of. Aerial camera systems and the UI to control them.

Wow this covers a lot of my job, and is really concise and well written. This might be the best link ever posted to HN for me. Thank you.

Thank you, excellent points amd compelling argument. My point however remains - 99.999999% pure makes 100.000% sense. Ultra pure does not.

I apologize if you found my post uninteresting. You must downvote a lot.

The article isn't the canonical source of the meaning of the word pure. And yes, the word pure _literally_ means 100% My point was that the author has misused the word pure. Which …

I didn't realise the word pure was context sensitive. OED doesn't either, perhaps you could contact them and help them update their definition: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/de…

Hey respected downvoters - pure means homogeneous. Can you please explain to be what ultra homogeneous means? When discussing scientific concepts being haphazard with language seem…

If pure silicon is 100% silicon atoms by definition, what is ultra pure silicon? 101%? Cool!

Wow 250kmh. May as well be limited to C like the rest of the world's auto makers at that speed

My god how dare you come here with your 'sense of humor'. Please be more sensitive to those around you less abled.

I used MacOS for years and loved it. But now have been on linux (on both Mac and a X220) exclusively for a few years and I'm honestly confused as to why a developer in this communi…

Why is the meat so much bigger given its only twice the weight?

Similar experience here. After years of evangelizing airbnb I got shit on by them by some low level employee with no way to continue communication, even though their misunderstandi…