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Comment · 5 years ago
I wonder if this could be used to increase the effectiveness of LIDAR in vision applications. Rather than continuously scanning the entire FOV, prioritize areas with more brightness changes. Kind of like how animal eyes have low resolution in the periphery for event detection but high resolution in the center.
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
By default lineageOS comes with neither Google play services nor microg. The choice of what to install is left to the user.

MicroG is a bit more complicated to install since it requires package signature spoofing, which official lineage builds don't enable since it's seen as a security vulnerability.

Comment · 5 years ago
You have to click 'Request full-text PDF' then enter an email address
Comment · 5 years ago
Nowadays it seems to mostly be a way for "ethical" fund managers to justify the higher fees compared to simpler index funds.
Comment · 5 years ago
Two of my relatives had Nexus 5 and the power buttons on both devices stopped functioning shortly after the warranty expired
Comment · 5 years ago
That's one of the main plot elements of The Ministry for the Future.
Comment · 5 years ago
That's a bit of a tautology isn't it?
Comment · 5 years ago
That's how it's supposed to work in Canada. Most of the land is crown land managed by the government who should carefully manage it but in practice lease it to anyone as long as it brings in money.
Comment · 5 years ago
Southern Ontario has forests?
Comment · 5 years ago
I was under the impression that western suppliers stopped exporting to Turkey after the Artsakh "conflict" so that they now manufacture most parts themselves (reverse-engineered or not)
Comment · 5 years ago
You could argue that 2 of these wars (as well as the standoffs in the Mediterranean with the Greek navy) are aiming to remediate the oil/gas problem.
Comment · 5 years ago
By the time you experience symptoms you've already been contagious for a few days. It's like trying to detect fires by looking for piles of ash.
Comment · 5 years ago
I'm curious, what type of application would require printing strings over 2GB in size?
Comment · 5 years ago
I like to think that most readers don't get instantly alienated as soon as they read something criticizing them a bit too harshly

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