His main website is really fantastic, well worth a visit: https://www.fourmilab.ch/
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His main website is really fantastic, well worth a visit: https://www.fourmilab.ch/
[0] http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_adv_b/?search-alias=s...
An interesting project I've seen using one of them is this portable chiller suit to cool the human body on-the-go, intended for relief of Multiple Sclerosis symptoms [2].
For DIY/prototyping, there are a bunch of Chinese manufacturers now producing compressors of these sizes along with the appropriate driver board for the variable-speed AC motor [3]. I'm excited to see how this technology will be applied elsewhere in time.
[1] https://aspensystems.com/vapor-compression-refrigeration/
[2] https://hackaday.io/project/4729-bringing-cool-relief-to-mul...
[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20220916231432/https://www.aliex... (archived as of time posted for future readers)
That said, it's possible that this could be implemented in a GDPR-like fashion, where non-EU companies offering services to EU persons would be required to follow these laws.
It's also worth noting that the EU and Switzerland do have some bilateral agreements [1] for single market access, though, which involves it adopting some required EU law to facilitate this access; however, that should not be relevant for this specific issue.
[1] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/cs/MEMO_1...
I can imagine humans a century from now wishing we had deployed them sooner and prevented so much unnecessary destruction.
I've eaten this stuff on toast from an early age and love it. It really is a thing people either love or hate, I don't know anyone that grew to enjoy it over time.
Glad to read this part — if Microsoft enforces rules on how ads can be displayed like this, it would provide a good balance between supporting developers and providing an unobtrusive user experience.
This seems to be in contrast to the tenet of blameless postmortems [1] adopted at Google et al. Does this culture lead to blaming said responsible individual, or is the feedback seen as constructive?
Real Engineering made a video that covered this and more, which is well worth a watch. [1]
[0] https://webb.nasa.gov/content/about/innovations/cryocooler.h...
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aICaAEXDJQQ (The Insane Engineering of James Webb Telescope)
Convenience is greatly sacrificed if only one charger is installed — it'll be a gamble if your local gas station has their charger free, etc., which makes planning on when to charge tricky. As many gas stations are likely to only invest the bare minimum to avoid this fee, this could become a common frustration if this goes ahead.
Devil's advocate: Would this (or existing states' legislation, like California's) have any means of protecting against e.g. a non-CA user just changing their location to CA and immediately canceling? It sounds like an easy loophole for non-CA folks.
That's not to say that asking your bank to block Merchant X isn't useful, but the bank can't guarantee that the merchant won't be able charge you again via a different payment processor/etc., and is why some banks are hesitant to offer this functionality.
The warranty aspect is a great point though, if a commercial photographer did this and lost their client's work because e.g. the pins broke off, I fear their clients' response.
The answer here comes down to what the individual is able to justify to themselves, be it via a cost-benefit analysis or merely "I'm a solo/hobbyist photographer, I could build this tomorrow evening during downtime and save some money, let's do it." :-)
[0] https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1551702-REG/sandisk_s...
This is surprisingly high in that I would have assumed it would be far more cost-effective for the company to improve automation here and bring in more equipment to assist — intuitively, even if such equipment would be expensive, it couldn't be more expensive than the labor costs.
What industry was this?
* whilst Monzo is a UK bank, Visa/Mastercard still use the same EU domestic interchange rates in the UK post-Brexit, at least for now.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_fee#European_Union