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It's so advanced the robot arm gets ahead of the guy at the 11 second mark.

The Guardian article claims "Sinclair invented the pocket calculator", but other calculators were on the market before his:

http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/history_of_electronic...

[edit] More details on his calculators, which were quite cool, especially his trick to decrease power consumption and the super-slim Sinclair Sovereign:

http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/sinclair_-_the_pocket...

A&W should have just called it the "Quarter-plus pounder".

See also Bill C-10, currently making its way through parliament, which is trying to tax online media but also enforce a minimum amount of Canadian content:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/bill-c10-user-generated-con...

The advantage with tractor-pulled is lower cost and higher reliability. The propulsion, guidance, and power-supply problem has been dealt with by industry already and is already owned by the farmer. The autonomous weeding machine will undoubtedly have issues with these three functions, which means down-time and cost. The machine would be cheaper if tractor-pulled, and the developers could focus on the problem at hand. Also, the tractor driver could periodically stop to monitor and tweak the weed killer, especially important given the new technology. We did a recent project with a farming implement that could have been autonomous, and when one is realistic with reliability and maintenance costs (unless one intends a McDonald's ice-cream machine repair business model) then the argument for tractor-pulled is very strong.

Note that this is for the web UI of their "B2" file-sharing service, and not general backups.

Did their web UI for backups have the same issue?

What meta-data and file name info is sent to Backblaze when using their end-to-end encryption option for backups?

Ew. Looks like a sea slug.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_slug#/media/File:Glossodor...

Interesting she doesn't work with PET.

I wonder what happens to the waste from deburring and installation, and the microplastic dust from cutting and wear & tear.

I sometimes feel the only option for waste plastic is incineration.

That's a band-stop (notch) filter. The inductor lets through low frequencies, and the capacitor lets through the highs. Stuff in between gets blocked.

Here's a commercial RNA encapsulation system:

https://www.precisionnanosystems.com/platform-technologies/p...

Cautionary notes on PCB artwork from a PCB assembly expert:

http://zentroidpickandplace.com/Pcb/Artwork.html

SDR: Software Defined Radio

Because the cars in front of it got out of the way for the police vehicle, the Tesla could accelerate to it's preset cruise speed.

You mentioned Shanghai and Beijing, but note that sorting waste isn't new to the country. I was part of a team that installed a single-stream waste sorting system in China in 2007, prior to the Olympics. It was a very impressive system where all garbage would enter at one end and a large array of machines and people would sort the garbage into recyclables, compost, and the rest for an incinerator. It used all the latest tech, mainly from North America.

Another vote for PDF-XChange. It's very good at selecting text and annotating a PDF. Plus it has excellent printing features.

Because a crime scene might also have the DNA of innocent people.

Because public DNA information could be a source of prejudice mis-used by government, law enforcement, health services, employers, even family, friends, and potential spouses.

Because in all likelihood it would become another way to generate targeted advertising.

Though fixed many years ago, there may be a lack of trust due to previous ability for malware to take snap shots without turning on the camera LED.

https://www.theregister.com/2013/12/19/apple_isight_webcam_l...

But is it not deception (to ourselves) to believe that these celebrities somehow acknowledge and maybe even like us, when they required money to do so? (Never mind the concept of someone becoming more special than others by being good at pretending to be not themselves.) I realize I sound grumpy to many people but the whole thing seems like such a sham.

ISOBUS was supposed to fix this by using the same monitor for multiple implements.

https://www.precisionfarmingdealer.com/articles/299-isobus-s...

The older military and aviation boards we make still all use lead. Changing to lead-free requires an extensive re-certification process for each board, and no one at any level wants to do that. Which seems to create a belief that lead is manageable and okay. Interestingly, the board assembly shop still prefers lead because the boards are apparently easier to make.

Rosin-core is popular because it's a 1-step process. No need to put on the liquid, which seems to make at least the same mess.

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The Dutch I've met pronounce it something like "UFF-sly-dike". Worth visiting if you're in the area.

That engine list is about driver-pleasing performance, not reliability. It states "The selection takes into account power and torque output, noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) levels, technical relevance, and basic comparative numbers."

We have a couple of printers and scanners which have no manufacturer support after Win7 and thus require a generic feature-limited driver under Win10.

Control of privacy, auto-updates, and MS crapware is very difficult under the moving goalposts of Win10.

Cost to shift to Win10 is high in terms of training, switching over software, dealing with new drivers, and undoing undesirable changes with each update; meanwhile end-user benefit ranges from negative to slightly positive, depending who's measuring.

I agree that switching to Linux would be worse than Win10, before even considering all the Win-only software.

They do. But more commonly, CO2 is intentionally produced in greenhouses by burning natural gas (or propane) for no other reason than to create CO2 for the benefit of the plants:

https://dutchgreenhouses.com/technology/co2-enrichment

The yellow/orange lights could very well be high-pressure sodium (HPS) lighting, the same type used in street lights prior to LEDs. Like the street lights, LED lights seems to have less wash and reflection back into the night sky than HPS, and use less power than HPS for the same growth effect on the plant.

The industry is still transitioning to LED lighting due to cost and because some plants don't respond very well to LED light, so more development is required.

I remember when HPS became a big thing in greenhouses and people would call the fire department at night thinking the glow meant a nearby fire.

> raised in tubs and selected from a narrow genetic slice

I have volunteered at a large hatchery in BC, located near the headwaters of a small river. Every fall salmon are trapped next to the hatchery, their eggs & sperm are extracted for that year's batch, are mixed together, and the resulting fry are released in the spring.

So they aren't kept at the hatchery very long, and the genetic selection is limited to whatever made it back upstream.

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Minerals need to be in the ground before they can get into the plant. The depletion of soil & vegetable quality has been going on for years. This isn't the first study on the topic by a long shot. [1]

[1] - https://www.vitacost.com/blog/food-nutrition/nutrition/how-i...

> We consider systems like that to be totalitarian

Who is "we"? Non-citizens of the USA are required to carry their immigration status documents with them, [1] and checkpoints within the 100-mile border zone (where 2/3 of the population lives [2]) are one place where they must be presented. If you are a US citizen without proof, and are stopped, and the official thinks you are lying, I believe you are going to have A Bad Day.

[1] https://www.aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/immigrants-right...

[2] https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone

Also see:

https://vancouversun.com/news/world/smoking-gun-huawei-staff...

So out of 25,000 employees, 11 came from a military academy and 100 have military or intelligence connections? How do those ratios compare to the general population in the area, and to other companies?